Eulogy for mum

Eulogy for mum

My mum died on 15 March 2024. Here is what I wrote for my mum. Mum’s mum, Tan Siu Eng, met the tall and strapping quantity surveyor, Yuan Chee Fong, known as Shanghai (because that was his hometown), and they married and started a family. Mum was born in Singapore on...
After the funeral

After the funeral

I found out my former colleague had died when I looked him up on Facebook and his page reported, ‘deceased.’ What? The shock was like a gulp of cold water through my chest. We had not been close, but I don’t know. I had felt like we were kindred...