Simple Life

My Favourite Occupations!
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The Girl may irk me sometimes with her vortex of questions but i always treasure every moment spent with her. Well, at least before she grows older and loses her innocence.

Being an adult can be a bitch, ain't it?

How i wish i can be like her and lose all the cares and worries that we adults have to bear. Why did we all have to grow up and along the way, learn to lie, to pretend, to plot, to kill? It's a depressing thought. Why do people have to fight over money and worry about endless meetings? Oh, and why do I have to give a damn whether anyone is gonna stone me for replacing sharks fin soup with something else more eco-friendly? Stupid fucks.

Anyway!

The Girl has a new ambition. She wants to be a construction worker and everyone at home is trying not to be discouraging or discriminating towards her choice of career. The Girl told me the reason why she wants to become a construction worker is because she can build houses (er and also to drive an excavator). Ahhh, we'll have to teach her the word "architect" soon. Hurhur.

(Scene 1)

The Girl and I were playing with her box of "Occupations and Transport" cards and it went like this:

The Girl: Fireman do what?

Me: You must learn how to ask proper questions, girl. Ask me, "What does a fireman do?"

The Girl: Why must ask you?

Me: So i can teach you all the different occupations mah!

The Girl: Why must i ask you what does a fireman do and why must you teach me all the different occupations?

Me: (exasperated) JUST ASK LA!

The Girl: What does a fireman do?

Me: Good. Now you tell me, what does a fireman do? Answer in a complete sentence ah!

The Girl: (very earnestly) Fireman play fire.

Me: ARE YOU SURE!?!??!?!

The Girl: OH. Fireman save fire!!! (directly translated from “救火”)

Me: Errrr yah, something like that. BUT you have to say, "A fireman puts out the fire." Understand?

The Girl: Ok! A fireman puts out the fire! PSSSSSSSSST, like this right?? (Pretending she has a hose and spurting saliva all over me as she says psssssst!)

Me: Yah yah. Very good.

(Scene 2)

Me: What does a soldier do?

The Girl: A soldier takes care of us!

Me: (Okayyyy....at least she's learning how to construct proper sentences, but still the concept of soldiers "taking care of us" is a tad too strange.)

The Girl: 姨姨, soldiers take care of us, RIGHT?

Me: Erm. Soldiers defend our country and protect us.

The Girl: Defend is what?

Me: Errrr, means fight other people la!

The Girl: Fight who?

Me: Bad people who wants to take over the country.

The Girl: Got use guns? Got use knives?

Me: Yah, use guns. (Imagine our soldiers using parangs! Wahaha!)

The Girl: Fight until when?

Me: I'm not sure leh. Depends.

The Girl: Fight until December, is it!?!?

Me: I DUNNO!!!

The Girl: Then fight until the bad people go?

Me: (emphatically) YESSSS!

The Girl: Will come back?

Me: I DUNNO!!!! Oei, concentrate can? What do soldiers do?

The Girl: (screams in delight) Soldiers fight bad people until December!!!!!

Me: (faints) ......

Tell me, how hard is it to love a kid. :)