homework

this afternoon, mikee, who's in her final year in kindergarten, called me while i was at work ...

mikee: mama, i need your help with my homework.
me: okay, we'll do it later when i'm home.
mikee: but i want to finish it now!
me: okay, then you go and ask for your lola's (grandma) help.
mikee: no! she can't help me. she don't know how to do this. it's soooo hard. i need to do equals!


i'm guessing she's got a maths homework =D

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sentosa

gabie: mama, i know why there's no more enough space for people to live in ...
me: really? then why?
gabie: because they made sentosa so big ...


uhm ok ... i didn't get it ;P

tv quips

the passion of christ

while watching mel gibson's the passion of christ (for the nth time) with mikee ...

mikee: hey, mama! you know what? your name is the same as mama mary's ...
me: really?
mikee: yes ... see mama and mama mary ...

cute ^.^

discovery's ultimate disasters

after watching part of the disaster marathon and seeing all of those tsunami shows, gabie came to me ...

gabie: mama, do the fishes also die in a tsunami?
me: uhm, good question babe ... honestly, i have no idea :D


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no!

while i was at work, mikee called me to have a chat ... after talking about what she wanted me to bring home for her, i asked her about her brother ...

me: is gabie home now?
mikee: no ...
me: oh, he's not yet home?
mikee: yes ... i mean no, o-n! no!
me: ah, baby, you mean no, n-o!


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jack and jill

after teaching mikee the nursery rhyme jack and jill, she said ...

mama, i really don't know why jack went up the hill ...

and i don't know why jill came tumbling down ...

i really think jill pushed jack, that's why he fell down ...

=.= 

mara clara

while watching mara clara ...

miggy: i thought mara is dead!?!?

mikee: because jesus made her alive!


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tokyo is doomed?

when i heard about the news of the earthquake and tsunami in japan, what strike me most was the conversation that miggy and i had about 15 minutes before i heard the news ...

miggy: mama, did you know that tokyo, japan is doomed?
me: why?
miggy: someday tokyo will be destroyed because did you know that tokyo is under mt. fuji? and mt fuji is an active volcano!

that's why i was quite stunned when the first thing i heard when we reached home was about the quake and tsunami!

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my dad is better than your dad

we were watching my dad is better than your dad ... father and son are so proud that they can correctly answer most of the questions ...


miggy: papa, we have to join this!
hubby: yeah, we can win this.
miggy: do you remember when they asked about leonardo and pizza?
hubby: yeah ...
miggy: i knew it was the teenage mutant ninja apples!



lol that's what you get for watching too much annoying orange videos :D

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Spring Roo

gabie saw his father reading about his work ...

gabie: papa, what's a spring roo?
hubby(unsure how to reply): it's a framework.
gabie: papa, what's a framework?
hubby: uh ...


hehe that's why it's easier to just say i don't know from the start :D

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to be or not to be

a few days ago, i was watching tv in the bedroom while the kids were playing on the bedroom floor ...

miggy: to be or not to be!
me: huh?!? 
miggy: i said, to be or not to be!
me: do you even know who said that?
miggy: uhhh, spongebob?
me: what?! of course, not. it's written by shakespeare!
miggy: what? you mean it's not spongebob?


i don't know where he got that idea ... anyway, here's a photo of the spongebob cake i baked for his 10th birthday ...

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the little sister

i overheard mikee talking to miggy ...

mikee: kuya, can you get me a cup of milk?

miggy: and why will i do that?

mikee: but i'm your little sister! and you are my big brother!

i can already see the future of this little girl ... i guess i'd have to start saving for an mba ...

miggy: ok, i'll do that but you have to promise that you'll never be bad to me and you will give me cookies.

mikee: mama!!! kuya wants me to do things for him!

hahahaha so she's the only one who can make demands ... and guess what? after a few "discussions" with miggy, she got what she wanted in the end =D


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mayday! mayday! mayday!

around the end of july, i went on a business trip to the philippines and i brought mikee with me.

it was a short trip and i was really busy working the whole time that before we knew it, it was already time to go back to singapore.

on our flight back, changi airport was temporarily closed for the national day rehearsals. so our plane had to stay in the air for about 30 minutes.

when mikee realized that we were taking to long to land, she kept asking me, "mama, when are we going to crash?" or "mama, are we crashing yet?" in her loud and shrilly voice =D

hehe i wonder what the people around us were thinking =)

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the 8th wonder of the world

"do you know what's the eigth wonder of the world?", miggy asked my hubby after dinner.

after racking his brain off for the correct answer, he told miggy ... and he was surprised when miggy said he's wrong ... 'coz according to miggy, the eigth wonder of the world is *drum roll* king kong!!!

i have no freaking idea where he got that but he insists that king kong is really the eight wonder of the world ... won't even listen to me when i said it can't be true ... lol ...

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why?

lately, i noticed that gabie is becoming more and more like his kuya miggy ... he's starting to be as naughty and talkative like miggy ...

today, from the time i came home, he has been asking me over and over again to help him earn more points in plants vs. zombies ...

when i've had enough, i told him, "you knowwhat? you're becoming makulit na!" (you're getting naughtier!)

he replied, "why? ... why? ... why? ... why? ... why? ... why? ... why? ... why? ... why? ... why? ... why?"

need i explain more?

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pink girls and blue boys

last saturday, mikee and i went to orchard road to have some girly fun window shopping ... i bought her a dirt cheap pink sunglasses ... and after wearing it for some time she wanted to remove it ...

mikee: mama, can i take my sunglasses off?

me: but i thought you love it?

mikee: yeah, but everything is pink!

me: well, that's because the sunglasses are pink ...

mikee: but mama, even the boys are pink!

oh well, how do you explain to a five year old that not all pinks are girly and not all boys are blue?

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lost in translation #2

miggy boy is not the only one that i like to tease as baboy (pig) ... i also tease the other 2 the same ...

last friday, before going to work, i said goodbye to gabie and teased him ...

me: bye, baby boy, ba-boy! (i always call gabie as baby boy)

then to mikee: bye, baby girl, ba-boy!

gabie: no, mama, you're wrong! it's baby girl, ba-girl!

oh, alright ...

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in his time

since i came home from work, miggy has been asking me "weird" questions ...

"mama, in your time, did you have to use those lamps with kerosene?"

i absent-mindedly replied with a "yeah" ... (well, i really did when i was young and there's a power outage, we do get to use those kerosene lamps)

a while later ...

"mama, in your time, did you use those overhead projectors?"

again, absent-mindedly, "uh-huh" ... (well, most projectors are "overhead", right? even the ones in the movie theatres are "overhead")

during dinner ...

"mama, did you know, in your time, the first ever video game was created?"

now this i can't let go, so i replied, "wait a minute, are you trying to tell me something??? and who told you the first ever video game was created in my time? hey i wasn't even born yet when pong was created!!!"

(ok, i do know what the first video game is called ... but that doesn't mean i was already alive when it was created ... that's what i call discovery channel)

hmmmm now i wonder what could have triggered those questions ... could he be trying to imply something?

(and why am i explaining myself here?)

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chat

mikee saw me chatting (online) with my friend ...

she asked me, "mama, you're spelling something for your friend?"

yes, that's chatting in the eyes of a 5 year old ...

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lost in translation #1

when miggy was a baby, we used to call him miggy boy ... we still do but with two younger siblings, more often he's referred to as kuya now ...

anyway, this afternoon, while waiting for the bus, i was teasing him and was singing "miggy boy, ba-boy!" ... (baboy is the filipino word for pig)

when he got annoyed, i asked him, "why? do you know what baboy is?"

he proudly said, "yes!"

and i said, "ok, so what does it mean?"

miggy replied, "chicken!"

when hubby and i laughed, miggy asked, "what? is it a turkey?"

lol ....

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requirements

miggy: mama, am i cool?

me: yeah ...

miggy: mama, am i mature?

me: no ...

miggy: what!?!?! i can't play halo!

lol ... so, one has to be cool and mature to play that game ... well, anyway, it doesn't matter ... we don't have an xbox anyway ...

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