Last week one of Belle’s teacher ask me whether Belle talks a lot at home. Well, of course she talks but only when it is necessary. She is not chatter box. She has more of her daddy genes. Her teacher told me that she is extremely quiet in class. Only speaks when teacher asks her question. She does not chit chat with her friends at all unless they talk to her first (just like me! hahaha). I guess not many of them talk to her because Belle speaks English; most of them are Chinese speaking. Well, I am fine with that because Belle did not complaint about it. She told me that she only talk to her teacher.
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I just read Chinnee’s and Jazzmint’s post about their maid. They reminded me about what happened recently with my maid. My maid is not perfect either but I don’t make much fuss about it. Little things that she does not do, I do. If she forgets, I remind her and tell her to make sure that it is done in the same day. As for me, as long as the house is clean, she does not steal money and her passport and run away and MIL is happy with her, I am fine with it.
Only recently we caught her lying but I do not want to make a fuss about it but not Belle. You should listen to how she lectures the maid!
That particular day, the maid and MIL was plucking some jambu air and I saw Clarissa came to me chewing one jambu air. I asked her who gave her the fruit, she said “Kakak”. I asked her whether Kakak washes the jambu, she said, “I don’t know.”
That evening Clarissa complaints of stomachache and she purged 3 times. So I figured it must be the jambu air. When we came home from my mom’s, I asked the maid whether she gave Clarissa the jambu air, she said “Takda. Mak bagi.” So I asked MIL, in front of the maid, MIL said NO too. So who is lying now? So I told them what happened to Clarissa.
Belle was listening and asked me what is lying in Malay, I told her “tipu.” She immediately sounded her Kakak, “Kakak! Kamu tidak boleh tipu. Nanti saya panggil polis.” The maid just laughed; I walked away to my room, lazy to get angry about this issue.
In my room, Belle told me that it is not right to lie and Kakak cannot lie. I nodded. She marched out of my room and the next thing I heard Belle was lecturing, almost sounded like scolding her Kakak!
Kakak! Dengar sini. Kamu tidak boleh tipu. Kalau kamu tipu, saya suruh Ma’am telephone polis, tangkap Kakak masuk jail. Kakak faham tak!
The next day, after coming back from school, right before entering the house she asked me what is jail in Malay. I told her, “penjara.” She reminded her Kakak again about lying but this time saying Penjara instead of Jail. I guess she figured that her Kakak does not understand what is Jail.
Through this incident, I can already imagine when she is older, if we still have a maid by then, the maid will sure kena teruk from her if the maid did anything wrong!
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