BBN3402Satu2019: MINGGU12 (Surat Along Untuk Mak)

BBN3402Satu2019: MINGGU12 (Surat Along Untuk Mak)

NAME: NURUL NABILA BINTI JAFFAR
MATRIC NUMBER: 197296

Surat Along Untuk Mak

“Tolong masukkan semua barang dekat dalam kotak biru tu”.

“Okay mak, along dah buat separuh ni, habis nanti along angkat ke depan” jawab along sambil mengangkat buku-buku yang bertaburan di atas lantai.

Ada kasut mama ke dalam ni, ni mesti mama lupa beli kasut lepas tu letak dekat mana. Along mengomel sendirian.

Along memegang kotak kasut tersebut dan berasa hairan kerana terdapat banyak lagi kotak kasut yang hampir sama rupanya. Lalu, along membuka penutup kotak kasut tersebut dan kelihatan sampul surat bersaiz 4×9 tersusun dengan rapi. Sampul surat tersebut juga kelihatan berwarna perang seperti selembar muka surat. Along mengambil satu sampul surat tersebut lalu dibukanya sehelai kertas berwarna biru dan berbau harum. Along membuka surat itu perlahan-lahan. Surat cinta ke ni? Surat cinta mama kepada abah ke? Bisik along perlahan lalu dia membacanya.

Ke hadapan mak yang dikasihi.

Mak apa khabar? Along berharap mak sihat hendaknya, pagi petang siang malam. Along doakan mak sihat. Mak masak apa harini? Ikan tenggiri sambal ke? Along suka sangat sambal mak. Kat sini along tak boleh nak masak hari-hari sebab tak sempat. Kadang-kadang along beli je nasi bungkus. Kat sini mana la sedap kalau dibandingkan dengan masakan mak terutama sambal mak yang memang sedap sangat. Harini kan mak, dekat pejabat, along ada jamuan harini, bukan harini je mak, nak dekat hari-hari ada jamuan raya. Along hadir mana yang sempat je. Manalah sempat ni mak.

Along selalu ingat pesan mak, kalau keluar pejabat, waktu bekerja tu, mesti catit berapa minit along keluar, sebab along kena ganti balik waktu yang along keluar tu. Ganti lepas pukul 5 petang nanti. Mak kan selalu ingatkan along yang kita kerja ni kena ikhlas dan jujur. Mestilah kita tak boleh berehat maklumlah bila bekerja, nanti tak berkat. Along ingat pesan-pesan mak. Minggu lepas kan mak, kawan-kawan along dekat pejabat tu nampak along catit waktu keluar dan masuk bila along keluar waktu pagi. Along tak sempat nak bawa bekal. Diorang tanya. Kenapa mesti tulis? Mula-mula tu along tak nak cakap sebab nanti ada yang marah lepastu bila dah didesak mulalah along bercerita pesanan mak tu kat diorang. Diorang terkejut tau mak ada yang tergamam bila along cakap gitu. Lepas tu lepas dari hari tu, ramai dah along tengok yang buat macam tu. Setiap kali diorang keluar minum pagi atau petang, diorang akan tulis dalam buku nota. Setiap hari along tengok diorang habiskan kerja sampai pukul 6.30 petang. Ini pun waktu tengah hari rehat cuma sejam. Tu yang along tengok pukul 2 diorang dah ada dekat bilik pejabat. Sebelum ni kan mak, ada je alasan yang diorang masuk balik kerja pukul 2.30 petang dan ada yang pukul 3. Telefon dekat meja diorang tu kan mak asyik berdering-dering je telefon tu. Along pulak tak sempat nak tolong angkatkan telefon tu sebab along pun tengah kemas-kemas, baru nak balik, dering dekat telefon along, kesian orang yang telefon tu kan mak. Kadang-kadang along terfikir jugak mak, masa mak bagitahu along pasal semua orang yang anggap orang kerja kerajaan asyik keluar minum je, along rasa macam tercabar. Betul kata mak sebab along pun ada dengar daripada kawan-kawan along yang kakitangan kerajaan ni masuk kerja pukul 8 pagi lepastu keluar minum pukul 9 dan masuk balik pukul 11 pagi. Pukul 12 tengah hari dah hilang entah ke mana, pukul 3 petang baru masuk pejabat. Ada yang petang tu keluar minum banyak kali. Entah bila diorang buat kerja. Entah apa-apa la along ni mak. Asyik cerita pasal kerja along je. Patutnya along tanya pasal mak. Ehh, mak, pokok ubi belakang rumah tu dah besar ke mak? Along tak sabar nak tolong mak cabut ubi ni. Nak minta mak masakkan pengat ubi lepastu along nak ubi rebus cicah sambal mak yang sedap tu. Along nak jugak ubi ketuk makan dengan kelapa dan gula. Aduhai, terbayang-bayang dah ni. Kejap mak, nak angkat meja ni.

Sebenarnya along ni banyak cakap dekat mak. Terasa nak peluk mak dah ni. Rasa nak tidur dengan mak dah ni, nak tolong cabut uban mak, nak tolong buang kelemumur mak. Kepala mak gatal lagi tak? Nanti along belikan syampu baru untuk mak. Syampu lama tu tak lut dah. Tu yang kepala mak gatal tu. Minggu depan along balik tau. Mak ikut along tangkap ikan dekat Sungai Kantan ye mak? Nanti along masakkan mak ikan sambal. Ikan kecik pun ikan kecik la mak, janji sambal along dah hampir sama dengan sambal mak tu. Along akhiri surat ni untuk minggu ni ye mak.  mak jangan risau along balik naik bas macam biasa iaitu waktu siang. Along pun takut nak naik bas malam takut terlajak tidur. Salam sayang yang amat sayang dekat mak along yang seorang ni. Peluk cium dari along untuk mak yang cantik.

Along, 5 Oktober 1993.

Surat ke-97.

"Please put all the items in the blue box".

"Alright, mom, I have done with this almost half, after I finished it, I lifted this item to the front" answer Along while lifting books scattered on the floor.

Is it mom's shoes here, these shoes must have forgotten by mom when she buys and then where she put these shoes. Along monologue to herself.

Along to hold the shoebox and be puzzled because there are many shoeboxes that are almost identical. Then, Along opens the cover of the shoebox and looks at the 4 × 9 sizes of an envelope that have been organised neatly. The envelope also appears to be brown-like pages. Along take a single envelope, and then she opened the envelope which was blue in colour and have its fragrant. Along opened the letter slowly. Is it a love letter? A love letter from my mom to dad? Slowly she started to conciliation and then she read the letter.

Dear my beloved mom.

How are you, mom? Along hope that mom health should be in good condition, morning afternoon night. Along always pray for your health, mom. What kind of dishes did you cook today, mom? Is it mackerel fish cook with chilli paste? Along really love with your sambal. Here, it is impossible to cook every day due to lack of time and too busy. Sometimes, along with buying the rice and the dishes from the stall. The food was not so good and nice like your dishes. Today, Along have to attend a feast for lunch at the office, not only for this day, almost every day this office make a feast for Hari Raya. Along only attend when I have extra time. I do not have extra time to attend all the feast. 

Along always remember your advice, mom, if I go out from the office, within the working hours of the day, I always jot down in the notebook for how long I go outside the office because Along will replace back the time that I go for outside. Along will replace it after 5 p.m. Mom always remind me that we have to sincere and honest when we do a job. We should not be to relax while working, we do not get a blessing from God. Along always remember your advice. Last week, all my friends from the same office see that I jot down the time when I go outside and coming back to the office in the morning. Along do not have time to bring my own food as breakfast. People ask to me. Why you must write? First of all, I do not want to explain why I am acted like this because I am afraid if someone would be angry but they forced me to explain about it and then I told them about your advice to me. They were shocked and some of them were speechless when I explain it. The next day after I explain about your advice, many of them started to jot down the time when they want to go outside like me. Whenever they go out for a drink in the morning or evening, they will jot down the time in the notebook. Every day my colleagues finished their work at 6.30 pm even the time for rest during the afternoon only one hour. That’s why at 2 p.m. they already reach the office room. Before this, they give many excuses especially for the person who re-entered to the office at 2.30 p.m. and at 3 p.m. You know, mom, the phone which is near to me, on the top of my colleagues' desk always keep on ringing. Along unable to answering the phone call, so I do not pick up the phone as a result, just let the phone keep on ringing but I am pity for those who calling at that time. Sometimes, along wondered of something, mom, the time during mom mind telling me about people consider that the government's workers always go out to have a drink, I think, I am challenged. That’s true because Along also heard about that from my friends, that the government staff started to come to the office at 8 a.m. and then going out to drink at the stalls at 9 a.m. Thereby they coming back to the office at 11 a.m. At 12 noon, they already disappear, at 3 p.m., finally, they come back to the office. During the afternoon, several people go out to drink as much as they want. When they have time to do their work. What happens to me, mom. I told you too much related to my job. Let's stop talking about it. Mom, is it our Tapioca at the backyard grown up well? I cannot wait to help you unplugged the tapioca, mom. I have a favour to eat your delicious dishes like pengat ubi and boiled tapioca which is can be eaten with sambal. It was so nice and delicious. Along keep reminding that food right now. I also want to eat tapioca that has been smashed with coconut and sugar. Mom, please wait for me, I want to lift up a table.

Actually, along already talk too much to you, mom. I really wish to hug you right now. I would like to sleep with you, want to unplug your white hair, want to throw away your dandruff. Is it your head still itchy with the scalp? Along will bring new shampoo for you later. The old shampoo is not relevant for you right now. That’s why your head still itchy. Next week, Along go back to our house. Would you like to join me in catching a fish near Kantan River? Later, Along will cook the fish for you, mom. Small fish also okay, the most important thing is my sambal almost look like your sambal. Along with whipped these letters for this week. Never worries about me, mom because I ride the bus during daytime as usual. I also afraid to ride the bus during the night because I worry that I will take a nap on the bus until I do not realise to wake up. I really really love you mom, my only mother in the world. Kissed and hug from Along to my beautiful mom.

Along, 5 October 1993.

Letters number 97.