No! Don’t Stop…

It was the second time I caught Jr while he’s alone in the shower..

Me : Hey! why did you put hair shampoo on you armpit?
Jr : I just want my ketiak (sometimes he says Kelitak) to grow hair like you..

Duhhh! what’s so special bout that??????

I ermm, We always been dreaming our kids to be multi lingual.. not just basic Bahasa n English, but more if possible.. Mrs loves European languages; French, Spanish, Italian etc while I like Oriental; Mandarin, Japanese etc..

We don’t want to push him though cause afraid he might be confused. However at the age of 4+, I think Jr can already differentiate which is which.. His Kindie is English based, Bahasa and Mandarin classes also available..

Last night, after went back from Mama’s, it was still early for lights off.. so we allowed 30 minutes TV for the kids.. as I was flipping the channel from Nayla’s favourite 556 to Faeq’s fave 616; Faeq stopped me at 611.. Ultraman Gaia was on..

Not that I don’t like the channel, but I think the translation is a bit dodgy.. so I changed the audio language.. but there’s only Japanese.. kewl, i thought..

Few secs later Faeq stood up, he turned up the TV volume.. tried to catch what was the character saying..

Then he asked me..

Faeq : Why it is different? Just now it was bahasa?
Daddy : Oh, this is Japanese.. you like the language?
Faeq : Yeah I like
Daddy : Later we can send you to Japanese class.. Or probably we can ask Uncle Kadir or Uncle Nizar to teach you.. They can speak Japanese.. You know both of them, right?
Faeq : Yeah.. but I think I want Uncle Ultraman…

Isk isk isk.. Mana aku nak carik uncle ultraman nih..

Quoted from The Star

Decision on teaching Maths, Science in English by month’s end (Updated)
By SIMON KHOOand KAREN CHAPMAN

KUANTAN: A decision on whether to continue teaching Mathematics and Science in English is expected to be reached by the end of this month.

Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said the Cabinet would make a final decision after gathering all the feedback from the relevant agencies and other ministries.

Read more..

Frankly I think, the idea of teaching Math and Science in English is very good. Perhaps somewhere somehow the implementation wasn’t as supposed.. Understood that some which may not even be a majority are really pushing for it but I am totally against of flip(flop)ing back BM.. However improving the implementation is a must to avoid future generation from lacking behind..

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At night, Jr was on sugar-rush after a visit from his cousins from seremban earlier that evening.. jumping up and down on the bed.. mummy couldnt stand it any longer and began her infamous counting..

Mummy : “You better go to sleep now before I count to ten!! Masuk tido! SAAA-TU!!!”

Heh.. Do you think that’ll work on this Cheeky little boy???

Prolly in his mind : (Lalalalala.. Tomorrow don’t have school.. lalalalalalala.. Mummy wanna count? I can count also)
Jr : SATU… DUA…. TIGA… EMPAT…. (long pause).. SATU… DUA…. TIGA… EMPAT..
Daddy & Mummy : (puzzled)

Jr : Errrr.. Daddy.. what’s FIVE?????

Ouch!!!

We, strongly support PPSMI!!

I believe almost everyone of you would know above magic word.. if you don’t, Read it here

Thats not the story.. I was actually wondering how does my 4+ year old son know how to use above word..

it began during our short trip to Singapore.. 4 of us flew to the Lion City on Aeroline.. nice and comfy bus but have to bear 5 hours traveling time which is somehow relatively nothing compared to the hassle to drive or actually flying there.. anyway.. our journey from KL to Spore was in the morning, we slept, ate, watched DVD etc on the bus.. by the last hour we kinda didnt know what to do and decided to hang out on the lower deck.. so we chit chatted whatever until Junior said..

Jr : Abracadabra.. make Daddy to Faeq, make Faeq to daddy.. make Nayla to Mummy and make mummy to Nayla..

we were kinda puzzled.. where did he learn those stuffs.. but.. Me became Faeq? i saw a very huge opportunity.. what Faeq does the best..

Me : Daddy, daddy.. I want Power Rangers!! I want toys!! I want ice cream
Mummy : daddy.. daddy.. nak.. nak.. (pulling his hands and feet.. pretending to be Nayla)

and we kept on and on.. and he didn’t know what to do.. until less than one minute later..

Jr : ok.. ok.. Abracadabra.. turn everyone back to themselves..

hahahaha.. my son if you read this, be thankful for having such wonderful parents (:P) who can stand you when u can’t stand yourself for more than a minute..

from that point.. we often play abracadabra..

Part 2

Well.. thats not the end of story.. such an imaginative smart kid always got tricks in his sleeves..

one very weekend afternoon, Mrs had lunch all served on the table.. Jr was busy playing with toys together with little Miss.. so I called both of them to the dining room..

Me : Hurry up.. have lunch.. after that you have to clean up all the mess..

Immediately after we enjoyed our lunch..

Jr : Abracadabra.. turn Daddy to Faeq, turn Faeq to daddy!! FAEQ!! clean UP..

and we both speechless!

post note : I’ve to be very careful when handling him now, need to lessen my shouting and smacking what so ever.. cause he might use it against me.. Hai.. Anak Bertuah! Lucky indeed..

One of my favourite cartoon series is MASK. It was like 20 years ago.. I’ve been looking for its DVD/torrent for quite sometime.. Finally, thanks to Youtube.. all the episodes are available here..

So, recently i’ve been actively downloading the episodes to my ipod.. like always, my busy body little one would also want to watch it.. then I told him about the cartoon and how I used to own ‘Condor’ (my fave) and ‘Bullet’.. He seems now also addicted to it and requesting to watch the cartoon almost every nite.. His favourite character is Matt Trakker, MASK leader..

Yesterday, as he woke up in the morning.. he said to me..

+ : “Daddy, I mimpi VENOM caught me, then VENOM want to put me into fire.. But I punched him and turn to Power Ranger..”
- : [nothing to say]

[post note 20080926] - Jr was screaming last night and pushing everybody who wanted to comfort him… when asked if he had a bad dream, he agreed and blamed it to some robots trying to attack him..

Theme Song Lyrics

M-m-m-ma
M.A.S.K.!
Is the mighty power that can save the day,
M-m-m-ma
M.A.S.K.!
No one knows what lies beyond their masquerades,
M-m-m-ma
M.A.S.K.!
Always riding on Venom’s trail,
Come see the laser rays,
Fly away!

I went back from office yesterday and found Jr with his new toy.. Badminton rackets + a shuttle cock.. He waited for me to play with him..

Since it was still early for Berbuka, I gave it a try.. playing inside the house..

I served to him, but he miss hit it.. Then he took the shuttle cock, somehow he was like, threw it in the floor.. I was puzzled.. then he took it again and did the same thing.. as if he wanted to bounce the shuttle cock.. Finally he said to me.. “Look Daddy, I’m NADAL”

Ah silly me.. he never watch any badminton before.. but he is quite a big fan of tennis.. I just wondering, Malaysia has produced a world no 1 squash pro, also successful badminton players.. why not a tennis Ace? maybe someone can become a Datuk in the future..

However read this first.. excerpts from Wiki.. on Andre Agassi..

He called Agassi’s two older siblings “guinea pigs” in the development of his coaching techniques. He honed Andre’s eye-coordination when he was an infant by hanging tennis balls above his crib. He gave Agassi paddles and balloons when he was still in a high chair. When Agassi started playing tennis, his ball collection filled 60 garbage cans with 300 balls per can, and Agassi would hit 3,000–5,000 balls every day. When Andre was five years old, he was already practicing with pros such as Jimmy Connors and Roscoe Tanner.