Quips

1. Me: "So, how was school today?"
Alec: "They sent us home early because of puasa* but I still exhausted"
Me: "Did anybody ask you where did you spent your holiday? What did you tell them?"
Alec: "I told them I went to Jakarta to see my cousins and played go-kart and I went to a special playground place where I could be a doctor, construction worker and get paid, and car racer and to Bali where I get to play on the beach and waterbom"
Me: "Daddy said someone screamed "Alec, I miss you" when he dropped you off. Who was she?"
Alec: "The word is I love you Mom. EVERYBODY misses me. Amadeus miss me a lot, he gave me 2 cards saying that he miss me. It was Nashwa said I love you".
puasa is fasting for Moslem

2. Alec: "Mom, Derrick is taller than me, but my muscles are bigger than his"
Me: "Wow, I didn't know that"
Alec: "O-no no. I AM taller than him and my muscles are bigger than his, too. But he thinks that he is taller and his muscles are bigger, but that's not true. And I didn't say anything"
Me: "Yeah? So he didn't feel bad?"
Alec: "Pak Gunawan has BIG muscles! He said that he has the biggest muscles of ALL the guards, even the POLICE!
Me: "He did, didn't he?"
Alec: "His muscles are so hard, too. It was muscles on top of a muscle! I pushed it and IT DIDN'T GO DOWN!"