I promised Allan I would post something about a recent event, so here it is. Clue: it has something to do with shiny round objects some people are sporting these days :)
Jul 6, 2009
Jul 2, 2009
In Memory of...
It happens to every family at one point, it is after all what Life is all about. Births and deaths happen every second, every day.
My dad is a typical old fashioned dad. We grew up knowing there was absolutely no way we can question whatever he says. As a child I feared him a lot, and I wondered why we weren't as close the same way my mom and I were close. Or even the same way my friends were close with their dads. As I grew older I realized that that was just him and that is how he is and I've accepted that. In the past few years I've even had more talks with him. They were brief talks and they were not about anything profound even, but most of my fear had gone away.
I've noticed more and more how much he's aged these past few years and I've even accompanied him just for routine visits to the doctor but not once did imagine his passing, nor did I even think about it. I just knew it was a certainty, just as I knew that it was a certainty for me, but it was always, always just a thought, an idea that was never quite concrete.
And then just like that, it was made concrete.
There are things I think of now that I wish I got around to doing, but never somehow found the time or the resources. I will never get to do them now. I take consolation only in knowing that I had made him proud somehow.
My dad is a typical old fashioned dad. We grew up knowing there was absolutely no way we can question whatever he says. As a child I feared him a lot, and I wondered why we weren't as close the same way my mom and I were close. Or even the same way my friends were close with their dads. As I grew older I realized that that was just him and that is how he is and I've accepted that. In the past few years I've even had more talks with him. They were brief talks and they were not about anything profound even, but most of my fear had gone away.
I've noticed more and more how much he's aged these past few years and I've even accompanied him just for routine visits to the doctor but not once did imagine his passing, nor did I even think about it. I just knew it was a certainty, just as I knew that it was a certainty for me, but it was always, always just a thought, an idea that was never quite concrete.
And then just like that, it was made concrete.
There are things I think of now that I wish I got around to doing, but never somehow found the time or the resources. I will never get to do them now. I take consolation only in knowing that I had made him proud somehow.
May 17, 2009
Blog Announcement!
I have created a new blog, not in multiply though,even though this is convenient and guarantees that whateve's posted will somehow, someway be read by someone.
The title is temporary until we think of a new one --- or it may stay that way if we don't. This blog will have everything and anything related to the wedding. Right now, its still a little bare, but updates will follow since things have started happening.
Do drop by and visit it sometime: http://allanandsocs.blogspot.com/
The title is temporary until we think of a new one --- or it may stay that way if we don't. This blog will have everything and anything related to the wedding. Right now, its still a little bare, but updates will follow since things have started happening.
Do drop by and visit it sometime: http://allanandsocs.blogspot.com/
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