Stories - Miracle baby, floats back home

�Thulishi, ma� (Thulishi, dear), called A. Suppiah, trying to stir his 27-day-old �miracle baby� from her slumber. The proud father�s eyes sparkled as he called out his baby�s name. His �gift from above,� Thulishi floated back home to safety on a mattress after waves flooded the family�s shack-cum-food shop along Miami Beach in Batu Feringghi last Sunday. �Thulishi was sleeping on a small mattress inside the shack when the force of the waves broke down the door,� Suppiah, 55, recounted. �The waves then withdrew, taking my daughter and the mattress out into the sea. �The waves then rolled again towards the shore, and the mattress floated in with the surge right into the shack through another door!



�What�s more, the pressure of the water inside the shack then slammed the door shut and effectively kept Thulishi safe,� he said. His wife Annalmary Lurdu, 42, said she became hysterical when she could not find her baby. �I was inside another room and I thought she was gone,� said Annalmary as she carefully cradled her sleeping baby. �I didn�t want people to know I had a baby at this age,� rejoined Suppiah. �But it seems like the whole world now knows! Someone from the BBC even called me up from Britain to hear my story.� His family is now putting up at his mother-in-law�s flat in Tanjung Bungah and relatives are all gathered to share in the joy.



Source : The STAR