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bobchoi, I like your poem about yourself and how you want to be remembered
Incidentally
I don't think you can say "I want to meet my Maker . . . but not just yet!" in your obituary (=:
You're going to scare your guests
Also 12 virgins ready, willing and able might just be waiting for you in heaven
That's an offer many can't refuse
Are you sure you want to say "Just a minute, Lord"
Just being facetious (=:
BTW You didn't give us your feng shui kua number and Chinese Zodiac Animal Year; and if they jive with your character and personality
If you're writing your epitaph: Can you tell us in one (or up to four) statements how you want to be remembered or who is bobchoi?
--- m n m n I
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Hey, MnmnI, you're right about "meeting my Maker... but not just yet" doesn't sound right in an obituary. Now I changed it "I wanted to meet my Maker... but why so soon!"
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Also, MnmnI, after your comment, I looked up the dictionary for obituary, epitaph and elegy and found what I wrote really didn't conform to any of them... "bucking all traditions" ... I suppose that says it all.
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"A man of principle who bucked all traditions"
Beautiful line, bobchoi
Hope you don't mind me tweaking it a bit before you you really couldn't mind (The full first line as epitaph, the deletion of the 's' in principle and the past tense)
I noticed the present tense
:-) Somebody might hire you right on the spot (=:
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"A man of principle who bucked tradition"
I can just imagine how beautiful it would look in Chinese calligraphy
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MnmnI, thanks for your comments. I've changed it all to past tense, to be technically correct!
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HaPpY BiRTHDaY BOBCHOI!!!
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Wow...
This is great! I too loved your first line, "A man of principle who bucked all traditions." It says so much about you-with so few words. Your ability to analyze your life-your self-is a gift.
I have no idea what I would write for my obituary, but you've got me thinking about it!
As a woman I zeroed on a line that you can totally change-given that you have a few years left in you. ha.
Seriously, the line "Yet seldom showed his love to anyone" can be rewritten and should you choose to make that difficult journey emotionally, it wil return to you at least ten times over! :)
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"A man of principle who bucked all traditions", a one-liner that says it all. Good work, bobchoi!
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BobChoi,
Since you've talked about obits, I have a question.
Why is it that each time I open the obituary section of our newspaper, I find that they all died in alphabetical order?
Grampa
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Some great lines in this Bobchoi. With a full range of emotions running through it. As the Chinese think that writing ones own obituary is unlucky I prefer to think of it as Fanfare for Bobchoi.
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Hahaha! This poem made me laugh again, very good description. "Wanted to meet his Maker... but why so soon!" Hahaha! Hope to read more
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Funny! Love the first line (like so many other people)
Maybe I'll write an obituary...but not for myself. That's too creepy for me! I will write one about a random person who is very weird... how does "Ran behind the ice cream truck one too many times" sound?? LOL=)
Audrey
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In my culture, this is a complete no no. You are brave And I applaud you. On a more serious note, what you have written captures a lot about life and what we love about being here. A humble piece. Well written. Funny but gets the message across. Very good.
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The title of this poem might be a complete no-no in most cultures;
but true to bobchoi's self concept
"A man . . . who bucked all traditions"
or B-ucked A-ll T-raditions Man
BATMAN !!!
I knew it!
The billionaire bobchoi is Batman and not Bruce Wayne
:=) (=:
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