Sunday, January 15, 2006 here i am, stuCk in hall wif lousy msn.. it's seriously SoT alrd! i can't send out messages... urGH~ boRed~ well, i shall blog then.. heard an interesting story fr my mum..bout my Grandfather in the WW2 period.. here it is! gr8 story! dun be frightened of these words.. read on! it's worth it!
My grandad seems to be quite a smart guy.. haha! when the jap attacked, he was jus lyk every other ordinary pple.. trying to hide fr the jap..etc until one day jus so happened dat the japs crossed his path.. in those days, the Japs would kill almost any1 they see.. (dat's wat my mum said, guess she exagerrated maybe?) yar.. so my grandad started speaking short japanese sentences.. here n dere.. n the Japs were impressed wif him! they recruited him, taught him japanese and hired him as a translator. And so.. the family grew richer. He was well paid and always given sacks of rice and shophouses every now n then. N the entire family was given a 'Mian Shi Pai' i.e "excused-fr-death' tag haHAHahahH! seriously..i thnk dat was only in Qing Dynasty time..but well, makes the story more interesting!
When the Japanese were defeated, it was quite chaotic, communist parties were formed and it appeared to em dat my grandad was a traitor who worked for the Japs. So they all wanted to give the family a death sentence!! But he was quick witted enough to turn to the british council and volunteer to work for them. So again.. he was saved!!! He was smart alright.. but too trusting i would say..
All the money he earned, the shops he was entitled to.. everything, he gave it to his brother to manage. Whatever the family needed, his brother will see to it while my grandad was responsiblefor finding more money~ So when he started working for the british, he asked his bro for some money..blablabla..wateva happened between..i'm not sure, main pt is dat the Brother refused to give him back all his property... n only gave him enough to survive. EviL!!! he kept aLLLllLL the money my grandad earned!
but dis brother sort of had retribution i thnk.. his sons n daughters all ended up being quite useless (compared to my grandad's children, my mum's siblings la) and his children lost all the shophouses.. not a single one made it to University.. heE! my uncles did!
eh...so dat's all.. yUP! end of story!! waHAhah! din know my grandad's life so exciting one..oh..dere's more to it!
Not long after WW2, i thnk.. my grandma was introduced to my grandad's family.. by matchmakers.. n the family approved of the marriage. BUT my grandad alrd had a sweetheart! n she was living jus nxt door!! WeiRd~ my mum said the family din lyk the idea of my grandad marrying the nxt door neighbour.. in those days, guess it's not accepted? n last time my mum told me my grandad used to exchangelove letters wif the gal b4 his marriage, cos he still kept em..n my mum found the letters one day..haha! But the family forced him to marry my granma, so he had no choice but to accept his fate~
So till then, my grandad became more rebellious.. he started slacking.. n left his family to my great grandparents to take care.. cos he was damn heARtbroken n jus gave up on his life. He always treated my grandma coldly.. but i wonder how they still managed giving birth to 8 kids..haHHAahah! n he neva cared for the family..always going off early in the mornin n comin hm late at nite.
But towars the end of his life..as he grew older.. he realised my grandma was the best wife in the world.. n at his deathbed, he told her how regretful he felt.. how he realised he had been wasting his life away, how he had given her a haRd life...*soBz* so touching~
