a BIDWF and a tag!

just a quick BIDWF moment with the junior jain! :)


Cub turns 3 next month and this time we plan to have a big pahty with everyone we know and care about being there. Past two years we have had quieter affairs and haven't done anything in Bangalore, ever!


So, yesterday on our car ride to a restaurant I asked him "Cub, what cake do you want? An aeroplane? or nemo? Mowgli? Baloo? Sully?" and all the other animated characters he likes. He listens to me for sometime and then says "Nahi! Mujhe sirf chocolate cake chahiye!"


Both M and me burst out laughing and told him that cake will be chocolate only with whatever picture he wants on it! :)


and tonight he asked his father when he was changing him into night suit"I am looking cute, naah?!" HUH?!


Best bud Momo's ma tagged me to talk about My Sins against the gender stereotype.


For the longest time I wanted to be a guy to get all the freedom guys do. I used to be a pucca tomboy and couldn't imagine a different life! But soon I knew i could be the girl i was and yet do what i wanted! Total win-win situation, eh?! :)


I am not into dressing up / make up. Yes, i like my lipstick, but thats it. I dont even know how to apply nail polish on my own! gah!


I have been riding a two wheeler since I was 16 and still LOVE it! Thanks to my Dad who refused to mollycoddle me, I even have a fair bit experience in pushing my two wheeler to the closest service station and getting it repaired! Ofcourse, I am yet to learn to drive and hope to some day!


Maybe because books available at home were my Dad's taste, i have not read a single mills and boons or danielle steele, but devoured the Robin Cooks, John Grishams, Dick Francis Arthur hailey and gang!


I started traveling on my own to Pune by train by the time I was 10 and was traveling by overnight buses to Kolhapur by 12 years.


I wore shorts in my teens much to chagrin of most of our neighbours! I still wear em and dont really care about the neighbours anymore! ;)


I worked super late hours and traveled by myself in trains and cabs.


In both my pregnancies, i managed / am managing my doc visits etc on my own without needing M to accompany me.


I got a tattoo done and did not scream in pain or shed a single tear! :p


I could not cook to save my life till I got married and now both us can churn out a decent meal! :)


I could not be the shy bride even if I wanted to and grinned throughout the ceremonies and later!


i LOVE Tarantino and Guy Ritchie movies including Kill Bill. Ofcos the change in taste happened post shaadi, but am glad for it. So now I can watch mush and dhishum dhishum with equal ease.


I have gotten off my bike to move huge stone in the middle of the road that was causing traffic jam while all men waited for god knows what and giggled when I did it. gah!


I have gone out with all guy gang of friends at 3am for cutting chai and bhurji pav and really miss those days.


and though we never had offcial proposal between us, it was me who initiated "lets be more than friends" with M and hounded him till he married me! I still cry buckets everytime i watch Friends episode where Monica proposes to Chandler. :)


When it comes to living up to the gender norms, I still havent tried learning the whole finance bit and i cry a lot! For good and bad stuff! :D Yet, right now I am comfortable in my skin and enjoying being me!


I think whole world has been tagged with this, so if there is someone who hasn't done it as yet, feel free! :)