As some of you ( or most of you ) might have known, Mr Eric Tay , didn't attend our lessons on the 4th and 5th of October due to his sudden departure of his beloved father. So, some of us decided to visit Mr. Tay, since it was our last day in school and especially to console one of our best teachers and 5th of October...
Aiyo. So formal. Cannot take it.
So ya, Me, Terence, Haoyuan, Huidan, Yinshuen, Sharon Tan Liting( haha why full name? lol) and Pinru went to the Singapore Casket at Balestier road to visit Mr Tay la... so... once we reached, we saw a few teachers there already, like Mdm Lim, Mr Poh(the new teacher that went with us to the field trip, ok not exactly field, to esplanade), Mrs Allison Lim and our School counselor... whats her name... darn darn... is it Kalsi? wait... tats GB mobile... erm... brb... go find out... ok sry, i can't remember the name but is our school counselor la, not Esther Tan but the other one, the new young more pretty one haha. When we arrived, Mr Tay immediately stood up, and nodding to us, saying "Xie Xie, Xie Xie" (thank you) at that point in time, we didn't know what to say...
Ok... so when we arrived... we saw Mr Tay, sitting with the teachers and few scholars, like Jiexin and all Chiling also there... then... after we arrived shortly, the scholars went off... so left with the teachers and us la... the next part is the more... unpleasant part...
After they left, we went to sit beside Mr Tay, and the teachers kind of probe him to avoid the silence... It was pretty odd... It was for the first time, I felt that saying nothing would be the best... but i did in the end... Anyway, back to the thing. Mr Tay didn't eat or sleep alot... you can tell it from his paler-than-pale face that showed his tiredness... When the teachers passed him some cakes, he said that he doesn't have any appetite... and when probed further, he said he doesn't have the appetite to eat anything for the past few days and ate only for the sake of eating... then... the deafening silence stepped in once more...
This time, it was Mr Tay himself who broke the silence...
He mentioned how the whole incident happened... I'm sorry if there is any error in this following account and i hope that someone would correct it with there was something wrong with what i've mentioned or whatsoever.
Near 5 O clock on the 3rd of October, Mr Tay was attending a meeting with several teachers including Mrs Poh and Mr Ng, he then suddenly received a call from his father, which was actually his mother calling, but he didn't pick up as he was in the middle of the important meeting and smsed him saying that his in a meeting, and to call him back later. However, 1/2 and hour later, his phone rang again and he sensed something amiss and requested to pick up the call. His mother told him that something had happened to his father and to come to the hospital ASAP. Of course, he did, however... halfway through the thing... his father had already passed(past?) away...
Then, he gave us more information about his father...
His father was 57 years old ( i asked him) and to tell you the truth, i think its still not that age for people to pass away... its still too young... and back to the same the thing... Mr Tay mentioned that his father had no problem in his life... He could easily climb up and down 7 stories of stairs to buy newspaper. His father had a heart attack 3 years back and was found have a few blood veins blocked. He was given a choice to take the operation but he rejected, as there was a high risk in it as well. Mr Tay believed that he could have taken the operation if not for the doctors constantly nagging for his father to take the operation but felt rather irritated and negative about the docs and decided opt out of the operation and take care of his own health by constantly taking medicine and maintain a healthy diet... Nothing was wrong after that and his father actually wanted to have another health check to see whether the passages were still blocked. But still... he suffered a heart attack again the 3rd of October and passed away.
Geez. Got to go. Ciaos. Part 2 will be updated tomorrow...
FRIENDS ARE FOR LIFE. 1:15 AM
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