A few months back I met the Voons, in our conversation we touched on Sylvia who is our common friend in Silver City. After my family left Silver City, Sylvia's three sisters passed on. After all, it has been fourteen years or so. Apparently only Hattie was buried according to the instructions in her will. The remaining two left no will. Sylvia took charge and had each of them cremated. The ashes were placed in separate urns. The urns were left behind a coffin shop in Pasir Putih. Nephews and nieces queried but Sylvia refused to release any money to buy niches to place the urns. She said that when she passes on, it is written in her will to buy three niches side by side. She wanted her two sisters to be on her left and her right.
When I heard that, I was shocked. Imagine having urns that could be opened placed on public land totally open to the elements! Any naughty children could tip the ashes out of the urns as a game. Or anyone could get rid of the ashes and resell the urns. Sylvia is a very rich woman, she receives two pensions from Australia. Her fixed deposit accounts in the bank in total exceeds three million dollars ten years ago. But I guess no amount of money is sufficient if money is her sole security. She wants just a little more each day. The house she lives in was left to her and her three sisters by their parents. Sylvia refused to move out because she wants to outlive her sisters and be the sole person to inherit the house. Now that she finally has it all to herself, she dared not live in it alone. She hired
an Indonesian maid and at night the house has all its electrical lights on. Sylvia is childless.
We wonder if her millions would eventually go to her nieces, nephews, the lawyer or the maid. Money is a good servant but a poor master. The love of money leads to evil. In this case it leads to an eccentric life style. A very rich woman who lives like a pauper yet she becomes richer by the minute.
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