Depressing.

Today’s GEK topic is on cancer. It is very depressing a topic, especially when my mum came home late last night, telling me that her stepbrother had passed away yesterday afternoon. He was diagnosed with cancer a month ago and was told that he had about a year left. Who would have thought that he would leave so suddenly yesterday?

Much as my mum came back seeming very normal last night, I knew she had cried very badly before she stepped into the house. And I tried to pretend that I did not know she had cried earlier, even though inside I felt like crying too.

I know my mum hated my grandfather for abandoning her family for my step-uncle’s family. And she hated my grandfather because his second wife refused to include our names on the orbituary page in the papers when he died.

Yesterday, my step-aunt said that she would include our names in the papers because my step-uncle said so. I think my mum somehow had something rid off her chest.

I was never close to this uncle. Still, this piece of news came as a shock. I recall the days he would lend me all the Hong Kong drama DVDs in his shop and would not charge me a single cent.

Gosh, this is so depressing.