SINGAPORE — The past one week leading up to the two year anniversary of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been bittersweet and emotional for the Gomes household.

Memories of what MH370 in-flight supervisor Patrick Francis Gomes did before he left for work on that fateful night remain fresh in the minds of his wife, Jacquita Gonzales and their four children.

“This past week leading to tomorrow (Tuesday) is emotional because it is still fresh in our heads what he was doing. We are reliving the few days leading to the night (the plane disappeared).

“Right now, he is home, and he cooked dinner for all of us, packed his bags, got ready for work. And tomorrow, a friend will call and asked if I’ve heard the news,” she told TODAY in a phone interview on Monday (March 8).

Flight 370 was en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur in the early hours of March 8, 2014, when it disappeared with 239 people, most of them Chinese nationals, on board, sparking the greatest aviation mystery in modern time.

Some 120,000 sq km of the sea floor in the search zone at the southern part of the Indian Ocean, where the plane is believed to have ended, is currently being scoured at an estimated cost of about A$170 million (S$173.9 million). But no trace of the missing Boeing 777 has been found except for a wing part, known as a flaperon, which surfaced on Reunion island off Madagascar last July.

Ms Gonzales — whose father was R A Gonzales, a Singaporean Member of Parliament for Serangoon Gardens in the 1960s — said in the past two years, the family has been trying to get on with their lives but memories of her husband still abounds in their single-storey bungalow in the suburb of Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

His things are still where he left them when he went off to work. His shorts are still draped over the left hand corner of the bed frame. His clothes are still hanging in the cupboard, and his toothbrush remained in its original position in the bathroom cabinet.

“We think of him everyday, we miss him everyday. His absence is felt everyday. Everywhere we turn in this house, it reminds us of him,” she said.

Their daughter got married last month and it was a “bittersweet moment”, said Ms Gonzales, who is a Singaporean.

“It would be nice if he was here to give her his blessings. It was tough to buy the jewellery alone and not having him around, to give feedback, to share this experience,” she said.

In the days leading up to the second anniversary of the plane’s disappearance, debris of what is suspected to be from Flight 370 — a white metre-long metal found off the coast of Mozambique and a blue-grey object on Reunion Island — surfaced but Ms Gonzales tried to play down the excitement that it might be from the ill-fated jetliner.

“It has not been confirmed yet, we have been on this roller coaster many times since the beginning. Once it is confirmed that it is another piece from the plane, then we can hopefully find answers we have been looking for,” she said.

While she is appreciative of the current search efforts, like many affected families, she is hopeful that the search will go on beyond the June deadline. Malaysia, China and Australia are set to meet in June to decide if the current search efforts should be extended.

“I am praying they will do something more. We want to know what happened, why my husband was taken away like this. I don’t want this to remain a mystery. We need closure,” she said.