"Should all aquaintance be forgot"

This is just a note to my late Great Grandmother.

I may not know you alot. Yet you still are part of the family. Every relative is someone significant and you are also significant. It has been a hard Life for you, adapting to situations nearly I could not imagine how you could live it out. You have put up a real good fight in Life and now, laid to rest in peace. Never worry, never falter along your new path, but I know you will be strong, wherever you go. Rest in peace and God Bless.

Now onto my main topic. Well, it has been a rough week for everybody. I mean, my aunts were all keeping their composure ever since their Grandmother, which is my late Great Grandma, passed away on a Monday, 7th April 2008 at about 11pm at the confirmed death time.

Today on the 11th April 2008, she was lead to cremation in one of the most hi-tech cremation areas I have ever seen. That was the irony when we reached there, we, as in almost everyday who was their first time there, were in awed at how high tech the place was set up. So we watched through glass panels as the coffin was lead into a door where the furnace could be seen. There were shouts like "MOTHER! SIAM!" meaning "get out of the way mother!" get away from what? Well, the fire actually. It was a rather silly claim that if they say that, the body somehow won't be burned. But everyone knows, that the body will be burnt. Yet the family still said it.

When we returned to eat a vegetarian lunch, well it was catered, we had no choice but to eat the "flour" that looks like meat. But it wasn't so bad. Everybody was feeling all ok and happy after that. So now we have to move on.

I guess I mostly disliked funerals. I mean, the dead was laid over there by the void deck. Then for those who are budhist they tend to perform all those joss stick burning and bowing before the coffin on their knees. Another word for it is to Kow-tow to the coffin. Of course being Christians, we shall not bow down before other Gods or idolatry, so we refrain from bowing at all. We still did the walking around the coffin and throwing chrysanthemum flower petals around. After that there was a band over there that played the song of Auud Lane Syne. Meanwhile, the relatives and family members will give their last farewell by talking to the coffin.

What did I say you asked? Well, I said to her "that it has been a hard life, yet you obtain peace in your death. Go steady and God bless, may the Lord be with you. Amen" I just spoke on impulse, but after that, tears begin to come. We have lost, a family member.