A day of mixed emotions

Just came to know about, my cousin’s husband died this morning. Coincidentally, today is also his birthday.

Apparently his cancer had a relapse in June, which chemo didn’t help. He didn’t tell anyone else, and my cousin and him were the only ones who knew about it.

My 10-year-old nephew (his son) couldn’t accept it. Was so upset that he started jumping and ranting in the hospital and he had to be taken away for counselling immediately before he could settle down.

Very sad to hear about it. Will be going for his wake tomorrow nite.

And coincidentally, my other cousin (same-side relative) got registered today also.

A day of union, and separation. For 2 families, albeit same side.

Epic fail

I was speechless, he was taken aback.

Smiled and asked why. That’s his style.

Told me wait till next year. Then smiled and walked off.

Then called me to tell the same thing, but said will talk to me later.

In the end, I am still stuck.

Plans will still go on. Anyway, this will not be for long.

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About food

I am so hungry now that I wanna eat something fried. Western food, KFC, pizza…yadda yadda.

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That ↑, was before I went for lunch. Then was busy doing something and left it as that until I came back from lunch.

Nope, I didn’t have aything above. All I had was chicken rice.

And now I’m very full.

HV changed a bit. There is a ramen shop next to the ipoh hor fun shop, and the Katong laksa shop also diversify to sell nasi lemak like the one near NUS (suddenly can’t recall the name).

Even the ramen shop space used to be owned by the ipoh hor fun store. Or maybe belong to same boss?

Used to need to self service for ipoh hor fun. Now they come and serve you.

The only thing that is constant, is change. – Heraclitus.

Never know how to say ‘no’

How can I say no without having people take it the wrong way?

I am still trying to find out how.

叶子，已掉落。。。

Thru Cruz’s twitter and blog entry, I heard some sad news.

I wonder if anyone remembers Ah Sang, the one who sang 叶子?

Apparently she passed away due to cancer this morning. At a young age of 34.

Life…is sometimes just unpredictable.

RIP, Ah Sang.

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Talks

Been too much raining these few days. I hope that Friday and Saturday will be sunny. I can’t imagine my sis going around in a gown in the wets. 

I haven’t been happy at work nowadays, and recently I’ve been really sick of it. Dun ask me about it or why though.

My customer came to town yesterday to settle some stuff with us. And I went for lunch with him at the West Coast Plaza. I’m glad he liked the food I chose and he was complimenting on the food non-stop throughout the meal. I did an inpromptu visit to the place as I do not know where else to go. Plus it’s near the office, sheltered from the rain, quiet (which means no need for reservations) and I tried the food there before, which was good. Oh ya, it’s the 店小二 restaurant.

Could see he was really tired out due to the rush journey. And it was really good chatting with him. He still remembered about me taking my degree the other time and was asking me about it, which I can’t recall when I told him about it. He could even remember that it was a tourism degree after I prompted him about it.

We spoke about many things like scuba diving, the world’s happenings and how he did diving last time too when he was like my age, and how he caught lobsters then to earn some money. He told me about his daughter and her work.

And I told him my mum makes wetsuits. 

And it ended up we spoke more about other things than work during the short lunch and the ride with him to his next destination in town.

I am never one who tells a customer about my personal life. It was good though.

Reluctance

Reluctantly, stepped into the new year.

The daily alarm which have been off for the past few days, is on again.

The enjoyment of not having calls to come in, is bliss for the past 5 days. Not anymore, after having to snap back to reality.

The (almost) daily massages, and the suntan, is the joy I had.

I didn’t want the year to pass. Really.

Gotta get to sleep, for the 9am meeting tomorrow. I mean, today.

Professionalism

Watching the 全能俏妈妈 finals when they started with a sorta ‘wedding march in’ for the 3 finalists with their husband (only one with the father due to the husband’s outstation) and kids.

I was watching the reaction of 权怡风 but as usual she displayed the usual ‘perfect’ face for her emcee-ing works, though I thought I saw a slight sadness for a second before she adjusted back.

It’s been hard for her, to see family after family being so close and happy together for the previous shows.

I salute her.

A shock, but something to learn from

The whole Singapore grieves for the unfortunate death of Ms Lo in Mumbai, who sacrificed under the hands of the ruthless militants. While many held hopes for the whole saga to finish and the release of her, it was then known that she had actually come under the gunpoint and ‘used’ to pass a message thru Singapore to India about not to fight back, otherwise she would be killed. It was sad to know that she had died, traumatised before. Thus the news came as a shock to us because this was not revealed before the announcement of her death, due to operational issues.

I was driving when I heard my fren receiving an sms news on this. Very sad.

Being at the wrong place at the wrong time. And not that she deserved to die too.

Many of us, whether we show it or not, mourns for her death. She’ll be remembered, and forever reminding us that we should not undermine the powers of our enemies.

Rest In Peace, Hwei Yen.

Reflection

It is only during these times when I wished I am still a small kid. Nothing to worry about except for my studies. No one getting on my nerves and no one blaming me if I do something wrong. And even if I do something wrong it wouldn’t be too serious to create any impact.

Seriously, things which I dun worry about so much (the economy, where my money goes to, stocks, oil prices) are recently becoming the highlight of my life. Not that I dabble in stocks (I do not have any securities account), or there’s $0/nearing $0 in my account, or I might lose my job at the current economy situation (I certainly hope not!), but those behaviour of people around me that just irks me.

People just turn unfriendly overnite. Want to be careful but still I get stuck in potholes around.

Is this just the beginning?

Inspired

Went to visit YP last nite…

Have you ever come across a situation where  you feel really encouraged and hopeful when someone who is bedridden inspires you with her optimism and hope?

I think I just did. And the feeling is awesome.

Although they had gone thru a close brush with death, although they were hurt (badly), they are still full of smiles for the people around them. Never did I see them frown or gave any slight hint of worry look. And this somehow assures us that they are still keeping well.

And yes, she is optimistic that she will get back to her feet. Though the husband says that doc says that there is only a slim chance that she will recover.

The operation is successful. I should be able to recover, of coz with a lot of hard work.

Apparently 2 died in the accident. Both of them, although injured to a certain degree, said they were really really fortunate that they survived.

YP showed us the photos which FP took while she was being transported to the private jet back to Singapore. She showed a victory sign while taking the pictures.

She also said that she will take photos of all the flowers and gifts that she received so that she will remember our kindness for life. With the titanium bits in her spine, she even joked that she will beep off whenever she passes the customs from now on.

The patient is cracking jokes to make us laugh. How’s that?

Wishing her strength to overcome this soon. Would definitely love to see her up and running about in the near future!

Something to note…don’t travel without an insurance. They got help and transport back within 24 hours, through AIG.

Say a little prayer for her

It’s always a good thing to find time to go for breaks and holidays. But when something happens during the holiday…

Just received some bad news. FP and YP met with an accident during their trip to Laos when the bus that they were travelling in flipped in an accident. According to WK, FP is more or less fine now, but his wife had fractured her spine and we are unsure what might happen to her. Doctor did mention that there is a slim chance that she will recover fully.

The first time I met with the couple was on the trip to Philippines. YP is such a sweet wife who accompanied FP on the trip although she can’t dive at all. And while he goes diving, she finds her own things to do at the resort, or walking around the place.

I remembered that a few of us tried to persuade her to learn diving so they can go enjoy diving together and explore many other places. During one of the dives which I didn’t go for, I had a bit of time with her walking around the jetty looking at stuff, buying food and chatting while doing all that. And I told her that if she learns diving, she can enjoy diving trips more because she will be doing something that FP likes too. She was a bit apprehensive being diving in the deep sea at that time though she did express interest at the same time.

During the dinner after the trip, she told us of how she met FP and what sweet things he did to finally make her his wife.

The most recent thing I heard was that she went to learn diving finally and got her license.

It’s very sad to hear of such a mishap happening to her. Now I duno if she can still dive, give birth, or even walk. It would be an unfair thing if she can’t recover or be bedridden/wheelchair bound forever. She is such a friendly person and always full of smiles for people around her.

I really hope that she can recover soon and that she can be up well again.

Going to see her tomorrow.