Poem for Serene's 45th Birthday - 25 May 2015

This is the 4th poem I have ever written in my late 50's.  (Started writing on 28 August 2013)

To Cuzzie Serene:

I am no poem writer, a half-past six

I write to make you laugh and not be sick;

Then, you were cute at age five

Whummp…ph……  Now - still cute at forty-five!

Years have passed, we seldom contact

Oh, thanks to IT, we can reconnect;

God turned the death of Soo Yee

To draw us closer to Him and we.

The skinny one from Kia-Su land

Me, the gemok-dame from Boleh-land;

Whatever, it doesn’t matter-hor

Both love Jesus and friends with four paws!

Blessed, blessed Birthday Serene Ho Soo Ying

Positive and Christ-like attributes, keep ringing;

Thoughtfulness and gratefulness, you do have

Your brain keeps thinking of kind deeds and never rest.

What others need, your ears are sharp to pick up,

Even faster are your hands to ‘follow-up’;

Your friends, I believe know this and refuse to part ways

For you’re a friend no money can pay.

They say that friends are like treasure,

We should keep and appreciate without measure;

How lucky I am that I have a cousin sister

A friend also and even better!

I know you cannot ‘tahan’ my mandarin

My parents no sent me to learn ‘Hang Ying Ping Yin’;

Though it sucks you might think

But at least your bones are tingling-ting!

What to do, we have genes from your ‘Sai Juan Boh’

To make people laugh till roll on the floor;

It’s spontaneous and it’s in our core

When the funny bones strikes, it’s not so ‘kang kor’.

I am running out of words, sorry-ah

To amuse you….it is okay lah;

During your sad times, fish this poem out

It’ll make you laugh out, Really Loud!