It's Only Life

As I've often mentioned here, time really flies. My one-month holiday is nearing its end.

This holidays has been different for me. I'll usually wake up late, glue myself to the computer randomly browsing the Internet, be a couch potato, watching every new DVD I could find during the holiday season. Basically, I've always wasted my holidays doing nothing truly productive and regretting it after that.

But this time it was different. This time, I've finally managed to make a trip to Singapore for the very first time in 21 years of my life. The one thing I admired about this place was the efficiency of its public transport. Buses and MRTs came every 5 minutes without fail, unlike KL where a "RAPID" kl bus can sometimes take 1.5 hours to arrive. When I was back in KL one day waiting for the ktm for almost half an hour just to travel from KL Sentral to MidValley (only one station), I really couldn't help comparing the public transportation systems of both countries. But other than that, Singapore is very much like KL minus the good food. Haha, sorry no offense. =P

This holidays was also more family-centric. My grandmother is usually an active and lively person even at 80 years old. But recently, I've noticed something different about her. She slept more often than usual and was often tired even after walking for short distances. My mum decided that it was best that we took her to the hospital for a thorough check up. Admission took almost 5 hours to complete and my grandmother stayed in the hospital for 10 days.

For those 10 days, I went to and fro the hospital to visit her. She was not doing well initially and it got me really worried. I am really close to my grandmother because she took care of me when I was younger. My mum was also stressed out, to a point where she broke down and cried and I was helpless about it. For 21 years of my life, I am naive about the concept of death. Because of that, I had always lived in this silly bubble thinking that "Everybody lives forever and no one is going to leave. Not anytime soon". Yea, very silly no?

But this experience burst that bubble. It made me face reality that people do not live forever however much we want them too. That at any point of time, someone close to us may just leave us. The fact that we all have a time limit on this Earth. The problem is, we don't know when is it. We don't know when is our expiry date. So, how do we face this ordeal of not knowing it? By appreciating the moments with people when we are still alive. Good memories make us survive through the worrying ones.

Ok. Yea very morbid thoughts. My grandmother is doing better now, I just got a little carried away emotionally.

My aunts, uncles and cousins came over to visit my grandmother and I was glad to see them. We gathered for a family reunion dinner, which was a rare occassion for me. I had to cram myself with about 10 poeple in a 4-seater dining table, but it was the best reunion dinner so far in my life. It over-compensates for all the days of CNY that I was away from home. =)))

As Nic always says "Good food, good company, what more can I ask for?"