Tuesday, March 28, 2006 02:29 a.m.

Who could forget your smile, that infectious laughter?

Who could forget your spectacular acting as Elijah not too long ago?

Who could forget your voice, as it earnestly prayed during cell group?

What about your motto, "Life is beautiful!", who could forget that?

I can't forget how you would sit and listen attentively during cell group

I can't forget how much you like planet shakers.

I can't forget eating with you.

Shawn, there are just too many things for all of us to remember and to go through it would take a life time. You will always be in our hearts, and your passing is not the end of your journey with us. You've just gone ahead to see Jesus, and we'll see you again one day, my dear friend.

Remember how you always prayed that the Christians of this generation would rise up in their faith and preach God's gospel? I think that prayer is going into action now, your death isn't Satan's triumph because he can't touch you, instead, your passing has awakened in those who know you a deeper desire to serve God, because you served Him with all your heart, and that at the very last minute, you still held your confession as a Christian and requested for a Christian burial.

Shawn, we still can't fully grasp the idea of you leaving. You didn't even turn 19 yet and didn't finish your first year of Accounting in college. But there's one thing we all know, that you ran your race as a child of God well, you did your very best to help and encourage those around you. The college Christian Fellowship loved you, World Harvest Church and our cell group (F39) loved you, you were a blessing to your immediate family and relatives... the amount of tears shed that day on Saturday night as we paid our last respects and bid you goodbye was a great testimony that you were greatly loved and highly favoured.

And now... you're resting in the arms of Jesus. You feel no pain but eternal joy. You get to meet Christ, fathers of faith like Abraham and Moses; great and awesome prophets like Elijah and Isaiah, and you get to live in your mansion. I bet it's covered with pretty stones and has a big sign in front saying, "Life is beautiful!"

We miss you. I miss you. Thank you for being in my life. I've only known you for less than a year, but its been a great blessing. Even typing this now, I feel a bittersweet kind of feeling in me. I mourn your passing, yet I am rejoicing that one day... we'll meet again. One day, we'll laugh together again in heaven at the feet of Jesus.

For those who are reading this: Shawn Yap, a dear cell member and brother in Christ passed away on the night of March 24, 2006 of a viral infection to the heart. He was buried on March 26, 2006. Everyone remembers him as "the one who laughs a lot". His motto and he says it everytime without fail to us that, "life is beautiful! [shen huo shi mei hao de]" We miss him dearly but we know the greatest chapter of his life has just begun in Paradise.

So Shawn, say hi to Jesus for me, will ya? Tell Him, we're all going to serve Him all of our days and run the race of faith set before us. We'll meet up with you before you know it!