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  The First Click with Thammi ! It's really long way , or should I say ,the tall way from  this one ! This was just before you fell sick with pneumonia - traumatic times but  showed your fighting spirit !  Awesomeness ! "Bhaat  with all the Paraphrenalia " The first official rice eating  with all the trappings ! They say what  you pick up  is what  you become  and you  looked over the money, clump of  clay, book and picked up the pen !! Turning 21- that's a landmark I guess! The universally official adulthood !    If I have to look  back ,there are pictures in the album and rest are in my heart ! happy birthday  The first missing tooth ! Of being Phokla and being mighty disappointed  when you turned the pillow and did not find money there! The deal was that tooth fairy gives you 5 rupees per tooth! The tooth had a ceremonial  burial in a rat hole !

That's a strange caption I chose ! But for me,  am in a sentimental nostalgic mood - It's not easy for me to watch, as the first man around whom my world revolved stumble, totter and be spaced out ! Of course his spirit is still strong and I ensure that he is never left alone or lonely ,but I guess I can't...in the end he is alone with his thoughts! Of course I am talking of Baba ! He still is my priority at times over Bhaskar , who suffers silently . Baba and Bhaskar can still be jealous over each other when I buy something for one and leave the other out. So it has been a habit now to buy 2 identical things for the two, cos I know they will end up comparing ! The third one is going to be 21 in two days time ! And aren't I glad that he has grown up ! I was not really the best of smoochie-woochie -baby -talkie mothers ! I guess that's the reason why Chibu still feels embarrassed when hugged ! But at times I am amazed that 21 years flew by...I still can remember ...

The weekend turned out to be quite good after all..Music , adda  and good food all that made up for the tension and travail ! And to top it rains came....:) It was nice  last evening at Nazrul Manch listening to Anupam singing out the popular number- he is hip and happening and energetic!Before that it was fusion music with Bolepure Bluez- Rock meets baul ! They sounded much  better on You tube this morning ..last evening the Bass boomed too much and I felt out of sync in that long-haired androgynous crowd where I really could not make out who's who !! Bhaskar seemed ready to run.....so was Uday :) The weekend food was good - Chettinad cuisine at Tamarind thanks to Uday and Sangeeta and today thanks to Nandini , Burmese cuisine at CC&FC ! Gave a hoot to the guilt -factor as I dug into the delicious Khaw Suay !Haven't walked in days and looking all bloated again ! But then I can never say no to food ! Met Indrani , as pretty as ever , who was amazed as alwa...

My sublime ennui did not last too long ! Baba developed Facial palsy- gave me a scare . I caught the heat and fell sick! Not a good week , really, but by now I have learnt to live with crisis now..though I am never prepared and feel drained at the end of the day...but calm comes from the acceptance that this is life, getting all het-up and hassled will not work.I am helped by Bhaskar, who is amazing at keeping his head in crisis- I guess Chibu too has inherited the cool- factor in many ways ! I get all nervous when it's my dear ones ! I don't know why I sound so dull, blue..missing real action in life ! Missing the travel in many ways ! Bhaskar does not approve of that -infact that's the main argument these days over the breakfast table! He does not mind me going back full time to work..but not the solo travel ! It's six months now that I am back and haven't left ..haven't sang my bags are packed....!!! 

Last afternoon's Satyamev Jayate again  pointed out how our country lacked the infrastructure to make life more difficult and complicated. It focused on the "differently-abled " and how they survive, live normally, love and succeed against all odds. Aamir Khan as usual brought out the best in the program and left a message many of us are uncomfortable with. It took me back to the Class 2 that I taught around 4-5 years back. There was Pritvijit- hyper, attention deficit and incommunicado and a handful amid a class of 45 six+ olds! I found him difficult too- and often had to bring him back from the playground ( phool-bagan according to him) forcibly. Of course I had no training to handle such a child, except my common sense (which does not work in the last period , after a nerve wracking day else where)! What I realize now is that I found him difficult and different , not his classmates- they were helpful, protective and quite at ease with his activities ( idiosyncrasies-w...

Morning is not my favorite time of the day- and it is not the best of time to take up the pen/keyboard whatever! I am cranky, crabby and crotchety...especially if I have to wake up at 5.30 ,thanks to Chibu's football match and to  meet  a deadline for my incomplete tasks! My attention span is at it's lowest, and at the slightest pretext I will browse Jabong, Craftsville , Flipkart and all the shopping sites that thrives cos of suckers like me ( Bhaskar's opinion) ! And there is Angry Birds, my latest addiction ( that again Thanks to Chibu- cos if he hadn't taught me to play , I wouldn't have known how to use the mouse to maneuver that sling )!! Last evening I deactivated my second Facebook account .A whole lot of names popped up who would miss me ! Miss me? wow! I hardly knew them....they were my students at some point of time, or my friends of yore ....from whom I have moved away or maybe vice-versa...or the random people FB thinks I can be friends with :((( ! Th...

It's usual...the days are all merging one into another..nothing special , nothing out of ordinary - just the kind that lulls into tranquility, mediocrity ,ennui....The Garia Mela is on...Chibu has outgrown that ! It used to be a daily trip when he was small...the rides, the shops that sold stuff "ja kichu neben char taka..." (now it's 10) and the street food ! The train  is missing this time. There is a Dragon train, which I rode with  Tuli! I shopped for all kinds of stuff which I  will throw out after a few months..Bhaskar calls it retail therapy!  I guess I should be thankful that there are no crisis to take care, the deadline is still far away ......and Chibu is pretending to study at times to save me from the heart attack! Some days  are blissfully boring...but what more can I ask for ?.......  Like PLATH said ...... "Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe, designing futures where nothing will occur: cross the gypsy’s palm and yawn...