{"id":9849,"date":"2025-12-08T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/banjir-pantai-timur\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:36:08","slug":"banjir-pantai-timur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/banjir-pantai-timur\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine in December"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_2577.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wakaf Bharu, Kelantan <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">the rain\u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">coming down incessantly&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">like washing the sin from yesterday&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">somehow we knew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">when it poured down last year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">and the year before<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">we embraced it dearly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">we stood our ground<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">and saw the water rose<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">our things floated&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">the chickens drowned<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">the cats scrambled to the roof<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">and the snakes slithered up the treetops&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">we hoped and prayed for a lesser punishment&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">so our elderlies can find a safer place<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">the sick can be helped<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">\u2026. in any way we could<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">the river ran fiercely&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">with no mercy , no empathy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">as it\u2019s going downstream&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">the logs and debris were dragged along<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">it thrilled and roared majestically&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">the sound of disaster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">the calamity was about to follow&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">we stood there by the riverbank&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">listening to the fiery stories&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">the river told<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">and we believed as nature never lied&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">but we could not do anything&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">except to go back and find a little sampan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">to take us to the higher ground<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">or waited for someone to rescue us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">life was brutal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">it served and punished<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">so we persevered&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">to believe as sunshine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">will come back \u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">alhamdulillah\u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">sunshine in December<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2\">a glittering hope in the gloomy sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_2575-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-9847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_2575-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_2575-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_2575-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_2575-463x617.jpg 463w, https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_2575.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">a few minutes later<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>monsoon season in Malaysia. when the finally stopped.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_2575-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}