...feelings.
You are in your late twenties (ok, I shall continue to say this even if I m 50+, so don't get started with me) mother of 2, and some serious agenda and plans for urself.
And the Agenda, weight-loss-program.
Plan, start on some 7daydietthatmakesyoulose7kgsinaweek thingy, yup thats right.
And why does it so happen, the minute YOU go on diet, everyone around you is losing weight. Anklets lost so much weight her newly bought clothes are now loose. Some of the chicks you saw before going on maternity leave(and you thought to urself, she is gonna be forever FAT, and I will come back super-slim and u give a smirk to the gal) have lost amazing amount of weight and now they look at u n give u that smirk.
Why does it so happen that when u want to lose weight u only see super-thin gals?
17 October, 2011
15 October, 2011
Yet Another...
Openhouse in chiku's school.
There are 2 parts to it:
This is the first time I attended d 'sing along with mumma day' @ school. And also after this there was going to be a session of soft-blows.
As soon as Chiku n I entered d class, I saw that all d kids were sitting quietly with their mumma's n daddy's. When we entered, everything changed, chiku said hi to few of the gals and prodded everybody to come n play ' Ringa ringa roses'. The complete state n environment changed. Once quiet n passive enviro became all charged and excited and joyous and I was extremely happy that my baby was responsible for this. I thought to myself, well the soft blows are not gonna be blows after all (wait till I tell u more).
Part 2:
WE, the mums were handed over the so called 'progress report'. I didnt know how to react to it, I mean it wasn't that bad. But then what made me proud was the personality development section, which showed that the lil gal is actually a big gonda (like her teacher called her), well in a way it was nice to see that, she has grown to be a quite independent gal (tats what teacher meant). What happened after that was something that i didn't expect. All the parents (yes all the parents) surrounded the teacher and started asking her how her ward was performing? I didn't expect the teacher to go berserk and keep telling everyone infact every single person I heard was being told what their wards 'weaknesses' were. She doesn't concentrate, she doesn't speak, she doesn't do her homeplay, she doesn't talk, she talks too much, He know everything but when he asked he doesn't answer. Excuse me!!! so what are u teachers for???
Are we really talking about 4 year old people??? Come on !!! They have weakness!!! ARe these the same set of people who know how to surf channels on tv, how to switch on-off a certain electronic instruments, play games, unlock phones, give back some smart remarks. REALLY!!! If they have weakness, then what about us???
The teacher couldn't even pronounce few of the words. She was screaming at the top of her lungs to get her points across. Sympathise with the teacher!!! no ways. She handles a class of 43, so what??? There are children of different calibre, different mood, different background, yes there will be, won't there??? Didn't she study in a School??? She can't make a passive student start talking, I mean, hello, don't you do YOUR homework??? Aren;t there ways and techniques to get d child to improve, what are you for??? I mean, we have studied in a class where there were more than 50 students in the class, but don't you have that one teacher, who sort of inspires you and gets u interested in studies. I was lucky and I so wish my mummu would be lucky too(she had lovely teachers in eurokids, she still misses them). I promise to send her for diwali session to eurokids, just to meet her teachers again.
I don't what I m more upset about, for the teacher giving left-right-center to the parents in front of a whole junta or the teacher screaming poems infront of us. I so want to take back my feedback form n rewrite it all over agan. And the teacher telling me my childs weakness ( u don't know how much my blood was boiling :X). The teacher said, " your daughter CAN and does talk to anyone and everyone". My child talks, ya she does, she better talk, thats in her genes. Damn it!! I felt like scolding the teacher and telling her "Try listening to them, you never know what you might learn many many things, other than the water cycle ". The theme for this month is water-cycle. She was screaming her weaknesses from the roof-top. She made a statement "whenever I tell them about concepts, 50% of the class is just not paying attention but blah blah blah ..." I was like come on and that didn't bother you. I thought teaching was about holding hand of your weaker students and getting him to stand at par with the brightest one. But I believe this teacher will get even the brightest child to slip n fall.
I know, I have to do 2 things:
Bring it to the schools attention.
Give closer look to whats being taught in the school.
PS: I wrote this in one breath, yes, one breath, when I was extremely upset and hence you can see amazing amount of grammatical mistakes, I m not gonna go back n correct it. My Weakness.
There are 2 parts to it:
This is the first time I attended d 'sing along with mumma day' @ school. And also after this there was going to be a session of soft-blows.
As soon as Chiku n I entered d class, I saw that all d kids were sitting quietly with their mumma's n daddy's. When we entered, everything changed, chiku said hi to few of the gals and prodded everybody to come n play ' Ringa ringa roses'. The complete state n environment changed. Once quiet n passive enviro became all charged and excited and joyous and I was extremely happy that my baby was responsible for this. I thought to myself, well the soft blows are not gonna be blows after all (wait till I tell u more).
Part 2:
WE, the mums were handed over the so called 'progress report'. I didnt know how to react to it, I mean it wasn't that bad. But then what made me proud was the personality development section, which showed that the lil gal is actually a big gonda (like her teacher called her), well in a way it was nice to see that, she has grown to be a quite independent gal (tats what teacher meant). What happened after that was something that i didn't expect. All the parents (yes all the parents) surrounded the teacher and started asking her how her ward was performing? I didn't expect the teacher to go berserk and keep telling everyone infact every single person I heard was being told what their wards 'weaknesses' were. She doesn't concentrate, she doesn't speak, she doesn't do her homeplay, she doesn't talk, she talks too much, He know everything but when he asked he doesn't answer. Excuse me!!! so what are u teachers for???
Are we really talking about 4 year old people??? Come on !!! They have weakness!!! ARe these the same set of people who know how to surf channels on tv, how to switch on-off a certain electronic instruments, play games, unlock phones, give back some smart remarks. REALLY!!! If they have weakness, then what about us???
The teacher couldn't even pronounce few of the words. She was screaming at the top of her lungs to get her points across. Sympathise with the teacher!!! no ways. She handles a class of 43, so what??? There are children of different calibre, different mood, different background, yes there will be, won't there??? Didn't she study in a School??? She can't make a passive student start talking, I mean, hello, don't you do YOUR homework??? Aren;t there ways and techniques to get d child to improve, what are you for??? I mean, we have studied in a class where there were more than 50 students in the class, but don't you have that one teacher, who sort of inspires you and gets u interested in studies. I was lucky and I so wish my mummu would be lucky too(she had lovely teachers in eurokids, she still misses them). I promise to send her for diwali session to eurokids, just to meet her teachers again.
I don't what I m more upset about, for the teacher giving left-right-center to the parents in front of a whole junta or the teacher screaming poems infront of us. I so want to take back my feedback form n rewrite it all over agan. And the teacher telling me my childs weakness ( u don't know how much my blood was boiling :X). The teacher said, " your daughter CAN and does talk to anyone and everyone". My child talks, ya she does, she better talk, thats in her genes. Damn it!! I felt like scolding the teacher and telling her "Try listening to them, you never know what you might learn many many things, other than the water cycle ". The theme for this month is water-cycle. She was screaming her weaknesses from the roof-top. She made a statement "whenever I tell them about concepts, 50% of the class is just not paying attention but blah blah blah ..." I was like come on and that didn't bother you. I thought teaching was about holding hand of your weaker students and getting him to stand at par with the brightest one. But I believe this teacher will get even the brightest child to slip n fall.
I know, I have to do 2 things:
Bring it to the schools attention.
Give closer look to whats being taught in the school.
PS: I wrote this in one breath, yes, one breath, when I was extremely upset and hence you can see amazing amount of grammatical mistakes, I m not gonna go back n correct it. My Weakness.
Standing
Goosebumps, goosebumps, goosebumps.
Yup, d lil sunny boy(who btw is gonna be 7 months soon) has learnt to hold-on to things and stand up on his own. HE is already STANDING.
Time is moving too fast, too fast.
PS: got yet another oppurtunity to go onsite.Should I or shouldn't I??? Its way past 'SHOULD' I 'CANT'
Yup, d lil sunny boy(who btw is gonna be 7 months soon) has learnt to hold-on to things and stand up on his own. HE is already STANDING.
Time is moving too fast, too fast.
PS: got yet another oppurtunity to go onsite.Should I or shouldn't I??? Its way past 'SHOULD' I 'CANT'
13 October, 2011
Coincidence
In this beautiful weather, went for coffee with a colleague (Ashwini - she has lovely beautiful straight hair and they are looooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnggggg. Tell me how do you maintain them??). Just started talking about this n that. I never ask this, but I did, this time around.
Me : So when do u get married?
She : December
Me : Oh don't tell me, December nn is the date
She : december nn
and we both giggled like 2 school kids, who found out that our birth-dates are/were same. But this ain't birthdays we are talking about, this is much much serious.
Hmm, come to think of it, I have to take her for coffee again tomorrow, she didn't tell me about her wedding year.
Me : So when do u get married?
She : December
Me : Oh don't tell me, December nn is the date
She : december nn
and we both giggled like 2 school kids, who found out that our birth-dates are/were same. But this ain't birthdays we are talking about, this is much much serious.
Hmm, come to think of it, I have to take her for coffee again tomorrow, she didn't tell me about her wedding year.
What is it???
is it 'Bin baadal barsaat' ??? or 'bin mausam barsaat'??? ?I know I can google and I will.
Its october already ya.
It poured last evening, and I went home completely drenched. I m completely against any excuse of not enjoying the rains, so I opted to walk up the distance to home rather than rick it up.
And its pouring now.
What to do :) ???
Its october already ya.
It poured last evening, and I went home completely drenched. I m completely against any excuse of not enjoying the rains, so I opted to walk up the distance to home rather than rick it up.
And its pouring now.
What to do :) ???
K.A.R.O.K.E
We did Karaoke in goa. When it was time for me to sing, I just couldn't think of any songs. And now, when I m bak at work, I would like to sing:
and I wish there were some english songs to sing along
especially of whitney houston,
- Pal pal pal har pal har pal kaise katega pal har pal (munnabhai)
- Chan chan, chanan chan chan, mann gaye kyon (munnabhai mbbs)
- Nanhi pari sone chali (I know I know, a lullaby, but its chikus favorite song, so)
- Phir chidi raat baat phulon ki (Baazar)
- Ruthey hue hoon kyon (adnan samis album)
- Yeh zameen ruk jaaye aasman ruk jaaye, tera chehra jab nazar aaye (adnan samis album)
- Huzar iss kadar bhi na itara ke chaliye
- chod do aanchal zamaan kya kahega
- aaj kal paaon zaamen pur nahi rukte mere
and I wish there were some english songs to sing along
especially of whitney houston,
- and I will always love you
- from this moment (Shania Twain)
- I m ready (Bryan Adams)
04 October, 2011
Vacation..
ing in Goa is soooooooo cool.
Beautiful weather, laid back towns, lazy everybody and everything and an entire jing bang of stressed, exhausted and tired-of-rains-family (Us).
This vacation was planned long back and thank God that this was planned, it was a good break from otherwise monotonous days and schedule (ya its just been a MONTH at work n already it feels like its a drag...gone are those days when there was so much to do and so little time and you breathed and lived in the office...and...I need to cut it short here).
Back to Goa, what made it all the more special was, it was Chiku's 4th Birthday. The gal has grown so much, and she was excited about it. Well, actually, she is always excited about everybody's birthday. Her Friends birthday(seems like there is somebody or the other celebrating their birthday everyday in the school), my birthday, amma's birthday, daddy's birthday, pappu's birthday and a huge excitement was for when Sunny was born.
Things we did in Goa - well actually the things the gals(me n Chiku) did in goa:
We danced, at some random songs that were played in the gaming area. We did that every single day. Everytime the music system wud go on, chiku would ask her new-found-friends to dance
We attended a cookery class. We attended vegetable carving, where chiku demanded that that sunflower out of carrots be handed over to her and the hostess sweetly looked at me and said it has to be kept near the swimming pool area, and where I was openly vocal that we shall flick the flower, if it comes to that.
Though it was nice n relaxing time for us (we decided not to venture out too much, since sunny is just 6 months) the best parts were:
When we went to the beach, benaulim is the most beautiful beach that I have seen till date. Clean and totally isolated from the commercial crowds. The clean beach and the chilled waters and the lovely sun setting was a picture-perfect view to just sit there n drink-in, breathe-in all the beauty. Thats the first time I saw chiku being absolutely quiet and enjoying the waves and the sand under her feet.
When we landed in the hotel restaurant and found out it was karaoke nite. I guess the only people excited in the room were YOURs truly. So Chiku n me sang a couple of songs
Phela nasha (the name of the movie is on the tip of my tongue but just not coming out)
Bhaag re mann (Movie Chameli)
and we sang a duet with the host 'Aaj kal tere mere pyaar ke charche har zubaan par'
I started to sing 'Phir chidi raat baat phulon ki' and found that it wasn't so easy to sing.
Chiku was obviously very happy to sing the song, so was I, I mean I thut I couldn't sing at all, but ya I believe I did a good job and since we got quite a round of applause(thats another thing that as we continued to sing the applaud just died down since we were the only ppl n singing and in the end our audience were Su n Sunny n the host n the waitors n chefs came out to hear). Since most of the time the mic was in my hand, once we went back to our dinning table chiku insisted she wanted to sing a song. Yup, she sang, You are my sunshine (but the damn mic wasn't working properly). And I thought that was the best song I heard. Once when everyone had left, Su decided to test his voice, and I was very surprised that it turned out to be super, he sang very well and ya next time su u can head to the mic without my prodding n threatening and calling u a bore.
We attended yoga, where chiku made a good attempt of enjoying and doing the surya namaskar by herself, and I was struggling to keep pace with the instructor and oggling at old ladies doing yoga with such vigor & zeal. Here I was huffing and puffing, and when the instructor said come on pep-up we will do the surya-namaskar one last time(that was only the 3rd time we were gonna do it), I thought he sent a sly smile across to me. Whatever!!! Hello!!! I just delivered(so what If Sunny is 6 months old). I am not venturing into my Gosh-I-need-to-lose-loads-of-weight.
We went to the beach and in the water, though chiku got bored once her friends(Ria and Meha) were going back to the hotel. But ya the time we spent there, I thought I saw a kind of peace n calm in her eyes.
Chiku made great friends with Ria n Meha, and their dad complimented chiku saying that "she is very social" (I must agree, she is).
Sunny, on the other hand was himself, the change of weather and location didn't do anything to him, anything nasty I meant. He was happy that he spent a whole lot of time with Daddy dearest. Oh ya, you could tell, he would call out to Su, if Su was arnd and had not picked him up within 5 secs of Sunny spotting him.
On our return, we met with 2 sets of people, one who were awed by the fact that we went out(rather dared to go) on a long vacation (7 nights and 8 days) with 2 kids and one that too 6 months only. Two, were the ones who were disappointed that we didn't go sight-seeing and go out partying and go out eating out. Well, neither of these guys matter, we had a good time as a family and thats that.
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