Sunday, November 19, 2006
yesterday mother ang's uncle--my granduncle, that is, or my grandmother's brother, or my mother's mother's brother...whatever--passed away. so we went to attend the wake.
isnt it funny why funerals are called a wake when the main character isnt, well, awake? english is weird. it's the same thing as, do you fill in or fill out a form? oh well.
anyway, we went to pick mother ang's sister--my auntie, that is, or my father's sister-in-law, or my grandmother's daughter...whatever--to go together to the wake in Punggol.
my auntie is a very....interesting character. she gets excited easily although she's already in her fifties--or sixties??--and whenever she gets excited she'll be screaming at the top of her lungs. claudia ang was sitting next to her and i could see that her eardrums were gonna burst anytime.
so anyway, we drove round and round Punggol so many times cos we couldnt find the place where the wake was held. finally we found it and parents ang planned to drop my auntie off first then go and have dinner. but my auntie didnt want to go in alone! parents ang became very irritated. father ang became very fierce aka scary so my auntie got scared and closed the car door.
it was entertaining seeing mother ang getting irritated with her sister. wahaha.
so we went to Punggol Plaza to have our dinner, and when we headed back to the wake... we saw our auntie waiting for us outside the wake! -_-" the whole time we were eating, she didnt go in! jeez.
so we went into the wake together. i found out that i have abt 3 cousins that i'd nvr seen before in my whole life. honestly. i didnt even know they were my cousins. besides, i didnt really know my granduncle that well and didnt even know his sons--my uncles, that is, or my mother's cousins, my grandmother's nephews...whatever--too. so obviously i wouldnt know their children, or my cousins.
it seems that cancer runs in my maternal side. my granduncle died of cancer, my grandmother died of cancer, my great-grandmother [i think] also died of cancer!
ugh. cancer is rather scary if you think abt it.
isnt it funny why funerals are called a wake when the main character isnt, well, awake? english is weird. it's the same thing as, do you fill in or fill out a form? oh well.
anyway, we went to pick mother ang's sister--my auntie, that is, or my father's sister-in-law, or my grandmother's daughter...whatever--to go together to the wake in Punggol.
my auntie is a very....interesting character. she gets excited easily although she's already in her fifties--or sixties??--and whenever she gets excited she'll be screaming at the top of her lungs. claudia ang was sitting next to her and i could see that her eardrums were gonna burst anytime.
so anyway, we drove round and round Punggol so many times cos we couldnt find the place where the wake was held. finally we found it and parents ang planned to drop my auntie off first then go and have dinner. but my auntie didnt want to go in alone! parents ang became very irritated. father ang became very fierce aka scary so my auntie got scared and closed the car door.
it was entertaining seeing mother ang getting irritated with her sister. wahaha.
so we went to Punggol Plaza to have our dinner, and when we headed back to the wake... we saw our auntie waiting for us outside the wake! -_-" the whole time we were eating, she didnt go in! jeez.
so we went into the wake together. i found out that i have abt 3 cousins that i'd nvr seen before in my whole life. honestly. i didnt even know they were my cousins. besides, i didnt really know my granduncle that well and didnt even know his sons--my uncles, that is, or my mother's cousins, my grandmother's nephews...whatever--too. so obviously i wouldnt know their children, or my cousins.
it seems that cancer runs in my maternal side. my granduncle died of cancer, my grandmother died of cancer, my great-grandmother [i think] also died of cancer!
ugh. cancer is rather scary if you think abt it.
12:59 PM