Yasumoto Kobayashi

My first post was supposed to be about my best friend. He passed away 25th October 2003 in a train accident in Japan. It was so difficult to write. And with the Dubai move, it made things more difficult in the physical sense.

Today is Yasu's birthday. He would have been 28.

For those who didn't know him, he was beautiful, both in character and person, and was loved by many.

When he died, I was at a party in KL. I never got a chance to say good bye.
We had spoken on the phone jus a week before that fateful day. He sounded tired, upset.

Then I got that email from his friend with the news on my return. I sat on the floor, stunned and unable to feel, my mom cried for me.

I still have no tears to cry.

I touched your cold hard corspe.
I carried your coffin into the inferno.
And I picked up your bones with those exquisite chopsticks.

You'll never come back.

Yasumoto Kobayashi
Born - 1978
Died - 2003