Alvin, generous boy for once

5 February 2009, Thursday

On the first day of CNY, we were offering oranges to everybody within the family. Angeline asked if she should also gave oranges to Alvin and we said yes, as a mode of respect for the elders. Alvin turned around and asked if he needed to give Angeline a red packet, as he received one from each of the adults. So, we teased him and said yes, knowing that he is such a miser.

He quickly took his coin box and a red packet and ran into the bedroom. Soon after, he came out of the bedroom with a red packet on hand and gave it to Angeline. The adults were all jokingly saying that at best, he would only gave his sister $2. To all our surprise, he actually gave his sister $30. Not bad for someone who treasures his every cents.

At night, he told us that he was rich with the hongbao money. So I suggested to him that he should gave us a McDonald breakfast treat and agreed immediately. So, next morning, we went to McDonald and he paid for the breakfast without a wink.

Oh yes, must also talk about his another generous act. We went for a movie, after dinner on their birthday. He forked out $10 for his movie ticket. When we were home, we told him that $10 was not enough for the whole family to watch the show and it costed $50. So, he willingly took out $50 to me and told me to return the $10 that he had previously given to me.

So, this boy is really not that bad after all. At times, he says that he is saving his money to buy a big house. On other occasions, he will say that he wants to keep his money to buy PSP/Nintendo which he knows that I will not buy for him. I am more concerned that he will be indulged with the game machine and ruin his eye sight, which is already quite bad for a boy of his age.