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2 mothers in a hdb playground ah beng is so smart,
already he can watch tv and know the whole story
your kim cheong is also quite smart,
what boy is he in the exam?
this playground not too bad, but i'm always
so worried, car here and car there.
at exam time, it's worse
because you know why?
kim cheong eats so little.
give him some complain. my ah beng was like that,
now he's different, if you give him anything
he's sure to finish it all up.
sure, sure, cheong's father buy him
vitamins but he keeps it inside his mouth
and later gives it to the cat.
i scold like mad but what for?
if i don't see it, how can i scold?
on saturday, tv showed a new type,
special for children. why don't you call
his father buy some? maybe they are better.
money's no problem, it's not that
we want to save, if we buy it
and he doesn't eat it, throwing money
into the jamban is the same.
ah beng's father spends so much,
takes out the mosaic floor and wants
to make terrazo floor or what.
we also got new furniture, bought from diethelm.
the sofa is so soft, i dare not sit, they all
sit like don't want to get up, so expensive.
nearly two thousand dollars, sure must be good.
that you can't say, my toa-soh
bought an expensive sewing machine,
after six months, it is already spoilt,
she took it back but... beng
come here, don't play the fool.
your tuition teacher is coming,
wah, kim cheong, now you're quite big.
come cheong, quick go home and bathe.
ah pah wants to take you chya-hong in a new motor car. -arthur yap it's so funny! he seriously just WRITES what he sees, but the way he structures the words depicts the scene so clearly, and you can hear the mock exasperation and the cutting in on each other and what they really mean when they say stuff. can just see the two aunties verbally jostling each other, with their thinly veiled petty competiveness. so cute! heehee. why didn't we ever get to do him in lit? in fact we hardly did any singaporean poets, unless i didn't know they were singaporeans. haha. but i can only remember a very brief edwin thumboo one on racism, as one of the many examples champagne (or ms teo?) gave to illustrate something i can't remember. haha. imagine, if we ended up with one of dio's poems! *winks at somebody hahaha. but he does write quite well! anyway i think he'd just die if we tried to PC his poem; we'd happily mangle it and he'd perch on his table and tear out the hair he can ill afford to lose. then he'll gather all the stuff we wrote and eat it up cos if he burnt them up in school he could be charged with arson. oh yah he could always put them thru a paper shredder, but that isn't nearly half as dramatic. alright, i'm babbling nonsense. what's new? says huiying. haha... anyway the point of this entry is: arthur yap is a cool guy (even though he's dead)! plus, if he writes sparse poetry cos he's so bags-of-bonesy, then shakespeare must have been obese!
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