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Tuesday, November 22, 2005


SHMILY [Part 1]

You might think grandparents, grandfathers in particular, are boring and do not know how to play games. Well, this is definately not true. I know, because my own grandparents are so special.

Pop and Grandmama like to play this very special game that I think not many of you would have heard of. They like to play a very special version of hide-and-seek. Okay, maybe not really hide-and-seek. They like to write these six letters - SHMILY - onto wherever they can (especially their apartment) and let the other find where they have written these six letters.

Let me give you some examples: Pop will purposely climb up a ladder all the way up to Grandmama's bag shelf on the top cupboard of her wardrobe just to write these six letters. His back injury will act up on the way up but he still continues climbing. Just to write these six letters. Yes, you might think that this is ridiculous, and that is what I myself thought too. However, there was once when Pop fell off the ladder! Nevertheless, he picked himself up and started all over again, climbing to the top of the ladder. It was only after this, that I realised that these six letters - SHMILY - had a very very special meaning to it.

Another example: Grandmama will unroll the entire roll of toilet paper in the toilet and write SHMILY onto the last square of paper, and then roll it all back again. I have always offered to help her, but always been rejected. When I asked her what she was doing, she would always reply, "Jo, you're too young to understand. You will in the future."

This game played by Pop and Grandmama was quite fun to watch as they could write it any time of the day and practically anywhere! I heard from Uncle that they had been playing it since they had gotten married. I wondered why...


DEATH.PEN 8:16 AM