1. A big dead Angsana tree was falling directly on me when I was 10 before a stormy raining day. I was very lucky because I happened to stand in a 2-feet deep cement drain and spontaneously I squatted down when I noticed the tree was going to tumble down. About 2 to 3-feet diameter trunk falling directly on my direction and broken to a few pieces after hitting the ground. I came out in one piece from the drain with a broken trunk right on my head.
A 12-year old girl (she passed away at about 16 year due to polio) looked at me with her jaw wide opened after I stood out from the drain unscratched.
2. After my traveling trip to Kelantan during my university day, the train I ride stopped at Gemas for a short break. I went to platform to buy a soft drink, and on the way back to my coach, a fast train was crossing right in front of me. My face is less than 15 cm from the coach side wall. I would be knocked down and dead if I walked a bit faster.
I still wonder why I did not see the incoming train before I crossed the railways.
3. There are two domestic routes to fly back from Jakarta, one flight to Batam, my previous workplace, and then returned to Muar through Singapore. Another route is flight to Medan first, then take another international flight from Medan to Penang, my permanent residence during 1997.
The flight schedule for these two routes is 30 minute difference. My first choice actually was flying back to Penang via Medan, but due to flight schedule to Batam is 30 minute earlier, I changed my mind on the spot and decided to book the Batam flight.
The flight to Medan was crashed due to bad weather before landing. My elder brother in Johor Baru thought I was with Medan flight and panicked after he listened to air crash news in Singapore TV station. He could not contacted me until I reached Singapore in the following day.
I still remembered a pretty Indon girl who checked in to Medan flight on the next counter. All passengers and crew members in the Medan flight lost their lives!
A change of a decision can change our fate!
4. In Betong Thailand around 2002, a bomb planted in a nearby motorcycle exploded 30 minute later after I left the restaurant.
Therefore I always say to my friends, our fate is already sealed by a mighty force. How long you live in this world is not decided by you.
At Least 14 Killed In Bombings In Thailand
by The Associated Press
A rescue worker looks for injured people at the site of a car bomb blast in Thailand's southern province of Yala on Saturday. Enlarge Muhammad Sabri/AFP/Getty Images
March 31, 2012
Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand’s restive south, killing 14 people and wounding 340 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers and a high-rise hotel frequented by foreign tourists.
A first batch of explosives planted inside a parked pickup truck ripped through an area of restaurants and shops in a busy area of Yala city, a main commercial hub of Thailand’s restive southern provinces, said district police chief Col. Kritsada Kaewchandee.
About 20 minutes later, just as onlookers gathered at the blast site, a second car bomb exploded, causing the majority of casualties. Eleven people were killed and 110 wounded by the blasts.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in Thailand’s three southernmost provinces — Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala — since an Islamist insurgency flared in January 2004.
“This is the worst attack in the past few years,” said Col. Pramote Promin, deputy spokesman of a regional security agency. “The suspected insurgents were targeting people’s lives. They [chose] a bustling commercial area, so they wanted to harm people.” Continue reading >> How many times I was cheating death? Four times!
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