The old man passed away on Feb 26, 2007. Why am I featuring him here? He is the reason that I'm in performing arts. It's in my blood.
He loved acting and theatre (tamil) but had to be the sole breadwinner of the family. My family had been making 'surete' cigars since my grandmother's father's time. She was forced by her dad to marry the most hard working man in the 'factory' and my father was doing this business till his dying day.
Of course he tried his hand at other things too - when he had the opportunity, he got himself some projectors and was showing travelling cinema in the 'kampongs' and 'estates'. He simply loved to be close to the movies. His car will be so messy filled with tobacco, cigars, hand-bills of movies. But he loved that life untill the videos came and almost killed the cinema industry.
Sometimes when I ponder on my life - I wonder how I got a job in the performing arts industry and my car is messy filled with posters and postcards?
(This was supposed to be updated in April but only doing so now. By the way his birthday was on 18 September - I suppose this would be a tribute to him.)
2 comments:
Hi, Just came across your blog. Loved your write-up about mama. Yeah I remember the good ol days of film screening by him. Yes, i remember the messy car too. What I remember most about him is his coming back home late from work, and we'll all heat the food up so that he eats it piping hot. That's the way he wanted it. I also remember the smell of the 'curut'
Ha! Ha! Ha! Yes, the good old days.
We also had to heat up food for Tata who'd normally eat at about 8pm when the Primetime show will be going on. For Tata we'd need to heat up milk too. Boiling hot and extremly sweet - otherwise boil it again or add more sugar.
It certainly seems like another lifetime. I hardly do any house work nowdays but not for long. :)
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