Maybe that's why I'm like this....

My parents - are they cute or what? (maybe that's why I am like this?)
I mean if they can pose for shots like the above.

What's amazing is that their marriage was match-made....

Mum was a mere 15 year old (my daughter's age now -imagine Tammy getting married now??) while Dad was TWENTY EIGHT. Another two years and he'd have been twice her age!

Dad, now 90, is half deaf. But everyone I've heard of who owns a hearing aid is not using it.
So no way does he want to even go there.

In fact, he even had dentures made some 15 years ago. And left them soaking in a glass til 13 years ago (do the math do the math) when my Mum got fed up of rinsing them out and threw them away cuz he wouldn't wear them.

Mum, 77, (see the age difference? do the math do the math) is half blind. Remember ahhh...dad is half deaf, mum is half blind). Cataracts. She's had one eye operated on already.

More than that, she declares she went for every stress test at the hospital. And failed them all. And came home.

Neither wild horses nor wild taxi drivers are going to get her back there again for any operation of any kind. So everything remains as it is.



Dad, downstairs: Can you bring me the key?

Mum, upstairs: What? You want some tea?

Dad: The key lah, the KEY!

Mum: You mean the kunci?

Later, on the phone, with his sister in Australia:

Dad: I don't know why she is talking to me in Malay now lah.
Like I can't understand English, ah? And she's getting DEAF!