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bergema takbir di pagi raya

Nampaknya plan nak beraya di kampung tak tercapai sebab Bie and family terus balik ke KL on Saturday morning. Ceritanya...

Nothing could be better than Hari Raya on a Friday. :) The five of us bertolak ke Perak lepas solat Jumaat. Campur traffic jam and what not, sampai rumah Tok & Opah around Maghrib time. Dah makan, mandi, solat, etc...Ayah Ngah telepon...dapat bad news. My neighbor, Datuk Jarjis meninggal dunia at about 4:30pm. Innalillahu wainnailaihiraji'un...Terduduk sekejap...Still takleh nak telan the sad news. We were planning on visiting him kat IJN bila balik sini on Sunday (today). But Allah had other plans...

So...Abah cakap, let's balik lepas Subuh. This is more important than Hari Raya. Datuk has been our neighbor for 24 years...the only very close neighbor we've ever known. And the best neighbor...he was like a grandfather to me... :( And he was my oldest penpal! :P Through e-mail of course...hehe...Anyway, on Saturday, we left Perak at about 6:30am...sampai TTDI pukul 10am. Mak oii...jalan Persiaran Zaaba packed!! Sampai ada polis nak jaga traffic. Kitorang nak masuk rumah pun takleh sebab ada orang park kereta kat depan gate. Tapi, alhamdulillah, Bie dapat juga tatap wajah Datuk sebelum dia dikapankan. Ya Allah! Masih susah nak percaya he's no longer with us!

Lepas bacaan Yasin, we headed to Tanah Perkuburan Bukit Kiara...talkin yg Uncle Ramli (imam masjid At-Taqwa and also Abah's close friend) baca memang menakutkan dan buat Bie lagi insaf. Ajal kita ditangan Tuhan. Dalam kubur, kita hanya bawa amalan dan ibadat kita di dunia...nothing else. Subhanallah...

And that's that...penat tu toksah nak cerita ler...hari ni pun sempat beraya kat dua rumah relatives aje. Esok dah mula kerja balik. Kalau nak beraya lagi, kena tunggu weekend la pulak. :) And for three nights in a row, ada majlis tahlil kat rumah Allahyarham Datuk Jarjis...ni pun baru aje balik from there. :) Semoga Allah mencucuri rahmatNya ke atas roh Allahyarham...

Okay...move on to better stories. :) Akhirnya Bie dpt merasa lemang, ketupat, and the works lepas lima tahun beraya kat US!! Hehehe...well, empat tahun sebenarnya, since Bie balik for raya tahun 2000. :P Tapi rasa macam dah lama tak merasa "Made in Malaysia" nyer juadah Aidilfitri. :D Puas hati! Hehehe...From UMIMSA's e-mails, nampaknya ada a few open houses, ye? Ha, don't miss the opportunity! :)

Alrighty, bedtime. And back to the real world...