Long time

Long time since I blogged. It was an eventful year. So there was no time to blog :-) 

This year summer vacation lachu is going for summer vacation camp . Every year she used to go home town. But this time in bengaluru.

Comes to mind  last April 6th where we had a very bad accident when our cab was hit by lorry while going to airport. Things can change quickly... Need to appreciate more the present moments..

God and Heaven

Lachu was put forwarding her heaven theory while I was seeing "wonders of the universe" DVD , I asked her whether Hindus and Christians have different heaven. She was sure they have and I will be going to the Hindu heaven. I was confused and asked her then who created this world. She was confident that Hindu Gods created the place where Hindus live and Christian Gods created where Christians live. Then who created the place where brigade metropolis exists ? Its very clear to her, since this place is owned by Hindus, Christians and Muslims this will be joint effort by all the Gods. Now I understand why Brigade metropolis costs 6500 Rs per sq. ft. It has got all the blessings.

End of world thoughts...

Lachu was anxious after too much discussions on Dec 21st and end of world Mayan predictions.. She was asking what is going to happen.. I said everything is going to end and asked her what she wants to do in the remaining 2-3 hours...

She said she will pray to God not to end this world. But that was not possible I argued. The decision was taken long back by omiscient God and although he is omnipotent to change things usually he does not do that  ( even for worst kind of rapes and child abuses God does not avoid those as Eve ate that apple and since then evil is also part and parcel of our equations..).

I pushed her to know her wishes again.. Again she wanted to pray to God not to end this world and said she will cry and pray and that may have an effect on God.

I agreed, but asked her to imagine that the world will come to an end and say something more funny and interesting rather than prayers. This time she said - she will see DIL TO PAGAL HAI again and started seeing. She is seeing it for the 50th time and another shah rukh khan has emerged in my house.

Lachu's basics

One day ( as usual :-) ) people around me were convincing how use-less I am in managing these worldly material things.. I was feeling bad and complained to lachu. She said " dont feel bad on what others are saying.. If others are telling you use-less then they are use-less..." And after a big pause she told me " dont come to bother me with these small small things again..." Good advice.

One week later again I was bothered by the same comments. I went to my motivator lachu and complained... She explained the same things patiently once again.." dont feel bad on what others are saying.. If others are telling you use-less then they are use-less..." And then scolded me " I HAD TOLD U NOT TO COME TO ME WITH THESE SMALL THINGs"..

Hmm...

Best advice I got back

Last day:

Me: I am sad, everybody scolds me.

Lachu: Your happiness should not depend on what others say. Whatever you should be happy... This is what you told me when mother scolded me......

Is she prem sai ? Will I get a share in the Sai empire ?

God Delusions - part 1

Lachu: Who is precious ?
Me: Everyone is precious
Lachu: God is precious. God made this earth.. alle amma ?

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Today received a copy of "The Secret of the Nagas" - a fiction on the mythological character Shiva (God). I show Lachu back of the cover where it is written - "Today he is a GOD, 4000 years before he was a MAN".

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Then Lachu started her speech " Everyone is precious. Plants and Animals are precious. We should not cut trees, we should not pluck flowers. Nature is precious. Earth is beautiful. We should enjoy the world. God is a man, but he is also precious".

( Good influence from her science textbook . I felt happy. These days I am against God )

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After some time she again started... " God is precious. God made wings of birds.."

And the discussion continues.....

Lachuvum Nannum - GOD

Last week I told Lachu that there is NO GOD ( effects of reading God Delusion). She challenged me back asking me to read "Value Education". Her "Value Education" text book says lots of things about GOD.

And the thing that GOD may not exist seems to bother her. She is telling her friends and their families about my stupidity.

And this weekend.. she again took the topic back. She told me GOD is invisible and UP there. Whether its in Clouds, she said much above. About Ganapathi, Siva, Vishnu having shapes, she said she did not make them, it was bought!

Finally she became aggressive: "If you are teasing GOD, and if you do not believe in GOD then why did you visit GOD in Mysore ?

Hmm...........

Lachum Nannum - II

Anyway Lachu has categorically stated that: < She will not scold her husband the way her mother scolds her husband. She will only tell him. She says Love is important > Good wisdom :)

And she gave me a look.. "that i dont want a stupid guy like you" :)

Am I writing too many personal things ? Dont worry, I am faking it :)

Lachuvum Nannum

On the way to see "Zindagi Na Milegi Dubara"

(.. translated to english...)
Me: When u grow up u will drive the car, and i will just sit
Lachu: No , my husband will drive
Me: Where ur husband ?
Lachu: I will find
Me: How ?
Lachu: I will meet somebody
Me: Tell me
Lachu: Will tell u later
Me: Till then ?
Lachu: I will be in bangalore with u. You can drive

On the way back I didnt ask anything, as "ZNMD" may have givem more ideas to her !!!

Feynmann effect

Teaching Lachu has become easy after reading Feynnman books. She had an assignment yesterday to do - paste 3 kinds of leaves and tell their names. I plucked 3 types of leaves and was wondering what the trees names are ? Then remembered Feynmann. Its not important to remember all the names in chinese, english or sanskrit. It is more important to understand their behaviour and characteristics and the rational behind that. Me and lachu visited the tree sites :) and understood what they offer ! And didnt bother to give the names.

Red circles

Lachu has a new process. Whenever I scold her she puts a red circle on the day in the calendar. She wants to expose my double standards.. that i pretend to be a nice father who is a friend to my kid... Now July calendar is full of red circles. I hope it will become green for the rest of the month !

mysore - conclusion

I asked the sanest soul in my house what she liked in mysore. Her likings in descending order are:

(1) Hotel Stay: she likes to stay there forever

(2) Mysore palace... before i was too happy she said ... ballooons bought from mysore palace

(3) The other palace ( Jagmohan palace ) from where we bought purse and hats

(4) Brindavan dancing music garden... not that object.. but the Sare Jahan se music played.. she likes that song and is patriotic

Things she would like improvements in future are:

(1) Visit Wonderla

(2) If we had stayed there on monday also she could have avoided tuesday's unit test.

Cool....... Next where.. Coorg is calling me.

Language barriers are broken

B'lore is a cool place.. Most people can speak in atleast 3 of the 4 south indian languages and plus Hindi.. And kids learn bits and pieces of every. Lachu's maid has picked up malayalam well. And Lachu now mimicks her maid's malayalam accent !

Last day was listening to "Kanne Kalaimane" tamil song. Lachu came and asked - " Is this Malayalam, Tamil or Kannada" ? She can understand some words and some not.. Having stayed in tvm, chennai and b'lore and now being looked after by telugu maid.. her language now is "south indian" - no more malayalam, tamil, kannada or telugu.

May be now she needs a north indian boyfriend to teach her hindi ;)

"Taare Zameen Par" therapy

Lachu is being given a different copy of the same text books as days of this school year go by, but she is not learning. Now she has three sets of text books. Anyway i am not the culprit behind that therapy. She also gets a new "set" of pencils every alternate days. Poor kid.
I tried "7 habits for happy kids" on her. NO USE ;) And now made her see "Taare Zameen Par". Finally it has effects. Today she wrote "boat" as "dooa" in class notebooks. Trying hard to imitate the hero-boy in that movie! Curse me, and my methods.

lachu .... in garden !

lachu .... in angry moodu

Exams

Lachu's 1st term exams end tomorrow (LKG)... ( she had monthly tests also last month..)

anyway as a responsible father i adviced her - "marks doesn't matter. atleast till BTech!!!!"

so told her to play rather than study :)

my favourite lullaby

Copied from http://malayalamsonglyrics.blogspot.com/2006/10/alliyilam-poovo.html

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സം‌ഗീതം‌ : ഇളയരാജ
ആലാപനം‌ : ടി.എന്‍.കൃഷ്ണചന്ദ്രന്‍

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lachu in uniform!

Updates from home

In Santa clara now......

Updates from home says --- lachu forgets something at nursery everyday and brings it on the other day.

Tuesday: Lost her shoes
Wednesday: Got her shoes and Lost her two books and Water bottle
Thursday: Got her books and water bottle and lost her tiffin box

Perhaps its a trick from her part, to have two pairs of everything!!!!!!!!!!!!