Cakap cakap...Terrina.

It is Friday today. I have a clean slate in front of me. My PC is waiting for me to write. There is absolutely nothing in my head that needs to be dissected, discussed or simply written down. I do this sometimes. In fact I do this a lot. I put my thoughts in neutral and wait for things to gel. Morning is the best part of the day to do this because if I am lazy – as I am this morning – I can let my thoughts idle until something catches my fancy.

As I sit watching the monitor my first thought is of my daughter and her family in Toronto….well really it was of Isabel (our grand daughter) and then my daughter and her better half. And I smile. I smile thinking of what happened over a year ago in Bangsar Permai. I was at their place and Isabel was in her mother’s arms and my daughter Terrina, was about to feed her. Isabel would not sit still. And you know what my daughter said? “Izzy CHILL!”….and Izzy understood! I think that’s another way of saying “Don’t you dare move!”…but in a cool way. Since that day I always smile when that thought crosses my mind."CHILL!".

Then again my memories goes back to those days when my wife, Lucy, started to let me know that Terrina was going out with this guy call Emmett. My wife keeps secrets very well. Let me be more truthful. I only really got to know about this Emmett guy when Terrina and him decided that they were going to get married! “And what does he do?” I asked Lucy. “He is with Butterfingers – a band”. Never heard of Butterfingers – and more important – never met Emmett and they are talking about getting married! But I was cool. I said something to the effect of: “If that is what Terrina wants – it’s ok with me”. When I did meet Emmett he had the obligatory long hair that guys in bands have. Now tell me friends what would you do if your daughter wants to marry a long hair guy who is in a band call “Butterfingers?” But as I said I was cool about it.

In the end it was good. He took time off singing to go and do his studies in Canada – got whatever it was he was studying for – married and are now settled in Toronto with our grand daughter. In my book anybody that makes Terrina happy – makes me and my wife happy too.

OK enough of that. I will have to start thinking about now.