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August 27, 2007

i have always wanted to post a new entry about how motherhood gave my life a 180-degree turn and how my son is such a joy to us. Somehow, my laziness almost always gets in the way. Sadly, I am posting a different entry today. I'm blogging now to remember a friend, to celebrate his life and to mourn his death. I met Kirby when they (him, Cassandra and Kami) helped us pioneer a new department - cyber response (email support) in our campaign. He is a kind-hearted guy with a great sense of humor. He is definitely one of our favorite red hats (term used for expats sent here to pioneer a campaign), he's always ready to give a helping hand, be it with how to resolve a difficult customer complaint, how to properly disposition the emails or just how pull a prank on one of our colleagues. One time he went to one of our operations manager's cubicle and trashed all the shred papers inside his lateral. The other time, he did kidnap the other ops manager's favorite doll (hello kitty), and placed a couple of ads that kitty is missing. In line with that, he sent an email to the ops manager giving a list of things they - the kidnappers wanted as ransom for kitty. I do not remember the exact things they had on the list, but i do remember one of it was a pack of pastillas de leche among some other pinoy sweets. Before they left for the US, they gave back kitty along with a scrap book of kitty's travels together with his kidnappers. Those were just one of the things that he did to make everyone laugh.

Last week I received an email from Kami informing us that he was air lifted to salt lake city hospital for his surgery. and he was put on a medically induced coma to prevent his lungs and kidneys from failing. Unfortunately the doctors tried to bring him out of coma several times. And yesterday, the life support has been turned off. He will surely be missed.

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such ironic things happen at the most unexpected moments. in new life, there is also death. yet that is how the cycle of mankind goes. for also in death do we realize the value of life.

Posted by markie at August 28, 2007, 4:16 am

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