My Lost Earring

I was stepping inside the bus to get dropped to Central London office and noticed my left earring was missing. I remember I had both early this morning while while checking at the car mirror. The bus was ready to leave in another 2 minutes and had no time to look for the missing one. It was the longest ever earring I have worn so far that I got for myself from the Italy trip.
I did not want to remove the other one and covered my ears with my short hair. After reaching Central London office, I went straight off to a meeting. A weird idea came to my mind. Why don’t I remain all day with one ear ring and see if anyone notices!
Minutes passed Hours passed. Meeting after meeting and not a single soul noticed my missing earring. What’s really going around with my colleagues? Haan?? People don’t notice me? Don’t they really care what I wear?
I returned to my base office with a sunken heart and learnt that a friend of mine had found the missing pair near my desk. While collecting it from her, the news spread around the ladies friends at work. One of them commented ‘You were just promoting Angelina Jolie’s style at work’ and showed me Angie’s picture at Benjamin Button Premiere with One earring!

May be I’m convinced now :-)

AVATAR - An unbelievable experience

Just returned home after watching AVATAR at the wimbledon IMAX theatre. Wanted to share my experience when they are still fresh in my mind ..sorry heart. Remembering Dr.Grace's (Sigourney Weaver) advice to Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) to videotape his feelings when they are still green! I just chose to see a movie this weekend for no good reason - plenty of free time since my family moved back to India with 4 straight days of christmas holidays.

I dont want to narrate the story and want the person who is reading this to experience the movie in his/her own style. I do like fairy tales but honestly not a great fan of Harry Porter, Lord of the Rings or Narnia. The first version of all these movies fascinated me for various techniques but I was not really carried away by any. They were just movies like a passing cloud. Today, it was a different experience.

Along with Jake Sully the director makes everyone in the theatre enter the world of Pandora and be one among the Na'vis. Every tiny creature in the Pandora world is bond with love and striving for the survival of their mother nature. If Beauty lies in the beholder's eyes, Neytiri is the most beautiful lady I ever saw. The truth and the vigour in her eyes bonds us with her magical world. I could never call it a fictitious movie : The concept of Incarnation, portrayal of 'the Navi's' with the expressive yellow eyes, creation of the Avatars with blue bodies, bow and arrow and a tilak on fore head (I found it only for Jake) was unbelievingly impressive. After my 2.30 hr bonding with the movie, neither the cutting edge technologies nor the big budget mattered to me.

All that mattered was 'We killed our Mother earth' and my thirst for the green world begins...

Counting Made Easy

Can anything be more fun than observing a toddler's development. I once read it on baby center that a toddler's brain is like a sponge. Absorbs as much as it could. It is really exciting to see my lil one come up with ideas as a outcome of various things he hear, look and feel.

Last evening he was scribbling (bite me !!! Actually painting) with his pen and brush and started drawing circles. He came to me and said "Mommy … I drew London eye" !!! Gr8 ! Good observation I encouraged (we took him to London eye last weekend)

Then he drew zig zag lines vertically and said " Mommy this is steps" and started walking on the drawing sheet .. hahhaha …"Funny" , I said.

Understanding he is at his best mood I said 'Let me teach you to write 'A' and said, 'Down to up and up to down …and then a line in the middle'. He liked the rhyme and dint get the writing well. I dint push and said "ok , keep trying!"

Then he wrote number '1' and yelled "I wrote 1". That's great and asked him to write number '2'. After thinking for a less than a second he wrote another 1 and said '1 1 Mommy ..it's 2' CHEATTTTTTTT … couldn't control my laugh. When I told this to my fren she said
'Probably he is learning Roman first'
You never know what is in that teeny tiny brain. Don't you??

Flawless Planning

It's been almost 3 weeks since we went out anywhere ..probably couple of visits to grocery shops, hospital and day care. Saahas was really upset about this and we knew it! We are avoiding the mall play area due to his wheezing and last week's illness. This morning he was too cranky and all I heard was 'NO' for everything ....I was completely exhausted by noon and my hubby suggested to take him to the library. the lil one over heard our conversation and from then was too good, did whatever I said. I felt he is really ready to get out! It takes twice the time to get ready in winter with extra layered clothes, mittens, jackets, scarf and a cap. Dressing up a hyper kid took me thrice the usual time. When I was abt to leave the door "Mommy Poo Poo " Alright ........ change diaper ... repeat the process ...get to the door... walk to the car.. start to drive in a heap of snow. Exactly after 1 min I turn and ask ' what are u planning to do in library?' I hear nothing ... hello ....nothing ... then I hear a snore .... my god ....pls dun sleep ... No response ..snoring even more louder ....my mind thot in 100 angles, made a U turn, went back to the garage thinking I will put him in bed and get back to my exam prep (really lagging behind so much). the lil slept on my shoulders and I felt I made the perfect decision of coming back. The put him in the bed , got changed and took a sip of water ...I heard him in the bedroom ...just peeped in and said ' Sleep baby' ... Godddd he was sooooo angry with lots of tears "LIBRARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" he dint stop ..I told him what happened ... he stopped crying , listened till I finished and said "LIBRARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" I want to go to LIBRARY
It took me hours to convince and atlast cailou(DVD) helped me calm him. I used to get paid for planning projects worth millions and I was laughing in my head. The DVD effect started fading slowly and I heard the same song again ...... pls gimme a break :-(((
I managed till swaroop returned, we had early dinner and started to library (same mittens,jacket blah blah blah ...) he slept in the car .........grhhhhhh Is this some kinda joke ? He was sleeping all the way, dint realize we were in library ...I decided to get some reading and chose a calm place.. The lil one snored so heavily lying in the stroller..few heads kept turning towards me. Poor baby, his nostrils are still blocked. Embarrased I gave up my reading and went to the kids area and waited for him to awake ...He woke up after 40 mins. Good! I let him pick the books and read him 5 stories. It was 9 the lights were off ... he still wanted to read ....I promised I will take him again . He said ' I will not sleep' ! That was unexpected and funny ....and made me forget all the trouble he gave me!

Lessons Learned: If you promise something, do it no matter what it takes! He is not a kid anymore to distract him with a lil sticker and change topics.

Hello

Having been on the consulting world for the past 8 years, i had really crossed bunch of milestones!
getting promoted @ work, found a best friend as my better half, made new friends @ work, lost bunch of college friends and now a MOM of my cute lil tot!

Hmm...Fun,Frustation,anger,happiness,hatred......life is really a roller coaster of different feelings! Especially the last 2 yrs playing a role of a soccer mom kept me busy busy busy! Zillions of funny,crazy ideas pass through my mind every day and really want to vent it out ... which I did to some extent,to my poor husband and handful of good frenz (rather love to call them my buddy listeners).
It's rare to find swaroop @ home these days since he spends most of his free time @ the local library preparing for his exams. Saahas is one of the busy bee after his day care and don't want to bother him either....especially after he became the BAD SHARK watching shark tales... keeps running with a purple clip ...ouch it hurts my back ...there he is...... 'Mommy I'm biting you' . the purple clip will be stuck to my skin!
Now that I'm on a BREAK (ofcourse from work!) and encouraged by one of my active blogger fren (Sanban) I decided to sit down today to inaugrate my thots!
Let me see how far I can go with this!
I really dunno the blog etiquettes. If I'm going off track .......SHOUTTTTTTT!