Conversation over lunch…
Me: what do you want to eat? 饭还是面？
Z: 饭！
Me：要汤吗？
She started to sing 鸡蛋鸡蛋，看谁的鸡蛋先破… while showing me her closed fists. The girl told me she wanted to eat fried rice today because she saw that the egg on the menu is cute!
I am amused.
The little girl (duno from which table) came over and said a hello to Zann. She actually stood there watching us. Initially, I thought she was Zann’s friend.
For the past few weeks, Zann has been sleeping with her cooking toys.
I thought it’s safer to keep while she’s asleep. I even keep them in different containers. But she can wake up in the middle of night and put them back, knowing which are the exact ones.
Anyway, I give up keeping these toys already.
While browsing through the archived photos., I saw these photos taken by Zann. She was playing around with the photo booth program, and I have over 300 such crazy photos saved inside my computer !
I like this.
It helps brightens my day.
Hopefully, it does to you too.
Click here to play.
My mother taught me TO THINK AHEAD…
“If you don’t pass your spelling test,
you’ll never get a good job!”
My mother taught me ESP…
“Put your sweater on; don’t you think
that I know when you’re cold?”
My mother taught me how to BECOME AN ADULT…
“If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up.
My mother taught me about GENETICS…
“You are just like your father!”
My mother taught me about the WISDOM of AGE…
“When you get to be my age, you will understand.”
My mother taught me about RECEIVING…
“You are going to get it when we get home.”
My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION…
“Just wait until we get home.”
My mother taught me LOGIC.
“Because I said so, that’s why.”
My mother taught me about STAMINA.
“You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”
My mother taught me about ENVY.
“There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who
don’t have wonderful parents like you do.”
My mother taught me about BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION.
“Stop acting like your father!”
Me grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Mickey
Mouse, Ninja turtles, Carebears, Robocop, My Little Pony and Smurfs.
Me grew up brushing my teeth with a mug in Primary school
during recess time. I squatted by a drain with all my classmates,
brushing together with a coloured mug.
Envelopes were given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant
on every Children’s Day.
I read Young Generation magazine.
I like Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable.
Me bought tidbits called beebee, and mamee, which came
with a different sticker in it every time.
My English workbooks were made of some damn poor
quality paper that was smooth and yellow.
Boys loved to play soccer with small stones or tennis balls in the
basketball court.
Girls played five stones and boys played with marbles.
Science was fun with the Balsam and the Angsana being the most
important plants of our lives, guppies and swordtail being
the most important fishes.
Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John,
immortalized in my mind from the school textbooks.
I wore BM2000 shoes from Bata to school.
Collecting and battling with erasers was a pastime for boys.
I came to school 15 mins before the bell every morning just
so I could copy someone’s homework…Hehe
There were spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday.
