Gratitude

Firstly, I would like to express my gratitude to our Singapore founding father, Mr. Lee KY, for what he have done for each and every individual in Singapore. As neutral as I am, I’m neither interested in any political  issues nor support any political parties in Singapore, but Mr. Lee KY grain every respect from me for what he had done for us, he always put the interests of the people in Singapore before himself. I admired his far foresight, he kept all his promise that he made to every citizens even the promise can only honour like decades later. 

 

On the Sunday itself, I woke up early to make breakfast for my husband and I start tuning in to Channel 5. From morning till 12noon, Mr. Lee life story was aired throughout the period, there a charisma in him which enable him to earn the trust of the people with his word, his words are really impactful, strong and convincing. Through the documentary, I came to learnt that the luxury we enjoyed now should never be taken for granted, through all his hard work and the support with his team, he made Singapore one of the best country over the world, with strong economy that people look up to.

 

His love story is the part I love most. I never believe that one can stick with another through the thick and thin even I’m already married now, but he proved me wrong, is all on the choice one chose.

 

I watch the whole live telecast of his state funeral, his death really bring the whole Singapore together, the familiar warm island which I once known and lost through the years. As our economy growth through the years, our paces of living increasing with it, many time, we are so focus on living up to the standard and we are too worn out and lost we very initial “humanity” through the process. But I see the sky cried together with our citizens on last Sunday for the loss of our founding father, the scene touches me and I’m glad to see that in the deepest part of individual of us, we still know what is gratitude.

 

Life and death is part and parcel of life, too many things happen lately that make me really think twice about life. My grandfather was diagnose with stage 4 lung cancer recently, I saw how much pain he suffered with this illness, it really break my heart. But no doubt he is always the strongest man I used to know, even at this very last stage of life, his though was not to put the burden of himself to other. Who in the right state of mind planned for his own funeral? None other than my great man, my grandfather.

 

He chosen his own photo for the casket, the clothes to wear, and arranged every single details of his own funeral, his though really put me into tears. Not only this, he even pass on the message to my mum what to do for my grandmother after he is gone, the arrangement of my grandmother funeral in future when he is not around, he want to make sure everything will fall in place as he won’t be around to attend to it. From my memories, although my grandparents does not have any wonderful love story to shared, but they stick to each other all these decades.

 

Too many heart breaking stories been heard lately, too much to digest and my emotional was greatly affected. I’m never a believer of god, but since there is no cure to my grandfather illness, I just hope that if god really existed, please be kind to my grandfather, I know his time is almost up, I’m not expecting miracle will happened, but just grant his an easy death. Please be kind to this great old man of mine, thank you god.

 

I’m always thankfully for what my grandfather had done for us throughout the years.

I love you, yeye.