Frust-pleased?

...There once was a dragon who roamed the earth, hunting and savoring innocent, succulent humans in watery caves. One day, it caught me, a wise wizard.

"Please give me my freedom, and I will give you a magic carpet," I negotiated.

The dragon thought for a while and retorted, "Dragons don't need magic carpets. We have wings to fly."

Unabashed, I tried again. "How about a magic wand?"

The dragon was tempted to receive the wand, but he found a loop hole.

"Dragons have no hands to carry wands!" he spat.

***

That was what happened at the swimming pool yesterday. Gooly doesn't just splish and splash. He needs reasons to swim, let it be rescuing animals from catastrophic situations, or capturing pretty damsels such as myself *chuckles*. It's all play pretend, of course.

It is at times like this that I marvel at his albeit simple, but nonetheless brilliant logical mind. However, should you dare to challenge his vivid imaginations (i.e dinosaurs don't breathe fire), he would readily retort, "IT"S JUST PRETEND!"

So we gotta play by his rule. He decides when facts are essential and when they are boring.

It is no wonder that this is the same boy who hates writing his ABCs and 123s. They bore him so. Sure, dinosaurs are far more interesting than the alphabet. Much to his chagrin, Mahmee says, "It's essential.' Very often, he is sighted with a 'futiaotiao' look, practising his intelligible ABCs, and mirror-imaged (terbalik) 3.

It frustrates me that this is the same boy who can explain about water molecules but forgets how to spell his surname which consists of three letters.

There is this book, given by a dear friend about inventions. It's his almanac which he consults often. From it, he can give a simple explanation of how a microwave works. But he couldn't care less that 1 +1 = 15. :P (neither do I, actually)

Here's a video which shows the professor side of him. It contains a smug face explaining about how ice melts, a little about gravity and some facts about tarantulas. Towards the end, you can see he got bored (more interested in the bubbles), as though everyone knows about what he reported.



Well, not everyone knows, including his papah and cousins and friends. He might as well be speaking an alien language. And when people here don't exactly speak English, let's not complicate things by using scientific jargon, eh?

Not that I am not proud, mind you. It's just that... they don't exactly test you on science in kindergarten, do they? And Newton's Theory is never part of the pre-school syllabus?

So, Gooly, let's revert to the basics, shall we? Writing neat letters?

Sounds oxymoronic, but I am frustratingly pleased with this trait of his. Frustrated, of course, that he is not optimizing his cerebral capacity. The latter feeling is reserved for his 'yau sing kak' trait (JUST LIKE ME ONLY!!) As beforesaid, he decides when and what he wants to know. I know I have limited options when it comes to enforcing educational subjects to him.

Excuse me while I go bang my head on the wall.