Abang's First Love (Lost)

Abang has 2 Indian girls as his best friends at kindergarten. Sure, he mentions lots of other children as well, like Bryan (who also loves Transformers, as does his brother Brandon), Adlina (a cute Malay girl who stays "full day", i.e. day-care, at kindergarten), Irsyad (whose snot tends to trickle down his nose into his mouth, ewww), Sarveswaran (who has a tendency to vomit at school), Lee An Qie (who also scored 95% in her Mandarin test) as well as some of the teachers children like Gopinath and Jeganath.

But these 2 girls feature greatly in his everyday conversations about school. Lately, one of them less so than the other - a falling out perhaps? Anyway, the other girl, Keshika, still seems to be his best friend.

He told me on several occasions, "When I'm big I'm going to marry Keshika." So I play along. He generally understands the concept of a "couple", "parents", etc, plus he's been to a few weddings so he's familiar with the term "orang kahwin", or "get married".

On a related note, there is a very nice house just down the road from Atok's house that he really likes. Abang refers to it as a 'castle'. He used to ask me when we can buy it but has since given up because I keep telling him it's too expensive and we can't afford it. So now he talks about when HE buys it when he's bigger.

He said, "If I live there then I can just walk to Atok's house because it's so near."

A few days ago, during his shower, he mentioned the house again. Then he said the funniest thing, "Too bad Keshika don't want to marry me."

I tried to stifle a laugh by asking, "Really? How do you know? You asked her?"

"Ya. But she said she doh-wan because she wants to marry someone richer."

Aah, Abang! Welcome to the real world!