Cows, Pigs & Human Dung: Justin 4 Ers Old

Sunday, 8 December 2013

Justin 4 Ers Old

Happy Birthday Justin! With Amy, daughter of our friends, Dong Weihong and Li Lei

Justin’s turned 4! And for a change, I’ve decided to upload something recent, instead of past old events. …OK, it happens that I actually have the camera in my work bag, so... that explains, hehe.

This year has been a year of high adventures. We’ve visited 7 countries, flew umpteen times, stayed in a host of different hotels, visited I dunno how many places, travelled thousands of kilometres on road… and snapped a gazillion photos with the trusty ol camera, and the phones, and the tab, whatever we could get our hands on basically. So here’re some photos of Justin’s adventures this year. Just a very random selection. Luckily he doesn’t like to keep still for photos or we’d have a gazillion more photos of him.

Just a quick update. Justin’s started schooling now. No pictures of him at school, yet. (Pretty impossible to make him stay still for a photo, as usual). He spent the first week at school in Kindergarten 1st year (KG1), drove the teachers’ crazy within that one week, changed his class to Pre-K (the year before KG1), and that’s where he is now. He loves school, coz there’re lots of play stuff and friends, and nobody forces him to eat at school. He has daily battles with his mom at home about eating.

He still loves cars and all types of vehicles. His favourite toy of the week now is a garbage truck. He can name most of the cars we see on the road – Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Peugeot, Renault, Honda, Mazda, Hyundai, Kia, Land Rover, BMW (his favourite), Audi, Volkswagen, Chevrolet, Ford, Mercedes…

He talks a lot now, but only on topics that he likes, …like cars, and drives us crazy. His own language has more or less died out in favour of Standard English now. He no longer calls himself Duntin, and will correct me if I call him that (which I still do sometimes, purposely, hehehe). Here’re some of the last traces of Justin’s language before it’s completely forgotten – Engain, Blathy, Plato, Thurken, Chicken, Dedi, Heva, Endader, Pepe, Ers Old, Compinter, Kiwi, Konhe, Dra-dra, Masala, Moodles (again, battery, petrol, curtain, kitchen, already, have to, another, paper, years old, computer, his wee-wee, his bump (because when he was young, every time he passes gas, his mom will ask him ‘kaun hai?’ meaning ‘who’s that?’ in Hindi), rumble strips on the road and anything rough, noodles, also noodles…) Also, previously, for any word starting with an S followed by another consonant, the S would be silent. For example Step, Stand, Stone, School and Spit will be Tep, Tand, Tone, Cool and Pit respectively.

OK, I’m leaving it at that for the time being. No time (and no more imagination) to come up with good writing ideas nowadays.