2 dead wasps in the backyard

There were 2 dead wasps in the car porch and 2 more in the backyard last Thursday. Don't know where they came from. Ah Marh told me you saw the ones in the backyard and dragged Ah Gong there to ask him "What is this?". He told you they were "bees".

Later that evening, when I came home, we went to examine the 2 'bees' in the backyard once more. You peered at them and promptly told me they were "sleeping". I told you they were dead but you insisted they were not, by saying, "No, Sleeping!" I didn't argue.

On Friday, I was having lunch with a colleague who recently became a 1st time mom. She was asking me if I was more careful about taking care of myself after having a kid and told me she can't even cross the road now without being extra cautious. I gave it some thought and told her that having a kid gives you a keener sense of mortality (the fear of impermanence).

And on Saturday, during my yoga class, the instructor, an ex-boss, a friend, told us about her recent trip to India for her 2nd level meditation course - a rebirthing process to purify the energies of her 7 chakras. She said that she discovered one very important thing during this trip and she summarized it as "Life is a joke!"

So my dear boy, why bother with life if at the end of the day, you end up sleeping forever, fear the end even while still alive or believe that it is all a joke?

I don't have the answers, although I believe the study of Buddhism will help shed some light.

I don't know

Mymmy: Yang Yang, what is this?
*Yang Yang looks at the picture and ponders all of 2 seconds*
YY: What is this? I don't know.

Papa: eH? You know how to use 'I don't know' already arh?
Mummy: Who taught him that?
Papa: I don't know.

Hmmm.......

Close Window

MM: Did you both sleep well last night?
PP: Yes, sleep well. He wake up once to ask me to "close window", then went back to sleep.
MM: Why did he ask you to close the windows?
PP: Don't know. He sleep disorder one! Even want to be very busy while he is sleeping. Maybe next time will wake up to run around, then go back to sleep.

Lost in translation

"sometimes, you have to travel halfway around the world...to come a full circle"

1st photo in Tokyo

"Confused Monkey"

Found this fellow sitting on the sidewalk and scratching his head.

Don't we feel that way sometimes?

Akihabara

Went there looking for Ah Gong's digital MD voice recorder.

Found this instead.

Heated hair rollers!

(",) ...and a Bandai toy for you!

What you can do if you have some boxes on a Friday night

Drag the boxes around...
Sit inside one of them and figure out how retractable car keys work...
Smile for the camera when your Mummy asks you to.

2 reasons why you should oblige. One, it makes your mummies really happy but more importantly, it keeps them from trying to get you out of the box.

At least for a while. Unless they offer you cherries like mine did. They are really good so you should get out of the box to eat them. I came out for those yummy black cherries myself! My Mummy watches while I pull off the stalks, bite them and dig or spit out the seeds. It amuses her. I don't really know why.

When the cherries ran out, go back into the box! You never know if you'd be offered chocolates later. My Mummy insists on keeping my toys inside these boxes. It really is more fun to have them strewn all over the house. You never know when you need them.

Sigh, I have to take the blocks she's already put inside out again. Some of them are poking into my diaper anyways and hey, while I'm at it, I might as well stack them up and build something!

Ohmpah Hoo Har Hood

I haven't found out what "Hoo-Har-Hood" means but the sound of it seems to delight you so much so you repeat it nonstop to yourself and demand that I do too.

"Ohmpah", the other word you made up, means kissing with the mouth open and leaving very, very, very wet patches behind.

Show-off

SUNDAY
Mummy, "BY, how old are you?"
....*silence*
Mummy, "BY, how old are you? BY say...I am 2 years old."
I figured that by the time you learn this, you'd be 2 years old anyway.
BY, "twenty months!"
Mummy, " HUH??? WHAT DID YOU SAY???"
BY, "twenty months old!"
A bit shocked. Who taught you that?
Mummy, " BY, you are twenty-two months old now. How old are you now?"
BY, "twenty-two months!"

YESTERDAY
Mummy, "BY, tell Dr. Ang how old are you?"
*silence*
.....after 2 minutes...."twenty-two months"
Dr. Ang, "Wah, so clever!"
YEAH!!! MY SON VERY CLEVER LEH! HAHHAHAA

THIS MORNING
Mummy, "BY, do you want to eat some bread?"
BY, "BUTTER!"
Mummy, "No, no butter"
BY, "KAYA???"
Wha piang!

BEFORE LEAVING THE HOUSE
Mummy, "Bye bye BY!"
BY, lifting both hands up, "Hug!"
Mummy HUG, Mummy KISS.
BY, running to Papa, "Hug!"
Papa HUG, Papa OOMPAH.
.....and before we drove the car out, BY calls out, "駕車小 心!"
Aiyoh! Heart melts.....

Nebulizer / Bronchodilator

Had to convince you that you've done this before. Think you are getting sick of us sticking it in front of your face 3 times a day. Showed you a photo of a 'baby BY' using the nebulizer and you calmed down.