1.13.2008

More Conversations with Baz and Hadrien

The boys are prohibited from watching "violent" content on TV, so that pretty much includes everything outside of the children's TV channels, Discovery, Nat Geo and Animal Planet (even cartoons nowadays seem too "adult" compared to when we were kids). But they're able to sneak a peek sometimes, as the following exchange bears out:

Baz (in his sumbungero voice):I saw Hadrien watching violent with your Daddy (i.e. Gramps) when we were in Las Pinas.
Yaya Dora: Uy nandun ka rin e. Silang dalawa yun nanood e.
Aha! Buking, or so we thought.
Daddy: Baz, did you watch violent also?
Baz: No.
Mommy: How do you know Hadrien was watching violent?
Baz: Because I was watching him.
Daddy (trying to catch Baz): Were you also sitting down when you were watching Hadrien?
Baz (realizing where Dadddy was going with this line of questioning): No, I was standing.
Daddy (not giving up with the cross-examination): Where were you standing?
Baz (realizing that to be literal is the safest way out): On the floor.
Daddy (still trying, not succeeding): Could you see the TV from where you were standing?
Baz: Yes.
Daddy: Where were you looking, at the TV or Hadrien?
Baz: At your Daddy.
Daddy: So how did you see Hadrien?
Baz: I was walking and I saw him. (In Filipino-'Napadaan lang ako').
Laughter all around.
Daddy (to Mommy and Yaya Dora): Ang galing masyado nito.
Baz: Thank you.

5 comments:

Malou said...

Does this mean Baz is sneakier than Hadrien?

Anonymous said...

hmmm. time to change votes.

two years ago, also upon cross-examination, two weeks after the incident in question:

Quarg: Baz, did you prevent Auntie April from eating a cheese sandwich?

Baz: No, bread only. (i.e. not all the elements of the alleged crime were present)

rek said...

Baz is a lawyer in the making....

Malou said...

A bit of a digression - Hadrien is also another lawyer in the making. When asked what a lawyer does, he quickly replied "go to court"!

rek said...

Hey...some corrections...
1. as far as I remember he prevented na-a from getting cheese, not bread.
2. yeah...hadrien's a lawyer in the making too, but baz has already mastered the art of litigation.