Oct 12, 2021
The ironical perception about a working mother!
An ironical perception about a working mother:
Relatives think that she works, so she doesn't get time to look after kids.
Colleagues think that she takes care of kids, so she doesn't get time to work.
The #fact is, she makes time for executing her responsibilities.
Perception is easy to be made, tough to be altered and rare to be corrected.
Do not let either 'past experiences' or 'meaningless generalizations' make your perceptions. Rather make them by being in the moment and about the subject person only.
Oct 9, 2021
Oct 6, 2021
Kids learn & teach - ParenthoodDiaries #26
Every time kids learn something, they teach something. Toys are some of the best teachers.
A month ago they heard this toy playing the song..."very good..very good...". After a month's gap, when they saw it and not even heard it making that sound again, they started addressing it as "very good..." toy.
It took me half a day to understand why they called it so.
Now they have successfully dismantled their 'very good toy', which was gifted by my parents.
Oct 3, 2021
The last gift, from a dear sister!
We never know what's the last gift someone gives us. Whatever it is, it remains the best from that person. Every time we see it, we recall the moments spent together and cherish. For me, one such is this beautiful piece, which I didn't know would the last one from a dear sister. Life is big for the moments we enjoy, and short for the moments we miss.
Sep 30, 2021
How fast kids learn to adapt - ParenthoodDiaries #25
How fast kids learn to adapt!
Recently I wrote about my kids watching a video comfortably after I put the TV on mute. Today, similar uncomfortable sounds were being played in another video, and they both closed their ears with hands and continued to watch the video.
Sep 27, 2021
Love Story Movie - Not able to be watching it in theaters
Pregnancy followed by Pandemic have made me switch the gears to watch movies on OTT platforms. I miss the way audience contribute to the background score, especially with their vigils. Nevertheless, I started loving the 'organic' entertainment that I get while I watch the movies alone, on the small screen of my mobile.
Now this movie #LoveStory , is making me feel something that I haven't felt for long, that I should have watched it only in theaters, on the big screen. Especially for the two raw characterizations that Shekhar Kammula has once again come up with - Revanth and Mouni. As well as to watch Sai Pallavi dancing to the magical tunes of Pawan.
Well, cannot do anything but to wait for the film's OTT release.
Congratulations to the entire cast and crew for pulling it off to be a successful project.
Sep 19, 2021
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.
Sep 13, 2021
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.
Sep 12, 2021
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.
Sep 7, 2021
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.
Sep 5, 2021
Sep 4, 2021
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.
Aug 17, 2021
Aug 14, 2021
Aug 13, 2021
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.
Aug 11, 2021
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.
Aug 6, 2021
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.
Jul 22, 2021
Jul 17, 2021
The new addition to our garden!
Welcoming home the new additions to our garden, on the eve of upcoming birthday of our boys!
Jul 3, 2021
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