With our age of 20s, it’s a normal thing to receive a happy wedding news from friends. But, death and funeral news? This is the 2nd time. First time was shocking enough, 2nd time is more shocking.

So yea, I woke up this morning to a bad news. The 2nd elder brother of hubby’s close friend was found and has passed away. So did his wife. So much to handle on such an early morning. Sigh.

Flash back, last Sunday which is 2 days ago, we received news that the 2nd elder brother of hubby’s friend had a boat accident at the river and disappeared. He was on the way home with his wife and a few people. Heard that their boat turn upside down due to a big wave caused by another ship that coming through their way (how can it be so lousy?). Other passengers survive, but both of them disappeared.

Receiving their accident news was shocking enough. We still held on hope that he sure able to swim to the edge, probably arrive at a deserted kampong there and finding his way home.

I thought about it so much that I even had a dream about it. That he passed away due to being bite by sharks (in a river? only exists in dream world), but then I woke up and people around says that he is alright & on his way back with a Hyundai Atoz car (no that’s not his car, but has similar shape) and then they also talked about disability application. Then again I woke up, this time for real, and realized that I just had a dream in a dream, like inception? -__-”

Back to the sad news, we were drowning in sadness and shock for the entire day. It’s so hard to accept the fact that both of them are gone.

It was just one week ago when we gathered in a friend’s wedding (we flew back for 3 days) and sat together with him in a table during the wedding dinner. We had fun, laughed, had beers, cherish our friend’s big day. Everything is just alright, so finding him gone now is.. Gosh! extremely hard to accept.

Furthermore, they are still young, in 20s. They have registered their marriage and will have their wedding ceremony at end of August this year. But now.. their big day will never happen. The only bright side that we see, they did carry their love and stayed together til death do them apart.

And thinking that they were drowning in the cold river for 2 days (or more) before being found, that is oh so frightening. Also, maybe they were struggling to survive? Why oh why the rescuers worked so slow? How can other passenger survive but not them?

How we wish this is just a dream and that he is just alright. But no, this time reality doesn’t give us a happy ending. Sigh. May he rest in peace.