A Gift Of Life (Part 1) - The Thing About Mortality

So there I was in the still of the night checking my emails and there it was, an email from Ed. Ed almost never email me and straightaway, I knew it was important. It was an update on Chrissy.

Chrissy has leukemia.

My heart sank. As far as Chrissy is concerned, she is family. She was almost my sister-in-law had my toopid bro-in-law not broken up with her many years back. It's heartbreaking to see a relationship, blossomed since Poly days, fade into oblivion. Kids these days.... haiz....

I will dwell more into Chrissy tomorrow but let me tell you about the rest of my day.

Just as I was mulling over Chrissy's condition throughout the day, I received a cryptic message from Wing. Like Ed, Wing also never have the habit of keeping in touch regularly. Ironically, both Ed and Wing are my super duper good buddies.

"You know Lup Cheong? He died today."

Oh great. Second piece of bad new in one day.

It was afternoon before I had the chance to sit down in front of my computer when I buzzed Chuan on Yahoo Messenger to tell him about Lup Cheong. In return for that piece of update, I was rewarded with the news that Wei is battling with Stage 2 breast cancer back home.

It was almost like a surreal episode of the Twilight Zone where the main character will receive news of a death or tragedy whenever he speaks to somebody. For a fleet of a moment, I couldn't tell reality from fantasy. I wanted to just lock myself up for the rest of the day and not speak to anyone. It was too much for me to take in a single day.

- Voxeros 

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