__A Saying__

It happen during the last Saturday when I follow my dad to work, our task today is to carry some construction wood from his client's store room to the construction place, his client is 德诚, a 60 s old guy and he is kind of my dad's good friend too.

For maintaining a good relationship with his clients, my dad will buy some lunch or tea time or drink for them once in a while. Some other workers and clients really welcome it, anyway, who doesn't like free meal? But not Cheng. He will scold my dad when my dad bought something for them like, " You get rich dy ? why don't you save the money for other purpose???" and once in a while my dad will reply jokingly, " No la , the number i bought appear in the TOTO last night," and guess what he reply ?

He would said, " it is your good luck, it doesn't mean to you have to spend the money for us," continue will a saying that that touch my heart, " We hope you can get rich but we never hope you treat us!" in Hokkien it sounds" Wang hi mang ru ho giak, tapi bo hi mang ru qia wang chiak!" or in mandarin,"我们希望你发财，不过不希望你请我们吃！" What a worthy man he is.

I'm great that are such a good friend at my dad side while his son is studying at melaka, obviously it can give him some joy and hope every morning he wake up from the dream and make him looking for something in his life.

LIFE is wonderful isn't it ?

__小人物大道理__

Well, before getting started with my post, let me make an introduction about my dad's job. Basically, he is a lorry driver with his own 4 wheels lorry. What he carries including the broken stones and cements when the house is under renovation, plaster boards which the construction worker used to make ceiling and divided, construction gears and equipments as well, sometime he does help his client to buy the construction materials from hardware shop and delivery to them. It is pretty hard for the first task I mentioned which he has to upload those stones and rubbish from the ground by demanding laborious effort to the lorry and carry them them to solid waste facility to unload them.

What I am going to discuss is the conversation during the trip I work with him. He greeted the incoming lorry driver with a friendly smile, before I could say anything. He said," I don't really recognize him, but it is my habit to greet the other lorry drivers, it is always good to maintain a good relationship with the others because you will never realise when they will help you out," he continue," Sometime , my lorry might get stuck in the mud, sometime, they can warn you that there are a road block ahead the way you are going and you can save a lot of trouble by just flashing them a smile occasionally... so why not???"

I kept silent, yea, of course what he said is right , but not everyone is willing to do that even they understand the reason behind it, sometime it is just too shy for giving a smile to a first time meet stranger, just like me!!! His ingenuous action does make me respect my dad even more. Everyone understand the theory of be nice, but not everyone can make it, but he is one of the 60 billion people who understand and capable in doing it.

Again, before I'm able to react, he add in,"Actually I'm the one who start doing it at the solid waste facility, and now everyone is doing it." end with a charming smile.

So what does it matter although some might view it as rubbish carrier? what does it matter although people might feel disgusted at the stinking smell of his, but so what??? With the stinking smell on the money, he is able to send his son to University with a current second upper CGPA. Proud of you , Dad : )

__Study oR Working__

2 Weeks ago, I got frustrated during preparing exam for HEAT TRANSFER , basically 3 modes of heat can be transferred, conduction through the vibration of atoms and molecules, convection through the bulk motion of fluid and gas, the first 2 rely on some medium to enable the heat to be transferred while the last is the radiation which the heat is transferred through the electromagnetic wave. Well, conduction can be further divided into 1 dimension (1-D) steady state with and without heat generation, 1-D transient , 2-D steady stage, the equations of every mode of them o be derived from the basic heat equilibrium equation and based on the respective boundary condition and initiate condition arghhhhh!!!! Anyway , it is just getting started!!! Convection is classified into around 10 modes and got their stupid and some lengthy equation as well....

For that moment, i kind of thinking to working hard next time hence my sons and daughters do not need to endure such a stupid pressure as I did!!! However, after I go back Penang and help my dad out with his work, I kind of enlighten how stupid and naive I was. Due to the lack of knowledge, my dad's job is kind of labour for sale, he depend on his labour offered everyday to earn his bread-winning money, my waist get ache after the first day of work, it ache even i only work for the first time, sometime my dad have to work on that 5 or 6 times per day....and it kind of change my mind.

Well, able to study and capable to study is kind of gift that given by the God ( if He ever exist anyway, religion-less, no offend) . We should appreciate it and not take it for granted, it doesn't mean we have to study until to get a rocket high result but at least don't take it for granted. Some people say once you get the pay after you work you might loss interest in studying, but not for the not-so-easy earning money job as my dad's.

Love you dad for working hard for me , for the family ( broken family ) : )