Tag Archive for 'family'

A view on 2009 and here’s to 2010

Happy new year to one and all. Of course, as I write this, it is still not New Year yet where I am but for most of the folks that I know in Asia, it will have just passed.
So, as another year closes and a new one opens up in front of me, I am [...]

At One with Death

In close family, I have only faced death once with my sister passing away. In the last week, life has relinquished itself to death three times in my vicinity. The first was the passing of someone I knew through my girlfriend, the second was my grandfather and the third was the father-in-law of my uncle. [...]

In Memoriam: Opa Engels

Goodbye, my grandfather.

You hung in there longer than they predicted with that tenacity and cheerfulness that made you my grandfather. Your irascible laughter and sense of humour is what I’ll take forward with me and through that you’ll always live on forever. When you get to Heaven be sure to have a dubbeltje in [...]