High Thinking and Confidence Personified

Kids today are sharp, outspoken and confident in the way they think and talk. They make you feel so lost when you see them say the right thing but in a different context.

One of my friends told me how his 5 yr old daughter conveniently and confidently answered while he was casually brushing on her lessons.

She is 5 and her class teacher has just finished teaching “capital Letters”, “small Letters” and some “big spellings” (in her mind).

Daddy (my friend) asks his daughter – “spell honey”.
Daughter - “H>O>N>E>Y”.
Daddy - “good" now, "Phone”.
Daughter - “P>H>O>N>E. (For all you know he must have had in his mind thinking that she might end up saying “Fone”).
Well, now daddy tries “England”.
Daughter - “E>N>G>L>A>N>D”.
Daddy - "Wow! Well done, what is the capital of England?" (Dad tries his luck hard here. Don’t know why it struck him to ask her this, may be to check her GK at 5 or something? but anyways…)
Daughter - "E”– with all confidence!
Daddy asks with a confused look – “ E ?”...
Daughter - "Yes, E because the first letter is big and capital always”.

Isn’t this innocent and cute?

Some Random Stuff...

A Rat Race

Rats – tiny lil’ creatures are truly unaware of panic they cause. One day, while in the kitchen, I thought I saw a rat trying to gain entry into one of our kitchen cupboards!!!! Eeeeeeeeewww!!....Gosh! I wanted to rather assume that I was hallucinating…but nope! It was real. I was so shocked and felt that my heart beat went off track, couldn’t go with the rhythm. I was scared and went to the lounge leaving things half done.

This was tough….. Mice in London and making a mess, was the last thing I ever imagined. Yup …why not???? They can be everywhere. But wait, why our house??? Aaaah! may be the rat moved into our house thinking it to be a better place, full of rat-type delicacies!!! Well, not that I leave the kitchen area untidy….nope! … (I keep my house clean and take xtra care as we have our landlord monitoring the house every now and then) but… Whatever…. I tried to do a bit of research, until I realised that I was wasting time. My next immediate action was to report to someone who could help me get rid of it ASAP and in the course, my dear darling hubby was disturbed and depressed about the fact that we had a rat at home and feared if it would breed. Finally, managed to get in touch with the Pest Control team and they have these sessions/sittings to drive the poor thing out. Pheeeew! This was quite a race indeed, nevertheless, it all ended happily and we've gotten rid of it now.
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Work-o-holic !!!

This picture was taken by some random guy in Amsterdam airport last week. He said that he found it interesting when he saw our pal Abhi - working on his PC, using the trolley as a stand. Abhi is one of those, who would seize every opportunity to work wherever he is. In the picture, if you can see, he has actually moved to a place (close to a power socket), convenient to get his laptop some juice.

Shivaji

This movie is a delight to all Rajni fans indeed. The time when, ‘Shivaji - the Rajni fever’ crept in, much to my surprise, I realized that I was slowly hit by it. I’ll tell you how......At first, I was not all that excited to watch the movie, but when heard about this ‘oh-so-hyped’ movie in India, wanted to watch it. Well, discovered that the theatres in London, (Harrow, East Ham, Sudbury and others) were houseful. We had to wait for a week and managed to get 4 tickets in one of the theatres – VUE. Well, yes, Abhi (a great Rajni fan) as usual was all enthu and all prepared to make noise in the hall….. whistling, shouting, screaming….. rest of us (Harsha, Suhasini and me) were quite normal.

The movie kicks off pretty OK…... MMMM!!!! At the beginning, I was wondering how this man, the ‘SUPER STAR' at the age of 59, posed a hero, created styles afresh, set the trend?????????.......well couldn’t get the right answers though, but seriously, there is so much charm in him and the way he carries is damn cool. He is Phenomenal………Well, here u go, may be this is the catch!! Hmmmmmm...... enjoyed the movie - songs, 'punch lines', beats and the ambience. :)

The first half of the movie is good and of course, Vivek’s comedy rocks! At some point I was missing Vadi Vel’s comedy as well, but you know, too many cooks spoil the broth. Later on the movie connects to the typical Rajni sorts. Not to forget, the sets looks so glamorous, Rajni's make-up.....man!!!!!! pheeeeew!!! Shankar has spent a fortune on it ndeed. AR R has done a good job, but I felt that it was not up to his standards this time. Well of course he had to think about Rajni's dance steps and stuff, we dont expect Rajni doing break dance to ARR's beats here!!!!! A Total galata movie, good time pass.

Now, on the contrary, is it worth blowing up 1000s of Rs per ticket?????????? I ‘ve heard that in Chenai and a few theatres in B’lore, the ticket cost (in black) has shot up to 5K - 7K and people line up to go watch it……….this I think is beyond insanity. (Gosh! is there someone who can counsel these people???????).

Laughter – The best medicine!!!!

This joke struck my mind all of a sudden and can’t stop laughing, thinking about it.

My close friend X, very dear to me, can’t pronounce ‘ra’, and says ‘va’ instead. (She is 26, we pull her leg so much about it, but she is this bindaaas of the lot. Well, ’va’!!!!, but sounds hepp though….) She narrated this incident to me……

X went to a restaurant with her cousins, carrying a heavy shopping load
X and all others looking very sickly and tired, managed to get a place in the restaurant
Waiter - looking at X, as she was the one who looked like placing the order first, asked - “yen togolteera madam” (What do you prefer to have?? - in Kannada)
X exhausted and in a loud voice said“ Nange first NEEVU beku!!!!!” (Neevu is you in kannada). Now, she definitely meant NEERU (water), but you know pronunciation problem....
Waiter - !!@@##$$&&????? Shocked and then confused!
Cousins – NEEEERUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

Man! Imagine poor waiter’s confused mind........

Mangoes....yumm!

"Irresistable" is the word.

And another thing.....

A Birthday present for Princess Diana

The Spectacular Wembley stadium was packed with nearly 65,000 people on the 1st of July 2007, to mark the 46th birthday of Princess Diana. A live-aid style charity concert called ‘Concert for Diana’ was organized by her sons, Princes William and Harry. This concert featured artists Sir Elton John, Duran Duran, James Morrison and many more.

for more info, click here.

Well, a peek through the window from our house was quite an eye-catcher itself, as you know residing bang opposite to the stadium made us aware of the pomp and show. Also, during matches this place gets awfully noisy and crowded. So, now you’ll know the merits and the de-merits of staying soooo very close to the stadium!!!!! :)