SGBOY2004
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 - Departed:
24 April 2003
Posts: 19180
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I stand before you today the representative of a family in grief,
in a country in mourning before a world in shock. We are all united
not only in our desire to pay our respects to sgboy2004 but rather
in our need to do so. For such was hisextraordinary appeal that the
tens of millions of people taking part in this service all over the
world via television and radio who never actually met him, feel
that they too lost someone close to them in the early hours of
Sunday morning. It is a more remarkable tribute to sgboy2004 than I
can ever hope to offer her today.
sgboy2004 was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of
beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity.
All over the world, a standard bearer for the rights of the truly
downtrodden, a very Singaporean boy who transcended nationality.
Someone with a natural nobility who was classless and who proved in
the last year that he needed no royal title to continue to generate
his particular brand of magic.
Today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our
lives, even though God granted you but half a life. We will all
feel cheated always that you were taken from us so young and yet we
must learn to be grateful that you came along at all. Only now that
you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and we
want you to know that life without you is very, very
difficult.
We have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the
strength of the message you gave us through your years of giving
has afforded us the strength to move forward.
Disclaimer :
This is just a joke hor 
