Kak Ngah has left us too soon.

20.2.2015.

Kak Ngah Bang Sudin was 55. That's too soon to meet her Maker; so much life to live for, things to do still, and future grandchildren to dote on -   all  not to be. She succumbed to the long-suffered illness about Asr yesterday, Thursday 19th. February, 2015, just eleven months after the passing of her father. In the last days of her life she had said her dad was waiting for her to join him. She even looked more and more like him.

I went to the Tuan Hj. Said Muslim cemetry this morning with No. 2 Son and later Ari and Thareez joined us, to see if we could get a spot next to the father. The caretaker came an hour later than  he had promised Ari, but all's well that ends well - we got the burial spot right next to Bang Sudin's. They had to use the MPS JCV though, to break the tarmac already laid there. Klemot was happy with the news when I stopped to tell her on my way home, after leaving the workers to finish the job.

Kak Ngah's last post was that of a Professor at the University Pertanian, having done her doctorate in the US in the late 80's. She went to TKC, just like my sister, Dekma, my daughter, Dekna, and my niece Aza,  and most recently Acam's granddaughter. Kak Ngah  did her first degree in the US.

I first met her after I got married in 1971. When we went for a two-week holiday in Orlando, Florida in the late 80's, she was just completing her Ph.D. in neighbouring Georgia, and she drove over with her family to join us at the resort we were staying at not far from Disneyland.

When she got married, I forget the year, we all went to the groom's at Bidor, Perak. She bought her first house in Kajang. Some years ago she moved to a bigger house in Bangi. This was where she died.

The family decided to lay her to rest in Seremban, where most of her mother's kins are, but more importantly, where her late father is buried. Her remains will be prepared for burial this morning, and funeral prayers will be held at the Masjid Dato' Kelana Petra after the Friday prayers, before taking her to be by the side of her beloved father until the Day of Resurrection. May they both find peace in their wait.

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