An Old Man's Greatest Wish

He is a very cheerful old man, cute and "loud" man before cancer strike him. How can one still be as cheerful as before when he has to go thru all the therapy and surgery, It's simply impossible lor... And worst of all, the demise of his beloved daughter. All mishaps seems to come at the same time. He told me, he can't write, or else it's gonna be a very interesting book, a book abt his life. Perhap we can say he is a very "suay" person, for the last 60 years, many things happened.... and it goes...
4yrs old - Almost drown in indonesia sea. His family are fisherman, he spent his childhood days in the kelong.
12yrs old - can't make it to primary sch, no interest, took bus to kota bahru, looking for job, alone.. Old gosh, where were we when we are 12?
20 yrs old - married to a M'sian lady.
21 yrs old-1st daughter was born. Can't even afford a chicken for the wife's confinement. basically take up every job he can.
22yr old - 2nd daughter was born. As usual, life is hard, but got link up with some indons, some biz dealing was negotiated, at least the family need not starve.
23yrs old- youngest son was born. Life isn't any better cos not much biz, hence got to work as a driver.
24-40yr old- Biz prosperous, coy turnover at least 1m.Children was ferried by cars to and fro school. All the three children was sent to local university and states for study. Houses and cars gets bigger. Brought his 1st Mercedes.
42yrs old - Had a very bad car accident.. Mercedes was crashed badly, unrepairable condition. suffer internal injuries, thought he will die, but he SURVIVED.
42-60 - Prime time. The only regrets.. NO communication between father and children. Nothing is important than making $$. He will give his children all the best he can, but too many entertainment, too frequent flying, drift the family apart. He did hanky panky outside and was caught by the wife... That's one of his regrets in life too. It's a "minus" point..
61 yrs old - Economy down turn, he decided to wind up his biz and enjoy his golden age. At least 5million of asset. To everyone's surprised, his kidney failed to "work". He needs a operation immed in order to save his life, he need to remove one of his failed kidney. He don;t even have time to think, he was worried, he need time to be with the family, he needs time to settle his coy, he has lots of things to be done, he need to pull thru, he can't fall. The sickness almost killed him, but he survived.
62-65yrs - Enjoying life, takes everyday as his last day, time was spent on holiday, and relaxing.
66yrs - Lost his daughter in a disaster, worst, cancer strike him. A cancerous lump was found on his neck. The bones around him was "cracked" he need a "neck Ban" to support his neck, in case it breaks! He need to go thru chemo and suffer the agony of the lost of his daughter. Both incident knock him out. He became depressed and he really aged overnight. He show signs of growing senile, and everyday the son prayed so hard for his recovery.
67 yrs - The lump on his neck was gone! The daughter's case a closure.. His appetite gets better, he is happier, he is willing to walk out of the house. Yet... the scan shows that the cancer went into his brain! Oh Gosh.. he need to go for radiation and that mean his hair will drop and he has to go thru another rounds of suffering... But I guess he is taking all these very well, thou it really hurts me when I see hair on his shirt and his head getting bald... I felt so painful when he told me he had a shock one morning when he was combing his hair, a whole batch of hair came off... Argggggg.... Why???????
The only wish he has now is to be able to tell all these to his son. It's not a complete version of what he told me, it's only part of it, but he really hope one day he can sit down and have a good chit chat time with his son, his only son. He wanted to tell the son the following:

"Son, I'm sorry if I didn't pay attention to you when u are a child. Maybe u juz wanted a dad who can play with you, not a workaholic dad.

Perhap when u ask me for money to buy something, u actually wanted me to ask what u wanna buy, instead of a dad who just issue u a chq & chase u off.

I'm sorry that I betrayed yr mum once, it's once &only. I'm sorry abt it cos I know it's a big impact to all of you. I'm a coward, I shld have apologized 20yrs ago, but I was too proud to do it.

I'm sorry if I have given the 3 of you too much pressure in yr studies. How can I, who was illiterate, expected so much.. But I juz want all of you to bear in mind.. yr knowledge is yr asset, no one can take it away from you.

Last but not least..... I LOVE ALL OF YOU. Forgive me! my wife, my daughters and my son...... I'm Sorry!!!"

I'm really Proud of the old uncle! All of us know "Sorry seems to be the hardest word", but I know he will have the chance to tell his son. He wanted to apologise to his "lost" daughter, it's not too late, I know she can hear us, and she will forgive her dad.