why? who? what? when? and why again…
The following is a real conversation I had yesterday with Mr. X (who will remain nameless to save him public embarrassment ) over Facebook chat and SMS. I was sitting at my computer, and suddenly, without any warning or context, the following facebook chat message from Mr. X to me popped up: why dont u [...Read More...]
A couple of days, I saw a random email forward with humorous answers from kids to a bunch of questions. I decided to find out what kinds of answers would Abu and Rabad give to the same questions. So here goes. Why did God make mothers? [Abu]: Because if mother didn’t exist, you didn’t exist [...Read More...]
So I was explaining the whole Anna Hazare situation to Abu & Rabad, and realized that there was a lot of explaining to do. “You know, sometimes, our leaders take money from bad people and do bad things for them. That is called corruption. Is that a good thing?” “No” “What should happen to leaders [...Read More...]
Recently I received a “email forward” which listed the various ways in which the world has changed since I was a kid. Stuff like when I was a kid we didn’t have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the [...Read More...]
“Do you have any homework today, Abu?” I asked. “Yes, I have to draw some sea animal. But I can’t draw.” “Of course you can draw. Let me give you an idea.” So I showed him a picture of the Manta Ray from a book we had, and I gave him tips on how could [...Read More...]
about 2 months ago rabad had a bad fall on her head. yeah, we do that every once in a while. to cut a long, scary story short, she had to be in the ICU for a day just for observation. needless to say she was fine in about 2 hours of being in the [...Read More...]
just a few minutes ago. rabad (she’s sitting and hugging my feet while i stand)- mamma, i like you very much. i like you more than i like myself. who said i wont be using this forum to brag? but seriously, can’t believe the layers that that one sentence has. obviously, the brag. but then [...Read More...]
It’s 7:15am, and Abu needs to start getting ready for school by 7:30. He also likes to watch a little TV before that. And, if some day, he doesn’t wake up before 7:30, he gets a little grumpy because he didn’t get to watch TV. So I go to his room and try to wake [...Read More...]
that’s abu’s foot. this is a common occurrence in our household, so not to worry. we have a bone contusion which is not a fracture but deserves a plaster to be on the safer side. so be it. there’s more to this post than just “look, he hurt his foot.” now, just because it’s a [...Read More...]
i’ve mentioned earlier that many a time we go to a movie after the kids have gone off to sleep. so, we did it again last week. this time the movie was playing at inox. and inox theaters play the Indian national anthem before the screening begins. we reached about 5 seconds before the anthem [...Read More...]