Caterpillar on the tree

Caterpillar on the tree,
Wonder, why can't I see?
The beautiful butterfly that you'll be;
My whole world is on a judging spree!


Whose story is it anyway? Caterpillar,  me, or the judgemental world?

Dark or Light

One day Su came home stating that no one of her friends really like her. Reason:  They don't want her be friends with gals who are of the darker complexion.
Su: "What if she is dark, Amma, she is so beautiful. Why should I not keep my lunch bag with hers?, Why can't I talk to her?, etc."
On probing more she started weeping. She said “No one loves me, Amma. All my friends are her my friends because I am fair.”

Dark Outside; Darker Inside?
Light Outside; Brighter Inside? 

Beautiful Mind; Beautiful Queries 4

1.       Why are Windmills not rotating?
2.       Why are Carrots so hard?
3.       So, are onions are also hard, they are roots too?
4.       Why do bees live in hive?
5.       Why does earth rotate around sun?
6.       Why does everyone like everybody
7.       Why does it tear when you cry?
8.       How much hair does a human have
9.       How does Google know answers?
10.   How does a mobile ring?
11.   Why do we get hiccups?
12.   Why don’t we get hurt on ur nails?
13.   Why don’t we turn though the earth rotate?
14.   Why should we blink?
15.   Why should we breathe?
16.   Why should we not die?
17.   Why do we need a house?
18.   Why do we write tulu in Kannada?
19.   How does the fog form inside the car
20.   Why are school buses yellow
21.   Why shouldn't we eat while we sleep
22.   Why does hair have roots
23.   Why doesn't water have color
24.   How does cartoon work? Drawing versus
25.   Why does the skin get dry
26.   Why doesn't Santa come to Bangalore
27.   Why is bheema fat
28.   Why is bheema not alive
29.   I don't want to die. Why do ppl die
30.   Why don't Gods die
31.   Why can't we hold water in our hands.. Why does it flow away
32.   Why do we like our mom
33.   Why do moms love  their children more than the children love their mom
34.   Why is a collection of fish called fish and not fishes
35.   Why do we have to follow queue
36.   Why does the ear block while we go down the hill
37.   Why doesnt it hurt on the extended part of the nail

Beautiful Minds; Beautiful Queries 3

Dialogues of the day!!!
And here comes Su's dialogue of the day "Amma, please don't go to Mlore this week. I cannot live without you."

Su: “Amma, Do you know there are two types of Hot - one hot as in spicy or hot food, and the other hot as in SEXY hot” (in her dramatic way)

Su: "We should go home. Home is so much fun. If we didn't have home, we would die."

Aapke Twacha se aapka Umar ka patha hi Nahi Chalta
I was telling S that his driving will age me 10 years further due to stress... And Su said (from the back of the car) “Instead, Amma, why don't u use Olay”

Toxic
Me: What is toxic Su?
Su: Amma, Toxic means talking while u r sick

Smartie Pants
She feels that everyone in my family feels that I am intelligent. So she keeps teasing me for it. She keeps telling me things like I should know what happened in her school coz I know everything etc.
We were talking about something and out of the blue she told me.  “Amma, it’s not enough if u are intelligent, you have to be thin and smart too”

Go Go Go
We were asking her to get ready early on a Sunday morning. As it is she hates bathing on a weekend. We were constantly telling her to go take bath. After a while the phrase reduced to GO. GO. GO.  She came screaming from her room.. "GO GO... where to go? Should I leave the house and go?" S and I were laughing like crazy.

Equality when it comes to Rules
S threw Su's socks and made her pick it up. “If I throw something I have to pick it up and if Appa throws anything, even then I have to pick it up. What sort of rule is this? "

Weight Issues

Su has always been a chubby baby. Everyone from his side of the family fears that she will take after me and be Obese when she grows up.

Having said that, Su's weight fluctuates between 30 and 32 kgs at 4 ft 6 inches. She had reduced to 30 kgs due to the special garment she wore for healing her burn marks (that’s another story for another day) and also not eating well. One evening, she started walking about in the house frantically. I noticed that she had checked her weight and it was 30.2 kgs. As soon as she saw S she asked him, "Appa, Do u think I have grown fat?"   Look what society and peer pressure does to children in this era. 

It was a task to explain to her the difference between weight and fitness, the importance of healthy eating and exercising and how eating right will help her grow tall and help her hair grow.