‘Shi Shi’

According to Reneepedia, ’shi shi’ means to urinate or pee. In other words, when you enter the loo to do the number 1.

Are you still with me? Ok, good. So one day, Juliana (she’s my sis in law — and no she did not ’shi shi’ in this story) went to pick up Tara (my sometimes lovely niece) from the kindergarten. Usually the highlight of Juliana’s trip to the kindergarten would consists on listening to Tara’s classmates complaining about how Tara was a naughty naughty girl. “Tara licked me”. “Tara pushed me”. And believe it or not, there was even a “Tara threw a chair at me”. Seriously. But this time, it was Tara’s teacher who wanted to have a word with Juliana. Inside the classroom. Oohhhkay. What now?

Apparently, Tara had ’shi shi-ed’ (Yes, I had just used a passed tense for a made believe word. But it was in Reneepedia. I checked twice) on herself in class earlier that morning. On the way back, Juliana questioned Tara about the unfortunate incident. “What happened?”. “Did the teacher hit you?”. “Tell me”. Embarrassed, Tara refused to explain what had happened. She just kept quiet the whole way. Silence is not Tara’s thing, so it must have been serious.

Worried and restless, Juliana kept interrogating Tara. “What happened? What happened?”. Finally Tara broke down and told her side of the story. According to her, she wanted to pee but the kindergarten had CCTVs installed everywhere. Even in the toilet cubicles. Being the innocent girl that she clearly isn’t, she felt shy and terrified that the cameras would see her ’shi shi’. So she peed in her pants instead. She even swore that she wasn’t lying. She swore.

The next day, Juliana confronted the teacher again. Unsurprisingly, there were NO cameras in the toilet. No conspiracy on mild child pornography there. The truth was, Tara was being naughty as usual, so the teacher gently spanked her. I think that made her self-esteem go from hero to zero and down came the pee. End of story.

I don’t know whether Juliana should be worried about Tara’s avid lying problem or elated that Tara will most definitely score an A for creative writing. For a 5 year old, CCTV excuses are wayyyyy off the charts. She is so good. So so good.

I have this feeling that Tara won’t appreciate reading this particular blog post in years to come.