Going away...

...again.
This time,
alone.

Back Tuesday.

Some pictures from the trip

Kintamani Volcano Lake Batur

Waterfall near Ubud

Food

Uluwatu - the cliffs are spectacular!

Visiting DL at his home in Bali

What did it not want to see? Sea turtle

Going away...

...going going, going AWAY!!! ... for a few days.

All 3
2.5 hours by air.
1050 miles southeast of Singapore
6 days
5 nights

Translations

We brought back a Chicken Pie last night and told him what it was...
and he went, "Chicken Pie? YEAH! JI-PAI!!!"

***OMG!***

We blame it on the textbook that his school had given him, titled "Ping-Guo-Pai" (Apple Pie).

Death and 5-year olds

So my paternal grandmother passed away when I was five. The funeral was so much fun! No school, lots of visitors, cousins to play & camp overnight with, plus an endless supply of cold drinks and food. It was so much fun, I wished the only other grandparent I had could die soon so that we could have another 'celebration'! When she did die, I was already in my late twenties and by then, funerals had taken on a different meaning and colour altogether.

Fast forward to yesterday. We brought the small one to his Great-granduncle's wake...

Your Ye-Ye's Gu-Gu died. We are going to his funeral. He's body is lying in the coffin.
>>> Is he going to be a star?
Yes.
>>> Can he open his eyes?
No.
>>> So how is he going to get out?
...he's already a star now. Everyone has a soul and the soul leaves the body to become a star.
>>> *Pointing to his feet* HERE???
No lar! This SOUL is different from the one on your feet.
>>> Where's my soul?
... Close your eyes!
*he closes his eyes*
...THERE!!!
*he opens his eyes in wonder*
>>>So how does the soul get out? Where's the hole?
Do you perspire?
>>> Orh!!! Through the tiny tiny holes in our skin arh?
YEP!

Later, at the wake...the big one lifted the boy up to have a look. I was looking at them both. The big one, by his expression, was worried that the small one would be frightened to see a person in the 'box'. The small one however, was not one bit scared. He saw what we told him he would see - a body in the 'box' and nothing more.

In fact, he wanted to look very closely, and from all sides! He even noted that there was a pair of spectacles in the old man's pocket! And made us lift him for another 2 times to see.

It was an amazing experience for me to watch them both.

Through the eyes and minds of five-year-olds, death is simple, purely an incident of nature and unadulterated by any irrational fear.

Factual morning

So I told him I was going to make him bacon & eggs for breakfast. 15 minutes later, I back to the bedroom and told him it's bacon & cheese instead because I can't find the eggs and that I think the chickens flew in through our windows in the the middle of the night and collected their eggs.

The almost 5 year old said, "No. The eggs finished already lar!" "Chickens live in cages, the hole in the cage too small. They cannot come out. Only the eggs can come out into the packaging."

*sigh*... all grown up. No fun anymore!

A phone call and a conversation

So he's been calling me on my phone regularly:
"Mummy, where are you?"
"Mummy, are you coming back to get me?"
"How many minutes??"

This afternoon, he called and we talked:

How was school today?
Great! It was GREAT! They call me something in school today. I can't remember the word and I called them back the same.
Who called you what?
*S* said I was RUDE and I said she was RUDE back and then she said I was RUDE and then I say she was RUDE and we QUARRELLED. Then *V* took the eraser and didn't want to give it to me but I found one on the other table. We have two separate tables in our class. I showed the eraser to *D* and *D* told *V* and then they were surprised but I tell *D* it's a secret. .........

Hmm... that is his definition of a "GREAT day at school" ?!? Most other days, he tells me school today is "GOOD".

B-WARE

How would you teach your sons or daughters about sex? Would you handle this responsibility yourself or would you leave it to their teachers, schools or the society in general to tell them what is NORMAL, ABNORMAL, RIGHT or WRONG? Please leave a comment.

x to the power of zero = 1

X^0 = 1
Why??

Finally found out why:

X^1 = X
X^2 = X*X = X^(1+1)
X^1/X^1= X^(1-1) = X^0 = 1

Got it?

Todays I had fun

Breakfast at Mum's
Some lovely taro porridge
12 laps swam & lunch at the club
Home cooked dinner (with Vegemite)
I really like Vegemite.
Peeled grapes (here's how)
for the boy...and some for me
Yesterday was fun too...!
Beached out a bit in the sun
then cooled down @ Harry's Bar (Dempsey) late at night
sneaked out for a bit while the boy slept
Read The White Tiger in between.
And the day before yesterday?
Saw the 'Queen' at the Supper Club
after eating a topsy turvy cake of course
Amazing todays isn't it?