Marlo Thomas once said, “I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.” That’s true because I loss a loved one which was my Dadu, grandfather, to a rare liver cancer he had. He was diagnosed in 2000 and died on November 1st, 2006. It was hard for him the last 2 years of his life. Everyday he felt pain in his body especially in his legs because he couldn’t walk so he had crutches to help him out. Basically it was like he had to learn again how to walk. It was that bad for him to walk. I remembered he came to America to see my family and I one last time and spend for 3 weeks in 2003. I will never forget those three weeks.

He taught me the lessons to life of what to be a good man like he was and not be rude or mean to anyone. Especially be humble, be thankful to God for everything, and love life everyday. Enjoy it. We had so much fun. He always kept cheating in a game call ludo and I’m like “Wait something isn’t right…” and my grandfather would be like, “Alright let’s keep going!!” so that I wouldn’t find out he cheated. He was the best grandfather I could have asked for. I remember asking him that why can’t he stay longer, and then he gave me a hug and was like:

“I wish I can stay longer but I have to go.”

I was sad but I was thinking I may see him again. At the airport, when we dropped him off with my relatives my mom was crying a lot and I didn’t understood why. I thought I would see him one more time but my mom was like “We don’t know if we’ll see him one more time or not, give him a hug.” I was like:

“I’m going to miss you dadu. I love you.”

I’ll never forget him with the two pictures I have in my room of him:

I hope I’m making him proud that I’m being a humble, friendly, nice, and helpful person to everyone today as he was before. He inspired me completely. I did the music video assignment dedicated to him. It’s worth 5 stars. Here’s the video dedicated to my Dadu: