Raisin' My Donut

Exactly how Dire Straits would put it. But well, my donut don't exactly get the money for doing nothing. She earned them from the so-called fines she imposed on the MOTHs (Man & Mdm of the House). Serves us parents right for the cursory remarks (made under the breath) on errant drivers, not putting on seat-belts etc. Ingenuity as its best? Well, personally I think its more of meeting ones wantz to ones needz; i.e. the freedom by having purchasing power.

Apart from the normal girly stuff that are a bit too expensive for parents to consider buying, my donut has an insatiable yearn for books. Books and more books... I mean just look at the study for a start.

There's more tucked away in plastic containers belonging to the MOTHS - enough to make the annual tax rebates for books an outcry.

But it is good to know that the MOTHs have successfully instilled the reading habit in the donut. And whats more thrilling is the array of collection of books she has "graduated" from and growing interest to. And not to mention the creeping increase in the price of the book. Anyway, apart from the price, my donut managed to read her 2 of her candy apple series in 2-days!

From one of the earliest books on barbie to the latest ones on spiderwick and also the candy apple series, my donut also realises that her bargaining power to buy books she wants (including expensive ones) will increase dramatically if she strategise her negotiating skill to pay half the price and either MOTHs to pay the balance.



Just yesterday, I was quite impressed that my donut finds the new paperback "Alice In Wonderland" based on the film by Tim Burton to be in cinemas on 11th March 2010, an interesting read. I mean for a serious read without pictorials and very novel-like seriousness and it costs RM29.90. Here, she put in her negotiating skill until MOTH agrees to pay RM15.00. Interestingly, little miss donut also rationalises that if she reads the book, she will be able to appreciate the film more as she would know exactly what went on the minds of the characters; i.e. the unspoken thoughts that are only known to people who reads the book. Mind you, the little donut does her own research on the Net, on new books worth buying and reading (Like father, like daughter). Well, at least, she's learned the value of money and how to spend them wisely.

Anyway, here's a video on a day out on 1 November 2009, on donut and pumpkin (Nimas) browsing and looking for additions to their book collections. Its too bad that little Miss Celery (Wulan) was not around.

Well actually that did not happen. What did happen was, my donut found a trapped lizard in an empty confectionery box with a see-through plastic on the lid. She does have a distinct dislike on lizard plus that it makes her skin crawls. Anyway, my donut got creative and get herself cellophane tapes to stick the sides of the box with enough breath-holes for the lizard. Despite the cruelness, at least she still empathise the poor creature.

In total, my donut trapped the poor lizard for 5 whole days, after being tortured. In the first few days the my donut would just drummed the box with a stick to make the lizard deaf she would say. The lizards' response was just to shift position to another corner without the banging. Soon enough, my donut grew tired of drumming the box and decide she would shake the box as well as possibly could. After 2 days we noticed that the lizard has changed a shade darker than its original colour. Well, that brought smile to my donuts face... she was amazed.

On the third day, she noticed that the tail has disengaged from the lizard's main body; though it was still tingling a good 20minutes. However, her greatest finding was that, without food for the last 4 days, the poor lizard has not grown thin but instead the lizard has devoured its own tail for survival.... that was truly gross but nevertheless, I too was amazed at the findings. Never would have I imagined lizards can turned cannibalistic... wonder whats the term to refer for animals or reptiles doing that, ew.

My donut, was wide-eyed with wonder and thought it would be good to see if it would disengage any other parts of its body and eventually die a handicapped. This was when I have to put my foot down and say, enough is enough! So I explained to my little donut that lizards are known to disengage their tails when they are extremely scared or tries to get away from its predators, as a mean to distract the predators. But the tails will eventually grow back and the lizards will be back to normal again.

It was a wonder that I could let my donut decide that the torture chamber is enough and that we should let loose the poor lizard...

There are numerous points I wish to make in all my posts, catalogued in the various experiences I share with my little squirrel, my adorable donut... my achaby...

There are times, I made my donut cry but later make up for it - not out of guilt but simply because I think she got the message. But no matter how consensually we try to live, I cannot and will not let her have her way every time. Sometimes she gets hurt, and I can’t instantly make it better. Sometimes I am just cruel because I cannot cope any longer. It breaks my heart (a phrase I did not fullly understand until having her) every time and yet I would not deny her all hurts even if I could because denying all hurts would deny her the ability to empathize, deny her the ability to sympathize, deny her any chance to grow, deny her the experience of life. But, one thing for certain, while on the one hand, I will never willingly inflict pain on her for no purpose other than to suffer, on the other hand, I realise that I cannot entirely regret that she will know suffering, sometimes outside of my control and sometimes with my collusion.