The Savages

Ever since I heard about the show “The Savages”, I had been eagerly waiting for the DVD release. Not that I’m one of those who complains on the costly movies in the theatres now, but I know I will be with bucket of tears and didn’t want to embarrased myself in the theatre. A box of [...]

聪姑的遗训

Before I left for Macau, I received this from my Aunt.

This is a bookmark.
Remember I mentioned about the death of one of my grandaunt who passed away before CNY? I attended her wake and that she was one of many adopted daughters of the many wives of my Great-Grandfather. I called her 姑婆 and she lived [...]

Prelude to the Rat Year

Everyone is busy with preparing for the Chinese New Year. The cleaning, the food preparations, the shopping, etc….
I was preparing for the same until so many things struck…….
3 weeks before CNY, I was diagnosed with an ovarian cyst, a size of 8.5cm x 7cm, sitting in my uterus. The hassle of going for more [...]

Closure

Its been more than 2 weeks….As much I need to close this chapter, I find it hard.There is no photo to remember. There is no columbarium to rest in eternity.There is no identity to hold on to.There, …….is no name.You will always be in my heart.You will always be my eldest child.

R.I.P.

my baby

Phenomenon of Premonition of Death

I had been thinking about this.

In Chinese, its called “回光反照”.

I vaguely remembered my father when he was in coma in ICU for 3 weeks. But one thing I remembered the mumblings were that he had been shifted to the inner half of the ICU after observing an “improvement”. Next thing I know, he passed [...]

Delaying Death, Prolonging Pain

I stop short of defining what is Cortico Basal Ganglionic Degeneration in my last entry.I’m not going to bombard with some chim medical terms here.It simply means the loss of nerve cells in the brain, the shrinkage of of some areas in the brain. The areas that shrunk is called cerebal cortex and basal ganglia. [...]