This photo is of Ayne and I taken on the 9th of December 2008, after we checked in at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on our way to Aberdeen. That was a month ago. Today she has settled down at Bellerbys College, Brighton, and today I am  going back to Malaysia this evening. That is what life is about, one day we are together, the next day we are are no longer together. But the memories stay........Now I am continuing writing this after a week of my return from Aberdeen.

Ayne is 17 years old and cant wait to be 18 to be eligible for a driving license. If only she knows  how stressful driving around nowadays especially if you are the one doing the driving. But of course to her it is the grown up thing!

At 17 she is much, much taller than I am! And she is still growing.

She has always been a very good girl. I feel very blessed to be able to see, experience and share her growing up years as she was brought to our house after her mama's delivery at the hospital. Until she went to a boarding school in Melaka, her family and us (my husband and I) stay under the same roof. I saw her growing up from a baby to a 12 year old completed her primary education at a school near our house.

I remember how when she was  hardly 3 years old, she could memorise the names of all the dinosers  in a book which I bought for her in an Oxfam charity shop.

Ayne is now  studying for her A level at Bellerbys' College. She is  studying  5 subjects. She is a very  ambitious and hard working girl. I pray to God that she has the will power to sustain her ambition and vision in life. I wish her all the best in life.

I miss having her around. I am accepting the fact that at certain point in our life we have to let go. It is easier said, but the feeling of sadness lingers on....