29 May 2014

Creating Road-Blogs: President for a day

Driving on a long road trip with three high school girls in the back and one elementary school girl in front has its own perks. Some of the most hilarious discussions are going on. Sharmila and the inlaws – not to speak of the dog – in the car behind are so missing this…

Example:
Me: So, Jordan, if you were the President for a day what would you do?
Jordan: I would change the school system to be like the ones in Finland.
Me: How so?
Jordan: They pay their students to go to school.

Before I could internalize what I just learnt, Almudina interjected “You cannot do that. That is a state issue. You have no power over that”!!

Ah! High school and those social sciences classes!!!

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29 May 2014

Art imitating life!

One of the coolest things about weekends and my time offs is that Niki and I get to do “projects” (her word, not mine). Today, she chose “cleaning car”. Not only did she help in cleaning my car – hosing, waxing, leather and glass treatment, she then decided to draw what we were doing!!!

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28 May 2014

Nikispeak : Are you being stalked?

Just came home to a really irate Nikita. Evidently, Sharmila had showed her the press release and she had read every word of it. Moment I opened the door to step in, she demanded to know “Mister, all these days you told me you work in technology. But looks like you were doing fraud. How come you never told me? Are you ashamed of yourself?”. I looked at Sharmila helplessly, not knowing what hit me. She mentioned about the PR and I was able to quickly put two and two together.

Barely suppressing my laughter, I explained – “No, we used technology to catch fraudsters,  not to commit fraud”. Somewhat incredulous, she demanded to know next “How come your new company knows so much about you? Are they stalking you?”. “No, they are doing no such thing,” I assured her, emptying my pockets into the kitchen drawer.

“Well, then there is only one explanation. Your new company is already your Facebook friend”!! At this point, I had had my share of fun. So, I readily admitted “Indeed, that is true”. “One day, you will get into trouble making friends with strangers”, she warned. Then, she stomped out of the kitchen with her little feet and went up to her room 🙂

Ah! The small pleasures in life. Why do they grow up so fast?

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24 May 2014

Winding down on Friday evening

Strictly speaking it was not that tough a week – given that I am winding down from one job and getting ready for another. But it was still good to listen to Nazrulgeeti with my father in law. Played the tabla for a couple of hours and he chose some of the old classical Nazrulgeetis for this evening. Wish my sister was here. In the late seventies, she used to sing these songs and I used to play the tabla with her then…

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23 May 2014

FIL-MIL Mehfil. Her verdict.

We are at Wolf Mountain Winery. Mother in law is engulfed by people her age group tasting and drinking wine. She surveyed her surroundings and summarized “Glass Glass sob kinchhe aar dhok dhok korey khachche” 🙂
I have no good way of translating this….

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