Friday, June 27, 2008

The Chronicle of the 90's - an era of a grown man

After post hajj - I do change a little bit, altough not all:). I began to frequently visit the Mosque. I also quite closed my best friend from the same village (Kg. Makam) back then, Muhammad Imran (may God bless him). He was the graduate from UTM majoring in Computer Science. Last time I saw him 2 years ago during Aidilfitri, we hugged each other. At the age of 36 he had already become the village Imam & able to read the sermon after Aidilfitri prayers. Back in the late 80's & early 90's, every Sunday evening we would travel together to Gelanggang Budaya in Batu Uban to hear weekly ceramah from Ustaz Dr. Danial Zainal Abidin - the well known religious speaker in Penang. We travel by Penang Yellow Bus (No. 66 - Route Balik Pulau).

One week, in the evening we found it is very difficult to get the bus for our journey home. And we saw all the traffices are quite havocs & quite a number of army helicopters flyin' in the air. We later learned that wooden platform of ferry terminal (the jetty) in Butterworth had crashed & klling around 400 peoples during the crowded Sunday. It was a major disaster back then.

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