It's a sad thing having to receive sad news especially if you heard that from someone you don't know. This is life. But who would have thought such a healthy-looking person who always particpates in sports games and council activities is actually a cancer-stricken patient for 10 years. This entry is to honour a friend of mine whom I knew from SIM for my 1.5 years in there, Png Kok Kiong whom we sometimes call him Uncle KK or KK for short. Uncle KK is what we (Steph, Matilda, Meifang and me) call him during our Introductory Accounting class days in 2006. Kok Kiong was from the same batch of intake as me and we both flunk our IA module in 1st sem together with Jooe so we retook the IA module together a second attempt and KK and I failed again together with Matilda, Steph and Meifang who was one sem our junior and we sat together and retook IA again. So KK and me were the only "old birds" in that new batch. Both of us were from Council but from different depts and he is a fun-loving guy to hang out with. He's always jovial, full of crap during IA class and an outgoing person. He dresses up at to the theme at every bash without fail, participate in council activities like Sports Day, Initiation Day, Orientation Day, etc.

The reason we call him Uncle is he was one of the oldest in our class or we know of among us. I really feel sad for him. He is a nice guy to everyone but he was actually already sufferingwith this illness for 10 years. I heard he passed his IA at last last year but he also put his studies on hold for some personal reason. I did not ask him further thinking he was probably working for a living now for his uncle that time but it was most likely for this reason. His health was deteriorating. I received an sms from his phone saying it is his friend that he just passed away on Friday and tonight was his wake. I did not have time to react to it, thinking is this true when I received two other smses from Meifang and Matilda asking me if this news is true. I called his hp immediately to find out for myself and his friend said that he only got his hp today so he started smsing to everyone this news. He already had this illness for 10 years, his health had been deteroriating recently and within 3 mths, he have had 3 operations. It was really hard to believe this at first. After I left SIM, we did not realyl contacted much except last year, I msg him on MSN asking how was his IA results and he said he finally passed. He was only 28 years old when we knew him so I guess now, he should be about 29-30 years old. I gave my money to his family just now.

I believe he was really happy when he was in SIM. I would like to dedicate this page to my dear friend, KK aka Kok Kiong. We'll miss you. If we were still in SIM, I'll definitely miss having you around...You defintely make our IA lessons more lively and fun...Here's some photos of KK to commemerate him....
RMIT Bash 2005 - Nerd-tional Parade




Initiation Day 2006



Island Quest 2005




Our IA Class in 2006 (Matilda, Steph, Meifang and me)













orientation Day 2006 - Ocean 24 (We were all the same Orientation Group Leaders)




RMIT Bash 2006 (I left SIM)

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