Tuesday, October 31, 2006
my dad
I'm still not getting welllllllllllll. i don't know what's wrong....i've been getting fever on and off the past few days and i get splitting headaches. i
think it's eye strain but i'm not really sure...*i know i promised myself i won't blog nor use the computer for one whole week because i'm getting sick but i have to. I've been getting eye-strain lately because i've exhausted my eyes out for the past few days. i've stayed up late [every night] just to finish reading my pocketbooks and i wake up early and what-nots. but this time, i'm not blogging for myself, i just want to share this stuff.
my sister got really sick last saturday morning. she woke up with a 40 degree fever which didn't abate until the afternoon. It went down to 39.5 but then it shot up again. she had chills and she was complaining of a back ache. my dad didn't go to work that day. he just stayed at home and rested and tended to my sister. then on Sunday, they brought her to the hospital because her fever still didn't go down and stayed there until noon today. my dad didn't go to work yesterday and this morning. he only went back to the office around 4pm today.
right now i'm going to talk about one of the most important people in my life : My dad.
My dad is an absolute workaholic. He's well on his 28th or 29th year of working as a professional but if you add the years he's worked as a student, i think it adds up to more than 30 years already. He's worked various jobs such as one of those cargo men in the piers and a salesman for so many years and a manager and finally, he fulfilled his dream of owning his own business. He does not drink, smoke, nor does he have any mistresses. He's just a plain old workaholic. I think i only saw him smoke ONCE because he was with his bosses and he's just a social drinker. In my 18 years, i only saw him get drunk TWICE. When i was a kid, i never saw much of him because he was always gone off to work somewhere. I never got close to him before so i don't know him really well. I see him much more now when i'm a teen than when i was a kid. Of course we had a lot of fights and sometimes we still do. Oh, i forgot to mention he belonged to a fraternity back in college and he was the one who paddled the guys' asses during initiation. He can slap the hell out of you and he almost spanked me twice but he never did.
back to my dad's workaholic attitude... For the whole time my sister got sick, he did not go to his office. In fact, he was the one who stayed by my sister's side during her hospital stay and he took care of her really well. That surprised me because my dad is such a workaholic that even on holidays, he works. Even during Saturdays, he works and every Sunday night, he works. From Monday-Friday, he works up to 10 pm. That is how much of a workaholic he is. When i got sick last month, he was in Rizal and he immediately went over to me when he found out i was in the hospital. Needless to say, i am very much surprised when he didn't go to work. I mean, hello? My dad goes to work even when he's sick and then he didn't go to work because he tended to my sister? I mean, my mom's very used to that late-night tending for the sick as she has been taking care of everyone in the family for so long but he decided to take care of her. Wow. I am pleasantly surprised.
my dad can be such a boor and he does not listen [like every other guy] but i love him still sooo much. In fact, as much as i can hate him sometimes, i realize now that if i was to look for a guy, it would be someone just like him. He hates smoking and i think i picked that up from him. My biggest turn-off is smoking. In fact, i just see one cig. stick twirling around a crush's finger and it's bye-bye dearie. It's just really YUCKY. I hardly drink. I once read that when we were kids, we look at our dad and see a treasure box full of knowledge but when we grow old, we do not appreciate his knowledge at all. For me, it is the exact opposite. Since i hardly talked to him before, i never knew how intelligent he really is. I only knew that he's a math wiz but now that i'm in college, i know i can ask him about anything and he pretty much knows the answer. I can talk to him about science, math, world history, politics, and current events. That is how amazing he is. I know i will never be him nor will i ever be like him but i strive to please him as i please myself along the way.My dad = one of my inspirations.
I just love my dad.
He's simply the best.
fire.phoenix.goddess
10:48 PM
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