ikhwan, my third son, a miracle!!!

in the second year of my stroke ikhwan was in form5 and facing his spm exam at the end of the year2007. prior to that he again went through one of those phases where he refused to attend school, so for the year 2007 he did not attend school at all, and despite intonations by me, his mother and grandmother and would you believe it his headmaster's pleadings, he steadfastly refused to attend school and kept himself locked in his room, meals were passed to him by the servant through the window. one day my brother, dr khalil, came and i asked him to help, which he did by proceeding to break down ikhwan's room door. as we were all at wits end, ikhwan was totally non-plussed and then proceeded to attend his spm exam at the years-end. we breathed a sigh of relief because there was a real fear of him being denied attendance to the exam.
but dear readers, lo and behold when the results came out early this year he passed not exactly with flying colours but just enough for it to be credible.
very soon after we were surprised when he was offered a place in tpm college. now, where is this godforsaken college, none of us know where it is and never knew it existed.
so with his mother, we all trotted to tpm college, which turns out to be a mere 3o minutes drive from our home. having arrived there, my first impression was very favourable and then the icing on the cake, we were advised by the councillors that MARA scholarships are a given subject to satisfactory comformance to the gpa standards. oh, what a relief, near the house, modern facilities and scholarship to boot and two years study at ponoma college in california. what more an one ask for.
malibu beach watch out, here we come, in 2010 anyway.so, ikhwan joined the college and everything was bright and sunshine. what a turnaround!!!!!the icing on the cake was yet to come. in the second half of this year ikhwan turned into the most reliable and dependable of my children, driving me to places i wanted to go. driving on errands on behalf of his mother, sometimes cooking dinner for us and then best of all, being an absolute angel to his dying grandmother- turning into her confidante and supplementary nurse. this was what allah bestowed on us, syukur alhamdulillah. AND the final act and most recent was that he alone and on his own initiative proceeded to visit his dead grandmother where he reported that the grave plot has a magnificient view of the horizon. now this must be the clincher, none of her children has visited her again, but my dear angelikhwan went there. ALHAMDULILLAH