Zindagi Everyday

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Miss Angry !!

Everyday new stories are born when you have kids around you.
Kido has become a real naughty and stubborn girl. She now knows how to show her anger to the people. I came to know about a funny story of her's in the school. Her teacher narrated it, and I was all smiling and surprised. So here goes the scene.
Today dressed up the kido and went to drop her at school. She walks to the teacher's office and see 3 kids already there.Two of them occupying the chairs where she use to sit and place her school bag, while other was lingering nearby the chairs.Teacher seeing kido, asked her to come and wished good morning, but she didn't reply. Ma'am smiles and said she is still angry with me.
Now begins the fun story. As per the teacher, yesterday kido was having lunch with her, in the meantime one of the kids came walking ( he slightly limps due to some knee problem). Seeing the kid limping, the teacher picked her up in arms and made him sit near kido. As soon as my kido saw the ma'am engaged with the other kid, she stared, picked up her school bag and water bottle & started walking towards the classroom, to be precise walking away from the teacher. The teacher seeing the reaction called her ( my miss angry kido) multiple times, but why would she listen now :P
Once reaching in the class, teacher sat near the kidos bag and bottle, but something strange was waiting for her. Kido picked her bag and bottle, sat away from the teacher.
She was showing her anger to the teacher, she was not ready to accept her ma'am to go to other kid.And the after effect showed next morning too when I went to drop her. She seeing other kids near to ma'am didn't walked straight to her teacher as she really do, instead went to the classroom without talking to her ma'am.
Kids are really intelligent and do have ways to show their emotions now.

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Bits & Pieces of Life

Unknown 8:29 PM Random , 0 Comments

Accidentally came across this wonderful thought. It seems so true to me, forced me to loosen my thinking horses.
Its the truth that life offers so many things, sometimes good, and sometimes bad. The life is full of such uncertainty leaving us puzzled to decide our future course of actions.
Recently I encountered a tragic accident of suicide. It seems like yesterday when I saw this young boy all in smiles and touching the elder's feet. His smiling face image just does not leave my brain.When I visited his distraught family it was like an emotional choke to me.He was just 20 years, chilling with friends, the apple of the parent's eyes, riding his highly demanded sports bike. Well what made him to commit this drastic step to take his own life. He hanged himself leaving everyone in tears and cries. His mom, what she has more now.This grief ridden mother says that how can she forget the 20 years of her upbringing ? The family made his every logical/illogical demand fulfill be at any cost they had to bear. Were they wrong doing it, should they have been hard and questioning his demands and choices? I dont know the answers of all these.
Now everyone is asking why did he commit suicide, what made him do so? Well whom to answer this question, the person who knew everything is now not with us. Some says it was depression, some says father scolded, some says it was a failed affair. Whatever may be the reason, the boy did not even gave a second thought to his action, not even thinking about his aging parents to whom he was the walking stick.
His smiling photo with flowers on it took my breath away. I cannot cry, for me tears are a sign of weakness, I choked, controlled, but couldn't help them to stay in the eyes. His photo frame made all the bridges collapse. Now me being a third person is so ripped with this incident, just a thought of the agony of his aging parents raises the goosebumps.
Is life so cheap to spend it in vain over another person? Its very true that life offers hundreds of shits , but then overcoming the hardships and surviving is what the life should be. Just succumbing to the failures, depressions, heart breaks, should not be the way.
Its true when life and love tests you, its really hard to take a wise decision. It leaves one in many bits and pieces.But how wise it is to quit all the hardships and taking another route of complete destruction. Life offers many virtues to the humans in which courage is the most important one to deal with the pieces. Be it anything or anyone who made pieces of your life, it should be you to be brave and accept the challenge.
Life is more about collecting the pieces, good and bad experiences, memorable moments, learnings, and optimism for a better future out of every shit. The hope to find something good in every adverse situation is something which helps the life to go on.Optimism lays the road to move on. Why should one spoil her/his life on something/someone who don't even gave a thought before messing it.
It takes real effort to see something good in every situation, but this is the motivating factor to begin your journey to future with the broken pieces.Sometimes its worth the effort.

Just feeling so sorry for the loss of the family, couldn't stop my thoughts from spilling here. May be I am not right but atleast I have mustered my failures, trials, confusions, breaks and whatever mess life offered me. Its worth taking a ride of optimism rather than stucking in the past and blocking happiness away from yourself. That's what I think.

My Kitchen experiments

Unknown 12:09 PM Cooking Adventures , 0 Comments

I am running late in writing posts, still will try to pen down some of the moments here.
The most exciting one was my experiment fooding in the kitchen. Actually we are pretty regulars in our menu of breakfast, lunch, and dinner. During the month of February I started experimenting some stuff on my own. I tried to bake a choclate cake in the microwave (not convection one) , made pavbhaji, made idlis (in the microwave with instant mix), and sandwiches. And the most important factor in these experiments was the liking of everyone for the taste and texture.
Idlis are such a hit with my kido that everytime she sees me with the idli maker, she will say 'mumma idli bana do' and m happy to oblige her request :) Everytime I pick the microwave bowl, she will ask 'mumma kya kya bana rhe...cake bana rhe' . Actually she is the reason behind my kitchen adventures !!
Recipes of all the items was taken from various websites and blogs over the internet.So I am not going to post the recipes. But in case you need any recipe just visit my favorite website www.vegrecipesofindia.com It is one of the best website I have encountered so far. My pavbhaji recipe was a word to word tried from here and it was a big hit.
A snapshot of my experiments :)

Veg sandwich, recipe from Kido's friend mom :)

Rice idli prepared by the instant mix

Vanilla cake with chocolate glaze

Yum Yum Pavbhaji

The Chocolate cake baked in microwave

The best part of the cooking !!

After these outcomes, have got an affinity towards kitchen and experimenting items , which are new to me in case of making them at home !!

Growing Kido-new activities !!

Unknown 11:24 AM Pari , 0 Comments

Pari

A very very delayed post about the speeding progress of the kido.
Trying to get a grip on my pen, let me start from somewhere. Ok, the kido is now 2.5 years old naughty, smart, and intelligent kid. She has got a good amount of words to speak. I just love to hear her melodious words, giggles, tantrums every moment, her love towards coloring and dancing. She is a good dancer to her age, enacting the steps watching the videos she do great moves. But on the other hand she is damn stubborn. If struck on anything, she will get it either by her innocence,chivalry, by crying, or screaming, whatever it takes.
Let me list some of her progressive acts:

She speaks a lot of sentences these days, and mostly repeat after us.The best scene comes when anyone talks over the phone. Copying the styles, she will start walking and repeat ditto words, even put some of her own words at times she doesn't hear words frequently during the conversation.
I use to pick her up from the school on my two wheeler, and she is a pro there also. Always standing at the front and enjoying the ride is her favorite.
She loves to stroll in the shopping malls, not on her feet but daddy's arms. While I visit the trial room, she has to accompany me, and at all the same time will do "o mumma shame shame " :P Kids are so naughty these days :)
She has such a affinity to the household chores. Now she has her own set of rollpin and chapati board.Each time we make chapati she has to have the 'ata' and make her own 'roti'
She plays with her kitchen set , making and serving tea to everyone.
Teddy's are her all time favourites . She loves them, hugs them, and plays like a mumma to them enacting my ways.
'Chittiyan Kalaiyan ' song from the Bollywood movie 'Roy' is her current favorite dancing number.
She sings the song as ' Tu mera main teri bang bang' from the Bollywood movie 'Bang Bang' :D Along with it she sings 'sa re ga ma ' in her melodious voice and she is really good.
She tries to sing in her beautiful voice enacting some of the nursery rhymes like 'Baa Baa Black Sheep', Twinkle Twinkle', '5 little monkeys', 'One Two buckle my shoe', and 'Wheels on the bus'. the recent addition is 'Machali jal ki rani hai'.
She directs her grandfather (dadu) to go to the bedroom, remove the footwears, lie on the bed and then will say 'so jao' 'gud night' 'sweet dreams' 'c u' :)
Everynight before sleeping, she will keep my and her papa's mobile phone to the respective sides of the bed along with the water bottles too.
She will pick up her own diaper to wear and play her favourite songs to begin with her sleeping routine. Actually she will do all masti, dancing, rhyming, singing all activities infront of her father before going to sleep. Not to forget mentioning, she will watch a lot of videos on you tube before finally handing over the mobile phone to me when she feels sleepy.
She will give kisses by touching cheeks to cheeks :D
The first thing she will speak in the morning is 'mumma utho' ...Yeah she is my morning alarm.
For brushing her teeth she will sing along me 'Brush your teeth' :D .Sometimes she is damn adamant to not do the brushing, by the way she hates paste. So its kind of challenging to make her brush with such a big pool of water from her eyes.
She can cry anytime in a second flooding eyes with tears and running nose. I don't know where she gets that stocked up and release it at the exact moment.
She loves to eat Potato curry with chapati,fondly speaks it as 'Aloo Boti'
She is not a milk lover, but at times she will ask herself for it and finish it without any fuss, while other times its a herculean task for me.
She is big lover of 'Alpenliebe' toffee.
She knows how to get ready when we say 'Party', she will pick her own dress for the occassion.
She now knows to speak our names as 'reshu mumma', 'sidda papa', 'sourav mama', 'prem' , and her names 'pardhi', 'goggi' :D She is so much into calling our names that many times she will not say mumma or papa instead will speak our names. She knows the names of our both the maids and will always call them with the names only. Good thing is if asked in english language too she will answer correctly. Smart kid :)
Cartoon watching is her favorite one these days. She calls the names of the characters as 'Chota bheem' 'robom for robinhood', 'mikka for mister maker',& 'kisna' .So finally nobody gets to watch tv when she is around.The cartoons rock the tv screen.
She has learnt to enact whistle. She will put finger in between her lips and make sounds of whistle. While calling us, firstly she will try with us as mumma, papa, dadu ,jiya, bua, and if we missed out to listen she will start whistling to us in her very cute ways and say 'oye'. I kind of need to get rid of this habit of hers though it looks innocent. I am kind of tempted to her actions :D
She loves to bath these days in her colorful bathtub. She puts the tub at the perfect place, puts on the tap, bring her ducks in the tub and then just ready for my signal to jump in the water.
She loves to accompany me with the laundry.Loves to put the clothes in the washing machine, and if not allowed then be ready to get flooded with watery eyes. As a matter of fact i have just converted into clean clothes maniac, so everyday i have piles of laundry to do :(
She has got her ears pierced on 19th January 2015. She cried continuously all caught up in hiccups, running nose, flooding tears. After getting it done, she had her own part of the story.She use to say 'mumma uncle dishum dishum nana' which meant mumma we will go with nana and beat the uncle who did the piercing.