Avani's dose of the day!! (8th March 2013)

Avani's habits, mannerisms, interests all remind me of the typical Ekta Kapoor's soaps Mother in law. Everyday morning she makes sure I do my pooja before leaving the house. She is 14 months and even at this age she is very particular about keeping the things at their designated places. She will get restless if her hands are dirty and unless u wash it with flowing water she is not satisfied! Like u have to put bhog (prasad) infront of God before eating anything,  everbody in our house has to feed her one bite before having food.Ashish might fail to notice that small change in hairstyle or that extra peice of jewellery but Avani has to be updated with it.

Recently she did a very funny and unusual thing. While playing in our building lobby, one of my neighbours came and started interacting with her. Neighbour put forward her hand for a handshake and Avani gave her a broad smile and did a Jai Jai(Namaste) to her.

Incredible Bharat!! (6th March 2013)

We all know how much Indian men, or rather all men love their cars. If you call them telling about the minor accident you had, their first question would always be "Car ko kuch hua to nahi na?". In short, men are from Mars and on Mars the cars are their life partners, so obviously the affection!
When we talk of men and their cars, we always imagine either an exotic bike or any car.

But in India, we have another genre of men too. We have our very own auto drivers for whom their DHANOO(autos) is the love of their life. Right from fancy seat covers to bose speakers, from decorative flower pots to pictures of their idols, everything is magically organized in that small space. Those autos can compete any disco floor lights when it comes to the fancy lights they have. Some auto drivers even go to the extent of keeping their autos smelling wonderfully all the time.One should see the passion by which they are cleaning the front glass of their auto with their shirt sleves at times.

And how can I not comment about the Basanti's of our very own Bharat! The charming trucks of our ever enthusiastic Paaji's? The PARANDA's (used to decorate long hair of Punjabi girls) and the lovely one liners written on the rear lights? "Buri Nazar wale tera bhi bhala ho!" "Use Diaper at night!" (FYI,I havent done any spelling mistake!!)"Phir Milenge" "Bunty aur Pappu di gaadi!" "Dekho magar pyaar se"

Do we women have any such passions in our life? Food for thought!!

Khushi's 2nd dose of the day!! (6th March 2013)

We went to a Chinese restaurant and as usual Khushi requested for chopsticks. She loves collecting chopsticks from everywhere she dines.After getting the chopesticks, she was super thrilled and showed it to me
Khushi : Mumma drum sticks!!
Mumma : They are chop sticks and not drum sticks.
Khushi : No mumma these are my drum sticks
Mumma : They are chopsticks,drumstick is a vegetable we eat, this is not that
Khushi : Mumma, these are sticks you use for beating the drums!! So these are drum sticks!! Samajhe?

I was speechless!! I was close minded and for me a chopstick was a chopstick. But I never thought out of the box as Khushi did. She reminded me that a chopstick becomes a chopstick because we are using it as a chopstick, but if we use it for beating drums, it can be a drum stick too :). Children are focused on their perspective of things!

Khushi's dose of the day!! ( 6th March 2013)

Ashish was gazing his mobile and trying to figure out something.

Khushi (peeps into Papa's mobile) : Papa are you finding the route to Coorg using a map?

Papa (zapped)                            : Yes, but how did you guess that? I am using google map   indeed. Mumma have you introduced Khushi to Google Maps?

Mumma                                     : No, not yet!!

Khushi                                   : Papa, your map is similar to Dora's map and since we are going to Coorg I thought u must be looking for route to Coorg only.

Thanks to the cartoons, we dont need to teach our kids so many of these things. Its just part of their day to day life now :)