Friday, May 8, 2009

Syurga...di telapak kaki ibu

Assalamu'alaikum.

Aku ada 3 emak.Pelik.Tapi itulah kenyataannya. Ketiga-tiga mak aku masih ada.Masih hidup walaupun mereka tidaklah berapa sihat seperti yang di idamkan.

Tak.Bapak aku hanya ada satu saja isteri.Bapa bukan ada 3 isteri kalau itu yang hangpa fikirkan.Satu saja isteri bapa sehingga akhir hayat bapak beberapa tahun yang lalu.

Walaupun bapak ada seorang saja isteri,tapi aku ada 3 emak.

Mak pertama adalah mak ori aku. Mak yang melahirkan aku.Mak yang memboyot membawa aku ke hulu dan ke hilir selama 40 minggu dan akhirnya berperang dengan nyawa bagai nak rak ketika nak melahirkan aku seorang bayi yang hitam tapi tak melegam.Mak yang dengan susah payah membesarkan aku,menyusukan aku, yang tak tidur ketika aku sakit atau melalak pura-pura sakit atau mungkin kerana aku lapar atau berak atau kencing dalam lampin atau perut aku kembung kerana terlalu suka hisap trompet putin getah yang pelbagai aroma.Mak ori yang bernama Hawa bte Salleh aka Che'gu Hawa.

Mak kedua aku adalah adik mak aku. Makcik Jah atau yang kami selalu panggil Cik Jah saja.Atau nama dalam my kad Khadijah bt Salleh. Dia yang memelihara aku ketika aku bersekolah di Alor Setar sebelum aku dapat masuk asrama KSAH. Di rumah Cik Jah lah aku menumpang kasih dan menumpang hidup. Di Gunung Reyang( nama official Gunung Keriang). Makan minum aku pakaian sekolah aku Cik Jah yang uruskan. Anak-anak Cik Jah umpama adik-adik aku sendiri.Cik jah tak pernah bezakan aku dengan anak-anaknya. Arwah Pakcik Hashim juga begitu. Aku di tegur bila berbuat salah.Tak akan aku lupa jasa-jasa Cik Jah hingga akhir hayat aku.

Mak ketiga aku adalah mak mertua aku.Fuziah bt Wan Omar aka Che'gu Poziah. Mak yang menerima aku dengan hati terbuka sebagai menantu.Yang yang menganggap aku sebagai anak sendiri. Yang mengambil berat tentang aku sekeluarga walaupun kadangkala berat yang keterlaluan for her own good.







Seperti orang lain dalam dunia ini, mereka tidak terlepas dari kelemahan dan kesilapan. Mereka tidak sempurna. Aku juga tidak sempurna.Hangpa pun tidak sempurna. Tapi dalam ketidaksempurnaan ini ketiga-tiga mak aku ini tidak pernah kurang dalam kasih sayang mereka kepada anak-anak walaupun cara tunjuk kasih sayang mereka kadangkala mengconfusekan kami atau terlalu berlebihan tahap merimaskan. Tapi itu adalah cara meraka masing-masing.

Kepada ketiga-tiga mak aku ini, aku pohon maaf jika banyak mengecilkan hati dan perasan kalian dengan cara aku. Aku mohon halalkan makan minum yang kalian berikan pada aku selama ini.

Pada mak ori aku ingin pohon: Mak...halaikan ayaq susu yang mak bagi kat cek na...

Aku doakan ketiga-tiga mak aku ni kesihatan yang membolehkan mak-mak terus beribadah pada ALLAH Azza Wa Jalla dan kebahagiaan dan ketenangan hati mengharungi sisa-sisa hidup ini.

Aku sangat-sangat sayang pada Mak.

Selamat Hari Ibu.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

No more Black.

Its an offence to wear black from today.Thats what the Perak Police Chief told Malaysians.
Did anyone see Samy Vellu in Ipoh today?

And someone told me, Zambry was advised not to remove his clothings today for fear of being caught by the Ipoh Police.

Maybe after this you cannot even mention black in public.
No more black coffee.No more Black Forest.No more black belt.
And no more Black Maria.


Oh...I see a black political climate in Perak.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Azni bin Said. Goodbye my friend

Salam.

At 4 pm I received a SMS from my former school mate in KSAH.
A friend, Azni bin Said passed away due to Diabetic complications.

Arwah Azni was a jovial chap.He was in the College band. He was liked by many for he had a radiant smile on his chubby face. He was a non-hostelite but was liked by us hostelites.

I last met him in 1984 when I did my elective posting at Hospital Alor Setar's Skin Clinic.
He was with the Kedah State Library.

May ALLAH AzzaWa Jalla forgives his mistakes and ours too.
May he be included in the group that will receive syafa'at by Rasulullah SAW and be a member of Jannah. Ameen.

Goodbye my dear friend.
Al Fatihah for you.
Salam to all.

"The Malaysian govt has removed-with immediate effect-the 30% bumiputra equity requirement for 27 services sub-sectors under liberation of the service sector."
~ taken from Star page 1 23 April 2009.

I know this piece of news will receive a lot of contrasting responses. Some will welcome it. Some will disagree outrightly. Some will say: Errr.........depends on how you look at it.

Nothing out-of-the-ordinary about that,right?

But there is something fishy regarding this statement. No,its not the content but the so called expected responses. The knee jerk reactions of certain quarters or groups with their pure Malay blood and Malay angst if the 'previleges' of Malay or Bumiputra are 'disturbed'.

We have seen many times before whenever a Malay or Bumi interests are taken away or altered or shelled we see certain Youth Front will become the champions for the Malays/Bumi. And sometimes with a kris in hand. Thats Pemuda UMNO for you.

But for this 30% removal as announced by PM Najib, was there any Pemuda UMNO demonstration? Or Prowaris? Or Pekida? Or some any 'very Malay' NGO which if this sort of announcement were made by DAP or PAS , they will be the first to oppose and reject and demand the privileges instate back immediately.

Okay I'm gonna give Pemuda and Prowaris and Pekida and whatever NGO out there my benefit of doubt. I'm gonna assume they haven't heard the news or they haven't read the papers.

Am I instigating something along the racial line here? No.What I want to highlight is: If the same issue was made by the opposition we know what to expect from Pemuda or Prowaris or Pekida or whatever ultra Malay NGOs out there.

The same thing goes to those Youth in PAS or PKR or DAP.

But from my observations this far, all these Youth wings are twins of different mothers. They react in the same way.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Banking scams: BEWARE



Message from Bank Negara Malaysia: Beware of scams using SMS, emails or telephone calls.Protect your personal banking information.


The statement was the sms that I got from Maxis this morning. And I'm not suprised.
We've read or heard friends telling us about such scams. But this is the first time the mobile operator cautioned me about such scams.

Its all too familiar to us. Mrs TA gets this type of irritating calls very often. Telling us they are from such and such bank and would like to confirm the account numbers and what nots.

Mrs TA once called Maybank and told them about such calls which were mainly made through a mobile phone.

This is what we got from Maybank:
Maybank will never make any call requesting personal banking informations. Maybank will not use a mobile number but a fixed landline. For any banking information Maybank will send out letters or will ask customers to go to the nearest branch.

And Mrs TA still gets those unwarranted irritating calls. And my guess is there are thousands out there facing the same problem.

What can we do about these scams? Some will just ignore it.Some might get abusive and starts their verbal diarrhoea to those moronic callers who most likely will make funny faces while you shoots off your ' kata-kata lahanat'. Some might fall into the trick and finds their savings empty or their credit cards being used in some places like Timbuktu or Ulan Bator or Symrna or Fethiye which was formerly Telmessos.

But does anyone ever make a police report about it? I did contemplate about it once. But I didn't make any police report.

Anyway folks, do be careful.
Have a nice day.