Starting again

I did not post anything for almost 2 years now That really sucks . How can anything else be more important than capturing memories ? Shame on me.

Well, at least now, after quitting job and hiring a full time 9-6 employee to help me with house work, I shouldn’t have any excuses whatsoever. So this post is to begin blogging again .

I am hoping I will be able to justify the 9-6 recruitement to myself soon, Sunil doesn’t seem to have any issues, it’s only me. As he rightly points out, sari mussibat ki jad usually ladkiyan hoti hai. In our family it is always going to be me, me being the lone representative of lady jaat in the family. You can imagine after spending close to 13 years of being employed, now staying at home and hiring someone else to work for me seems really weird. I guess if it was anything to do with software engineering I probably wouldn’t have been in such confused state, but house work.. that too full time while I am at home just managing the lady …. seems really really weird. We will see how I am able to manage MANAGE the lady. It has been only 2 days, first day was really stressful for me, second was not so stressful,hoping the degree of stressfulness reduces overtime…

Beauty

They say that ‘Beauty is in beholder’s eyes’. There has been so much research done on beauty including that babies tend to stare more at beautiful pictures than not so smart ones. Aryan being weird combination of passion(from Sunil of course) and flirt(I am sure you have guessed it right) seem to have his own concept of beauty.

One day he came home telling me “I saw a pretty girl today in my school, I was following her to make her my friend. She looked so pretty Ma (with his eye glowing )
This was written on December 4th 2007, posting it now.

LV

Aryan has been nick named as LV (short form for Las Vegas) by his teachers. Since the day we returned from Las Vegas, he has been constantly talking about it in his class room

Mohit, Swati and Priyal joined us in Las Vegas from Seattle. Between constant fights for a crayon, for the same piece of coloring paper, for the same toy, we all had terrific time in the Casino city of US, lost 100 bucks, got too drunk (of course, only the adults and not kids), went to 3 shows, did a helicopter ride in the Canyon, in short a very wild vacation . It was good to meet them after 3 years.

Room number 16

Aryan recently had his Winter Program practice in front of room number 16’s audience. Looks like there are only 9 children in that classroom. Aryan seemed very worried about such a small classroom . He asked me and Sunil to write mail to the entire WORLD’s parents asking them to put their children in class room 16 of Stratford. World, are you listening ?

Dragon is FIVE

Aug 12th 2007 , Aryan turned Five. He had been waiting for his birthday. Now even after 10 days, he is still celebrating it with party on 18th at Chuck e Cheese, gifts coming in mail from his beloved Ravi Uncle and Jyoti Aunty (this has never happened for me, lucky him ) and friends and family still calling and wishing him.

In this last year, my Dragon has started reading, riding bike without training wheels, eating proper Indian food and so much more. We moved from NJ to CA, drove 2910 miles across country. Coming to CA is like my dream come true where weather is pleasant, I enjoy my job, we have got nice neighbors and Aryan lots of friends to play with. Not to mention all of us love the townhome we are renting. The biggest thing for us we all are together again after almost 11 months and I think we all have understood importance of each other. I can’t believe it that I have started enjoying cooking too, which I used to loath. One more thing, my parents and Sunil both have started liking each other yaaaaaaaaaahooooooo. I am really thankful to the entire 2006 – 2007 for maturity it has brought me .

Here are some of the memories of last year :

Zuly is One !!!

I am happy to announce that my dear Zuly is one year old , yahhooooooo. Aryan helped me name her when we brought her home.

Here is her photo

I always thought I wasn’t materialistic, but with Zuly, my beloved car, it’s different.

Swimming

Aryan and Sunil both signed for 10 week swimming classes today. Sunil seems to be more tensed about it than Aryan, who is sure that he is going to learn before his papa. Aryan had gone to his first swimming classes when he was only 6 months old. Will keep posted about their progress …

Father’s day

I am kind of late in posting this one, although I did write it on June 17th, so not changing the contents

Today is Father’s day, I wish you all the fathers a very Happy Enjoyable Day ! Shouldn’t there be “Happy Parents day” instead of “Happy Mother’s or Father’s day” as there won’t be a father without a mother and vice versa.

Anyways, in our world we celebrate Mother’s as well as Father’s day as parents day , mostly by black mailing Aryan, having him to do what he usually doesn’t do like eating yellow part of the boiled egg . Sunil is better at black mailing than I am Today he was successful in getting Aryan to eat yellow part, which I hadn’t been able to achieve in one entire year Sunil takes pride in such things by saying “I am good people manager, maine tere Ma ko sudhara to aap kya chiz ho ? ” to Aryan, grrrrrrrrrr…

Aryan is so sweet he has agreed to spend 10 $ from his pocket money on his papa and rest on mine

I want to be big …

says Aryan these days as he thinks “It’s not required to do studies when you grow big like mamma and papa”. Sunil used to think the same when he was a young child Only we know what it is to be like an adult and be in IT where you need to keep learning all the time . I am so jealous of our parent generation most of whom had routine jobs. Most of today’s generation, especially in IT, are in rat race (although some don’t like to agree), trying to be so competitive that we have lost enjoying day to day life. Usually postponing the enjoyment to weekend, which is spent in doing house chores (especially in US). Although most of us have more money than our older generation, we are still running after it. Is it the fear of being left behind in the “Global” world? I agree that “Jamane ke sath chalana chahiye nahi to wahi ke wahi tham jaoge”, but I guess one should be cautious of the stream that he/she chooses to flow with. I wish I get out of the rat race, will keep you updated about my progress ….

Boy’s tailor

I want to be a “Boy’s Tailor” said Aryan to Sunil, reason being he could stitch shirts, as many as he like, for himself