Beautiful Butterfly

Children are simply amazing. They can come out with the most creative answer and do things you out of expectation. I read these on TheStar and it’s really funny!Children, you simply love them!

Pregnant mermaids and oysters’ balls

HERE are snippets from children writing about the sea: 

·  This is a picture of an octopus. It has eight testicles. (Kelly, age six)   

·  Oysters’ balls are called pearls. (James, six) 

·  If you are surrounded by sea you are an island. If you don’t have sea all round you, you are in continent. (

Wayne

, seven) 

·  Sharks are ugly and mean, and have big teeth, just like Emily Richardson. She’s not my friend no more. (Kylie, six) 

·  A dolphin breathes through an asshole on the top of its head. (Billy, eight) 

·  My uncle goes out in his boat with pots, and comes back with crabs. (Millie, six) 

·  When ships had sails, they used to use the trade winds to cross the ocean. Sometimes, when the wind didn’t blow, the sailors would whistle to make the wind come. My brother said they would be better off eating beans. (William, seven) 

·  I like mermaids. They are beautiful, and I like their shiny tails. How do mermaids get pregnant? (Helen, six) 

·  I’m not going to write about the sea. My baby brother is always screaming and being sick, my Dad keeps shouting at my Mom, and my big sister has just got pregnant, so I can’t think what to write. (Amy, six) 

·  Some fish are dangerous. Jellyfish can sting. Electric eels can give you a shock. They have to live in caves under the sea where I think they have to plug themselves into chargers. (Christopher, seven) 

·  When you go swimming in the sea, it is very cold, and it makes my willy small. (Kevin, six) 

·  Divers have to be safe when they go under the water. Two divers can’t go down alone, so they have to go down on each other. (Becky, eight) 

God’s watching!

Nothing beats honesty and wisdom, straight from the mouths of babes.

THE teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because, even though it was a very large mammal, its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. 

Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human – it was physically impossible. 

The little girl said, “When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah. 

The teacher asked, “What if Jonah went to hell?” 

The little girl replied, “Then you ask him.” 

A KINDERGARTEN teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The child replied, “I’m drawing God.” 

The teacher paused and said, “But no one knows what God looks like.” 

Without looking up from her drawing, the child said, “They will in a minute.” 

A SUNDAY school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five- and six-year-olds. After explaining the commandment to “honour” thy father and thy mother, she asked, “Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?” 

Without missing a beat, one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, “Thou shall not kill.” 

ONE day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out on her brunette head. 

“Why are some of your hairs white, mum?” 

“Well, every time you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.” 

The girl thought about this for a while, then said, “How come ALL of grandma’s hairs are white?” 

THE children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. “Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘There’s Jennifer, she’s a lawyer.’ Or, ‘That’s Michael. He’s a doctor’.” 

A small voice at the back of the room rang out, “And there’s the teacher. She’s dead.” 

A TEACHER was giving a lesson on the circulation of blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, “Now if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.” 

“Yes,” the class said. 

“Then why is it that while I am standing upright, the blood doesn’t run into my feet?” 

A little fellow shouted, “Because your feet ain’t empty.” 

THE children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. 

The nun made a note and posted it on the apple tray: “Take only ONE. God is watching.” 

Further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table, was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note: “Take all you want. God is watching the apples.”

When u’re single and doing a routine job everyday, u wouldn’t have realised how fast clock is ticking. It’s not as if I don’t appreciate time, I do but when I was younger and just out from uni with my first job, I wished I was 27 or 28 then. That’s becoz at that time, ppl still regard u as a freshie and naive. You still have to depend on your parents ( sometimes) for financial support though I’m glad to say that since I got my first job, I have been able to pay my insurance, car instalment and etc without any help.

Also, looking back 1 year ago where I was anticipating for the birth of my first child and when he was born, I kept asking when he will start his first baby language of ga-ga, his first smile, his first body roll over, his first teeth, first crawl, stand unsupported and finally walk. Why? Firstly so that he won’t be so dependable on us the adults to meet his needs and secondly, it’s a joy to see him achieving all these. For those who has been there as parents, you’ll know what I meant. You’ll know how proud you are and you can also see the brightly lit face of your toddler.

My son achieved all that and he started walking after his first birthday and mind you I was overjoyed when he took his first few steps! Now, he’s quiet pro in his walking. Then there was the proud moment of bringing him to the mall and letting him walk independently while he explore his new surrounding. It’s fun, ppl actually tried to coaxed him to walk over to their side because it’s so funny the way he walked… like a duckling and not straight. The moment before he fell, he was able to regain control again and walk.

Now that he’s walking, it doesn’t mean I can sit down and relax. I have to start running after him with my bulging stomach making sure he doesn’t play with dirty or dangerous stuffs while you know you can NEVER ask a child to sit still. Time spent with him is never boring, it’ll only make you exasperated. There are time he plays with his urine, shit, jumping from the sofa, pooking his fingers into the electrical code, opening and taking everything out from the drawers and God knows what else!

Am I anticipating the birth of my second baby? I do but I also wish that I’m back in my life as single where I can just lay lazily on my bed the whole day, not getting any food or urine on my clothes and chit-chatting with my girlfriends over our dreamguys, shopping for sexy clothes (now I have to think of which sensible clothes to wear so that my little one won’t pull easily and exposed my chest) and make-up.

Last Monday, two monorail trains in Klang Valley abruptly stopped in the middle of the track due to system failure causing thousands of commuters stranded at the train stations for hours. The air-conditioned in the two trains were shut down causing stuffy air in the packed monorails and the doors of the monorails were shut sending mostly women and children feeling panicked and some even fainted. Impatient commuters pried open the doors and a few even stand on the rails.

As interrupted public services happens all the times, it didn’t make it into the big news in the media. The spokeperson for the monorail company even said that their system is good enough that the last time such thing happened was last year. My concern is what is the precautionary actions the company takes in case of emergency such as fire? The failed proof doors could have kill hundreds in the trains.

I remembered a documentary of accident happened at a famous ski resort recounted by the victims in Discovery Channel. The train was not even powered by fuel and as usual during the holiday season, people make their way up the ski resort for holidays. It started with a small fire at the back of the train but the commuters were not able to tell the person operating the train as there were no speakers or cameras connecting to the head of the train. Soon as the train reached the middle of the tunnel, it stopped and  the doors were jammed so people started breaking windows of the train. By the time the passengers at the front of the train realised what was happening, thick somke was already filling the whole tunnel. Panicked, most of the passengers followed their conscience and walked away from the fumes which is to go up the tunnel that is ascending the mountain. Another group of maybe twelve passengers led by a fireman among them told them to bear the smoke and go down the mountain.

Now where is the firemen you must be asking? Since they were at a high altitude and inside the tunnel, firemen were not able to reach them. The twelve people survived while the rest including a few at the resthouse (since the tunnel led to the resthouse) die of smoke inhalation and since then, steps of precaution has been taken to prewent such things from happening in the future.

Back to our local monorails failure few days ago, commuters have no other choice other than continue commuting through trains but what is the monorail management doing to ensure a better safety measures? Are they going to wait for people to sacrifice their lives before pointing fingers and feeling regrets for not having a safety measure? I wonder!

It’s not something new that we, Malaysians are associated with bad driving. As soon as we got behind the wheel, it’s our own world. We let emotions rule our abilities to think rationally. It’s the same old story again and again.

It’s also not surprising that statistic shows that women are worse drivers than men. Wonder how they come out with that statistic but being a woman driver myself, i can’t really argue or stand up against that statistic. Being a constant driver and driving everyday thru and fro to the busiest city in Malaysia, I’m immune to Malaysians bad driving.

Something happened today to spark my anger to write about this today. I was on my way to work and as usual after the Batu 9 tol plaza, the jammed would begin from four to five lanes squeezing into two lanes right in front of the Phoeniz Plaza. Cars would be cutting/changing lanes to get out from that situation. Many times I have blame the irresponsible motorcyclists who ride like nobody business, not even caring about their own safety through the jammed but today, I have seen from my mirror a motorcyclist was riding straight without cutting corners when an idiotic driver in a black Honda CRV cut into the next lane and the back of the car caused the motorcyclist to fell.

Funny thing is the driver did not stop. Our first instinct is to feel concern about the condition of the motorcyclist. I saw the driver passed me and u guessed it, it’s a woman driver. There is no expression from her face and i didn’t even see her looking back at the mirror to see the condition of the motorcyclist. I gave chase and when I’m next to the car, I honked twice at her. Her expression is still as if she didn’t know why she was honked at. I thought of winding down my window to scold her when I see a long queue at the back of me and I quickly abandoned the thought. I think after the whole incident, she still didn’t know that she has knocked down a motorcyclist! She is so ignorant of her surrounding. How can we put such drivers on the road??? She would at least heard a bang on her car and at least look at the back to see where that sound comes from unless she put her radio to a deafening volume.

I have her car plate number WMA 9688 and thought of maybe making a police report but when I told a few persons about the incident, they felt it’s just a normal case and nothing to report about so I also abandoned the idea. Okay, maybe I overreacted. With that speed, the motorcyclist could have only a minor injuries but I wasn’t satisfied that the lady driver didn’t take a look at the victim! How many times while we are driving and people simply cut into our lanes without looking or driving slowly on the fast lanes while a long queue of cars tried to pass him? Obviously these drivers are very much into their world while driving and they don’t even know how to use the rear mirrors on their cars. Man, our roads are a seriously dangerous place to be.

I am now in my second trimester in my pregnancy meaning most of the morning sickness will be gone. My energy is picking up but not for long I expect as the tummy will get bigger and bigger and slow down every movements I make.

The sex of my baby is not known yet, maybe on the next visit but I hope I can keep it a mystery for as long as I can hold. I was too excited and blurted it out to everyone who asked me during my first pregnancy and then regretted. What if my baby wasn’t a boy and people will say that I’m so desperate for a boy. For this one though, many predicted that I’ll have a girl. Maybe I should set a bet with those interested and see what is the outcome. Maybe can earn some extra money!

Suddenly, we heard of babies everywhere. Even celebrities find it a good time to give birth, even before marriage but the celebrities that took the lime lights are the TomKat and Brangelina couples. Britney Spear took the lime light for the wrong reason with the issues involving her son Sean Preston’s not sitting on the car seat and falling from his highchair causing him to have a fracture skull. Then many mums came out to protect Spear as they said which mum has never been careless in taking care of their children? I guess it’s true, my son fell from bed twice and I really felt guilty and bad about not being able to be more careful. I have been following the news as often as I can as I find it close to my heart…getting pregnant, having babies and taking the new role of being a mum.

Don’t really like TomKat couple though as I feel that Tom Cruise is a control freak and he look very fake to me. He and his famous smile is all we see all the time. Kind of pity Katie Holmes, young and innocent ( comparing with other celebrities) and very much lost in her dream of being with her dreamguy. Hasn’t she realised that most dreamguy we had in our early years will make our dreams bad? They are best to remain as dreams.

As for Brangelina couple, many also do not like them as they felt that Brad Pitt is Angelina’s toy boy, being drag along around the world and letting Angelina making most decisions and mostly Angelina is hated for causing the breakup of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston as they are seen as perfect couple. Now, I hated Angelina at first but then you can’t blame it solely on one person for the breakup. Then my hate slowly went away as I see Angelina from different views. I see her as a sexy wild lady but she has the courage to go through pregnancy as most celebrities won’t risk losing their figures for pregnancy. I see her as a loving adopted mother of two children from third world countries as many feared being parents and she’s only 31 now. I see her as United Nation ambassador, using her popularity to divert attention to the problems around the world.

Come on, she is so much younger than Brad Pitt. She is 31, Brad, 42. Surely Brad Pitt is not so stupid to be drag around by her. She must has the charm that Brad admires. Even I am respecting her more. Her decision to move to Namibia to avoid photographers put the small country to the attention to everyone. Imagine giving birth in a small hospital with little equipment instead of choosing sophisticated technologies in the US. Then, after the birth they donated money to two hospitals in Namibia to improve the hospital’s condition and also to a school. Also, knowing that everyone wanted to see baby Shilol Nouvel’s pic and people would do anything to get the shot, why not make the highest bid for the baby’s picture to be donated to the charities? Sigh, such noble cause. If you’ve seen Angelina’s pic taken after birth, she still look as great. Not everyone would have done what they have done. Now, I see them as not just beautiful couple but a beautiful family.

Pregnant ladies have weird dreams all the times I read due to all the changes in bodies and hormones and also due to anxieties and I do admit that I have more dreams than I usually do before pregnant.

Some of the dreams really bothered me especially the few that I dreamt couple of weeks before. The first dream was about being chased by ghost and of all the ghost, it is ‘Sa Sa’ auntie from the Wah Lai Toi 8pm series "Kai Tai Fun Hei". I know it sounded silly but that dream had me screaming myself awake.

The second one was about me being pressured by a group of friends to give poison drink to our guru(sifu) in a bid to kill him. Though my friends all avoided being there during the poisoning, I made them sit there and watched their beloved guru drinking the poison. The saddest part was our guru knew about the poison but he still drink it and it had me crying myself awake.

The worst of it all is the third dream I had that bothered me the most. I was carrying my baby for a walk with my husband when my sis-in-law appeared in no where and insisted that we meet the new parents of the baby that we have given away for adoption. Puzzled, I followed her though I didn’t know what she was talking about. What baby? What adoption? I have my baby with me! I hold the baby that had no resemblance to my baby at all but there is instant mother-child bond we had straightaway. My sis-in-law explained that I had given him away at 6months and poor couple, they can’t have children for years. Still confused, I see them taking my baby away and suddenly I sort of being jerk awake from my confusion and started sreaming and chasing them asking them to give him back to me. I would never have given my child for adoption and at that instant I woke up and seeing my son sleeping a little further away from me, I drew him close and held him tightly.

My friend suggested that I surfed online to see what my dreams were all about and though I checked the dreammoods dictionary with words like ‘abandonement’,'baby’ or ‘giving’, I can’t find the exact meaning to how I was feeling about my dreams.

After pondering for few days about the my third dream, I drew the conclusion that maybe the first baby I held is my second child that I’m bearing right now and the baby I gave away is my first child. Since it was mentioned that our dreams refer to how we actually felt and think, I guess it must be that I was afraid that with the arrival of my second child I might not be able to cope with the responsibilities of motherhood and I was afraid that I might not be able to give as best to either of my children. That must be it…the reason to my dream because I did worried about this issue at the beginning of my second pregnancy. Sigh! I hope I have better dreams next time.

Anyone who has employed a maid before would know the kind of worries and anxiety I am having with employing a foreign maid. My current maid permit is going to expire this september and I have to find another replacement soon. Though she has worked for me for almost two years, I do not know a single thing about her family. You must have thought why I never bother to ask her about it but how could someone who works so far from her family and seeing us everyday would not strike a conversation about her family? I find her terribly secretive. Maybe she doesn’t have a family but someone who doesn’t talk much could make you wonder whether she has any criminal records that she wouldn’t reveal or maybe she is mentally ill.

I know I might be going overboard about this but I was going through Shazmin’s (mix fm breakfast show deejay) blog and she is also freaking out about her new arrival of maid. I can understand how she is feeling about not leaving her toddler of 1+year alone with her maid Joy and she is worried how the maid is going to take care of her baby when it’s due this late June. So her situation is pretty much like mine. When my new maid arrives in September, she has only two months before I’ll give birth in November. I’m luckier than Shazmin in the sense that I do not need to leave my kids alone with my maid because I have my mom to look after them. Even when my firstborn was barely six months, I have instructed my mom to bring my baby out together with her when she leaves the house so even now my baby has the habit of crying if he sees anyone leaves the house without him. However, I do leave my toddler with my maid once in a while now that he’s much bigger as she seems to adore him very much.

It’s not that I’m worried that my maid will abduct my kid (though I do worries sometimes) but she really doesn’t know how to take care of children. When my baby was 5months, she left the back door open while collecting the clothes and my son fell two steps down hitting his head while on his walker despite us reminding her never to leave the door open. Even once we suspected her of accidently caused my baby to have a bruise on his head but she never told us anything about it. She is very adsent-minded in whatever she does as if her mind is not with her all the times. She also leaves the tap water running forgetting to turn it off when she does her chores, leaving the stove when we asked her to watch over the food we’re cooking and etc.

Why I never change another maid then? employing maid is like hitting a jackpot. You’ll never know what you are going to get. What if you get a worse maid after paying additional money for the change of maid? I learnt to not set a high expectations on these foreign maids. Eventhough my my maid sweeps the floors twice a day and it’s still never clean, having her does simple chores is better than not having a helper at all. Afterall, they aren’t paid much and they come from far and poor background where my mom’s previous maid said,"they don’t even need to sweep the floor because they lives in very bad condition where sweeping the floor doesn’t make any difference."

However, our all-too-nice government just signed a memorandum recently with Indonesia to protect the maids. It’s not enough that the maids salary kept increasing, now we can’t even deduct their few months salaries. Halloo….? They need to pay the agents fees to bring them over and they do not even have a single cent and we employer not only also have to pay the agents for bringing the maid but we have to pay for the maid for their agents fees. So it’s the agents who gets all. Who is protecting the employers then? Seriously I don’t mind paying more for the maid but please give us what we deserve for the money worth- a better maid - guaranteed!

With all the normal schedule that I live everyday, one would sometimes ask ourselves what we are living for or what is the purpose of lives? Every morning I wake up at 6.30am and rush out of the house by 7.30am to beat the jammed to eventually get stuck in one, getting into office, have breakfast, read newspaper online, getting paperworks done, resolving staffs problems getting headache listening to the crazy phonecalls which is very bad to a pregnant woman (if you have been to my company you would understand what I mean), rushing to get home and get stuck in the traffic again, dinner, then fed my baby, bathe him, some tv and then battling with my baby to get him sleep and repeating the whole process again for the whole week is quite stressful and maybe too expecting to me.

But one day as I am to repeat to whole process, I happened to glimpse up to the sky when I got out from my house there high up in the sky partly hidden by the clouds is a rainbow with full complete colour arrangement. It’s such a soothing sight, as if to greet me and to let me know that lives is full of colour and worth living for. It brought a smile to my heart and the whole day is such a pleasant day. Even my driving is more polite *wink*. It is these rare phenomenons like sun esclipse, aurora (dying to see one), rainbows though we do see rainbow quite often or even a breathtakingly beautiful sceneries that brought us back to present from the hectic lives and wonder in awe. I can even remember once I saw three rainbows in three different places in one day.

We get enough madness in everyday’s work , of listening or reading about sadistic and heinous crimes in the news, of laughing at the dramas and childish remarks of our politicians who represented us in the government so there’s never short of sighting such beauty of the natures. That’s why we go for holidays to recharged.

Another happy occasion that I encounter is the wedding of a neighbour’s son. The happy energy that they created could even be felt by an onlooker. Hmmn, that brought memories back to my own wedding which felt so long but is about to be two years soon. Ok, enough of babbling. Happy holidays to all.

Read this from TheStar newspaper today. Of course any Malaysian will feel angry reading it but then it’s so true….who are we to blame? I only disagree the point where during World War II, China lack military resources to conduct any large scale military operation. I think the writer needs to study the Chinese history more before saying such words

Malaysia, look inward first

With reference to Elizabeth Looi’s ‘We are not the US’s lapdog’ (March 29), we’d like to first point out that many things in Malaysia are an emulation of the United States, such as the Malaysian flag, fashion, food and music industries.

Turn your TV on any day of the week and you’ll see “Malaysian (American) Idol”. Put on your favourite Nike item and you’re wearing something created by a US company, imported and sold in a Malaysian store which – guess what? – helps the economy.

These may just be aspects of pop culture but let’s not downplay their constant existence and importance in almost every Malaysian’s daily life.

Let’s not forget that one of Malaysia’s chief export destinations is the US next to China and Japan, and that the US is one of the biggest sources of foreign investment capital. ‘

People should do their homework before ranting about how Malaysia is not dependent on the US.

Secondly, it’s obvious that Elizabeth’s World War II history is less than perfect. As it’s known, extensive World History is not taught in most Malaysian schools.

By the time the Japanese surrendered to the US, the Russians were only beginning to combat the Japanese while the English were busy rebuilding their devastated country after the Germans surrendered. The Chinese and Australians lacked military resources to conduct any large-scale military operation on their own.

The effect of local heroes in driving Japan out was, let’s face it, minimal at best. The US victory over Japan was the only way Malaysia was ever able to gain independence by way of England.

Yes, as Elizabeth said, the “sleeping giant” was reluctant to enter the war because the US knew the costs after having fought the First World War. A country like Malaysia, which has never experienced what real war is like, wouldn’t understand the ramifications of it.

Before Malaysians criticise US foreign policy, they should realise that Malaysia’s own administrative bodies could use a serious overhaul. Corruption is everywhere and it doesn’t take a genius to see that, beginning with the obvious, the most frequently seen representation of government – the police – and moving all the way up the power structure.

A country like Malaysia could actually learn many things from the country they constantly criticise. The government in Malaysia, which favours its own ethnic group, claims to help all races equally but most non-ethnics understand this to be a facade. Ethnic segregation, though not actively promoted here, is predominant in everyday life.

In the US, as long as you’re a citizen, it doesn’t matter if you’re Chinese, Indian, black, white, Christian or Muslim, you’re entitled to equal opportunity financial aid for school, Social Security, and welfare programmes meant to aid the elderly and the poor. Walk into most restaurants in any major American city and you won’t see just Chinese in a Chinese restaurant or just Indians in an Indian restaurant.

Although this letter could continue forever, we think it’s safe to say Malaysia should take a look inward and correct its own flaws before pointing a finger at others. – C & J, Kuala Lumpur

Being a controller ,I like my life the way I want it so if it’s out my control, I would somehow freak out and don’t know what to do. I’m not saying that I don’t like surprises but I definitely do not know how to react to it.Of course I would be able to regain my composure and work things out as I know, some things are totally out of control.

My little surprise came a few days after I miss my period ( yea, you would have guess it) and knowing that I have it on time for the passed few months, I bought a pregnancy test kit, two times. Yes, eventhough it’s a faint line, I refuse to believe that I am pregnant again barely a year after giving birth.

Finally the truth set in when I decided to check it out with my gynaecologist. The test is double confirm with a vaginal check (don’t ask me what it is) Here I am in my 7th week into my second pregnancy…if you must know , it is calculated from the first day of the last period and I am feeling a mixture of upset and happy. It’s not because I do not like babies, in fact i adore them. How can you when they are so pure and innocent…and cute but I haven’t get over my first pregancy blues….yes, i think i did have a mild pre- and post natal depression. The changed of hormones causes all the ups and downs and I easily get emotional.The responsibility of being a first time mother does not help either.

Just as I am not over with the tiredness of bringing up the first one, I felt myself being thrown into a bigger responsibility. With all the sleepless nights to feed my baby, now I have to face fatigue and insomnia…all the signs of being pregnant. On doctor’s advice, I have to wean my first baby from breast milk so that I have enough nutrition for both me and the one inside my stomach. It was said that it’s not so easy to get pregnant while breastfeeding….yea right! I must be the lucky one. I gave my husband a hard time for the first few days but surprisingly after the test is confirm by the gynae, I accepted it calmly.

Unlike the first time, I now know what to except of my pregnancy and be prepared to go through the journey. Yes, it’s a Life I am bearing though my little zygot still has the tadpole look.Unlike the first pregnancy, I already have an early attachment with the baby inside me. It’s a Gift from God as my friend said, some can’t even get pregnant so I am so lucky to have them so easily and with my babies age gap so close, I can raise them together and in few years time, I will be more free. Afterall, Yiyan will have a playmate soon….talk about bringing down the house with their noise. Yea, even as Yiyan is nine months now, he is able to make my younger sister cry from taking care of him. See how nice he is *wink*