The following story was extracted from the book "i remember to my Grandpa/Grandma from all of us". You made me smile contributed by Eugene Sng, 31. Po-po, do you remember the days of my childhood the times we had our hide-and-seek as you waited for me to return from school. I would alight from the bus a few blocks before you, at the playground while you got annoyed, went searching and dragged me home for lunch. Do you remember the dramas of Rediffusion the ones that filled our long afternoons as you commented on the plots of other daily affairs? I would then switch on the TV for ‘Sesame Street’ or ‘Transformers’ or ‘Mask’, lie prone at the mattress to do my homework, usually a prelude to my nap. Do you remember the evenings when Mum came to fetch me home? I wouldn’t want to leave you so I unleashed my tantrums insisting on spending the night at your house ever since then we had spent many years together, me growing up, while you growing old until National Service, overseas studies and a busy career took me further and further away from you. Po-po, you may not remember things very well now. You play hide-and-seek with your belongings, misplacing them and then searching high and low. You invent plots about so-and-so and become suspicious of people; oftentimes you would throw disturbing tantrums at the smallest issues. Dementia is cruel way to grow old Po-po, never mind if you can’t recall what you had for lunch but you mustn’t forget one important thing: I love you. We have always loved you, in our own different ways we know you have not changed, for Alzheimer’s is just a mask that time had placed not to test your memory, but to test ours. We will remember well and hold dear the story of who you are: mother and grandmother the sweetest and heaviest story we now have to bear. Eugene. (This story was contributed as part of the 'To My Grandpa/Grandma' project initiated by NLB & the Advisory Panel for Seniors. This project is an inter-generation initiative targeted at grandparents and grandchildren. It aims to encourage the sharing of personal experiences, and to use personal stories, narratives and shared heritage to connect the different generations.) Title devised by Library staff.