Celebrating my dad's 70th b'day

Acting upon my mom's suggestion brought up last year to celebrate my dad's turning 70, as we missed the boat for his 60th year, my brothers and I planned ahead for it months before this date.

The Labor's day weekend was a good time to hold the event, though short, but still better than just a normal weekend as all 3 of us staying at Spore and Thailand would be able to make it home together in 1 go.

All of us got home on that Friday and met up at Woolley's, and oh boy, there were a lot of food court stuffs I myself hadn't eaten for a long time. Seeham, jut-lor, ikan pari, yau-yu-ngong-choi, go figure what they are! Yum yum!

We all bunked in at our old home, sans me and my hub, coz there were really not enough space!

The next day, I went over and picked them up to attend church service. All except my hub, coz he's an AQ's member! Our tummies were growling by the time it was over and all I could think of was the curry mee. The famous shop of curry mee in Jln Hugh Low had sold out! Fortunately I was smartie pants enough to drive my passengers right in front of the shop to drop them off first. We quickly detoured to another one, frantically in search for curry, no matter what. Oh boy! I could have another bowl of that! With the cham-ping and my closest family around, what more can be appetizing than that.

After that brunch, my teenage nephew was hurrying me to scoot off for the next activity. Geez! It was so darn hard to find an activity to suit all of us. There are basically 4 sub-groups in this group of people here.

1. Young kids from age 6 to 8
2. Teenagers from 13 to 16
3. Adults from 40 to 45
4. Elderly from 67 to 70

Only korkor stood out like a sore thumb, as he is neither group 1 nor 2. Poor kiddo! The stuffs that interests the young ones are too lame for him and the teenagers find him too small. He's just neither here nor there.

In the end, we went for a session of bowling, instead of the Lost World, as I suggested. I guess only the adults (that's us!) are the most accommodating people. Did we have fun, you bet! But I think it would be better if all of us jam at my home in KL instead. The kids can still bowl from Wii, and we can just sit and chat and eat. Well, anyway...

We rest for awhile and get prepared for the dinner at 7. There were 4 big tables reserved and it was very crowded. Absolutely full house, with a wedding dinner at the same venue. The night went well, and best part was to see my parents really really happy. They were beaming with so much joy in their faces! And when my dad saw the iPad, my mom wanted to open it up! Lucky I managed to save it! Else, there goes 1.5k...

My nephew asked me why we get an iPad for his yehyeh. I told him because we all wanted that for ourselves, don't we?? He was dumbfounded, but jokes aside, I further explained to him that we should not discriminate the old folks and give an opportunity for them to explore and enjoy the beauty of the new technologies and the delight it can bring to them. I do hope from this, he and our kids would learn too that they shouldn't abandon us when we get old and involve us with even advance technology in the future. Selfish thoughts, isn't it? Yeah, admittedly so. *guilty*

But then again, if it's a win-win situation, I believe it's the best choice! Dad is too happy with his new toy and he is showing off the pictures we took during the weekend to anyone who's interested, or not, for that matter. He even wanted to sign up for computer courses now! haha! That would keep him very occupied. And hopefully my ears can take some rest with the rants from each of them when there's a battle ensued. Sigh! Did I story before how my dad would call me often to complain about mom, then my mom tell her side of story, yada yada yada... I don't like being referee, but I know they just wanted to let it out of their system and all would be good again, but .... can't they just call up my brothers for a change??

Well, ok, here's some pictures from that night...






Happy birthday, dad! We all love you.