As Church Bells Rang, I See Someone Enter 6 Feet Under.

Its been a tiresome weekend...
25th of March 2006,
A date wher I have endurred the best and the worst in life...
It was such a bitter sweet week...
My best friend cum Pastor, Ps. Noah is getting hitched on that day, a wedding much anticipated for as we have been notified since last year September...
It seemed like eternity then, only to realise that the said day is going to be.....today!!!!
I was initially asked to sing at the wedding, and the couple asked me to sing their favourite song, a Rod Stewart classic, Have I told You Lately.
And at the very last minute... He asked me to be his best man or rather one of his best men...
It was really exciting....
Waiting patiently the next day, as i was watching the telly, my friend Richard smsed...

It writes:-

Bad news...Swee Kee just passed away...

funeral will be at 8 tonight.

All I could do at that moment was cry...At that point of time, I wished that there was a missing word after his name, I wish it wasn't him but after I made several phone calls, I realised it was him... A 19 year old boy, gone with the wind just because of some unknown reason of a viral attack that entered his lungs and heart.

I was so lost, a wedding is coming up in a couple of hours while I was torn deep down.

Where do I go?

Where should I go?

I ended up t the wedding putting on my very best, singing my heart out and received compliments and encouragement to do Malaysian Idol but deep down lies a broken soul of a departed friend.

I was given a chance to visit him by his coffin, speechless, I just send my sincere condolences and left as I could not stand looking at him and his parents...Its just to heavy on me as I need to prepare a youth wedding celebration...

After the whole youth thing ended, filled with laughter and slapsticks, I went home, emotionally drained.

I laughed a little and cried a little but not just a little.

Remembering the moments I last saw him,it was so funny...

Just as he was leaving my house after a christmas party, he took home a whole box of chicken wings after much debate with Irene, saying that this would be his breakfast the next day...

And since then, we never met till then...

A good friends we've lost, like the mist in the rain,

Your picture remains, but not in a frame,

In my heart it will be sealed with a promise,

In paradise we'll meet again.

To the late Shawn Yap Swee Kee...