Remembering Dad

(This one is written by Daddy, especially for you CupCakes!) :)

This is for Y's benefit as she is growing up without both grandfathers to dote on her having been born after they've passed on. It doesn't help that we're living somewhat far away either, but thats them breaks…

Anyway, darling Y, just in case someone asks what your grandfather Mohd Kamil was like.

One day I was driving the whole family (Mum, Dad, brothers and sis) towards our grandma's (Dad's mum) place in Bukit Pinang. The main road in front our our house in Alor Star was just two lanes and a white dotted line in the middle, and it was busy. Buses and lorries regularly plied this road as it was the main road connecting Langgar and points further east to Alor Star.

Anyway there I was driving along and we see this duck standing on the white line, with cars, lorries and buses whizzing past. Both ways, averaging about 80kph. Dad says “Feisal, stop the car and get the duck to the side of the road”.

I didn't stop as we had passed the duck somewhat by the time I could react, but I looked in the rear view mirror and saw that the duck had managed to get itself to the kerb. If he had been driving, we would have definitely stopped by the roadside, and I'd find myself chasing the duck all over the highway :)

But that was the kind of man your grandfather was.

(posted on Monday, March 21, 2005 4:49 PM)