Janmashtami, as proven in the past, is an occasion that provides the setting for many an interesting conversation. Consequently, i love to celebrate the festival with my children. This year, yet again, the 'Doubt of the Year' award goes to Nidhi Santosh.
"Will Krishna be inviting all other Gods to party in our house on the night of his b'day?"
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Nidhi's new school, here in America has Rocky the Coyote as it's lucky mascot. The children call themselves Cool Coyotes. When i read this fact on the school website and reported it to Nidhi, she said,
"Cool Coyote? Sounds like cool 'kozhakattai....'"
:-)
One of the reasons i couldn't select the name Kirtana for Aditi - Nidhi felt it sounded like 'kirukku'. Such a beautiful name Kirtana, spoiled forever in my mind thanks to Nidhi. A talent she picks up from her father. Mr.Santosh kills beautiful songs. He will sing it in such a way that u will be disgusted whenever u hear that song again, never mind that u liked it immensely before. We were just married when i happened to mention i liked the 'Zara zara mehekta hai..' song, the kind gentleman didn't lose a second before breaking into the song(beautifully i must add), but accompanied by such gestures, scrunching up his nose, waving his hands to clear the air, looking arnd suspiciously etc. as if someone has 'polluted the air'. That was the first time. since then he has killed many such using his famous techinque of translating a song into bengali or bihari... As for me, i learned my lesson quite fast and never admit i like a song in his presence.
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We were at a lake here and watching a couple of birds swimming in the water. we assumed they were ducks when suddenly they rose up and flew high up to join a flock of birds flying home. Needless to say we were startled.
Santosh : Did u see that? Those were not ducks. Can ducks fly so high?
Me : then they must be goose or geese or something like that.
Nidhi : Or they might be aliens. Did u see if they had only one eye?
Santosh and Me : ???
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Little Aditi has added a new word to her vocabulary since coming here. She finds everyone here telling her 'Hi, baby', 'bye, baby' so enthusiastically that now she no longer says 'tata' but has adopted the American style of 'Haaai' accompanied by waving her hands. This serves for bye too and u will be greeted and sent off with a very cute 'Haaaai' with a hand-wave if u visit our house now. Appa and Nidhika are smitten and spend an extra few mins for this whenever they leave for office/school.
One day, i was giving Nidhi some instructions from the top of the stairs when she was leaving for school. Aditi was with me and not to be outdone, she also shouted something loudly towards Nidhikka and beamed at us saying 'see, i can do it too'.
the other day i was speaking to my mother on the phone. Appa and Nidhikka called out to me and were much amused to find Aditi holding her hand to her ears as if she's clutching a phone and she was walking arnd seriously blabbering something....
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One thing our house never lacks, thank God and thank the children - Entertainment.
"Will Krishna be inviting all other Gods to party in our house on the night of his b'day?"
<--------------********--------------->
Nidhi's new school, here in America has Rocky the Coyote as it's lucky mascot. The children call themselves Cool Coyotes. When i read this fact on the school website and reported it to Nidhi, she said,
"Cool Coyote? Sounds like cool 'kozhakattai....'"
:-)
One of the reasons i couldn't select the name Kirtana for Aditi - Nidhi felt it sounded like 'kirukku'. Such a beautiful name Kirtana, spoiled forever in my mind thanks to Nidhi. A talent she picks up from her father. Mr.Santosh kills beautiful songs. He will sing it in such a way that u will be disgusted whenever u hear that song again, never mind that u liked it immensely before. We were just married when i happened to mention i liked the 'Zara zara mehekta hai..' song, the kind gentleman didn't lose a second before breaking into the song(beautifully i must add), but accompanied by such gestures, scrunching up his nose, waving his hands to clear the air, looking arnd suspiciously etc. as if someone has 'polluted the air'. That was the first time. since then he has killed many such using his famous techinque of translating a song into bengali or bihari... As for me, i learned my lesson quite fast and never admit i like a song in his presence.
<--------------********--------------->
We were at a lake here and watching a couple of birds swimming in the water. we assumed they were ducks when suddenly they rose up and flew high up to join a flock of birds flying home. Needless to say we were startled.
Santosh : Did u see that? Those were not ducks. Can ducks fly so high?
Me : then they must be goose or geese or something like that.
Nidhi : Or they might be aliens. Did u see if they had only one eye?
Santosh and Me : ???
<--------------********--------------->
Little Aditi has added a new word to her vocabulary since coming here. She finds everyone here telling her 'Hi, baby', 'bye, baby' so enthusiastically that now she no longer says 'tata' but has adopted the American style of 'Haaai' accompanied by waving her hands. This serves for bye too and u will be greeted and sent off with a very cute 'Haaaai' with a hand-wave if u visit our house now. Appa and Nidhika are smitten and spend an extra few mins for this whenever they leave for office/school.
One day, i was giving Nidhi some instructions from the top of the stairs when she was leaving for school. Aditi was with me and not to be outdone, she also shouted something loudly towards Nidhikka and beamed at us saying 'see, i can do it too'.
the other day i was speaking to my mother on the phone. Appa and Nidhikka called out to me and were much amused to find Aditi holding her hand to her ears as if she's clutching a phone and she was walking arnd seriously blabbering something....
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One thing our house never lacks, thank God and thank the children - Entertainment.
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