My childhood superhero will always be my dad. He may be a typical guy that speaks only 7000 words per day, but his intentions worth more than that. (Tearing up as I recall how my dad brought me up, blame preggy hormone)
Why is he my superhero?
Or rather, I think he's my family's hero. For one, starting off a little background of him, he doesn't have as high education as us siblings have. He worked his butt off to afford every single penny to spend on us as a child, to give us what we have today, a shelter and comfort. Even as difficult as it was when back in the 80's when he ventured his way into KL just to have a pay was less than RM200, he made it through to provide for us. Juggling between a salary man, husband and a father, he needs to be multi talented. Which is why I'm proud of him.
When he was much younger, he fixes all the electrical items and piping in the house. He even does the house wiring. He collected scraps from construction site to build an arch to divide between the kitchen and the living room just so the house looks better (or perhaps that's my mom's request). Which then I remembered when us sibling were young back then, used to climb up the arch as a challenge. Using both hands and feet against both walls and jump our way up. We call it 'spiderman'.
My dad taught us a lot of things. From dealing with machinery to the basic of car maintenance. He always try to make us hands on with him. I guess that's why I have the interest to deal with screwdrivers and spanners. He taught us to think out of the box to fix a certain thing. Sometimes if getting the spare part is not feasible, there's bound to be another item that can replace it. I never got to master this, but my brother does. He likes to get scrap material on his own and build something from it. I guess there's a sense of achievement that money can't buy when it worked out and it saves you money (if you have the time).
Like every dad, he taught us morale lessons too. How a person should be. He doesn't really speaks about it but his action shows. For example, he's a person that respect time. When we need him to send us for our appointment at 7pm, he make sure we reach there at 7pm or earlier. Sometimes that kinda annoys me when I'm still living in the "Malaysian timing" (an understood flexibility of +- 30 minutes late). When there is technical problem, it's always dad that we called for. Car broke down, pipe leaking, electrical item spoiled and more.
Being an elder brother, he learned to take care of people I guess. He's more independent to take care of himself too. He knows how to cook, do house chores, doing craft for entertainment. Of course, this are all old school. He doesn't know much about the latest technology and jargon. ^^
Now that we're all grew up, he's worried about our finances whether we can make it or not. Even more worry about us now that we're all married and building our own little family. I guess the responsibility of a parent never ends. I shall soon understand why.
I love you dad, even when you're so expressionless showing your love to us.
My other superhero would be my baby's daddy! Happy soon-to-be father's day! Needless to say, I've been counting on him so much lately that I hope I don't overwhelmed him. He's making an effort to does things now that I'm not convenient. He's been taking care of me very well and spoiling me when I have craving.
I really need to think about my own diet for the baby! Oops.
He's soon to have to juggle between being a son, a father and a husband and salary man. Perhaps his duty is even more but that's good to build the experience so that he can be our kids superhero next! I hope he doesn't mind the post about him being so short because its a different kind of content we're talking about here. Nevertheless, I love you, Jon and the love is ever growing. Thanks for loving me back too!
