me, EOD suits and abah.

bangun2 pagi cuaca mendung. hujan siap. checked my wardobe and looked for something that i won't have to gosok. malas..malas.. dan mestilah tidak meleret sebab jalan raya pasti basah. and mesti pakai something kalis air jugak. few minutes later, ada matahari pulak. nevermind, i'll stick to the rain possibility.

jalan2 dalam udara sejuk memang nyaman, masuk je dalam hall dah mula macam cacing kepanasan. lebih panas dari summer? yelah, summer hall pasang aircond, now they pasang heater.

on my way to beli air kat nursing, i saw myself in the reflection pada pintu2 kaca. besar betul (so-called) windbreaker aku ni. gara2 hantar dry clean when it's written DO NOT DRY CLEAN. nasib baik masih berfungsi dengan baik. beli kat Malaysia nih, dengan encik along, tak pasti pulak apekah sudah dibayar pada beliau. huahuahua.. then i realized, eh, macam baju abah pergi angkasa lepas. i used to look at one of abah's pics and it seems like he's going to the space, sebab gambar tu backgroundnye macam lapangan terbang (actually it's in kem polis kot). haha. i always thought abah is going to the moon lah at that time. dah lama2 abah bagitau it's his protection suit when he went to dispose bombs or explosives. mesti tanya abah ni karang. i texted him, "helo abah.abah kat ipoh ke kat parit buntar". he replied, "abah kat ipoh". yeay, call rumah saje, kan ada skype unlimited landline. =)

i looked like that. perhaps cuz the colour of my so-called windbreaker (so-called sebab i dont think sesuai kite panggilnya wind breaker). almost the same like abah-nak-ke-bulan-suit. so, i called abah,

"abah abah.. baju abah yang macam nak naik ke bulan tu namanya apa ye...?"

"oooo..yang itu... yang itu namanya... yang itu... ha... EOD suit" haha, can't believe he actually forgot it.

"EOD tu ape bah?"

"explosive.. explosive ordinant kot" (or so I heard him). I googled and still didnt find what EOD stands for.

"Itu pakai masa bila tu abah?"

"Tu pakai bila nak pegi musnahkan bom lah.. alah, die mcam bullet proof lah, tapi dia lagi resistant ada gegaran apa semua..."

My dad was in the police service for.... (dont know how many years, and he pronounce polis as pulis, haha) but retired when in 2005. born 1950, 2005 retire. he works in brigade persenjataan, kalau masa kecik2 dulu telepon kem PGA "helo, tolong sambungkan ke cawangan persenjataan. boleh saye bercakap dengan encik dahalan?". i still remember the smell of the bengkel senjata. explosive? haha. and I usually tak tahan ketawa bila dengar abah jawab tepon, "assalamualaikum, selamat pagi, S.I dahalan bercakap". lagi kelakar lagi, bila abah seorang sarjan, kite akan dengar org panggil abah "JEN". bila abah jadi sarjan mejar, kite dengar org panggil dy MEJA... kuang3... sib baik bila sub-inspektor panggil S.I. x begitu kelakar.

but dealing with senjata is not the only thing he does. he's also with Unit Pemusnah Bom. UPB . so sometimes he would receive calls ada bom ke.. ancaman bom ke... (i only know the ones he got when he's standby kat rumah.) kalau abah standby, kita semua tak boleh balik kuala kangsar atau keluar ipoh, it's not like banyak sangat call for bom pun... tapi, abah is just so dedicated with things he does. i hate it everytime abah has to go and destroy an explosives... kadang2 bom zaman jepun la.. ape la..polis pun ada on-call...

once he got a call ada bom in a shopping complex in Ipoh. abah kata jenuh nak scan sebab banyak sgt besi (yelah shopping complex kan banyak rak). turns out, fake threat je pun. even after abah pencen, sometimes when ada bom di kawasan berhampiran, he would still go hang out with the team jugak. i dont know why i am writing all this. perhaps i just miss him.

nah, macam ni lah sut abah nak ke bulan tu. tiba2 i terasa idea abah nak ke bulan tu macam datang dari encik along jer. korang ni memang suka memasukkan idea yang sangat merepek dalam kepala ikah kan. btw, muaz nampaknye ada gaya menjadi seorang hantu paku dan anak abah juga. ibu2 memang kesian dalam kes ini.

p/s: balik sekolah tadi hujan lagi. naik sarfis mitsubishi yang masih elok memang nikmat kan hujan2 ni. nak nak lagi duduk frontseat tak yah berhimpit2. indah sungguh.

p/p/s: cool jugak kerja pUlis ni ek. if abah watches any movie yang ada babak2 potong wayar tu, sangat cool when he knows which one to cut off.hoho.