The Perfect Moment

He was the CEO of a big company. He was successful in his career. His schedule is booked for the next 18 months. He sits at the top of the world. He has almost everything that money and success can buy - the travel, the fine dining, the company, fine clothes except one thing. The perfect moment.

One day the doctor pronounced that he had 3-6 months to live. He had a terminal illness. He realised all these years he had missed many perfect moments.

The perfect moments are the moments when you play with your children, when you date your spouse and watch the sunset, when you are there to see your children graduate, when you are there to blow the candles on their birthday.

A perfect moment is the gift of an hour doing something meaningful with someone you love.
It can be a moment when things go wrong, but you chose to focus on what is pleasing and good.

When bad things take away 100 things we can no longer do, we can choose to focus on the 900 things that we still can do.

We choose to focus on what we can do with what we still have, rather than what we have lost.

Everyday I see how my Sarah's drawing taking shape. It gets better each day.
Every day, Sarah learns a new word.

It's a Perfect moment when I taught her how to spell 'BEAU-TI-FUL'
"It's too long. I can't I can't." she was ready to give up.
So I broke the word into 3 parts.
Finally she mastered it.
"Beautiful, isn't it?"
She nodded and smile in agreement.

When I go to work in the morning, she would tuck at my feet and say, "Daddy daddy, don't leave me at home. I want to follow you."
When I am at work, I can't help thinking about her. And her missing Daddy.
When I'm home, I'm too dog tired to play with her and go through her studies.

This is when I decided I don't want a job. I want a life.
I want to create many perfect moments for my family.
My colleagues asked me what's my next job.
I said, I don't want a job. I want a life.
My next job is: Joyfully jobless

I'll Buy You a Gift

Sarah wants to surprise mommy and daddy.

One morning when mummy was asleep, Sarah nudged me to bring her shopping. She selected a heart shaped rose with a teddy bear. Cost: $8.90. Daddy paid.
"I want to buy something for you," she said.

I think to myself, "You buy me a gift. And I pay for it."
Oh how sweet.

Then she went to another shop. Saw a beautiful mug with the picture of a princess.
She want to buy it.
Then she saw a guitar toy and she too wants to buy it.
"I am a rock and roll girl, " she declared as she strummed the guitar and jump on her feet.

"Do you want to buy the whole stall?"
"You can only pick one item."
On the way back home, we met our resident Goh Lai Hock.
She gave an impromptu rock and rock guitar performance in front of Goh and the senior citizens at the Senior Citizen corner.

Rock and roll girl. Remember your first guitar.

It's Funny

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