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Passing the Time After the Exams

16 Jul

Typically after completing an exam, I remember attempting to look around, trying to peek over a friend’s shoulder or just walking out of the classroom.

Nowadays, what do the children do, especially before handing the paper over to the teacher? M1 told me she’d pretend to be occupied by counting how many people are sleeping, rechecking her answers or doing some doodles; basically pretending to be busy.

M2 on the other hand, would just doodle and can’t be bothered with the pretense. Recently, she showed me what she did after an exam.

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Wow… My drawing skills pale in comparison sometimes.

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Can We Have a Tattoo?

10 Jul

An innocent mind is a simple mind. But an innocent question isn’t a simple question; it can be a mind boggling challenge. 

Several years back when I got myself a cute little tattoo, both my girls were fascinated by it and asked if they could also have a tattoo like mine. Hmm…

So I said yes, whipped out a marker pen and drew the same cute little character that I have on their arms. And did this every weekend for sometime before the novelty wore off.

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The Scream

20 Jun

Ahh… ‘The Scream’. Everybody knows ‘The Scream’. It may be an iconic and celebrated piece of art in Art History by Norwegian Edvard Munch, regarded as a pioneer in Expressionism, my favorite is still Claude Monet, the French Impressionist.

While I always instill artistic and design skills in both M1 and M2, I never shared much Art History with them. I didn’t think they would be interested.

During the pre-iPad years, I was caught by surprise when M2 showed me her version of ‘The Scream’.

 

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M2’s version of ‘The Scream’

Then both girls would slap their ears, roll their eyes and pretend to scream before breaking out in contagious laughter. It’s a scream to watch them do this whenever the piece of art is sketched out in the car.

 

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The Magna Doodle and the Wedding Dinner

20 Jun

Sit down Chinese wedding dinners are always a sumptuous and long affair. They give speeches, they present the food with much fanfare and they overfeed you. But sit down Chinese wedding dinners with a toddler in tow is a different matter. All those things become irrelevant, in that two to three hours or so, when you are busy minding the child to behave.

Many many moons ago when my schoolmate, Vivien, was getting married, we brought M1 along, a toddler then. It was her first sit down 8-course dinner. We had to be prepared in case there was resistance. So, all forms of entertainment was brought along: toy, book, Magna Doodle, etc.

We took our time to settle down at the table. The Magna Doodle was whipped out first and immediately, there was action. M1 was furiously poking at the surface. Curious, I looked over and asked, “What are you drawing?”

“Holes, mummy, I am drawing holes!” and proudly lifted up the Doodle to show me. How clever is that? Drawing holes. Even I have never drawn holes before!

All in all, we had a good sit down dinner experience as M1 thoroughly enjoyed the food with a discipline level that was totally amazing. Not once she fidgeted nor wanted to leave the high chair. The Doodle was spared further pokes while the rest of the tools were really quite unnecessary.

It made us looked forward to more wedding dinners then!

Before the birth of the iPad and iPod, we used to bring the Magna Doodle along whenever we go out for meals. Great tool to occupy the wondering minds and highly recommended for little ones!

 

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I Told You They Are Different

18 Jun

My two peas are certainly different as mentioned previously. It was one of those boring days at home when I decided to test out their art skills. The topic: draw your dream home and this is the result!

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M1, ever so practical, goes down to just naming the rooms, scribbling the descriptions while M2 is more meticulous on the details – right down to the shampoo and conditioner in the shower, brand name on the TV and more! She has a bedroom, kitchen, gym, dining room, TV room and bathroom versus M1’s kitchen, living, TV, store, bedroom and attic.

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Of Lego and Harry Potter

18 Jun

Both girls love the toy and the character, so much so that M2 did a portrait of M1. Credit goes to M1 for the coloring effort. Picture says it all.

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