My grandfather passed away yesterday. It was unexpected and too sudden. He collapsed, and that's it. My mom isn't all right at all. She came home from work crying. In fact, my parents are in JB right now because apparently the arrangement was to bury him near his mom's grave. Oh well.

I was never really close to my grandfather. It was hard. We had a language barrier which was pretty hilarious actually. He said the same thing to me every year when I ask for forgiveness during Hari Raya which was to study hard and become successful to make him and my parents proud. He was a strict and religious man. I will never forget the trips I had to JB with him and his Malaysian Malay accent haha. He used to buy me these huge prawns for my mom to cook because he knew how much I love prawns. You know, sometimes I wish we were somewhat close. I guess that's something I will make sure my children will have. As long as I am still alive, I will make sure that my family will be very close-knitted.

One thing I have also learnt from this is that we should live everyday as if we were all dying. Life is too precious and unexpected to bear grudges and waste your time fighting and hating each other. Forgive the ones you love if they have made a mistake and if you are the one who has sinned, repent and learn from it and let the people around you learn from your mistake so they won't have to go through the same thing. Life is just your trial period I believe, your test, and you still have time to pass as long as you are still alive. Don't procrastinate, change now because you'll never know when your time is going to come. Your real life begins when you die.