So I'm actually about to turn in (yes, I do try to sleep earlier nowadays), but my thoughts are being drawn to my uncles. No, don't worry, I'm not in depression or anything, but it feels strange, knowing that I won't see them here on earth anymore. And I guess it's also good to remember them and the favor and love they've shown me.

Daniel was the aloof kind of guy who seemed so fierce but was actually rather much like a softie inside. Because he married my mom's only sister, his family and mine were rather close, and they would look after my sister and I in our childhood days. I still remember spending alot of time in their garden, playing zero point and catching with my cousin. What. I also got childhood one ok. And there was a period of time when he was into doing up his own computers, and he would keep looking for me whenever he got stumped. Really annoyed me back then, but I guess looking back, it really wasn't all that bad. Kinda amusing in fact.

Albert, who just passed away, wasn't very close to me either, but I remember very clearly that as a ten year old kid, I was hospitalised for three months, and this uncle would come by alternate nights to stay up with me, just because he knew that I didn't dare to be alone in the hospital. As I grew up I kinda drifted away but still he would give me really big ang paos every chinese new year, despite not being well off himself. And to think that I never thanked him for the favor he showed me all these years.

It broke my heart to hear my mom cry and ask why members of the family were dying one after another.

Shine On - Jet

Please don't cry
You know
I'm leaving here tonight
Before I go I want you to know that there will always be a light

And if the moon had to run away
And all the stars didn't wanna play
Don't waste the sun on a rainy day
The wind will soon blow it all away

So many times I'd planned
To be much more than who I am
And if I let you down I will follow you 'round until you understand

That if the moon had to run away
And all the stars didn't wanna play
Don't waste the sun on a rainy day
The wind will soon blow it all away

When the days all seem the same
Don't feel the cold or wind or rain
Everything will be okay
We will meet again one day
I will shine on, for everyone

So please don't cry
Although I leave you here this night
Wherever I may go how far I don't know
But I will always be your light

That if the moon had to run away
And all the stars didn't wanna play
Don't waste the sun on a rainy day
The wind will soon blow it all away

When the days all seem the same
Don't feel the cold or wind or rain
Everything will be okay
We will meet again one day
I will shine on, for everyone

posted by NEB at 12:28 AM

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