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I love to entertain kids… especially when they can walk and able to recognize people. At the mosque where I work, we have Playgroup, Kindergarten and some of these kids will shriek a cheeky ‘HELLO TEACHER!!!’ at you when you walk past them. If you pretend not to hear them, they would repeat it again and again until you stop and turn to them. And I will reply by saying, ‘Hello… Why are you not in class?’ And then they will run away, knowing that they almost got caught playing truant.

Whahahaha… playing truant at the age of 4 or 5 years old…. Tsk tsk, kids these days.

Anyway, there is this little girl whom I never get tired playing with WHILE working (yes, I can multi-task), although she can get on your nerves at times, but you need to know what to do. Like most kids, she loves to draw. She also likes to eat (you will be amazed that the amount of food she eats is improportionate to her size =P) and she likes to take your bag and walk around with it, pretend that she’s a grown-up (but I don’t really mind). But what I enjoy the most when she’s with me, is the conversations we have.

“Aisyah, what are you eating?”

“I am eating kuih raya.”

“Ah? Where did you get it?”

“There. Got a lot.” She went off and came back with a container filled with kuih raya. “Kakak, open.” And I helped her. “Nah, one for you. One for me. One more for you and me…. You never eat yours?”

“Nope, later.”

“Ok, I want to eat first.”

“Ok.”

Then she wanted to play with my handphone.

“Kakak, I want to play your game.”

“Ok.”

After she godeh-godeh… “Kakak, where’s the game that got a girl then make house?”

“Hah?” I took back my phone and went to the games section of my phone. “Is it this game, the one where you make houses? But don’t have a girl you know…”

“No… got girl…”

“No, don’t have… Are you sure it’s my phone?”

“Yes, it’s your phone…. Eh, maybe it’s Kakak J’s phone.”

Dang.

So by the end of everything, when I really really need to focus on my work, I will just say, “Aisyah, sit down there and draw, I need to do work.”

“Why?”

“Because I need to do work. Go.” And off she goes, and sits quietly drawing, or look for other colleagues to play with. Haha.

Oh… she just drew me a picture of myself, WITHOUT the tudung and when I asked her why, she said selamba-ly, “Because you are still at home. What la you.”

Hahahaha… That’s Maisarah Aisyah.