isn't it ironic?

i have lived my life for about 30-31 years
that long i thought i knew my grandpa, Abah
till last thursday(21 february 2008), i went back to kelantan to visit him
i got new stories about him


he is about 86 years old
he got married when he was 29 (quite late for those days) and my grandma was 13!
(no wonder she looks vverrry young in her wedding pictures
Abah had been captured and put on a truck to Siam by the Japs for railway works
He escaped! Jumped off the moving truck and ran away
Then he got arrested by the police, mistaken him for a chinese during the communist era; "tidok tue, ambo ore melayu... buke cino..."
in the lock-up, he managed to escape (God knows how!), later after he escaped, whole police station taken down by the communists, all policemen died...

Abah is known as a man with vast knowledge in doa and all... all his families are like that
that's why Allah blessed them all the time

i think my uncles learnt a lot from him
we, learnt a lot from him
(just a matter of practice...)

proud of my grandpa, more now that i knew more of him
30 years of living... what else did i miss??
ironic, isn't it