First Pet!!

Dear Yasmin,

When you go to school years later and if your teacher ask you about your first pet, I guess yours would be the most weirdest pet in your class.

This morning we went Yum Cha with your 12th great grand auntie. Very long salutation, but she is the sister of great grandma. While us adults enjoyed our tea, you enjoyed looking at the fishes in the fish tanks. The funny looking crabs and prawns amazed you. There were these black colored cockroach looking water beetles which lives in water and the crowd of them keep swimming in the tank. Grandpa asked the keeper if you can have one to keep, and they put it in a small plastic bag for you. It has a proper Chinese name(和味龍,龍蝨,俗稱水曱甴), and people eat them by grilling them. Grandma used to love eating them when she was little.

We brought our little water cockroach home and kept it in a small plastic box. It swam very fast with its 2 long hind legs. It doesn't seem to have a mouth and you kept trying to poke it in the water. Daddy scolded you for doing so, because we have to respect life. Daddy found on the web that these beetles only lives in clean unpolluted rivers and ponds. You kept looking at the beetle and calling it to swim and laughed when it swam in circles. Before you went to bed, you also pretend to swim on the bed....