There is just too many wonderful people that has ‘gone too soon’ (read: pass away) this year. To name a few, there was MJ the King of Pop, Yasmin Ahmad the award-winning storyteller from Malaysia, and recently it is someone that we – boyfriend and I – not only know the name but also the person personally.

The bad news was delivered by boyfriend via phone call on yesterday. Three words of ‘CK passed away’ was more than enough to make me felt shocked, hand trembled, and almost dropped tears, that I don’t know how boyfriend and CK’s family friends can handle this news. It is just too sudden. He is 24 years old or so only, healthy and no chronic illness. When I knew that it happened in this way – he slept and never woke up from the sleep – how I wish that there will be a miracle, that he could wake up from the comma and there will be happy ending.

Until today, memories of late CK still plays in my head. He is one of my favorite persons among boyfriend’s friends, because he spoke slowly (and yet steady) which made me managed to catch and understand the conversation between him and boyfriend, and he used mandarin most of the time. That was during the early days when my listening of FooChow wasn’t that good yet.

I remembered I had my hair cut by him back in 2005, when he still worked as a hairstylist in KL before he moved to Singapore. On mid year 2005, we celebrated the dumpling festival together. In the above picture – left hand side, he was wrapping the dumpling together with another friend (Mow).

On the same day, we celebrated the birthday of Mow – boyfriend’s close friend. In the above picture, Mow the birthday boy holding the cake, Mow’s girlfriend (now wife), CK, boyfriend and I. The below picture, when the boys trying to act cute.

The last time I saw him was almost 3 years ago. Boyfriend and I stayed at his place when we had to go to Singapore for few days, cause my student visa was about to expired and my leg was in bad condition due to the hot water incident. If it wasn’t him who offered us a place to stay, we would be homeless in Singapore I guess. Economy was bad for us the fresh-grads back then.

It is quite hard to believe that he is gone now, for forever. May he rest in peace.

P.S. During some period of LDR and when boyfriend fell sick, he would said how nobody will know his condition if the illness went worse and bad thing happens blablabla. *touch woods* His worry does make sense, cause boyfriend’s family and I stayed thousand miles away from him. While he stayed with the landlord and girlfriend (both 20sth yo) who hardly stayed in the house, that’s all. Before that, there was an ignorant housemate which didn’t help at all.

I feel that this somehow ties with the bad news of boyfriend’s friend. I mean, working overseas and staying alone without a good housemates or friends (in the same house or apartment) is a big no no. And, staying with family is the best. Aihz, somehow emo mode on. Sigh.