Today is the first day of the 3 days wake for my Wa Ma (Tan Ah Eng) who left us on 18 July 2015 at the Fiona Stanley Hospital in Murdoch, Western Australia. Wa Ma is just 74 years old this year. Really don't understand how Wa Ma would suddenly suffer a Hypoxic brain injury and Cardiac arrest. Everything is just too sudden for everyone.
Felt really sad when we got to the house and everyone was packing Wa Ma clothes to be placed inside the coffin with her for the cremation. Sometimes the hardest things to do is letting go of the things you held so tight to your heart. Really couldn't take it when we finally saw her when the undertaker arrived. She is really gone. It's really sad that we tend to treasure the people around us only when they are no longer around.
There are so many things to be done during the past 3 days from attending to the guests by providing them with packet drinks, plate of peanuts, melon seeds, sweets and red strings, and making sure the 路灯 does not get extinguished.
Got to see so many of my relatives and cousins after so many years. All my cousins have grown so much since we last saw them when they were still kids. Time really passes by so fast that everything have changed. The place, the people, the relationship, and the atmosphere.
I wish that somehow in the near future we would be able to gather together like how it was like in the past as a family and that there will be lots of laughter and photos for us to show our kids from generations to generations. I believe Wa Ma would have wanted that too. A complete happy family.
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