EMMA
One of her latest photos..
Emma is half Irish, half Filipino..Filipinos ( or Filipinas ) can be quite as talkative as the Irish. So if the speech DNA of one culture is mixed with that of the other, then you got Emma.
Aside from that incident in church regarding a donkey ( which I wrote about in the Discussion Center), another story about her took place one time in front of our front yard. When the stone marker about 19 Dixon's winning of the first prize for Toronto Gardens summer Garden contest arrived, I placed a statuette of this turtle in front of it ( see the photo below )
When she saw it, she took one short look and commented nonchantly: "He is a slow reader!"
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Here is the posting:
Date: Monday, December 18, 2006
I wanna share with you an incident at church yesterday. my 7 -year old Grandaughter Emma ( half Irish, half Filipino ) joined us. She is quite witty for her age and she has that Irish gift of the gab..Her vocabulary has also increased by leaps and bounds..Anyway, during the sermon we all sat down. The choir members in front of the organ and I was at the side. Emma was beside me snuggling close. I was hidden beside the massive organ console so only a few people could see me, not even the pastor..So as we sat there waiting for the tedious sermon to end, I saw the manger on the altar..They started to put on it some stuff..There was this plastic donkey at its side..We all could see it especially its behind because it was backing us..Then I whispered to Emma, who was really getting bored already.."Emma, do you know another name for Donkey?"..She thought for a bit, then she whispered (loud enough for the altar servers and the other singers to hear)..."JACK-ASS!"
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Upon reading about Emma, i remember a similar kid, a boy, back in the barrio when i was about 18 or something. he was our neighbor's kid, a product of Ilocano mother and pangasinan father.
And the kid would always ask his parents if he is Ilocano or if he is pangalatok, and most of the time he would be answered that he is half-ilocano, half pangalatok, being an offspring of two pure breds.
one day, when the father came home after losing in the cockpit, the kid again asked the same question; i overheard the mother said " anak, ikaw, 50% Ilocano, 50% ka-tangahan!"
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