Chapter 5

It’s a sudden news for her, it’s the death of her grandmother. Today is a pretty unexpected and hectic day. She went to work as usual and she’s been feeling alright all along until the phone call came in. It’s her father who’s ringing her. His words were “Grandma passed away” and it just didn’t strike her mind even a second that its grandma. So she was kind of blur, asking her dad “which, who’s grandma?” and he replied “it’s your grandma, back at the hometown, she died a few minutes ago”. She was puzzled still, “what? When? Of what sickness?” and her dad told her that he didn’t know the details and causes as of yet, and he hung up the phone. She called her siblings right away, asking for more details and info. What strikes her mind was, the journey that they need to plan to enable them to be in time for the funeral ceremony.

She talked to her superiors, and emailed her boss. And then rushed back home. She’s mostly is worried about her dad. It’s grandma from dad’s side, it is his mom. Though we had some differences between us, grandma is still his mom after all. He sounded calm and composed, but she knew that it surely did sadden him. The differences that they have between them is because of race differences, more towards grandma and dad’s siblings being racist towards her mom and her siblings. The reason being is, mom is a Chinese and dad is a Malay. Typical Malay kampong thinking is to outcast the non-Malays. So they don’t quite approve the marriage from the very beginning, which makes them treating her with double standard treatments. It’s hard and it hurts, but she doesn’t care much because to her the most important thing in life is her parents and siblings, the rest of the things are simply not important to her.

Throughout the journey back to hometown, she was trying to light things up and give morale support to her dad. And so far the situation all seems pretty good and well. She just wishes that she is able to be there for her dad whenever he is down and I know she will do well.

These death event leads to her thinking about life and the perspective of it… will do the elaboration in the next chapter….
Till then….

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