IN LOVING MEMORY

2 pple have left this world.

an NIE final yr student committed suicide on the 13th storey of her HDB flat. read abt it in the papers. turns out that she was a BA (English) student, currently undergoing practicum. paper cited stress as a speculated reason for the jump, although they do not rule out rshp problems as a factor.

next, my relative (i call him biao3 jiu4 jiu4) lost the battle against lukemia and passed away at the hospital on Friday afternoon. his chemotherapy sessions had taken a turn for the worse and all of us felt that it was better for him to end his misery. all along, i wasnt v involved with the updates of his condition, till a few days ago when my mum was telling me most of the religious rituals had already been planned.... and GOSH...... he passed away juz like that. but tha happy thing was tt he left peacefully. went to his wake last night, reached ard 11pm.. stayed there for the whole night to acc my mum cox the funeral was this morning... kept ourselves awake by playing mahjong... lost $30.. haha.. an achievement i think cox i was playing wif all the old birds.. hahah..

in the morning, we left for Mandai cremetarium, by then my relative's wife (whom i call biao3 jiu4 mu3) could no longer fight back her tears. we watched as the coffin was slowly sent into the burning chamber. .. and my heart ached when i saw the family howling, my mum, my aunties and uncles were all red-eyed cox the person lying inside the coffin grew up wif them and played with them.. yet he was the 1st to leave the world.

i really feel v sad. i actualli went to see him in his coffin for the last time. he looked so peaceful and happy., exactly the soft-spoken and kind-hearted person whom he was.

rest in peace my dear relative. may you bring strength to your wife, kids and mother.

rest in peace too Lily, though i do not know who you are, except tt you're in NIE final yr. perhaps i have seen u in school, perhaps our paths had crossed once.

life is so unpredictable. i feel scared.