My First Phone call

Hello, hello, this is me on the phone. It's not just an empty pose, mind you. Papa was on the other line when this picture was taken and he actually turned on the speaker of his handphone. As a result, Papa and Ye ye could hear me call Ye ye.

I had been interested in phone for quite a while and occasionally, Da Yi Po would speak to me when she is on the line talking to Mama and I wanted to be part of the action too. Sometimes, when Papa or Mama calls, I will also get a chance to hear their voice over the phone. But many a times, I only smiled and marveled at the fact that there is someone on the other side talking to me and I seldom reply any utterance.

This month, Mama tried to let me use the phone. She would dial her own handphone number using our house line and then pass me the house phone. Then she would talk to me over the phone. Sometimes, she tries to go out of my sight so that I can understand that I am not hearing her voice because she is just next to me but because her voice is transmitted over the phone line. In this way, we had kind of been having some phone calls going on.

That day, Papa called from hospital to speak to Mama. After speaking to Papa for a while, Mama passed me the phone and Papa turned on the speaker phone without Mama knowing. Mama took out her handphone camera and started taking some pictures of me on the phone while trying to coax me to call Ye ye as she thought Ye ye was talking to me on the other end. I really called Ye ye and that evening, maybe because of this incident, Ye ye told Aunty Cheyanne that I had brought him a lot of joy! Praise God! :)