Rawang-->K.Kurau-->P.Pinang-->Rawang : II

Hari kedua, kami ke P.P*inang.

Keterujaan cik Balqis

Pe*nang Hill

Pe*nang Hill

Fort Corn*wallis

Tips Cuti-Cuti Malaysia kali ini;

1. Sekiranya mempunyai masa yang singkat untuk berjalan-jalan di P.Pi*nang, destinasi Bukit Ben*dera untuk menaiki keretapi bukan pilihan yang terbaik kerana ia mengambil masa hampir satu hari. Cara yang lebih baik adalah menaiki kereta terus ke atas puncak bukit dan peluang untuk melihat bangunan kolonial adalah lebih baik.
2. Kalau hendak membeli baju sebagai kenang-kenangan, lebih baik beli di atas puncak bukit kerana lebih murah berbanding di bawah. Owhh..saya sudah rugi hari itu..
3. Jangan lupa pergi ke Pe*nang Road, pesan dato’ panglima. Katanya kalau tak pergi sini macam tak pergi Pe*nang. Saya tak jumpa pun jalan itu. Sangat sedih.
4. Kalau hendak balik/keluar dari pulau menggunakan feri, jadikan destinasi Fort Corn*wallis sebagai pilihan terakhir kerana ia paling dekat dengan jeti. Jadi, pergilah ke tempat lain dahulu sebelum ke sini.
5. Kota ini ditutup pada hari Ahad. ( ? ) Tiada makna bukan!!!
6. Jangan bayangkan sekiranya ‘tourist guide’ anda pernah belajar di U*SM selama 3 tahun bermakna dia sangat mahir akan jalan di P.Pi*nang. Nasib baiklah dia adik ipar saya. Lupakan saja kalau jejak sahaja jambatan P.Pi*nang itu, 'tourist guide' anda telah membuat panggilan kecemasan, ‘wei..macam mana nak pergi Bukit Ben*dera?’. Sungguh malang. Saya hampir bertukar menjadi raksasa yang kejam.
7. Jangan sesekali tidak mencuba menaiki feri, sangat syiok!!
   
   

Toddler Talk

*I found this short article from here.

This 19-month old toddler loves to hear her own voice, and is already quite a chatterbox. The dramatic vocabulary explosion that this study is probably not too far away. For now, she likes to say words like "book," "apple," mama," "dog" and "hat." In this picture she's saying one of her favorite words, "choo-choo."

If you know any toddlers, you’ve probably wondered what is going on in their heads as they put their (full) bowls on their head at mealtime or run around in circles, shrieking for no apparent reason.

There are lots of mysterious things about the toddler mind, but for scientists, one of the most interesting questions is how these pint-sized chatterboxes manage to learn words so quickly. By the time you’re an adult, you will have learned approximately 60,000 words. You’ve already learned many of those words, and, though you may not remember this, you learned an especially large number of words when you were around two and three years old.

Toddlers learn new words at an astonishingly fast rate, and researchers have called this the “vocabulary explosion.” Scientists have wondered for a long time how this is possible, and they’ve proposed that there might be some special part of the toddler brain that becomes active at this stage and speeds up word-learning.

A new study published in the 3 August issue of Science suggests a different explanation. In the study, Bob McMurray of the University of Iowa shows that that the vocabulary explosion could be related to the fact that languages generally have a lot of words that are kind of easy – but not super-easy – to learn. Young children begin by learning the very easiest, most common words, but there are not that many of these, so we don’t really notice any kind of language explosion.

But, then they move on to words that are just a little less common and a little more difficult. Languages have many of these words, so a vocabulary explosion occurs right at this stage. One of the interesting things about this idea is that toddlers are basically doing the same kind of word-learning that older children and adults do. In other words, a special “speed up” mechanism in the toddler brain isn’t necessary to explain the vocabulary explosion, as many scientists have suggested.

In his study, Dr. McMurray notes that any learning process that fits this general pattern (the easiest and hardest things being the least common, the in-between things are the most common) should have a similar period of rapid progress early on.

p/s: oh Balqis..obviously you are now in 'vocabulary explosion' phase : 32 months old

Jangan Buat Lagi Balqis!!

Malam tadi sedang saya mengira hutang-hutang perbelanjaan saya untuk bulan ini dan bulan depan, entah macam mana Mr.Bie buat lawak yang tak berapa lawak dengan saya. Saya kalau terkena kes-kes seperti ini saya secara spontan akan separuh menjerit “Bie!!!” cik Balqis pun sudah tahu, kalau saya seperti ala-ala menjerit manja itu maknanya ayahnya sedang buat lawak yang tidak menjadi!

Secara tiba-tiba terpacul daripada mulut cik Balqis…

“Bodohla ayah ni”

“hey..siapa ajar cakap macam tu?” tiba-tiba juga Mr.Bie naik angin
“Cakap apa tadi? Ulang lagi?”

Cik Balqis senyap. Dia tahu ayah dia marah. Saya pun nak marah juga, tapi saya rasa biarkanlah ayah dia yang uruskan.

“cakap!! Siapa ajar?”

Sambil menepuk-nepuk bibir cik Balqis. Menepuk dengan lembut gayanya.

Cik Balqis menangis sambil menuju ke pintu bilik. Nampaknya dah tiba giliran saya pula kalau dah sampai bab yang ini.

“Pergi cium tangan ayah”
“Salam. Say sorry to ayah”
“Bagitau ayah, Balqis tak cakap lagi”

Cik Balqis salam dan cium sambil menangis-nangis.

Itulah pengalaman PERTAMA saya mendengar perkataan yang diluar dugaan saya. Saya harap ia tidak berlaku lagi. ooh baru macam ni saya dah takut. Macam mana nanti kalau sudah ke sekolah, bergaul dengan ramai kawan..oohh sungguh mak takut.

p/s : Pagi ini saya mengambil kira positif, bagaimana cik Balqis sudah pandai menyesuaikan perkataan dan situasi. Cumanya perkataan yang digunakan adalah SANGAT-SANGAT tidak sesuai. Dalam kata lain ia merujuk kepada 'lawak bodoh' seperti kata Ally malam tadi yang membincangkan berkenaan isu lawak bodoh itu. Boleh ke? oh mak memang fail :(