made.good.again

On the way to church yesterday my little bro (also affectionately known as Ah Tat) shared something quite cool, that A.S.K. stands for Ask, Seek, Knock! The boy amazes me sometimes, especially with his vast knowledge about the animal kingdom and world issues (from watching too much National Geographic, Discovery Channel, CNN, etc on Astro). Dad reckons he watches too much TV, Mum has decided that if she can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em and resorted to moving dinner to the TV room. I’m just glad that he’s at least learning substantial stuff and not watching "fengshui with Lillian Too" or something.

I love asking him outrageous questions and he’s actually able to answer them! My favourite is the whale series: "Ehhh Tat… why the whale spurts out water huh?" "Ehh.. really got small little fish cleaning up the whale’s teeth ah?" "Ehh.. then how come the whale doesn’t eat the small fish huh? Izzit coz later the teeth become dirty again?" "WAHHhhh the whale is a mammal huh!!!! NO wonder it doesn’t lay eggs…."

So.. yeah, the moral of the story is don’t look down on your little siblings, they can actually teach you stuff!

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But of course sometimes I get to teach Ah Tat some lessons in life as well:

At the ATM…

Me: Hey Tat… I’ll wait in the car. Can you jump down and help me withdraw $120 from the machine thanks…

Tat: Uhh.. okie…

(After an unusually long while…)

Tat: Ehh Pen jie… cannot lah!

Me: What you mean cannot???

Tat: Don’t have the $120 button also. Only can choose $100, 150, 200, 250…

Me: (didn’t know whether to laugh, cry, vomit blood or bang head on steering)… Waaaaa KEY IT IN LAH!

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