*A replacement post for 31 May 2013
I quietly cried when thought of the last breakfast prepared by dad. He was fine in that morning. I complained a bit on the sticky food and dad helped mixing it with water. Also I recalled the last bun he prepared to me......
Mum cried when calling dad for breakfast in the early morning praying session.
Sister and I went to the cemetery for ash compartment selection. Big aunt and uncle accompanied us. We chose the compartment at the eyes level which facing a small garden and it was the most expensive category among the rest. The area is at the right when walking in to the ash compartments storage building which is considered good according to aunt. Left/right which I can't really remembered represents dragon which is a good sign.
At night, we had pray and Sutra chanting session. Many people cried when singing the memorial song. Dad, I miss you!
*A replacement post for 30 May 2013
It was an extremely sad day for my whole family. Dad passed away in a sudden.
I received a call from my sister who stay in outstation. I got to know dad fainted at home. I called back home immediately. My little niece asked me to rescue dad. I knew that was something bad happened. Quickly, I fetched my big sister and rushed back home. My sister was trying to call cousin for help and kept update from him. On the home journey, I got to know dad was sent to the hospital by ambulance. I felt relief a bit as there was still hope if dad was taken to the hospital. I dropped my sister in the emergency section while I looked for parking. I parked quite far away. Sister called me and she didn't clearly tell me the status.
When I reached the emergency area, I was being told dad didn't make it. I just had no feeling at the moment. Dad was lifeless on the bed. Those equipment were still not dismantled. It seemed like dad had a shock on his face. I touched his hand and body. He was no longer moving. This was my last touch on him. Dad was leaving us forever.
Mum told us the incident. She looked calm but I knew she had no preparation to react to all these. I thought she was like me, no feeling in such a sudden. It was a bit annoying at the moment as there were several people approach us for the death arrangement. Later, a young Chinese doctor asked me to report my dad's death as they wanted to settle my dad's body. Then I was accompanied by my uncle to lodge report to the police. Then a series of arrangement was going to be carried out.
Health history reporting was very much related to the death investigation (postmortem) by police and insurance claim. It was contradict to Chinese culture that don't encourage postmortem. Finally we decided to allow for postmortem. I felt we needed the answer for dad's death even though we managed to guess the reason. We spent for quite some time to discuss with the paediatric pathologis and sergeant in the dead body placement area on the postmortem issue. We discussed on the cremation/burial with relatives as well.
After that, we went to settle and arrange the casket and attire matters separately while waiting for the postmortem. After the postmortem, there were a lot of procedures on transporting the body back home. Body claiming, attire changing, casket entering (dry ice), calling dad for home when passing bridges and etc...... I saw some scars of postmortem during the buttons buckling session. Hope everything was fine.
Relatives were coming to support throughout the night. It was really exhausted. Sad......
*A replacement post for 29 May 2013
I was suffering from sore throat again. I went to see panel doctor and get some medicine. I checked with the doctor and I was being told that my last sore throat was 5 months ago. The doctor told me that I have a sensitive throat. She advised me to gargle after meals and take Vitamin C supplement. She didn't give me antibiotic as I had no fever. Those medicine were just lozenges, pain killer and for inflammation.
I felt I was tired due to sore throat. No mood.
*A replacement post for 28 May 2013
I went for shopping while waiting for my dancing class. I was surveying on the automatic watches.
It was a bit embarrassing when I asked for a budget watch in a high class watch shop. Luckily the salesman was quite nice. I only knew Oris is a Swiss made watch which is expensive. The price is all above RM1k and above for an automatic watch.
Higher end - Watchshoppe, Watatime
Lower end - City Chain, PK Time
*A replacement post for 27 May 2013
I was wasting time again at home on my day 5 holiday.
My watch was functional at sometimes and failure sometimes. Therefore I planned to buy a new one. I planned to buy an automatic watch. Unfortunately they were really expensive when I browsed via the internet. Some of the Orient watches were still affordable to buy but I didn't like the outlook. Oris watches was damn expensive. Tissot watches were also the same. Seiko was not my preference even though the price was considerably cheap if compared to others. It was because it reminded me on someone that I didn't want to think of.
*A replacement post for 26 May 2013
I was spending my day 4 holiday at home again. I was upgrading the firmware of my smart phone on the previous day. Therefore I was spending the whole day in figuring the new features after the upgrade. Besides, I did some minor configuration on the phone as well. It was normal as many stuffs to be done after any upgrading.
The firmware is the Android 4.1.2. It is the Jelly Bean! Sweet sweet!
*A replacement post for 25 May 2013
I was doing a housekeeping on my personal computer. I was tidying and rearranging my photos in a better folders organization. A bit of wasting time at the day 3 of my holiday.
*A replacement post for 24 May 2013
I went to watch Fast and Furious 6 with my buddy and ex-colleague. It was quite an interesting movie even I didn't watch the previous series.
That were two scenes that really impressed me.
The "flying" scene when the main actor rescuing the main actress by using the force of hitting the car to the road barrier to throw himself to grab the girl who was being thrown from the tank.
The "dropping" scene when the co-actress sacrificing herself to the co-actor by dropping herself from the airplane to shoot the enemy who attacking the guy.
*A replacement post for 23 May 2013
I went to have a steamboat dinner with my ex-colleagues. Coincidentally I was taking annual leave on that day. I was taking leave on the following Monday as well so that I was able to enjoy the continuous 5 days holiday (Friday was Wesak Day). Actually I was trying to clear some of my leaves before the year ending.
After the dinner, I only knew that my buddy and another ex-colleague got their promotion and giving us a meal treat. After the dinner, I felt of heart pain as I was comparing myself to them. I was not envy them. I was really happy for them, especially my buddy. I just felt I was not competitive with my low paid. I was uncertain in my career path. I didn't know what did I want?
*A replacement post for 22 May 2013
My legs were really painful. It was a quite serious pain. I felt extremely painful when I was going down from the staircase. Climbing staircase was still considerably alright. Besides, I found difficulties to take a seat on a chair too. The muscles were stretching heavily until you wanna cried.
*A replacement post for 21 May 2013
It was a freestyle dance in that week. We used the Samsung commercial advertisement song - I Love It. It was fun and interesting as I like these type of dance. Lively and energetic. However, I felt my legs muscles slowly to become painful when I reached home.
Late at night, my 2nd floor house was flooded with water. It was a bit unbelievable right? It was because dad forget to turn off the water pipe in their washroom and the drainage hole was being blocked by the water pail. As a result, it caused the flood at 2nd floor. Luckily it didn't flow to the lower floor. We were trying to clean and dry up all of the bedroom floor. I was totally exhausted. It was quite suffering because my legs muscles were really painful when I was trying to clean up the mess.
*A replacement post for 20 May 2013
I was following closely on the shares as I have one IPO that performing pretty well after the general election. Unfortunately, the online trading website that I used was having some issue after their maintenance and upgrade recently. The stock counter history chart cannot be shown in the new interface. Such an inconvenience for their user. Damn it!
