The ones I've lost...

Well, the meeting with friends yesterday made me thought about friends and family members that I've lost over the years...

There were some I knew closely, there were those that we re not so close, but still, I remember them well...

first family members... I was still in primary school when my Tok Nyang Tangkak passed away- I think that's the one I remember earliest... then, there was Tok Teh Ali, when I was in form Four (I remember, cos Pak Man was waiting for his SPM results then). Later, I lost my nek Yang Tangkak, when we were in Kulim. We got the news not long after our last visit to Melaka, n we did go visit her then.

In 2000, Busu Selan, Mak's youngest brother died in a bike accident... A year and a half later, Busu anak Mak Ngah also succumbed to a heart ailment... And then, in 2003, Tok Na passed away - I was still pregnant with Aisyah, I think. I remember getting the call at 6 am, I knew something must be wrong the moment I saw Papa's number flashing on my hp screen...

On Jan 3, 2006, my beloved Tok Nit left us... I cried buckets... this time, I was pregnant with baby, she was only 2 months away from being born... but Atok left us anyway... Two months later, we lost Tok Chu Budin... and then, in 2007, August 13, to be exact, arwah Edi died in a bus accident - the worst crash Msia ever witnessed...
Gosh, the pain we had to bear...

As for friends, there were quite a few... the first one was arwah Eiza, who died at the tender age of 18... I was in university.. gosh, she should have been with us! Then, a friend doing the TESL Matric also died... years later, I heard about kak Thuaibah who lost the battle to brain tumor while pregnant with her 1st child... so sad! And then, there was the dewan makan abang Mus (I think) who was electrocuted in the kitchen... later, after graduating, we lost the affable Uncle Chan, Azwa, and of course, Suhaimi - due to lightning at Pdg Merbok... And I also got news about arwah Ahmad Safri, who drowned in Labuan..

There were also teachers - Cikgu Bidin (quite some time ago, in 1995 if I'm not mistaken), and Cikgu Nordin, just 2 ramadhans past. And I've also lost a student - a Yemeni boy, Ali Ayash, who died in an accident on hiw way to the airport... he left behind two beautiful kids... life can be cruel at times... though he wasn't that close to me, I still remember him, for he could be quite talkative at times with Marwan n Mehdi...

and neighbours... arwah Cik Jariah died in 2003, then Pakcik Harun passed away 2 years ago... there were also a few before them - Cikgu Haron, isteri ustaz Sulaiman, Cikgu Rahmat, Mak jah (isteri Cikgu Daud), Ustazah Jamilah, and just last month, Ustazah Jamilah's husband, Ustaz Mahmud, who taught me mengaji, also passed away... Then, in Chinchin, I remember the dear old couple next door, arwah Nyang Wak n Nyang Be... And of course, there were countless other relatives - Mak Teh's hubby, the siblings of my grandparents... in fact, last year, one of Tok Nit's anak buah sepupu, Mak Ngah Dahlia, was killed by a burglar... sad, sad time!

Gosh, quite a number of people that I know who are no longer around... I always have them close to my heart... you are always in my doa. Nowadays, I really pray that Allah yang Maha Pengasih & Pengasihani would still lend me my parents for a few more years to come, and not take away the young ones... Amin.