how to please a kid

here's a conversation between a 6-year old girl and her mother at gymnastics. the girl (anna) was having a private lesson with the girl that i babysit (hanna). i took them both there after school and anna'a mother (emily) came to the place after to pick her up.


emily: look girls, i brought you each a cookie
anna & hanna: yay!!
(they both grab one from the cup that's in my hand and start eating)
anna: hey...mine isn't chocolate chip!
emily: aw sorry sweetie i didn't realize i picked up oatmeal raisin.
me: hanna can you give some of your chocolate chip cookie to anna?
hanna: (shakes head)
anna: (looks upset, as if she's about to cry)
emily: hunnie, it's okay...we'll get you something else!
anna: (pouting) like what???
emily: here...do you want some money?
anna: OKAY!


even 6 year olds...sheesh. i would've gone for the cookie -_-

gymnastics practice is like a haven for all the babysitters and nannies of the world. very few parents ever show up to this place. last week, a nanny brought in a girl (who had lessons) and her younger brother, who was crying. he had been crying for awhile, so the nanny called his mother, and explained the situation to the mom. "your son is crying because he wanted to say bye to the train and he didn't remember til they were at least 5 minutes off the train and walking to the gymnastics studio." i assume the mother wanted to speak to the son after that, cos the next thing i knew, the son was saying into the phone, "mommy i'm crying!"


funny kids...i wonder if i was ever that naive..

have my cake and eat it too

i forgot that i wanted to write about all the different kinds of cake i had last week...

- saturday, mommy bought me chinese cake (and omg i just realized i still have some in my fridge...10 days old now -_-)
- sunday, had a banana and strawberry chocolate cake from veniero's
- monday, carolyn bought me green tea cake from yeh's bakery
- monday, ashley bought a superfabulous chocolate raspberry cake from corrado bakery
- thursday, had angel's food cake with the girl i babysit
- thursday, had chocolate truffle cake with elaine for our date
- thursday, had chocolate cake for vivian's birthday
- friday, had ice cream cake for wesley's birthday

8 pieces of cake in 7 days. goodness....no more cake for me :)

writer's block

i have nothing to say.
i always feel like i need to post something funny or interesting to read.
i'm not very funny or interesting -_-

ah...maybe in a couple of days

exciting week!

wow...definitely had the most exciting week!!!!

turned 22, had an awesome dinner with super-fabulous friends, watched the spice girls at their reunion tour (AMAZING), celebrated valentine's day (haha i wore red and didn't go to class...it was awesome), had a hot date with elaine chiu who gave me the world's best pez dispenser, celebrated friends' birthdays, and tomorrow is going to jersey to party at vivian's house and then snowboarding on saturday!!!!

God has been so good...everything that happens, it's all a blessing from Him, and for that i am so thankful :)

gosh i was dumb

so today, i was having lunch with my little sib (jenn) and we started talking how we used to be a couple of years ago. i told her about one of my old xangas, and i started laughing at how dumb i used to be. the way that i talked...ugh, i thought i was SO cool and SO asian...haha. it's really embarrassing.

anyway, i started reading over some of the entries. to be honest, i wish i could say that that part of me never existed, but there it was, staring right back at me. interesting. i was so naive back then.

if you want a good laugh and actually wanna read them, ask me for the link. i'm not gonna make it public to everyone :P

a day in the life.

so the title of this blog has been changed from 'secrets' to 'life of a karebear.' i changed it cos it sounded a little more appropriate.

the giants won the super bowl!!! super excited.
however, i've lost my voice...not so exciting.

tomorrow is going to be a long day...not sure how i'm gonna pull through.
the life of a karebear...here's my schedule for tomorrow

900-1100: internship
1200-100: office hours
200-445: intro to social work
500-600: babysit
600-700: gym! (if i'm so tired at this point that i can barely move, i'm gonna scratch this from my agenda)
730-900: servant team meeting
930-1030: fire safety checks

not to mention that i'm on duty, tomorrow is going to be a damn busy day. UGH!