Wednesday, February 09, 2005
The birds and the bees
How exciting was yesterday? I must blog this down. My parents were basking in their half day CNY-eve glory, shopping at Arab street, my sister was happily propped up in a cinema, probably at cineleisure watching 'Shall We Dance' and I was imparting knowledge into the young ones. I was tutoring my neighbour's kids.
Well, I shall aptly quote Nadiah here. She said "nak pandaikan anak orang bukannye senang beb." (Not easy to make someone's kid smart, okay..) Gahhh. I can't agree more with her.
So anyways, what was so different, so intriguing (amasham zat), so blearghh about yesterday's lesson was the fact that I was at the "Reproduction" chapter of the darned Primary 5 syllabus. And the kid, Syazwan wasn't about to make it easy for me. See, he's the typical playful kid who won't be interested in anything that doesn't interest him, namely his studies. So he'll only be listening when the topic im teaching interests him.
So, the textbook had colour diagrams labelling the parts and all, until he asked me,
"So how does the sperm meet the egg ah?"
"Eh then how the sperm come out?"
Alamaaakkkk. I shook my head and couldn't believe what I was being paid to do. Aiyaa. What do you expect me to tell him!??!!? I can't corrupt his pristine mind!!! So I just told him that he'll learn more about this in detail in Sec 2. In the meantime, I guess he was happy with whatever I explained to him. BAHH. Thank God.
So everything was good, and he was laughing at the parts asking why they were so funnily drawn and we talked about how the embryo develops after the sperm meets the egg. There was a flow chart showing the different stages of development, the embryo getting bigger at each stage. So the drawing was pretty detailed, showing the all-important umbilical cord. So Syazwan pointed to it and asked if it was the privates of the embryo, in a very crude mat way. (Eh, tu ____ dier eh?)
All I could do was to shut my eyes and almost died laughing. I was so embarassed I didn't know what to do. Or say, for that matter. Then after regaining my composure, I told him that it was the umbilical cord.
Kids DO say the darndest things, sometimes.
-published at 6:56 AM.
