From Penang
A Nearly Forgotten Story from 2005 Story = I'm sitting here in boxer shorts and t-shirt on my computer swival chair. And then I feel something on my leg and brush it away. Then something bites me right on the inside of my thigh and I realise that it has got into my boxer shorts and is very close to rather sensitive regions of a man's anatomy. So I have to whip off my boxer shorts and look but still can't see so I flap them about
:: sa :: says:
LOL
:: sa :: says:
really laughin... not just typed...
ronalDez says:
and out drops this little beetle who scrapers about randomly all over the floor. So I am butt naked in my living room and I realise that my in-laws are in the next room and if they should suddenly come out, they will see their son-in-law in a whole new light and not one I (nor them) would want them to see. So I quickly put my boxers back on seeing as the little bugger has vacated the important
:: sa :: says:
LOL
:: sa :: says:
u posting this?
ronalDez says: area and watch it go running mad all over the floor. I'm a bit p*ssed off that it bit me so I furiously look for a piece of paper, taking hold of one of Ben's drawings at the second attempt (his first drawing still had a lot of space on the paper and I thought he should really fill it up!!!) and slamming the paper palm down right onto the little, black and now dead beetle who is now next to papaya
:: sa :: says:
i could post this on ur behalf...
ronalDez says:
skin and seeds in our dustbin. Dammit I still can't believe it bit me in a place that was TOO close for comfort.
:: sa :: says:
sooo funny...
:: sa :: says:
i think girls can't fully comprehend it... but it is still funny...
ronalDez says:
In hindsight, yes it's funny.
:: sa :: says:
and i'm glad for that diversion too
A STRANGE NAMEI like this sms for its unintentional irony
(from my new work colleague)...
"
Hi Dereck! Im writing invitations :-D How do u spell ur wife's name? Thx"
However it wasn't as good as my mechanic who had my name down as
Demmick for years on their office computer. I was so disappointed when they actually got the spelling correct.
THE DETERMINED & DIRECT DAUGHTER
Ben was dumped in a big playground with electronic tags (which my mum calls a cage), Yin Ping had gone off to do some grocery shopping after our dinner at Nandos which left me alone with the youngest member of our family. Jocelyn's conversation is not going as well as a 2 year old should be apparently (mainly just one word vocabulary) but she knows what she wants. She pulls your fingers/hand/shirt/item of upper body garment to her desired location and then looks at you with her request.
We were on the basement floor of Queensbay shopping centre and I had her wandering up and down a wheelchair/trolley slope. Kids love level changes and it beats paying 2 ringitt for a playground. So she was happily strolling up & down the slope and peeping behind columns and stepping on and off the slope. (If only women were so easy to please all the time!) Then she pottered off towards the direction of some HSBC credit card promotion but happily wandered through it.
Jocelyn then stopped outside a kiosk called New Zealand Nature, pulled my hand & pointed. She also said her first ever sentence to me:
"I want ice-cream"
HITTING THE THIRD DECADECurse that Kenny Sia. No sooner than I had seen his
birthday blog, I wanted to write one of my own. Except that I can't remotely think of 30 things that I did when I was 29. Well I can
but it would include very dull stuff like 1) eat 2) sleep 3) go to the toilet (+ 26 more) so I'm going to attempt 13 things
(since my birthday is on the 13th and it kinda sounds like 30!) I've done since I've been in Penang for the last 7 years.
1) Run a half marathon across Penang Bridge & back without any training.
2) Played top flight first division football (Penang's amateur leagues are not easy!)
3) Got articles and letters posted in The Star, FruitAsia and the Malaysian FourFourTwo.
4) Won 2 footballs in a Coca-Cola competition which involved my wife drinking lots of coke whilst I kept and posted all the pulled tabs off!
5) Went through tough times in my marriage and still remained married (to the same woman!) at the end of it.
6) Coached the KDU football team to victory in the Inter-College Games and seeing the progress the boys have made over the last 2 years.
7) Giving Ben some advice that helped him come 2nd in a colouring contest in Gurney Plaza.
8) Juggled the ball more than 300 times when in England I struggled to reach 20. Actually the only time Ben has ever spontaneously applauded me is when I juggled a ball, lifted it up to the back of my neck, did 10 press ups and then stood up again. I didn't realise he was watching so the round of applause was quite a surprise.
9) Finally found a legal job in Malaysia.
10) Do something that people on Fear Factor couldn't - eat lots of durians!
11) Impressively
not hit a motorcyclist whilst driving in Penang.
12) Scored the perfect hat-trick.
13) Won a trip to Taiwan, 2 football shirts, a year's subscription to a football magazine, a PS2 game
(despite not actually owning a PS2), & err a bookmark through my own creativity in competition entries.
That was a pretty good chocolate Belgian cake that my wife got me too...
FINALLY - A MAN?Someone asked me if I went to the gym today - for the first time in my life - after he saw me take off my shirt after my football match this evening. All those wide armed push ups
do work! Ha Ha!!
THE NUTTY BOYWe went down to stay with our in-laws and one morning Ben got out of bed early and was looking for something to eat. My mother in law was tidying up her cupboards and quickly looked around. And she saw a tin of almonds out of the corner of her eye. Not knowing what kids eat and in the middle of cleaning up, she asked him somewhat helpfully/hopefully,
"
Do you want some nuts? They're very nice"
To which Ben replied
"
Nuts! Nuts? I'm not a squirrel"
THE DEFIANT DAUGHTERThe wife took the kids to Borders bookshop this evening after Ben won his first trophy for 'competition to build sentences in Malay' (bina ayat). I was already there after taking half day off work to watch 'Simpsons: The Movie.' We ate dinner and afterwards wandered over to Borders where the children enjoy the umm children's section. Ben makes a bee line for the Mr. Men books whilst Jocelyn sits next to him and mumbles lots of words like she is reading her book.
However come leaving time, one of the two was not so jolly. The younger one threw a massive tantrum by throwing herself on the floor and lying down there, refusing to move. So the little girl was picked up by the wife, carted away from the kid's area and then placed firmly on her own two feet. Immediately she ran to her grandmother who did the grandmotherly thing & picked her up. However she was closely followed by her mother and was told,
"
If you can't behave your self, smack smack"
At which point, she then smacked her por-por on the arm!
Then the little girl was sternly told, "
You say sorry right now."
The little girl replied by saying, "NO" in her own stern tone several times! The result of several such refusals resulted in a request, "Give me your hand!" Both hands were taken. Both hands were smacked.
"
Sorry"
(in a quiet voice and a very unwilling, unrepentant face) She then eyed her fellow woman, watching her as she turned around to walk the counter. When her mother was out of hearing distance, she then whispered to her her grandmother,
"
No Sorry."
Defiance! I think we might be in trouble in about 12 years...
