August 2003

I've actually - 8/28/2003





tried to think up a baby/ children's book for my little niece isabelle - it kinda relates to having a brother and sister, cause my good old lao ta is pregnant again. So anyway - here's how it's set up:

Mum's got a baby in her tum
She told me today
There's a baby on the way
Mum's got a baby in her tum

Ok so after that it's supposed to be sorting of a counting rhyme - as in 3 months, 4 months etc ... then we get to 9 mths and the months INSIDE convert into months outside ... until the baby grows to 1 year old ... It's not only a counting book but an inquiry into prosaic notions of time ... is inside time longer than time out of the womb - is time cyclical - symbolically at least - if numbers recycle themselves (months invariably turn into years ... as well)

Mum's got a baby in her tum
It's been that way
Two months to the day
Mum's got a baby in her tum.

Do you think "Mummy's got a baby in her tummy" is better - there's a stronger beat cause the "-my" off beat is articulated ...

Mummy's got a baby in her tummy
He just turned three
So he's much younger than me
Mummy's got a baby in her tummy ...

I'll probabbly have to read up on the development of the foetus in order to get this nicvely done ... something distracting to think about ...:)









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rather interesting=)

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I don't know, I guess I would add a -my. Like the rhyming couplets - unfortunately, I've only been taught to analyse, and when it comes down to re-creation, I kinda fall into obsolescence... :(

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I think that tum-my is better.

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LOL~

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tummy do sound a little better but even if u wirte as tum, the final stress on mmm makes it sound like tummy.. dat's wat i feel... hehe quite an interesting idea u've got there.. but is the whole thing just gonna be bout time? how bout the development of the baby?

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Wow ok... chim1 baby book...

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hm...I'd rather leave out the "my" though...Sounds a little funny with it. [silent.scream]

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