Sunday, October 11, 2009

Today, mei, dajie, jer, dad and I visited ye ye at Alexandra Hospital. He looked tired, I guess he didn't get enough sleep since he was fighting off the IV needles on his arms. Tried talking to him using simplified Cantonese such as "how are you" and am glad to hear him replied "good". :)

He would drift into sleep now and then and staring into space when he's not. While waiting for lunch time and watching over ye ye at the same time, we (dad, mei and I) were talking about the times when ye ye was still active and alert. My mind then drifted over to 1994, when ma ma was still there and we'd always go over to visit our grandparents on Sundays without fail. Everyone was very close and we'd have our breakfast at the nearby hawker centre, the usual - prawn mee (it was the most delicious and cheapest mee then). Afterwards, we'd proceed over to our grandparents house for lunch, where ma ma was still active and moving about, cooking meals and such. It was fun then.

At the same time, I was reminded of how old and fragile ye ye looked. He's like 90 odd years old. And soon, it was lunch time. After dad had finished feeding ye ye, I asked him "Was your lunch delicious?". Ye ye's reply? "It was reluctantly delicious." That was the cutest reply I heard from ye ye.

I pray that nothing will happen to him, that he'll recover quickly, go for physiotherapy obediently and be his usual self - alert and active.

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