Father's Day Special

To those who have read Borneo Post on 21st of June, 2009 (and those who hasn't read it):

Father's Day this year was special because we did not celebrate it.
My dad was angry for some reason and he lost the mood for celebration.
Somehow my sister made this Father's Day even more special with an article in the Borneo Post. newspaper.
Written about her and my dad.

Let's take a peek.



From left: Alicia (my sister), my dad and etc...

Let's read what the article says.



Did u read that? "apple of her father's eyes"!!! My first reaction? Laugh out loud. How is she an apple? That, you'll have to find out by yourself.

The truth is, I think my father is rather fair by treating every one of us girls as his apples but not everyone looks like an apple. He wakes us up, by yelling "Che ar! Lak tiam loh! Tak chek ah!" (Wake up! 6am already! Go to school!) and now, he advanced to "Che ar! Cit tiam loh! Zho kang ah!" (Wake up! 7am already! Go to work!). Every morning before school, he'll wake us up. Preparing us breakfast. Sometimes even preparing us food for recess time which we would finish up by lunch for the sake of buying things at the canteen. Lolz.

Then, when we have forgotten something, we'll either call him up and asked him to get it for us or we'll tell him before he drop us at the school early in the morning. Either way, we'll get an earsome of "words of wisdoms" which most of the time contains foul languages that we are already immuned to since we were young. But at the end of the day, we'll still receive the items that we have forgotten including shoes, school bag, note books, pencil case, ribbons, name tags, classroom key, school projects, materials for art class and many many more. We didn't realise how far was our school from home and even when our dad complained, we didn't feel the hardship that he had to face.

Thinking back now, even I would be damn angry if my kids do the same thing to me. With the amount of cars on the road and the jam that we had to face nowadays, it would be impossible to not get annoyed. I'll teach my kids about checklists next time.

For all my father's 69 years of living, about 30 years have been dedicated to waking all of us up. How's that for a daddy? Our father was always the one preparing lunch as well together with my mother and they switch roles in cooking sometimes. He used to be our sole bread winner and now with the help from my brothers n sisters, of course our conditions are better.

I wana thank Papa for all of his sacrifices for all of us and even though he does not know how to express his love (and obviously Ah Noon inherited that from him) we all know that he loves us. Happy Father's Day, Pa. We love you too! Not only your money. Lolz. Just kidding.

To Mama, I'm not forgetting you too. I did not write anything for Mother's Day but I want you to know that even though there are things that you did that we couldn't see as we grew up, you have sacrificed a lot as well. No matter how annoying you can be, I know that you're doing your best in giving the best for this family. Thank you, Ma. We love you!

Papa and Mama are the best!