A Tribute To LTA Yu Kang Fei.

In this world, many things are fragile; vases, flower-pots, glasses, life.

I just got news of a colleague back in SAFPU who had passed on because of acute leukemia.

It was an inexplicable feeling I've felt when another friend told me about Kang Fei's wake. Like what Jiesheng had said, somehow we understand the fact that people our age do have mishaps and pass away as a result. But somehow, the fact hit us so suddenly, so much so that we are in a momentary status of shock. It feels like a terrible concoction of bitterness and sorrow.

I can't help but to visit his Friendster page again.

Uncontrollably, I feel tears welling up in my eyes as I looked at his photograph.

Flashbacks of memories came whizzing through my mind; the times when we played games in camp until everyone has booked out, the times when we chatted outside the mess and the time we enjoyed a can of beer during happy hours with the whole cohort of officers back there. He is a religious man, and a very loyal friend. A nice chap to chat with. Although I am not really close to him, I do feel something for his death.

I pray to the Lord that He will bring you home to His side where you will be eternally happy and your thirst for Him will be quenched by His fountain flowing with abundant grace and strength.

Such fragility of life.

Does it really take the death of someone you know to make you realise the importance of life?

Sadly, the supreme irony about life is that you will never get out of it alive. You only live once and die once. That's about it. Our lives on Earth is just a passing transition from birth to death.

Somehow, deaths of people I know, be it young or old, never fail to slap me with the fact that I should pluck up the courage and do the things I want to do, whether I will regret my actions or not.

Sometimes, why do people remain indecisive and wait? Must something bad happen to the person before one realises the importance of it?

And choose to regret and live in remorse for the rest of the life?

Kang Fei, you will always remain in the hearts of all SAFPUrians. May God bless your soul.