so my thingy in church is to regulalry clean the children’s nursery. and whilst i gripe and groan sometimes that i’ve to wake up at 7.30 to get to church early to do it, the conversations with the early kids are totally worth it.

kiddio #1
me: hello, what is your name?
kiddio: christabelle joy shen something something
me: shen somethingsomething?
kiddio: i forgot my chinese name

wah and i thought not being able to write your chinese name was bad enough…

<two minutes later>
kiddio#1 takes out a big bag of candy but cant open it.
me: (opening up bag) which one do you want?
kiddio: the red one
me: why the red one? do you know what flavour it is?
kiddio: yup. red flavour.

C.S.Lewis wrote in the Great Divorce that sometimes the questions we want to ask God may actually sound ridiculous when we get to heaven, like asking God whether we can smell the colour nine. Well, this girl can taste the colour red. HAHA.

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in come the wellywellywool twins. identical girls who look very demure but are real screaming tyrants. and who also don’t know the lyrics to baabaablacksheep. they think it goes ‘baabaablacksheep wellywellywool’. heehee

rachel: jiejie *incessant chatter* jiejie *incessant chatter*
me: how do you know magdalene is your jiejie?
rachel: because my mummy told me jiejie came out first.
magdalene: my mummy say i came out first and then rachel
rachel: yah i was inside when jiejie came out so i am the meimei
me (to rachel): oh, so what were you doing inside?
rachel: i was drinking.

wah. such a profound biology lesson. HAHA.

i like the translation of the Bible i read where Paul says that apostles are meant to be ‘managers of God’s mysteries’ (1 Cor 4). i think kindergarten Sunday School teachers are definitely apostles.