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Perginya Srikandiku-Ibu tercinta

Jumaat 12 September 2014 10.15am Menerima msg whatsapp dari adik bongsu di kampung dengan gambar ma tidur meniarap dan video nafas ma yang sesak dan payah. 3.00pm Menerima sms dan whatsApp mengatakan beliau telah menghantar ibu ke hospital pada tengahari kerana paginya semasa memandikan ma, arwah lemah longlai dan muntah hitam. Perbincangan beberapa jam sebelumnya untuk kak Ila dan Abg Din singgah di rumah kemudian aku menghantar mereka ke TH Kelana Jaya kerana penerbangan mereka ke Makkah pada malam 14 hb berubah serta merta. Aku mencari2 tiket flight dan Kak Ila merancang untuk balik kg bersama dgn flight dari Subang. Kemudian Kak Ila msg mengatakan dia akan balik dgn kereta, lalu aku terus menelefon Anis minta dihantar ke airport Subang. Nasib baik penerbangan jam 5.30pm masih ada 6 seat kosong. Lalu dalam lebih kurang 30 minit aku packed baju2 ke dalam bag sandang dan terus menunggu Anis di post guard pada jam 4.30pm. Jam 5.15pm tiket firefly kubeli di kaunter dan terus d...

Tamarillo killed me!!

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Last week I was involved in organizing an International Conference on Plant Physiology in Bali, Indonesia. The conference hosted by Malaysian Society for Plant Physiology and Indonesian Coffee and Cocoa Research Institute. It was the best conference ever, because my friends from MSPP were all very outstanding, charming, and sporting. As a secretary, all my stresses and tiredness of 4 months faced the hassles faded away. During our trip to Kintamani, I saw this tamarillo fruit which is commonly known in Indonesia as terung Belanda. It is popular as a juice. So, I bought 1/2 kg of it, costed me IDR 5000 and brought back home. Unfortunately, after consumed 2 glasses of the juice made up from 4 fruits in ~500 ml water, it caused me diarrhea until today! It has been 4 days already and all kind of medicines I took including activated charcoal, pil chi kit teck aun, honey with habatussauda, the pills for diarrhea prescribed by a doctor, 100+, young coconut water, hurix sto-mach-8...all do...