!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> A Mama's World: June 2013

Thursday, June 20, 2013

A relief and pain gone?

So the reports came all fine - she is going to be ok, for the time being at least. Though she seemed more concerned about whether they will check her again rather than if anything is truly wrong with the lesions :) How funny life can be sometimes.

What are our fears? How justified? Does the bigger, real fear scare or the smaller, immediate one?


"No more by thee my steps shall be, forever and forever"

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Beautiful summer


Celebrating beautiful summer in Hong Kong, with the lowest marks I have ever got in French which still happens to be the top marks secured in class - how funny! The haze - non existent; Bright blue skies with white clouds - clean, beautiful, pretty, warm summer. Summer in full force, full strength - what beauty in power and power in beauty!

Having missed quite a few classes before, I went to this class thinking it was normal class; to my shock it was a test. I had to borrow pencil and eraser to write the test. M told me, 'You must be joking that you do not know today is the test.' Only when I was making frantic calls home and to the hospital saying I cannot come at 11.00am that day, did she believe I really did not know. But even then she smiled and said, 'You will still get the highest man. I don't know how you do it.'

Neither do I. 

This is the 5th teacher we are studying with and I feel damn glad that with each and everyone, I have got the highest. Ok, yeah I do deserve to gloat a bit - forget all he medicine woes, hospital trips, MEd! So yay!

Monday, June 17, 2013

Father's Day


Marvel at the enormous capacity children have to impart happiness.....

Sunday, June 16, 2013

The better story

Is it the truth?
Or did I delude myself 
into believing this story
this myth
to be the truth?

Did I delude myself
into believing because
the real truth
was too bitter and harsh
for me to live with?

It ached and pained,
it hurt and killed me
to accept the bare
truth.

So I live with this
delusion
It is a better story
But somewhere inside
I know it is 'a story'
bienque it is a better one......

A story it still is.

Friday, June 14, 2013

And a very different whoa moment....

Aarushi came back yesterday from school and told me to mail to her teacher that she, L and A wants to perform a dance on stage this Tuesday for Music Day! I thought she's fantasizing but still mailed a very defensive mail to her teacher 'pls ignore if this is not true if this is a whim etc'.

Today Aarushi came back and said she has it all planned out, and have been telling the kids to imagine a line which is the edge of stage beyond which they cannot move ! This was when I was having the other whoa moment. She thought about it, told her teacher, managed the logistics by asking me to email the teacher, prepared the steps together with friends and is even practising properly for it during their break time !! Whoa! Girls n boys - so different and so astounding :) Little minds, little brains - at work - unspoilt !


You've not seen it all till you see these little humans evolving :)

Saturday, June 08, 2013

The box from outside


Arunav: "Aarushi, I warn you do not climb down from your bed tonight and sneak into mine." 
Aarushi: " OK can I then just sleep in your bed so I do not have to climb down?"

Arunav tongue-tied :)

Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Whoa moment again

Arunav was very sick with a parasite infection for a while. Severe stomach cramps, nausea, diarrhoea, etc. So he is home bound for more than a week now. Today he was reading and asked me what is GMT? I explained a little about 4 mins per longitude, etc and then showed him the clock at the corner of the laptop where it showed HK time: UCT+8.00

He totally surprised me when exactly within 5 secs he said, oh then HK must be..8*15 i.e. in 120 longitude.... It really did take me a while longer to figure out what calculation happened and whether he was right - which was the whoa moment!

Aarushi is down with Rosella, Arunav with Giardia(parasite) - the whole house is full of medicines, barley water, fennel seed soaked water, rehydration salts, dettol.... but a stress-free house - no studies, no activities to run to, no homeworks to complete, no time pressure.... what bliss in spite of the dark circles and the pains.