Conversations with Chinkee, Santa Claus and Mobile Phones

home title Posted by Lui on Nov 17th, 2009 | 7 comments home title


Yesterday, I had this conversation with my daughter Chinkee..

“Mommy, is Santa coming around this Christmas?”

Which reminded me, we still have this Santa Claus tradition every Christmas. We used to spend every Christmas holiday in the Philippines with my parents in Bicol and my brother was totally into playing Santa for his niece. Having Santa treats is fun and she looks forward to it every year so we kept the tradtion.

So I told her, “Sure, baby. He’ll come around this year..”

“But maybe he doesn’t know how to get here! Mommy, remember were in Cambodia now,maybe he doesn’t know where our house is..” She now saying, looking wide-eyed at me like I was suffering from temporary amnesia.

“Oh, well you can then write a letter to him. Tell him how you’d been good and tell him where your house is now.”

And I just had to laugh when she answered a little impishly, “Mommamm (she sometimes calls me this :P ), maybe I should not write, why don’t you just text him?”

As if I have Santa’s number.. Does he even have a mobile phone? How come my daughter is like that? When I need to call her school for something, she’s always like, “Mommy, just text Teacher” or when she needs something from her grandmother or her cousins, she’d bug me and ask, “Mommamm, did you text them already, ha?”

Chinks is 6 1/2 years and she’s a total techie. Like she could easily learn how to use a mobile phone, she’s totally at ease using a laptop (though she just plays games), no one taught her how to operate the TV and the DVD player, it’s like she just figured it out on her own.

Shheesh, I’m just amazed! You know youngsters are really fast when it comes to learning new stuff. She easily figured out how to unlock my mobile phone so she could play with it while it took about a month of constant tutoring to get my mom to learn how to send a text using her really simple phone. Talk about generation gaps..

Which reminds me how I wish there were mobile phones when I was in high school or in college..I’m seriously amazed how my friends and I communicated back then – passing notes. Haha! I know it sounds positively medieval, but I now laugh at how we always wait for each other at the school lobby. It would all had been much easier if mobile phones were existent and we could simply call or text one another.

Anyway, Chinks is now telling me she wants to have a Chess Set from Santa. Great! I just wonder now why coz I dunno how to play chess, and Hi-ace doesn’t play chess too, so how come she’s interested in it? Not that I’m complaining. I am actually very thankful she’s that inquisitive and her teacher tells me my daughter is a very “self- motivated learner”. If she finds something interesting she’d really dig her ‘heels’ and learn it. I’m even saying halleluiah! I don’t need to bug her about homework, she does it without prodding and she just six! I’m keeping my fingers crossed hoping she’d stay the same..

Now I am absolutely positive she didn’t get that drive from me. Must be from her dad who is always very determined specially when studies are concerned. Oh, well I could simply say she got her looks from me. Which Hi-ace says is completely delusional.

She also asked me, “How come old people don’t get stuff from Santa?” and I asked her, ”Like who?”

“Like you, Mommamm.” Well, am I that old already? Maybe I should start to panic. My daughter thinks I am an ‘old person’ already. Anyway, I told her, “Santa gives gifts to kids only because if he needs to give gifts to adults too then he’ll need to prepare too many gifts and it might just be too much for him.” and ” hmm, Chinks, Mommy is not OLD, I’m just 30 you know”.

“What do you want for Christmas, Mommy?” and “30 is old. I only know how to spell up to twenty.”

This got me thinking. “A 40″ LCD TV maybe?” or “A whole outdoor/patio furniture set complete with outdoor cushions“.

“Ay sus, grabe!(her favorite Pinoy expression) Mommy, those things are big. I don’t think Santa can bring that. Ask dad na lang!”

:D So then, maybe I should just settle for some calphalon cookware?



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  1. Canon digital slr says:
    November 17, 2009 at 5:29 am

    I enjoy this Conversations thanks for sharing this. Many time we see kids have some question and we don’t have answer for them.

  2. Josiet says:
    November 18, 2009 at 12:09 am

    30 is NOT old! Hahahaha!!!!

  3. Lui says:
    November 18, 2009 at 12:27 am

    haha j, korek anyway feeling young pa ang lola mo..nasa calendar pa naman..

  4. Lui says:
    November 18, 2009 at 12:35 am

    @ Canon digital SLR. Thanks.

  5. cheerful says:
    November 18, 2009 at 7:03 am

    lui, i enjoyed reading it…super dami talaga nilang unexpected question about life at tuloy-tuloy iyon, lahat connected with each other! hehehe! hmm…super bilis nga nila matuto, si cj may sariling facebook at kaya medyo easy na kapag nasa pp kami kasi nakaka-chat na kaming dalawa! :)
    lastly, life starts at 40 so malayo pa tayo, hehehe!  :)
    i really love to see chinks, she’s so cute…

  6. Lui says:
    November 18, 2009 at 8:42 am

    hi che, how’s your vacation going on? kids never cease to amaze me kakatuwa yung mga questions nila.

    i so agree with you! im thinking we should be getting more fab as we age haha..

    thanks

  7. tactical body armor says:
    December 17, 2009 at 5:53 pm

    Thanks for sharing. Christmas is almost here and I still need to do my shopping. I still need to buy my brother in law the lord of the rings book series. You can find a lot of great deals at Amazon.

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