Too Bad I'm Not Paul McCartney

I barely ever talked about my father, didn't I? Well, he deserves one post of his own in this page, so, here it goes for you, Dad.

Spend a day with my father. You might find some laughter or nothing. He doesn't talk much, unlike me, but you'll learn some unspoken wisdom from a very modest old man. He's probably the most modest person in this rich world I know. There might be very little words of him that I can quote, but there's a lot of love that I have to learn from him.

Because he loves his daughters more than anything. Because he still loves his wife the same as 32 years ago. Because he did a job I know wasn't his interest but still did it well to make a living out of it. Because he's so loyal, a good employee, and the best boss his workers ever had. Because he never demanded anything too high and just go with the flow. Because he enjoys his life and always being thankful about it, no matter how much he lost. Because he introduced me to really good music: The Beatles, Bee Gees, Led Zeppelin, Queen (and Freddie Mercury, for this matter), Nat King Cole, Alison Moyet...... the list goes on forever.

Screw failure of not being accepted in public Uni, screw not being able to drive, screw shopping 'til drop, he still loves his daughters for who we are. There's no problem for him as long as we're still his daughters.

I think he sees the glass as half empty, so when the whole thing spills, he won't be as devastated as other people. I barely saw him being disappointed or sad. I never see him crying unless it's a really sad movie. When he lost his mother last year, I heard he cried over it but I don't know. The minute I heard he was crying on the phone, I thought, "Oh well, the big man I thought was my rock, cries." You know, that's the kind of moment when you finally realise that your father wasn't a Superman.

The best things I learned from him?

You can't make everyone happy. But nobody said you can't try.

Apapun yang kamu dapet, nikmatin ajalah. Kayaknya nggak ada gunanya kamu jadi orang cynical atau terus kecewa sama dunia di sekitar kamu.

Band sekarang banyak sih. Bagus-bagus juga kan dek? Tapi kok kayaknya nggak ada ya yang bisa jadi The Beatles masa depan? Apalagi band-band yang kamu dengerin, dielu-elukan sekarang tapi coba 6 bulan lagi, emang ada yang inget band apa itu Amazing Baby?

I sometimes wish I were Paul McCartney, so that I could write a good song about my father like "When I'm Sixty-Four" or something like that (my dad LOVES Paul, for the record). And the best part of him? He's still proud of me even though I'm nothing like Paul! One day I'm gonna write a book about him, or whatever, a song, a painting, anything really, one thing for sure the world has to know what kind of person he is!