Went to celebrate my Dad's birthday over a simple catered dinner from Golden Pillow at my parents' place. Sad on my part cos I couldn't eat seafood including fish and seaweed. So my sister also can't cater a lot of stuff. But the curry chicken is special cos it's presented inside the bread. That's why it's call "golden pillow".
We gave Dad a coin pouch and a waist pouch. He seems happy! Hee.
My Dad is already 64 yrs old, yet he's still working at a construction film as a supervisor. Physically, it's still rather straining for him.
He has to go out of the house every morning at 6.30am to drive his workers from Tuas to Bedok for work. And then get tired and dirty teaching the workers exactly how to do the stuff. Then drive them back from Bedok to Tuas. By the time he reaches home, it's already 7pm.
Well, all these because he doesn't believe in lazing around doing nothing.
Since young, my Dad is a man to be feared of. At least for me, I was rather scared to relate with him. What he has decided no one can change it. No reasoning.
But he's a man I respect alot. He had nothing much since young. Not even a wee-bit of education, i thk. He had to fight for his own living. He learnt construction from scratch without any formal education. He was respected by the construction graduates for his experience and knowledge. One of them even became his close friend till now. So I believe in working hard.
O ya, he quitted his years of smoking habit within a day! Mind you, he probably started smoking since 10yrs old! So to him, nothing is impossible if you reali want to do it. Wow.
Hao qiang wo.
Another thing about him that I love... He's very good to his friends.
He sort of made it when he was in his 30s.
Considered quite rich then and had his own company.
To the cut the story short, he loaned his car to his friend and his friend mortgaged his car without his knowledge because of gambling debts.
Can you beat that?!
And this sort of thing happened i thk twice or more!
And my mum said... at least he learnt what kind of friends they are.
My goodness. Back then, Honda cars were definitely luxury but he didn't feel the pinch on the lost of cars and money at all. He still helped them to settle their debts.
According to my mum, some of them are rich now and they still have not returned a single cent of the $10k-20k they "borrowed" from my dad 20yrs ago...
But it seems to not affect him at all.
Because of my dad, friends have also become a much valued part in my life as well.
And i've learnt that you should use things to win pp and not the other around.
Like many Asian parents, my dad doesn't tell us he loves us.
But deep within my heart, I know he does.
And I also love my dad.
