Goodbye tokki......

Welcome back to me.....alaaa, nak balik m'sia balik!!!!!

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A few nights ago, I had a dream. it wasnt a nightmare or anything. I dreamed of my late grandfather, tokki or ayah as we all called him. I was at his house in KT, and all I could remember was tokki smiling and giving me a kiss on my forehead. And then I woke up.

Tokki passed away recently when I was back home. But unfortunately, due to some unavoidable circumstances, I was not able to attend to his funeral :(
The last time I saw him was about 2 years ago, when all of us went back to KT to attend kak emi's wedding. He was as usual, bed bound (he suffered a stroke many many years ago and as the years gone by, his health slowly deteriorated as well).
So i introduced Aiman to him, his i dunno 8th or 9th great grandchild. Because of the stroke, his speech was slurred but his memory was still intact. My grandmother, whom we called chek said, "ni org jauh mari ni... ingat dok?? elyn, anok ton. ni cicit ada skali nih. dok tahu laaa lepah ni dang ke dok nok jupe lagi"
and yes he remembered me, "elyn...hmmm mung blajo molek"
he was laughing and then he cried...sebak kot....sedihnya tengok tokki.......

When azd asked me, what can I tell him about my late tokki? Hmmm...garu kepala...
not much. He was a good man. Most memories with him were from my primary school years. We only got to see my grandparents during raya break, so that was like once a year. Sometimes he would come and visit us in KL. And when tokki was staying in our house, he would always be MIA. Where to?? He went to his fav place --> Chow Kit...hehehe... terer naik bas mini all the way from Cheras. kagum i!

And I remembered there was a pasar malam behind our house,and one night he decided to sell keropok there. So we took this one spot (which was so not strategic, a small lane next to the big main road where the pasar malam was, and it was dark!), set up the table, laid the keropoks and waited for somebody to come and buy the keropoks. And of course harus la adegan jerit2 from tokki and I, "keropok!!! keropok!!"
I think we managed to sell 2 or 3 packets of keropok that night and the money went to me...upah jerit tokki kata......hehehehe kelakar giler!
So those are some of the memories that I could remember this very minute about tokki...sedih pulak :(

May Allah s.w.t. grant Allahyarham tokki His blessing and forgiveness and will include his soul as one who is deserving of rewards in Al-Jannah.
Al-fatihah....