me & my life's update

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Lame kut da tak tulis real post here. Last time before exam. Seems that my writing mood just doesn't kick in much lately (this past year!?). Hmm .. so while waiting around at the lab, I think I should at least write some recent stuff in my life.

First off, I've been staying back in Uniten. It seems that I've joined robocon (finally after being rejected from UTP's for my bad grade :P )team. As our competition date draws nearer, we are staying back during the holiday/ special semester. So far's our progress seems OK. My team's 2 robot carriers are almost complete. Just few more adjustments for the body & kago holders, the auto's program, & then we can start training a driver for themanual bot. Huhu but it sure is going to be hell to drive the manual bot. So far, all our tests yesterday using two manual bots resulted in the kago falling, which means we disqualified/ have to go for resets. The manual bot also kept pushing & tilting the 'auto' bot in front, which is a disqualifying offence. Sigh ~ hope we'll make it work before the fated time. 5-10 May 2009. GOGOGO!!

Munzir went back to UK today, after a 3weeks 3 days (if im not mistaken) easter holiday. Sent him at the LCCT. His flight left the ground at 5pm (tentatively). He'd arrive at London on 12am(GMT) but his bus will only leave for Leeds at 9. Sian die ~ hope he can find somewhere comfy to sleep. ALL THE BEST KAT SANA :) See you in June.

Regarding Munzir, mama had to drive home alone from here to jb. Sian kat mama, I thought of joining her, but then how am I going to go back here? By bus? Who's gonna pick me up? I've also taken 1 week off from the stayback, I feel wrong to just suddenly take another weekend off just like that. :( Sorry mama. I know these excuses means nothing, mama still drived home alone. :( I'm just glad mama arrived home safely tadi. WAIT FOR MY RETURN THIS SATURDAY, MAMA :)

Ayah's 100th day is coming up this Monday. I'l be home to be the representative at the masjid for ayah's tahlil. So I'll be coming home this Saturday. AL-FATIHAH FOR AYAH. Hmm lots of stuff need to be taken care of regarding ayah's inheritance.

Now back to work, robotnik!! (man ... I missed watching sonic cartoons like the old days)

:: A Grievous Moment ::

It has been a very tiring & ... surprising ... Sunday for all of us. Yesterday, Allah has called upon ayah to go to the afterlife. So sudden, so shocking, it's almost like a dream. Even now, I still feels it's like a dream. These two days seems like another person's story, not mine, not this family's. It's really not true how you always say/feel "it's never gonna happen to us, it only happens in paper/to other people". How untrue . . .
Here's the part where people will talk about how arwah was this & that. Well, I won't talk about it here. He was a great father. That's all I needed to say. People who knew him should know how was his life, who he was, what he is.
I was there with ayah during his last minutes. But before I go into details, I wanted to, on behalf of ayah, ask for all to forgive all sin/grudge they have towards ayah. If there's any unsettle business, do contact me.

My Sunday started at 5.40am. I was awaken by my maid, saying about mama told me to go to the clinic, ".. ayah sakit dada .." Never would I imagine it'd be ayah's last moments. The illness doesn't really ring a bell coz ayah has just came back from his Hajj pilgrimage, & has been coughing a lot since coming back. It's usual for someone to came back with a some cough & mild fever. But that day, ayah was having chest pain.
The doctor confirmed it was, after an EKG (I think) test, a heart attack .. or MI (myocardiac i) & wrote a letter of recomendation to HSA (Hosp. Sultanah Aminah). That's when mama call to have me accompany ayah at the clinic while she went back to take ayah's stuffs. Ayah seems fine to my untrained eyes. He said he had chest pains, & the dr confirmed it to be a heart attack. While waiting for mama, ayah went to the bathroom, took wudu', & did his subuh prayer. He was moving slowly, due to his chest pain, but otherwise seems okay to me. After he did his subuh prayer (Alhamdulillah, he did his subuh prayer), he went to the bathroom. That's when the second attack hit.
I was waiting outside, at the clinic's waiting area. Mama came, & we both waited for ayah to came out. When he was too late, I went to check. That's when i saw the the second most unforgettable moment in my life. Ayah laying facedown on the floor, some blood on the floor near nis forehead. "HELP!! DOKTOR2!!" & some other screams i shouted while running to ayah. Mama bashed the doctor's rest lounge door. The doctor came, checked his pulse, & ordered to call for an ambulance & wheelchair. It took us about 10 minutes to get ayah out of the restroom, due to one problem or another. After asking for 3 more guys, we finally manage to get him out to the waiting area. There, the doctor checked his pulse, & pronounced him gone. "Dia da takde." Straight to the point. No "I'm sorry", no nothing. Mama broke down. The top on my list of unforgettable moments in life. I think i said sumthing about "can't u defib him or do cpr or sumthin?"
"Da tak bole, he already stopped breathing. His heart stopped."
So I left dad on the wheelchair, in front of the doctor's room, & went to mama.

That was how I lost my father. How I became the man of the house now. I am sad, yet I am glad. For Allah has arranged him to go to the otherworld after being back from Hajj, after having meet his family (minus Hadi & Munzir who was oversea), after having done his subuh prayers. Allah took him from us at such a great time for him. For that, I am really glad.

"Ya Allah, ya Rahman, ya Rahim, may u bless his soul & put him among those you promised heaven."

Hadiahkan Al-Fatihah buat arwah Ir. Hj. Ahmad Fuaad bin Kassim. (He never really liked using either title unles necessary.)

Bukit Tinggi

Just came back from a 3 days and 2 nights (actually it's just 2d2n) holiday.

Man .. t'was tiring, especially being the driver. Huhuhu ...

I'll start off why is this holiday quite important... Well, we haven't had a full-quorum holiday for quite some time. There's always one or two of us missing. So, when Hadi was to come back for this mere 2 weeks, Ayah told me, "Abang, pi carik tmpat kite leh pi holiday that weekend." The only weekend Hadi's here. "Bukit Tinggi ok tak? Aritu mama cakap cam teringin nak pi sane." said I.

So I searched & search, but not until mama 'helped' that we finally booked a Selesa Hillhomes apartment. Mama called and asked for the 3-room-apartments, but none were available for the 2 nights. So, we settled with the 2-room-apartments.

Lil' that we know, that 2-room-apartment was the same (though not the exact same unit) as the one we rented out years ago, when we were still small. I barely remembers that trip to Bukit Tinggi.

So we set off to our second Bukit Tinggi trip (1st for Fira & 3rd for kakak) at around 5, Friday. And we arrived around 8 (I think ... didn't remember .. hmmm)

We went to a few places, took a lot of pictures, and we tire ourselves. :P
I'll write in more in details later.

Ayah's blog has more pictures & stories. (^_^)