Welcome to the Sin Lam Memorial blog
Sin Lam had a profound effect on many of us and we want to celebrate her life by sharing our best and favorite memories of her. There is a certain symmetry to celebrating Sin Lam's life by combining technology (this blog) with our happiest memories. I would like to honor Sin, and use her as a role model. We want a constructive grieving process of sharing memories, using technology to solve a problem, but remaining optimistic and energetic throughout the entire process.
The stories do not need to be profound. It may be as simple as the memory of her "bouncing" into a meeting room or that familiar pounding of footsteps as she was rushing in to tell you of her exciting system implementation idea. (How many people can claim to have had exciting system ideas?)
A note: While I am actively soliciting favorite memories from anyone and everyone, this is a moderated blog. That means that I reserve the right to edit and/or censor any submissions we receive. If I perform any edits, I will clearly indicate where this has taken place, both in the posted comment as well as in an email reply to the person submitting the comment (assuming email addresses are provided). I apologize in advance if my editorial choices offend anyone. But I nevertheless will stand by my choice.
So, with that aside, I welcome comments, memories, stories, feelings, or whatever you would like to share.
Rob Ryan (robert.ryan@mindspring.com)
The stories do not need to be profound. It may be as simple as the memory of her "bouncing" into a meeting room or that familiar pounding of footsteps as she was rushing in to tell you of her exciting system implementation idea. (How many people can claim to have had exciting system ideas?)
A note: While I am actively soliciting favorite memories from anyone and everyone, this is a moderated blog. That means that I reserve the right to edit and/or censor any submissions we receive. If I perform any edits, I will clearly indicate where this has taken place, both in the posted comment as well as in an email reply to the person submitting the comment (assuming email addresses are provided). I apologize in advance if my editorial choices offend anyone. But I nevertheless will stand by my choice.
So, with that aside, I welcome comments, memories, stories, feelings, or whatever you would like to share.
Rob Ryan (robert.ryan@mindspring.com)
posted by Rob Ryan at 12:03 PM
15 Comments:
The more you love someone, the greater you feel their loss. That's the price you pay for the gift of love. Sin Lam was greatly loved.
Joe Knapp said “Wake up with a smile and go after life. Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.” Sin embodied this statement.
She approached everyday with enthusiasm and at the end of the day when the rest of us were running on empty she was still had a half a tank of energy. She was enthusiastic about life. You never just met Sin; she blew into your life, adopted you and made you part of her family.
I will miss the long talks, the online chats, the lunches, technology discussions, project management debates and her genuine concern for the well-being of my family and the team from The Kellan Group.
The best tribute we can pay Sin is to celebrate the contribution that she made to each of our lives.
From a friend:
Sin always had a smile and a wave hello. She loved her children and they would often camp out in the back yard in the summer. What fun they had!
Sin was a coworker of mine at marchFIRST. I'll never forget her smiling face and upbeat demeanor. Our prayers go out to her family and friends.
For other comments, please refer to the Journal Sentinel's guest book for Sin as well as the Share Your Memories posting in this blog.
I have read all the posts on jsonline and this blog. The Sin I knew seemed to never change. Her spirit did truly fill a room. Her bounding footsteps and energy were beyond this world. I worked with Sin several years ago, and we drifted apart with busy lives. As recently as a couple of weeks ago, I ran across some memories of Sin, and I thought, "I need to find her and get back in contact." Sadly, the day did not come soon enough.
One story to share is that after Andy's birth, Sin returned to Hong Kong for a visit. Upon her return, she gave a few of her friends at work each a little statue. I can't remember exactly the meaning of the little trinket, but its a happy Buddha. I have continued to place the happy Buddha in front of me at work through countless desk changes and three different jobs. I learned today that another friend has done the same. So, Sin lives on with us today and forever spreading her goodwill and cheer.
I will miss you Sin. May you find peace and happiness now.
I had the pleasure of going to UW-Eau Claire with Sin, working with Sin at marchFIRST, and knowing Sin for many years.
Very few people touch your life like Sin and make sure you know that you are cared about and that they have learned from you. Although Sin always stated that she was learning from us, we were actually learning from her.
Let us all learn from Sin and approach every day in the future with the energy that Sin had...in her honor.
Loving, Energetic, Thoughtful, Intelligent, Nuturing, Silly...just about every positive word in the English language can describe Sin.
Let us all remember that although Sin's life her has ended, her eternal life has just begun. God Bless.
I met Sin about a year ago when my company was hired to consult on a technical project. Sin was our liaison and I spoke & emailed with her many times. I can't claim to have known Sin personally, but our team did have the pleasure of meeting with her on a few occasions. I was struck by how motivated she was. When we needed anything - a pad of paper for the meeting, adjustment to the projector or whatever, Sin jumped up to handle the situation before anyone even asked. The rest of us were infusing caffeine into our systems to stay motivated, meanwhile Sin seemed to be running on rocket fuel! It didn't matter to her the menial nature of a task despite the fact that she was a managing executive with a staff of her own. It needed done and so she did it.
Sin managed to make a big impact on us in a short amount of time. I'm glad that I got the chance to meet and get to know her a little bit.
Sin and I worked together at North Central Consulting and at Whittman-Hart. Her enthusiasm was contagious. I remember while at NCC, she came to my office and said "Kate - what can I help you with?" -- I can STILL see the smile on her face and hear her laughing. I also remember the day she passed her citizenship test. She was so incredibly proud.
Sin was always more concerned about you than you could ever be about her. You could try to talk to her, but she would always turn the conversation back to you. She had a love for her friends and family that was truly like none other. She would do anything for us.
When a friend passed on the message of her death, I couldn't believe that that love was taken from us. She was truly a gift and I will remember her for the rest of my life.
We are her relatives in Singapore and we are horrified to learn of such a tragedy.It is good to hear that Sin has touched many hearts in a positive way.Everyone in Singapore including our house-keeper,who has been with us since 1988 has nothing but fond memories of her.She had plans to visit her aged grandmother in Singapore in march but sadly, this was not to be.Let us pray that her soul will rest in peace and may god bless.
The lim family
Sin's personal and professional contributions to our company our still missed to this day. Sin provided us with an example of what a true professional should be.
We still remember.......
January 5, 2007
We miss you Sin and the children.
You have not been forgotten. We have lite a candle in your memory.
01/05/2007
We still remember you Sin and miss you. We look in on the kids and they are doing well. Things are not the same since you're gone. We lite a candle today in your memory.
A Neighbor
I am Sin's relative in Hong Kong. She is my aunt.My mother used to live with Sin when they were young.She helped to raise Sin up.Her attitudes touched my mum so deep that she named me "sin" as well, my full name is "sin yee" in chinese.
I have seen Sin a servel times in Hong Kong, and has promised to fly over to the State for a visit sometime.I have also seen young Andy and his daddy once, many years ago in Hong Kong when i was about 8, but i still remember how we walked along the shore in Gold Coast and all the jokes we had on the bus. Andy even kissed me on my cheek.
A few years later, i saw Wendy in Hong Kong, I remembered she loves people itching her. Not long ago, I saw Sin again, she went here for her father's feneral, yet she was still so optimistic.
We wrote letters frequently and e-mails, She posted us X mas cards and photos of andy and wendy every years, We still have all the photos here with us.
I like her, and i could see that my mum loves her soo much. My mother has long heard about her maritial problems and as a result, she disapproved me to have any foreign boyfriends or even to study abroad.
I remembered the day my mother heard about the tragedy, she was crying over and over, we just couldnt believe it...My mother has always been concerning about her and her 2 childrens, but because we lived so far away in Hong Kong and plus the fact that my mother ( and my relatives in Hong Kong) couldnt read english gave her a hard time to get any news.She was so fraustrated.
Then I started googleing, but at that time i could only find some newspaper achieves.
A year later today, I search again about her and here i found this webpage. We are so thankful for all these you have done for her and her childrens. My mum is so happy to have known this : )
Could anyone please tell me more on Andy and Wendy?How are they?my e mail is ma_cindy@msn.com
Thanks!
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