Learning is easy and comes naturally, if...

Still on Adam...he was at his growing kid's sterling best last night.
He displayed the learning prowess of a free mind.

When pressured to change his clothes fast for a birthday dinner outside, he grabbed his hair in both fists and sighed,"Ah, pening aku!"/("Ah, this is too much for me!").

He seems to be picking up lots of words and expressions, and using them on the right occassions and in the correct sense.

Sometimes the time lag between picking them up and applying them is just a matter of minutes, like when it backfired on me once:
Adam heard when I said, "Sombong!" / ("Snob!"), to a family member who wouldnt want to go out in my 37 year old Merc but in the Proton instead.
The next minute Adam asked if he could sit in front, and he shot back "Sombong" when I said it was dangerous. :)

I can believe when I heard the radio said this morning that the human mind is capable of learning a trillion something (bits? bytes? whatever) of new things everyday. But surely, we have to keep it free...of preconception, prejudice, bias, and such, like Adam's.

2008/11/07