Throwback Thursday: Kayu Resdung

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I'm not sure if korang tahu kewujudan kayu ni? If it wasn't because of my family pindah ke Rembau years ago I would've known apa tu Kayu Resdung. So aparently kayu ni memang orang guna untuk rawatan resdung hence the name. Tapi untuk anak-anak kampung macam saya ni, we used to pretend to hisap rokok with this kayu. I think I was around 11-12 years old macam tu? Kau nak beli rokok umur-umur macam tu memang tak lah kan. So me and the other kids masuk hutan and I don't know macam mana they all know about this kayu (probably through their family) but I remember one of my peers masa tu patahkan kayu ni and started to light it up. He took a puff and I was impressed. Budak-budak kan? Umur 11-12 tahun tu pula memang umur-umur rebel. Setakat mandi sungai dekat kampung tu kira normal and tak cukup rebel so we need something else. Nak beli rokok masing-masing tak ada duit and obviously kedai tak jual rokok to minor kan. Maka kayu resdung lah menjadi pilihan.

Rasa bad gila hisap kayu resdung dalam hutan and one thing about this kayu, dia tak ada bau asap ke apa ke so after you're done hisap memang tak akan ada trace of it. Also tak pasti lah apa benefits kayu ni or betul cara kitorang consume kayu ni. Mujur tak mati keras dalam hutan kan but bila teringat balik benda-benda macam ni, rasa grateful because zaman kanak-kanak tu I was out there exploring the world. Unlike kids nowadays yang stuck to their gadgets. I don't think any of my family tahu pasal ni and now you know. I must say that this was not a good thing to do because it let me to became a smoker at the end of my highschool years through uni years and when I started work. But alhamdulillah, one of the motivation that got me to quit smoking was because selalu kena pau dengan orang. Rokok is not cheap eh and asyik lah kena pau je memang kering lah aku. So I decided to become a social smoker and mengepau orang pula and slowly stop and syukur sekarang dah tak merokok or even vape. How's that for a motivation. Rajin-rajin lah mendekati orang yang kuat mengepau untuk stop merokok.