Last night, while my eyes were about to close, i received a call. A call that really shocked me and every friends of mine that i knew. It was a call from my buddy Farid. It was still our Aidilfitri season and i was relieved that my buddy called but didn't expect the words that came out from my phone speaker. I thought my buddy misses me and he wanted to give a sarcastic joke hoping that i would play along with his jokes like we always do, used to. But it wasn't a joke. It was a really shocking bad news.
A good man, a very good man that i have known him as my buddy's Father, just passed away. His father was like an uncle to me. He never fails to make all of us laugh until our bladder went dead everytime we see him. We used to play badminton together at the same padang, that is full of memories. At first, I didn't accept the fact that he was gone, forever, leaving his 2 sons and his good wife alone in this world. I didn't remember what i said to Fred because my mind went dead at that time. Then my mom took the phone, and talked to him. She told him to calm down, and to istighfar a lot for his late Father. I told him to be strong, for his mother. And also for his brother of course. I called my friends just to make sure they got the news. I texted her 3 times about the news and she still thinks i was joking until she called me and i explained everything. Yeah, she was in shock and speechless.
My mom quickly reported to my neighbor. My neighbour was a Perakian too. So, we all decided to go to Fred's kampong in Ipoh together. It took about 2 hours to get there. When i arrived there, i saw the body lying on the bed. My legs was trembling actually when i wanted to approach to him. I saw arwah Nik Adnan's face. My heart was pumping faster than the rate of footsteps when running. Then,i saw his mom, that was full of sadness and lost when my mom hugged his momma. Then i saw Fred's face. It wasn't good either. I gave a friendly hug at him. But as always he has to control his 'macho' so he made the hug simple and short. It's okaay i guess, i understand haha. Then i looked at his brother's face. It was just normal though. I think he's a strong boy, i mean, who wouldn't cry over their father's death, right ? RIGHT ?! moving on. I saw her sitting beside her family. She was staring at the body that was lying on the bed. She was biting her lips and just sat there quietly. I guess she was trying to pull her tears in. Few seconds later, I met her gaze, yeah it was mesmerizing of course. She looks beautiful as always and it melted my heart. And i miss that look, it's been a while i guess. And i met her whole family too. His brother now all buffed up. Coolio ! I sat beside Fred to read surah yasin. After i finished reading, he said to me that he was suprised that i really was coming. I told him, "anything for my brother". I can see his face was going to burst in tears.
There were quite many people who came. Family, friends, and even his late father's boss came. Yeah, i really do admit that the late Nik Adnan was a good person despite the way he died. Not many people nowadays dies such a peaceful way like that. Most of them died because of car accidents or cardiac failure. "Sape suruh merempit, kan dah kena !" Those are the words that came from my 3 year old nephew. Yeah, he is a cute lil critter. I didn't spent much time there due to the bad timing. I went back about 1am in the morning. The journey home was worst than going there. We got stuck on a jam for hours and hours due to a car accident. A proton waja car got hit by a lorry balak that was speeding and hit he car on the left corner. The car actually exploded ! because there were fire-fighters putting out the fire from the car. I don't know what happened to the victims because they got taken away by the ambulance. So, the moral of the accident is, don't buy local cars, because they are like twigs ! We arrived home about 4am, and i was about to get knocked-out already. The End. Yeah, that's about it i guess (:
p/s: Al- Fatihah to fred's late father, Arwah Nik Adnan . . .
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