Thursday, May 29, 2008

ten on ten! :D

NM tagged me to do this! And since i haven't posted in ages, this is just the kick start!

My only worry is I am VERY unambitious! so to even find these 10 things might be tough! but here i go anyway! :)

10 things I miss in my life right now

- Girls nights out (which also has to do with lack of girlfriends since i moved to Blr)
- Stay late at work (esp when M is traveling) and catch up with office gossip and have chicken and dosa at a sidey joint (its called kentAcky fried chicken!) for dinner before going home!
- Street side shopping that could be done daily in Mumbai. Especially the 5rs earrings and rings that you could buy in the trains! (it does save a lot of money NOT being able to do it!;) The streets of Colaba for junk jewelry and funky bags and churchgate for rows and rows of books.
- Vada pav! raste ki pav bhaji and thele ka chinis to chinees to any other spelt colourful food!
- Late night jaunts during Ganpati festival along with my childhood buddies to have bhurji and cutting chai after doing typical crepe paper decoration every single year!
- Exchanging looong mails with M. Sometimes 5 a day!
- Talking crap with my brother (he is studying in the US) and laughing like crazies at silliest of things much to the bewilderment of my parents!
- Practicing for plays and group dance for months together to perform at Ganeshotsav celebrated in our building.
- Spending time with my parents
- Being able to fit least in a L!

10 things I want to achieve in next decade

- Bungee jump - I HAVE to feel the thrill.
- Travel all over India, especially Rajasthan and North East.
- Get a REAL tattoo
- Have another baby! :p
- Lose weight - lots of it!
- Make some kind of career in writing even if part-time.
- Try using contact lenses yet again to let M see my pretty (??) eyes often.
- Try and finish reading War and Peace and The tailor of Panama.
- Learn one new and exciting cuisine
- Learn to speak Kannada well enough.

That's that then! I thought i could never reach 10! I kept counting after every two I think! hehe!

I pass this tag to

Swati
COS
Compulsive Dreamer
Emaan's Mom

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Dus bahaane kar ke le gaya dil! :D

This song made AB Jr. a big hit! I even tried whistling in a crowded theatre. (I STILL cant whistle and blow a bubblegum! sigh!) Though my obsession for Abhishek Bacchan isn't all that great anymore, the song still makes me tap my feet and do a bit of pelvic thrust! :p

But why this song, suddenly? Well! Kabir turned TEN months yesterday and what a joy ride it has been. From the little expressionless pink alien looking thing to this lovable brat with naughtiness oozing out of his eyes and every other pore!

You can stand now and I am amazed at the way you insist on doing it every waking moment. I especially love it when you come at stand at our beanbag the moment you see us sitting there with food! You can stand for such a long time as long as you are being fed the food you are not supposed to eat. :D

I enjoy just watching you these days! You have so many different expressions now that one can just keep looking and not get bored. I can see you pouting your lips and getting ready to cry as soon as you sense a change in our tone. You have an indingnant face with a Hhhmm for a sound when you think you are being wrongly scolded! You little wonder!

You have different smiles and laughter too. You even have a totally fake social smile that you offer new people and its so ridiculously obvious to us who have seen your REAL 440watt smile! Of course it's still very cute and people melt right away! So who are we to complain?! You dinplomat!

You have perfected the screaming game by now and you can hold your breathe longer than before screaming your heart out, trying to match the other person! You weirdo!

You have also now perefcted the art of pulling off our glasses when we least expect it so much so that your papa takes off his glasses when playing with you. Darling, those things cost a bomb apart from us having to walk around almost blind if they break. You destructive brat!

You have suddenly almost stopped the horrid pulling of hair and almost scratching our eyes out as a show of your love and affection and we REALLY like this change! :D You adorable baby!

How can i forget? You wave Bye Bye now with your cute l'il hands. We can say Bye Bye even while feeding you and your hands will start their work! You l'il cutiepie!

You have become quite a movie buff like us. 5 movies in 3 months and except first one, you were absolutely no trouble. You reacted first time and laughed while watching an elephant dance on the screen in the animated flick "Horton hears a Who", a super sweet movie. Of course like every other movie you were asleep within an hours time. Touchwood and anti jinx! :D

You can now sit without support for little longer than before and your creeping has gotten really fast. One has to just see you rush to fridge as soon as you see us open the door! :D You just LOVE putting your head into the fridge and fiddle around with the bottles. Chill dude! :p

Your dislike for clothes is still inversely proportional to your love for attempting to chew your diapers while mommy is trying to change your clothes. You see a diaper kept down along with your kapdas and next moment your hand is reaching your mouth! You dirty brat!

Enough of your gungaan now! Don't want your already big head to get even more swollen! :p

Belated Happy 10 months to you my l'il BIG boy! :)

Love ya lots!

Mmuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Kabir Kolhapuri!

let's unpack these bags!!!


mujhe ready bhi toh hona hai!! kahan hai naye kapde?


kal aaj aur kal! :)

with one of my young looking naanis the previous evening!

main cute ho ho hoke thak gaya! phew!

shaadi ka khaana chhod ke yahan bhi lactogen! thats why i am running away! :p

main chhotaa hoon toh kya hua? Mere paas bhi dhoti kurta hai! :D

I am such a family man! :) and getting outta that kurta was bliss! :p
These photos are ofcos delayed! This is our Kolhapur trip last month when we went for a cousin' wedding! Kabir had such a blast! Inspite of terribly hot weather, load-shedding and assorted things, he was just so happy to be surrounded by all the people who loved him to bits. Those who didn't know him, were begging for his company soon enough! And apart from bride and dulha, CubbyR was the most important AND popular person at the shaadi! So much so, that M and me would ask ecah other every half an hour "Baccha kahan hai?!" much to amusement of people around us! :)

Am so glad our first train trip and shaadi attendance went off so smoothly thanx to your genial and attention hungry nature my sweets! :p

Here's to many more! And keep being the friendly dude you are!

Your Smile can make bluest day seem like the most perfect!

Love ya Lots! Mmuuaaaaaah!

Monday, May 12, 2008

stand-up - but comedy it's not! :D

Kabir always manages to make my special days even more special!

He sat for the first time, alst month on my birthday. Of course it took him that entire month to actually manage to get his entire bum on floor and both legs straight in front. But thats the day he did it for the first time and it was best gift ever.

Yesterday was Mother's Day. Cubby is ofcos too small to bother about it. Yet, he managed to give me a gift again! He stood up on his own first time yesterday! As I saw his head above the our bed railing, holding on tight to the bars, I screamed in excitement calling M with our camera to capture this moment.

Even Kabir realised that he had done something new and was really happy and excited about it! He stood there a couple of minutes, gloating in the attention, turning away his face at the last minute while taking photos and generally being playful.

After this he wanted to sit down. But of course, you learn one thing at a time. So, he is yet to figure out, how does he sit, once up? hehe! He got all confused and started crying till M came and rescued him and put him back on the floor.

Not that this would be the last time we are doing this. Withing a few minutes we head the same crying sound... this time near the chair where laat-sahab was stuck again.

Am sure its a matter of few days till he figures out how to do both comfortably. Till then, mommy-daddy have to more careful about at what height to keep things. Laptops and phones can't be left on the sofa to be easily pulled down and hence broken. The second level of corner-piece shwoing our excellent artistic taste(??) needs to be emptied too.

I am sure Kabir in his mind is thinking and laughing saying "He He He! Kab tak bachke rahoge?!"

Till then we are just trying to be keep him as safe as we can!

Am so so proud of you sweetheart! Keeping standing-up to what you believe in eventually, literally and figuratively!

Even if it means to make people laugh! :D

love ya LOTS!

Friday, May 9, 2008

i so so wish...

It was gorgeously cuddly Bangalore weather at it's best today! After two months of crazy heat inspite of the thunder showers, where mornings would be hot again, today had just the beginnings of a pleasant chill!

Kabir also woke up a little later later than usual and didn't get up and start moving as soon as he woke up the way he does everyday. After a long time, we spent time just cuddling and being one happy family under daddy o's chaddar.

Instead of making naashta at home, we decided to go walk down to near by Darshini to have idli-dosa for breakfast. Kabir just LOVES idli and it's a weekend ritual to eat out one of the days. So instead of weekend, i cajoled M to go today instead.

Hot dosas and soft idlis seemed so perfect as we sat under a tree on rickety plastic stools and ate while feeding the Cub. He was lot more alert watching traffic pass by, dogs loitering around, fruit and vegetable carts and people walking around. He had one whole idli with sambar and gobbled it up as if we had kept him hungry for two days! :) All this was washed down with hot cuppa of strong filter coffee and morning was off to perfect start.

After getting home I kept wondering if my maid would come today since its her granddaughter's birthday! happy 2nd birthday to you Aishu! :) In heart of my hearts I kept hoping she doesn't turn up. But diligent Rajamma was there at her usual time. I told M (who is working from home today) that I so DON'T want to go to work today. I just needed one little push from him saying "Dekhlo!"

But alas! Sensible M told me you know how Friday bunking always looks suspicious even when you HAVE a valid reason?! And how you anyway need to take emergency chuttis when Amma doesnt turn up and all that. :(

I was convinced and here i am sitting in office and doing my duty by being a good and honest employee!

It's just that sometimes it irriates me to no end that our work takes so much precedence over life, that we find it difficult to just take a break, sit back and relax for no reason whatsoever! We are always worried some time in future when we will NEED these chhuttis and what would we do then? We miss weddings and other occassions in the family because "chhutti nahi milti!"

I am not saying we should be irresponsible employees and keep doing the disappearing act on a whim, but should we feel so tied to our jobs that getting away even for a few days is a big and painful process??

Some companies have concept of Mandatory Leave (affectionaly called Mandy) where you HAVE to take 15 days of paid leave compulsory. The intention for the company is to check our work and computer while you are away, but hey it gives YOU a clean break!

Sometimes i think its unfair one needs to work to earn his living and cant just live like a free spirit all the time!

Ridiculous thought I know, but I just so wanted to stay at home today! :D

Next time i feel like it, I will just bunk! Once at least! :)

actually need a new one! :p

Swati tagged me! Its my first tag!! :D

Whats in my handbag?

- Lipsticks (all that I own!)
- Lip brush
- Nail Polish (God knows why! I can't even apply it OMO)
- Keys to home and my bike
- Comb
- Wallet that holds cash and cards
- My pill and some sundry all purpose dawais
- Old enveloppes with even more ancient bills in them
- Gift Vouchers nearing expiry! :(
- Sodexho Coupons
- Some black bands for my hair and to lend to the needy women at work!
- Pen, safety pins (rarely) and coins
- Cellphone which doubles as watch too!

To add wet tissues and face wash! :D

my handbag is now ancient (one and half years qualifies for ancient, naah?) with just one big compartment and two outside! So it isn't excatly the most organised bag! But then hey i usually find what i need by moving my hand through farthest corner of it! ;)

i tag whatsinaname to tell us whats in her handbag!

Thursday, May 8, 2008

the little miracle of our life! :)

Well, my darling, Kabir, this one... isn't about you! :p

I am talking about that l'il silver coloured thing that flashes light and by now you know its time to smile when you see it!

Indeed it is our digicam. It takes us at least 5 attempts till we capture you smiling, which you always mysteriously manage to not show my moving just at the last minute. Imagine having to do that on regular camera with rolls to buy, develop and pay for! You wouldn't have had half the photos!

I know! I Know memories are pricesless, but lets get real here! ;)

Yet, the fact of the matter is I do miss having piles of albums. I still remember taking out all our childhood albums and watching them, discussing the same stories everytime, showing each other the photos, making comments and generally spending a lovely lazy afternoon enjoying old memories! Getting nostalgic has a charm of its own.

Now with digicam, all the photos are there on the computer and you rarely end up watching them often, even though its lot easier. For one the angle of the computer screen and the comfort of your posture isnt always in tandem, especially when multiple people are watching them. And it's just not as much fun... i mean come on an e-book can never replace paper! (I hope! I Hope!)

So we do try and take prints of most special photos and have those piles (albiet smaller ones) even now. We set down a budget and number and get them printed every few months. We recently got close to 100 photos of Kabir printed for my parents. My mom complained how she can't show off the grandson to her friends at office! :)

Just the other day we attempted to make sense of all the samaan on our loft! We found lot of slides of M's bachpan. Not ngaetives, but projector slides that had to be developed in UK and all that. The projector is obviously defunct and imagine the pain of wasted treasure trove of memories languishing in all the raddi saman.

But thanx to modern day techonology, you CAN indeed print from these slides! So off we went to check out our options. Its obviously an expensive affair and costs close to 25bucks per print! (That's 5 times of your digital prints) But it was so worth it to be able to see what M's childhood was like, does Kabir look like him, seeing him with his younger brother and parents... all innocence and cuteness personified.

Now we are hoping to slect some more and get them printed. Of course these again will be scanned and saved in digital format! :D

With all the flipsides, digicam is indeed one of the best things to have happended to us in recent times! Clicking without worry, taking videos that will make you smile whenever you watch them and trying different settings to get that perfect picture makes it a fun thing to have!

So say Cheese! :)

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

the fevicol ka majboot jod!

Fevicol ads have always been legendary! Be it the first one with two elephants trying to pull away two planks. (Faltu Trivia: Did you know ir Raju Hirani who directed Munnabhai who has acted in it?!)

later ads were equally interesting too with a whole truckload of people going on the jeep etc. Why am I talking about fevicol of all things all of a sudden?

It's simply because Kabir has entered a maha-chipku phase! You go out of his sight he starts bawling. You pick him up and put him down... he starts bawling! And its not like he refuses to go to other people or anything, but he just can't be left alone even for a minute!

I guess for one he now understands that we are not at home all the time. I do make sure i leave only after saying a very happy and enthusiastic bye bye to him, but he does have confused look on his face. Is this bye bye really supposed to be happy?!

So then once we reach home, he wants to make sure we don't go anywhere. It can become quite tiresome especially when you need to get some cooking done or even go to the loo! hehe! Of course he makes up for it with his cute smile and crazy antics and life seems perfect again.

I do hope he grows out of this phase soon enough though. I want my independent and bindaas Cub back. But then i guess all kids go through it and come out all ok!

So hand in there, Cubby and parents! Things will only get better! Amen!

Love ya lots my fevicol!

We of course have a bond that can never be broken... hai naah?! :)

Monday, May 5, 2008

dream on! ;)

will you be a music man? A DJ perhaps?


or will you be a sportsperson? :)


don't be paise khaanewaala politician though! :p

whatever it is you become dont lose that wonderous look in your eyes and the joy of discovering! :)
and I am doing this post just to show off your super cute snaps!! :p I really haven't started dreaming what will you grow up to be! Right now I am just too amazed to see you change everyday... just too happy thanking my stars that I have YOU as my baby... just too thrilled with every l'il thing you do!
So dontcha worry and take faltu ka pressure and tension! ;)
god bless you with dreams thats become real and a reality thats like a dream! :)
love ya so so much! mmmmuuuaaaah!!