Last night, I was managing some cockup digital images. When I was in the midst of archiving work for the 10 gigabytes of picture shots that has recently taken during my Europe and Shanghai's vacation with my wife. My phone rank.
"Wei, are you Chen? can you remember me? I'm Eng Hock." Said the guy at the other end.
"Ya, I'm Chen. am sorry that I can't recognize you. Who's Eng Hong you are? I replied curiously.
"Aiya! You remember Chung Ling (the name of my secondary school)? We are school mates at that time." He replied.
"OIC, It has been long long time about 35 years by not seeing each other, but I still can't remember your face, why not let's find one day to get together and cannon (chitchat) our old stories, and at the same time to see our "lampah" (ugly) faces?" I replied delightfully.
"OK, OK, I think I'll find some more mates to meet too! but I'm not sure whether they are still in this world!. Anyway I'll contact you for the date before hand" He replied and end the line.
After that I was thinking and asking myself: "Why not let me show some news about "I'm still alive" to some old schoolmates? By the way, my vacation's pictures which have being archived just now brought back lingering memories of my love with my the-other-half of 30 years.
Well, my dear folks there, I append herewith 2 selected photos to show you that I still can do......., at the same time taking this occasion to mark our 30 years' marriage.
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Hopped here from Lydia's blog. Congrats on your marriage too. I seem to see quite a few Kedahans on here :)
Hi, u and your wife look young. Are u kidding?
Hi Lydia, TQ for your words and tip. Me too admire u have such harmonious conspiracy in life.
Hi, queenofthehouse, TQ for your greeting. U must be a Kedahan too, itsn't u? Sounds like you're the only perl in your family, that's why u called youself queen.
Hi Boon, It is real. am now 52 and my wife 45.
We married young cos we've mistakenly believed that stomach could be filled by just drinking water!
I broke the difficulty by starting to feed our 3 kids born between 1976-1978.
Good to get a ping from long lost friends or classmates. But chances are when you get the ping, you are not going to get the same old LP face as you expect. People do change.
I was once called up by a unimate. He told he he had something very important to share with me and wished I would give my opinion.
So I thought what the hack and agreed to meet him up at nearby Mac.
After his planned "prelude", he brought in the main agenda... telling me he was in network marketing dealing with the kind of fucking seaweed pills of don't know what...
I told him I was not interested. He was quite persistent telling me the seaweed pills managed to normalize his wife's menses... Fuck, I hate this kind of rubbish who resorted to unveil his wife's private (part) information.
I was extremely annoyed, stood up and chabut.
I made up my mind now not to simply meet the long lost friends who might sell insurance, unit trust, or other direct selling merchandise. Can't imagine.
Those who abuse the friendship shall all go khi ho lang kan...
Hi anonymous there,
It is common leh. I met one biz friend b4. He gave me a treat, told his misery stories, biz turn turtler ... and at last he was sobbing and later on asking for a pinjam of 10k. He didn't mind to give his ic, watch or anything you ask for it (he said lampah also can) as a collateral.
U know what happened? I cannoned back to him that I was at the material time to find money too to rescue a bankruptcy sue. I thanked his treat and ask when shall we meet again. He immediately changed face and said "penyu pun bay siong sin"
But I don't think old schoolmates would not become like that, since we have the initiative to meet, we shall have sharing a common situation of being lembut. Next time when gathering, remember to see whether he has any tongkat held in hand, but not files or papers alike.
It was very common to have silver and golden anniversary during our parents and grandparents time but it is not easy to manage a family for 30 years now.
"Dulu lain, sekarang lain,"
It was easier for our parents to survive at lower cost of living. A man with RM 60 income per month was able to feed a family of 10. Don't ask me, it was true.
Now, if you are employed with 5K salary per month you won't be able to feed your family of 4. Don't believe? Knock off EPF, house and car installments, you only have about 1,500 to play around. Don't talk about bus sekolah and your petrol... Shit if you suddenly receive wedding invitation card.
So man and wife will disagree, quarrel and through woks just because can not come to a term on how to distribute the balance of the household income.
Both man and wife work like donkey to make ends meet. Happy family? Forget it.
Last for 7 years also very susah. Not because of 7-year itchy, but wife starts complain, man refuses to go home.
Hey, I have seen a lot of young couples ended up si suah, or in teow chiew "suah thang".
So, put3put4 I respect you when you know how to manage your family well. Personally, I consider you are very successful man.
Yes, you are...
Hi Allenext,
Ah! thank you but don't push me too high.
Well, actually there was a lot of sours and pains inside this 30 yrs, and may be I was lucky enough to reach the stage by the blessing and encourages of many good friends that I'd valued. I still can remember there was a time about 28 yrs back, I have had gripped my teeth to break the most difficult situation when I and my eldest daughter were both hospitalized for quite some time.
But what I really felt, the most self-worth and successful thing is - I have done my best in caring my dad and ma in terms of monthly allowance and medical aids for more than 20 years without stop until they passed away 2-3 yrs ago! On top of that I personally took up the job of daughter-in-law to bath and medicate my disable ma weekly for over 8 years! Every time I saw the naked & impaired body of my ma when taking bath, I felt like I'd own her so much.
This is what I believed not many men could have done that.
In reality, man has gonna try to absorb all family difficulties by default irrespective of whether you are right or wrong. Once there's problem, you got to take it.
Of cause, you got to find ways to relieve when getting hurt for which I used to be apprehended by smoke.
1 year 360 days, how to maintain a good H&W relationship? Talk is easy but doing is not easy. But I have a clue - always take the loser's end. If you're willing to take it, then you'll probably be happy.
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