In Loving Memory - Nenek*
My granny, Agnes Jindot has passed away 11 years ago on 28th Mei 1998 due to lung and heart failure. I just remember it today after I called my mom. My mother is going to invite the neighborhood for a rosary prayer at home this Saturday. This year I will not be around, so my lil brother and Adam's family since we are not going back for this Harvest Festival which fall on the 1st June. Nenek (name that I called her or Sumuk by other cousins) was born in 1916 to a Bidayuh couple that lives in rural area call Krokong, Bau. She was then had a arranged marriage with her then husband (my grandfather) a chinese miner when she was only 14 years old. (Bau is a gold mining town in the Kuching Division). She then had 8 daughters and a son. After a dreadful divorce, she went back to the Krokong and start a new life in a piece of land deep in the jungle. My mother was only 4 years old and nenek was pregnant with her younger daughter when the divorce took place. She do farming, paddy planti...