Thanks our lucky star

Tomorrow is Hari Raya..and this remind me of an incidence which mumsie thinks that we should say a little prayer to thank the 'Good lord' for giving us what we're (especially my little ones!!) having now..

Every year this 'mamak guy' who has a tricycle 'stall' (selling all those things that you will from the 'ding-ding' man or the 'roti' man who sells his wares from bread, to sweets, biscuits ect ect from house to house)- in front of our clinic will invite all our staff including mumsie and the Dr to his house for 'raya' makan. And every year he will extend his invitation but we never take him seriously and every year he asked why nobody turn up..for his many dishes! So started a few years back mumsie will take Daddy and a few staffs to his house for lunch.
2 years ago something happen on that Raya' day that really opens mumsie's eyes and mumsie has never stopped thanking the 'fella' up there whenever mumsie goes on holidays or even after a nice outing or a nice meal!! OR ANY THING NICE !!!

Well on that particular Raya day...as mumsie and daddy and some staffs entered his house there was already a couple of mamak's neighbours there having lunch. So we sat in another corner tasting some of mamak's kueh-kueh and mueh-mueh' when suddenly all his neighbours disappeared!!
Why?? Because the rain started and do you know that each time when it rains this area gets flooded.....Real FLOOD!!! Daddy just got out of the house in time to move our Estima further down the road before the rain pours!! Within seconds the road in front of his house became a river!! Now mumsie knows why their neighbour disappear..they gotta go back to their house to 'save' their belongings!!!
Mamak and his wife were outside trying to save whatever furniture that were trying to 'float' away...from their little garden and the water level was up to their waist!!! They managed to get a plank of wood to block their door to stop the water from flowing into their house...but not before some of it had already flooded in!! Can you immagine the scene..here we were pulling our skirts up our knees and the daddy rolling his pants up (and some body whispered...'what if Dr had to leave now to answer an emergency??? And daddy replied that we would had to look for a bucket to 'row' him out of the area!!!!!) Now don't forget that the host and his family were in their 'Sunday best' yes in thier new shining 'Raya baju!!!" The house too were 'dressed up' with new carpets , new curtains ect ect..Mumsie remembered picking up some extention plugs on the floor -just in case the whole house 'melutup' if water got into one of those plugs!!! The water just 'GUSHED' into the house and its compound!! Muddy yellow water that leaves yellow muddy stain!!! To them this is a 'daily afair!!!!' Whenever there is a heavy downpour this happens That' why they must always have someone in the house!!! Mumsie really felt 'BAD' AND FELT 'SORRY' for them.... (Hope nobody saw mumsie wiping some tears away) OMG they were trying their best to entertain thier guests showing off their 'dressed up house' and in their 'Sunday best' yes all their children were 'dressed up too' AND THIS HAD TO HAPPEN!!
We were locked up in their house for more than 3/4 hr watching helplessly until the rain stopped.. Now are we going to stay or leave once the rain stopped and after the water disappear??
Yeah once the rain stop ..just as quickily as the torrents came they receded just as quick..But by now the whole floor was filled with filth....and we rolled up our sleeves and skirts..to help them to literally 'WASH' the whole house..YEP you gotta to hose the whole place then mop mop mop!!
We can't just walk out after this we sat down and had our 'RAYA LUNCH' with them as if nothing had happen!!!
HOW MUMSIE WISHED THAT MUMSIE'S 'LITTLE ONES' were around to witness this day with mumsie ..Then they will know how VERY VERY VERY LUCKY they were!!!

From that year onwards before we leave for 'Mamak's house for 'raya makan' we look up the sky to see whether the sky is dark...just in case it rains!!! So tomorrow when mumsie goes to church Mumsie must remember to pray for 'GOOD WEATHER' Don't think mumsie wants to witness another scene of MAMAK AND HIS WIFE drenched in the rain dressed in their 'SUNDAY BEST'

(By the way this 'mamak' guy's tricycle stall has been selling his wares outside our clinic for many many years) He's got a 'moble' (I think that's what's it's called) license..which means that he must move from house to house but because business is good here he 'stays put' for half a day in front of our clinic and you know what happen???? The MPJB fellas will come and give him summons!!!!! YEAH each time they come he had to pay a few hundred $ fine!! So if ever he sees them coming from afar he rides off with them chasing behind...of course whatever that was left behind ie the stools and some wares that mamak had no time to pack before he 'runs away' will be packed into the MPJP van and he will have to pay a fine to claim them back!! Oh BOY
what a way to earn an honest living....!!!