• walked across the street
• spotted a freshly dead, squished mouse
• did not take a picture since people will complain if i post it
• went to sophia's

gonna happen! i do hope she was joking.

but to be frank, barbie isn't that bad... the songs are pretty good too. strawberry shortcake is, on the other hand, a complete bore. all the blueberry and seaberry and ginger and honey pie and rainbow sherbet and the "berry nice" phrases and that theme song going "straw-ba-ba-ba-ba-berry". ugghhhhh.


i am actually being helpful, no? so if you happen to have/get/is aiming for a boyfriend/girlfriend who has a younger sibling whom he/she completely adores, you'll know how the hell you can play with them and win both hearts. gaspppp or maybe a future child!!!! do my blog readers consist of housewives???? those 30-60ish daily and once in a blue moon 70 but on bad days 20ish readers, who never tag?? or uh their husbands maybe?

but really, playing with kids aren't that bad! i mean sure they're annoying at times with their little antics but see them smile in that way and your heart just melts. yes, i love kids. i'm biased.

however, today, sophia showed her annoying side in full force.

see the problem with that kid is that she wants everything to go her way, right down to how you draw people (though i think i've convinced her by now that everyone draws differently) and how you play games, always thinking that you can't play that simple barbie game where you just click and poof everything turns pink.

usually, i'd just go her way, just agree to everything. arguing would just tire me out and she's stubborn anyway. but today.... i couldn't stand it anymore.

we took out uno stacko:


since the dice wasn't there, it was decided to build houses with the pieces. i build mine, she build hers. at one point, seeing i was hogging all the pieces ('cuz she's slow), she instantly gathered the leftover ones for herself. i let her be. then when she ran out of pieces, she took mine. right from the top of my finished house. that little brat.

being childish, i took hers. she wailed that i wasn't allowed to and took it back. this repeated a few times until finally, i just stopped doing anything. i stayed silent, put on a face that showed i was pissed at her, and sat still, barely looking at her.

she played with my hair once, laughing, but i just brushed her hands away. soon she seemed to get it and continued building her house in silence. when she was done eating (her maid was feeding her at the same time), she suddenly started crying. she walked into evan's bedroom (it was in front of our playing space) and sat there, crying and crying. i could hear her mum downstairs asking the maid what was going on.

i ignored her. instead, i used my share of the uno stacko pieces and stacked them on top of each other in all patterns possible, trying to make them balance.

quite a while later, sophia shifted positions and went to sit behind me, in front of another bedroom. then after another while, she moved to a distance in front of me, still sniffing. she kept watching me stack the pieces higher and higher.

soon enough, she copied me. returning to her place, she stacked her own pieces. i started creating the domino effect. you know, like this:


again, she copied. i did another set, finished, and waited. she finished hers and waited too. when she was looking, i pushed mine. one by one, the pieces fell, bumping into one another.

she pushed hers. when the last piece had fallen, she turned her head to glance at me. i smiled slightly; she didn't return it.

after some time, as there was no improvement, i decided to go down and eat. when i was sitting beside the dining table, waiting for my egg to fry, i heard her crying again.

then she too walked downstairs, but stopped midway. cry cry cry. sob sob sob. wail wail wail.

her father ordered her to come down. soon, she stopped crying. she stood between her father and i as we started eating. i was given crackers (i don't actually know what it's called but let's refer to that certain food/snack as "crackers"). she too wanted some and was handed a little amount on a plate.

i dragged back the chair beside me and motioned for her to sit. she did so, at the same time dragging the chair much closer to mine. that was when we started talking like normal, all the cold air dissipated.

sigh. a long-winded story? on a happier tone (since it was all happy happy after that. well, mostly. oh btw this is where the pictures start), i found an interesting book in her room:


the whole thing is made of cloth material and flannel are cut and sewn on the pages. it's a book meant for you to learn basic things like:

undoing a belt and putting it back on again


buttoning, unbuttoning

zipping up, unzipping

i suggested we draw and she agreed. so we took her crayons and colour pencils and drew drew drew.

when she was done, she took out a pair of scissors and started cutting the top of the page, saying she'd cut out the white, uncoloured parts. i don't know why she doesn't just colour them instead of cutting and ending up with such jagged edges.

then when she saw i didn't draw birds for mine, she cut away her birds too.


she finished hers faster and was complaining on how slow i was. i was just thinking how nice it was to draw simple stuff and not caring about proportions or details and just adding colours. but theeennn she had to butt in. since i was oh god so slow, she decided to help me colour the grass. help?!?!??! i already declined quite a few times but she insisted. pissed, i mistook the black crayon for the green one. now look how the right side of the grass ended up:



and this is hers:


does anyone get what it is??? i guess you can see that there's a mountain.... a tree... the sun setting... the rest? colourful boxes? i didn't get it either. but after some asking, i found out that:

• blue - bathroom
• black squares - walls
• orange - paddy fields
• yellow - garden
• green - water
• black - gate

so if i were to label the drawing:


little kids can be perfectionists too! i gave sophia a small plastic sheet with some stickers on them. there was a price tag stuck on the back of the plastic. she asked me to take it off but it wouldn't come off completely. in the end, she cut off the bottom part of the price tag which had the price tag on it. then, she started cutting off the sides too =.= god knows why.

we did origami. they're foxes btw

i was given this folder since she had 2 of them. but i forgot to take it home

found her small pink wallet!

kidzania money i gave her

this is what happens when you eat dragon fruits. if you don't know, dragon fruits look like this:

Labels: draw, kids, sophia