July 2008-update

The red fire-truck which I call my bed...

While frantic negotiation for the nuclear deal is currently under way, closer home, Amma scored a diplomatic coup for me by convincing Appa to get me a fire-truck bed, the one which is painted red all over, and with the ladder & red light to boot. I am not supposed to know this, but apparently this truck-bed also has another pull-out bed. Needless to say, I love this bed, and I sleep in it regularly.

Strange-but-true!!

Amma gets some weird pleasure (as all mothers and sisters are wont to from time to time) in dressing me up in a saree and making me look like a girl..Wait till I grow a little bit older and put an end to this silly nonsense.

This dress can induce laughter sometimes!!The life of a gymnast - Expect a toddler to always figure out a way to play with whatever one has readily availableAt Sankranti restaurant - Me lapping up the curd-rice and Bhajin's war-stories

Did you know that Bhajin can eat a lion!! He said so himself. He was explaining this at Satya atthai's treat at Sankranti. While eating the absolutely delicious thair-sadam (curd-rice), I was thanking my stars that I am on Bhajin's good books. who knows what else he plans to have on his menu??
Jurong Lake Park - We fulfilled Appa's wish of going to the Jurong Lake Park

Q: Why do you climb a tree? A: Because It's There!!
Amma & Me
So these are the parts of tree
Manish bhaiyya & I
Other Updates:
The song of the month is ... poom poom from Partner.
My vocabulary has now picked up significantly. I can now convey ideas in sentences.
Over at MMI, I now have another friend, Randall. We play together a lot and he usually does what I do and vice-versa, including once sleeping on the floor which got Miss Rahimah's goat. And the consequences included being warned that I would be taken to Miss Usha's office.
I now have quite a few friends from the neighborhood, and we have a whale of a time every evening. These days they keep singing OSO (Om-Shanti-Om) and run after me and so I run after them too. After the usual playtime, I chat with Vaishnavi-akka from our balcony while having our respective dinners.
I also picked up a few new car logos like Chevy, Subaru.
My weekly rendezvous with the folks at My-Gym continues.

July 2008 update

The red fire-truck which I call my bed...

While frantic negotiation for the nuclear deal is currently under way, closer home, Amma scored a diplomatic coup for me by convincing Appa to get me a fire-truck bed, the one which is painted red all over, and with the ladder & red light to boot. I am not supposed to know this, but apparently this truck-bed also has another pull-out bed. Needless to say, I love this bed, and I sleep in it regularly.

Strange-but-true!!

Amma gets some weird pleasure (as all mothers and sisters are wont to from time to time) in dressing me up in a saree and making me look like a girl..Wait till I grow a little bit older and put an end to this silly nonsense.

This dress can induce laughter sometimes!!The life of a gymnast - Expect a toddler to always figure out a way to play with whatever one has readily availableAt Sankranti restaurant - Me lapping up the curd-rice and Bhajin's war-stories

Did you know that Bhajin can eat a lion!! He said so himself. He was explaining this at Satya atthai's treat at Sankranti. While eating the absolutely delicious thair-sadam (curd-rice), I was thanking my stars that I am on Bhajin's good books. who knows what else he plans to have on his menu??
Jurong Lake Park - We fulfilled Appa's wish of going to the Jurong Lake Park

Q: Why do you climb a tree? A: Because It's There!!
Amma & Me
So these are the parts of tree
Manish bhaiyya & I
Other Updates:
The song of the month is ... poom poom from Partner.
My vocabulary has now picked up significantly. I can now convey ideas in sentences.
Over at MMI, I now have another friend, Randall. We play together a lot and he usually does what I do and vice-versa, including once sleeping on the floor which got Miss Rahimah's goat. And the consequences included being warned that I would be taken to Miss Usha's office.
I now have quite a few friends from the neighborhood, and we have a whale of a time every evening. These days they keep singing OSO (Om-Shanti-Om) and run after me and so I run after them too. After the usual playtime, I chat with Vaishnavi-akka from our balcony while having our respective dinners.
I also picked up a few new car logos like Chevy, Subaru.
My weekly rendezvous with the folks at My-Gym continues.

April 2008 Update

Early in April, we had Amma's birthday dinner at Original Sin and Bhajin, Vidya atthai & Sathya atthai had joined us in singing the birthday song for Amma. You can't imagine how much fun I had, hopping from one chair to another. Bhajin is a rock star!!! He is my role model!!


One of the days, I decided to get on Amma's nerves. The way it happened was I hid in Appa's wardrobe and closed it. Amma was looking for me all over the house and after some time she started getting worried and then finally gave up. Then I decided to help her out by giving her a clue and started mewing like a cat. She then managed to find me and was mighty relieved finding me. She then did the motherly thing of explaining that it wasn't safe to do such things. Safety.. what's that? As it is I like opening Appa's wardrobe and sitting in it. Its anyone's guess whether I will be back playing hide & seek with Amma some other day.
Appa & Amma have got me enrolled into MMI (Modern Montessori International). I love going to cooool... Ssori at West Coast (Modern Montessori school at West Coast). I got my own pair of uniform, shoes, socks. I have this funny feeling I am going to be wearing these types of uniforms for a long time to come. At school, I now know all these new people.. Mis Soni, Randale, Colin, Shania. I managed to pick up these names in the first week itself. I talk a lot with Amma on what I did & what I ate and in general, what went on at school each day. I even told Amma "Om ollo gefriend Shania". Besides, Amma always takes out the diary from my bag and shows Appa what Miss Rahima has written each day.
I am now very busy whatwith MMI on weekdays and My Gym on Saturdays. I now also know the names of different flowers and can identify some of them. I do a lot of painting & crayoning at home.
My vocabulary is now officially bursting at its seams. Its been tough for amma to keep a track of the new words that I have picked up as they are too much and so there isn't an itemized list in this update and in the future.
I also love to try on Amma's sandals sometimes.


Will be back with an another update soon...

March 2008 update

Ever since I have come back from Oz-land, I have been bombarded with questions on what I have seen in Australia, did i see a kangaroo.. etc. I can happily tell everyone that i have seen

kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, seagulls, penguins, etc. I can also point out the Opera House if I am shown a picture.
I still remember Kumar-uncle saying good job and Priya-aunty with her Cheerios.

I now have a new bath song Patti-rap which Appa & I sing during my weekend bath sessions. Amma especially laughs at the line 'podumada sami enakku oru wife'...
Amma's schoolmate Shashank had come over to Singapore and I had a chance to meet up with him and I had a tough time trying to keep up with their conversation, and tried to muscle in on the conversation with my tantrums.
I have started going to "My Gym" on Saturdays. I love playing with all the items over there and also love the teachers there.

Bhajin had come over and I enjoyed going on walks with him and playing with him.
on the way to my gym
I overnight doubled or tripled my toy collection when Pranav bhaiya gave all his toys to me and now I am the proud owner of a Lightning Mcqueen car, a taxi, a fire-engine truck, a helicopter and other assorted stuff.
I now do everything with my transport toys. I play with them, sleep with them, eat with them and even tuck my toys under the pillow and on the side of the bed.
The tent-house is also up and I have all my stuff there too.
can u sit like this????

The other actvitity completed was that of my own car collage.

A new calendar year - January 2008 update

nice place to relax!!!
i like this silky shirt amma!!!


i like this saari of amma's

2008 started off for me with a visit to MacRitchie reservoir. Shanti-paati did show me a few turtles and made my day.
I now have a new cubical shape-sorter, and I can identify a few of the shapes and properly put them in through the box.

I also have a new Lego set.
Although its supposed to be mine, I am amused to find that Appa & Amma play with it more than I do, and Amma says we have to give it to Appa for cerativity.

appa made this PYRAMID!!My favorite song for this month is Omkara.. (Dhum dhum dhadam dhadiya re...) and I bang my drum with this song.
I also have mastered the Happy Happy song "If you are happy and you know it.. clap your hands.." with the headboard of our bed providing my stage. I have added "Hands up high... hands down low....hands at the back... " to my repertoire.
if you arre happy and you know it....say HURRAY
Appa recently cleared the cobwebs from his bicycle, and also took me on a round in it. Ever since I have taken a liking to it and I play with it especially with the chains, and pedals. Neeraj uncle had come over for a Singapore visit and he got me a nice little remote control car that somehow mysteriously vanished the same day... me thinks Amma is the culprit (I do remember her saying to Neeraj that I had dismantled my previous remote car in double quick time and so she would keep it away from me for awhile).

Amma points out that I am the one who notices any new pendant or earring that she's wearing.

Of all the words in this world, Angela is the one that brings a smile to my face and I meet her sometimes in the playarea, going around in her pram.

I wish Brian & Marcus, my neighbors regularly these days.. I also had a great football session with Brian on the corridor, one of these days.

Till now, its always been about me being called various nicknames by Amma, Appa and the rest. I decided to turn the tables on the world. When Manoj chithappa visited us on one of the weekends, I christened him 'Bhajin'. Amma & Appa tried mightily to correct me but i did not budge and persisted in calling him Bhajin. I am vindicated now that Appa & Amma have now resorted to calling Manoj Bhajin.

To sign off, I have been noticing Appa increasing his visits to the library. I have heard Appa and Amma discussing visiting Oz-land sometime soon... I wonder what this is all about!!! I have also gatecrashed into the club of people who have made atleast 1 collage in their life.

lets plan our trip appa!!!