Happy Birthday to Me

The previous evening the kids presented me with a host of recycled gifts wrapped in recycled wrapping paper, which was amazingly sweet.

And Deepa baked me a most delicious Chocolate Almond cake.

Happy Birthday Kevin !

Chikki Fan

We may have found the reason why the Chikki kept vanishing a couple of segments every night....Caught on Camera for the first time ! 

Bogaram Camping Nov 2010

Bogaram is about 20 Km from Cherlapally, where we spent a night camping with friends.

Great fun out in the night sky, the sounds of the frogs from the nearby lake, and the curious villagers in the morning.

Chicken Cafreal reheated on an open Campfire flame and morning chai....great time.

Putting Practise

Early morning at the Army Golf Course in Bolarum.

I practise my swing with the 9 Iron, while Armaan Putts.

The Goa Trip Oct 2010

About Amit Shah

Interesting aspect of human social behaviour.
You can get away with pretty much anything, if you have a large enough number of people to share the same belief as you.

EXAMPLE :
Various Christian groups around the world espousing and talking to angels and saints etc, who they believe to be around them. Since large groups believe this nobody dares question the sanity or the truth of this.

But if one single person [ you for example ], were to stand in a public place and claim that you can actually "see" one of these heavenly persons, you'd pretty much get locked away by the men in white coats. Why ? Because its only one person [ you ] who believes this.

So, TRUTH is true only as long as it is the belief held by a majority.

CUT TO GUJARAT -->
Our great political puppets, the CBI want to arrest AMIT SHAH the Home Minister for giving tacit approval to the Gujarat Police, in what is being termed a Fake encounter to kill some guy called SOHRABUDDIN SHEIKH.

3 important facts to consider here :
1) The Home Minster is responsible for the law and order as well as safety of the citizens against bad guys.
2) SOHRABUDDIN was a known criminal with a record of extortion etc; and some say even terror links.
3) The CBI is controlled by the centre [ read Congress ] while Gujarat is run by the BJP. [ Sounds familiar ? Yes, I thought so…. ]

Now our problem with the BELIEF SYSTEM lies here :
The Civil Rights activists & the CBI believe that our Police force should operate within the bounds of the law, which actually ends up making our country vulnerable to attacks. Especially since the bad guys don’t follow the same rules. They can pretty much blow up Bombay like AJMAL KASAB, who after 2 years gets tried, convicted, sentenced to hang by the Supreme Court and he has the cheek to STILL APPEAL !!

** Incredulous **

Now, on the other hand, our custodians of safety, the Police Force, believes Sohrabuddin is a bad guy deserving of death.

But perhaps, constrained as they are, they bump him off in an "encounter", as they know the judicial system will not deliver justice.

Now let me think….. Hmm…. Good guys bump off known bad guy…. this is a tough one ......

*ding!*

…...I know what we should do !!.... Lets arrest the good guy and somehow make him the bad guy !!

Lets get Amnesty International & other human rights groups and the media involved, lets put some spin on it. And lets raise divergent issues and lets make accusations and lets cast a doubt on what Amit Shah's motives may have been.

Soon the uninformed and mentally lazy public will all believe what we tell them and then we will reverse the imbalance between who believes who is a bad guy and who is good. [ "It must be true, I saw it on TV. Or It must be true I read it in the newspaper." ]

Wait, better still, lets make it out to be like he was the perpetrator and the real criminal was actually the victim. Yes, I think that’s what we'll do.

Deepa's Birthday

Happy Birthday my Darling wife  !

Armaan's First Shave

Lathered up with Shaving cream and brush, and shaving with a Razor handle sans blade (ofcourse).

Birthday Boy at the Cake Shop

We went to pick up Armaan's 6th Birthday cake for the party that evening, and he jumped into the newly installed play pen.

Happy Birthday my Darling Son ! May you always have opportunities for fun wherever you go....

Learn Chinese in 5 minutes

That's not right = Sum Ting Wong

Are you harboring a fugitive? = Hu Yu Hai Ding?

See me ASAP = Kum Hia Nao

Stupid Man = Dum Gai

Small Horse = Tai Ni Po Ni

Did you go to the beach? = Wai Yu So Tan?

I bumped into a coffee table = Ai Bang Mai Ni

I think you need a face lift = Chin Tu Fat

It's very dark in here = Wai So Dim?

I thought you were on a diet = Wai Yu Mun Ching?

This is a tow away zone = No Pah King

Our meeting is scheduled for next week = Wai Yu Kum Nao?

Staying out of sight = Lei Ying Lo

He's cleaning his automobile = Wa Shing Ka

Your body odor is offensive = Yu Stin Ki Pu
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School Re-Opens after Summer Break

Alisha in House colours AKASH Blue, and Armaan in PRITHVI Green.
Waiting for the school bus in the morning.

Good Grades = Titanic Ice Cream !

Well done my cubs !

ODE TO MY TORCH - By Kevin Green

.

As you lay, upon the shelf
'Twas then that I first knew
That I must soon possess you
In shiny Red NOT Blue.

Your curvy frame
and sturdy grip
To me they were quite plain.
For what I loved
about you most
Was not second but MAIN.

The way you blinked
Once ON then OFF
It took away my breath
Your tiny bulb and shiny face
Will haunt me till my death.

We left the store
just you and I
and couldn't wait till night
As soon as we got home that eve
I switched off all the lights.

With trembling hand 
I held you up
And softly clicked your switch
But not a gleam or beam you gave
You naughty little bitch !!

Cuckoo Clock Installed

They got this as a gift from their cousins Shiv & Rishi in Delhi and had just installed it in their room after much discussion on which wall, height etc.

It was fun till 10pm at night, then drove us all nuts.... I disabled the cuckoo the next morning.

Alisha Reads to Armaan

I feel simultaneously happy, touched & proud. My cubs.

[ Afternoon siesta a/c switched on, peak Hyderabad summer, cuddled up in a cover and reading. ]

First Day of School

New class, new uniform, new friends to be made, new teachers.... everything is new, fresh & exciting !

A Different Kind of Saloon

5th Avenue, Sainikpuri, Hyderabad.

Assorted - Hyderabad

Streets of Hyd - 05 July 2009

Restaurant Name : Live 2 Eat @ Dhaba.Com 
06 Sep 2009 , Sainikpuri, Hyd.

Name : Ding Dong Supermarket 
06 Sep 2009 , Sainikpuri, Hyd.