FAREWELL AUNTIE ROSA....FAREWELL

A CONDOLENCE MESSAGE TO A KIND LAU AUNTIE

yes....she passed away on 22 JULY 2006 at the age of 66.
ROSA...auntie rosa as i remembered her the first time she came to my garden to buy her first pot of plant from me.
it was like 20 yrs ago, me was still had my 6 packers abs..and of course my electric gazing big round eyes...haahaa...;9)
she saw me...she fell "in love" with me...and so i lovingly called her auntie rosa....
when she knew i wanted to wind up my business and go into retirement, she resented my action....and started showering me will all the bo liao compliments....she went to the extent to get business for me to motivate me...
i really was very thankful to her...but all her other pals aunties' business couldn't save my garden which was waiting to be bulldozed anytime by those mean machines parked daily outstide my garden....:(
in the end...what had to go....was gone...;9(....
I LOST MY LOVE...MY GARDEN...AND ALL MY BELOVED PLANTS WHICH I NURTURED FROM A CUTTING....FROM A SINGLE SEED....ALL GONE!....all flattened and buried in the lumpy mud.....*sigh!*
and 20 yrs later, auntie rosa's health started to deteriorate. first it was her faulty heart valve...then the whole heart gradually became defective...then her other vital organs...then ....then...she was dead!
prior to her eternal rest, i was fortunate to have visited her in her lst class ward in TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL...
she was already a bit blur...her eyes were already cloudy...all her luscious wavy hair cut botak....
for the first time after the last meal she belanja me years back....i met her again....
my heart ache....she was a very pretty, gorgeous and charming elegant lady...and now in a rut...with tubes probing into her arms...
i didn't know why. it was like she sensed my presence. she opened wearily her eyes...she saw me...and tears started to roll down on her cheeks...
she gave me a fade smile...and beckoned me close to her. she whispered faintly into my ears..
"tua pui....u r finally here..." and tears rolled down more her cheeks, "when i m ok, i will belanja u again....."
and me..well...the niagra falls came down my big gazing eyes without control..without any bashfulness
and shit...so many tissues i used!
so...without hesitation and dunno what motivated me....i removed my power buddhist beads......and wore it around her wrist....and she was so touched...this time she really niagra falls...and she blurted a jerky ..."THANK YOU, tua pui...thank you..."
so i gave her my leetahsar bear hug......
and now hopefully she would have a smooth journey into the other realm where her suffering ended...finally.....
ornitoufo...MAY ETERNAL PEACE AND REST BE WITH HER ETERNALLY.....;9)