Energised

Kids have gone to my native place and we are living a most-disorderly life. Before leaving Rishi gave us a strict instruction not to 'enjoy' in his absence. He needn't have worried; I hardly have time for anything anyway. But the last two days just changed it a little bit. We had this Synergy Workshop which actually I didn't want to attend. I mean, testing phase I was getting over on Saturday and it would be blasphemous to go and enjoy myself, right? P wasn't happy too because it was stay-over on Friday and I think like Rishi he was also worried that I would enjoy myself too much. Anyway, somewhere inside I knew I would have fun if I went and I wanted it so I just enrolled myself. And it was worth it really. I love people in general and feel overwhelmed with small happinesses like interacting with new people and I felt very content after 2 days. I sang, danced, played cricket and the only regret is that I didn't explore the place on foot, which I wanted to do.

The best part was SN, a 25 year old girl who I met regularly at restroom in the office but thought I would never interact with. I mean, she seemed exactly like two generations younger and two generations different from me. But we hit it off very well at the workshop and she is one of the cutest persons I've ever met. Then TD too. We had met and spoken before and I knew I liked the girl and it got only reinforced in the workshop. And RCB was a person I never knew though I have been interacting with him for the last 5 years! Of course in their post-workshop comments some people said the same about me too.

Carnival

It's a riot of children in the building. They do nothing but play from morning to night and there are some ten boys. I'm expecting some reprimands from the afternoon-napping senior citizens but surprisingly it's not happened so far. My mother says Rishi comes back an inch taller everytime he goes out to play and it almost seems like that. He's 11 now and 160 centimeters already. As I said before, he's all in love with cricket suddenly, watching matches late in the night, cursing the teams he does not side with and also enjoying his own game. But the boy is also developing a temper than can catch fire at the slightest spark.