Usapang Bata #8

My cousins Chloe (6 years old), Frey (3 years old) and JM (5 years old) were sitting outside of our lola's house with my mom. Frey saw Chloe sat like a boy with open legs so she called the attention of my mom:

Frey; Juti (Josie), tingin mo si Wiwi (Chloe), pangit ng upo.
My mom: Oo nga, di ba hindi ganon maupo ang mga girls?
Frey: Aq hindi ganun upo. Ganito lang (and she carefully crossed her legs like a real fine-lady)
Chloe: Hindi kaya ako nakabukaka!
JM: Lagi yang si Chloe Tita. Laging nakabukaka. Panlalake lang yan ganyang upo di ba? Ako nga panlalake upo q eh.
My mom: (talking to herself) Eh bket, lalake ka ba?

Naman!

Usapang Bata #7

Usapang Bata #7

My 3-year-old cousin was attempting to play with my laptop so I immediately stopped her:

Me: Frey, no ha. Don't play with my laptop ha. Hindi 'yan laruan.
Frey: Titingin q lang naman eh. (But she kept on touching the scroll pad).
Me: Ay Frey, no di ba sbi q? Susumbong kita sa pulis.
Frey immediately got the DVD remote control and pretended it was a phone.
Frey: Hello pulis! Wag aq huli mo ahh, siya ahh (pointing to me).

Aba! At inunahan pa q tumawag sa pulis:-)

Usapang Bata # 6

Usapang Bata # 6

In the classroom, while teaching my student Jacob how to write his name properly.
I showed him my middle finger with cut:

Me: Jacob look oh, there’s blood.
Jacob: Why Teacher?
Me: I accidentally cut myself knina while arranging the scissors there.
Jacob: Tsktsk. Careful dapat.

Oo nga naman....

Life is a piece of cake

Life is like a cake---certain awful tasting ingredients like raw egg, flour, etc, need to be mixed with sweet sugar in order to create a delicious cake which we'll surely enjoy. In our life, God allows bad things to happen for us to learn and be the person that He desires us to be.

Usapang Bata # 5

Since I'm now a full-pledged Teacher Apple, I'll have more collections of funny, witty, sensible, and straigh-from-the innocent hearts USAPANG BATA posts.

For my second day as Teacher Apple at Escuela Legarda, these are some of the prominent UB I overheard and gathered from my cute students:

Usapang bata A:

Theo: Danielle, I have a gift for you for your birthday. It's Dora!
Danielle: Eh why did you tell me na? My birthday's next week pa.
Theo: (just giggled and run away from Danielle)

Usapang bata B:

Me: Hi Jacob! What are you drawing?
Jacob: pang-huli ng dolphin
Me: oh, okay.
Jacob: Teacher, can you draw me fishes, too?
Me: Sure! (I drew fish-like sketches).
Jacob: I want crabs, too. With sipit.
Me: Alright. (me wondering how to draw a crab). You want me to draw you an octopus, instead?
Jacob: Ok.
(after i finished drawing the octopus-like whatever......)
Jacob: Wow! (showed the drawing to Teacher Bea) Look, we have an octopus! VERY NICE!
(he said that like a big man approving a proposal:-))

I just love kids!

Usapang Bata #4

One night, my cousin 4-year old cousin JM, went to our house to make tambay. I was half-sleep then 'cause I was not feeling well that time. My mom asked my 4-year old cousin JM, if he's praying to God every night:

JM: nag-ppray ako kay Jesus. Ikaw Tita?
My mom: oo naman.
JM: ano pinagppray mo?
My Mom: bigyan niya akong pera. Ikaw? Ano pinagppray mo kay Jesus?
JM: Mabuhay tayong lahat ng matagal.


Pure. unadulterated. selfless.
I suddenly felt the urge to hug JM right after. That's one of the best lines I've ever heard from a little child.

Farewell Tweets of Michelle for me:-)

My super adik friend Michelle kept devoted her entire day today bullying me through twitter. Seemed as though she started enjoying her twitter page because of me:-) hahahah!

her tweets:

facebook news: michelle just bought a machine gun from mafia wars and is about to shoot jun pyo's recent, crazy fan - apple lopez.

Apple, please stop the SUBTLE TORTURE!! With your annoying korean song and JUN PYO....>>(MafiaWars: michelle bought wild e coyote)

apple lopez is leaving mandarin for good. countdown: 1 day. I.T. will upgrade her desktop on monday! nyahaha!

apple, since it's your last day tomorrow, the world needs to know... 1. your super crushes: philip queyquep & lex, trainee or Capt's Bar!

apple, since it's your last day tomorrow, the world needs to know...2. your workstation looks like alice's wonderland, WORST version.

apple, the world needs to know...4. that your friends are clueless about u, wonders where the heck you got that level of confidence??

apple, the world needs to know...5. that you don't find eating as pleasure but habit.

repost: apple, the world should know>3.the Christmas gifts u gave your friends should have a note "wrappers&ribbons, compliments of momnl"

apple, the world needs to know... 6. your total working hrs is 10. work=3hrs, cyberstalk=2hrs , loiter=5hrs.

repost: apple, the world needs to know... 7. you WENT on leave to stalk your crush once. route:buendia>makati ave>ayala>makati ave>buendia.

Seriously, even if this lady is really an adik most of the time, i find these tweets sweet:-) It's like her way of saying she'll surely miss me:-) and in fairness to her, she has a future in writing how-to articles:-)

Sigh. I'll surely miss my MOMNL family:-)