Congratulations Awa ..

Another one is leaving the house soon to further her studies .. dah dapat penempatan dah. Gembiranya hati, Allah saja yang tahu .. dalam gembira tu jauh disudut hati menangis mengenangkan perpisahan .. enam tahun tu. Sejak anak sulung aku keluar negara kenegara Balkan sana ... sejak 6 tahun lepas tak pernah lagi kami sekeluarga lengkap berhari raya. Dua tahun lepas anak kedua aku pulak pergi merantau melanjutkan pelajaran ... bertambah kosong rumah aku. InsyaAllah bulan June ini graduate lah CikNad dan diikuti CikNaj tahun depan .. semoga CikNad dapat posting yang dekat dengan rumah.

Walaupun orang kata, patutnya aku ni dah immune dah sebab bukan yang pertama berpisah dengan anak, this is anak ketiga yang nak keluar negara. Name it anak ketiga ke keempat ke perasaannya tetap sama. Apalagi lah ini yang anak perempuan bongsu .. nak pergi pulak nun keIndia .. Mysore to be exact. Entah dari dulu bila sebut India ni perut aku sebu .. tak tahu kenapa. Ramai saja kawan-kawan kaum India .. bukan bangsa tu yang aku seram .. negara India tu itself.

Apapun aku mendoakan anak-anak aku sentiasa didalam rahmat dan maghfirah Allah sentiasa.

Congratulations

Very well done, dear Awa
You're special through & through.
You've had sucess with flying colours
I'm so very proud of you.
You were once a helpless baby,
But, even then I knew,
You had strength and determination,
To always see you through.

Pesan orang tua ...

Dulu masa aku kanak-kanak lagi, arwah maklong dan arwah mak selalu pesan "jangan telan biji langsat, biji rambutan, biji rambai. Nanti tumbuh dalam perut, dahan-dahan pokok tu keluar ikut hidung, ikut telinga nanti." Betul lah juga agaknya kejadian tu boleh berlaku ... teruskan membaca ..

Shocked Russian surgeons open up man who thought he had a tumour... to find a FIR TREE inside his lung

By Will Stewart
Last updated at 9:54 AM on 15th April 2009

A fir tree has been found growing inside a man's lung by surgeons who were operating on him for suspected cancer.

The tree, measuring 5cm, was discovered by Russian doctors when they opened up Artyom Sidorkin, 28, to remove what they thought was a tumour.

An X-ray that apparently shows a fir tree growing inside a 28-year-old man's lung. Doctors initially believed it was a tumour

Medical staff believe that Mr Sidorkin somehow inhaled a seed, which later sprouted into a small fir tree inside his lung.

The patient had complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood. Doctors were convinced he had cancer.

'We were 100 per cent sure,' said surgeon Vladimir Kamashev from Izhevsk in the Urals. 'We did X-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumour. I had seen hundreds before, so we decided on surgery.'

'So relieved it's not cancer': Left, Artyom Sidorkin, who apparently had a fir tree growing in his lung. Right, doctors display the fir tree

Before removing the major part of the man's lung, the surgeon investigated the tissue taken in a biopsy.

'I thought I was hallucinating,' said Dr Kamashev. 'I asked my assistant to have a look: "Come and see this - we've got a fir tree here".

'He nodded in shock. I blinked three times as I was sure I was seeing things.'

They believed the coughing of blood was caused by the tiny pine needles piercing blood capillaries. 'It was very painful. But to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me,' said Mr Sidorkin. 'I'm so relieved it's not cancer.'

The report appeared in popular tabloid Komsomolskaya Gazeta, and was picked up by Russian news service Novosti.

Semut Selangor

Article dari The Star pagi ni. Tak pernah pulak aku tahu ada spesis macam gini. Apapun hati-hatilah, jangan ambil mudah semua perkara .. kalau ajal dah sampai gigit semut macam ni pun boleh membawa maut.

Boy bitten by ants lands in ICU

BUTTERWORTH: A Remove Class student was admitted to the Seberang Jaya Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) after being bitten by poisonous ants at his school compound in Jalan Raja Uda here.

Loh Kean Beng, 13, from SMK Bagan Jaya, was rushed to the hospital after he started vomitting and his limbs began to swell.

Painful encounter: Kean Beng showing where the ants bit him to (from left) school PTA chairman Ang Joo Hong, Soon and Seberang Prai municipal councillor Ngu Lek Wah.

He was discharged after about three hours when his condition stabilised upon being given three injections.

“I was taking shelter from the sweltering heat under two shady trees at about 5.30pm on Monday when I suddenly felt sharp stings on my hand and leg,” Kean Beng said when met at his house yesterday.

“The stung areas felt itchy and after about 30 minutes, I began to feel dizzy and feverish. One of the school staff members then called my father who immediately rushed me to the hospital,” he said.

“My father was then asked to bring specimens of the ant so that the proper antidote could be administered.”

Seberang Prai municipal councillor Soon Lip Chee said the ants, known locally as semut selangor (tetraponera rufonigra), could be found on dry tree trunks and branches in tropical countries, especially South-East Asia.

He said a few ant species were capable of painful stings but not all were known to pose a serious danger to human health.

What the ‘semut selangor’ looks like.

Yesterday, he said, a special squad from the council used pesticides to destroy the ants on the trees in the school.

He added that he would write to the state Town and Country Planning Department to take precautionary measures by chopping down dry tree trunks and branches to prevent them from becoming breeding areas for the ants.

Soon said the public was advised to contact the squad (tel: 04-540-2550/51) if they had any problems with such ants.

Biarlah "Busy Body"

HeroBesar balik dari mesyuarat AJK surau ditempat kami bawa dua berita yang tidak sedap didengar ini .. ianya berita yang tidak bermoral, mungkin biasa-biasa saja pada orang ramai tetapi amat memedihkan hati aku mendengarnya. Betapa sekarang ini dunia memang menuju kehancurannya:

1. Ada beberapa peralatan surau dicuri orang .. microfon, radio, frame yang tergantung kat dinding (Allah n Muhammad saw) tu pun diambilnya .. hitam sungguh hati manusia yang mencuri tu ..

2. Minggu lepas ada dua pasangan muda mudi ditangkap sedang berkhalwat dikawasan kami .. atas tips yang diberi oleh rakan serumah mereka yang sudah tak tahan dengan kerenah mereka membawa pulang GFs, maka ustaz dan ahlinya pergi serbu rumah tersebut .. maka tertangkaplah dua pasangan itu.

Tak lama dulu dah ada juga ditangkap dua pasangan muda dikawasan aku ni .. yang lelaki-lelaki tu dah bekerja di kilang .. pasangannya budak-budak sekolah lingkungan 16 - 17 tahun. Pagi-pagi pakai baju sekolah lengkap bertudung .. naik motor sendiri *mungkin mak pak mereka nak mudah, belikan motor untuk pergi balik sekolah* instead of pergi sekolah terus kerumah budak-budak bujang. Kebetulan kawan aku ni nampak budak-budak perempuan tu menyorong motor masuk terus kerumah bujang .. terus dipanggilkan ustaz, Jabatan Agama Islam dan Polis. Maka selamatlah mereka hari tu .. memang sedang in action masa ditangkap!!

Siapa yang hendak dipertanggungjawabkan dalam perkara-perkara seperti diatas? Bagi aku masyarakat sekeliling bertanggungjawab besar dalam membenteras kejadian-kejadian seperti diatas. Kita tidak boleh hidup seperti Enau dalam belukar yang melepaskan pucuk masing-masing saja. Bila bala diturunkan, dia tak memilih rumah mana, kejiranan mana .. kawasan siapa .. semuanya akan mendapat akibatnya. Kita perlu menjadi busy body .. jaga tepi kain kejiranan kita. Apa yang kita tak dibenarkan ialah membawa mulut menceritakan keburukan orang, memfitnah orang ... tapi sekiranya ia demi kebaikkan bersama, by all mean kita harus melakukannya bersama.

Contoh satu lagi, lately aku telah membenarkan HeroKecik pergi bermain bola di padang berhampiran tanpa pengawasan aku. Syaratnya .. keluar rumah pukul 6 petang dan pukul 7 petang mesti dah sampai rumah semula. So far so good ... yang tak baiknya dua tiga hari ni dia dah mula bercerita tentang abang-abang yang bermain bersama tu ..

"abang-abang tu hisap rokoklah ibu" Wah !! terus aku buka kitab memberi amaran, jangan sampai aku dan ayahnya tahu dia mendekati abang-abang tu masa mereka sedang hidap rokok tu. Siap aku akan grounded dia nanti ...

"ramai kawan-kawan adik pun cuba sama, sampai terbatuk-batuk" Aduhai apa nak jadi dengan anak-anak ni? .. Abang-abang yang dimaksudkan tu adalah pelajar sekolah rendah .. darjah lima dan enam kebanyakkannya... dan abang-abang yang dimaksudkan tu adalah anak-anak kejiranan aku juga. Berputar kepala aku memikirkan bagaimana harus aku lakukan untuk memastikan HeroKecik ni tidak mudah terpengaruh ...

Aku panggil HeroKecik duduk melayari internet dengan aku dan tunjukkan gambar paru-paru manusia yang rosak, tunjukkan rupa gigi yang buruk warna kuning /hitam. Bila dia bertanya kenapa boleh jadi begitu dan dia nampak takut juga .. aku pun slowly masuk daun cerita sebab-sebabnya .. dia nampak insaf lah. Tapi tak tahulah cara aku ni betul ke tidak ... aku sebutkan juga sikit-sikit apa pandangan ustaz aku tentang orang yang hisap rokok ni.

Aku dan HeroBesar selalu berpesan pada kawan-kawan ... yang beranaknya kami, tapi kami memerlukan mereka semua untuk menjadi mata dan telinga kami, sama-sama mendidik dan menegur anak-anak kami seandainya mereka terjumpa, terserempak dimana-mana tempat dan dirasakan berbuat perkara yang tak sepatutnya. Kami selalu berpesan, janganlah ada rasa segan or nak cover line untuk anak-anak kami ... beritahu saja pada kami, pahit manisnya, insyaAllah kami terima.

Memang tidak ada mak bapak yang mendidik anak-anak jadi jahat, melanggar hukum hakam .. semua mak bapak hendakkan yang terbaik. Mendoakan anak-anak dilindungi dari segala keburukan ... tapi dalam pada itu, pengaruh persekitaran amatlah menduga ... sedangkan kita pantau dan ikuti pergerakkan mereka pun kita selalu terlepas pandang .. inikan pula yang diberi kebebasan 100% untuk menjana hidup sendiri-sendiri ... aku paling tak senang bila ada ibu bapa bila kita beritahu tentang anak-anak mereka, jawapannya "biasalah anak-anak lagi, mereka masih muda, nanti dah berumur sikit tahulah mereka buruk baiknya."

Terlajak perahu boleh diundur, terlajak perbuatan ... kesalnya sepanjang hayat!!

Pesan aku pada anak-anak; ibu ayah dah beri segala didikan yang kami termampu untuk kamu sekelian menjalani hidup sesempurna mungkin didunia dan akhirat .. jagalah diri masing-masing, keturunan masing-masing janganlah kami dipersoalkan lagi diakhirat nanti ...

Itu lah dia ...

Apa nak di kato lagi? Semuanya serba tak kena ... macam-macam dah cakap, macam-macam dah buat ... dari secupak dah jadi segantang. Orang tetap juga memilih dia untuk menjadi wakil, untuk menjadi ketua .. Tahniah YB!! Aku yang bukan rakyat Perak ni pun tumpang gembira sama ...

Kato orang minang : Alam takambang jadi guru !! - yang maksudnya tengok/dengar sekeliling dan jadikan pengajaran.

Fire Ball !!

Baru-baru ni aku ada bebel kat blog ni tentang kemalangan yang boleh berlaku diPetrol Station akibat kecuaian sendiri. Silalah baca seterusnya ..

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 2:39 PM on 01st April 2009

Perhaps he thought the warning to never spark a match at a petrol station was just an urban myth.

But this man certainly learnt his lesson when he apparently tried to light a cigarette - and nearly lost his life.

He had just purchased a package of cigarettes at a petrol station in Arizona as his friend pumped petrol into their SUV.

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CCTV footage shows the man approaching his friend, pumping petrol into the car...

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The man tries to light a cigarette - and sparks an explosion...

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The explosion engulfs the vehicle as the driver backs away

It is believed that the unnamed man then made the nearly-fatal mistake of trying to light a cigarette while standing next to his friend - still pumping the highly flammable gas into the car.

What happened next was caught on a surveillance camera at the petrol station in Chandler, Arizona.

A massive explosion engulfed the hapless man in flames, leaving him flailing about in terror until a quick-thinking petrol station employee managed to douse him in water.

See video of the explosion here

The surveillance video shows the driver of the SUV leaping away - then rushing back to the fire to rescue a baby in the back seat of the car.

A shocked woman can also be seen scrambling from the car to safety.

Another man in the SUV 'said his friend was just messing around, and evidently struck a match, and that's when everything blew up,' Phillip Butler, general manager at the Chevron petrol station told local media.

The man - who was apparently on leave from serving with the U.S. armed forces in Iraq - suffered burns to 20 per cent of his body, his mother said.

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The victim flails about in flames until a quick-thinking employee turned a water hose on him

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The victim runs in terror

Cashier Benjamin Gonzalez told media that as soon as he saw the fire, he ran out, pulled the nozzle out of the pump and doused the whole thing with water.

'By the time I got there, the guy was on fire, running around all crazy,' said Gonzales - who was on his first week on the job.

'I didn't want the whole thing going on fire, don't want an explosion in here, you know,' said Gonzalez.

'Thank God they pulled the kid out in time,' said Vanessa Nuno, a petrol station employee who witnessed the incident.

No one else was seriously hurt.

Employees said the incident underscores the dangers of gasoline. Even fumes can catch fire.

'One spark, that's enough to blow up everything,' said Gonzalez.