Thursday, September 06, 2007
Daddy's Girl

I last saw my father on September 11, 2004. Last spoke to him by phone at the end of the same year. I miss him so much. You see, like most little girls, I was a bonafide daddy's girl. He was the one who stayed home helping my siblings and I with homework and other random stuff while my mother ran the business. He made sure I went to great schools. He did everything to give what he says is times 10 of what his parents gave him.

I remember people thinking na "ander" siya ng mommy ko dahil siya ang nasa bahay, I thought so too until he went out and got a job. He didn't need one, our business was going well as far as I could tell pero sabi niya dahil daw sa akin kaya siya nagwork. Tinanong ko daw kasi siya kung bakit siya ang nasa bahay e daddy siya...I was like 5. Anyway, so he worked and didn't stop there. He got a job in Singapore but went home soon after because there was no chance of immigration and being a citizen. Tapos nun sabi niya sa akin na dadalhin niya kami sa isang country na kasama sa G7 and on September 1996, off he went to Canada. My little brother and I followed a year later and those tears in my father's eyes when he first saw us at Edmonton International Airport was the first time I saw how much he loves us.

I've let him down many times and I'm ashamed to say I never made that up to him. Maybe someday I'll be able to. When that time comes that everything is right in the world, hay, not likely huh? But for today, my birthday, I am still a daddy's girls in my heart and I will be until my last breath.