DT: Happy fathers day, ba!
Daddy: Ok,good daugter , try the best if DAN TAM can do (okay, good daughter try the best you can do)
DT: Ca mon ba! I love you very much!
Daddy: Ok

OH MY GOD!! I think I'm going to cry... I almost teared up getting the first text from my daddy!!! He is a man that rarely ever shows affection.  He seems very cold but I know that he loves us all!!! Oh god... I knew it was a good idea to text my daddy, happy father's day!! Ahaha I hope he shows it off to his friends and I hope all of his friends are jealous that their daughters or sons don't text them.

In this culture people value youth, and the ability to be able to be up to date with technology is a sign of youth and being up to date with modern society.  Being able to text is one of those things.  Not many adults are able to text with their phones efficiently, but those that do are revered as being tech savvy (or at least tech savvier than most of their peers).

Children are usually very distant to their parents (or at least try to distance themselves away from their parents), in means of independence.  To be frank, children nowadays (my peers) would usually almost never text their parents unless they want something from them.  So me texting my father, something of somewhat sentimental value (even though texting is so impersonal) means a lot.

MYAAAH!! I'm so happy!! I really want to make daddy feel loved.... I feel that he feels left out because  me, gh, and chi uyen don't ever really show affection towards daddy.  I showed him affection on his birthday by giving him a big hug and then I showed him affection by making him give me a kiss on the cheek before I left gh's graduation dinner to head off to fry's to by a charger for my camera!

EEE! Happy! Must show daddy more affection and reassure him that he is loved!!!