bean-edict
i know i should have felt more involved in the selection of the new pope. but apart from the short euphoria brought about by the BBC cameras zooming in on the white smoke and ringing bells, i felt distant, disengaged from the whole thing. bad catholic, i know. so sue me, or hound the other 999,999,999 other catholics. or read the unofficial blog for pope benedict xvi instead.
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we have other pressing, concrete, matters to attend to. things that are in my “here and now”. there’s our car, for example, who went bonkers last sunday and is still driving the nuts out of the mechanics in the opel shop. they called yesterday to inform hubby that they have to conduct a test to figure out what’s wrong, and that test alone would already cost something like 300 euro. i don’t want to anticipate how much the damn karre is gonna cost us in the end. at least more than a couple of thousand, for sure. if it gets fixed at all. meanwhile hubby has to shell out more than 20 euro a day taking the train to work. arrrgh, house budget? what house budget?
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there was one sobering moment, though, when the opel died. jan apologetically asked, “hab’ ich irgendwie was falsch gemacht? (did i somehow make something wrong?). man, this kiddo’s diction knocks me off!
photo source: unknown.
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11 Responses to “bean-edict”
April 20th, 2005 at
Jan is hilarious! I still laugh about his “ziemlich cool” comments. haha.
April 20th, 2005 at
haha, cute…at least if he DID do anything wrong, you won’t find it difficult to make him admit it…
April 20th, 2005 at
‘Naaaayyy Ruth! Ano ba yang anak mo? Baka naman next time he’ll say “I don’t particularly like vegetables,” or is he there already?
Patawa si Pope Bean but if you look at some of Ratzi’s pics, kamukha niya si Anthony Hopkins! May Hannibal Lecter pa nga eh.
April 21st, 2005 at
hey ruthie. are you fluent in German na? How do you understand Jan when he speaks in German? That’s a funny pic of Mr. Bean! hee hee!
April 21st, 2005 at
galing ni jan, marunong mag-emphatize kahit sa non-living things. ‘oy buti yan, di daw natural ang empathy sa mga kids, it’s something that should be taught to them. he he.
(si raine nasobrahan yata ng turo ko, pag may umiiyak sa tv o kaya meron pinapakitang may-sakit or in-pain…umiiyak din! sobrang affected siya …)
April 21st, 2005 at
hay naku, AnP, ewan ko nga ba kung saan nya napi-pick-up yang mga yan! patawa!
ladyc: admit, no, not difficult. but when you ask him why he did it, ayan na yung “but i just wanted to…” excuses nya. kaloka!
karen, er, close. just last night he declared: kohlrabi esse ich nicht so gern!
xtine, nagkakaintindihan pa naman kami… i probably have the german fluency equiv to that of a two-year old, hehe… pero soon, mao-overtaken na ako nito! waaah!!!
glo, naku, born out of empathy nga kaya yon? or guilt? kasi naman, pag may nasira dito sa bahay, most likely isa lang naman lagi sa aming tatlo ang may kagagawan, hehehe…
April 21st, 2005 at
kakatuwa naman si Jan.. Does he understand tagalog na? Or English & German lang muna?
April 21st, 2005 at
Yikes! Parang matanda siya kung magsalita! Saka genteel. Old soul siguro si Jan.
April 21st, 2005 at
hahaha… galing… at least di masisi admit agad…
mahal ng ticket wala ba train pass?
April 21st, 2005 at
ruthie,
kakatuwa si Jan…sana makita ko na sya para makapag-chikahan na kami…..madami kaming pagkukwentuhan hehehehe
April 21st, 2005 at
kakaibang humirit! ang daldal pa naman niyan, sarap pakinggan. hmmmn, er, kanino nagmana?