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Monday, June 04, 2018
Planning level :The Foxburrs
The original plan was to get coffee over in Genting Highlands and let the kids sleep in the car seats. Then, we saw a pak cik on a Vesper. I was laughing at how he was in the lane as though he was driving a car. Then, we had to stop for gas and guess what, the pak cik was there and we almost ran over his butt coz he got off his scooter like he owned the place. Then, my coffee anxiety kicked in so we decided to get coffee at the gas station. Luckily we decided to coz the roads were crazy. Shu had an idea to look for lights to decorate the house with which was supposed to be in Jalan TAR. Again the roads were crazy packed so Shu decided to take the road with less traffic and we ended up in Cyberjaya. Ali Imran was sick so we took him to a clinic in Cyberjaya and had dinner there and headed home afterwards.
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
This needs to be addressed
I've always thought I was bilingual growing up. Years later I found myself struggling with words. This began when I started listening to Indonesian or Malay songs. I found myself misinterpreting and misunderstanding a lot of things as much as I found the music great and beautiful. Then, I found myself all stressed out with my Indonesian maid. I kept having to translate words in my head everytime I wanted to talk to her. It was so frustrating because there were times I just couldn't understand her and I couldn't make her understand me. Now, I am struggling raising my kids bilingual because my Bahasa Melayu vocabulary isn't that great and recently, Yusuf was exposed to Malay cartoons like BoBoiBoy and I cannot make him understand why some expressions are not acceptable when talking to anyone in general. Today, Shu made me realize that the show expressed a lot of anger and frustration because the characters were constantly in battle. How am I ever gonna raise my kids bilingual when I myself am not bilingual? Shu is helping a lot but he's also teaching me at the same time :-/
Wednesday, May 02, 2018
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