Grandpa...I miss you...

Got back my structural mechanics quiz today. Felt so piss off with myself. If not those stupid silly mistake I would have got a full mark, which everybody dreams for. Anyway I was literally exhausted and couldn’t bother to do those tutorial questions. So I left the tutorial session early and went back to my home. After this hectic week, couldn’t wait to lie on my lovely bed and have a good sleep. While I was walking towards the train station, I saw a Chinese old man walking in the opposite direction with me across the road with his walking stick. Right at that moment my grandpa’s countenance appeared in my mind…

My grandpa (mum’s father) ‘was’ really an incredible man; I would say every single members of the family idolize him so much. He passed away 3 years ago with 93 years of age. I really miss him so much… Back in few years ago he made a request to me and I feel so guilty and always will be because I didn’t full fill his request. That time he was staying with us in my house. One afternoon he asked me to play guzheng (the Chinese orchestra instrument) because he loved watching and listening to me playing all the time and most of time I would have play for him. But that particular day I was very tired as I just came back from school and I was busy preparing the chinese orchestra concert. That was the very last time he asked me to play and the very last time to stay at our house. Till now I still feel pretty guilty…

Like many others, he came to Malaysia, Alor Setar, from china when he was 13 without a cent in his pocket. He then started his first ever job in a restaurant and kick off his implausible journey. He saved some money and start doing his own ‘business’, which is selling ice cream by the road side couple of years later. I couldn’t imagine how much he was earning that time such that he managed to put his money together and buy a shop houses. He ran a business as a whole sellar of rice, red bean, soya bean… all those grain thing la. Slowly by slowly he gained his fame, status, money, and start building a wonderful family. He was once among the top ten richest people in Alor Setar. During the peak of his time, he used to own 30 lorries. What amaze me the most was this typical china man whom never been to any kind of school before invented a telegraph for business purposes. He also made his own furniture like chairs, tables and even modified a clock to a toy motor boat…. Interesting huh…really intelligent!!! He sent all of his 10 children to overseas for further studies and at that time it was very rare and not every ‘typical china man’ would allow their children to go abroad.

Grandpa… I miss you so much…

“虽然您走了，但感觉中，在天之灵，您仍会祐我、护我，我也会常常惦记着您”