Papadom

I spent my freetime watching a malay movie entitled "Papadom" since yesterday. Thank you to "someone" who had it uploaded in youtube. Then, I still can enjoy the movie treat that is the most difficult thing in the world I could get nowadays.

The story began as a hawker who sells "nasi kandar" in an alley in Penang. her wife was heavily pregnant with the first child. The paradigm changes after their daughter was born. The hawker, Saadom is really famous with his papadom, a snack that we used to eat with nasi beriyani, nasi kandar, and it is homemade. Together with his friends, a chinese, Alan and an indian, Ali, they build a business plan which made them richer and richer. The business grew very well, expanded to oversea and they even had a factory to produce papadom for wholesaler and export.

However, he missed a lot of his time to be spent with his only daughter and wife. Even he missed her daughter birthday bash, each time they throw a party for her daughter because he was too busy expanding the business to generate more money for the family. Even, the present for her daughter was bought by his friend, Alan who has reminded him to hand over the gift to his daughter.

Until one day, the wife was so pissed off with him when he broke his promises he made with her and their daughter. They were arguing on the phone while her wife was driving, and the fate was there, her wife with their daughter involved in an accident. Her daughter survived but his wife. However, he managed to talk to his wife just before his wife passed away and promise her to take very good care of their daughter.

Since that day, he changed. He always be there for her daughter. Always, even when his daughter got school activity, he will also be there as well. They were like twins, wherever they went, there will be two of them. Until the girl reaches a time where she had to further her study to university.

He left her life, never thought of having fun of himself, only looking forward to take care of her daughter. I would say, he became overprotective. He was so, because he was so regret for what had happened in the past. He always thought, all that happened because of him not really much care of his wife and daughter and never listened to his wife when his wife advice him for a good thing for him.

He felt guilt. The guilt changes him to a different person overall. He left his business management to his two other friends and only taking care of his daughter.

Lesson learnt here, we should appreciate what ever we have now, our next of kin before it is going to be so late, either they changed or gone forever. Money cannot buy everything eventhough money is something to make a living. It is our own call, we made the decision, we faced the situation and we get the result out of it.

So, papa, don't be like "papadom"