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26 Years of Quiet Love: Farewell to My Beloved Baby

Forever my Big Baby Introduction: The Gentle Shadow On April 19, 2000, a tiny terrapin quietly crawled into my life and changed it forever. I bought her from a little neighborhood shop at my local market, the kind that sold ornamental fish, pet food, and basic aquarium supplies (the shop has long gone) . Back then, I actually brought home two or three baby terrapins. Being so young and not knowing much about pet care, the others sadly didn't survive very long. I still remember the tears I cried back then (not as much as this time) , gently burying one in a small hole I dug downstairs at our HDB block. Completely unaware at the time that digging there wasn't permitted! But through it all, one strong, resilient little soul stayed with me: my Big Baby (my parents called her Gui Gui (乌龟的龟) . In those early days, we really had no idea how to properly raise a terrapin. We simply learned as we went. I started with a small, basic tank, changing her water every single day and feeding h...
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Haiz... My 3rd aunt passed away yesterday in the mornin... No wonder I heard phone ring early in the mornin at abt 5am. My uncle call up n my mum pick up. Then my mum went down to help up al e way til 10plus in the nite then reach home wit my dad. Anyway, tis aunt had been paralysed for mani years, more than 10yrs. Things like nv get beta on her health. My uncle became e onli breadwinner for the family. Lucky enuff, she gt two fillial son. Studies is good and v independent. My uncle gt nothin to worry except the medical fee for my aunt. She was put in in a Home where she can b taken care of in proper. Quite sudden... of her passed on.. But anyway, she is relief frm al tis pain n suffering, so is my uncle. Can say tat my uncle nv leave her alone to suffer. He taken care of her for so mani yrs since that incident.

She b cremated tis Sun and my mum already told mi n my bro that we mus go dw to the funeral as we r e closest kin with them liao... ???? Duno la... Suppose to hv dinner wit my frens this Sat but I tink can onli stay wit them for not long. I thot Sun go dw can liao.???? Hmm...

Rest In Peace Aunt! May we mit again in our next life....

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