Monday, March 28, 2005 @3:17 PM
hey people, don't bother to call me from my house phone ok? Yup, because I'm banned from the phone. It's a training for me not to use the phone too much and a plan to cut down the phone bills.
I just checked the caller-ID and I found that Han has been phoning me many times. and I know it's MANY TIMES! *So sorry dear, but the phone is locked up. Just really sorry. Anything just e-mail me or sms me ok? I check my e-mail almost everyday. I got to know that you are sick from your blog and about the flopping of a/c test online. Take care ya? I hope you are not that angry with your dad le. =S And ya, I heard from Fu Er that you called her and she said that she's busy, you said "Never mind." and put down the phone. She's really worried. Is it because of me?*
Went to the Mandai Crematorium and Columbarium to pay a visit to my late grandfather and great-grandfather on Sunday morning. I saw Jeremin Tan (ex-RV basketball captain) there too. He saw me and I saw him too. Surprisingly, that day's Sunday Times in the Gen Y section, there's someone who really looked like him appeared in the article "Band Aid". I was still talking to my sis about how this person resembles Jeremin Tan so much, and yet he's an undergraduate, 21 years old? Got so freaked out when I saw him there. -gosh-
Did the usual stuff of cleaning their photos and praying with food laid out and burning the incense papers after that. While we were waiting for the joss sticks to burn off, we saw 2 coffins waiting in front of the columbarium for the time to be cremated. I got really intrigued about what is life and what is death. People welcome the arrival of the new-born at the hospital and send the dead off at the columbarium. It's just like an airport, the only difference being this send-off is permanant while the airport still has an arrival and a departure hall.
As I walked down the aisle, saw the photos' of the dead, with some even having bought 2 places with one reserved for their wife/husband. These people once existed, alive and kicking. When they died, they left only a shell (their body) behind.
Emptiness. Once you are dead, nothing really seems to matter. Just emptiness.