God's creation

Its hard to imagine how a child's mind may work despite our assumption that they learn what they see.
One fine morning, we (I, my husband and my little son) were enjoying cups of our favorite drinks when I saw a group of children playing cricket in the slums behind our apartments. They were playing really well though instead of a bat they had wooden ply pieces(this being a construction site). We were enjoying their strokes and enthusiasm when I told my son to go and give one of his bats to the children there so that they can enjoy their game. The response was shocking and sad "I won't, they are not good... they are chee so dirty".

For a while I stood in total shock trying to understand how can my child say such a thing. But its so natural...he has never interacted with any child outside of his elite apartment and elite school. I asked him "Addwait could you please tell me what makes them different? How many eyes do you think they have, and how many ears and how many hands...and so on"...This was followed by an explanation of why they look the way they do, and that they are God's creation too and not respecting them the way they are is like humiliating God...

That day he took out not just his bat but many other toys that he thought his 'friends' would enjoy playing with him...

We are planning a cricket match soon!!!

Clothes maketh a man!

Yes, such a cliche' topic you'd say... but when was really the last time you saw a man with a 'perfect' or 'near perfect' wardrobe or dress sense?

To my delight, I recently did!! (and he isn't gay!). He just knows what colors look perfect on him, what style fits him best and is absolutely comfortable with what he's wearing (Mind you, no adjusting the crotch or shrugging the shoulders in an irritating manner). He's not a 'brand- conscious' but clearly a comfort and style conscious. The absence of a floral shirt showed that he also doesnt follow the fads.. but he looked "oh so handsome".

So what makes this man different from the other two types of men : a) who feel fashion is limited to magazines (or worse FTV) and they ae fine with their 'Uniforms' and b) followers of Govinda/ Akshay kumar with those Hawaiin prints and orange pants...

I'll leave it for you to decide!!!

The Gen-Y

Now in our times, which obviously wasn't too long ago, I had my first boyfriend when I was in 9th standard. But talk about changing times, this one has a 'friend', a 'girlfriend' and both of them are forever talking on phone and trust me they dial themselves (Thank heavens we have intercom).

So, this girlfriend goes to a playschool where they celebrated Dussehra and apparently for children's safety they did not allow 'Ram' to burn the effigy of Ravana and instead 'guard uncle'did that favor. THE EFFECT- the girl believes that Ram never killed Ravana, it was guard uncle.More on this later!!! Lol!

Baby talk!

I have this three year old son, well those who dont know how three year olds are, come visit me sometime.
A brief decription- "chatterbox, full of whats whens whys wheres hows and what-nots, why-nots, where-nots, how-nots and when-nots"...

Once one of our friend visited us who had got married just sometime back. His wife's name is 'Zeba'. Here's how the coversation goes:

fren': 'Hello Addwait, how are you? which school do you go to , which class..."
Addwait: 'Excuse me bhai sahab, aap thoda kam baat kariye"
Fren: (after recovering from earlier response)- " Come with me, Zeba will be very happy to see you"
Addwait: "Nah Nah Nah, I am very scared of Zeba, it has big teeth, is black in colour and has long ears!!!!"
OH MY GOD!!!...very very embarassing!

So I somehow explained the friend that he's just a kid, don't know where he gets these ideas from etc. We figured out later that he understood it as 'Zebra' and not as 'Zeba'... Whew!!!