May the celebrations begin!

Its Nephy's birthday tomorrow. The little one, when asked what she wants for her birthday, starts off with .. so-so,chatta,cuck (Chocolate, Dress, Cake) in the said order and finishes it off with a neat blow of her imaginary candles (Applause please!)

Its embarassing to admit, but yeah, I'm quite excited about her birthday. Its like  the enthusiasm of a long-awaited-birthdays in my primary & sec school. In college, birthdays were a different affair. My friends made sure there were cakes & gifts. I really wouldn't wanna spoil it all by mentioning about a pack of dumb squads and their dumb ideas in a dumb college. Moving on, birthdays were just another day, other than the gifts Anto buys for me. But this little one's birthday isn't like mine. Her birthdays are indeed special, much more than mine.

The hunt for a good fluffy dress started off last week at the mall nearby. Surprisingly, I did find one that I liked. A woman being a woman, would never be satisfied with the first thing she likes, so  the woman went hunting in Orachard Road. Found a few almost-like-the-dress-in-my-head for my baby. That price tag, What an eye-sore.  Ah, I should have grown that damn MONEY tree. Abondoned Orchard Rd(forever). Thus, the first dress I saw is finally declared the winner. But the world conspired, the lovely pink is gone(oreddi..ma), only the white one left. Fine, I'll take it and I took it. Hasn't been able to get Nephy to try it. She raises hell when I try to. Wonder if she would even wear it tomorrow. Amen!

The cake has been oredered. The crowd has been pulled in. Dad is taking the day off tomorrow. Mom is planning to come home early and still contemplating if she should work from home or even better, take the day off. Grand parents are here, added bonus. Gifts have started to arrive. Her Chithappa's gift was the first one officially. Nephy says 'Tha-thu Thappaa'

oh Boy, I just can't wait for tomorrow.

Numbers start with 2!!

I say 'One', She says 'Two'
I say 'Three', She says 'Four'
I say 'Five', She says 'Six' if its my lucky day, else 'Eight'
I say 'Six', She says 'Eight'
I say 'Seven', She says 'Eight'
I say 'Eight', She says 'Nine'
I say 'Ten' and  She says 'Ten'

There.... don't we just rock when it comes to numbers!!

Nee enn uriyin vizha

Unn Nanban ellai, Naan Vaanin Nila
Unn Nanban ellai, Nee enn Uyirin Vizha...

Anbe Ododi vandhu enn kannai Paarthu..
Kaadhal dhaan endru solli enn kaayam aatru..

As I hear snatches of this song a line here a line there, I close my eyes and see you come running to me, holding your face close to mine, and nodding your head as if to say Ofcourse, I love you...
and everything else just vanishes... Just you & Me...

Then I hear another line..
Melum melum urugi urugi, unai yenni yengum idhaiyathai enna seyven..thoughts of you again.

And why, why, why do I think of YOU baby doll when in truth, I should be thinking of your daddy!!

An interesting Facebook status message

The recent Facebook status message that is making the rounds is :

 If you have a wonderful husband, fiancé or boyfriend that works hard to provide for you and would do anything just for you and your family, then repost this as your status to give the honest well behaved men out there the recognition that they deserve............because great men are few and far between, and I have one ♥

I say 'Holy crap'. I am not giving any credits for that one. I will, if it were as below:

If you have a wonderful husband, fiancé or boyfriend 

that works hard to provide for you and would do anything just for you and your family,

who the children adore, 

who hates TV, 

who doesn't open the laptop at home, 

who helps around the house, 

who doesn't bother staying in his in-laws place, 

who takes the family on exotic holidays every year, 

who doesn't mind rocking the baby to sleep in the middle of the night while you sleep 'like a baby', 

who surprises you with incredible gifts on your birthday, anniversary, V-day, (his birthday, his mom's birthday.... sorry, I drifted) 

who lets go of the remote control, 

who doesn't snore, 

who sides with you at all times, 

who is romantic,who takes u to dinner to nice places

who thinks you are beautiful and says so and notices when you get a new hair cut(I know am ranting.... no man would notice that... but he SHOULD), 

who cooks mouth watering foods and cleans and does the dishes too (hehehe), 

who doesn't gape at ladies walking by no matter what they are wearing(one almost impossible thing to do... Well, its my list and I write what I wish, don't I ? ), 

who sits with you talking late into the night after the kids are asleep,

who manages to come home before 7 everyday,

who thinks shopping or window shopping isn't a waste of time ,rather helps watching over the kids while you happily stroll by from shop to shop, 

who doesn't count the number of handbags & shoes you have, 

who is game for a midnight ice-cream treat,

who surprises you with flowers once in a while(Lets keep the 'while' short) ,...... on and on and on...

 then repost this as your status to give the honest well behaved men out there the recognition that they deserve............because great men are few and far between, and I have one ♥

(and I will fall on your feet and worship you.....)

This sounds a lot better and worth being an FB status message. 

Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya...

Finally, I stole an afternoon and watched the movie, Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya. Quite a difference from the usual tamil movies. I must say I loved it, except for the twisted ending. Looks like, tamil movies are steering towards a good path. Thank You Gowtham!!

A simple love story, beautifully said , absolutely lovable songs, Simbu(Karthik) & Trisha's(Jessie) neat acting. Must salute Simbu for having stayed away from his usual tortorous acts. Trisha , just lovely. Trisha's voice in the movie, which I believe is Chinmayi, added that extra pinch of essence. Jessie in her sarees, always pretty pretty. Karthik looked good too.

Love strikes at him, and then the girl too. A wedding in between. A love spell. A separation. A wedding again and the rest I have erased it off from my memory. Screw you Gowtham, for that twisted ending. I hate it. I would very much advise anyone who hasn't watched the movie yet, to walk out when the movie inside the movie ends.

Wow, how loves strikes.Still makes me wonder, how amazingly well it has been captured. Songs & the picturization were just out of the world. It still sweetly lingers in my heart. After a long time, I watched a movie, I truly love. If you know me, you would know that I am not a big fan of movies. I would rather spend an afternoon at home with my books. But, not this movie.

 My husband thought it was dumb for Jessie to leave Karthik, as she just didn't justify herself well. Well, I say its good enough of a justification when she says, 'I would rather be hated by you than by my parents'. Sounds a little extreme, but somehow it convinced me. Whatever....

All together, I think it was absolutely beautiful. Well, the movie would leave you dreamy... which would last for a good while.
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya..
Pudavai katti-kondu Varuvaaya...

No Singlish Please!

Oh My God! My baby is speaking Singlish!

Yesterday, Nephy screamed at me, for having left her in the middle of her play to drink water. And she screamed 'Amma... No... Go'. Man.... I don't speak that kinda English. Then, realization struck. Its my maid, who talks Singlish. Thank you M'am, but No, Thanks! For your information, my baby can understand Tamil very well.

My heart aches to think of the fact that , growing up in Singapore, she would speak Singlish with the verbs , pronouns missing and an 'already'(actually Oreddi) attached to every sentence. Ofcourse, the famous 'lah!'. The 'can-can'. No, darling , Please don't.  I might not feel so bad, even if you were to speak Tanglish with a 'va' attached to everything. Like 'ok-va?' 'No-va?' . My heart would still ache to hear Tanglish, but not so much.

I think its time to teach my baby some proper English. I do consciously try to speak to her in English at times, but then its forgotten and the tamil always comes first hand. It isn't like, when she is doing something naughty to tell her 'Nephy.. please stop doing that'(with an added English accent). Its more like 'Adi vaanga pora Nephy'.... and believe me, the latter works like majic(sometimes).

Until then its 'No...Go..'

The other day, my neighbour said to Nephy, 'You shop oreddi, you no go,  I no go shopping oreddi, I go..' Well, go figure....

Finally, a movie after 2 years!

After 2 years, I finally managed to go to the theatre and watch a movie with Anto (Sigh! Sigh! I believe the feeling is mutual. Wish it was Jay & Prabs or Augus & Nithi & the rest of the coll gang)
When growing up, films weren't a part of family tradition. We never went to movies on family outings. As a kid, I remember, the only movie that we went as a family was 'Anjali'. Later on, during trips to KK, there were a few movies watched with cousins. Then, it was Prabs & Jay who opened up the world of cinemas when in school. In College, I don't even have to say, what the ten of us were up to? Crazy times!

Tats past. Sigh! Sigh! Sigh a lot!

It was my idea to watch a good tamil movie in good old Satyam on my last trip to Chennai. But you know what happened to my vacation? Chickungunya happened and nothing else happened. So, into the drain went my grand plans of Satyam cinemas & butter pop corn.
During chinese new year. With 4 days of holidays and no trip planned, we ended up staying at home for 4 days and Nephy provided all the necessary entertainment. It was the only long weekend for a long while , so a good chance to catch a movie, while the lil one was left at home with her grandma and the maid. Anto & I went to the theatre and damn! No tickets for the only tamil movie there, which happened to be Goa. Settled for an english movie. Valentine's day. Nothing great abt the movie. Too many characters, revolving around Valentine's day.
I realised a few things. In the first place, I was never a movie buff and still am not and movies don't give me the thrills. The second thing I realised was, Nephy was much of a better entertainer. The third thing, sweet pop corn is still tastes good.

Nephy's vocab list

So-So means Chocolate - and don't you dare mess around with her when she cries out for So-so.

Amma - Appa - Anto

Numbers are always 'Two', How many Grandmas u got? Two... How many birdies did you see? Two... How many so-so do you want? Two.. Ask her to say 'One'... 'Two' tumbles out, 'One' never
Its still Aasaa for Grandma, however Grandpas are spared, she calls them Thaatha.

The maid is called 'akka'

Water is 'Tha.. Tha..' Milk is 'Pa-a'. Toys are 'Jaamaan'. cheese is 'Seez'. Shoes is 'Chappal'. Food is 'Chapa', fish is 'yum-yum'.

Uncle is 'Mama' , Auntie is 'Athai' and chithappa is loving called 'Thaappaa'.

Teacher Sapea is called 'Apea' and she still continues to smother us with kisses when asked, what would you give to teacher Sapea.

Shampoo is called 'Shampoo' . Thanks Sweetheart! That seems to be the only one which is said the way it should be.

There is Apple, Ball, Bow-wow for dog, ba-ba for sheep, 'Yaana' for elephant.

You dont wanna know what is Kakka & Susu... yup, we are potty trained(almost). However, occurences may happen with no warning whatsoever and occurences may not be notified or subtle hits may be given out by asking for a mat and trying to wipe it off before being noticed. That is all that I can remeber for now.

Natalie baby is fondly called 'No-no' baby

Did I tell you that my niece, Natalie's vocabs has grown too. She keeps crying out on the phone...'Kaaka paathiya'.. Yes, darling, I indeed did. (Did you know that there are no crows in Singapore, sad lot, these folks kill all the crows just becoz they aren't fond of a small little birdie's droppings) and she does call out to her dad, Mathew cutely as 'Matt-Thuu'. Can't wait to teach her 'Dey.. Mathew'. Then there is the 'Thanni Thaa' 'Mummy Thaa' and lots of other lil things.