Peas
Like most little girls growing up, my mom gave me a name for my private part, that secret place where nobody could ever see or touch. I'm not sure what you girls called yours, but in my family, we called it the 'pea-pea'. As the girls in the family grew up (the cousins, and what not), the word became a not-so-private one… after all, Mum had over 10 brothers and sisters, and the number of cousins in the family was well over 40 peeps.
So you could hear the word being shouted across the halls, in those days, when I was younger. At five, I was staying with my grandmother while Mum worked overseas, so my childhood was mostly spent running around the kampung bungalow that was my grandmother's house, with the rest of the cousins. Every day at around 5, (my afternoon bath time), my aunt would remind me to take the bath, and without fail, she'd say, 'Remember to wash your pea pea.'
You know, as kids we didn't really bother about each other's bodies. In my generation of cousins, there were about 4 of us, all girls, all of the same age. Afternoon mandis were usually done together, to save space, and save time. And then I had a younger cousin brother, of around three at the time I was about five, and his sister was about four (a year younger, I think). We had stripped down to our knickers, and the poor boy's elder sister seemed eager to reveal an open secret to the rest of the world.
'Wait wait you must see something,' squealed the little girl as her mother took off her younger brother's clothes. And then the shields were off, and she was smiling away, 'Look! Look! Didi has got something growing out of his pea-pea, like little bird-bird like that. SEE SEE, his pea-pea is different from mine!'
I recall this distinctly, because now I know what the adults were laughing at.
Imagine going to school one day and finding out that there is a word 'pipi' in the Malay language, and it refers to the cheeks. Or imagine, growing up a few more years later, to find out in books, that there is indeed a pea hidden inside our bodies, but some girls spend their lifetime searching for the elusive pea without ever succeeding.
Others discuss about peas in secret little corners, and form secretive pacts over the weekends to talk about peas. Others.
Jolene
Finicky Feline
Barffie
Mei
Rosalind
Scarlett
Sassyjan
Janedoe
Potato
Lip
Mrs Budak
But really, I'm more interested in this: you know as kids, we all had names for our secret precious parts, cutesy little names. If mine was called the pea-pea, what did you call yours?
May 29th, 2006 at 9:08 am
*sigh* What’s with this sudden urge to discuss one’s supposedly private parts?
Well, at least this post is not as graphic as Kenny’s!
May 29th, 2006 at 10:24 am
Come to think of it, I dont think we ever had a name for it. I think we always refered to it as…well…”it”. I guess it only took the fact that were bigger now that we start giving them personal names…very very personal names.
May 29th, 2006 at 11:08 am
Reminds me of Princess Sophia in How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days
May 29th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
“vagina”
May 29th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
wah you all pakat to write about this topic after reading kenny’s blog izit…
May 29th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
ku ku chiao… HAHA.
anyway, we teach our son to call his penis a… well.. penis.
May 29th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
I don’t ever remember my parents ever talking about “IT” but I am very determined to have an open relationship with my kids (later in life when I do get them). Hence I have thought abt what names to give these private parts.
Well one is of course, “P.P” which stands for “private part”.
Or just by their proper names, “penis” and “vagine” I guess.
A gf of mine taught her daughter that it was “diamond” as in, “Don’t let anyone touch your diamond”.
It does strike me that “diamond” seems quite appropriate as well. Definitely no hokkien names for IT though.
May 29th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
They also wrote a monologue about it…
May 29th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
‘a name for my private part’
Most men call theirs, their ‘Brain’, cause that’s what they think with.
My Ex-wife’s family used to call the female parts a ‘mini’, which I thought was named after the labia-minora, but her family denied this, as they’d never heard of a labia-minora before!!!
My ex-named my private parts ‘Big Freddie’. I have no idea why … guess she felt she had to name it. I’ve never named it … and I guess it’s back to being nameless … but that’s okay, it’s not like it cares!
May 29th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
i don’t know why.. but my mom calls it “konofodek” -_-”
haha
May 29th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
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May 29th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Pot pot!
May 29th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
my elephant
May 29th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
the ever-so-classic, ever timeless…….BIRD. =)
May 29th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
Mine’s definitely called minishorts
May 29th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Eh…I tot hokkien lang always call it “pi pit” wan?
May 29th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
uhu…apersal wit private part…no pics no fun…that is not so porno …
i tot it was the pea bean ..
May 30th, 2006 at 12:27 am
Naive Idealist - look up the names of the genitalia parts on Google or wikipedia, I’m sure you’ll find plenty of pictures.
May 30th, 2006 at 3:31 am
LoL
May 30th, 2006 at 6:41 am
S-kay > now that u mention it, i’ve heard some of my aunties/uncles use the term ‘pet-pet’ (Canto). =P
btw, is it just me or are the comments starting to get a little porny? LOL.
May 30th, 2006 at 11:18 am
“Chu-chut”, as my dad called it. But I still think “penis” sounds WAY better. Or “Ramrod III”.
Technically, for girls, the correct word would be “vulva” — the vagina is inside your body out of sight.
May 30th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
i call it my ‘Hose Bomba’
May 30th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
The keymaster wants to meet the gatekeeper.
May 30th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
abuzik.. -__”
May 30th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Kurt - and all this time I thought a Vulva was one of them Swedish cars!!!!
May 30th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
LOL. btw, speaking of swedish cars….anyone notice the Volvo logo on the car actually has the symbol representing the male sex (there….u know ah….the circle with the arrowhead sticking out). i only found that out when a friend pointed it out to me.
one more suggestion: “baby elephant trunk”
May 31st, 2006 at 10:07 am
my cousin used to call his cock or kukubird