The “Real” Essence of Chicken Soup

        

        Chicken soup is a random dish in my house. I treated it so normal until I didn't really appreciate it anymore. However, ever since I come back hometown this time, I truly understand the hidden meaning of my mum real essence of organic chicken soup. Part of it is because I had left hometown for more than 4 months, missing home badly when looking at people went back home every weekends, mid-semester breaks, Raya breaks and some public holidays. I always tell them they are so blessed even when their mums scolded them and nagged at them, it shows that mums care for them so much, especially when they can have hot mummy’s home-cooked food. When my feet stepped down the newly renovated Sibu Airport, I knew my mum was waiting outside the immigration hall, and the warm feeling just rushed up to my mind.

               

          The first thing that noticed me was the chicken soup on the table. Mum told me that " Daughter, you must be tired."Mum kept saying that it’s the chicken that she reared for xx months and started her stories again. I looked at her and smiled. I started to appreciate every single moment with her as I really don’t know what will happen tomorrow. Of course, both of us know that how difficult to wait for us to meet again. Mum changed a lot when she started her career as service advisor for a funeral corporation. She treasures and teaches me to spend my day to the fullest. Unnecessary sadness and anger will just waste the happiness of the day. The chicken soup is cooked with her love- the motherly love that can never be substituted.  

              

               Mama, thanks so much. <3 

A trip to Gua Tempurung,Perak

This is going to be my major trip during the semester break(if i am not getting to Terengganu to visit my eldest sister).This vacation was planned by my family members during my exam week and I was extremely excited and looking forward for this since ALL of my closest cousins are going to be there...Although we rarely visit each other (actually that is what makes this trip meaningful to me)because they are staying at Perak and here I am in Shah Alam but we know exactly what is happening there and they know what is going on here.

So, back to the trip, the whole journey was very tiring and exhausting. I will simplify the whole excitement to a much shorter story here. If you would like to find out what this cave is all about you can easily savor all the information available in Google but I am here to share the experience and feelings that I went through. There were a lot of up and downs. I mean real up and downs..! We were told by our supportive tour guide to climb up the steep stones and glide down the slippery ones. My family wouldn't have made it to the end if my father and cousin brothers weren't there to assist us to pass through the tough areas. Trust me, I was almost helpless when it comes to the slippery gigantic rocks because we were not provided with anything to hold on and my shoes were not doing much help. Not to mention that my sister sprained her ankle in the process. But I will have to admit that the challenge wasn't really complained by the male group although they were asked, maybe forced, to go through the obstacles by themselves without having anyone to hold them if they were to fall off.


The journey got more thrilling when we entered the dark area. We were told to solely depend on the only light source we had which was from the torchlight. We brought only three torchlights which we thought was enough but we were proved to be wrong when we were told to cross certain passages individually. Some part of the cave was very low which required us to do duckwalk. Some of the tourists were shocked by the need to travel down the low rocks but they should have noticed that they might be stuck in there if they were to decide not to travel the way as shown by the tour guide. These are some of the pictures we took inside the cave.

ALMOST THE WHOLE GROUP

MY SISTER AND MY ELDEST COUSIN BROTHER

MY JOYFUL EXTENDED FAMILY

Thats all from me for now. Hope you enjoyed reading.

Smiles,
Dursharl