Scientific me!

Now that I am three, my thinking has become more scientific. My amma and achan have given me some basic understanding in how that is done....like the intricacies involved in how I get muscles (food in stomach getting digested by gastric juice and the energy going to my muscles to make me strong and to my brain to give me ideas which is what makes me intelligent). However, I also have my own theories like about Rajeev being tall because he must have eaten a long snake. That my acahamma is not old because her hair is black whereas my muthachan, amamma and valliyamma have white hair and hence are old. About flying cars being called 'pakshi car' and crawling car being 'aama car'. That if you drink soup you will become souperman. Unfortunately I am also slowly coming to the realisation that my parents (especially amma) can turn completely deaf as and when she chooses :-(.  

I was keeping very busy, partly with homework

I will tell you all about it very soon. Here is about something that enjoyed at school, but talking about it, well, tiring!

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Stand(Sit!)off

Homework spilling into the kitchen

A thorn prick on the little finger

Sheer trauma

In moral studies class today

Then and Now

             

Son is the father of a man

Not all of that!
It is just that I take him to the same barber.

Who takes whom?

Inspiring appreciation/Ammamma's exhibition

Inspiring appreciation

Co(s)mic relief

Amma told me not to go for kalari today as (she says) though she woke me up early enough, i did all the preparations to go to kalari so slowly that, it became too late to go. This set me thinking about bigger things, faster and slower things. Though we feel that earth is moving very slowly, in reality it is rotating so fast. While i felt sorry disappointing amma, i sought relief by thinking about all that i have read about solar system, universe, cosmos and black holes- a sort of cosmic relief i sought. But then there has to be a cosmic solution to this misery that is kalari. I have read somewhere that a black hole can possibly contain a whole universe with several solar systems in it. That has the  consequence that there is possibly a twin of the earth which has a twin of myself in it who likes kalari. In that case, i want to swap places with that version of myself and keep amma happy. But, then again i won't be able to live peacefully knowing the fact that there is ever a version of myself who likes kalari.

The Ninja technique of cycling and talking simultaneously

Amma has suddenly decided that I have to learn to cycle and I have had my first class last night. So here we were having a nice ride...me on the cycle, amma walking behind holding me steady, nice breeze, no one around .... and so I started talking. You know this and that and other random things. But amma told me to stop talking and focus. What is there to focus...I am not falling or anything. But when she told me again I told her very clearly that, "I focus best when I talk". I think she got my point as she didn't tell me to keep quite again. But she suddenly told me to get off the bike and push the cycle along. She said that before learning to ride the cycle I should be able to push the cycle along......what rubbish! She had this smile on her face.....that she has when she is up to something. I wonder whether it is something to do with me not being able to push the cycle and talk at the same time. Have to find find a ninja technique of pushing cycle and talking at the same time!!

Mosquitoes are rare these days!

It all started with a causual comment from Achan when I complained of boredom one evening, when I thought I had nothing intetesting to do while Achan was trying to read something, frequently interrupted by mosquito bites. Achan  suggested to me that probably I should try and kill all those mosquitoes. My  immediate response was: "what is in it for me?". He said, Rs 10/- for each mosquito killed. Thus was born the most ruthless predator ever known to these flying menaces. In 2018-19(financial year) I earned about Rs. 2000/-( unaudited and purely based on my claim, heard achan murmuring). In April 19 I observed that in the new year  I had  earned only Rs.100/- and figured out that my rate of earning is slower compared to the previous year(power of 4th standard IGCSE Math syllabus) There is lesser job opportunities and actual threat of reduced income in the liberalised global economy. When I remarked  that "mosquitoes are scarce these days" achan said that he is  thankful to these unwelcome guests for their reduced affinity. He is actually happy about having to spend less on misquito extermination while i struggle to maintain a decent level of earning.