Pain - Sakit - "Tong" - "Tia"
in nomine patri, et filii, et spiritui sancto, amen
crashed for only 4.5 hours after replying to emails from CEO and was at the office again to fight the many battles. day flew by - like it does any other day when you are up to your neck with appointments, meetings and presentations.
good thing is i REMEMBERED to buy elise her birthday present: "My PICTURE Bible Storybook". scurried down to MPH at robinson road to get this and scurried back to work. it's a nice book that has pictures within each paragraph and encourages kids to use words to describe the picture. just like "cloze passage" when i was in pri 5!
mommy leaves office early on thursdays to bring elise to her weekly swimming class while i leave on me own to go to the in-laws to have dinner and pick eliza up first before detouring to pick mommy and elise from the swimming pool after their lesson.
elise was very happy when i told her i got her a present and she asked me "today is not my birthday" and i had to sheepishly tell her "daddy bought your present only today"
mommy had bought elise those "wafers" - the ones that look like humongous holy communion (forgive me pater but that is what every catholic says!) - after class and elise and eliza started chomping on it like mini pacmans...pacgirls in my case!...in the car.
we came back home and it has been a long time since i caught the 9.30 news and me favourite newscaster (christine chan..woowoo...mama mia) was reading the news tonight.
living room picture: elise chomping, eliza engrossed with her toys, daddy watching news and watching elise and eliza, mommy frustrating over the mess ....typical picture that has not happened in a long while since i started working for the CEO.
had fun wrestling with eliza and my favourite moment is to cuddle her while i feed her milk before bedtime. elise.... she takes a deep breath and gulp down her cup of milk in milliseconds!
then something happened that precipitated the title of this post .... PAIN .....
elise and eliza have this nightly ritual of drinking a cup of water before they go to bed (after they have had their milk - wonder where all the fluids are!) and as usual, elise and eliza would follow me to the kitchen to get their cup of water. while they were drinking, i went to the living room to switch off the tv and when i came back to the kitchen, i saw elise had finished but eliza was putting her hand into the cup and splashing the water all over the floor. i snatched the cup from her and smacked the top of her hand twice and at that moment.....i swear, i feel the pain more than her ..... especially when she rubs the top of her hand and looks at me with those sad eyes....
elise saw what i did and immediately "siam" from the kitchen and i asked eliza if she should be doing what she did and she whimpered "no". i immediately rubbed her hand and gave her a kiss and a hug.... and guess what she said? "daddy, i want my bolster" no anger, no growl, no resentment, no snide remarks. Sigh .... such innocence
before i started this post, i went to eliza's room again to check if her hand was ok and also to rub and massage her hand, kissed the hand and kissed her again .... aw man....daddy feels really bad.... :-(
i can bet that tomorrow morning when she wakes up, she will smile and calls out "DADDY" without even remembering i had smacked her ..... true lesson in forgiveness
i hope and pray that i will be the daddy that elise and eliza is proud of....
Pain
Sakit
Tong (mandarin)
Tia (teochew)
in nomine patri, et filii, et spiritui sancto, amen
crashed for only 4.5 hours after replying to emails from CEO and was at the office again to fight the many battles. day flew by - like it does any other day when you are up to your neck with appointments, meetings and presentations.
good thing is i REMEMBERED to buy elise her birthday present: "My PICTURE Bible Storybook". scurried down to MPH at robinson road to get this and scurried back to work. it's a nice book that has pictures within each paragraph and encourages kids to use words to describe the picture. just like "cloze passage" when i was in pri 5!
mommy leaves office early on thursdays to bring elise to her weekly swimming class while i leave on me own to go to the in-laws to have dinner and pick eliza up first before detouring to pick mommy and elise from the swimming pool after their lesson.
elise was very happy when i told her i got her a present and she asked me "today is not my birthday" and i had to sheepishly tell her "daddy bought your present only today"
mommy had bought elise those "wafers" - the ones that look like humongous holy communion (forgive me pater but that is what every catholic says!) - after class and elise and eliza started chomping on it like mini pacmans...pacgirls in my case!...in the car.
we came back home and it has been a long time since i caught the 9.30 news and me favourite newscaster (christine chan..woowoo...mama mia) was reading the news tonight.
living room picture: elise chomping, eliza engrossed with her toys, daddy watching news and watching elise and eliza, mommy frustrating over the mess ....typical picture that has not happened in a long while since i started working for the CEO.
had fun wrestling with eliza and my favourite moment is to cuddle her while i feed her milk before bedtime. elise.... she takes a deep breath and gulp down her cup of milk in milliseconds!
then something happened that precipitated the title of this post .... PAIN .....
elise and eliza have this nightly ritual of drinking a cup of water before they go to bed (after they have had their milk - wonder where all the fluids are!) and as usual, elise and eliza would follow me to the kitchen to get their cup of water. while they were drinking, i went to the living room to switch off the tv and when i came back to the kitchen, i saw elise had finished but eliza was putting her hand into the cup and splashing the water all over the floor. i snatched the cup from her and smacked the top of her hand twice and at that moment.....i swear, i feel the pain more than her ..... especially when she rubs the top of her hand and looks at me with those sad eyes....
elise saw what i did and immediately "siam" from the kitchen and i asked eliza if she should be doing what she did and she whimpered "no". i immediately rubbed her hand and gave her a kiss and a hug.... and guess what she said? "daddy, i want my bolster" no anger, no growl, no resentment, no snide remarks. Sigh .... such innocence
before i started this post, i went to eliza's room again to check if her hand was ok and also to rub and massage her hand, kissed the hand and kissed her again .... aw man....daddy feels really bad.... :-(
i can bet that tomorrow morning when she wakes up, she will smile and calls out "DADDY" without even remembering i had smacked her ..... true lesson in forgiveness
i hope and pray that i will be the daddy that elise and eliza is proud of....
Pain
Sakit
Tong (mandarin)
Tia (teochew)
in nomine patri, et filii, et spiritui sancto, amen
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