On Leave Friday... Grandfather's Death Anniversary...

my Director approved my leave for this Friday... it's my paternal grandfather's death anniversary... relatives will be at our place for prayers and to pay their respect...

my grandfather was living with us for a long time... since the time we were in St. George's Road... partly due to some irreconciliable differences with my grandmother...

when he was living with us in Hougang, he was in the same room as me... remembered he had a stroke and was hospitalised... and then he went into a coma... all my relatives visited him... i refused to cos i didn't want to see him in that state... but there's an old wives' tale that the dying will only pass on after "seeing" all the relatives and the people they like... the night after i went to visit my grandfather, he passed away...

the same happened to my maternal grandmother... she fell and was comatosed... my aunt was in Malaysia then... granny hung on until my aunt returned... immediately after my aunt came to visit her, she passed on...

sometimes we just have to believe in old wives' tales...