Sunday, January 07, 2007
ydae, mother's family decided to visit our Kota Tinggi cousins who were the victims of the horrible flood back in december. since i was bored, i tagged along.
we went to paman Mamat's house 1st. it was safe from the flood coz its on one of the higher hills there. i could see myself spending my long weekends there lah. i luurve the house man. & paman Mamat's wife is by far my all time favourite aunt coz of her intelligence & the fact that she's my korean movie supplier. heheh. we can talk about anything under the sun & her english is superb lah caaan. sheesh! (she's an english graduate teacher. go figure) talking to her makes me smart!
then we headed to paman Suri's house. now. i almost sobbed hearing their story lah. the whole kampong was drowned in the flood. including his house. just imagine, the highest bridge in kota tinggi couldnt even be seen!
the saddest thing is, paman Suri just bought new furnitures for his house. it was such an unexpected natural disaster. when i saw the state of his car & how piles & piles of books were being laid out on the car to dry, it made me kinda sad. to be living in a flat in spore is such a blessing i tell u.
if i'd known, i would have brought my unused ugama books & old clothes & give it to them. maybe i will go back there soon.
one of my fav cousins across the causeway.
my uncles decided to have a "WHO'S BELLY IS THE BIGGEST" competition. now, guess who won... (too bad dad wasnt in the picture. oh, paman Mamat too!)
that's paman Suri, his wife & anak bongsu. oh, & mama too..
alamak. this picture is too cute for words. my heroines of the flood.
ini pulak, gua punya hero2 tua. the uncles who had their pants rolled up are the kota tinggi ones. aksyen masih banjir konon.. & check out paman Mamat's (yellow shirt-ed) facial expression lah caaaan??!! mcm kene dera rabak2!! sheesh..
see what i mean by the drying of books? haiz. this is a very sad state of things. 
imagine the whole stretch submerged in muddy water.
along the way, my aunt told us of the story of this Laksmana dude (alah, the one where the raja got mangkat dijulang one. i forgot his name lah.) we passed by his kubur & guess wat. it was the ONLY thing that wasnt flooded. u can totally see the rest submerged but NOT the kubur. now, how freaky is that?! apparently, the raja sumpah-ed the laksmana's family for 7 generations. now its just reaching the 6th. this story reminded me of the tsunami disaster in Aceh & the masjid that still stood strong.
semua kuasa Allah. im so bloody amazed i tell u. so ive learned quite abit about the history of Kota Tinggi. i think i got historically smarter going back there.
what an educational visit! =)
posted by: [nurul]haya @ 8:54 pm
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