Weekly Recap: 24 May 2026

On 21 May 2026, we received the news that my maternal uncle, who had cancer, passed away on May 20th evening. While I was not very close to my maternal uncle because I typically only saw him during Lunar New Year — the last time I saw him alive was indeed during this year's Lunar New Year — his passing made him the first relative from my parents' generation I knew who died (all my grandparents are already dead).

To attend my maternal uncle's funeral, my parents and I went to my parents' hometown on May 18th, and stayed in one of my paternal uncles' house for one night. The cremation of my maternal uncle took place on May 19th afternoon, though my parents and I did not follow my maternal uncle's immediate family to the crematorium.

On 18 May 2026, when my parents and I returned to my parents' hometown to attend my maternal uncle's funeral, my father and I visited our family durian plantation.

One of the puppies from Bak Baan's second litter had been given for adoption.

During this visit to the plantation, I got to see the only rambutan tree in our durian plantation.

On 20 May 2026, the staff of my local campus of 42 the computer science school announced that this specific campus will transition to a satellite campus. This means my local campus of 42 will pause its student programme and curriculum indefinitely.

To have one last chance for students and staff of my 42 campus to gather together before the campus transition, we had a potluck dinner at the campus on May 21st. I brought pizza, which unsurprisingly became the first food to be finished during the potluck.

Coincidentally, the announcement of my 42 campus' transition to a satellite campus took place on the same day my maternal uncle passed away, which we then learned of on the next day. In other words, I had to bid two major farewells in the same week — first to my 42 campus and to my journey at 42, then to my maternal uncle.

Since my parents and I planned to move to a different residential area in our city, we have been window shopping for new furniture for our new house. We intend to carry some of the furniture we currently have, new house also necessitates at last some new furniture.

Our window shopping for new furniture typically involves us visiting furniture fairs in a shopping mall near our current home. On Friday, we went window shopping at the furniture fair in that shopping mall again. This time, we ended up spending four hours there. We anticipate that kitchen cabinets will be our most expensive investment in a new furniture, so we ended up spending much of our time there in enquiring about kitchen cabinets.

Today on Sunday, we finally ordered new kitchen cabinets for our new house.