As I mentioned in the previous post,
Daven's way of speaking is going to be
one of the very Singaporean kids' type.
Well, rude, inconsiderate, selfish brats
all around us, we only have one to blame.
Us.

For what I know, babies came into this world
as a whole new life. The only things they know
are crying and breathing. Everything else,
we teach and they learn.
Be it good or bad.

Before Daven was born, my mother in law
stated a rule that only English will be used
in the family once he's borned. Maybe only
my father in law will be speaking Mandarin.

I went "Yeah, right. Make sure your 'English'
is actually English." in my head. To be honest,
I would rather they speak to him in Mandarin,
at least that's what they are good at, than
teaching him their Singlish.

It's really weird how I can start predicting
bad things since I came to this family.
And I hate to say that, all of them came true.

Word usage:

"POMPOM" = "BATHE"
So baby language is part of English.
Even now, when Daven is able to say
the word 'BATHE' perfectly, they still
refer it as 'pompom'.

Everyday when I came back from work,
I would grab my towel and turn to Daven
(who like to tail behind me most of the time),
"Daven, I'm going to bathe(with sign).
Do you want to bathe too?"
Sometimes he will get all so excited,
repeating "bathe" with the sign, and
running to the bathroom.

As I turned to grab something else,
he would stop at the living room where
his grandmother asked, "Daven, you
want to pompom arhx?"

Then he went "pompom pompom". After
I tell him that I'm going to "bathe",
he would say "bathe" with the sign,
and nod his head, as if he wanna join in too.

Other baby languages like "GAIGAI","MAMMAM","ORHORH"
are also commonly used.

"KAKA" = "BUG"/"INSECT" or simply anything weird
"MIMI!" Daven was screaming at me when I was
at the sofa. He came and dragged me to the door,
pointing to a baby lizard on the wall outside, "KAKA!".

"You call that 'KAKA'? It's a baby lizard. Look.
It's so small so small(sign). It's a baby(sign)lizard."
I guess he couldn't say 'lizard' yet, but he said
'baby' with the sign though.

This is one of the most hated list. I ever heard Felicia
telling my mother in law Alice not to teach him
"KAKA" because she did to Jeremy too, and now he's 19,
he still call the monsters in movies "KAKA". BUT!
Now, even Felicia is doing it.

The same go to "PIANGPIANG". It was the word for chicken
wings during Felicia's time. We were having dinner and
Alice got some chicken wings onto Felicia's plate.

"PIANGPIANG for you."
"What PIANGPIANG?! Chicken wings lahx."
"But you used to call them PIANGPIANG wad"
"That's because you tell me it's called
PIANGPIANG. Now I know it's CHICKEN WINGS."

Haha. Stupid mother, with retarded kids.
But not to comment too much as I'm not far off that too.

Grammar:

This is the worst. There are way too many to state,
as every sentence they speak are bound to be
gramatically wrong (using the English stardard of course).

"You bathe already lahx. No need to bathe again lahx."
"Where got? Dont have lehx."
"You see, you make ee ee liaox."
Just to name a few.

I guess when you hate someone/something,
whatever it does just disgust you. And
when things keep repeating itself, after
you say something about it, you get tired
and simply fuck care it. Especially when they
give excuses like,

"I've got no other ways."
"You think taking care of him is so easy?"
"I'm so tired with no one to help me."

and every excuse just leads to another problem.