b3 b0rn.. c0nf0rm, b3 si|3nt .. di3

a conversation recorded earlier this morning, after i confessed to have left anaqi’s nappy bag at her yaie’s place when she asked.

kakak: apa la mama nie… you always forget! mama macam old person laaa

me: memang mama dah old!… a few more years to go, then kakak kena take care of mama & baba ‘coz we will be too old to go anywhere.

kakak: why kakak kena take care. kan kakak still small kid lagi?

me: nanti when mama & baba grow older, kakak pun dah jadi grown up. then you and adik can help cook, buy groceries and stuff for me.

kakak: but nenek is old and she can cook and go buy groceries by herself!! why can’t you do it by yourself?

me: nenek is a super nenek .. that’s why!

probably it’s time to check out the home for golden citizens – just in case

anaqi:

• has gone bald (first visit to the barber’s!)
• is 1 y 5 months old and still breastfeeding *yeay me!*
• runs and jumps and tumbles
• had bleeding gum due to one of his tumbles – thot he broke his milk teeth! now ok.
• had a cut near his left eye due to another one of his tumbles – am just grateful whatever he hit didn’t get into his eyes – now ok too
• has recently learnt to say ‘yaaaaaaaa-yiiiiiiiiii’ (for yaie – our term for my dad)… nenek is sooooo jealous
• loves my friends tigger n pooh, pocoyo, thomas..
• is still stuck with seven (7) teeth.. when the rest is planning to make their appearance – i dunno – but it’s a blessing due to point 2.

kakak:

• has also shorn her hair (as per mama’s hairdo – but hers looks better)
• won the first place with her team at her pre-school olympiad held @ stadium putra bukit jalil – she wore the medal for the next 2 days – even to sleep!
• has composed at least 2 songs – 1 to sing to her brother and 1 for me
• wants to be hannah montana (nobody’s perfect! i gotta work it! again and again til i get it right!) and forces her mama to pretend to be hannah montana too!
• has developed exceptionally neat handwriting (when she’s not too tired when doing her homework)
• has finally conceded to use the lil girls’ room at pre-school

pics of those moments will have to wait – somehow the explorer that came with this vista does not allow me the full functionalities of gallery!

g’nite peeps – anaqi had a slight fever earlier but alhamdulillah it has receded. which was why i couldn’t join the walk in the park (again) that THE COMPANY recreation club organised earlier .. and just when i was pumped to the point that i bought me a new pair of walking shoes. oh well, next week then – unless something else crops up!

called my parents’ home today around 7pm to inform kakak that i’d be late. this was after forgetting my normal call home just before lunch time and a failed attempt to call home @ 6pm++ as my dear brother forgot to unplug the phone line from the modem after using the ‘Net

me: hi kakak, what were you doing just now?

kakak: maaa… kakak sleeping la!

me: (aik? tgh sleep but then can talk?) kenapa? kakak tired sangat ke at school tadi?

kakak: noOoOoo.. you’re very late to come pick me up so kakak feels very sleepyyyyy ….! why are you so late? how much longer til mama comes back?!

terus cancel plan nak stay back .. packed up my stuff and headed home to arrive at the promised time of 7:30pm. and i paid $1.50 at elevated highway supposedly to cut down on travel time – just to be stuck prior to and after the toll collection for no apparent reason?! but then again, if i’d follow the normal roads – it may have been worse.. must be grateful of small blessings!

arrived as promised – by 7:30pm – but was already greeted by the sight of kakak asleep on the sofa whilst waiting for my return.. and anaqi was his usual hyper-self . until he got his much awaited feed and promptly dozed off too!

but now it’s 10:40pm and kakak is wide awake. how to convince her it’s bedtime..

she turned 5 while we were at penang the week i took off to head north. methinks we have been taking her on vacation for each of her birthdays without fail. lucky for her that her birthday coincides with school holidays.

but as it fell during school hols – and coz her parents are a bit lazy in that department – we did not host any birthday party. to compensate, on her first day back to school, arranged that during their break – kakak would hv a birthday cake and goodie bags to share.

i based my estimation on her pre-1 class from last year and also from kakak quoting names of her classmates – so ended up with 16 goodie bags to share. monday evening, when she reported on her day at school – discovered that we were actually short – and kakak said “ma, teacher ask me to tell you that we have 18 in my class!”

as we had extras at home – i provided her with another 4 goodie bags to take to her class on tues. had the inspiration to call the administration office – but was flabberghasted to hear that her class holds 27 kids!! 27 kids? how can that be conducive?

i immediately went off tangent when i heard the # of kids in her class. terus buat YM conference with amir. both agreed that 27 seems to be a bit too high a number – considering that it was a premium pre-school too! issue to be highlighted during parent-teacher day this weekend

come wednesday – i myself headed over to her classroom with anaqi in tow to provide the additional goodie bags. kakak immediately approached the classroom door and that was when noticed her entourage – two cute girls with curly hair (slightly smaller in build from kakak of course!) was kepoh-ing to see who is it at the door.

i had assumed that these were sonia and sofia – two names that kept being mentioned in her reports to me at the end of the day – who were supposedly her best friends. but i was wrong – kakak responded that one of sofia and another anis.

i asked where is sofia? ’she’s not my best friend la, ma. she sits far away’ – i took that as reference to their classroom seating – so who are your best friends?

sonia, damia, anis, imanina…. and she rattled off a few other names …

this. from a girl who during her pre-1 class report was noted as ‘likes to sit by herself and rarely joins in group play’ .. alhamdulillah. kawan la banyak2 kakak.. the more the merrier!