yesterday's choir practice was cancelled and instead, we went to sang at annabelle's friend's funeral.
some of you may know who she is,
Nicole Lai.
A vocal trainer who has taught many famous celebrities, including Stephanie Sun Yanzi, Niki Wu ,Siao Su Shen and TCS Artistes ( Zoe Tay,Tay Ping Hui, Lee Ming Soon, Constance Song).

There were quite a few celebrities there, Belinda, church lead singers and BVs,lee wei song, Utt , Stephanie Sun, Wu Qi Sian and some other more i think..

Ps. Meng shared a really good message that just made our hearts grow so soft man.
Esp. the part where he shared about his own brother who passed away due to cancer.For the 1 month while he was alive, Ps. Meng and the family had fun yet at the same time feel pain.. seeing him lying down,unable to move. Then Ps Meng said that on the last day, he had a feeling his brother was going but dared not tell her sis-in-law as she told him to go home first.
15mins later, his brother left.
Of course they all rushed back to the hospice and Ps Meng was amused as he found his sis-in-law lying beside his dead brother.
When he asked her why she did that, she said during the period when he was still alive, she wasn't able to hug him or hold him because it would only cause pain to his body.
But now that he's left, she can now hold him w/o hurting him.

Then Ps. Meng said, we should learn to express our love more often to the people present.
learn to say i love you, i miss you more often,
Hug the people you love more,
spend time with them,
while they can still respond to you.

don't wait till the day when they're no longer present and whatever that you do to them, has no response.

Most of the people were seen tearing. It was really sad.. i guess the pain would be unbearable for Carmen ( her daughter) whom i think is only around 14? having to lose her mother at such a young age, i don't think i can ever relate to the pain she was going thru'.

The last part of the funeral was a song presentation by annabelle and Carmen, who sang Amazing Grace and Vincent.
now i know what people mean by singing with all your heart.