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My dad always sends us sweet emails while my sisters and I in college. I think his grammar mistakes make his message stronger, haha. Gives me a smile everytime…
Hi Duddies,
Just to remind all of you that Lent season start today & we forgot to let all of you know about Ash Wednesday. Any way no meat on Friday until Easter & during the Lent I would like all of you use this theme “LET SOMETHING GOOD BE SAID”. Whenever your conversation start with anyone around you, try to say all a good thing to people. Always try to FORGIVE each other & FORGET all the bad things behind us, be THANKSFUL what we had. I believe whenever you make people around you happy that will make you happier.
Love U all very much & have a great Lent season.
Daddyo & Mommyo =) =)
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My dad gave me and my sister a copy of Life’s Little Instruction Book with his own amendment to the last piece of advice…
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So my dad likes to send me a string of emails one after the other if he forgets to add something after sending. I study away from home and he loves to leave me his ‘revolutional, new and undiscovered’ ways of studying lol…
Hi Vinc,
The email below can be summed up as ‘ Incremental study for long term memory’, read it loud, point figure on image, close eye and recite from memory. Make study fun and don’t look at a burden. Human body is a discovery science.
Sleep early, wake up early to study is important (from fresh mind).
Drink water, fresh air, stand up, changing environment but keep focus on …. between study is important in trunk of study.
Think of topic and how they relate to each other. Ask what is it? How does it work? Why we need to know? on anatomy picture to trigger your brain.
Regards,
Joe
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Hi Vinc,
With the strategy(method) of study, if you have 1 week (which is 7 days) for anatomy, cut the study into very small trunks that you can remember and learn for 1 day only. Don’t try to learn everything in 1 day, you will forget, use long temp memory, start early, and learn very little bit at a time, cut whole day into block on 30 minutes study, 5 minutes break, stand up in between, recite/drawing frequently, ensure not overloading information. Memory Retention is important, linking superior to inferior, Anterior to posterior, Study the important topic first, etc… start early in the morning when the mind is fresh.
Day1: topic 1 only, and learn by heart, cover it, recite it until you’ve got it.
day2: close book/review 2o minutes on topic 1 on a blank paper. When and only when it’s ok, study topic 2(small trunk again).
Day3: close book/review 3o minutes on topic 1 &2 on a blank paper. When and only when it’s ok, study topic 3(small trunk again).
Day4: close book/review 4o minutes on topic 1 &2&3 on a blank paper. When and only when it’s ok, study topic 4(small trunk again).
Day5, 6 , 7: do as before
Hope you can try this out.
Love and missing you, thinking of you every day.
Daddy Joe
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My dad sent me a really sweet and quirky e-mail one day during the first few weeks that I had started grad school away from home, to show me what he appreciated about me. The subject was, “An Ode to those special daughters”:
Good daughters agree with you on the choice of their first vehicle.
Good daughters don’t mind when you mumble your outdated “insights” and philosophy for an hour.
Good daughters let you win the argument no matter how wrong you are.
Good daughters forgive you after you make them upset.
Good daughters make delicious cup cakes.
Good daughters wash the dishes, clean the house and even swipe the hot-tub.
Good daughters never afraid of spiders.
Good daughters play guitar for their dads not minding whether they have enough musical talent to appreciate.
Good daughters study hard and obtain high GPA.
Good daughters share their facebook.
Good daughters are good and save drivers on the road.
Good daughters are so flexible, they do restaurant, retail and medicine.
Good daughters always call back no matter how busy they are.
Good daughters always present themselves beautifully even their rooms are messy behind closed doors.
Good daughters can survive bed bugs and share rooms with others for years.
Good daughters seek advice from you even on their romantic relationships.
Good daughters manage wisely their spending.
Good daughters get away from trouble and leave you no worry.
Good daughters know it’s all right to screw up, but just pick yourselves up and keep going.
Good daughters make wise choice on their schools, their friends and their careers.
Good daughters have dreams and know how to reach them.
Good daughters walk closely with God.
Praise God, I HAVE A REALLY GOOD DAUGHTER.
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I found out that my ex-boyfriend moved on and is dating someone new. Since it was my first relationship, I felt pretty depressed about the whole situation. I confided in my mom who then told my dad.
In his effort to console me, he sent me an email:
Just had a quick lunch with your Mom as she was doing some banking arrangement for the HK trip.
Learnt that you have had recently upsetting emotions over Gordon.
There is no need for such negative response to Gordon’s situation on his new girl friend “attachment” at all.
I have big reservation towards such behavior as showing off his qickness in such endeavor – such a lowly human quality as to take true love as a running competition for find an attachment.
Jacqueline, you have such good qualities within and without, that you deserve something a lot better, at least someone who really loves you to the bone.
So tell yourself it is just so good to leave that part of your life behind you and bid farewell to Gordon and wish him good luck.
You have some bigger pictures in your future life and at this moment you have no other concerns but your exams!
Dad
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Translation: Gordon’s a jerk, you’re awesome.
I love my dad.
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My friends and I run a blog about poor college students, and we recently received our first check in the mail from ads. I also kept a blog last summer about doing work in Ghana for Engineers Without Borders (ewb), for which I don’t get any money.
Below is my dad’s response when I told him about our first paycheck:
good buiness.
tell me your POOR student website.
did the company pay for your ghana ewb webiste?
i will crick it everyday if they give you the advertisement money.
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An email exchange between me and my Dad, after I sent him a picture of my newly-shorn hair…
Me:
It’s too short!!!!!!
Dad:
Gagan you look sosoooo cute, it is not short the hair appear perfect!!!
love dad
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I was in a car accident this past weekend while driving to Philadelphia. My parents drove up from Baltimore to pick my friends and me up from the hospital and drive us back to school in Pittsburgh. They drove home afterward and this is the email I got from my dad the next morning:
Today, you mom said servral time to me. she said “she should stay with you last night to help you got it out of bad dream… ” well How can I said . because she is a Mom. as you know, she also has worry about your brother, a still unmatured boy to stay home alone first time. try to understand your Mom.
I only can said to her. “Cindy is smart and strong girl, she will be put the bad dream shorter and come back a health daughter. ”
Cindy, You don’t have to worry anything, since it happened. Mom and Dad will take everything. We so happy to see there is nothing to happen to yourself, We see a good health daughter. You are our infinited trasure and happiness. rather other.
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An actual email written by my dad to my youngest brother, which he graciously cc’ed to the rest of the family. At the time, my brother Jon was studying abroad in China.
Jon,
Morgan forwarded your e-mail to him to us. We understand you bought a bike. I hope you will be careful in riding the bike in China. Most of the time they are not obeying the traffic rules. The car never allow bike or pedestrian go first. The car and other biker make turns without signaling. I hope you will be on guard all the time when you are ridding your bike. We don’t want you to get hurt. Your mother wants you to put wet towel on your neck if you feel too hot outside. Keep the chocolate with you until we told you to contact him. Are you using the clean wipe to clean the chopstick and bowl before eating? When you had loose stool, did you take the pill? You should take the pill as soon as you don’t feel right. It always worked for me and stopped the problem right away.
Love you,
Ma and Dad
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I’m studying abroad for law school, so my dad sent this really cute birthday email to me (I turned 24 so it’s also my zodiac year of the ox):
The 24 hearts are our devotions to you
The 24 flowers are our congratulations to you
The 24 little red suns are we feel about you
Some red crabs are just for fun we send you
The 24 cellular phones are the favorite toys of you
The 24 bags are for shopping much needed by you
The 24 red horn mavericks are just you you you …
Happy birthday. Love. -Dm
We skyped later about it and the conversation went something like this:
Dad: Did you like my email?
Me: I thought it was so sweet! Thanks so much! Two questions though. What shopping bags are you talking about? Those are cake slices!
Dad: Oh really?? Hmm…my eyesight isn’t as good as it used to be. I must be getting old.
Me: And what’s a red-horned maverick?
Dad: You don’t know what a maverick is? It’s a baby cow!
Me: But those are devil faces, Dad….
Dad: WHAAAT. Those are cow faces with red horns!
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