Scenes of dead people

If one's own mother appears coming from the dead alive, it denotes one's relief from a distress he is in. Similar is the interpretation if one's father appears to him coming from the dead alive; but the scene of the father is stronger in its connotation than that of the mother.

Setahun berlalu

Setahun sudah berlalu sejak pemergian Abah menemui Ilahi. Sejak 7 Dis 2011, semua yang dilalui adalah pertama kali - tanpa Abah di sisi.

Sepanjang setahun ini memberikan aku perspektif baru pada kehidupan - bahawa aku ini calon jenazah. Semua yang diusahakan akan aku tinggalkan. Lalu apa yang akan aku bawa ke kuburan nanti. Itulah masa depan dan aku insaf peri pentingnya membentuk zuriat yang soleh sebagai jaminan masa depan.

Pernah aku mengungkapkan ini kepada saudaraku - betapa beruntungnya arwah Abah kerana mendapat anak-anak seperti kita. Yang tidak putus-putus mendoakannya supaya sentiasa mendapat keampunan dan rahmat Allah di alam barzakh sana. Abah dah selesai dengan tugasnya tapi bagaimana dengan kita?

Masa depan ialah masa di mana kita sudah tidak mampu beramal untuk diri sendiri. Masa itu kita tertunggu-tunggu doa dari anak yang soleh. Pastinya aku mengharapkan Sarah, Hajar, Amirul, Ariff dan Hadi akan mendoakan terus-terusan sehingga tibanya hari perhitungan. Itulah keputusan straight As yang menjadi sebenar-benar matlamat dan yang paling selamat. Inilah satu wasiat.

Al Fatihah untuk Abah. Dan aku berdoa semoga Allah mengampuni, merahmati, memberi kesejahteraan dan memaafkannya - abadan abada.

100 Hari

10 Muharram - 20 Rabiul Akhir 1433: Hari ni genap 100 hari pemergian abah menemui Tuhan Rabbul Jalil. Lebih tepat lagi jam 11.15 malam nanti. Kebetulan pulak hari ni Selasa. Sigh, masa terasa begitu pantas berlalu walau pada mulanya seperti merangkak-rangkak.

100 hari lepas, hari Selasa, seperti biasa pegi pasar malam - beli yong tau fu. Sempat bercakap dengan mak, lepas maghrib nanti nak pergi tengok abah.

100 hari lepas, pagi Selasa tu, terasa hati tu lain macam. Sebelum keluar ke ofis, terdetik dalam hati mungkin nak balik cepat hari ni, terus ke hospital tengok abah. Berkontemplasi dua tiga kali sepanjang hari tapi memandangkan masa tu baru empat lima hari restart kerja, so balik macam biasa jugak.

100 hari lepas, di sisi abah, aku tercari-cari surah Yasiin yang 'hilang'. So kali ni first time baca thru I-Quran dalam HTC. Lepas maghrib hari Selasa tulah kali terakhir aku bacakan Yaasin depan abah.

100 hari kini, satu milestone yang mungkin mak terlupa. Maka mak memilih berada di rumah itu yang kemudiannya menjadi salah satu punca abah menangis teresak-esak pada April. Abah never recovered.

100 hari kini, Alhamdulillah, memasuki juz sepuluh bacaan Al Quran yang didedikasikan pahalanya untuk abah. Ya Allah, sampaikan pahala bacaan itu kepada Allahyarham Ayahandaku Abu Talib bin Murah. Dengan rahmatmu Ya Allah, terangi dan lapangkanlah kuburnya. Amin.

Prolapsed disc

Understanding the back

The spine is made up of many bones called vertebrae. These are roughly circular and between each vertebra is a 'disc'. The discs are made of strong 'rubber-like' tissue which allows the spine to be fairly flexible. A disc has a stronger fibrous outer part, and a softer jelly-like middle part called the nucleus pulposus.

The spinal cord, which contains the nerves that come from the brain, is protected by the spine. Nerves from the spinal cord come out from between the vertebrae to take and receive messages to various parts of the body.

Strong ligaments attach to the vertebrae. These give extra support and strength to the spine. Various muscles also surround, and are attached to, various parts of the spine. (The muscles and ligaments are not shown in the diagram below for clarity.)

What is a prolapsed disc?

When you have a prolapsed disc (commonly called a 'slipped disc'), a disc does not actually 'slip'. What happens is that part of the inner softer part of the disc (the nucleus pulposus) bulges out (herniates) through a weakness in the outer part of the disc. A prolapsed disc is sometimes called a herniated disc. The bulging disc may press on nearby structures such as a nerve coming from the spinal cord. Some inflammation also develops around the prolapsed part of the disc.

Any disc in the spine can prolapse. However, most prolapsed discs occur in the lumbar part of the spine (lower back). The size of the prolapse can vary. As a rule, the larger the prolapse, the more severe the symptoms are likely to be.

Who gets a prolapsed disc?

Bouts of back pain are very common. However, less than 1 in 20 cases of acute (sudden onset) back pain are due to a prolapsed disc. (Most cases on back pain are classed as 'simple low back pain'. This is thought to be caused by a minor problem to a muscle, ligament, or other structure in the back. For example, a strained muscle. See separate leaflet called 'Low back Pain in Adults' for a general overview of the different types of back pain.)

The commonest age to develop a prolapsed disc is between 30 and 50 years. Twice as many men as women are affected.

What causes a prolapsed disc?

NEW YORK, Oct 6: Apple co-founder and innovator Steve Jobs died after a battle with cancer. Here are some of his most memorable quotes on work and life.

Gizmodo

On Apple:

"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."
—PBS Documentary, Triumph of the Nerds, 1996

"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
—BusinessWeek, 1998

"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth — and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
—Fortune, 1996

"The products suck! There's no sex in them anymore!"
—BusinessWeek, 1997

"Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste."
—Shareholder meeting, 1998

"Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation."

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
—Macworld, 2004

"And boy, have we patented it!"
—Macworld, 2007 (iPhone introduction)

On Bill Gates: