Goodbye Mr Goh...

Mr Goh passed away on Tuesday after fighting cancer since January. We were all so shocked when we found out in school. It felt so unreal. Mr Goh was one of my first friends in this school. When I first came to this school, I usedto sit right next to him and he was one of the first few who were friendly and kind to me. I will never forget him always joking about my tidbit-cupboard. I had this little cupboard/drawer at my table I that was where I stored all my goodies. He always said I was like his daughter - we both enjoy tidbits.

Sigh. Mr Goh's passing made us all think about life. We realise that we should not sell our life to school. Mr Goh only retired in June last year! He had not even begun to enjoy life and then he had to go. He was waiting for his wife to retire and he always talked about going travelling with her. He was such a loving husband and a very very good man. I felt really sad and cried a few times at the funeral. Certainly there is more to life than just work and suffering? There's a lesson here that he is leaving behind for us.

To summarize what else has happened for this week, well, I was on MC for Monday and Tuesday...then we found out about Mr Goh on Wednesday, visited his wake on Wednesday and Thursday, went out with a bunch of my ex-students on Friday night, went to send Mr Goh off on Saturday morning and then met up with the HFC Committee to discuss the camp in the noon and then spent the rest of the weekend with my baby...what a week...

Friday Night : I met up with Ian, GuoAn, Ashrin, Junliang, Sharifah and Lionel. We had pizza at Far East Plaza and then we went to play pool at Lucky Plaza. After that, we went to Chinablack! It was kind of weird at first, to be clubbing with your ex-students, but then I realise that they were all about my cousin's age so it wasn't so bad after all. In fact, I honestly don't feel as if I am THAT much older...hehehe... We had good clean fun...no excessive drinking (we all had just one drink, in fact...was so thirsty when we went home!) , just alot of dancing and grooving to the music. There was a whole 2 hours of RnB and it was great! The funny thing was, Chinese tend to dance to RnB in the exact same style as they would dance to techno music. It was odd! I honestly don't think Chinese have as much groove as the other races...generally speaking of course. Anyway, I shared a cab with 3 other of them as we all lived in Bt Batok...all in all, we had great fun and would probably do this again next time. But I dont' see it as a regular thing...meeting up too often would sort of "kill" the novelty of the gathering...

Tonight : We saw Exorcist tonight. It was quite scary. I don't think it's as bad as what the critics said. I mean, critics rated The Terminal badly?!?! It says lots about their taste huh? I bought ABBA ; The Definitive Collection. I figured it's something I would want to keep for the rest of my life so it was worth the money. I always enjoyed ABBA's music whenever it came on the radio. Am listening to it now and I can't recognise most of the songs!

Eyes : My right eye is still blur. Right now, my eyes are feeling dead tired from staring at this screen for such a long time. I am ending this here.