Gramps
Edit: Fleshed out this post as I think it deserves more than the five simple lines of text I jotted down in a hurry.
I miss you so much, gong-gong…
I wish you were still here to tell me folk-tales in Cantonese. I still smile when I think of you singing Japanese war-songs to me. I still remember the ducks you used to push me out in the stroller to see.
Tempo fugit. Time has passed by so quickly indeed, I’m quite sure you wouldn’t recognise me as the awkward teen I was then. It’s been so long since I last saw you, last spoke to you.
Well, at least I carried on all parts of your legacy I’m sure mum doesn’t approve of – I smoke too much and I’ve been adding artwork onto my skin (maybe to tell my grandchildren stories about, someday). And I sing terribly off-key too, like you. OK, you don’t sing THAT off-key. Well I do and it’d be nice to think it was genetic =)
Heh.
Maybe one day I’ll see you again, in the afterlife, and we’ll actually get to laugh about how similar we are after all. I hope that you’re happy in wherever you are now. I hope you know that po-po misses you and cries for you every year on this day. Heck, we all miss you. And I hope you’ll not laugh at the deterioration of my spoken Cantonese since you passed away – there’s not been much of a need to speak in that dialect since then, and I’ve not been home for too long…
I really miss the early morning yumchar sessions you used to bring me along to. How many girls can proudly say they used to go for tea with their grandpas?
You were the most colourful character in my life when I was three. You still are one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met by far.
I miss you so much.
I miss you.
Attn: Room for rent
I need a new tenant for the extra room in my house in Senadin, Miri. Any takers?
Potential housemate has to be
- tolerant of a small, annoying terrier
- OK with my smoking (in the living room)
- fine with the odd hours me and Jo-Ann (my one remaining housemate) keep
- accepting of the fact both current tenants are mild manic-depressives
- open-minded about the frequent visitors to our pad (which doubles as a hangout of sorts)
- not suffering obsessive-compulsive syndrome (as the house tends to get messy)
- helpful with the house chores
- friendly and communicative
- preferably female (for obvious reasons)
Other than that I don’t really mind if you’re a drug-fucked hedonist with a penchant for blasting loud music and daily sex-partner changes (so long said partners don’t bother me), don’t mind if you want to set up a shrine to whatever pagan god you worship in the living room, don’t mind if you sing off-key in the shower, don’t mind if you bring in your own annoying little pet (as long as it doesn’t try to hump Cookie and my baby’s fine with YOUR baby), don’t mind if you dance naked in the garden under the moonlight every full moon, don’t mind whatever weird personality quirks you happen to possess.
Leave a message (in comment box) if you happen to be a student in Curtin and in dire need of a reasonably nice room to stay in.
We’ll give you a tour of our pad and then rental price negotiations may commence from there, if you’re still interested.
