Gremlins were literally poster babies. They were featured in magazines (for mothers, distributed in clinics), and highly sought after by commercial advertisers (Seabloke turned them down).
Now 6, twins are the most popular kids in school. They have the loveliest lips (extremely pillowy - like their father's), large, twinkling, talking eyes (large like their father's, twinkling like my Dad's), fair complexion (MINE), long dark silky hair (don't know who they take after - their father hasn't a lot of hair, Seabloke has hair long damaged by sea water, mine's simply unmanageable), and LONG, LEAN body (totally their father's genes). Models in the making.
Looks aside (we shan't be shallow), twins have the most magnetic personality - extremely inquisitive, and mischievous/evil and compassionate and considerate all at the same time.
Sea recounted that on one recent occasion when they were out having tea at Macdonalds, the younger twin (De) noticed an elderly lady huddling in a corner all by herself, with no food on her table. De asked her mother if she could get the lady a hot chocolate coz she looked cold and hungry. Sea went to get the drink, which De brought to the lady. The lady broke into a smile, stroke De's head gently, and told De that she was waiting for her daughter. The whole time that she was sitting there alone shivering, no one had approached her to find out if she was alright. No one cared. Except De.
De reminds me of my Dad.
Dad would always help the needy and those weaker than him. When we were kids, Dad would always have money ready for us so we can put them into the tins of elderly (we would never give to the young and healthy) folks that we found sleeping on the streets. He would always stop his car to help victims of car accidents, and he would always make bullies and bad people EXTREMELY SORRY. Dad had a piercing glare that would send shivers down the spine of the most unruly of characters. Yet the same pair of eyes would make any lady melt...
Dad always taught us to be very good to good people, and very firm with unscrupulous ones (we took it a step further - we were malicious in every sense when dealing with the latter).
De is now like Sea and me when we were kids. She terrorizes naughty boys.
V (the older twin) is sweet like her father. And extremely sentimental like my Dad. V is the one that fell on the ice-skating rink. She is extremely bossy - like Granny and Dad - gives very specific instructions - to adults - on how things are to be done. And like Granny and Dad, she likes to feed people. The many occasions that Sea had dropped by with a whole week's supply of food for me - V's orders.
Sea popped by with V yesterday with my favorite food and dessert, and a bottle of the strangest looking concoction that's supposed to invigorate me (so I won't fall asleep while trading....I'm absolutely loving the smell of my home now!). They didn't stay long - Sea figured I needed to get back to my charts.
This morning, Sea sent me this:
on our way back V asked why yeeyee doesn't leave home..
V: issit cos yy doesn't want anyone to see her face?
me: why do you ask that? do you think yy is ugly?
V: no.. yy is pretty!
me: who's prettier, yy or mummy?
V: mummy..
me: (nod in approval) yy vs V?
V: me!
me: yy vs De?
V: yy
(muahahaha!)
me: yy vs ah jiong (D)?
V: yy..
me: yy vs gu por ("gu por" is how Chinese address their parent's aunts - twin's "gu por" is my very pretty 62 year-old aunt, my Dad's only sister)?
V: yy..
me: yy vs keisha (my cat - the one that eats my rugs, carpet and books and watches National Geographic)?
V: YY!
ok, i'm rest assured they know the hierarchy :-D
lunch good? dessert good? We had a whole pack of famous amos the other day. We passed by one just now and V insisted must buy for YY so i said no.. yy will become fat cos yy is a cookie monster, once start cannot stop. She was so smart i tell you... she said "then we get the smallest pack so she can't eat that much?"
D finished the cookies. He is the bona fide cookie monster.
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