Compiled by C. ARUNO and ZULKIFLI ABD RAHMAN
THE family of a former navy officer got a surprise when they discovered his personal diaries in their home after he died, Harian Metro reported.
Filzah Abdul Aziz, 35, posted on social media about how her father Abdul Aziz Yahya, 70, had been diligently jotting down his memories in almost 50 diaries since 1976.
Abdul Aziz died in January last year after suffering from complications due to diabetes.
Filzah said the whole family knew that their father jotted down his thoughts and wrote stories in his diaries.
But none of them, including his widow Mariam Tareman, 70, knew what he wrote about and had never asked him about their contents.
“We understood that he valued his privacy,” she added.
She said after Abdul Aziz’s funeral was over, the family decided to pack and store his personal items at their house in Kulim.
“We found the diaries in a locked cupboard. The oldest book was from 1975 while the last one was about his daily activities a few days before he passed away,” she added.
“Father liked to write and he always jotted down things that he saw and experienced.
“For example, he wrote about a snake which came into the house, and about football matches he had watched. He even recorded Covid-19 statistics,” she said.
Filzah said she and her mother couldn’t bear to read all of Abdul Aziz’s diaries because they felt sad reading his thoughts that had been written in his own hand.
> Kosmo! reported that a senior citizen was cheated of her money after being told a “ghost” was living in her body.
The 69-year-old victim, who worked as a cleaner in Pekan Lama Jempol, was approached by three women in their 40s when she was at a market, said Jempol district police chief Supt Hoo Chang Hook.
They told her that a ghost was living in her body and offered to expel it.
She was asked to bring money and jewellery to be used in a ritual at a place in Bahau.
“The woman went home and took RM1,000, two necklaces and two gold rings with her. She gave them to the women who waited in their car near a bank.
“She was given two bottles of water and a pack of salt and told to go straight home without looking behind her.
“When she reached home, she told one of her children of the incident, who then told her that she had been cheated,” said Supt Hoo.
The woman told her family that she felt like she had been hypnotised when she gave her money and valuables to the women.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
