Nina likes salak (Indonesian’s snake fruit). Something she got from me I think as I like salak very much.I peeled for her just now and gave her one first while I continued to peel the rest. Then I gave her another one and she said:

“No. One is enough”

I was updating her blog just now (the previous entry about the banana) and she came out of her room (our room ) and asked me this question:

“do you want to come to my room?”

while pulling my hand.
I told her, “OK, but wait first yah. Daddy needs to finish this one first, OK?”
And I asked her to sit on the parquet floor just next to me, but then she said to my surprise:

“No, I don’t want to sit. I want to sleep!” and gave me her pretending-to-be-angry look.

and ran back to the room.

I don’t hear her voice again now … probably she is really sleeping now. This is the moment her mommy has been waiting for.

It’s 11.25pm now and Nina is still very active.She asked for a banana just now. She was probably hungry. So, her mommy gave her one. 15 minutes later, she came to me and asked me to finish her banana. Half left.

“Daddy … finish my banana!”

And then when I finished it, she took the skin to her mommy who was in the bedroom already and told her:

“Mommy … Daddy abisin. Liat … liat”

Nina tends to speak English to me and Indonesian to her mommy. She is able to switch between the two languages depending on who she is talking to. Not always that way, but most of the time.

Her Mamu (grandma) just left Manila for Jakarta tonight. Nina seems to be missing her.

Yesterday, she said to her Mamu in Indonesian,

“Besok Nina bangun, Mamu udah di Surabaya yah?”

She was referring to the fact that in the past couple of times, her Mamu always left Manila early morning to catch the first flight of Philippines Airlines back to Jakarta. So, when she woke up, she found that her Mamu was no longer in Manila.

Her Mamu left in the evening this time, taking Cebu Pacific Air. When she left earlier today, Nina happened to be sleeping. That was 5pm. So, she missed seeing her Mamu off. When she woke up and found out that her Mamu has left, she told her mommy in Indonesian,

“Nina mau bobo lagi. Nanti kalo Nina bangun, Mamu udah dateng”.

She was referring to another fact that in the past couple of times, her Mamu arrived in Manila early morning when she was still sleeping. So, when Nina woke up, she suddenly saw her Mamu in the apartment. So, she thought it’s a magic kind of thing that if she goes to sleep again now and wakes up later, she would see her Mamu back in the apartment.

Nina had a cinderella tent for her birthday. She got it from one of my friends last week. I assembled the tent for her last night and she started playing with it by going inside.I played with her while she was inside the tent just now. When she got out, I tried to get in and said “can I go inside the tent?”
She said,

“No, it’s too small”.

Good answer.

How time flies.
Nina is 3 today and two of her birthdays have been in Manila.

She celebrated her birthday at her school at the Little Gym, the Fort. Her mommy ordered that cute green birthday cake with a big number 3 on top of it. Green has been Nina’s favorite color. She was also wearing green today.

Here was when she was trying to blow the candles.