Saturday 19 July 2014

the series of unfortunate events...

Life has been very busy and very fortunate lately.. Alhamdulillah.. I can't thank God enough for that. Dah almost 3 bulan running bake shop, skang bulan ramadhan, kami tengah pulun siapkan order untuk raya cookies. Dapat order dari istana banyak sgt.. Alhamdulillah.. Alhamdulillah.. Cafe is still under renovation. Target to open by August. Tak tahu la tu sempat ke tak.. InsyaAllah harap yang terbaik. So far, So Good. Allah has been very kind to us. Thank you ya Allah :')

Tapi... on the other side of the world.. dunia mereka tak seindah duniaku. Palestin is being attacked brutally by Israhell jahanam. Setiap hari dalam Facebook there will be new pics of the injureds, the deads, the bloods, the tears of the small children.. Ya Allah, remuk redam hati ni. Marah. Sedih. Takut. Helpless. Semua ada. Dan pada 10 hari terakhir Ramadhan, serangan semakin rancak. Dan aku di sini, hanya mampu melihat, berdoa dan menyumbang sedikit dari rezeki ku buat mereka di sana. My tears running down everyday. Everytime i read the updates on facebook. It's so heartbreaking. I don't even have feelings nk sambut raya. Tak tergamak rasanya. Seeeing all those tears, betul2 menusuk hati. Tabahlah wahai saudaraku...


Itu baru di Palestin. Di Syria pun tak kurang kritikal. Rejim Basyar jahanam membunuh rakyatnya dengan kejam. No words can describes the pictures i've seen on facebook. Too cruel to digest.


Kali ni aku tekad nak boikot semampu yang boleh. NO MORE COKES, NO MORE PEPSI, NO MORE MILO. NO MORE MCD. NO MORE. NO MORE. NO MORE. Banyak lagi products yang kena boikot. Mesti boikot. Sebab aku taknak duit aku jadi penyumbang dalam kekejaman israel laknatullah.

Dalam pada kekecohan di Syria dan Palestin, tiba2 dapat pulak breaking news, MH17 was shot down in Ukraine. Another heart breaking news to bear. Ya Allah, naik flight has been my biggest fear for all this while. And this kind of news is not helping at all. Sedih. Marah dengan apa yang terjadi. Again, hanya doa yang mampu aku berikan. Moga keluarga mangsa yang terlibat sentiasa tabah dan redha. Aku doakan mereka kuat hadapi ujian ni. Sebab kalau aku diuji yang sama, aku tak tahu mcm mana aku akan hadapinya. Hanya Allah yg jadi pengubat.


Just now, i broke into tears reading a letter from a doctor dari Norway yang volunteer bertugas di Gaza. here's what he wrote :

Letter from Norwegian hero doctor who is in Gaza right now
Dr. Mads Gilbert MD PhD
Dearest friends -
The last night was extreme. The "ground invasion" of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying - all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent.
The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza's hospitals are working 12-24hrs shifts, grey from fatigue and inhuman workloads (without payment all in Shifa for the last 4 months), they care, triage, try to understand the incomprehensible chaos of bodies, sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, breathing, not breathing, bleeding, not bleeding humans. HUMANS!
Now, once more treated like animals by "the most moral army in the world" (sic!).
My respect for the wounded is endless, in their contained determination in the midst of pain, agony and shock; my admiration for the staff and volunteers is endless, my closeness to the Palestinian "sumud" gives me strength, although in glimpses I just want to scream, hold someone tight, cry, smell the skin and hair of the warm child, covered in blood, protect ourselves in an endless embrace - but we cannot afford that, nor can they.
Ashy grey faces - Oh NO! not one more load of tens of maimed and bleeding, we still have lakes of blood on the floor in the ER, piles of dripping, blood-soaked bandages to clear out - oh - the cleaners, everywhere, swiftly shovelling the blood and discarded tissues, hair, clothes,cannulas - the leftovers from death - all taken away...to be prepared again, to be repeated all over. More then 100 cases came to Shifa last 24 hrs. enough for a large well trained hospital with everything, but here - almost nothing: electricity, water, disposables, drugs, OR-tables, instruments, monitors - all rusted and as if taken from museums of yesterdays hospitals.But they do not complain, these heroes. They get on with it, like warriors, head on, enormous resolute.t
And as I write these words to you, alone, on a bed, my tears flows, the warm but useless tears of pain and grief, of anger and fear. This is not happening!
An then, just now, the orchestra of the Israeli war-machine starts its gruesome symphony again, just now: salvos of artillery from the navy boats just down on the shores, the roaring F16, the sickening drones (Arabic 'Zennanis', the hummers), and the cluttering Apaches. So much made and paid in and by US.
Mr. Obama - do you have a heart?
I invite you - spend one night - just one night - with us in Shifa. Disguised as a cleaner, maybe.
I am convinced, 100%, it would change history.
Nobody with a heart AND power could ever walk away from a night in Shifa without being determined to end the slaughter of the Palestinian people.
But the heartless and merciless have done their calculations and planned another "dahyia" onslaught on Gaza.
The rivers of blood will keep running the coming night. I can hear they have tuned their instruments of death.
Please. Do what you can. This, THIS cannot continue.
Mads
Gaza, Occupied Palestine
Mads Gilbert MD PhD
Professor and Clinical Head
Clinic of Emergency Medicine
University Hospital of North Norway
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Raya kali ni paling takde semangat. All goes to the Palestinians and the Syrians who suffer in their homeland. Moga Allah berkati mereka. Kurniakan syahid buat mereka. Kuatkan mereka. Berikan kemenangan kepada mereka. Ameen..