Monday, 20th April 2009
woke up in the morning feeling super hyped up for school, reached school just to find out that the first lesson of the day, which starts at 10 is CANCELLED coz the lecturer was on mc. the next class will only be starting at 1 so we decided to make our way to the library to slack for a while.
i was at the atrium when i received a phone call from a private number. it was nenek,
me: hello?
nenek: fida, atuk meninggal
me: huh?
nenek: atuk ali meninggal, talipon ibu
me: hmm, okay okay
she told me that my atuk passed away. i was shocked, i thought it was my step-atuk, but i turned out to be my biological atuk (coz she just said “atuk meninggal” she didn’t mention the name at first). so after that, i called ibu. first time, second time, third time, still can’t get through. so i called ayah instead and asked him to call ibu.
everyone in the family was either at school or at work, so ayah went around to fetch each of us one by one. i was the last one to get fetched since my school was the furthest from the others. then went to TTSH mortuary.
reached there, parking lot was so bloody damn full, so we went in first while ayah go find a lot. we were lucky we went there first, ayah didn’t get to see atuk, he was late for a few seconds. we can’t bring the body home coz they say they wanna do post mortem. when i was there, i recalled the same incident that happened about 3 years ago. went home to eat, change then go boon keng.
quite a lot of people came although the body was still not brought home yet, and i don’t know most of them. i don’t even know the children of my atuk’s other wives la. so i was like, “ibu, who’s that person” most of the time. left home rather late, until most of the poeple went home.
p.s how can a mother feel proud when her daughter stops school because she gets pregnant at a young age of 15 years old? she is so damn sick!
Tuesday, 21st April 2009
didn’t go to school again. woke up very early to collect the body at SGH. (i thought they wanna do post mortem? but in the end they didn’t do it, don’t know why but isn’t that called wasting our time?)
the burial was somehow delayed because we need to wait for 2 uncle and 2 step uncle from ______. only two made it on time. it was a pity they can’t do anything nor speak anything. it was very heartening to see them in such condition. they only get to see for about 10 minutes, didn’t get to go to carry and send arwah atuk off.
at the cemetery, after we reached, there were 3 other famlies waiting for burial. imagine, how many people die in singapore a day. alhamdulillah,everything went on smoothly,
Wednesday, 22nd April 2009
had no school as supposedly i only have attachment today. i am still having flu since monday, which is kind of irritating. might be going out again later at night as we are having tahlil for 3 days.