the experience i gained in this course of four weeks is more then what i’ve gained in my entire life.i’ve learnt so many lessons of life i can’t believe it.most of my experiences feel very surreal i can’t believe it has happened.
on friday,the 17th of june,my granduncle passed away.he was my favourite granduncle,so it was quite a blow to the family.what makes it worse was the fact that i had seen him on friday in the afternoon.there were things i wanted to say to him,even though he wouldn’t be able to hear me since he was in a coma.i thought that i could just tell him what i wanted to say the next day.he passed away that night.i had just come back from a wedding when i got the news.i couldn’t believe it.even when i went to ipoh for the funeral,i watched as the relatives came to pay their final respects to him,as i myself paid him my final respects,i watched as his body was wrapped in the kain kafan,i still couldn’t believe it.half of me accepts reality but the other half won’t.
going back to ipoh made his death harder to accept.the moment we drove into the oh-so-familiar town of ipoh,all the memories came flashing into my mind.each one made me cry even more.but the one that really stood out was the memory of my granduncle,coming back from his clinic on sunday afternoon in his white adidas shoes.i’ll always remember those shoes,he always looked so cool in them.as i was chilling with my 4 year old aunt,building stuff from leggo pieces,i didn’t even realised i had built a side profile of a man with white shoes.on closer inspection,i built the figurine based on my late granduncle’s built as well.
i think my biggest regret was not being able to tell my granduncle how much i loved him.i had a chance,i took it for granted but now i’ve lost that opportunity forever.my granduncle’s funeral is the second i’ve attend ever,but it’s the first death that really hit home.it’ll be difficult to deal with this loss,but unfortunaTely,for the living,life goes on…