Kids

It was another usual saturday night on which pasar malam is located just in front of my house a.k.a. dad's shop. People might think this is good and convenient cz i need not walk nor drive nor travel a long way just to get some food/fruits/vegetables, in fact, yes it is. But think about the inconveniences, i have never had a weekend in peace all these years due to the noise produced mainly by the CD stall set up just right in front of my house.

Night market starts around 5:30pm and lasts till 11:00pm so the loud thunderous music with its base amplifier will be functioning throughout the working hours. Imagine the repetitive song keeps going on and on and it's so annoying that you feel like pounding it down fiercely with your hammer. In other words, i can neither focus nor study from the start to finish and i almost couldn't do any good thing unless the hawkers stop trading and close their stalls.

Since the CD stall is set up further down into my house corridor, as close to the gate enclosing my home stairs, i can thus see Uncles, ah pek even ah Beng! spending time picking their bestest porn DVD whenever i happened to walk upstairs/downstairs. Of course la when the night market is getting busier this corner is getting more crowded. As you can see from their 'serious' looking, as if doing some kind of Big research racking their brains thinking deeply. hahah funny expression.

So during this 5+ hours leisure time, i always seem to laze around the house, lay on the couch switching tv channels, walk around holding a cup filled with water, head to downstairs, read some newspapers, ransack the refrigerator, help dad to look after/close his shop, pour over ghost stories, switch on the computer only to later discover i really dislike slouching in front of the computer, shut down the computer, sit at my working table, wait for water to boil, sketch draw doodle, write journal, brew chinese tea, stare at my schedule and exam timetable, dreaming.... It's fine for them to play the oldies/commercially successful music however being over-played just makes me.... owh give me a break...!!

The clock displayed 9:03pm, being a lil bit drowsy i thought i could just get a chance of dozing as to kill the rest of the period of idling so that i could maybe lengthen my time on doing some reading later on.

zzz..........

Not even 30 minutes resting of eyes, i heard high-pitched voices.... listened carefully to the age in the voice...... it's children's voice! Yep apparently my cousin dropped by my house after buying some things at the night market, along with their 2,4,7 yrs old children. You know, when adults were having their adult's conversation, children tend to run around, especially those who are already familiar with the zone in your house. So whenever their parents came, these 3 lil kids will probably sound mommy mommy i want to go upstairs to find the gor gor je je.

Within no time you can hear them banging (not knocking) the wooden door. The moment you open the door is like Giant welcoming Dwarfs, they are just too Mini that you can hardly acknowledge their presence lol. Anyway never look down on Kids cz they can move real fast like lightning from standing on the doorstep to sneaking around in your bedroom, even though their short little pair of legs look so infirm and breakable, like lotus root :P (dear kids no offense)

Before anything happened, the first safety measure to take is to keep glass accessories away from children cz when kids're around the probability of 'accidentally-knock-something-off suddenly' gets very high. Every kid is different, as is their degree of discipline of course. When it comes to obedience, girl is likely to do better than boy, i think (at least they won't transform into out-of-control animal, spank you or kick you when overexcited)

I also see parents who have no clue how to raise their kids and some seem to have pampered their children too much, they didn't train their child in the way they should go and their kids end up misbehaved so badly, for instance a kid whose father is my dad's friend. This 5-yrs-old kid had been so inobedient that you wanted to tie him to the chair and make him stop playing the electronics hand tool say soldering gun. Lecturing the kid in front of his mom is not a good thing to do though so we'll just let the mother to do the yelling and shouting of course

His mother :"ah boy~!! come back here~!! 回来!!! faster!! COME HERE!!!" (always in vain) *rolling our eyeballs*

Well mine is still ok, in my friend's case, she had to format her laptop due to some reason which is all caused by her dad's friend's kid, too! lol if i'm not mistaken the same kid spoilt her house plant too, as she told.

Alright back to these 3 kids, fortunately they are far more better than both the kids i've mentioned, PHEW!.. You know, some kids tend to mean contrary to what is spoken, like in the beginning they said they want to 'find big gor gor j j to play' but at the moment they see you, they'll just keep their move and stand there smiling at you, slowly shuffle to the couch then stick their buttocks in it, remain in the sit, bashfully smile at you when you look at them- this is what they maybe called it 'play', so lovely haha

These kids consists of 1 girl (eldest) and 2 boys. Being like little chick, the youngest bro always followed wherever her sister goes; as for the older one he never act like DiGi Yellowman, he had been more independent with his own direction :]

I'm not sure did you people ever notice that child who has at least one or more older female sibling/s (Sister) is likely to behave better compare to those who doesn't have? how bout those who have older Bro you may ask, well my answer is It Depends. If the older bro is good boy (i mean those who don't fight nor talk rudely la) the youngers consequently carries the trait; but if the older bro himself can't even manage and take self-control, his younger siblings will certainly act crazily along. ***Psss please take note that the above statements are NOT applicable for Kids above 10 :P as all of us know when Kids are stepping into the teenage mind, they will all set their own style own interest, own underwear brand too. Hmmm i've met many people all these years, might be friends, schoolmate, coursemate, roommate, teammate, helpmate, approximate, climate, intimate, estimate...... oops sorry off-topic, anyway i can see most of them are good brothers and good sisters :)

Kids love cute things doubtlessly, so my sis's Breadou (the mouse wrist rest) is one of the thingy they never want to let go.

"May i eat this?" (the little girl petting the fake bread gently)
*waving our hand saying no* "but u can smell it or squeeze it if u want to"

...talking to kids may get a little tiring cz you have to apply many types of body languages

"Why? but it looks so nice and yummy..." (still brushing the fake bread tenderly)

"it's just a toy girl, look, fake bread fake coco cream" *lol*

...while the 2 lil bro were still curiously smelling it

"i wanna see what's inside, can i tear it off?"

"O.O! cannot cannot. this is the big je je's belongings, if u spoil it, she will scold scold"

*certain word needs to be doubled when talking to little children, haha i'm sure most of you have no clue why people practice this strange but funny culture, so am i. By the way the other thing i'm very sure is, if my older sis someday finds out her Breadou is torn into 2 pieces........ habislah kami*

All those happened between my lil sis and the 3 kids while i was just sitting at my working table listening to their conversation. So this naive-looking kid (the older brother) left the group and walked up to me, took my older sis's Doctor Octopus the spider-man villain toy and started playing with its tentacle arms.

Me:" hey can u draw something for me?" *pointing at the Dexter's Laboratory cup*

He nodded, started drawing...

Me:"so cute huh' ur Dexter"

He smiled. (it's not exactly alike with that one printed on the cup but it can be seen that the figure is almost there :) at the age of 4..... let's see.... we were still practicing our chicken scratch handwriting right haha)

Me:"anything u would like to draw? like robots... Formula 1 race car....monsters...?"

He took a glance at the ceiling, like me, thinking.....

Me:"Mmmm see if u can draaaaw................... * still thinking.... what do little boys like......* oh ya how bout Transformers?! Power Rangers? Spider-Man? Pokemon? Ultraman?..."

His eyes shone with confidence, calling out with a lot of energy:" Ultraman !!"

Started drawing again...

here you go- ham dan chiu yan I

Me:"can teach me how to draw this anot? my frens always laugh at me cz i dunno how to draw ultraman le.... u teach me la, can?.."

He:"can" (obediently lol) then he taught me stroke by stroke

His 7-yrs-old sister was drawing along by his side too, squeezing through for enough space. She took a glimpse and degraded his drawing by saying some hurtful words =.= which are strong enough to shatter his self-confidence *aiy*

ham dan chiu yan II (seems like this ultraman needs a neck brace to support his injured neck lol she's got her own style somehow B-) )

Believe me, you won't feel good when seeing a kid suddenly turns so sad with his dejected face due to the offense taken (unless you're cold-blooded)

Me:" i thought ultraman got power wan? where's yours?"

He added the 'power'...

Me:"so wad power is that? can destroy the monster in one hit izit?"

He:"ya!! it's Hand Slash.... an energy blast fired from his hand.....bla...."

He talked a lot and i enjoyed listening...

Me:" wa so geng wan.. "

...even though i was totally clueless XD It's really good to see the restored motivation that held his enthusiasm back after :) These kids left home eventually, complained to their mom somemore why they must leave so early (it's 11:10pm- ur bed time already babies =.=)

Oh ya people, so do you like Kids? And what are the types of qualities you can't tolerate in them? (if any)

Of course, patience and high tolerance is the first and foremost a person need to have when handling them. Respect the Kid! or you'll get accused of Bullying >.<