the day the hair stood still!

Friday, 10th Feb 2012.
8.00 pm (-ish)

keluar bilik, baru lepas maghrib.

meera: awak ikut la skali amy.
me: pergi mana?
meera: balik kampung.
amy: why?
ayah: maktok dah tiga kali pengsan.
amy: huh? kenapa??
ayah: kene rasuk.
amy: oh.
amy: bila nak balik?
ayah: jap lagi la kot.


9.30 pm.

sitting in front of the tv.


amy: ayah jadi tak nak balik malam ni?
ayah: hmm, tak kot. esok pagi lah call dorang. kalau tak okay lagi esok pagi balik.
amy: oh okayy then.


2.15 am.

in my room, watching so you think you can dance on my laptop. and my sister was watching family outing on hers. 
*knock on door


ayah: siap lah, tok nyang dah takde. (tok nyang is my great grandmother)



and so we rushed back to terengganu. i didnt sleep the whole way because i wanted to teman the driver which was my sister and my dad. and so bila sampai terengganu sempat tengok tok nyang sekejap before they mandikan and kapankan. ya Allah, the last time i saw her was masa raya and that time dia still berisi lagi. but then when i saw her, she is soo tiny and fragile. sedih sangat tengok dia macam tu. my aunties told me that she shrinked everyday. u can see the difference even while you're looking at her. 


my tok nyang dah lama terlantar. biasa lah kan, dah tua i think she's nearly a 100 years old, or maybe in her early 90s. we're not really sure. so after diorang dah mandikan and all, they wanted to simpan after jumaat, so the jenazah bawak pergi kat masjid skali lah untuk solat jenazah. while they we're praying, i needed to take a rest and so we headed to my aunty's place which is just beside my grandma's place. basically our close relatives rehat kat situ lah after the long journey sebab rumah maktok penuh dengan distant relatives kan. so alhamdulillah everything went smoothly. malam tu after tahlil me and meera kene tido rumah maktok sebab kesian kat maktok takde sapa nak teman and at the same time we had to wait for our sisters who are on their way from KL.


we couldnt sleep that night. i dont know why, but memang tak sedap badan and rasa takut sangat nak tido. might just be my feelings because my aunties cerita banyak sangat benda and thus i became a coward. around 3.30 to 4.00 am my sisters arrived. after diorang dah sampai baru i have the guts to shut my eyes. 


Sunday, 12th Feb 2012.


pretty much the same thing happen, tahlil and all. lepas tahlil we were sitting in maktok's place la kan. lepak with my cousins and all. sekali ada ustaz datang.


okay, now things starts to become very much interesting. suddenly i teringat about maktok pengsan sampai 3 kali tu kan and so i thought 'oh maybe dia nak tengok maktok je kot.' well, i had that part right!


now how do i say this, u know, tok nyang sakit dah lama dah. and im guessing that she couldnt go on passing because she had something in her. turns out that that ustaz dah pernah datang dah, but that time dia ubatkan tok nyang, and while he was doing things at tok nyang, maktok was right beside her telling her to mengucap and all. so i guessed that thing went to maktok at that time. ayah cakap that dia pergi kat maktok because dia nak cari pengganti. 


ayah cakap benda tu pelesit, its sorta like susuk lah. you pakai that thing untuk jadi cantik.
and masa maktok was possessed with that thing, muka dia jadi tegang and berseri sangat. im not even kidding you. all the wrinkles at her face was gone and she sounded young. my aunty said she sounded like a teenager. but i xtau la kan. she did act all childish.


masa benda tu mula mula masuk maktok, dia bangun and start pukul pukul the ustaz and nak silat and all, ya Allah, time tu mampu nak mengucap je. sangatlah takut okay. and then she started giggling and all. the ustaz kept on asking dia sapa and datang dari mana but all she said was 'dari situ!' and tunjuk dekat dapur. after about half an hour i think baru dia jerit jerit cakap 'aku datang dari rumah mak timah!'. and then dia tunjuk tunjuk kat dapur again! oh god no wonder la im so scared of the kitchen! ahahha 


oh lupa nak mention, we we're all sitting in the living room and the ustazs and maktok was in the second living room but we could see everything lah from the living room. and my uncles were there with the ustazs along with maktok's brother(tok de) and his family. one of my uncles even recorded the whole thing. masa in the middle of asking who she is to tibe tibe dia pergi dekat anak tok de yang laki tu and then she put her face on his lap. memang nampak sangatlah yang dia suka anak tok de kan. i think my aunty was right, i think she is a teenager indeed sebab anak tok de tu still young, around mid 20s kot. 


oh another thing is, my cousins ramai yang kecik tau like 6 years old to 13 ish. and diorang semua sangatlah curious. masa maktok nak silat the ustaz tu everyone of us stood up and tengok the scene tau and then tetibe maktok macam nak run towards us and everyone ran away tau, it was so funny! haha and so the ustaz told the kids to go and wait at mak ndak's(my aunt) house. along with the kids my sister, azie pun balik sekali because she said she was having her menses and she didnt want to be in the middle of this. ayu was already at mak ndak's place sebab daniel awal awal lagi dah menangis.


so basically what the ustaz did was trying to take out that thing from maktok's body so that dia tak kacau maktok and the next generation which is us lah kan. after berubat tu the ustaz suruh ayah nik(uncle) ajar maktok mengucap and she did but then tetibe dia gelak and then cakap 'oh pandai aku mengucap!' definitely not her lah kan. this pelesit ni sangat pandai berlakon, a few times she made it as though dia dah keluar from maktok and then she giggled and there she was still. that one moment when she started to actually keluar, anak tok de, this time a girl, tetibe muntah. now i wouldnt have suspected anything tau, but then tetibe maktok was like ' ha, sape tu muntah? mari lah sini!' as though she was saying come lets play together! 


i am so scared right now i am very close to tears! it might not sound like its that scary but trust me, going through it is much worse than reading about it!

the ustaz baca something and at the same time dia sapu limau kat tapak tangan maktok, suddenly she screams 'kenapa kau kacau aku!!' ohhoo i tell you time tu all i can think of is take cover behind my male cousin! ahahha i heard the ustaz replied 'dah kenapa kau kacau dia? tinggallah badan dia, aku tak kacau kau dah! kau pergi balik tempat kau!'  and then maktok started to stormed towards us to the front door sambil jerit ' ha!!  aku nak balik dah lah nih!! ' i remembered this time semua orang yang gathered dekat arch yang connectkan the 1st living with 2nd living tu semua lari trying to make way for her escape. but then the ustaz cengkam tangan maktok sangat kuat she couldnt even get passed us.  


there was that time when maktok nak silat ustaz tu kan, dia siap betulkan kain batik dia lagi ikat kemas kemas sebab takut jatuh, and then when she was on the floor, dia nak tendang ustaz tu sampai ternaik naik habis kain batik dia! nasib baik maktok pakai seluar kat dalam! it was scary but we couldnt help but laugh at that moment sebab dia nampak sangat childish with her act! it was so obvious that it wasnt her!.


last skali, i guess that thing dah penat and i guess the ustaz was sure that maktok has gained her consciousness, maktok stood up with very less energy compared to when she stood up with that thing in her, and then pergi baring dekat the living room where we all were sitting. i tell you, i was so afraid of her. i was even afraid to look at her sebab takut dia tetibe bukak mata and saw me looking at her! my aunties and uncle wasnt so sure that the thing dah keluar because masa maktok bangun nak pergi baring tu she said 'ish budak budak ni, buat susah aku je!' and it was soo not like maktok to say that! she is like the nicest person ever, she wouldnt have said anything after that. and another thing that she said was ' malu aku dengan ustaz tu!'. 


that night everyone lari pergi tido rumah mak ndak! but then ayah and mak ngah both tido dengan mak tok which was quite sweet i think! ayah on the right and mak ngah on the left! mama dah lari tido rumah mak ndak awal awal! ahahah and then ada lah mak cik noor and her kids tido rumah maktok jugak, but other than that i think semua tido rumah mak ndak! sampaikan penuh nak jalan pun susah!  


i was so scared i couldnt sleep that night, there were times when i felt as if kene tindih but then i figured that maybe its just my blood circulation yang tak betul because me and my sisters tido rapat sangat that i couldnt even move! thats how scared we was! meera yang tak pernah pernah suruh teman pergi toilet pun ajak teman. and me lagi lah chicken! i told her to wait for me IN the toilet! ahahah pagi tu mandi, sabun je tutup pintu, after that terus bukak pintu and brush my teeth as well as cuci muka sambil bukak pintu, i didnt care that i was in my towel and that there were kids around! i was that scared! 


yesterday (which was a week later) baru i found out that sebenarnya Farhan (the male cousin that i took cover with) pun takut at that time! ahahha and then dia lagi lah, now he's been going there now and then untuk jenguk maktok. ahaha muka je macho tapi chicken jugak! ahhaha boy i was glad he didnt told me at that time that he was scared to! kalau tak taktau nak berlindung dengan sapa! ahahha 




so after thinking about it again and writing about it, i think i might be able to surpass this thing. it might take awhile though. so now after knowing this experience of mine, you cant blame me if im such a coward! trust me, this will stay on my mind for quite some time! i might even say a for few years!


till then,
take care! and please take care of me too! :)