Again, superstition!!!

I have just returned from my quality time with Irdina… and of course, at her babysitter’s house.

While playing with her at the verandah, the babysitter, an old lady (about 80 years of age) bombarded me with old wives tales, stressing in particularly… “Don’t ever mention or tell anybody that your daughter looks like you…” ermmm… she then proceed with “if somebody tells me that my child resembles me, I will just say, “No, she looks more like monkey””… WHATTT??? As usual, I am not a kind of person who likes confrontation, so I just kept quiet.

WHY? To ever tell people, that your children resembles monkey? Why can’t we just accept the truth, and tell the truth? Why do we have to be so and so and so superstitious, even for something like this? I was really dumbstruck… ohhh goshhh… for people who pray 5 times a day, who believe in Allah, still… they believe in something as animistic as this… they are afraid that the child might fall sick, or something bad would happen to the child just because the mother tells people that her baby looks like her, or as beautiful as her!!! ehem ehem... :p

I’ve been taught since I was a little girl not to say that the chubby little baby as “sihatnya dia”… instead of saying that, I should be saying “jaiknya badannya!!!”… JAIK means BURUK in Bahasa Melayu Sarawak… When will people start to believe in themselves, stop pretending and start to acknowledge the truth?

This kind of people still don’t let babies take bath when they got fever… they are afraid that the fever will move from the skin to the inside of her body… wo goshhh… how am I going to teach these people biology, anatomy of human’s body? How could a fever subside if you keep the baby in warm blanket, and turn off the fan? Oh my… Please take good care of my baby…

I don't deny that they take good care of my baby… and sometimes give me good tips on how to take care of her. I am not saying that I know better… but I don’t like it when people start to talk nonsense…