Who is Leila? What is Leila? Just yesterday, the little fella and me were drawing. Out of the blue, he said,”Leila”. I thought it was something he wanted me to draw. So I asked..what Leila? Ladder? But no..it wasn’t anything. THEN it dawned on me that he was speaking Mandarin..he actually meant to say “Lei le” ( meaning:tired). He was tired and wanted to go sleep. It amused us cos he sounded all funny but it was a good thing that he is starting to speak more Mandarin. It is all thanks to his ‘lao shi’ in school. Now when we pick him up..he can say,” Wo de mama lai le” ( my mummy is here) to lao shi. I think I should start buying him more books in Mandarin.