Rangi
SamD
Markit wrote
Is it me???
Yes.
:)
ronb
Maybe it is just a ploy to get you to leave. :-)
Markit
Does anyone else find it mildly or severely annoying that when you go and visit families here the mother of the young family seem to spend her time chasing "junior" through the house with his fecking dinner. Spoon in hand mama runs after the "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (thanks spell check) most of the evening trying to shove grub in his mouth as he, merrily, runs away.
No one seems to think this behavior is in the least strange or questionable.
I sure to feck do.
I'm trying to have a normal discussion with grownup people between the "road-runner" and "coyote".
And this goes on and on and on until there is a screaming tantrum and someone chastises mother that she has not done it right - thing is it's probably 11pm and the place is filled with beer swilling hookers and drunken punters (my kind of place).
I've tried on several occasions to point out that "junior" probably should be in bed as tomorrow is school and the place is filled with terrible role models, not to mention that the whole thing is getting seriously on my tits. I like kids but I probably couldn't eat a whole one....
Is it me???
Markit
Just like noise levels everywhere here the Indonesians don't seem to notice this behavior at all and were absolutely baffled when I ask what the hell are you chasing that little child all over the house for with a bowl of rice?
There seems to be no understanding of children getting a good nights sleep helping with their overall development or that they will need to go to school in the morning.
More to the point, that I'm sick to death of little children faffing around at 11pm when I'm trying to get drunk and/or into the trousers/sarong of the lady next to me.
And Ron no, they were doing the rice dance as we got there.
davita
I've seen it worse when in Jakarta at hi-class hotel restaurants at Sunday brunch.
Indonesians bring their kids with the maid/s and the little buggers run all over the marble-tiled lobby, disturbing everyone, being chased by the nanny/s with a spoon-full of rice.....while mum/dad and their parents are in a resto obliviously stuffing their faces.
This is how the noveau middle-class behave.
tintin
Well, so it still going on? "The baby parade", my wife called it when we first experienced it, back in 1984. It is, one would say, a Balinese tradition, at all the levels of the society! But Davida says it also goes on in the Javanese society...
Markit
Yeah tin, I'm not a violent man but every time I get an almost irresistible urge to give the kid a damned good smacking and put him (it's invariably a[B][I] him[/I][/B]) to bed.
