funny kids

Xuan told us that he was selected by the class teacher to represent his class for Kuiz Ejaan. Then he came home to tell us that he got the 5th and felt he should have done better. He said, "mummy, I couldn’t get the KARTUN correct. I wrote kartoon instead." The father laughed at him because he was just confused. Then this boy was mumbling, "I never get number 1 you know. I want to try that." I have no idea how and why he becomes kiasu. But because of his attitude, Cheng is also developing the same trait. Since I practice spellings with him, Cheng was worried he couldn't score and that he wouldn't be chosen to become a prefect. I said, you don't need to be prefect. Just an ordinary student will do. "No lah, mummy, I want to try to be prefect like ko-ko." So people said big bro or sister sets example for the younger ones is probably true.

Anyway, Xuan has been telling us that he wants to change his surname because the friends always makes fun of him. The friends laugh at him as the pronunciation of Tok is similar to the knocking sound which makes Xuan unhappy. At his school, the friends said his surname is pronounced almost the same as table in Chinese. Hubby and I feel amused indeed, kids nowadays are very playful and creative which hubby had never experienced those himself when he was young.