Mak & bapak..the AFTERMATH

So…the family has somewhat recovered from moping around without my parents. Life has gone back to normal. The fridge is empty, the stove is empty and the dining table is oh so EMPTY!!!

That’s OK, back to basics, cereal for breakfast and baked chicken for dinner. We all need to go on our diets too cos mak had done severe physical damage to us (the cats included! Mak had been feeding the cats real beef and chicken to them.).

The day after mak and bapak left, the house is calm, quiet, a little gloomy and again….EMPTY! What can I say, mak had been making goreng pisang for breakfast almost everyday and epok2 in the menu all the time. The mee rebus, mee goreng and nasi lemak were the habitual menu which we all did not complain…all I said to mak was ‘Masak jer mak, jangan takut, mesti habis punya’ and I did not lie about that.

But how easy it was to make my tummy feel or at least having the illusion that its getting smaller again. Minus the nasi and the goreng pisang and also the epok2, it helps in my ‘back to dieting’ plan. Remember, I am just ‘planning’ and not yet into it. Maybe tomorrow, Monday, I could be cruel to myself again by starving. Mentioned to Nazrah about South Beach diet…no carb, no fruits, just meat and veges. Hmmm, my Assistant Manager lost 15 lbs in 4 weeks, if she could do it, so can I. BUT, again I told nazrah that I cannot (oh so tidak) to not eat at least a teeny piece of chocolate in a day. Noooooooo………but I have to try. I will have to clean my bedside table when the chocs are, and I have to clean my office drawers, where the M&Ms are. Sigh….big step for me!

Back to mak & bapak. Maybe there’s the good and bad part of them coming here and then leaving us. The Good : To let us go back to our calm life, to stop overfeeding us and let us concentrate on the kids. The kids have one more week before they start their new term, school supplies have been updated, baju dah terbeli (thanks to their grannies) and kasut dah beli dah (thanks to their grannies again). The husband, so that he could put more of his clients’ auctions on ebay and make more mullah. The Bad : As for me, back to the 5 day work week and no more Fridays off to go jalan2. No more asking mak to comb my hair for me and making breakfast for my friends and No more waking up in the morning and smelling mak’s masakan….waaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

I miss you mak & bapak. Glad you’re home safely now, Don’t worry about us, we’ll live without your delicious cooking and maybe after we lost 10 lbs, please come again and fatten us up for the winter.

To my friends, gaining back the 6 lbs is not a laughing matter. Tapi takkan ku give up. Aku akan terus mencuba untuk membuang sisa nasi lemak dan epok2 yang tersergam di pinggulku! *Imagine Ely saying that with her arms high up in the air, her fist clenched, gritting her teeth….with a Krispie Kreme Doughnut in her other hand*