Rain musings

That is tanglish. Sanja is in the middle oflearning many english words and she is trying make them appear more tamil but saying them in the way we pronounce the tamil words. A sample Amma,  I sing pattu, but R ( her class mate) always singamata as is to say  - I sing but R doesnt sing. We say in tamil- ava pada mata to mean she doesnt sing so she just substituted the pada with sing :P And as a baby she never said I , me , mine , she used to say naaku, naandu . Some other words that she used to say - ava kamballala meaning ava kelambarala (are they starting). And so these words have stuck to us. We have started using them in our daily talks having words of our own. Looking out for more of these kinds from her.

It has been a hectic weekend this Sat / Sun. Am left with a bodyache and reddened eyes . saturday morning we were off very early to an eye hospital for Sanja 's eye checkup. We had our breakfast at the hospital and since the check up got over by 9:30Am ,S suggested we take a peak at the Landmark sale. so off we went to nungambakkam land mark and waiting for half hour for the shop to open.. Sanja had a gr8 time looing at so many books. She was totally in awe with so many books around. we chose some books for us and 3 barbie stories (horse rider , zoo vet and ballerina) for her. we picked up some earrings from estelle and it was noon. We decided to have our lunch out at Pizza hut , Sanja stuck to her routine affair with garlic bread and we both had the heart shaped pizza. Came back at 2pm and were in dreamland till 5pm. Then went off again to some vegetable shopping. Cooked dinner and read some novel late into the night. Sunday we woke up at 8am and had our breakfast by 9:30. Cle

Happened on feb 2nd . So S, Sanja and myself  took our Duro for the ride till her school that is almost 12km from home taking a highway and beatuiful scenary of the air force training cetree on one side and small lake on the other side. As usual ,anythingto do with school, starts by visiting the awesome temple they have inhouse. Then we were shuttled to the play area where Sanja played played and played. She is addicted to the slides there . She introduced us to couple of her friends there.  Then we took a walk to the swimming pool area where Sanja showed us the safety tubes that they use. They also have some rubber made small cutting / shapes that are they play with to make patterns in water. Then we went to the environment (class room) building. Sanja studies is sec E2 , one ofteachers asked usto go to E24, Sanja was hesistant to go anywhere but her class her aunty. They then told she has to show what all she jhas learnt in in that specified classroom and then meet her aunty. S

conversation between my colleague say B and myself while having tea at office Me: What do you do on weekends. B: I take much needed rest. What about you? Me: I do grocery shopping and plan something to do with my kid. B: **shocked** - You have a baby ? How old Me: Oh she is 4 .5 years old B : **shocked again** : Such a big gal. I thought you were recentl married .. Me: thinking- do i actually look that young  (he he he ..) it has happened many times now, people cant believe I am a mom to a 4. years old daughter.

Happy anniversary to Appa and Amma as they complete 30 years of wedded life and 35+ years of knowing one another . Appa ,amma decided to visit the temple at Thiruneermalai where they got married. It has become a tradition like to visit this temple on their anniversary day (since they celebrated 25th year ). 30 years of  togetherness through the highs and lows of life.  To have had a love marriage in the 1982, to playing host many a friends get together, bringing up a daughter, maintaining relationship with double the extended families, and now spending their life together fighting like kinder garden kids, they have seen it all. :) The enthusiam to celebrate their anniversary has never left them :P **TOUCH WOOD** may they stay like this for ever S ,sanja and myself joined them for a lunch out. Edited To add:  S 's aunt and uncle from his mother side celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on same day. Wishes to them as well.