Amy Tan-my Favourite Std 4 teacher

She looks Cantonese. Looks like  a movie star of the '60s.

Charming, petite and dresses well.

Do I have a crush on her back then. Possibly.

Looking back, she was the prettiest teacher ever.

Wonder where she is now?

Death in the Family

Hardly 59.

This morning she was gone even before her son reached the hospital.

Sepsis-the clotting of the blood that restrict blood flows to all limbs and organs and then death.

She was my sister, Shaline and she left us in the wee hours of the morning on 27 April 2016.

She was my flesh and blood.

I lost Donny in 1988.

Some 27 years later, I lost Shaline.

Reflections of Shaline.

Mild-mannered and sometimes very simplistic in thought.

Procedural and generous to a fault.

My sister, Shaline.

Tomorrow will be her wake at Guanyin in Kampung Tunku.

On 29 April, there would be her last rites and thence, cremation.

On balance, though her life was full of challenges, Shaline never buckles.

She is my dear, dear sister. Always, will be; even though she is now with God, the Almighty.

I pray that God will bless her soul and put her on the right hand side, where his favourites sit.

Amen.