am wishing for a star ...

It has been a while since I wrote on the blog .... no excuses ... have been thinking about a lot of things ... christmas in dallas.... bujji's experiences in school .... questions that sudhanv a has started asking ..... our trip back home ....... our school in hukunda and an appeal about it ..... etc ....

Will sit on these tommorrow ...

For today it is going to be '3 idiots' ..:)

Amma ......

The modern Mother's Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis as a day for each family to honor its mother,[1] and it's now celebrated on various days in many places around the world.

Sandhya (my wife) was telling me yesterday in a different context that we tend to always forget thanking the woman at home (mother, wife, sister) for all that they do.

Tomorrow is mother's day and I just started thinking today as to how many times have I told amma that I liked what she cooked for me on a given day; many a day's she has waited till mid-night for me to get back home after I have met and spent an entire day with my friends - just to ask me if I have had my dinner and then go to sleep (we did not have mobile then) ....; may a days' she has made me breakfast or lunch even when SHE was sick and did not even let me know that she was infact sick and cud not manage being in the kitchen ...... always cooks what me or my DAD likes rather then what SHE likes :(((

My first teacher at home before my schooling ...and she was the first teacher with my wife to my daughter Spruhaa when she was born.

She is not keeping well for sometime now but does not let out anything about her ailment whenever I get to speak to her on the phone. Having known her for all of my life, I can make out from her voice as to how she is doing ..... ofcourse, bits 'n pieces of her instincts have rubbed off on me too .......

(Forget all these discussions about why a mother's day at all ..) I just want to let her know that I love her a lot and I wish her the best of health and happiness and pray to god to always give me the strength, wisdom, willingness and resources to always keep her happy ! .....

Love you, amma :-)

Choose your friends wisely !!

A month ago, spruhaa (my daughter) had an incident at her school. She is in her UKG and had joined hands with another classmate of hers and were troubling a third girl in a very ackward way .... This girl who is being troubled is a special child in the sense that this child is very shy, still does not know to communicate well with others and supposedly is suffering from a very high inferiority complex :(((

Spruhaa's teacher in class it seems was watching Spruhaa all thru this episode and finally called Spruhaa, warned her of mis-behavior and sent her out of the class for 5 minutes ....

Spruhaa's teacher narrated the entire incident to me when I went to pick up spruhaa from school that day and told me that she was surprised to see Spruhaa act like the way she did with the other girl !! :(( (For people who dont know spruhaa, she is a very emotional, considerate and a very reasonable girl who is also very sensitive to other people around her) Even I was surprised to hear that Spruhaa did behave that way :((

One thing that Spruhaa's teacher said at the end of our conversation stayed with me and will stay with me & in me all thru my life. It was like that punchline from an ad or a rajnikanth movie !! She said, 'Spruhaa, in life always learn to choose your friends wisely' !!

It is not that this statement is something new to me or anyone or that we have never heard of it. It hit me really hard coz' it was said to my daughter in front of me in a certain context. Also, I dont know if Spruhaa understood the inherent meaning of that statement!!

I did not scold spruhaa that day or any other day for that matter, but I continue to think about that statement 'atleast once every day' ... and keep wondering that it is soooo very important in life ......

I think choosing the 'right' friends will give the kid that kinda of positive vibrations, thoughts, ideas, avenues, opportunities, exposure that otherwise will be lacking ....

Having said that, I also start thinking about the '6 honest serving men' (the how, when, where, who, what and why's ) ... how do I choose the 'right' friends, who helped me do that ... does the onus again falls back on the parents ................. not sure :(((

HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!