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matured and some sweet and some interesting and some just push the wrong buttons in me, but all in all these days, these lil boys and gals, surprise me to no extent. I love some and don't like some.


Here's a list of them whom I love and think very highly of:
Hitesh : A boy in standard 6th, same school as Chiku and goes in the same van as chiku. I think he is a sweet kid cos I have never seen him fighting and I have heard him say positive things. Like this one day, one of the kids threw his kerchief out of the van and by the time he realised the kerchief was gone, the van was good a km ahead. Still, he got down got the kerchief and asked the boy to throw it again. He saw it as a game and enjoyed it. When he was narrating this story to me, he said 'aunty that ways I did some jogging'. How sweet, Hitesh? thats what I said. He takes care of Chiku like a baby. Holds her hand, helps her to get into the van, sometimes when there is no place, he puts her on his lap.

Annie: A very charming dusky babe, studies in Standard 6th as well. Her ability to rationalise, analyse and explain is unbelievable. You know, they say, that some children are gifted they are such well speakers that you are mesmerised by them. When I was expecting Sunny boy, I don't remember Annie enquiring me about my tummy or the baby. But when she saw me with a lil baby, she promptly came to enquire about the baby, what is the baby, a boy or a girl? what do you plan to name him? infact, she asked me have you named him as yet? I said no. She said I thought so. Then she went on to tell me story about how when her brother was born, they named him after 40 days and in the church etc. She is the first one who jumps into to crack close any argument between small boys and girls, a perfect pacifier. Chiku loves to play with her and generally is soothed by her if she is crying while going to school.

Rishita: A very sweet gal, but then I dont' know much about her. But I just like her.

Bhumin: A standard 1 student and one of the very first friends of Chiku. He is smart and confident and can bore u death with his talks, sensible talks, but he is a chatter box. He is the self-proclaimed cousin brother of Chiku :)

Then there are other kids, Naomi - she too talks very well. She is the one who keeps telling me 'Aunty send na Chiku to my dance class, when I am going na I will take her along with me. I will hold her aunty and cross the road', Mahi - I shouldn't say I don't like the kid, but then her level of maturity is different, she is the one who went and told all the kids in our neighbours that I was pregnant and that after 9 months I will have a small baby, Raunak - our neighbour boy, sweet kid and a kid, now chiku ties rakhi to him, Aman - good looking dude, always busy in his plays, and adores Arushi. When Chiku was 3 years and would go down to play, he would tell everybody to speak to her in english, cos she wud only speak english, Pratishta - a chatter chatter box. But I love talking to her. She would enquire about everything and everyone, Aunty why Chiku didn't come today, why is her bus late? where is your driver?? where is the other aunty?? where is that dog going?? that aunty who comes to pick up chiku who is she???etc etc, Arya - Kid with the biggest soda glasses I have ever seen. He is the first to come home and play with Chiku all the time during summer vacation and Su just doesn't like the idea of boyz coming home. Shreya - the first one to invite chiku home to play, but I think her mum doesnt like it at all.
Then there are pests of the building Meet, Harsh, Veer who are just as badly behaved as one can be and who are forever fighting.