Could not believe myself as I woke up this morning and wanted to check out the Apple website. My idol, Steve Jobs has died at the age of 56. The page was black and white and Apple has removed all the links that usually show up at the bottom.

Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011

Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011

To me, Steve has not only been a visionary and a creative genius. He’s changed the lives of so many around the world and of course mine too. He has brightened my world for the past 24 years since my dad bought us our first ever Macintosh back in 1987.

This morning, the first whatsapp message regarding Steve’s death came through to me at 9 this morning, my friend said, ‘you’re late‘ then added ‘you should have sent email to steve‘. My response was, ‘I know‘. Truly, I have been thinking of emailing Steve on numerous occasions, but regretfully, I have never done so.

I really want to pay my tributes to this unique man so I decided that I’ll buy some flowers and bring them to Apple Store ifc. Got there around 3 in the afternoon and there were already some flowers laid in front of the store when I got there with my brother. So I put mine down too.

White roses for Steve Jobs

Both Apple logos were turned off.

Both Apple logos were turned off

While I was there, I noticed that there were other fellow twitterers there too. So I met up with @_wli at Starbucks just next door. He told me that there will be some sort of memorial for Steve later at 7 in the evening. So I decided to stay for that too.

Hung out with my brother in Central till 6ish then he left. I went back to Apple Store ifc and since people are starting to get off work, a big crowd was gathering in front of the store, including the press.

Apple logos at night

Crowd gathering outside Apple Store ifc creating the iMemorialWall

At around 7, fans started sticking Post-it notes onto the wall outside the store creating the iMemorialWall for Steve. Here’s mine.

My Post-it note for Steve Jobs

At one point, @hypercasey went up the stairs and posed this as his tribute to Steve and caught the attention of everyone. Yes, everyone.

@hypercasey paying tribute to Steve

iMemorialWall

I stayed there till 8 and here’s the iMemorialWall, the flowers and other tributes to Steve just before I left.

iMemorialWall

Tributes to Steve Jobs

iCandles

I guess this is the least I can do for Steve Jobs. Thank you for everything you’ve done for the world. Your innovations, speeches, quotes and positive attitude will be remembered forever. Rest in peace.

@pklai