Ode to a Bottle Cap

By Tobiah Hewitt

(as translated from the original Boo-Talk)

Behold! The bottle cap!
See how simple it is
Yet perfect in shape
A circle.
Observe its colour
Beautiful blue
And semi-transparent.
But, O, it becomes so much more,
How versatile in use,
How wonderfully entertaining.
See how I can wave it about.
An instrument of joy,
When bashed against the tiles.
But, Alas.
It rolls away across the room,
Enticing me to pursue.

Then I capture it!
In my grasp once more.
But my triumph is short-lived.
Suddenly, once more, gone.
How tricky it is!
Slipping from my hands.
I must give chase.
And again,

And again,
And again,
Until,
At last,
It no longer amuses me.
Alas.

But then……..
Behold! A piece of fluff!

Comments

Hey Jude said…

Love Toby's bright green terry cloth nappy! :-D

Really enjoying reading about all your experiences, which are bringing back some good and some trying memories of our years in India, and even our current time in Singapore.

Special note to Miriam to simply cut off those horrible tags (ie. anything that doesn't say "S" for small) and try not to worry about this ego-denting aspect of living in Asia. You are still the same little you!

sounds like your teaching and daily life are going well, despite the fact that everything is so different, takes 3 times as long as back home (or you have carefully allowed for), and life is just full of surprises.

We pray that God will continue to watch over you all, keep you safe, and water the "seeds" you are planting for Him.

Love and hugs to all
Judy Twine (et al)

2 March 2007 at 4:58 pm

woofboy said…

Tee hee! Loved it.

2 March 2007 at 6:53 pm

Peter Collins said…

This comment has been removed by the author.

4 March 2007 at 11:31 am

Peter Collins said…

Zooming in on Toby's nether region reveals a plastic thingo which one imagines fulfills the same purpose as two safety pins but safer. Is this a Cambodian invention? Sure beats telling the kid, "Let me know when it hurts"
Peter Collins

4 March 2007 at 11:34 am

Maybe I'm just a girl

Well, dear Readers, Things have been busy here with preparation for our seminar this weekend. Catering, printing, emailing and phoning have been occupying our hours. James is sitting opposite me on the table working on his talks for Friday. We have had quite a number of bookings for our seminar and the numbers have only been limited by the size of our premises. God willing, all will attend and we’ll have a good two days of talks and chatting. We’re planning, God willing, a boat cruise as our social activity and that should be a blast since we can have a 2 hour cruise for 50 people for only $20. Have managed to hook up skype credit and tested a mobile call to Prydie. The 5 second lag meant it was like having two random monologues in the same room. The prices was fairly reasonable, but even as 3 cents a minute the cost climbs. James spends much time out on the balcony. He gets good wireless reception. It's quite a amusing to peek through the window and see James out on the balcony wa...

*hammok place over the mekong *me and gab cruzing the streets *us feastin on the food * jonno swar and sammie *lcdi students planting vegies at the lcdi garden we built for them *lcdi bikers planting dinner at the dorms - amazing feast - beaf lukluk and vermici noodles - yummy *helen and gary on way back to airport *rosie,samie and kylie at seinookville, watching sunset baptised dinner nicht at bec *dude sitting on rock * what do they get up to in cambodia seinookvile we went out to lcdi as sarah vogal is leaving back to nz after a 4 month stint in cambodia and 13months overseas doing mission work (good work sarah, we'll miss you), and lcdi did a special talent night for her when we got there there was a table with flowers all over it and chairs for us - it was so nice we had dudes being throw in the air doing backflips and traditional dancing and a fasion show which was diabolical (if thats a work ill use it, but i dont know what it means but it sound the right word to p...

God Proves the Power of Prayer Again and Again

Over the course of my five-month long Cambodia trip I had the opportunity to teach class es at the Bethezer girl dorm regularly . For th ese class es I have a translator so I just get to teach the good news ( none of this dilly-dallying about English teaching ). Our topic on this particular night was prayer. Philippians 4:6 reminded us that God is longing to hear from us just as a father lo ves to hear from his child or how we are just hanging out to get a message from someone we love. We looked at H is promises to answer ALL our prayers while we abide in Jesus Christ (John 15:7) and at Psalm 34:4 where God confidently affirms that when you find your happiness with God, H e will certainly give you more of what makes you happy (Him!). And you can pray for that happiness because God will give you anything that brings you closer to Him so never be afraid to ask! That is nothing but i ncredibly good news ! We raced through many more quotes and I had expected to strug...

Cambodia Bible Education Centre

Search This Blog