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Friday 16 February 2018
Wednesday 14 February 2018
Jangan Hantar Ibu Bapa anda ke rumah jagaan orang tua
Last
saturday, saya meng"offer" diri untuk jadi volunteer di sebuah rumah
warga Tua.. memandangkan kekurangan volunteer, saya mengajak cousins saya,
Comel n Angah untuk sama-sama membantu menjayakan project yang dianjurkan oleh
kawan saya, Afiq...
Kami
tiba di rumah warga tua jam 9.30 am dan program sepatutnya bermula jam 10 am..
efficient kan kami... hihihi.. kaki saya menggigil untuk melangkah ke rumah
warga Tua Sri Tanjung, Kuang Selangor... Ya Allah.. terlalu banyak sangat
perasaan.. takut.. sedih.. segala-galanya... Dengan kuat, kaki melangkah masuk
ke rumah warga Tua.. Nenek-nenek, kakak-kakak, atuk-atuk semua memerhatikan kami
sambil tersenyum.. ya Allah.. senyuman yang terukir di bibir mereka
mengingatkan saya kepada arwah Atok, arwah Bapak (atok lelaki sebelah mak),
Arwah Tok Ba, Arwah Opah... rindu yang teramat kepada mereka.. pertama kali
saya melihat mereka, airmata saya mula bergelinang.. dalam hati saya hanya
minta Allah kuatkan semangat saya bertemu mereka...
Setelah
semua nya sampai (nurse dari Kolej Jururawat), saya mulakan program.. Saya
menjadi emcee untuk majlis yang serba ringkas.. setelah semua ucapan selesai, kami
memulakan program kami yang secara santai.. saya dan cousins saya memulakan
dengan memberi mereka kuih.. ya Allah.. saya usap tangan tua... rindu nya kat
Atok! rindunya kat Opah! rindunya kat Bapak! rindunya kat Tok Ba! saya melayan
kerenah-kerenah Nenek ni... seronok nya... korang tahu, nenek-nenek ni semua
educated.. They can speak English very well!! ada sorang nenek ni, bisik di
telinga saya, "nenek suka awak.. u're nice.. macam cucu nenek..tapi
diaorang jarang datang..." diciumnya saya... ya Allah.. sekali lagi nenek
ni buat saya mengalir airmata... Pada saya mereka ini hanya menunggu waktu
bertemu Ilahi...
Saya
ke seorang nenek yang dah tak mampu bergerak lagi.. Dia mengadu dia bosan...
saya bisik kat dia, "nenek.. saya kan ada ni.. mana nenek bosan lagi
dah.." digenggam erat tangan saya... saya hanya ketawa walaupun saya tak
berapa faham apa yang diperkatakan... akhirnya nenek ni tersenyum.. saya
bermain tangan dia.. dia gelak.. (ya Allah.. mengalir airmata saya mengingat
kembali segalanya...)
Saya
seterusnya ke seorang lagi nenek... Nenek ni sangat comel.. Orang panggil nenek
ni Wan.. Wan ni kene cakap lembut-lembut dengan dia.. saya percaya masa dia
muda dia sangat cantik.. sebab Wan sangat comel! Wan tak nak minum air... saya
cuba pujuk dia habiskan air... "Wan.. habiskan air ni ya.. nanti Wan
sihat.. boleh jalan-jalan.." yes! saya berjaya memujuk Wan.. Wan habiskan
juga air secawan...
Ada
seorang nenek ni kan.. umur dia dah 101 tahun.. dia tak nyanyuk.. tetapi macam
umur 80 tahun!! ya Allah.. apalah rahsia nenek ni nampak muda.. saya tanya
nenek ni.. nenek kata dia makan ulam-ulaman masa muda... wah.. lepas ni saya
nak ikut petua nenek ni la.... hihihi.. menurut Mak Long (owner rumah warga
tua), penghuni di situ seramai 30 orang dan yang betul-betul waras hanya 5
orang sahaja, selebihnya dah nyanyuk.. patutlah kami berborak dengan seorang
nenek, kami ingat dia antara yang waras.. sebab muda lagi.. tapi bila dah
berborak.. ohh!! nenek ni pun dah nyanyuk juga rupanya...
Tertarik
dengan salah seorang penghuni antara yang termuda.. kak Farah.. umurnya 42
tahun... sangat menyayat hati ceritanya tentang dia... Dia seorang lawyer,
seorang isteri dan seorang ibu... ketika umur dia 33 tahun, Allah
mengujinya..Rupanya dari kecil, satu saraf otak dia halus/kecik, mcm tu la
lebih kurang.. dan dia pulak pernah accident... jadi ketika dia menyusukan anak
dia, saraf otak tu pecah akibat tekanan dan dia mengalami pendarahan dalam
otak.. dia menjalani pembedahan membuang darah beku di kepala.. pembedahan
berjaya dilakukan... ditebuk kepala depan nya (nampak lekuk).. tetapi dia
separuh paralyze.. sebelah kanan.. dan dia mengalami masalah sukar untuk
bercakap, menangkap kata-kata apa yang orang cakap.. tetapi dia sangat hebat
speaking english.. husband dia hantar dia di rumah warga tua memandangkan tiada
siapa yang boleh menjaga dia.. husband dia tidak menceraikan dia.. setiap
minggu husband dia akan bawa anak-anak dia, Adam dan Sarah untuk melawat dia...
bayangkan.. umur dia masih muda tetapi dia dah berada di rumah warga tua..
paling tidak lagi 20 tahun dia akan menghabiskan masa di rumah tu... masa saya
tegur dia buat pertama kali, perkataan yang dia cakap kat saya, "I like
you!" saya memberikan senyuman dan duduk di sebelah dia sambil berborak..
kami lebih banyak menulis di buku conteng dia.. Semalam dia call saya,
saya agak payah untuk faham, tapi saya cuba.. "Kak Farah rindu Hajar..
Bila Hajar nak datang tengok kak Farah?" InsyaAllah, saya cakap dengan dia
this weekend saya datang tengok dia, saya pun rindu sangat pada dia...Saya
offer untuk belikan dia coklat tapi dia tak nak.. Dia kata dia bosan.. Dia
minta saya bawakkan English novel.. She can read.. tapi lambat la tangkap nya..
So, sekarang ni saya sedang mengumpulkan novel-novel English and Malay saya untuk
beri pada dia.. Sesiapa yang ada novel tapi tak nak dah, bagi saya ok! saya
kasikan pada dia.. at least dia ada activity... dia mengakhiri conversation
kami di telefon.. "I luv u so much Hajar!".. itu yang dia katakan
pada saya sehingga saya menangis... (haiissh.. cengeng sungguh Hajar ni
rupanya..) " I luv u too three four five kak Farah!!"
Bila
saya balik, duduk sorang-sorang, saya berfikir.. kenapalah mereka ini
menghantar emak-emak mereka ke rumah warga tua ni? rumah warga tua ini berbayar
setiap bulan... bukan seperti rumah pengasih... nak dikatakan mereka orang
susah, saya tak rasa.. kerana ketika saya datang, hari sabtu memang ramai
keluarga datang melawat.. yang datang datuk datin... dan yang menghuni di rumah
warga tua juga bukan cikai-cikai... datin-datin, mak engku, manager... tapi kat
mana anak-anak mereka ini??? kalau seorang ibu boleh membesarkan 10 orang anak,
susah sangat ke 10 orang anak nak menjaga seorang ibu?? panggil maid pun sama
je bayar di rumah warga tua tu.. ada yang kata "rumah warga tua lebih
terjaga".. mereka lihat tak apa yang orang-orang tua ni rasa?? jujur saya
katakan.. ketika saya lihat mereka kurang dari 2 jam, saya yang stress.. saya
tahu kenapa mereka kena tekanan perasaan.. sejak dari pagi, sampai la ke malam
setiap hari membuat activity yang sama... pukul 8 pagi sehingga 12 tengahari..
depan mata saya sendiri, mereka duduk sesama mereka, tidak berborak.. hanya
memandang kiri dan kanan... no musics.. no television... setiap hari.. saya
rasa sehingga mereka mati mungkin.. saya memang cukup pelik... tak kesian ke
kat mereka?? mendera mental mereka lagi-lagi dah tua... saya nak korang buka
mata... jangan sampai kita jadi manusia yang kejam menghantar mak ayah di rumah
warga tua... ada seorang nenek ni tanya saya, "kenapa tangkap gambar
kami?" saya cakap.. saya nak buka hati mereka yang buta ni Nenenk.. supaya
jangan nanti satu hari nanti mereka abaikan orang tua mereka.. Nenek ni senyum
kat saya sambil usap saya... korang ingat pesan hajar ni.. jangan sampai hantar
mak ayah di rumah warga tua..
Ada
juga yang mereka kata, kebanyakan orang tua yang dihantar anak-anak mereka
adalah kerana dendam.. dendam anak kepada emak ketika kecik.. hukum karma
kununnya..ya Allah.. mana boleh seorang anak berdendam dengan seorang emak...
jangan sesekali kita berdendam, takut tak bau syurga.. Jika seorang emak tidak
meredhakan sesuatu, bukan nya syurga, bau syurga pun tak dapat...
Dari
Muawiyah bin Jahimah yang datang kepada Nabi s.a.w. dan berkata: "Wahai
Rasulullah, aku ingin pergi berperang, aku datang untuk meminta
pandangan-mu."Nabi s.a.w. bertanya: Apakah kamu mempunyai ibu? Jawabnya:
"Ya". Sabda Nabi s.a.w.:Peliharalah (berbuat baiklah kepada) dia,
sesungguhnya syurga berada di bawah dua kakinya."
Bila
saya melihat sendiri keadaan ini dihadapan mata saya, selagi saya hidup, saya
akan menjaga mak abah saya dan juga bakal mak abah mertua saya... "Ya
Allah.. berikanlah aku kekuatan untuk menjalankan tanggungjawab ku sebagai
seorang anak..." Bila saya ada anak nanti, saya akan pastikan anak saya
akan sentiasa saya bawa untuk melawat orang-orang tua.. anak-anak yatim.. kalau
boleh letak mereka bersama anak-anak yatim ketika hujung minggu.. supaya mereka
tahu untuk menghargai diri mereka yang masih ada mak ayah... yang hidup dengan
penuh nikmat Allah.. InsyaAllah.. semoga bakal anak-anak saya nanti jadi anak
yang soleh dan solehah..dan bila saya dan bakal suami saya tua, mereka akan
jaga kami dengan baik... Ameen.. hihihi...
Ok
lah.. saya tak mampu untuk mencoret panjang lebar.. mana tak nya, sepanjang
tulis.. airmata saya mengalir je.. haiisshh.. tak kuat la Hajar ni... ini
beberapa gambar saya bersama sebahagian hidup saya... :)
Pernafasan Ketam Kelapa
Pernafasan Ketam
Kelapa
Except as larvae, coconut crabs cannot swim, and they will
drown if left in water for more than an hour.[10] They
use a special organ called a branchiostegal lung to
breathe. This organ can be interpreted as a developmental stage between gills and lungs, and is one of the most significant
adaptations of the coconut crab to its habitat.[15] The
branchiostegal lung contains a tissue similar
to that found in gills, but suited to the absorption of oxygen from
air, rather than water. This organ is expanded laterally and is evaginated to
increase the surface area;[11] located
in the cephalothorax, it is optimally placed to reduce both the blood/gas
diffusion distance and the return distance of oxygenated blood to the pericardium.[16] Coconut
crabs use their hindmost, smallest pair of legs to clean these breathing organs
and to moisten them with water. The organs require water to properly function,
and the coconut crab provides this by stroking its wet legs over the spongy
tissues nearby. Coconut crabs may drink water from small puddles by
transferring it from their chelipeds to
their maxillipeds.[17]
In addition to the
branchiostegal lung, the coconut crab has an additional rudimentary set of
gills. Although these gills are comparable in number to aquatic species from
the families Paguridae and
the Diogenidae, they
are reduced in size and have comparatively less surface area.[16]
Coconut crabs mate frequently and quickly on dry land in the period from
May to September, especially between early June and late August.[21] Male coconut crabs have spermatophores and deposit a mass of spermatophores on
the abdomen of the female;[22] the abdomen opens at the base of the third pereiopods,
and fertilisation is thought to occur on the external surface of the abdomen as
the eggs pass through the spermatophore mass.[23] The extrusion of eggs occurs on land in crevices or
burrows near the shore.[24] Shortly thereafter, the female lays her eggs and glues
them to the underside of her abdomen, carrying the fertilised eggs underneath
her body for a few months. At the time of hatching, the female coconut crab
releases the eggs into the ocean.[23] This usually takes place on rocky shores at dusk,
especially when this coincides with high tide.[25] The empty egg cases remain on the female's body after
the larvae have been released, and the female eats the egg cases within a few
days.[25] The larvae float in the pelagic zone of the ocean with other plankton for three to four weeks,[6] during which a large number of them are eaten by
predators. The larvae pass through three to five zoea stages before
moulting into the post-larval glaucothoe stage; this process
takes from 25 to 33 days.[26] Upon reaching the glaucothoe stage of development, they
settle to the bottom, find and wear a suitably sized gastropod shell, and
migrate to the shoreline with other terrestrial hermit crabs.[27] At that time, they sometimes visit dry land.
Afterwards, they leave the ocean permanently and lose the ability to breathe in
water. As with all hermit crabs, they change their shells as they grow. Young
coconut crabs that cannot find a seashell of the right size often use broken
coconut pieces. When they outgrow their shells, they develop a hardened
abdomen. The coconut crab reaches sexual maturity around five years after hatching.[23] They reach their maximum size only after 40 to 60
years.[11]
Coconut crabs live in the Indian Ocean and
the central Pacific Ocean, with
a distribution that closely matches that of the coconut palm.[28] The
western limit of the range of B. latro is Zanzibar, off
the coast of Tanzania,[29] while
the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn mark
the northern and southern limits, respectively, with very few population in
the subtropics, such
as the Ryukyu Islands.[6] There
is evidence that the coconut crab once lived on the mainlands of Australia and Madagascar and
on the island of Mauritius, but
it no longer occurs in any of these places.[6] As
they cannot swim as adults, coconut crabs must have colonised the islands as
planktonic larvae.[30]
Christmas Island in
the Indian Ocean has the largest and densest population of coconut crabs in the
world,[18] although
it is outnumbered there by more than 50 times by the Christmas
Island red crab, Gecarcoidea natalis.[31] Other
Indian Ocean populations exist on the Seychelles,
including Aldabra and Cosmoledo,[32] but
the coconut crab is extinct on the central islands.[33] Coconut
crabs occur on several of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in
the Bay of Bengal. They
occur on most of the islands, and the northern atolls, of the Chagos Archipelago.[34]
In the Pacific, the coconut
crab's range became known gradually. Charles Darwin believed
it was only found on "a single coral island north of the Society group".[35] The
coconut crab is far more widespread, though it is not abundant on every Pacific
island it inhabits.[35]Large
populations exist on the Cook Islands,
especially Pukapuka, Suwarrow, Mangaia, Takutea, Mauke, Atiu, and Palmerston Island. These
are close to the eastern limit of its range, as are the Line Islands of Kiribati, where
the coconut crab is especially frequent on Teraina (Washington
Island), with its abundant coconut palm forest.[35] The Gambier Islands marks
the species' eastern limit.[29]
The diet of coconut crabs
consists primarily of fleshy fruits (particularly Ochrosia ackeringae, Arenga listeri, Pandanus elatus, P.
christmatensis); nuts (Aleurites moluccanus),
drupes (Cocos nucifera) and
seeds (Annona reticulata);[36] and
the pith of
fallen trees.[37] However,
as they are omnivores, they
will consume other organic materials such as tortoise hatchlings
and dead animals.[11][38] They
have been observed to prey upon crabs like Gecarcoidea natalis and Discoplax hirtipes, as
well as scavenge on the carcasses of other coconut crabs.[36] During
a tagging experiment, one coconut crab was observed killing and eating a Polynesian Rat (Rattus
exulans).[39] In
2016, a large coconut crab was observed climbing a tree in order to disable and
consume a red-footed booby on
the Chagos Archipelago.[40]
The coconut crab can take a
coconut from the ground and cut it to a husk nut, take it with its claw, climb
up a tree 10 m (33 ft) high and drop the husk nut, to access the
coconut flesh inside.[41] They
often descend from the trees by falling, and can survive a fall of at least 4.5
metres (15 ft) unhurt.[42] Coconut
crabs cut holes into coconuts with their strong claws and eat the contents,
although it can take several days before the coconut is opened.[37]
Thomas Hale Streets discussed
the behaviour in 1877, doubting that the animal would climb trees to get at the
coconuts.[35] In
the 1980s, Holger Rumpf was able to confirm Streets' report, observing and
studying how they open coconuts in the wild.[37] The
animal has developed a special technique to do so: if the coconut is still
covered with husk, it
will use its claws to rip off strips, always starting from the side with the
three germination pores,
the group of three small circles found on the outside of the coconut. Once the
pores are visible, the coconut crab will bang its pincers on one of them until
they break. Afterwards, it will turn around and use the smaller pincers on its
other legs to pull out the white flesh of the coconut. Using their strong
claws, larger individuals can even break the hard coconut into smaller pieces
for easier consumption.[43]
Coconut crabs are considered one of the most terrestrial-adapted of the
decapods,[44] with most aspects of its life oriented to, and centered
around such an existence; they will actually drown in sea water in less than a
day.[17]Coconut crabs live alone in underground burrows and rock
crevices, depending on the local terrain. They dig their own burrows in sand or
loose soil. During the day, the animal stays hidden to reduce water loss from
heat. The coconut crabs' burrows contain very fine yet strong fibres of the
coconut husk which the animal uses as bedding.[35] While resting in its burrow, the coconut crab closes
the entrances with one of its claws to create the moist microclimate within the
burrow necessary for its breathing organs. In areas with a large coconut crab
population, some may come out during the day, perhaps to gain an advantage in
the search for food. Other times they will emerge if it is moist or raining,
since these conditions allow them to breathe more easily. They live almost
exclusively on land, returning to the sea only to release their eggs; on Christmas Island, for instance, B. latro is
abundant 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the sea.[45]
Adult coconut crabs have no
known predators apart
from other coconut crabs and humans. Its large size and the quality of its meat
means that the coconut crab is extensively hunted and is very rare on islands
with a human population.[46] The
coconut crab is eaten by Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders and
is considered a delicacy and
an aphrodisiac, and
intensive hunting has threatened the species' survival in some areas.[12] While
the coconut crab itself is not innately poisonous, it
may become so depending on its diet, and cases of coconut crab poisoning have
occurred.[46][47] For
instance, consumption of the sea mango Cerbera manghas by
the coconut crab may make the coconut crab toxic due to the presence of
cardiac cardenolides.[48]
The pincers of the coconut crab
are powerful enough to cause noticeable pain to a human; furthermore, the
coconut crab will often keep its hold for extended periods of time. Thomas Hale
Streets reports a trick used by Micronesians of
the Line Islands to
get a coconut crab to loosen its grip: "It may be interesting to know that
in such a dilemma a gentle titillation of the under soft parts of the body with
any light material will cause the crab to loosen its hold."[35]
In the Cook Islands, the
coconut crab is known as unga or kaveu, and in
the Mariana Islands it
is called ayuyu, and is sometimes associated with taotaomo'na because
of the traditional belief that ancestral spirits can return in the form of
animals such as the coconut crab.[49]
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