Monday, October 5, 2009

REMEMBRANCE 44 : SUHANA SIDEK

On Monday,(05.10.2009) Marini’s cousin Suhana binti Sidek has been conferred with the degree of Bachelor of Business Mathematics With Honours (B.Bus.Math (Hons), Second Class Upper by the University Utara Malaysia at its 22nd. Convocation Ceremony held at Mu’adzam Shah Hall, UUM Sintok.

To commemorate this special occasion, Suhana’s parents, her father Sidek and her mother, Salmiah has flown down from Bintulu, Sarawak by Air Asia on the 4th. October 2009. Ana’s brother, Suhardi has fetched Ana at KLIA who has flown by MAS from Bintulu on 2nd October 2009. Both of them drove down to Alor Setar on Suhardi’s MYV on Saturday 03.10.2009. Ana has got to conclude the sale of her previous car by getting the approval from Puspakom on Sunday morning, 04.10.2009.

Ana and her parents put up the nights at Marini’s house in Taman Mawar. Although Ana’s parents arrived at Alor Setar at 6.00 pm on Sunday, yet at 9.00 pm they proceeded to UUM Convocation’s Carnival, UUM Sintok with Marini in tow. They really enjoyed their visit to the carnival since they were back at Taman Mawar only at 1.00 am.. Although still having a hang over on the next day, they have got to depart for Ana’s convocation at 6.00 am. the next day.

Since they have come a long way from Bintulu, Zam and I decided to give Ana and her family a dinner treat at Nurha’s Restaurant, Jalan Langgar. We did not anticipate that they would be so exhausted from attending the Convocation Ceremony. Later in the evening, I was informed that their exhaustion were more because of their visiit to Padang Besar immediately after the convocation.

We scheduled the dinner at 8.30 pm. but Ana's family could only make it at 9.00 pm. Since our stomachs were grumbling, we started our dinner at 8.15 pm without Ana’s family. We has also invited Ani's and Mek Tet’s families for the dinner. Mek Tet and Wan Mansur joined us at the dinner but Ani could not make it because of the normal excuse of her husband’s prior commitment.

Anyway we were not alone at the Nurha’s Restaurant because we met Inspin’s personnel at Nurha with their families. They were Saimah and Suhaila with their families. At the first instance, I thought were pre arranged dinner by Saimah and Suzaini but instead they informed me that it was a coincindence between them.
After the dinner, we presented Ana's family with the farewell souvenir consisted of kuih bakar that we have bought at Shukri Abdullah's Restaurant at Jitra and emping kerabu prepared by Mak Teh. While at the Shukri's beehun soup restaurant, naturally it brought back fond memories of my schooling days whereby I used to take the Kubang Pasu bus for my journey to my alma mater at Alor Setar. The site of the restaurant was previously the site of the Kubang Pasu Transport's Bus Terminal.




The Mada canal where I was nearly drown because I slipped down while taking my ablution for my religious class at Pondok Haji Saad, Jitra.


The site across the river where I used to take my Laksa Tok Dit after the religious class at Pondok Haji Saad




The former Jitra Post Office where much desired or much hated academic news were recieved



The site of the former bus terminal opposite the Jitra Police Station where I used to be hauled up to be part of the identification parade. During the identification parade, we were always anxious because we might be identified as the culprit by the victim


From left: Haslisaid, bubly Mohd. Ryan Dannish and his mother, Suzaini



From left: Me, Sidek, Mek Tet, Zam, Salmiah, Ana and Marini

2 comments:

  1. Sapa dia suhana sidek ni?Adik beradik misbun sidek ka?

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  2. Nana. Suhana adalah sepupu Marini dan tidak kena mengena dengan Misbun Sidek atau Sidique Sigaraga.

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