"When he came out, he told us that he wished to discard everything which remained in those containers. Surprisingly, there was hardly anything that he had retained from the boxes since they were brimming to the top, just as they had arrived. That night…" he stopped to compose his voice which was wobbling with emotions now.
"That night, I went to check on him before going to bed. It is like a ritual now, something that I used to do in his childhood. Maybe all the effort during the day had tired him out and he was fast asleep on his bed. The laptop was right next to his head. So I picked it to move it away lest it hurt him and accidentally clicked open the screen. A bunch of Lin Jia Li's photos had been placed on, as the screensaver. He probably had a whole bunch of them back home and that's why…" his voice trailed.
