If only carrot can run…

Landlady discovered that I couldn’t read Chinese and it’s the 7-year-old-girl that teaches me Chinese instead of the other way round. So, when she went to my room on Sunday morning, instead of bringing the Chinese Book, she brings Malay book instead!

I opened her book and there’s a list of Ejaan Quiz words. I decided to teach her and make her get 100% this time. Teaching her requires a lot of patient, seriously. Only 10 words.

She could spell without problem but she didnt know the meaning of those words and kept forgeting although I told her a lot of times. Finally I sent her down. At night she came into my room again. So again, I asked her and she got it right for one round, she said the landlady taught her.

I asked her the meaning for 2nd times and she forgot all! So I asked her to say aloud ‘Tomorrow (in Chinese) is Esok’ for 10 times. Then ‘Semalam is yesterday (in Chinese)’ for ten times. After that I asked her what is esok and she forgot!

If I really have short-term-memory-lost, I bet she has instant-memory-lost! After going through the 4 words for nearly 40 minutes, she finally got it correct. And it really made me so exhausted.

Then I looked into her eyes and said “You must get 100% ok!” She nodded slowly. “You promised me? I’ll give u a toy if you get 100%”, I said. She nodded and added “But this test is already over!” I was speechless….