My grandparents and I have good conversations in the car.

Poh poh: Did you watch Michael Jackson's Memorial the other day!??
Me: A little bit. Why?
Poh poh: Eh! Got a lot of celebrities that attended. Linal Richie.
Grandpa: LIONEL.
Poh poh. Lionel, lionel Richie. Mar- mar- what Car- something
Grandpa: Marie? Carrie is it? Marie Carrie?
Poh poh: Marah.
Grandpa: Maria.
Me: Mariah Carrie?
Both of them: YA.
Poh poh: And Macdonald.
Grandpa: Madonna.


Also, I feel the need to document dad's very witty moment the other day while andrea and I went to watch him operate. (As a disclaimer of sorts, at this point I should probably quickly explain that andrea's a third year med student back on holiday so my dad thought it would be good exposure for her to see so I just tagged along. I don't usually just randomly go into operations to stand in the way of everyone. Almost never actually. This was like only my thrid time or something like that in my life. One of the OT nurses thanked me profusely when I left because my dad seemed like in a super good mood today. I assume because I was visiting and was being quite impressed by his skills. So he was quite a proud bunny. But I thought it was quite funny that the nurse was sooooo thankful that he was in a good mood. LOL. Oh dad. What type of reputation have you created for yourself. Haiz. Nevermind. I still wuv you.)

Dad: (explains as he operates): You have to get on the right plane while cutting through the __(insert some technical anatomic term here). Otherwise it'll bleed. Plane, not like aeroplane

*Pause. At this point I'm like -.- Oh no dad. What type of joke is that. How wrong I was. Wait for it, wait for it...

Dad: but it's the same concept. Because if you get on the right plane, it'll take you home.

WHAA. I must say I was utterly and completely and fully and totally stunned by the random attack of witty-ness. High five dad. Even though I know you totally thought of that like agggggeeeesss ago and have probably been waiting for like months (possibly years. Haha.) to pull that line out naturally in the course of conversation. I KNOW. Don't pretend. I'm your daughter. I KNOW. Haha. But it's okay. It was like a profound statement disguised as a lame joke some more. Lol. Applause applause man. Really really very impressed. Good work dad. :D