it really is very nice feeling to talk to young children.. they're so innocent, so naive, and they laugh at e simplest of things, not to mention, get upset at e simplest of things too..

today when i went for tuition, i bought like chocs and prawn crackers for my pri 3 tuition boy (marcus) and his sister, who always hangs ard when i give marcus tuition.. haha i bought meiji milk choc, and e calbee spicy prawn crackers..

marcus is a "chocolate monster" - quoted from his elder bro, joel =P and at first his sister (rae) was like "i can't eat, i got cough".. but knowing small kids (she's 5 btw), she succumbed to temptation and eventually nibbled on 2 pieces of chocs.. and when i threatened to tell her dad, she gave me e super-sheepish-yet-very-cute look and grinned.. ahhh! so cute (for e utter lack of vocab)! =)

then i took out e prawn crackers! haha it was an instant hit.. marcus just kept eating and eating and eating.. and rae, who had a packet of drink w her to try and reduce e spicy-ness, was like "there's too much prawn crackers for my drink".. then e both of them laughed..

in e midst of tuition, rae said that she could spell and proceeded to spell "o-n-e, t-w-o, t-h-r-e-e...t-e-n" wow! 5 yrs old.. did i used to know this back when i was five? =P
marcus, trying to act smart, said, "i can spell prawn crackers, p-r-a-w-n c-r-a-c-k-e-r-s."
haha rae wasn't that dumb, "it's on e packet what.. hahaha" and then e both of them started laughing like mad..

after a while, rae decided to show marcus that she could roll her tongue, and laughed at marcus cos he couldn't roll his tongue.. haha when i told her i couldn't roll my tongue either, she just kept laughing at me, and started rolling her tongue in front of me (i guess as a form of suaning me =P) haha bleah, imagine getting suaned by a 5 yr old kid..

haha there's still more.. marcus said, "what.the.hell. (almost in a whsiper, for fear of letting their grandma hear that statement, cos at 9 n 5 yrs old, i think it's quite a forbidden statement =P)"
rae was like, "horrrr, i'm going to tell daddy."
then me, being quite blur then and didn't know what was going on, asked marcus, "what e 'what'?" (wanting to know if he said 'hell' or 'heck') haha well, they thought i was trying not to be vulgar by replacing 'hell' w 'what'.. and started saying "what e what".. and yes, i think u can guess it by now, they just continued laughing for ages!

ahhh! they were so cute! =P it was def worth an afternoon at their place for tuition..

but e story doesn't end there.. when e spicy calbee prawn crackers finished, marcus said, "i like e silver packet one, e black pepper one!"
so i told him, "ok! next time i come here i'll buy e silver packet."
then rae added, "i like e red packet one!" and she went off somewhere, while i resumed teaching marcus how to count perimeter of objects in grid squares..

then as in was abt to leave their hse, rae like stood at e gate, refusing to let me leave their place.. i was really really puzzled! so i asked marcus what happened.. and he said it's sth to do w e black pepper prawn crackers! haha i think she got jealous that i was going to buy marcus a pack, and she wasn't going to get one.. so in e end i had to promise rae that i'll buy her a pack of e red prawn crackers and that she didn't need to share it w marcus..

only then could i leave e hse.. but rae was still sulking..

haha kids kids kids.. i wonder if i ever did sulked and gotten upset over a pack of biscuits/crackers when i was 5.. =P i'm quite sure i did..