Rendezvous with Su

Foundation! Foundation is important, my mother used to tell every parent. The way the child is taught as a kid makes or breaks the kid's higher education. I too believe in this philosophy and have become a hands on mom as Su started class 1. After one and half months (and only 1.5 months), I am not sure if I teach Su or if she teaches me. Here are a few instances and you can let me know...

Learning numbers (Greater or Smaller)

After try to get her to understand the numbers that are greater or smaller, this was my final attempt
Me: If there are 5 chocolates in a bowl and there are 3 Chocolates in another one, which bowl would you choose? 
Su: None
Me: why? (Agitated)
Su: Doctor has asked me not to eat chocolates. 

True.. She has been advised by the doc to eat as less chocolates as possible for her constipation problem.

Me: If you now don't tell me the right answer, I will beat you. Do you want 9 hits or 5 hits? Which is lesser? 
Su: Zero 
Me: What!!!!!!!
Su: I don't want you to beat me at all!!!



Learning numbers (Before and After)

Me: Su read - What comes between 4 and 6? 
Su: hmmm, hmmm hmmmm (her pencil on the face, head, mouth, etc and the answer comes out) AND!!!!!!

Me: ______ (dash) comes before 7
Su:..... hmm hmmm DASH!!!!!



Learning numbers (Counting, Addition)
Su can count 6 fingers in one hand.

Me: 9+0 = ?
Su: 9
Me: 0+9 =? 
Su: 0 in the mind, 9 in the fingers, after 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (on her fingers) = 9



Learning Spelling

Me: Write... Your grandfather's name is .........(Vasudev)
Su: Vasuthev


Learning EVS

Me: I am your father's daughter, who am I?
Su: Me

Me: I am your father's son, who am I?
Su: me
Me: How Su? 
Su: Papa keeps saying that I am his daughter and also his son!!!!!!!!!

Me: I am your mother's brother, who am I?
Su: You can't ask me such questions, you don't have a brother!!!!!! 

Me: I am a bird, I have feathers, my young ones are called Chicks. Who am I?
Su: mamma Chick


Learning Kannada


Me: Fill in the blanks. ಆರ__   (ಸ, ಗಿ, ನ )
Su (Writes): ಆರ sa

Me: Match the following pictures to their names
Su read most of them but one was pending. I told her to read that as well. She tried her best. she couldn't get it.
Su: (at last) Crab.What do u call it in Kannada amma?  
I then, knew that she was reading based on the pictures.. like ಅಂಗಿ, ಎಲೆ, ಊಟ, etc.

Happy reading!!

9th Anniversary!!!

As many lives of a cat
As many spaces in a tic tac toe
As many saves due to a stitch
That many years of share and care
That many years of love beyond compare
That many years we've been a pair
Happy 9th Anniversary dear!!!

Dance at Mickey's 5th bday Party

Just posting the video.. I am due a lot of posts.. I know.. Will post sometime..


Here is the Video

Funny English Name of Places in Karnataka

Need a good party game for elders and the young adult? Don’t have the time to prepare. Here is a game that has been a hit in all parties where I know it was played. Funny English names of Indian Places. Hand out a list of Place names translated in English. All participants have to identify the actual place name from the translated meaning. Let me explain with an example, Win Town is the translation. If the participant identifies this as Jayanagar, then he gets a point. It’s an easy game once you know the place names. But until then, it’s a brain tickler.

In a party in Bangalore, where the participants could relate to Kannada more than Hindi, it was a tough task to find English translations for the places in Karnataka. So I came up with this list of places in Karnataka that I have translated to English. Play this game and check it out for yourself the enthusiasm of people in the party.

  

1.      New Fort                                Hoskote/Hosdurga

2.      Answer Village                      Uttarahalli

3.      Young Daughter’s Town       Chickmagalur

4.      Monday Market                    Somvarpet

5.      Queen’s Lake                        Arsikere          

6.      Medicine Town                     Maddur                      

7.      New Town                             Hosnagar/Hospet

8.      Sparrow                                 Gubbi

9.      Hunting Town                       Shikaripura

10.  Almondy                                 Badami

11.  Elephant Stone                       Anekal

12.  New Market                           Hospet

13.  Picture Fort                            Chitradurga

14.  Ripe Shop                               Belthangadi

15.  God’s Village                          Devanahalli

16.  Queen’s Back Town               Ranibennur

17.  Seed Town                              Bijapur

18.  Holy Water Village                 Thirthahalli

19.  Bead Share                              Manipal

20.  Door Fort                                 Bagalkote

For Funny English names of Indian Places, refer to site, http://www.citehr.com/415967-funny-meanings-places-english.html

or find it here

Indian Cities (Hindi Meaning)

1.      Ear Town                       Nagpur

2.      Water is Under            Jalandar

3.      Mr. City                         Shrinagar

4.      Unmarried girl             KanyaKumari

5.      Make Juice                   Banaras

6.      Green door                   Haridwar

7.      Face                               Surat

8.      Saint Hair                      Rishikesh

9.      Snake City                     Nagpur

10.     Rhythm of Eyes          Naynital

Indian States (Hindi Meaning)

1.      Great Country              Maharashtra

2.      Do Drama                     Karnataka

3.      Answer Place                Uttar Pradesh

4.      King’s Place                  Rajasthan

5.      Come Evening              Assam

Have fun playing this game!!!!!

May 16th this year

Have been wanting to write this for about 15 days now. Thought better late than never!!!! :)

For all of you who did not know, I joined my current company on May 16th. So on this day, this year, I complete 7 years of my stint with the current company. That's out of the scope of this post.  Coming back to the topic, what did I do for Shri's 33rd Bday????

The research began about 3 weeks before his bday. The internet gave ideas like 

a) Give him a B'day card written in 33 languages

b) Give him love coupons

c) Do a party with 33 people

d) Make him feel like a kid and have a kid's party. (One of these years when I really can't bare his monkey business anymore, I may do this. Everyone who know him will know why)

e) Any regular gift would not be sufficient, would it?? 

I couldn't decide what to do. Then, I got so busy with .. you know what.... for a change.. work.
Then there was the chicken Pox. And on Monday, a week after we had been to the Sunday Soul Santhe and 2 days before Shri's Birthday, it struck to me that I had not planned anything. Then, I called up Ms. P from 'The little things - gifts' whom I had met at Soul Santhe. She promised me that she would deliver 'Customized Love Coupons' on the 15th if I could collect it from her.

I have to write about everything I have had to go through to get a gift that was different what I gave him previously. 15th evening was very cloudy so I decided to take an Auto to go to Ms P's house and it started raining. I have never been out in such heavy rains in an auto. Call it my luck, the driver's luck or the auto's luck, we just missed a falling tree. I could feel a few leaves touch my legs. :) The pedestrians were screaming 'You are lucky'. It took me a while to come out of that shock. I was completely wet by the time I reached Ms. P's house. My heartfelt gratitude to Ms. P and her mother who invited me to their house, mind you I had chicken pox, and served me hot coffee and also forced me to change my clothes.

Coming back to the gifts, I got the love coupons very well gift wrapped by Ms. P. Shri being Shri I didn't know what his reaction would be. So to be on the safer side, I bought a cake, T Shirt and a Bermuda shorts for the Chaddi Chikka. I really don't know if he liked it as there was no reaction from him at all.  

 

Anyways, here are a few pictures from the day!!!!! 

 

Chaddi chikka in his new clothes that were both one size smaller.  :(

Anyways, here is a sneak peak into the Customized love coupons which I think Shri liked. There were about 10 coupons and here are a few. 

 

With Love to Shri!!!

 

The picture is of him and his boys together. On the farthest left is Shri!!

Difficult one for me!!!!

It says, one instance of Public Embarrassment will be bypassed without any complains. Everyone who knows Shri would know the significance.

Exclusive use of remote for one night!!! I want one of these coupons too!!!

 

 

 

Signing off now, I have to start writing about something else now. :)