Pretending to be Real

Anu asked me to hold out my palm so that she could give me a chocolate. I did that and she opened her empty palm on mine and I understood it was a 'pretending' game. I said vow and put the 'chocolate' in my mouth and chewed it and said it was very tasty. She laughed merrily and said, "But you didn't even remove the wrapper, you chewed it!"

Recycling

Sleep is the best medicine for many diseases. Or specifically for the common cold as I've learnt yet again. And movies are the worst enemies of sleep. As Nana Patekar cutely puts it, "Control! Control!"

I had a boss called Ghanshyam once and he was known to keep grudges. One day, we found a wedding invitation card on his desk addressed to 'Gunshyam'! I don't know if the girl(our colleague) put it deliberately but knowing his own reputation, I guess even Shyam would've given her the benefit of doubt.

Bleak

Things are not looking good. Suddenly we have a spate of resignations, we are trying to retain some people somehow, there is a lot of pressure from top brass to do 'something', we seem to be the in the limelight mostly for the wrong reasons...Difficult to see a silver lining at the moment.

The way Bangalore is having these child rape cases, men will find it very hard to get jobs in school. But the other day I read a female worker doing that to a girl and that was much more difficult to digest. Aayi says most of these culprits must never be opening a newspaper or a news channel so they don't even know it's a punishable offense! I said let's go back to the old days of drums then..."KeLrappo KeLri...."

Thinking of it, I want our Civic body to do that too - going around beating the drums. People just don't seem to understand that they are not supposed to throw their garbage anywhere and everywhere! Why is it so difficult to have some personal discipline?

Unknown Fears

On the way to office or back, I see posters of people - they just have a photo of the person with the date of their death, that's all. I see them so regularly nowadays that it's a little disturbing. I mean, they don't write how they died and at least half of them are very young!

Evaluating

Mind is wired to like each one in a different measure, right? I mean, one may say hundred things and you appreciate it but do not really care but then another says a small thing which gladdens your heart instantly! Chemical locha, really!

Thanks to the promotion mess, I'm in a totally messed up state. I went and fought with people but they would neither move me out nor give me an answer. P is upset too and these days we've stopped discussing anything but this. Of course things will return to normal and life will go on. Sigh!

Rishi with his Ajji at 8 months. He was her darling then. :-)

Reality Check

Dreams are wonderful. You may think something about yourself but they show you an entirely different side of you and do so many impossible things! It's amusing and it makes you start the day with a good mood.

If someone lies, who is to be held in contempt? The one who lies or the one who does not give you a honestly liveable environment? I'm only talking about domestic lies here.

I was watching Friends Season 8 and it was so charming to see Joey having feelings for Rachel. I mean, he's such a careless guy otherwise but now all of a sudden he's so restrained and so cute!

Unhappy Children

Today is Children's Day and we had quite an uproar at home early in the morning. Rishi has all classes except two and he was very unhappy about it. We tried to tell him he should raise the point with his teacher but he said he was sure he would only end up getting scolded so he decided to take his frustration on us. He said on Teachers' Day, all his teachers had a field day, they got decked up and were all happy so it was not fair to treat children in this manner on their 'day'. Of course in the end he got scolded by us also but we've decided to write to the school about it.