Al Fatihah

Late last Thursday, my mother phoned to inform us that my grandma did not look too good. She could no longer take in any food and in a state of semi-consciousness.

After sahur, I was making plans to go back to see her. I was discussing with papa that perhaps I could go and get some baby food for my grandma when another call came to inform us that she has passed away.

innalillahiwainnailaihirajiun.....

My grandma lived to a ripe old age, outliving one of 2 adopted daughters and both sons-in-law.

During the funeral, almost all of her cucu, cicit, piut (?) from all over came to see her for the last time. Amongst them were a Member of Parliament (yep, that handsome Datuk from Pilah is my cousin!!), a Mayor, a Chairman of a Bank and a Wakil Rakyat. It was apparent that even she was actually childless, she was much loved by the entire families of her adopted daughters and her own brothers' children and grandchildren too.

My grandma went to grave with well kept secrets, one of which is the identity of who my mother really is.....

p/s: Mr. Lim Goh Tong sir, could you please find out if one of your sisters was given away to a Malay couple (the husband was a police sargeant in Bekok, Johore) in 1933?