Little Drummer Boy

Gabe is OBSESSED with drums. I tried recalling how it all started, but try as I might, I can't seem to remember how! If you do, please enlighten me.

Anyhow, he's obsessed with drums. He calls himself "a drummer" and sometimes tells us "I am gor gor Ben" or "I am gor gor An". Ben and An are the two drummers in our church.

One day, Derod asked him, "What instrument do you want to learn? Piano, guitar or bass guitar?" and his son replied, "or drums?" And we find our son strangely drawn to our friends who happen to have drum sets at home.

He "plays the drums" on a daily basis at home, requesting for songs from a certain album, jamming with two straws in his hand. I decided to add to the fun by turning his masak masakplates around and told him those were his drums. Every Sunday while the whole congregation is worshipping in song, he too will worship, standing on his seat and wave his straws "playing drums", mimicking the real drummer, who has to be in full view. He trained his ear to pick up the drum lines in songs, telling you specifically which drums are being hit - snare, hi-hat, cymbals, toms, kick drum. He does a verbal toom-toom-tak when he's bored. It's gone to a level where as long as he hears a song, those two arms start "clanging" to the beat - even the doxology can be accompanied by drums!

I have to admit he is quite good at following and even executing those beats, but the ridiculous things I have to put up with (not to mention the discipline part) are so not funny. But there are laughable moments, like when he went to gor gor Ben's place for an hour of drumming fun, and came back with two blisters on his hands!

You can check out some pictures others took of him at the drums on my Facebook. Otherwise, here are a couple of shots for your entertainment.