{"id":4697,"date":"2011-02-14T03:01:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T19:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2011\/02\/a-love-that-never-grows-old\/"},"modified":"2011-02-14T03:01:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T19:01:55","slug":"a-love-that-never-grows-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/a-love-that-never-grows-old\/","title":{"rendered":"A love that never grows old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/n_1chin.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/n_1chin.jpg\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><strong>KUALA TERENGGANU<\/strong>: An elderly couple from Kampung Bukit Bucu in Batu  Rakit, here, celebrated Valentine\u2019s Day early \u2013 and for the first time  in their life.<\/p>\n<p>The candlelight dinner for octogenarian Chin Yi  Ai, 88, and his wife Tay Sek Hue, 79, was organised by six of their  children, three of whom are now Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Chin and Tay married five decades ago but never celebrated Valentine\u2019s Day due to family commitments.<\/p>\n<p>( Picture &#8211; Chin Ying Ai, 88, giving his wife,Tay Sek Hue, 79, a bouquet as they are joined by their children and grandchildren during their first-ever Valentine candlelight dinner at a leading resort in Merang, Terengganu. The children decided to hold a Valentine\u2019s Day dinner for the couple who had always been busy working for the family.\u201cThis is what Valentine\u2019s Day is all about. During our younger days, we never had the chance to celebrate this event.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  wish I was younger so I could express my undivided love to my wife  during this auspicious day,\u201d a frail Chin murmured when met on Saturday  night.<\/p>\n<p>The couple\u2019s children and grandchildren were present to add to the merriment.<\/p>\n<p>Chin\u2019s  only daughter, Faridah Chin Abdullah, 40, said her siblings decided to  hold a Valentine\u2019s Day dinner for their aging parents this year as they  never had one before.<\/p>\n<p>Faridah said she spoke to her Muslim brothers Abdul Manan Abdullah, 50, and Anuar Abdullah, 42, and they agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIslam  promotes love and affection between people. We felt there was nothing  wrong organising this dinner for our parents as our gift to them,\u201d she  said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do agree from the Islamic viewpoint that unmarried  couples should not celebrate as it could lead to immoral activities,\u201d  she said.-TheStarOnline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA TERENGGANU: An elderly couple from Kampung Bukit Bucu in Batu Rakit, here, celebrated Valentine\u2019s Day early \u2013 and for the first time in their life. The candlelight dinner for octogenarian Chin Yi Ai, 88, and his wife Tay Sek Hue, 79, was organised by six of their children, three of whom are now Muslims. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}