Puppy love

(Aiyoh, I'm editing my title and some 'letters' below. As soon as Google Ads pick up any word they think resembles info from an undesirable website, my ads disappear on me!)

I'd taken a leave of absence from blogging because it was exam month! The kids' exams to be exact. Not that I actually help them with their studies. I just sit around and nag them a bit here and there. So for me, today's the last day of the younger kid's exam. Phew!

I get a headache just looking at my kid's secondary school math book. Threw that out of the window a long time ago. It's totally greek to me now. Read a Chinese text book? Well it goes something like this. Given that 'O' is the word I can read and '__' is the word I can't, the reading goes something like this: OOOO __ __ OOOOO __ __ __ OO __ __ OOOOO.. You get the drift. That's how I (and some other classmates I know) read during school oral exams and how I wrote during Chinese compositions. (Hey! They allow dictionaries now for composition writing. How cool is that?) I really have no idea how I passed my 'AO' Level Chinese all those moons ago. I do remember my classmate giving me sentences to memorise for oral (you know, just in case this topic comes out, or that topic comes out).

Anyway, with exams shoved aside, it's time for the year end holidays and won't the kids just love that??? I'm hoping that a particular kid whom I don't know at all, will at least be enjoying it a little. See, two nights ago, we heard a commotion at our apartment's void deck. A girl was yelling at someone, that what they had couldn't possibly be love! She was yelling, he was yelling, their friends were yelling. A lovers' quarrel.
Thing is, they weren't just quarrelling. The boy was shoving and pulling the girl. Judging by the size and looks of the kids (I was being a 'kaypoh' (busybody) from the window), they looked to be no older than 15. They had moved out from the void deck to the road side, in full view of the heavy traffic. Then, he slapped her! The girl ran off and the boy went after her. She acted as though she wanted the boy to hold her back. She came back. They yelled some more. The friends yelled at her too. All this while, I was wondering if I should call the cops. I was also thinking that the kids would have left by the time the cops arrived. Some people walked past them but avoided them. They didn't try to stop the commotion. So the 'lovers' continued their spat. I didn't see him hitting her again but she didn't seem to be wanting to get away from him anyway. It ended (well, I mean, I couldn't see anymore from where I was standing) when a guy came to break them up. My kids told me they overheard that guy claiming to be an off-duty cop. The girl ran across the road and the boy gave chase.

I just pray this girl comes to her senses and walks away from the boy for good.

Blueberry

Simple joys of parenting.....
Last night......

Son: (trying hard to concentrate on his homework) "Mum, can you please upgrade my handphone or not?"

Mum: (painting her toe nails) "Hmmm? Upgrade? Whatever for?

Son: "Can or not? Like some PDA phone or what."

Mum: "Why can't you use my old LG phone? It's a PDA what."

Son: "I dunno.... how about like...... Apple iphone?"

Mum: "Huh! For YOU?!"

Son: (head down, still writing) "Or maybe a Blueberry."

Mum: (head down, still painting) "Blueberry, whatever do you want a Blueberry for? You need to check many emails issit?"

Son: (Silent)

Mum: (Silent)

Suddenly, they look at each other and realise what they've just said.
Both burst out laughing at the same time: "OK! Can!"

(Note: Son relates conversation to Dad later and Dad says even Blueberries are expensive. He promises him a 'strawberry' instead)