50 years young!!!!!!
24x7 on Facebook, commenting on everyone's posts, watching every show on Star World and Zee Cafe, texting others about those shows (did u c friends 2day?... joey s learnin french) and following advertisements like they are shows ("the new lays campaign is really good no??").. there is your typical 50 year old!
Didn't see that coming did you?!!!
Dad is turning 50 this year. I keep rubbing it in and though I do it to bug him, it is actually because it is really hard to believe that MY DAD is turning 50! Fifty year olds are men with paunches, white hair and endless complaints about today's generation right? Well.. its time I change that perception!
My dad is cool, style conscious, net savvy, and is quite in awe of the present generation! I am not denying, his hair is graying and he doesn't exactly have a six pack, but he takes the utmost effort to stay young in appearance and let me tell you this, he pulls it off really well!! He is very choosy about clothes and takes in mine and Mom's opinion before buying. I think he has more face-packs than me and he is constantly bugging me to take better care of my skin. Hellooooo?! I am supposed to be the teenage girl here!
Dad stays in Bangladesh cuz of work and he comes for about 2 weeks after 4 months or so. He really misses us and so found himself a new hobby to keep him occupied. My Dad, who once barely knew his vegetables, started learning to cook. He can make a variety of things now, and also knows what sweet to make on which festival and he makes it too! He calls me (or texts me) the menu of the day and I sit reading it and feeling rotten cuz I still can't make a basic sambhar.
When he isn't cooking, it is either on FB or watching TV. While some older people find Friends, HIMYM and Two and a Half Men inappropriate if not downright vulgar, Dad loves the shows for the comedy and we talk endlessly about them, driving Mom absolutely mad (esp when these discussions happen in ISD phone conversations!). When Masterchef finals was going on, Dad was stuck in the airport. He really wanted to watch the finals after having sincerely followed the show. I texted him what was going on! And as for World Cup, my God, we discussed every over via sms!!!!
Didn't see that coming did you?!!!
Dad is turning 50 this year. I keep rubbing it in and though I do it to bug him, it is actually because it is really hard to believe that MY DAD is turning 50! Fifty year olds are men with paunches, white hair and endless complaints about today's generation right? Well.. its time I change that perception!
My dad is cool, style conscious, net savvy, and is quite in awe of the present generation! I am not denying, his hair is graying and he doesn't exactly have a six pack, but he takes the utmost effort to stay young in appearance and let me tell you this, he pulls it off really well!! He is very choosy about clothes and takes in mine and Mom's opinion before buying. I think he has more face-packs than me and he is constantly bugging me to take better care of my skin. Hellooooo?! I am supposed to be the teenage girl here!
Dad stays in Bangladesh cuz of work and he comes for about 2 weeks after 4 months or so. He really misses us and so found himself a new hobby to keep him occupied. My Dad, who once barely knew his vegetables, started learning to cook. He can make a variety of things now, and also knows what sweet to make on which festival and he makes it too! He calls me (or texts me) the menu of the day and I sit reading it and feeling rotten cuz I still can't make a basic sambhar.
When he isn't cooking, it is either on FB or watching TV. While some older people find Friends, HIMYM and Two and a Half Men inappropriate if not downright vulgar, Dad loves the shows for the comedy and we talk endlessly about them, driving Mom absolutely mad (esp when these discussions happen in ISD phone conversations!). When Masterchef finals was going on, Dad was stuck in the airport. He really wanted to watch the finals after having sincerely followed the show. I texted him what was going on! And as for World Cup, my God, we discussed every over via sms!!!!
He is online on FB more often that I am and THAT is saying something. I dunno exactly cuz i refused to add him. He refused to add me too but we do have mutual friends (my poor sis on whose wall we hold our conversations!) He changes his profile picture regularly and asks me to see them. It is really cute. It is usually a picture of him and mom.
Dad doesn't, and has never tried to impose any restriction on me on what kinda clothes I wear or who I am on the phone with or what I watch on TV. He has always trusted me to know the difference between right and wrong. Dad also isn't the kind of person who would blame their wife for things. I lived most of my life with Mom and when she used to make me call Dad to ask him permission for something I want to do, his reply has always been "Ask Amma, what does she say?"
Dad doesn't, and has never tried to impose any restriction on me on what kinda clothes I wear or who I am on the phone with or what I watch on TV. He has always trusted me to know the difference between right and wrong. Dad also isn't the kind of person who would blame their wife for things. I lived most of my life with Mom and when she used to make me call Dad to ask him permission for something I want to do, his reply has always been "Ask Amma, what does she say?"
He has always felt bad that he hasn’t been around much when I grew up, but it is amazing how even then I find it very easy to talk to him about just about anything, from God to photography to Dhoni’s horrible hairdo!
This post is dedicated to 50-year-old-dad (though I am never gonna let him read my blog!) and this is wishing him an advanced (too much in advance, but still!) Happy Birthday!!!
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