Mask generation kids - ParenthoodDiaries #24

 There was a time when kids would recognize their parents getting ready to go out, if their mother wore dress or saree instead of nightie, or father wore shirt and pant.

Couple of days ago, I did not wear any special dress and kids still recognized that I was going out. Because, they saw me wearing a "MASK". Also, at times when I start to go out and forget to wear mask, they remind me to take it along.

"Mask generation" is indeed cooking up.

Kids and the inconvenient music - ParenthoodDiaries #23

My kids were watching a YouTube video and I was in kitchen. They suddenly started calling me, making annoyed faces. I went and saw that there was a troubling background music being played in the video, while showing an elephant eating food. Then I did put the TV on mute and they started watching the video comfortably. After few seconds I did unmute, and they started making faces again.

This made me recall my own experience, as to how I would mute the audio at times while watching horror movies. Some of you might recall similar experiences of yours.

I thought I had found out a way to watch horror movies. But today I realized that it's just a natural instinct to fear less with no audio. And that's why music directors contribute so much in a horror movie's successful run.

The Mint Plant!

From 25th April to 12th September - this is our journey together.

The mint plant lived through its hardships and I through mine. Life is neither easy nor difficult. It means beyond the joy and sorrow that we perceive. It means a lot. We must give life the due respect, ours and others.

Live and let live. Don't judge. Don't compare. Don't take for granted.

#Day 145

Nursery person addressed this as "Oxygen Plant".

 

We cannot fully perceive the beauty of nature!

 

Passing through a bulk - ParenthoodDiaries #22

When my boys do things that they thoroughly enjoy and which I can do nothing about, I recall this dialogue from the movie 'Interstellar' from the scene when they pass through the wormhole.

"Controls don't work here. We are passing through a bulk. All that we can do is just to record and observe "

And that fills my phone with loads of videos, heart with thumping memories.

We cannot get back their toddler days, but the recordings make us go back in time and enjoy those little, yet huge, moments. They grow up fast and we grow older with them too. But the recorded memories give each of us a chance to live in time and again, even for a while. I love recording their actions.

The rose from our terrace garden...!

 

India @ Paralympics 2021

 It's been an inspiring campaign by the Indian players at the Tokyo Paralympics 2020.

Congratulations

to the entire contingent and especially to the podium finishers, who held the nerve when it mattered the most.

It's a magical morning for me seeing these flowers on our terrace.

 

Small things that bring bright smiles...!

 

The colour of nature are the purest

 

The pink beauty from our garden!

 

Hypocrisy has reached to a level in India!

Vinesh Phoghat breaks silence: Everyone outside is treating me like I am a dead thing...One medal (lost) and everything is finished?

Hypocrisy has reached to a level that we just cannot live the way we can or we want. Success and failure define people here. No one cares enough to know the struggle behind it. Quality of life is badly hit. The only way is to be strong from within and do want we want to do and ignore the immature judgements people draw of us.

What Vinesh said about 'Simone Biles' thing in this article is true to the core. In India, be it in sport or in any other profession, just say that you are mentally not ready to execute something and see what happens next.

All these athletes are on their own during their preparations for a sport event. No one cares what they need, what they are going through, and what their opponents from other countries are gong through at the same time. We want them to win just because we watch them play during the event, and that too with the TV remote at hand to conveniently change the channel if the player is losing. Just because we watched them lose, they are losers. Not fair. Why can't we let them live or play it their way, irrespective of their win or loss! Sick.

Indian Idol - Shanmukha Priya

I started watching her performances to know why an 18 year old girl from Andhra Pradesh had been subjected to so much of online trolling. And now, she is one of my favorites. I'm amazed by her confidence, versatility, energy and the wholesome performances that she deliver, as if the stage is made for her. The way she owns every song that she sings, makes her look the 'Azoobi' of Indian Idol, not just of season 12 but of all seasons.

Hoping to see her reach greater heights.

The dark fact..!

"Hockey player Vandana Katariya's family attacked for caste identity after India lost to Argentina in Olympic women semi-final"

This news breaks my heart more than what the defeat does. I feel like shouting "it cannot be true", but it's the dark fact of the Indian caste system.

Irony of the games that people play - some on international stages and some in the middle of streets, some with unbeatable determination and some with unignorable egoism.

Amidst all such unfairness and discriminatory gestures, there have been players who have proved their mental toughness and competence. Hats off to them and their parents/coaches. Determination is going to prevail over every social barrier, sooner or later.

The flower blossoms!

 The pleasure of watching this flower blossom is inexpressible.

The new addition to our garden!

Welcoming home the new additions to our garden, on the eve of upcoming birthday of our boys!

The plant & the pleasure!

 #Day 67

The glow of life!

 #Day 49

The glow of life!

Rafa & The Garros upset!

Last time I wrote that pandemic could not change the dominance of Rafael Nadal on clay.

Now I realize that there is one more thing that pandemic could not change.

The way Novac Djokovic keeps at it and causes unbelievable upsets. Today's one is probably the biggest!

Rafa lost the match today, but his clay court dominance is unquestionable. Someone might break his records in time, but in his contemporary times, he is the best clay court player, who knows how to make comebacks.

Working mother's work from home!

 A working mother's reality of working from 'home', rather 'kitchen'!

Consistency!

What a consistently falling 'single drop' can result into! Efforts at times go unnoticed, but they never go wasted. Consistency is the key.

The tough part of parenting - ParenthoodDiaries #21

The toughest part of parenting is, we ourselves to be how we want our kids to be.

Not easy. But not impossible, provided we are able spend the required amount of time with our own selves and kids.

Neither the seed first nor the plant first!

Neither the seed first nor the plant first. It was 'life' first. Seeds and plants were just bi-products.

Life is the basic. And now we are in times to just stick to the basics of life. The 'survival'. Rest is immaterial. Be kind. Be concerned.

#Day 28

The plant & the pleasure

The little life continues to please me.

#Day9