Deaths in recent days...

3 August 2008
- Sunday -

Been awhile since my last blog. Interesting to note that July was practically zilch. Too much work so little time. With whatever free time is given me, I'd rather spend it staying at home and play with my ps2 to distress me. I would have loved a few rounds of driving at the nearest golf driving range, but the weather isn't that cooperative.

Anyhoots...

... I just got to watch "The Bucket List" starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman with my old folks and brothers. Funny, entertaining, sentimental. Nicholson and Freeman are a force to reckon with. I love their tandem. Both were able to hold on their own without even trying to upstage the other. It's so like when Robert de Niro and Al Pacino worked together in "Heat."

It's basically about two men with cancer and how they would spend their remaining days before they kick the bucket. Good twist in the end. Love the soundtrack too.

Just last week I had consecutive news of deaths of people who are familiar to me.

My brod, Speedy, and a batchmate of my Dad when both joined the frat in 1964, died alone in his apartment. Estranged from his wife and with the kids in the U.S., he practically had no one living with him. I am not that close to him, but we spent a number of times together since we are both into the business of language teaching to non-native speakers. Just like me, he is also a board member of our Frat's alumni organization. The circumstances surrounding his death and life situation hit a cord inside me.

I don't want to live alone, much less die "alone."

Speedy's body was cremated immediately by his kin the day after he was found by the security guard inside his apartment. All of a sudden it was just like that. No time to mourn it seems for his relatives. They didn't even think that his wife and children would have wanted to see him. Must have been that bad.

Well, Speedy, rest assured that the Brods will be remembering you as we gather together for a memorial service in your honor. Our round of drinks will be toasts with your name mentioned. Hail thee, Argonaut. You have made your last voyage in the Argo.

Meanwhile, a highschool batchmate died recently because of cancer. Such a young person since we are not even in our forties.

Makes me realize that sooner or later we will kick the bucket too.

Morbid thinking I know.

Mea culpa.