A daughter's honest words

To:

MY DAD who thinks his cooking will take him places,
The man whose lame jokes are always met by four blank faces,
Who likes to use his heavy lidded eyes to create a funny frown,
Another silver strand i see, slowly taking up stake on his jet black crown.
(With help from chemicals ;p)

MY DAD who would have you know his year of birth is wrong,
The man is as vain as the night is long,
Who dislikes being idle and prides himself on being a DIY handyman,
And trying to get the other four to help is like searching for crop in a barren land.
(In my defense, i do help when i like can.)

MY DAD who childishly gamely fights for the remote controls with his 3 children,
The man who thinks we don't know where he's kept the ASTRO card hidden,
Who has since canceled ASTRO and proceeded to hog the internet access,
A scene i'm glad i'm not home to witness.

MY DAD whom i miss very much,
The man i'm reminded of by seemingly insignificant things though we remain out-of-touch,
A phrase here, a character trait there,
My friends sometimes strike familiar chords of a father's care.

MY DAD has the most appaling hand-writing,
The man i would most cartainly not give up for a Uhm Tae Woong* sighting,
Who throughout the years has taught me what he knows,
He tirelessly persists in explaining just whatthehell is economics even as my impatience shows.

MY DAD has an unrelenting standard when it comes to posture and grammar,
The man whose idea of himself is of one whom females can't help but clamour,
Who passed on his love for horror and gore,
Another Daddy? Hell no, i couldn't ask for more.
(Just don't ask me this when he's in the middle of a nag, with me being on the receiving end)

* korean actor
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I watched Armageddon just recently (i know im slow la, but Deep Impact was enough to satisfy my doomsday motion picture needs ok)

Anyhoo, Liv Tyler's character's dad and fiance were sent on a death mission.

and there was this scene where it was either the dad or the lover who got left behind to detonate the bomb. The dad scarificed himself in the end for his daughter's happiness.

But if i were her and put in such a desperate situation as that but got to actually choose who stayed back on the asteroid (effectively ending his life) i'd choose the fiance. Sorry, my logic is that i only have one father, but i will always have another shot at love. To this my boss would say: Tsuen, means you've never been in love la.

Apparently according to his thoeries i'm too practical to fall desperately in love, you know the kind where all-rationale-goes-down-the-toilet-kinda-love.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY PA!!

isn't it comforting to know that your eldest would rather choose to keep you over her future fiance if ever a ginormous asteroid was on a collision course towards earth?
Although you can never trust a fickle woman's words while she's single. LOL

much love,
tsuen.