Our Prayers Are For You, Che Ngah!!

Kamil, me , CNI (pix taken by Zuhdi)

Che Ngah Ismail (or CNI, as I prefer to call him), is an old friend from my secondary school days. Then, he was a popular guy because he was a soccer player (striker!) and the team was always in the state finals!!

Now CNI works in a government department in down town KL. We had planned to meet him for lunch for many moons now, but only today we managed to do so. Being a busy senior guy, he's hardly in the office. His work includes going round the country for various tasks - interviews, seminars, workshops, to name some..

Recently CNI was diagnosed with a brain tumor :-(
He's been getting treatment and check-ups at the USM Hospital in Kubang Kerian, Kelantan. The latest was yesterday. It was nice to know that another fellow friend, Prof Jeffri Malin, who's a senior neuro-surgeon there, managed to see CNI. We were informed by CNI that the main operation will be on 15th Nov, but prior to that, he will have to go through a few minor ones too :-(
As for the main surgery, we really hope it will be Jeffri himself heading the operation!!

Ever since he was diagnosed, he's been on steroids, and the effect is he's put on 12kg in the past one month or so!!

For today's lunch meet, I went to KL with Zuhdi and Nury (who brought along her daughter who had just finished her UPSR exam) in Zuhdi's car. Kamil joined a bit later, and much later, Dr Norzuhaimi joined us. We had to leave earlier, and left Kamil and Dr Zuhaimi with CNI.

CNI is very strong-willed and appeared high-spirited. I really salute him for that!!

The irony of the meet was that all of us who turned up today are either from Shah Alam or Klang, and despite us visiting him, he was the one who footed the bill!!
Thank you, CNI for the lunch!!

A few friends who wished they could join us, but were held up at work sent their salams to CNI. And, one thing for sure, CNI will have our prayers for him!!

Here are some pix that I managed to take (click on any of the pix to get a bigger image):

Kamil, CNI, Zuhdi

Nury and I (taken by Zuhdi)

CNI and Zuhdi

Arriving a bit later, Kamil must have been very hungry!! He ordered "anything fast", hence the chicken rice!

Zuhaimi, arriving much later, and while waiting for his chicken rice, was shown the MRI scan pix that CNI keeps in his phone.

I took a few more pix but without the flash - I wanted the lighting to be more natural, but then, these guys couldn't sit still, hence all of them are blur!!