I love watches although I don’t wear them most of the time. I probably have more than 10 of them, most of them are gifts and I only bought a couple for myself and both are sports watches.

Recently, I found this box filled with retro stuff, or maybe older than retro times. they look so antique to me, most especially the pair of huge nerdy glasses. It looks weird, but the material the frame was made out of is totally durable. My grandma said that those stuff that I found belongs to my grandpa. There were even nice gold watches, and a medical tag. I didn’t know grandpa had that one too. Well, at least we share something in common.

By the way, my grandpa died of liver cirrhosis, I was so small then. It was too late when the whole family found out, because it turned out that he’s been keeping it all to himself because he did not want them to worry too much. Instead of buying his medications, he had other plans for his savings. It wasn’t until lately that we found out what he was up to back then.

From the same box that I have here right now, we found documents containing his last will. Imagine how long it has been? Well, my grandma never really expected that my grandpa had one because things happened so suddenly back then. But to our surprise, he has left something for my grandma and her kids. What was more surprising was, he bought stocks from SMC. We’re just really glad that the company is doing pretty well, at least his shares has grown and I guess it’s a good thing too that everyone just found out about it now. Otherwise the money would’ve been used up way back.

Now, we all believe that he’s been watching over us, after all this time.

And this box, I asked grandma to give it to me…

to fill it with my memories.