When Poire Was Young

Pleased Not Pleased!

Today is Poire's birthday and I wish her a very good and prosperous year. I drew this sketch for her on this occasion. This was when she's around 3-4 years old. At that time she was a very emotional little girl. Whenever she's not pleased she would throw a tantrum, screamed and cried incessantly for a very long period of time. She loved sitting in a car while I drove around and I always tagged her and Pang along whenever I could. Sometime I even took them to travel upcountry with my close friends. I remember once I and Ko-eah, my friend, took her for a drive. That was long time ago and I just graduated from a university. She was in a back seat and talked nonstoppedly ( my friends and I used to jokingly named her " Little Talking Machine" ). We took her to Sailor bakery that situated between Sukhumvit 45 and 47, it was one of the first decent bakeries at that time. After eating, I drove her back to drop her home. Ko-eah and I had to go out again to meet other friends. She slept along the way, then when we reached home and she found out that we're going to leave her behind, she started crying and refused to get out of the car. The soft sobbing became louder and louder and finally reached a full scream level. It went on and on and on. Ko-eah who was first mad at my niece, became impatient and was, understandably, angry at me. She wanted me to either drag Poire out of the car or gave her a spank. We were already late and all our friends were wating for us. I was confused and didn't know how to handle this reluctant situation. It seemed that both of them were mad at me. In the end, Ko-eah angrily stormed out of my house, leaving me behind with my screaming neice. After that incident, Ko-eah always referred to her as "That Crying Machine". Well, that was ages ago and now Poire has grown up to be a sucessful architect who soon, hopefully, will become a real estate tycoon : )