Monday, September 3, 2012

Symptoms of a Star Wars addiction

Consider the severe case of two Star War addicts: EggEgg, aged 5 and Cola, aged 3.
You know you have been infected with Star Wars addiction too if you happen to demonstrate any of the following behaviour:

* Shove a pillow under the clothes at one's back, race around the house and proclaiming that it a Jet Pack race.

* Stare endlessly at the glow-in-the-dark stars on the bedroom ceiling with a prolonged course of rambling, "Thats the planet of the bad guys. This is the planet of the good guys. The good guys flew from here to there..." The lecture went on for the next 30 minutes until the stars decided that it was enough and burn their own glow out.

* Stand in front of a door and command it to open by swiping 3 fingers. (Or use 5 fingers if you are Darth Vader, so I was informed.)

* The 3-year-old introducing oneself as "Mesa Isaac, yousa Mami."

* Build themselves a 2 person fighter plane and firing randomly at phantom enemies, complete with sound effects. "(Chiu... chiu...) Look, there's Jabba da Hutt, Troopers and Jango Fett. (Chiu... chiu...)"

* The 5-year-old introducing onself as "I am Jango Fett, and this is my brother Baby Fat."

* Have no problems memorising all the exotic names of Jedi Knights and Sith Lords such as Windu, Darth Dooku, yet have trouble at schoolwork pronouncing common words such as
- "senior" ("I went to the CINEMA playground this morning.")
- "supervisor" (always prounced as "super-ri-sur")
- "buddy" ("Daddy, today my BODY played with me during recess.")

* Physical proof of their addiction: the following is a picture drawn on a leisurely sunday morning while their parents slept in.

EggEgg has drawn a complete set of X-wings, Y-wings and Flighters attacking the Death Star.

Cola has lots of X-wings shooting at the Death Star (top right corner, black circle). And why would he know what a Death Star is when he can't even count from 1 to 20?

* And tell me, how many 3-year-old in this world can hum the opening theme of Star Wars on cue?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Evelyn, I'm so happy got your message! You are a great mother! You have three boys after few years! Fantastic! Good luck and keep in touch! Arthur

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