The Witty Adib!

It has been a while since the last time I wrote about Adib ...kesian Abang Chik. Time is my enemy! As made known to all, this year is his first year at school and being as talkative and playful as he is, everyday he comes home with 1001 kisah about the school , the teachers, his friends, canteen food etc.

He was in his best attitude only for like a week or perhaps a few days , then he reverted to his chinese horoscope character i.e. mr monkey, jumping here and there, running all over. His bag is washed almost every weekend, thank god for bibik! He was once asked to stand before the assembly for being too dirty and messy and that was monday! I was stunned! Adib actually blamed the pengawas for being too strict.

Had some problem before with Along but he was not that bad., as for Angah , he is always the tidy one..of course he is Mr Prefect aiming to become Ketua Pengawas for his final year, next year.

This was Angah comment " Adib ni buat Angah malu ajer lah- mesti org kata apalah adik Aimran ni".

I laughed and told Adib , " next time , cakap kat pengawas tu abang aku pengawas tau".

Recently, he came home with blue eyes and bruises on his cheek. He played with his chair and felt down, he said he cried as loud as he could.

I asked him, "tak malu ke salah sendiri, nangis pulak"

He answered me, "tak!"

Actually that was not his first time hurting himself, Angah told me that Adib hardly walks, he just runs around -run in the corridor, run to the canteen , run to the toilet, running everywhere. Know what, Adib said he wants to be a runner like Angah. Frankly looking at teh way he runs which is more like Along, we have doubt on his abilities on the track! By the way, both of them were overyjoyed when Adib was selected to the same sport team which is Rumah merah...what a coincidence huh!

Everyday, after school bibik will wait for him at the gate and most often than not, he will be the last to come out. Bibik told me there was this girl , his classmate, who loves to report to bibik , that he has to stay back to finish his work as he likes to walk around during class and tease people.

On another occassion...one night over dinner--favourite time for the boys to update me with their activities--Adib told us that his teacher asked the class to create a sentence starting with

" Saya mempunyai...." . All the kids raised their hands, eager to say outloud their sentences and some of the sentences was like " saya mempunyai abang", "saya mempunyai beg" etc etc. Adib said he didnt bother to participate, he just kept quiet as he wanted to finish his work --apparently others have finished except for him, obviously---then once finished, Adib raised his hands, and shouted

"SAYA MEMPUNYAI TAIK HIDUNG" -- he didnt laugh telling us this--he told us his whole class plus the teacher laughed and he thoughts that's ok and witty!We dropped our jaw!!

I am so looking forward to see his result for the first exam. Hopefully it is as brilliant as his characters! Sigh! The truth is , we --both me and abah-- cant get far at being strict with Adib--unlike our approach with the 2 older brothers--perhaps we are now "old parents" -- nevertheless, Adib is still very much a baby to both of us, he is the "Abang Baby" !