A Tribute To Michael Yang

It was truly shocking news indeed, having heard of the unfortunate news from ML on 18th Sep 2006. ML informed that Michael (Mike) died in a car accident on his way from Kluang. The car tyre punctured and he lost control of the car, it flipped and he was threw out of the car from the front car windshield! Mike has died from internal bleedings.

His obituary came out on 25th Sep 2006. Looking as decent as ever, fond memories of him began to run thru my mind.

I first came to know Mike thru a chat room back in the early 2001. Back then, I was happily into a new relationship with CK. Whenever I have the time, I would call Mike on his hp to initiate a chat via MSN and vice versa. It was such a pleasure chatting with him, he was so knowledgeable and humorous too. At times when I am at CK’s place and after a HOT steaming session, I would like clockwork, buzz Mike for a chat. So there we have CK in bed, resting out of exhaustion (I was not exhausted, just pausing for CK to regain his vitality, ahem, before the next round!) and me online chatting away with Mike.

Mike was single back then, perhaps seeing a guy or two, nothing serious (so I was told) and thus he has all the time in the world, weekends especially, to be glued to the PC monitor and chatting away with me. As I was working at Sepang then, meeting up was never an option. Besides, I can’t seem to be able to get enough of CK-ness!!

Meeting Mike for the first time was such a joyful thing. He was jovial like his chat and there were never a silent moment on our first outing at a café in KLCC facing the water fountains. Mike just loves to use the word SALAH with whatever he said. For instance:

“ I saw a cute guy that day. He has this gorgeous body. His dressing however was so SALAH loh. Picture this, shiny leather pants at 1pm in the heat of Kuala Lumpur! “

or

“ There was this time I ordered a plate of wanton dumplings. I just had to eat it with tomato sauce. It’s so SALAH lah! “

When CK and I broke up, tea time drinks with Mike was more frequent in the evening, we stay pretty near to each other you see. It was also Mike who introduced me to Sex and The City!! I knew nothing about this fabulous TV series prior to this.

Soon as time and new interests came and went, so did our meet up frequency. Our last official long conversation was a BBQ gathering at ML’s condo pool for lunch during Christmas.

Yes there were the occasional Hi & Byes at Fitness First gym occasionally, however things just did not seem to be the same. He was always with his bf when at the gym, they work out together a lot, and me on my own. The last I saw him was at PJ Chow Yang, when I was heading towards the Yu Ai seafood noodle house with AS and him with his colleagues having Bak Kut Tea at the same row of shops, one fine afternoon, a few months ago.

And now . . . . . Mike Yang is GONE, F-O-R-E-V-E-R!!

May you lead a peaceful and happy after life, may you bless us all with your heavenly sights, thank you for coming into my life, most importantly, thank YOU for allowing me to be part of your life’s journey.

Michael Yang, you will be remembered always and cherished forever.

Love, CL.

Love

It’s something which you either have it or don’t. It’s occasionally something which one has, but don’t value, and something which someone yearns for, but can’t seems to find it or have lost it.

Now for those who has it, to them it’s like, OK, I have it. So WHAT?

SO WHAT??!! OMG. It’s so many things to it. For example, when one is in love, every new day brings a new meaning. Everyone you greet knows that your greeting was genuine and it SHOWS. Everyone you smiled at automatically smile back and look at you at a different friendly light. You look forward to a new day. You embrace each moment of it. When work is done, you long to go home straight. And why? Because you are in love silly. HE is there at home. You want to see him as soon as you can.

You want to say ‘HONEEEE . . . I am home!!’

Ah . . the joys of being in love. By the way, those were real life experiences of the author . . . . ME!!

Need more examples … take a look at this picture of HAPPINESS!! . . . nope, that is not my lover then. I love and still does, RICE!! ;-)

By the way, this is a old picture, taken in 2000 and pardon the hair, it was not meant to be a center parting, somehow it ended as that. Hmmm. Don’t try thinking that you can recognize me on the streets!! You won’t. You can’t. I should know better, I look nothing like this anymore. Age and gravity has taken it’s toll.

That said, a super close friend/ex colleague, confidante and loyal shoulder supporter, JC, recently broke up. Although we had a brief chat over the phone, I can feel and understood his pain. I ve been down that road before. It felt like your world is crumbling down. You dread waking up in the morning, you drag yourself thru the day. You say A-LE-LU-YAH when the day is over. In fact, your sudden sadness shows and hiding it is such a HUGE task. I remembered just sitting in front of my work pc, my vision suddenly becomes cloudy and tears starts to flow. And for the not so strong ones with the heart, suicide seems to be the next available option. I mean, what’s the meaning of live if HE is no longer there to share it with you? All I can say is, it takes a LOT of courage to commit suicide. Yeah, as an outsider, we would say, ‘ She / he is so silly. To end one’s life over a man / woman is so totally not worth it! ‘.

Trust me. To those whom have sadly succeeded in committing, it was TOTALLY worth it.

That said…JC, be strong and be happy. Time does heals all wounds.

LOVE you lots JC!!