My Dad - The Elvis Fan

My dad belonged to a group of like-minded Elvis fans and they met up regularly to sing and enjoy the King's songs. My dad's voice had always sounded so uncannily like the King's voice.

The last performance which I attended, I remember my dad did the song Suspicious Minds. This is my fav song by Elvis. Another song I love is Moody Blue. I was listening to my dad's ipod yesterday and added some songs I liked to the playlist. And when I checked my dad's previous playlists, I realised our taste in songs are so similar. I got my love of singing and music from my dad from a very young age. To me, music has no old and new. Good music transcends all ages and lasts forever. I don't care if people say I'm an old soul just because I love the classics.

I found these videos from youtube. Many thanks to the ones who posted them!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t8vRxGfdpk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmAPYkPeYU

During this very difficult times from the day my dad went to hospital till the day of his funeral, his friends from the Elvis group have been incredibly supportive. I could really feel the love and sadness they felt for my family. Special thanks to Nelson for being such a huge support pillar for the family all this while. He refuses to let me call him Uncle Nelson so shall just call him my bro!

Thanks too to my dad's longtime friend, Ray. He spent the most time in hospital with my dad and on the day of the funeral, he even had to sacrifice sending my dad on his final journey coz we couldn't find anyone to stay behind at the wake. A friend like him is hard to come by indeed.

My dad had no relatives here in SG so it's was just my mum's relatives. Plenty of thanks to Uncle Peter, Aunt Maureen, Alvin and Wendy for helping so much during this time. We would have been at a loss without their help and support. They were as heartbroken as us but they organized everything for us so that we had time to grieve. My only duty was to look after my mum.

To us now, it doesn't matter that we have so few relatives. You can have a huge extended family but yet in times of trouble, nobody bothers. With a small close-knit extended family, all of us know we are there for each other no matter what happens. Family friends like Nelson and Raymond are considered part of the family to us now.

Heartfelt thanks to my honey too. He loves my parents like his own and he's so upset everytime he goes to a place that my dad has been with us before. He said everywhere we look, we see daddy's memories. He was so stressed and upset that on the night of my dad's funeral, he had difficulty breathing so I went with him to the A&E. Did all the checks to rule out dangerous stuff like heart problems and all, Doc told him to relax. I was too scared at that point, I already lost my dad, I don't wanna lose honey too. I couldn't have got through this ordeal without him by my side. He's a very good man and I do feel so very lucky to have him.

We're going to church tomorrow to pray for my dad. And we've been told by some church friends to came to the funeral, tonight my dad might come back and visit so honey and me are going to stay over at my mum's place. We hope we can see or feel his presence. So much to say to him but most of all, all we want to say is we love him very much and hope to meet him again in heaven someday!

Goodbye Daddy Dear

My daddy left us all on 2 June 2008.

To me, he's the best daddy in the world. I deeply regret that we had so little time with him but he is now with God, in a much better place than here, with no more pain and suffering for eternity.

Our loss, heaven's gain. A great guy, devoted to his family and friends. Daddy, rest in eternal peace. Alan and me will take care of Mummy so don't worry about her. You've have fought a good fight, even though you've lost, to us, you have been so strong and brave already.

Happy fathers' day to my daddy old.

My Poor Daddy....

This Fathers' Day, all I want ask is for my daddy to be conscious enough to hear me wish him a happy fathers' day.

Since 25 April, he has been in the hospital fighting for his life. We rushed him to the hospital as he was vomiting and feeling pain all over his body. He was scanned and x-rayed at the hospital and they found that there was free has in his stomach area. After the operation, the doctor said he found a huge gastric ulcer and had to remove part of the stomach and connect it back to the large intestines. It was a major op and the doctor said he's worried about healing due to the fact that my dad taking steroids previously for his throat ulcer.

Everytime we think he's gonna be fine soon, he gets some complication. One day in May, we even came so close to losing him. It's a good thing, the doctors and nurses in the hospital reacted so fast to his sudden and drastic drop in oxygen level. Due to the lack of oxygen, he suffered a cardiac arrest and has since then been in the ICU. He needs the ventilator to help me breathe, dialysis to help his kidneys function, medication for his weak heart and to fight the extremely stubborn infections.

All of us feel so sad for him, a healthy man whose only problem was hypertension. Now with all his vital organs weakened and he's so skinny and pale with so many tubes and medication in him. I think my dad must feel even worse, he's the one suffering all the pain now.

Everytime I visit him, I tell him he must get well soon and not give up. I want to celebrate so many more Fathers' days and birthdays with him.

God bless my dearest daddy!