Malaysia con mi papa

The trip has ended, and we've been to HK, KL, penang and langkawi in total. we've been extremely lucky that despite the weather forecasted to be raining whole week, the weather is basically very sunny, and it only rains in the night after we get back hotel.

My father wasn't planning to have a "trip of discover" nor did I intended to do that for him, too risky he may not enjoy it at all. And after all, we both want to have a vacation only in its literraly meaning.

I had my fear that he would be to sturbbon to try anything at all, or that he would be still bullshiting about his understanding of the culture there. But it turns out that he enjoys the trip and the culture difference pretty much and that he even blends in sometimes better than myself -- trying to communicate with local people whenever he can. He talked about what would it be if he goes there himself multiple times and getting more convinced by time that he would be able to do that himself.

It occured to me before the trip one day when I think of him, of how little time we had spent together, of the lack of communication and how sturbbon I think of him, and suddenly I remembered that he is 58 and two years later he would be a 60 old man. 60 sounds terrifying to me, especially that he have to spent it by himself. I told myself that I have to do this trip before his 60.

But actually he's not that looking 60 to me, he's still enegized and be excited about things that he would see, he posted more photos than the last three years' combined, he ask me about familiar English word that he see, he talks about the buildings, the people the city in general with enthusiasm.

He would still simplify his life greatly by not remembering the details of the things and not care/worry much. He would not want to know what is it about those cities or what is it that we just ated, there's less what in his dictionary but more how or _why_s. I suppose the he would trust me for all the arrangements and it actually went pretty well for the entire trip, or maybe it's that he has started to accept whatever there is to enjoy and stop questioning the essence of being.

I've taken him to roof-top bars at KLCC, to the shopping malls and street foods, to the fine-dinnings and bugers, to the most famous sights of KL and enjoyed a good view of KL in the airbnb we booked. to some strange local cuisine. We spent a lot of time on a motor and by the beach.

It was a great trip.