Agape

The last day of Chinese New Year has finally arrived. Not that I'm particularly looking forward but since anything after the first couple of days has barely any of it's significance left, I'm just glad to put the whole holiday mood behind me and start working on what needs my attention the most. Work's been piling up over the last 2 weeks and I'm not the only one feeling lethargic from the whole CNY running around but also some clients. Now that they are back on track, it's also about time for me to pull up some socks.

Taken off SGRgals.

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.

SON: 'Daddy, may I ask you a question?'
DAD: 'Yeah sure, what it is?' replied the man.
SON: 'Daddy, how much do you make an hour?'
DAD: 'That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?' the man said angrily.
SON: 'I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?'
DAD: 'If you must know, I make $50 an hour.'
SON: 'Oh,' the little boy replied, with his head down.
SON: 'Daddy, may I please borrow $25?'

The father was furious, 'If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I don't work hard everyday for such childish frivolities.' The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.

The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money? After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down , and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $25.00 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door. 'Are you asleep, son?' He asked. 'No daddy, I'm awake,' replied the boy. 'I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier' said the man. 'It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the $25 you asked for.'

The little boy sat straight up, smiling. 'Oh, thank you daddy!' He yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get
angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father. 'Why do you want more money if you already have some?' the father grumbled. Because I didn't have enough, but now I do,' the little boy replied. 'Daddy, I have $50 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.'

The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness. It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our
fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts. Do remember to share that $50 worth of your time with someone you love.

Met with a candidate who is also a new father of 7 months 2 days back. He told me that he wants to move to a position, regardless how much lesser they are going to pay him, he wants to go home by 7pm the latest so that he can watch his son grow up. I swear I saw tears welling up when he said he missed out on many mini stages of his son's infanthood. He was so delighted to see his son sit up by himself only to find out from his Mom that the baby's been doing that for the past fortnight. Funnily, I dreamt of myself carrying a baby last night. I saw many familiar faces in that dream ranging from my nieces and nephews to old classmates in Twiggy and Ajoop but all my attention was on this little boy sitting on my arm wrapped in a large clean white towel. I have no idea how would a real Mom feel but I just wanted to make sure that this baby supposedly mine in that dream is safe and sound. The smile that left an image in me is keeping this silly Snuggler very happy this whole morning. Felt very weird and all the weirder, the supposed father i.e. the supposed hubby of mine is Taiwanese politician, Lien Chan's son, Lien Sheng-wen. How bizarre!

On a separate note, equally lonely souls are urgently required by this Snuggler here to watch Sweeney Todd, P.S. I Love You and Michael Clayton before they go off the chart. Any takers?