Those funky colourful giant balls on top of a walkway bridge connection the junctions in Sukhumvit I wrote about previously are now gone!
They have now taken off the entire colourful balls installed there and the sight has been transformed once again. This time, it’s plain and boring.
Perhaps it has just become too expensive to make downtown Bangkok all colourful.
Born to a chocoholic mother who also happens to find a lot of contentment from a bowl of good, creamy ice-cream, it is not a big surprise that Spud is now slowly gravitating to liking such treats.
In fact, she has been showing a lot of interest towards both chocolates AND ice-cream, and asking for them quite often. (I have stash of M&Ms, and these days, I have to hide my M&Ms from her and make sure that she doesn’t see them!)
You should have seen the light in her eyes – she absolutely loved the experience, and since then she would not want anyone to hold her ice-cream for her. In fact, when she knows there is an ice-cream for her, she would tell me, “No. not for Mama. Only Spud.” Such a cheeky little monkey!
While she loves the colour pink and would occasionally asked for “the pink one”, she changes her mind when we let her taste it because they tend to be the berry-flavoured ice-cream (raspberry) and are usually quite sour .
Her favourite ice-cream, so far? It has got to be the blue or the green coloured ice-cream. And that’s usually mint and chocolate chip ice-cream for you; a flavor I was surprised that a little tot like her would like. But I can’t complain, mint and chocolate chip ice-cream is my favourite flavor too.
Spud has recently gotten into the habit of asking people around her if they are OK. Several times in a row. They usually tend to come out of nowhere, and a typical conversation would go like this:
While having a meal:
Spud: Are you ok, Mama?
Me: Yes, I am ok. Are you OK?
Spud: Yes.
And a few minutes and several times later,
Spud : Are you ok, Mama?
Me: No, but I’ll be if you start putting the spoon in your mouth and eat your meal! Or, yes, I’ll do much better if you start listening to me more or No, I’ll be happy and dandy if you stop taking your brother’s toys away from him while he is still fiddling with it!
Spud: Are you OK, Mama?
With a wry smile, I replied: Hmm..not really Spud. I feel quite sad today. (I had a bad day at work the day before and it was eating me up. Not that Spud knew any better, but as soon as I said it, I thought that perhaps, it was not something I should have “imposed” on a little child)
Spud: No, no sad, Mama.
I then squeezed her hand and gave her a smile and said I’m OK. She then went, “You need to go to the doctor!”
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