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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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 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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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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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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old or new?

we're in the process of renovating a 28-yr old flat that we bought late last year ... we're almost at the end of the whole process ... maybe just a couple more days and it's all over ...

anyway, i was browsing through my reno photos when i chanced upon this pre-reno photo of our flat ...

mikee asked me: "is that our not new house?"

gabie said: "no, that's our new house!"

miggy said: "no, that's our new house last time."

and i said: "no, that's the photo of our old new house."

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miggy's one-liners #1

miggy: mama, what do you call that guy who hammers in the court thingy?

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the b word

one day, miggy and gabie, were playing with their toys ...
suddenly, they started fighting ...
then gabie, came to me and said, "mama, kuya called me the "b" word!!!" ...
of course, i was surprised ...
the only "b" word i can think of is "bitch" ...
and i have no idea where miggy heard it or why he would call gabie a bitch ...
so, i asked him, "kuya, what did you call gabie???" ...
and he replied, "mama, i just called him a baby, coz he's such a baby!" ...

oh ok, so that's the "b" word!

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ooops! he did it again ...

this happened last year ...



and this happened yesterday ...

well, what can i say ... i'm speechless ...


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the missing alphabet

yesterday, while i was resting in my room, miggy came to me with a very serious and worried look ...

miggy: mama, there's a letter missing in the alphabet song!

me: what??? what missing letter? (i thought he was coming up with another corny joke)

miggy: it's Y.

i'm getting really confused here coz i thought i'm absolutely not getting this joke ...

me: "why"? (as in i thought he said why!)

did i say he was really worried during this conversation?

miggy: listen ... (he started singing the alphabet song) ... a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Y ... (confused and embarrassed) ... oh, it's there!

then he ran out of my room and left me there more confused than ever and thinking "what was that all about???" ...


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pet society

i was playing with yoville in facebook earlier when mikee came to me and told me she also wants to play with the bunny ... it didn't take much for me to understand what she meant ... i knew right away that she meant pet society ... miggy's been playing with it a lot this past weekend ...

and since i don't have a pet society account, i asked miggy to lend mikee his pet for a while until i've created my own account that mikee can play with ... (and yes, miggy has his own facebook account, now stop raising that eyebrow) ... since mikee already started crying, miggy (unwillingly) opened pet society for her and left her playing with it for a while ...

and then ... the next thing we know, miggy's blue pet is already a pink "bunny" hahaha


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jerry cho

last friday, i had a good bargain when i bought 3 books for the kids for only $10. i got miggy a special 50th year edition of the guinness book of world records, i got gabie a pokemon template book, and mikee a classic children's bible. and it was a really good bargain coz the kids simply love the books.

yesterday, miggy was reading the children's bible when suddenly, he asked me ... "mama, who is jerry cho?"

okay, now, i came from a catholic school where religion is a major major subject. and in the 12 years that i stayed there studying all the bible stories i'm quite sure i never heard of a chinese name from the bible.

and since we live in singapore and the book is a second hand book, the first thing that came to mind is that somebody might have written his name in the book. just as i was to tell miggy that jerry cho might be the previous owner of the book, he showed me where he read it ...

then i found out that he was actually asking about jericho ... you know, that great-walled city ... lol ...

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happy mother's day

yesterday, the kids and i woke up really late ... when they woke up, of course, i was waiting for everyone to greet me a happy mother's day ... they knew it was mother's day coz gabie gave me the card he made in school last friday ...

when i didn't get the greeting i was expecting, i asked the kids if there's something that they would like to tell me on that day ... mikee just looked at me ... gabie just smiled ... and miggy seemed like he was thinking real hard of what to say ...

i followed with a "so?"

and he answered "can we go eat at subway today?"

lol i can always count on miggy to drop the punchline ...

anyway, to all the mommies there, a belated happy mother's day!


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boy-ly?

miggy once asked me ...

"mama, if there's a 'girly', then why is there no 'boy-ly'?"

hmmm good point there ...

a day at the zoo

it was the school holidays last week, so as a treat to the kids, hubby and i took them to the zoo.

a few days before our trip, the kids were so excited, as always.

miggy wanted to visit the new kids station where they can play in the amazing wading pool. and eat kfc hahaha need i say more?

mikee kept saying that she wants to see the monkeys. she doesn't care about all the other animals. only the monkeys. when i asked her why, she said all the other animals will eat her. not bite. eat.

gabie is the most interesting one. when i asked him which animal he wants to see in the zoo, he said the tiger. then, he said, "mama, i want to touch the tiger!" ok, he's definitely not doing that!

on the day of our trip to the zoo, it started out as a very sunny day. it was too hot! lucky i brought an evian water spray to at least relieve us from the heat. but since it was too hot, we had to spray, i think, every 10 minutes ^_^

so, after watching an animal show and the polar bear feeding, we headed to the kids station and had lunch at kfc. all this time, the kids just can't wait to get over with lunch so they can go to the wading pool.

then, by the time we finished eating, it started to rain. and it never stopped. until we just decided to go home T_T poor kids, i guess i'll just have to bring them back next month.

we just arrived at the zoo ...


see mikee with her binoculars? she was so arte all the time, using it whenever we point at an animal ...


notice most of the pictures here are dark? well, we spent most of the time in the boat dock, waiting for the rain to stop ...


and here's mikee singing while we were waiting for the rain to stop in the boat dock ...


notice her song lyrics is mostly "we cannot go ... we cannot go" hahaha


oh! the kids did get to spend some time in the wading pool. that's when the rain let up a bit. a whopping ten minutes in the pool :)

and yes, gabie changed his mind as soon as we arrived at the tigers' den ...


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parent-teacher-meeting

yesterday, i went for a parent-teacher-meeting in miggy's school to know how he's been doing so far in primary 2. generally, the feedback is quite good. academically, he's doing well. i even learned from his form teacher (philippine counterpart: class adviser) that he had the best marks in class for his english exams. i'd say, wow! considering that around this time last year, i learned that he had to go to a learning support program because his reading skills were way below average. and now, he's got the best marks ^_^

his marks in maths is also okay. he got 40 out of 50 in the exams. and his mistakes were mostly due to him rushing to finish the test (again) and not because he doesn't know how to do the mental sums.

now, for his mandarin class ... well ... as expected, he did poorly again. but still, i'd have to say that he is definitely doing much better this year than last year. this year, according to the teacher, at least he's already able to understand her when she speaks in mandarin. and he's even able to answer in mandarin as well. so, there's still a whole lot of room for improvement, but he's definitely crawling his way into that room.

the only negative feedback i got (yes, aside from mandarin) was again on his behavior. he still doesn't pay much attention in class. and in his classic miggy way, he'd often ask questions that are always way way out of topic. hayyy, i can just imagine the desperation of his teacher when he does that. you see, miggy never run out of questions. he's always curious about everything. and everything that he doesn't know or understand, he'd definitely voice it out. another hayyyy. anyway, at least, i know he's already improved compared to how he was when he first joined kindergarten. hahaha i remember the feedback that i get from the teachers then. they just didn't know how to calm him down. he was always hyper-active. at least, now, not too much hehe

on our way back home, we were talking about some stuff about his school, his teachers feedback, his friends. we even talked about one of his friends who, according to him, got only 2 points (out of 50) in their maths exams. i told him that maybe they just have to help her because she might be having some learning difficulties. maybe she needs a lot of help. i wanted to teach him that the girl may be having low marks not because she is "slow" but maybe because she's just not getting all the help that she needs at home.

miggy: when i grow up, mama, i will teach my kids just like you!
me: ok. that's good.
miggy: yes. but i'm going to take them back to the philippines. so they wouldn't have to study mandarin!

alright ... i guess that's some sort of a hint ... don't you think?


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what is a puffle?

last week, miggy asked me to sign his school work. it was an english composition that he wrote. the title was my pet migz, the puffle.

i would say that miggy is definitely improving with his writing. i think for an eight-year-old, he's doing really good in writing. even his teacher agrees that with just a little more effort, his writing would be perfect. you can read about his composition in his own blog.

and his imagination. well, it simply amazes me. he's a good storyteller. i mean, what is a puffle, anyway??? but there he was describing it in full details, including the food it eats and where he found it.

anyway, i hope he keeps up the good work if he really wants to be a comics writer in the future. according to him, he will be the stan lee of the future :D

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