It's sorta weird when I look back at my last post.I thought I was gonna be busy re-doing my blog skin and all other sort of web related clean ups I had been avoiding for waaay too long.On that very day,that is,on 11/10/08..not long after my entry..We recieved news from London that my dearly beloved aunt had passed away.Mum was the one who recieved the call from my cousin and it was she who started breaking down.The rest of us were just numb with shock.Though she was in London,she never failed to call us weekly...Yes she was sickly but she went through life bravely and even travelled until she really was too sick to do so.In fact the last I spoke to her was on my birthday where we had a teasing session about me tying the knot soon.She said,not for the first time,but for the last time..that she wanted to see me in London married before she died..as usual I made a joke out of it and she laughed but she was serious about it.How was I to know..she'd leave us all like this?

She was the eldest in our family and though she was so far away,she was always up to date with whatever was happening within our family network.

Suffice to say my mum said that she was going for the funeral.It was a toss up between Clifton and myself as to who would go with her.That was the first plan on Saturday itself.

By Monday..it was decided that ALL of us would go.

Eleven of us.Brother,sisters,cousin,nieces,nephew,in-laws.

So on the 15th of October we all set off for London.

It was tough not get excited since for Glash,Clifton and myself it was our first time travelling to London..on a 17hr flight journey no less..and furthermore the first time that Clif and I would see the rest of our cousins,Galton and Joyce who had not been to Singapore yet..however each time we smiled,we sighed..thinking how nice it would be if she was alive to greet us ..all those times she kept calling us to go over..and when we finally decided to go next year during the June holidays..she decided to leave us.

The journey to London was filled with hiccups from the very start..from home to Changi Airport to Doha to finally Heathrow..where we had a mini spat with one of the staff there..and lemme tell u I never though I'd get out of that bloody airport..the way things were going...yeah yeah British security is very tight these days but we had been travelling for nearly 17-18 hours and we were sooo tired and sad the more we thought about the fact that we are heading to see the body of our beloved ..and here this people were just testing our patience!It was with much difficulty that we controlled our tempers.

The short stay at London..was the best few days of my entire life.

Within the first hour itself,Glash and I were like..."Why aren't we living in this place???!!!"

It was a very emotional scene at 4 Essex Road.

The house that I had seen several times in all the photos my aunt sent from those years..

and the fact that now she was not in it,but in a funeral parlour.cold and lifeless in a strange place with strangers.Even then I did not cry.

After kissing and hugging the familiar faces,and being introduced to the truck load of nieces and nephews,we rushed off to the funeral parlour..and that's where I lost whatever restrain I had.The moment I saw her..everything just came back to me..the way I used to brush her long silky black hair when she came down to Singapore in the late 80s...the loving way she gazed at my late grandma,the cute arguments between her & her hubby,my dearest late Uncle..and most of all..her smile.We cried.All of us broke down silently within ourselves as we stood in a circle around her.It all just seemed so surreal.

After that the rest of the days went by in a blur..I loved the place and I loved my cousins,their spouses and the kids..I have 10 nieces and nephews!Obviously we could not go sightseeing as we were there for a funeral..we did manage to squeeze in some car trips though as our cousins brought us along on the errand runs.

I could go on about the days I spent there..but I have no time now and besides I don't want to exhaust all of those beautiful memories so fast..so I shall talk about them here and there,on and off..now we are all even more in touch than usual..so it's all good.

I don't even know why I started on this post when all I wanted to do was choose a new blogskin..I guess the date of my last entry 11/10 triggered it off.

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