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!