The gang at the fruit stall
Persatuan Kanak-kanak Istimewa Kajang or better known as PKIK is a learning institution for special children where my special son, Imran receives his education under Early Intervention Program there. At present, they are renting several shop houses at Kajang Utama for their daily learning & physiotherapy activities. Last year PKIK purchased a piece of land somewhere along Jalan Reko Kajang & they intend to build their own building so that all their activities and relevant facilities are centralized there. Currently, they are in the process of raising fund for this building as their saving had been utilized for the purchase for the land. One of the activities that had been carried out was PKIK carnival which was held on Sunday, 19th April 2009. We, the parents were encouraged to participate by selling coupons prior to the carnival and also opening stalls during that event. After much contemplation, yours truly decided to sell cut fruits because it didn’t involve this mummy sweating in the kitchen. Ha..ha..ha.. Little that I know, selling cut fruits was not as easy as I thought. All this ‘selling fruit stuff’ began on the day before the carnival i.e. Saturday. My other half had promised to accompany me to Chow Kit early Saturday morning to procure those fruits but since our ‘tru blu’ workaholic had ‘accidentally’ scheduled a meeting with his client that very morning, he had ‘sweetly asked’ me whether could I go to Chow Kit alone. No way… I’m not going to lug those heavy fruities alone. So, instead of going to Chow Kit early morning, we are lugging those fruits to our car in the midst afternoon. Anyway, many thanks to the kind-hearted ‘apek’ who had willingly helped us and refused to accept our ‘token’. (Maybe he had profited a lot from our purchase... He...he...) Not only buying fruits, we also bought the relevant accessories i.e. fruit peelers (we don’t have those at home), another chopping board and a special ‘spatula’ to assist in the process of ‘de-seedling’ the guava. He..he.. Gigih tak kita org ? Was contemplating to buy the fruit display box but then it was quite expensive and not worth buying as it would be only a one-off usage. We decided to borrow our ‘caterer’ neighbour’s chafing dishes (minus the lid & the burner of course) & well, it looked quite presentable too. My dear maid and my sister, Hepi helped with the peeling & the cutting of those fruits. My kitchen smelt like fruit stalls that weekend. Oh, by the way fruits available for sale on that day were watermelons, pineapples, guava, mangoes and papaya. On the day of the carnival, people started setting their stalls / booths as early as 8:00 a.m. but we only arrived at 10:00 a.m. as we had tonnes of fruits to be peeled and cut that morning. (Ha..ha.. mcm banyak sgt.) We could not start the ‘peeling’ & ‘cutting’ process the day before. Those fruits won’t be as fresh as we wanted them to be. It was a little bit ‘kelam kabut’ when we were setting up our stall. Anyway, as the day went by, it became better. Enjoy the pics as I think I’d done writing. He..He..
Robert, Gatekeeper for the day
Imran with Ummu Hani and her daddy. Hubby has soft spot for this pretty little girl.
Entrance to the Carnival
Lucky Draw by Mr. Augustine Benedict (Chairman of PKIK)
