Singaporean singer-actress Kit Chan is coping with the loss of her mother, who died in May.
The 52-year-old told Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao in January that her mother suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
“It’s been exactly a month since I lost my mum,” Chan wrote in English on social media on June 12.
“I’m grateful for the chance to be in a foreign city, where I can be away from the all-too-familiar, with a book and coffee, watching the world go by, while all those feelings and emotions we know and do not know intermingle within us, and settle like all things do.”
Chan uploaded a photo of the book she is reading, Pinang: No More Than Skins (2014), by Chinese author Cai Chongda.
“Friends ask me how I’m doing. I say I cry every day, but I also laugh every day,” she wrote.
“I think this is a good answer, and a good way to live. It would be how my mum would want me to live, just like she did. Always looking for that bright spot, catching the sparkle in the dull and mundane, and always choosing joy over sorrow.”
The star said she will be busy in July and August and is looking forward to it. She will be performing Here We Are, the theme song for Singapore's 2025 National Day Parade, with singer Charlie Lim as well as vocal group The Island Voices.
“Now is a time to be still, and there will be a time to be active,” she added.
She said ever since she wrote and recorded the song A Time For Everything, released in 2018, the title has been her mantra.
“It really sums up life for me,” she said. “It is a privilege to live a full life, and that means accepting and embracing all of it – the joys and sorrows, the gains and losses, the pleasure and the pain, and of course, the processes of living and dying.” – The Straits Times/Asia News Network
