Given the recent Grandparent Roadshow, where Rockstar spent time with all 4 grandparents, we have a few gems… (Or rather, mortifications)
smartass on skateboard
#133:
Rockstar: (To everyone in the car) Bats eat beetles, and –
Grandmum: (To me, in our own conversation) – eating crabs in –
Rockstar: Mum! Grandmum says bats eat crabs. Nonsense!
#134:
Rockstar: Mum. Tell Grandpop to stop speaking rubbish.
(Again everyone talking at the same time)
#135:
Rockstar: Mum. Tell Grandmum to stop singing and just talk or read.
Me: You think your grandparents cannot hear you when they are sitting right next to you issit?
Rockstar: Hee. I don’t like the singing. The reading is quite alright.
(Fortunately the doting grandparents find this hilarious… maybe because he’s just 3.5… Wait another year we’ll all be doing time)
Ya, it is funny to hear young children speaking like a strict teacher – using words like nonsense and rubbish. 🙂 Where did he learn those words?
I think some storybooks of UK origin… Or maybe from hearing other kids in school… Btw he doesn’t speak English with Singlish/ Manglish (or even Hongkie) accent, over the phone my mum used to not be able to understand him v well because she is getting a littlle hard of hearing and add to that he was not speaking English the way many Malaysians are used to hearing it… I had an ex-colleague who joked her daughter couldn’t understand her cousins’ Singlish when they first brought her back too…