Happy Birthday, Dear Koen! Poem by Sylvia Frances Chan

My best bro-in-law amongst the rest. HisBirthDay, always the coziest and the greatest event to celebrate. For me, he is always a generous bro-in-law. He has the biggest condominium of Jakarta-City and he never boasts. Before his marriage, must I admit, he was boasting all the time, but after he is married: zero time. So sorry the card is from 2013, the most beautiful card I designed for him to my opinion, grom this year 2013. The other cards are less striking. Koen is a striking personality, a handsome one. Koentjoro is his family name, but for us and my kidsons then, now all grown ups, it was a problem to pronounce his name in the correct way, so I started to make it easy for the kids and call him just KOEN. Even his wife is calling him still as KOEN now. IF you come to know our family history, we used to have a Chinese name, since we are descendants from Chinese ancester. Then came a severe government in the Indonesian Republic and we all ought to choose a true INDONESIAN name. Can you imagine the hilarious situation? We are called by our new Indonesian name and we are not listening, so we walked forth, and these people got angry of course, but gradually we all remember our new (Indonesian)names and finally without feeling guilty or being disloyal to our grandparents, since these names are given by our grandfather, mostly after two weeks after birth. Our grandfather consults first the family astrologist which name will be the best name for his grandchild. According to this name he hopes that his grandchild would grow up till a decent, wise and learned young man, WOW! Those are quite words written here. But so IZZIT. Happy reading wished by Sylvia Frances Chan. Updated Tuesday the 5th Dec 2017.