A corner of MY oWn

Its been 3 weeks since we last cook at the kitchen….yup, we’ve been constantly eating out due to tight time schedule, of course also because lazy lar…you know, have to prepare…cook…wash…

Well, yesterday, mom finally replenished the fridge with vege and meat, purposely went to sunday market to get them k…. Yes..all planning to heat up the wok and start cooking YEAy!! at last, home cook food….

So, in the evening,when the sky got darker, we planned our dishes for dinner and mom started cooking in the dark..(yah, the light at the wet kitchen ’sot -sot’ already…not functionning…mom had to get the ENERGIZER BIG TORCHlight to serve as her source of light… ) Well, we were a bit kelam-kabut lor…..walking in and out, with me holding the torchlight….aiy, so cham

Finally, just when we were almost done with the soup and dishes on the dining table, i went to get our rice served out. When i was about to scoop the rice, i saw the rice cooker …eee, how come the plug got disconnected from the plug point one…..hey!!! how come the rice cooker got no rice one? …………..

AIYA….we forgot to ‘pou fan’…MY godness, dinner without rice…kekekekekekeekkeek….so in the end….

Dinner time got postponed 20 min later

Tell me,

How many daddies help to sew ballet ribbons on his daughter’s shoes and re-sew it when the ribbons are about to come off the next time….

How many daddies helped his daughter to “soften” the HARD LIKE WOOD point shoes by hammering and pressing the point shoes for hours to make it into a pair of soft point shoes when his daughter desperately needs it for class?

How many daddies willingly offer to mend the bottom layer of their ballet shoes?

And finally when its done, he will just lift up his head, smiling at the gal and say: “Its done …be careful when you wear it….else you will be turning back to me again.” No complaints but just a few soft words, enough to make this daughter feel the love and care of a great dad…..

I guess, he, will be the only few daddies taking the responsibility of “repairing & maintaining” ballet shoes for his daughter.

Mending the shoes is no big deal…but it’s the effort and passion put in while mending them, turning them into a decent pair of ballet shoes from the ragged old look, putting them back to usable form, “prolonging” its useful life just when the gal is considering dumping them in the dustbin……

Never thought of that, have you? Its not just the ballet shoes, but I believe, every parents’ wish is to provide the best to their children in all ways, shower them with tender loving care, giving whatever they can to satisfy their children’s needs…. But as a child, have you done whatever you can to show that you love them? I must admit, at times, self-fishiness just blinds me up and I’ve hurt them occasionally…. But to think of it, they’re not going to be here all the time, so, just do whatever you can, love them a lot…. That makes the world a better place J