abu & rabad

abu – “mamma, did you check the mail box today? there’s something in there for you” it reads – dear mum I have given you a letter

this was when she was 3 months away from being 4 … no instructions from no one and no one asked her to do it either…i am sure you can sense the pride i feel…

sort-of breaking my promise not to write anything here that can embarrass the kids when they are older *ahem*… so, abu’s zip was open this afternoon. me – abu, your zip is open… abu – hehehe…chain khuli ki main khuli * * * p.s. 1 – zips are also called chains (in India), “khuli” means […Read More…]

aaah! the comfort of someone running fingers through your wet hair! but, this is taking it one step further. i think this one deserves a place in the “believe it or not” section. and this is not the first time either.

so, we are scanning channels, and we come across this Reliance Mobile’s catchy advert. rabad – those things cannot come out of her head like that…how are they showing it?

this was when we went to watch om shanti om. during the “31 star” song, rabad started screaming “om shanti om” at the top of her voice, every time they said it – which is like 256 times. anyways, i tried to “shhhhushhh” her. “mumma, they are shouting “om shanti om”, i am only copying […Read More…]

I was telling a group of friends how anurag kashyap hated the dialogues he wrote for Shakalaka Boom Boom and that he wrote a post titled shaka laka fuck fuck at Passion for Cinema. rabad, who i thought was sleeping, asks …”mamma, what did that uncle say?” hubby dear – “Shakalaka boom boom” rabad – […Read More…]

we usually watch violent movies or movies that are too serious for the kids, when the kids are sleeping. so, it turns out that the movies that we’d like to catch in the theater are seen with two seats reserved for the two sleeping babies. and most times they sleep through the movie one morning, […Read More…]

one morning at the breakfast table rabad, “mamma, how is milk made?” me – “an uncle gets it out of the cow’s stomach” rabad – “hmmm…ok” rabad – “are plastic bags also made in the cow’s stomach?” we get milk every morning in sealed plastic bags.