10 YEARS SHE HAS GONE

GO SIOE LIAN
She was one of us. One of the big women family.
The prettiest, cleverest, the most hard-will and hard working among us.
A beautiful young architect with many other talents.
Sometimes she made us annoyed by her curiousity. She would not stop untill she knew.
She also high spirited when she knew something and would hurrily told us.
Her spirit and her will were never match to her tiny body.
Though she was very tiny, her loud voice was amazing.. it announced her presence.
After graduated we separated.
She was successful in her work but not in her love.
She was never married and remained single.
She stayed in Surabaya still. Distance separated us
Years had gone and we contacted each other only for special occassions.
Birthday was mostly the occasion we made a phone call. There was a time we lost contact. That was around 1997 after riot occured in Indonesia.
I forgot whose birthday was, when I heard the strange voice of hers and she often coughed aloud. When I asked her was anything wrong with her, she told me she was ok.
Till one day one of the big women family met her sister and was informed that she suffered from cancer.
Breast, lungs and brain cancer. We were shocked!!! Terribly.
This news really broke our hearts. She was young, happy and success.
Soon I contacted her and insisted her to tell us what was really happen to her.
She told me that she did not want to make us worried.
We made an arrangement to visit her. Probably that was in April or early May when we finally got together once more. We visited her in Pasuruan because she stayed there with her elder sister. There were ZO, QT, LL and me.
We laughed together just liked the old time.
We made her happy with our presence.
That was the last time we were together sharing a very precious and unforgettable moment. The last time we were together when she was alive.
By this day 10 years ago, QT called me and informed me that GSL had left us forever.
Once again some of the big women family got together.
No happy moment this time. No laugh.. just tears when we sent her to her funeral.
You may have left us but your memory still stay with us forever and ever.
May your spirit in peace.
We love you always.

(MJ)