Friendship

Boom Snot Twitty This Way That Way.

This is one of the books I brought when my daughter's class went on the field trip to the Hong Kong Botanical and Zoological Gardens today.

Both Jasmine and I enjoyed the tale about three friends, Boom, Snot and Twitty, each of them having their own thinking as to what's the perfect spot to spend the day. Boom wants to jump and splash. Twitty loves to hike. Snot prefers picnic. That's an immeasurably entertaining story of how authentic friendship blossoms even with different views.

As is usually the case with school field trip, I carry story books and my daughter's backpack is for lunch box (for mine, too). Then not only will her backpack be less heavy than mine, hers will be even lighter on the way back.

In fact, my daughter's lunch box got empty earlier than I'd expected. Far so much earlier. We had prepared spring rolls for lunch this time. It never ceases to amaze me how tasty spring rolls can be. And her classmates too. As my daughter opened her lunch box, she beamed. "Yummy spring rolls. Anyone wants to try?" she exclaimed, pride written all over her face. It's great; everyone said so.

And then - this is the truth - her lunch box was nearly empty within a minute. There was only one spring roll left for herself, and none for me.

Whoops.

In case you're wondering whether my daughter would end up being hungry after a morsel of spring roll only, here's the answer: No. Her friends shared theirs in return.