Dah 2 hari LK tak call. Since dia dah sampai Mekah terus senyap. Aku suspect dia speechless bila sampai sana dan terlalu overwhelmed ngan suasana Mekah. Maybe the sight of Kaabah made him loose his speech. Too grand. Too magical. Something beyond what he always imagine. This is not like LK at all. Selalunya dia akan share ngan aku whatever and whenever. Macam waktu kat Madinah, semua dia cerita. Raudhah, pasar kurma, the perfume, weather, etc. Tapi bila masuk Mekah je LK terus silence. No calls, no SMS. Aku tau dia selamat sampai. I have no doubt bout that. However, benda ni mengingatkan aku pada suatu ketika dulu waktu aku memula start kawan ngan LK.
It was our second date. Sometime October 2005. Kitorang yam cha kat Coffee Bean di KL Plaza. Now tempat tu tutup untuk refurbishment. Back to the story, LK waktu tu dok tanya aku itu ini. Interest aku, hobby aku etc. Almaklumlah…ice breaking session…cewah…waktu tu aku tak tau lagi yang dia tu convert. Aku memula kenal dia as Romal Anson Pereira. A Christian Romal. One of his questions that time was, what is the one place in this world that you would like to go visit one day? Aku pun cakap la yang aku memang teringin sangat sangat nak gi New York. Sebab sana ada memacam, Statue of Liberty la, Madison Square Garden la, Central Park la, 5th Avenue la, etc. Pastu aku tanya dia, how bout you? LK waktu tu hanya cakap there is this one place yang bebetul I nak pergi sejak few years ago. Memang nak sangat-sangat pergi dan dia kata kalau dia sampai kat situ, dia akan terus cium tanah tu dan nangis tak henti-henti. Tapi yang peliknya, LK tanak cakap kat aku kat mana tempat tu. Aku pun macam malu nak tanya lelebih. Just ooooo je la. Tapi dalam hati curious tak hengat. LK just senyum je kat aku. Macam nak bagi hint something tapi aku still tak paham. Ye la, it can be anywhere kan? Ntah-ntah Portugal ke, sebab since dia ni darah Pereira maybe nak tengok tempat moyang dia ke mana aku tau, emo sangat kot la sampai nangis. Ataupun Beijing ke Shenzen ke, kampung nenek dia. Pendek kata aku memang blur la. After a few while, kitorang pindah duduk kat luar pulak sebab LK nak smoking. Waktu tu, dia pun dah start relax dan dia kata dia nak confess something kat aku. Oh-oh. Apa ni? Aku dah start seram dah. Aik, takkan nak confess perasaan cinta kat aku dah kot?? Kitorang baaaru dating 2 hari...still early….takkan dia dah terpikat pada budi pekerti mulia aku....ceh poyo dan perasannyer aku! Hehehehe…Pastu dia pun start cakap “You know the place I said just now that I would love to go?” Aku pun “….okkkkk…….” Dia cakap serius “Do you know where is it?” Aku geleng paler. No clue whatsoever. Jantung aku dok dup dap dup dap. Hati aku dok, ehh...could it be....? Nah, it couldn’t be. But, could it?? Then LK kata “To tell you the truth ya, the place I long to visit is Mekah. I want to see the Kaabah with my very own eyes.” Then, a very very long silence. Dia tengok muka aku. Serious. Aku blur…i was like….huh?!?! Aku tak paham…. Aku confuse. He’s a Christian. Cannot be.. unless…..pastu dia pun cakap “I want to tell you another secret of mine. This one no one knows. Not even my family” Aku senyap lagi. Dia cakap “I am a muslim. My faith is not Jesus anymore. I converted to Islam 2 years ago when I was working in Singapore by a muslim society there. No one in Malaysia knows about this. And my name is Daniel.” Wow! That was something. It totally blew my mind off. But one thing for sure, after he said that, a swoosh feeling of relieve swept over me. Why relieve? I also don’t know. Hard to describe. But I was happy. Truly happy. Since that day, aku panggil dia Daniel. The rest is history.
And that’s why bila LK tak call atau SMS aku, once dia masuk je ke tanah Mekah Al Mukarramah, aku dah terdetik….its his moment with God…alhamdulillah…cita-cita dia tercapai akhirnya…
It was our second date. Sometime October 2005. Kitorang yam cha kat Coffee Bean di KL Plaza. Now tempat tu tutup untuk refurbishment. Back to the story, LK waktu tu dok tanya aku itu ini. Interest aku, hobby aku etc. Almaklumlah…ice breaking session…cewah…waktu tu aku tak tau lagi yang dia tu convert. Aku memula kenal dia as Romal Anson Pereira. A Christian Romal. One of his questions that time was, what is the one place in this world that you would like to go visit one day? Aku pun cakap la yang aku memang teringin sangat sangat nak gi New York. Sebab sana ada memacam, Statue of Liberty la, Madison Square Garden la, Central Park la, 5th Avenue la, etc. Pastu aku tanya dia, how bout you? LK waktu tu hanya cakap there is this one place yang bebetul I nak pergi sejak few years ago. Memang nak sangat-sangat pergi dan dia kata kalau dia sampai kat situ, dia akan terus cium tanah tu dan nangis tak henti-henti. Tapi yang peliknya, LK tanak cakap kat aku kat mana tempat tu. Aku pun macam malu nak tanya lelebih. Just ooooo je la. Tapi dalam hati curious tak hengat. LK just senyum je kat aku. Macam nak bagi hint something tapi aku still tak paham. Ye la, it can be anywhere kan? Ntah-ntah Portugal ke, sebab since dia ni darah Pereira maybe nak tengok tempat moyang dia ke mana aku tau, emo sangat kot la sampai nangis. Ataupun Beijing ke Shenzen ke, kampung nenek dia. Pendek kata aku memang blur la. After a few while, kitorang pindah duduk kat luar pulak sebab LK nak smoking. Waktu tu, dia pun dah start relax dan dia kata dia nak confess something kat aku. Oh-oh. Apa ni? Aku dah start seram dah. Aik, takkan nak confess perasaan cinta kat aku dah kot?? Kitorang baaaru dating 2 hari...still early….takkan dia dah terpikat pada budi pekerti mulia aku....ceh poyo dan perasannyer aku! Hehehehe…Pastu dia pun start cakap “You know the place I said just now that I would love to go?” Aku pun “….okkkkk…….” Dia cakap serius “Do you know where is it?” Aku geleng paler. No clue whatsoever. Jantung aku dok dup dap dup dap. Hati aku dok, ehh...could it be....? Nah, it couldn’t be. But, could it?? Then LK kata “To tell you the truth ya, the place I long to visit is Mekah. I want to see the Kaabah with my very own eyes.” Then, a very very long silence. Dia tengok muka aku. Serious. Aku blur…i was like….huh?!?! Aku tak paham…. Aku confuse. He’s a Christian. Cannot be.. unless…..pastu dia pun cakap “I want to tell you another secret of mine. This one no one knows. Not even my family” Aku senyap lagi. Dia cakap “I am a muslim. My faith is not Jesus anymore. I converted to Islam 2 years ago when I was working in Singapore by a muslim society there. No one in Malaysia knows about this. And my name is Daniel.” Wow! That was something. It totally blew my mind off. But one thing for sure, after he said that, a swoosh feeling of relieve swept over me. Why relieve? I also don’t know. Hard to describe. But I was happy. Truly happy. Since that day, aku panggil dia Daniel. The rest is history.
And that’s why bila LK tak call atau SMS aku, once dia masuk je ke tanah Mekah Al Mukarramah, aku dah terdetik….its his moment with God…alhamdulillah…cita-cita dia tercapai akhirnya…
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