Monday, July 20, 2009

Count down to Wan Qi's first racial harmony celebration in Dayspring

Very excited about Wan Qi's first racial harmony day celebration in Dayspring kindergarten as I thought she will look cute in other traditional costume.

Last Saturday, I told her in the morning that we will go to Little India to buy a set of Indian costume for her. Er I said Abunanan costume and she was laughing away. Then I thought oohs thats not very nice and corrected myself. However, the damage was done. She kept saying Abunanan until I told her when we reached Little India she cant say that or the uncles and aunties will be angry.

At first I thought she wont understand what I meant about buying an Indian costume. But then while we were on our way to Little India, she told me that after buying the indian costume, she will wear it and said "Abracadabra"and she will turned into a Indian girl, with that I realise she understand what I had told her. I laughed and said yes yes and she requested me to buy a set of indian clothes for my mum and Xihong too so that they can turned into indian people too. :>

While we were at Little India, just Wan Qi and I , she told me "mama, there are so many indian people hor". Hee she didnt say Abunanan. We had an interesting outing at Little India.
Wan Qi tried on an indian sari with crystals all over but I didnt buy it cos I am afraid she will trp on the sari. But she really look cute in that sari. Too bad I didnt take a photo of her wearing it as I thought its not very nice to do that.

In the end, I bought a colourful set of indian costume called laheng or something with many beadings. Wan Qi fitted nicely in that so I bought it at $25. After that I went to buy bracelets and studs for Wan Qi.

The shopkeeper told me that many Chinese will come and buy indian costumes and accessories when its near to Racial Harmony Day. I told him ya I bought it for Racial Harmony celebration and added that it's so nice to be able to do that , we Singaporeans are really fortunate to be able to celebrate this day in a peaceful and jovial manner.

After that I told Wan Qi that its important for us to be able to uphold racial harmonious among our people. I told her we must be friends with the indian, malay, eurasian people so that Singapore will be a forever peaceful place to live in. I hope she understands what I am trying to say to her.

Then we went off and I told her on Friday, she will be wearing Indian traditonal costume and that her favourite form teacher Mrs Rai might be wearing the same type of costume as her too and she was overjoy. Before we left Little India, I also brought her to an indian provision shop. I bought a piece of ginger and the whole shop smell of spices and I tried to introduce some spices to Wan Qi. And Wan Qi was busily sniffing the spices even the dried chillies. Hee silly girl.

Then yesterday, my sis came over to my place and Wan Qi showed her the indian costume. The costume had a strong perfume smell. My mum then said "有臭臭印度味"And Wan Qi reprimanded my mum"你怎么可以说臭臭印度味呢!这样是不对的。" We looked at each other and burst out laughing yaya Wan Qi is right.

2 comments:

xiaoci_mama said...

wah! best spokesgirl for racial harmony

kkf said...

i think dayspring is a good school leh, dash's school doesn't even mention about wat racial harmony day.