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by Shila Naidu
IT WAS a fittingly glamorous farewell for Ms Lo Hwei Yen, the 28-year-old lawyer and party-lover slain in the Mumbai attack last week.
Not once did her husband Michael Puhaindran, 37, refer to the service as a "funeral", referring to it as a "farewell party" instead.
The service, held at the Church of St Teresa in Kampong Bahru Road, was a black-tie event attended by more than 600 of the couple's friends, colleagues and relatives.
About 200 of them were packed into five buses and a countless stream of cars. Guests followed the prescribed "fabulous black" dress code: women in little black dresses and men in sharp suits.
Mr Puhaindran himself donned a black tuxedo and bow-tie. As for Ms Lo, whom her husband described as "always... immaculate", she was laid to rest wearing a pair of snakeskin Christian Louboutin shoes he had bought her.
Her white casket was carried into the church hall amid tolling bells and guests singing Amazing Grace at 1.25pm as rain showered. Rev Michael Arro conducted the service until 2.10pm.
In Mr Puhaindran's moving eulogy, the corporate counsel spoke of his wife as one who loved not only her friends and family, but above all, life.
Although family members and close friends were visibly aggrieved, they maintained their composure.
Ms Lo's body was cremated at the Mandai Crematorium at 3.45pm.
snaidu@sph.com.sg
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