My Ellone - A Genius?

*CAUTION : LONG ENTRY AHEAD*

At 2yrs, 3mths & 24 days old, she can already recognize 20 out of the 26 alphabets. quite remarkable, kan? although i know that there are a lot of other toddlers her age who are a lot smarter than she, i just couldn't help being proud of her...

just now, she switched on the Ogawa Air Purifier and said, "Mommy, mesti mo kasi wangi bilik. Nanti bau. Nanti tidak boleh tidur. Ellone yang sendiri pigi pasang."

and then, she handed me my sarong, which she took from the cupboard and said,"Mommy nah, pakai sarung. malam sudah ni. nanti sejuk. Ellone yang sendiri pigi ambil."

she also has a very good memory... especially for words. she's able to memorize words - even big ones, with many syllables - eventhough she had only heard them once. i still remember having this conversation with cherry, and i didnt even know ellone was listening, coz at that time, she seems too occupied with her toys...

cherry : auntie, Melnas lagi cute kepada xavier...
mimi : no... not kepada, daripada... Melnas lagi cute daripada xavier.
cherry : oo..

cherry had a bit of a problem pronouncing the word.

and then, a few days later, we had another conversation...

cherry : auntie, Melnas lagi cute kepada xavier...

before i had the chance to correct her...

ellone : bukan bah cherry... bukan kepada... daripada....
cherry : oo..

see... even when i thought she wasnt listening...

oo.. and actually i am waiting for the video of ellone saying the alphabets to finish uploading... but alala... baru 6% ooo...

maybe i should get ellone's IQ tested oo... manatau she can be the youngest member of The Malaysian Mensa Society...

well, Georgia Brown is only 2 yrs old and she has become the youngest female member of Mensa.

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This article was taken from the Daily Mail UK

Two-year-old 'Matilda' becomes youngest ever girl in Mensa
By DUNCAN ROBERTSON

Her parents knew Georgia Brown was bright. After all, she could count to ten, recognised her colours and was even starting to dabble with French.

Her parents knew Ellone Vanessa Sapphire Ariffin wa bright. After all, she could count to ten (in 3 different languages - English (up to 12), Malay & Kadazan), recognised her colours and was even starting to dabble with Kadazan and Mandarin.

But it was only when their bubbly little two-year-old took an IQ test that her towering intellect was confirmed. Georgia has become the youngest female member of Mensa after scoring a genius-rated IQ of 152. This puts her in the same intellectual league, proportionate to her age, as physicist Stephen Hawking.

According to an expert in gifted children, Georgia is the brightest two-year-old she has ever met.

Parents Martin and Lucy Brown have always regarded their youngest child as a remarkably quick learner.
well, jnr and i also hv always regarded ellone as a remarkably quick learner.

She was crawling at five months and walking at nine months.

ellone was also crawling at 5 mths but only walks at 11 mths.

By 14 months, she was getting herself dressed.

"She spoke really early - by 18 months she was having proper conversations," Mrs Brown said.

"She would say, 'Hello I'm Georgia, I'm one'. She was also putting her shoes on and putting them on the right feet."

i think ellone was having proper conversations much earlier than Georgia, if i'm not mistaken, at 16 or 17 mths. when she started to talk, she pronounced the whole word and not 1 or 2 syllables only... like the word "rumah", some toddler would say "ma" or "uma". she also puts her shoes/sandals on the right feet at around that age. she knows tu when her shoes tebalik.


Georgia was so perceptive that after one outing to the theatre to see Beauty and the Beast she solemnly informed her parents: "I didn't like Gaston (the villain). He was mean and arrogant." Struck by the similarities between her daughter and Matilda, the title character in the Roald Dahl story about a gifted child, Mrs Brown began to worry about Georgia's future education. She contacted Professor Joan Freeman, a specialist educational psychologist, for advice. Professor Freeman applied the standard Stamford-Binet Intelligence Scale test to Georgia and was amazed to find this was too limited to map her creative abilities. She said: "Even at two she was very thoughtful. "What Georgia did on some questions was of a higher quality than that which was necessary to gain a mark. "She swept right through it like a hot knife through butter. "I would ask her things like 'give me two blocks or give me ten blocks' and she would manage it as easily as you would expect a five-year-old. "In one test I asked her to draw a circle and she did it so perfectly. "Most adults would struggle to do that. Her circle was near to being perfect. "It shows she can physically hold a pen well but also that she understands the concept of a circle."
ellone also can draw a circle, not a perfect one laa... as the professor said, 'she understands the concept of a circle'

Georgia, who is at nursery school, was also able to tell the difference between pink and purple - a skill which most children learn at primary school age. Professor Freeman said: "I said to her, 'What a pretty pink skirt, and you have tights and shoes to match'. "She said, 'They're not pink, they're purple'. Most children go to school aged five and start to learn colours, let alone knowing the difference between pink and purple.

i'm not sure ellone knows the difference between pink and purple, but she sure knows all the basic colors like black, white, yellow, red, blue, green, orange and chocolate.
"I have to keep reminding myself that she is only two."

ya... jnr & i also keep reminding ourselves that ellone is only two.

To the amazement of the family, who live in Aldershot, Hampshire, Georgia scored 152 points on the IQ test, putting her in the top 0.2 per cent of the population. Those with an average IQ would score around 100 points in the same test. Georgia was then invited to join Mensa, the High IQ society whose members have IQs in the top 2 per cent of the population. Georgia is one of only 30 Mensa members under the age of ten. Mrs Brown, chief executive of a charity, believes Georgia has benefited by growing up as the youngest of five children.

She has been absorbing information from her older brothers and sisters and father, a self-employed carpenter, while not receiving any special treatment.

"There is always someone around to offer her something," her mother said. "But she still has temper tantrums, like you wouldn't believe, throwing herself on the floor.
ya, perhaps ellone has been absorbing info from the ppl around her... and yes, she has temper tantrums...

"She doesn't think she's better and cleverer than everyone else. She is a very kind and loving child." Georgia, who has a "wicked sense of humour" is as busy as any toddler, enjoying a schedule of ballet classes, listening to stories, dancing, singing, sport and even watching the TV.

ok, i should stop bragging about my daughter.

maybe it's just normal for a 2 yr old to be able to tell you all about her day when you come back from work, tell you about all the things she had seen on her way to fetch her aunty joselyn and uncle jayjay from school - the buffalos crossing the road, on how uncle TT had to stop the car to let the buffalos pass, and there are mummy & daddy buffalos & also anak buffalos, and then there are cows in the parit, ask uncle TT some more on why and what are the cows doing there... and while on the phone with daddy, telling him about the show she saw on tv - ada orang kana patuk ular...

or maybe she's just growing up a bit too fast

so, kesimpulannya...

My Ellone - A Genius?

I wish...