An Empty Void

We got news today that Hanisa must postpone her studies until next year. Those who visited her yesterday told us that her condition was so bad she need to wear her oxygen mask the whole time she was talking. Her heart was working four times harder, the hole in her heart, earlier estimated to be 2.0 cms, got bigger by 0.7cms in the course of three days.

This is our Hanisa, who in Germany walked 3 kilometres alone after class to buy shoes when we said we want to play football.

Hanisa who gets well with everybody.

Hanisa who is never angry to your face.

Hanisa who laughs heartily at every joke.

Hanisa who does not demand nor ask.

Hanisa who runs and kicks and plays and shoots like badass.

Hanisa who dozes off in class because she couldn't waste her time being bored, and prevents us from being so as we laugh watching her.

Hanisa who loves kids and gets loved back.

Hanisa who can play the piano and guitar despite having small hands.

Hanisa who sings so beautifully.

Hanisa who is so musically talented she can play the rebana ibu after being taught ONCE.

Hanisa who loves the Japanese anime, making everybody love it too.

Hanisa who cried silently leaning on the wall when somebody broke her heart, making me want to hit him.

Hanisa who we didn't know we would love and miss so terribly when she isn't with us.

These things happen.

Ya Allah selamatkanlah Siti Hanisa binti Mansor.

YOU ARE RUDE

1. When you spit in front of people.
2. When you spit in front of people who are eating.
3. When you giggle and whisper in a lift, even though you are talking about nobody who's present.
4. When you try tooth and nail to sell your customers things that aren't exactly up to standard.
5. When you talk to your friend who's standing behind a stranger on an escalator.
6. When you talk loudly to said friend, condemning someone else in the process.
7. When you talk to said friend loudly about some other person, and switched abruptly into another language which you know the pitiful person standing between you two won't understand.
8. When you stare.
9. When you stare at people and looked away the moment the person noticed and tried to smile at you.
10. When you didn't return a smile.
11. When you stop all of a sudden in the middle of a road, or right in front of an entrance.
12. When you stand in an entrance when you know people are queueing to get the hell out of there.
13. When you let the door slam into their faces.

Happy New Year 2011!

I believe everybody feels this way: the 1st of January doesn't have much impact, but the 2nd does. You wake up and thought, oh it's the second day already, how time flies!

A good 2010 wrap-up by Jin Hackman.

Results were out last Wednesday. (-oo-)

Itu sungguh saya kerana membulatkan lubang hidung terhadap sesuatu yang kurang enak.

Setakat mana kamu berusaha, setakat itulah yang kamu akan dapat.

Good Luck.