abu & rabad » sports

things sachin doesn’t know

meetu — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:18:00 +0000

rabad suddenly remarked – i wish sachin was our friend. (yes, yes – THE sachin, why would I write a post if it was anyone else. duh.)

me – huh? why? (wondering if she noticed my schoolgirl crush. or if she had one for him)

rabad – then he’d ask “when is your birthday?” and then…

ever since abu and rabad understood what birthdays are, they’ve been told, “see, abu’s birthday is on the 22nd of April, rabad’s is on 23rd, Sachin’s is on 24th and N’s (abu-rabad’s first cousin) is on 25th.”

I think rabad feels bad that Sachin doesn’t know such a cool thing.

Education – 2

navin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:45:27 +0000

“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 draw that; later I gave him ideas on what else he could put in the picture (seaweed, smaller fishes, etc.) He did an OK job.

The next day I asked him if he gave his homework to the teacher.

“Yes. She said it was very nicely drawed.”

“See, I told you you could draw well. Right?”

“Yes. But I don’t want to draw. I think teacher wants me to be an artist.”

“What?”

“Yes,” he said in a pained voice, as if all the woes of the world were on his head, “She is always asking me to draw this, draw that. She wants to make me an artist. I don’t want to be an artist. I want to be a cricketer. I want to be a bowler.”

Education

navin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:58:52 +0000

I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education

- Mark Twain

These days, I am telling the kids stories of Shivaji, and I happened to be talking about the fact that Dadoji Konddev was Shivaji’s teacher, and how he taught Shivaji horse-riding, archery with a bow and arrow, fighting with a sword etc. And for effect, I asked Rabad, “Does your teacher teach you fighting?”

A little crestfallen, Rabad said, “No, they only teach A-B-C-D and things like that in my school.”

And after a little pause, she added, “But I learn fighting from watching Ben-10 on TV.”

sense of belonging

meetu — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:15:00 +0000

abu-rabad are in mumbai with their grandparents for the past couple of weeks. no this is not about how i’m missing them…geez!

anyway, so cricket and thus ipl comes up in our daily phone conversations.

me – so, will you be excited if mumbai indians wins today or the deccan chargers?

abu – i won’t be excited if anyone wins.

me (nirvana, already?) – come on, one must be little exciting than other?

abu – mamma, both are India only…

me – :-/