Taare Zameen Par

Taare zameen par?

So you have done your due diligence by watching your diet, working out for hours and finally when the weekend comes, you are ready for that party. You put on your favourite dress , ie: dress that doesn't reveal how fat you are, and step out of the house feeling quite happy about yourself until....

....Until a teenage kid in the party calls you aunty because he learns that you are married.. Disastrous!!Excruciating !! No didi, no nothing but straight on aunty. Yeah, that was my first heartbreak after turning 25 just two weeks back. I am getting to understand how Pooja Aunty from the Hum Paanch used to feel..LOL Usually I don't mind when kids call me 'that', because I think that irrespective of my marital status, my age difference with them remains the same and that it is okay for them to call me whatever they want...but a teenager calling me aunty? That is serious! It is funny how, to everybody that I have known before I got married, I am a didi/baaji/akka/khaalaa and to the tiny tots that I have known after I got married, I am aunty...Guess I will be a dadi ma once I have kids? LOL

My disappointment quickly evaporated when I saw him and bunch of others gobbling up the cookies that I baked for them. After all, it is those "taareins" that bring the out of the world experience in our lives, at times by reminding us what pure, unadulterated joy is like. I have not known these kids for very long, but they truly are delightful. Some of them are the first ones to call me bhabhi and I think, to hear a 8 year old with the braces still on,hug you and call you bhabhi, is the sweetest way anyone can address you ever...it is almost like 'meethi chhoori'..This whole Aunty/Didi thing knocks off when you see the child behind that face..Reminds me of something I recently came across..

duniya mein bachon ko bachein hi rehne diya jaay,
duniya mein bachon ko bachein hi rehne diya jaay,
ae khuda,aakhir iss duniya mein kuch to accha rehne diya jaay...

Later!

Training school for husbands

no the enrollment has not started yet. I just conceived the idea! It so happened that I was hungry and had just wrapped up my kitchen. I asked my better half to conjure up something. My humble suggestion was to make a chikoo shake. But since he has not attended Cooking 101, I made it myself. So I told him that I am thinking of starting a training academy for to-be-husbands or even for the ones on duty. To this he suggests getting annual contracts signed because most likely the wives will sign up for their guys and the guys would just as most likely not show up....Audacity I must say! Guess somebody will be spending the night on the couch :) Goodnite!

Pehli Pehli Post

So it is Saturday evening. Hubby is working on his MBA application and I am contemplating among the myriad of things that are waiting to be done. One of which is starting a blog. I had been thinking of starting a blog, mainly about concoctions from my kitchen and the seemingly incessant travelling that I have been doing ever since I got married! and hey, I finally got around writing my first entry today! Let us see aage aage kya hota hai....later! Cheers!