it's always a little sad when something ends.

姑婆 passed away Friday. She died in her sleep, which is honestly the best way to go for old people. No suffering, no pain, just silently sleep away.

I don't have many fond memories of her. You know how people say kids always have a certain way of knowing they are not liked. Well, let's just say I never felt really comfortable under her scrutiny.

Still, I'm glad there was no pain for her. She was a fussy old lady but circumstances made her that way.

The wake is more like a gathering for my mom, aunt and their then neighbours though. They even go around taking photographs. I mean she did live a long good life. So it really was one of those celebrate her life funerals rather than those sudden sad ones.

Is that what lies ahead of me 30 years later? Friends only gathering because someone has died. Typical Singaporean Chinese future?

But I guess when it happens, it happens.