A Shocking News

Last night, in my room, on my bed, I was playing with Nadeen & her 2 sisters when the house phone rang. It was my mom. She asked whether I was watching the news. I answered yes though I was more into the girls rather than listening to an organisation boring gathering.

My mom mentioned of a couple doctors from APSH who were involved with an accident during their trekking at Bukit Melawati. I must have missed that piece of news when I went down for a quick dinner. My mom called again shortly after that to confirm that the doctors' names were Dr. Amin & Dr. Haliza.

I browsed the net for more information & found a cliping in NST online of the missing doctors. Apparently, they were missing from Wednesday. It had been reported that both the doctors were seen leaving the hospital together on that Wednesday morning.

I waited for TV3 nightline at midnight. According to the report, it was only yesterday that Dr. Haliza's car was found near Bukit Melawati. Rescue searches were immediately sent & sadly to find their 2 almost decompossed bodies. Innalillah...

Dr. Haliza was my girls' paediatrician from my Yasmin to dear Nadeen. In fact, it was only about a week ago during the school break that I visited her for Nadeen's chicken pox vaccination. She was as lively as usual. Didn't really have a long chat as she had many patients waiting. Who would have thought that was her final treatment on my girl. Nadeen doesn't get to complete her 1st booster which is due in 3 months time. Dr. Haliza had been a lovely paed to my girls(I once mentioned her here on one of my postings).

My condolence to her family & also to Dr. Amin's. May they rest among the mukmins... Ameen

Al-Fatihah....

Shera Darling, You Are Missed...

In my life, never have I experienced losing a good friend far a close friend. On July 22nd 2008, anyhow, I had to swallow a devastating news. The passing of my beloved close friend Allahyarhamah Shahira Abd Ghani or better known to us as Shera.

Shera to those who didn't know her, was a synonym to felicitousness, sunniness, warmheartedness, unselfishness. She brought laughters wherever she went. She touched our hearts with her affection. I sometimes was amazed with the energy she carried with her. A petite lady who was always on the move & able to juggle time as a mom, a wife, a career woman & a friend.

She was normally among the firsts to drop a comment on my blog. After each posting, I always looked forward to her cheerful & warm remark. She never failed to make me smile. Even though she started blogging only this year, it was quite a drive coping with her lovely posts. They kept on coming. It was really through blogging that we started to reconcile our friendship.

Not only that she boosted up my spirit to keep on posting. She was also the one who introduced me to my latest favourite author. We did not have the chance to talk in person about the books. Nor did we have the chance to do coffee that we planned.

The last time we met was at my house in February. She attended Yasmin's & Wardah's birthday party with both her girls. As always she was as chirpy as usual. Minding both her girls & at the same time catching up with our friends. Not even once she snapped at her girls. In fact at one point I found her away from the group. Her girls wanted to play on a dolphin seesaw I had. In between laughters she told me that her girls insisted to eat at this playground (which was really the seesaw). Did she refuse? No, she played along. I remembered her perspiring under the hot sun feeding the girls, away from the others under the cool shed of a canopy. Come to think of it, she made a beautiful picture with her girls. Why didn't I snap a photo??...

It had always been difficult to pool all of us together. Now that everyone is with family & our priorities change which is normal. Once, we failed to have a get together due to a poor response. Arwah Shera replied "Sometimes when things are impromptu mesti jadiknya". What an irony when most of us were in the end together again, at unfortunately her funeral.

Shera darling, you are deeply missed. Rest in peace my friend. May Allah place you amongst the mukminins. Amin.... Al-Fatihah.