Cute right? The kids I babysit... Nicholas is 7 and Teri is 4. They were quite excited to get their photos taken, but were more excited to get their hands on the camera. So you get to see pictures of them with me.


I was actually quite reluctant to post the pictures with me cos I grew fat! =P
Hmm Nicholas was looking very sian and my smile was very forced cos Teri takes ages to snap a photo. But then, she's only 4 la... in the other photos she took, some were blur cos she doesn't understand that you have the hold the camera stable to take a photo.

Oh ya, I have become these two monkeys' copyist. I copy their chosen pictures from their books or whatever. I think I should switch from studying music to art or something! Today's was the most complete picture I ever copied... it was the cover of Nicholas' joke book. And Teri, being the younger sibling that she is, of course wanted anything that her brother had. She already had another picture I did for her before that! Hmph. But if I refused to draw one for her, she'd have kicked up a big fuss and cried (her way of getting what she wants and also getting attention). So I had to do two copies of this:

Nicholas had already coloured the belt of some girl in the picture. =)

Later when both of them were colouring in their pictures, they wanted me to help. Argh. In order to be 'fair', I did both at the same time by colouring all the things that were of the same colour at one time on both their pictures. And I did both copies in the same colours cos that was what they were doing anyway, they were copying from the book. But Nicholas was a very smart older sibling. He kept nagging at me to use different colours for his cos he could predict that Teri would like his picture more. Cos his is more well-coloured... Teri's colouring is not as good as his of course, and he knew that Teri would eventually try to own his copy. He wanted something in his picture to be distinct, so that in future he could argue that it's his! Hahaha so smart.

Hmm sorry to all younger siblings, but I quite sympathise with him when he has to give in to her all the time. And Teri is not stupid too, she's a bit spoilt in the sense that she'll cry to get what she wants. But I think her parents realised that already, there was once she got scolded for crying when she got rice instead of noodles for dinner cos she prefers noodles. Selina just shrugged and went like, 'Take it or leave it.' And when Teri continued crying even harder, she just took the dinner away. It's like, ok, if you cry it means you don't want it. Fine with me. Haha way to go man!

I hate it when they play-fight and you tell them not to do it, but they still choose to do it. And when they accidentally hurt each other, they cry. Maybe today I was a bit pissed with telling them too many times not to play-fight under the table, I just ignored them when they cried. It was like... I told you not to do it, but you didn't listen, so don't come crying to me when you get hurt. Was I a bit mean? Maybe... but not like they had serious injuries that bled and stuff, it was just hard knocks that hurt for a while and after that subside. Anyway if I started comforting one party, the other will also come up with some scrapes like, 'Look, she scratched me, you can still see the marks.' Heh I've learnt quite a bit from watching how Selina deals with them, like when I reach there early and she's not rushing to go out. After watching how strict she is with them and stuff, I can take the cue from her and not feel too bad when I do such 'evil' things.

Haha enough about the kids... here's a colourful sunset I snapped from outside my flat when I left to go babysit them. Merry Christmas! =)