April Fools' Day

Some of the news will be fake news today. Haha.

Spidey's in town

Saw this on the roof of a car. Couldn't stop laughing. 

What a good sense of humour for that car owner! Wonder what the owner uses to keep Spidey on the roof without falling off, short of using superglue. :P 

April Fools' Day 2015

This year's April Fools' Day happened to be on Wednesday which is my counselling day. I am lucky that the counsellees are goody-two-shoes lol. None tried to "april fool" me. Phew. :P

Can I Play a Prank on You?

Who in the world will ask for permission before they play a prank? My daughters did. 
It is April Fools' Day today. They asked me and I gave them a killer glare. That pretty much stopped them in their tracks in pulling whatever prank they wanted to pull on me. 
Not long after, I heard my mother saying, "I am Ah Ma (grandmother), I am not easily fooled!" Guess they tried to pull a prank on my mother and didn't work out either. It must have been a really boring April Fools' Day for my girls lol. :P  

April fooled!

Today, I had counselling. I thought I was safe because it is 2nd April today, NOT 1st April so I let my guard down. Oh boy! How wrong I was!

A child asked me to pretend that the American national anthem is translated as Mei Guo Guo Ge (in Chinese Hanyu Pinyin) and for short, it's Mei Ge. Ok. Fine. Then, Chinese national anthem is ... Zhong Ge. Ok, I get the pattern, even though it sounded strange and not quite right. She then asked me what is French national anthem? Ok, wth the same pattern and rule, I gave her the answer - Fa ... . She was giggling away. I didn't get it and she asked me to repeat it a number of times and then it HIT me! I was April fooled!!! I am not going to repeat what the answer is. Those of you who are curious, please go ahead and try it for yourself.

A good friend laughed and said I was "gong gong" (Hokkien for stupid), repeated so many times. Well, how I know I was going to be tricked?! I was pure of mind, didn't think so much. And friend's verdict was: pure = gong. Hahaha.
Ok, maybe served me right for underestimating the kids now-a-days. It's a lesson learnt. Until the next April Fool's Day.

April Fool's Day

Today is April Fool's Day.

There are several explanations for the origin of April Fools' Day, but here is the most plausible one. April 1st was once New Year's Day in France. In 1582, Pope Gregory declared the adoption of his Gregorian calendar to replace the Julian calendar and New Year's Day was officially changed to January 1st. It took awhile for everyone in France to hear the news of this major change and others obstinately refused to accept the new calendar, so a lot of people continued to celebrate New Year's Day on the first of April – earning them the name April fools. The April fools were subjected to ridicule and practical jokes and the tradition was born. The butts of these pranks were first called poisson d'avril or April fish because a young naive fish is easily caught. A common practice was to hook a paper fish on the back of someone as a joke. This evolved over time and a custom of prank-playing continues on the first day of April. (Source: Dictionary.com)

When I was teaching, I was actually quite scared of this day. Had to be really alert or you would be April Fooled by the girls, not once but several times. That was the down side of being a nice teacher cos the girls would dare to play pranks on you. Hahaha. Hope none of my former students read this blog and know how scared I was then of them. Hahaha.

An unusual looking moth flew in just before 8:30pm and landed on the antique display cabinet. It's white with brown stripes running down. The girls were thrilled to see it. Knowing how kids can be when excited, especially the younger girl who had once done this, "(Pointed to insect) Look, Mama, insect. (Squashed it with her finger) Opps, die already". I don't want a repeat of that! So I told them not to disturb it as it was resting for the night before flying home tomorrow. Thank goodness, they listened and left it alone. It's almost 12:30am and it's still there. Let's see if it is still around in the morning.