Children's Day Celebrations in Purva Riviera

Since Nov 14 was a weekday, this time the children's day celebrations were held on 13th November. The days events included various competitions for kids along with food stalls and other little games. It was heartening to see a group of 10 year olds host one stall of games and no points for guessing that they pulled most of the crowd of children !

This time we had pain tattoo and a caricature artist and Prathm enjoyed at both.

He got a pretty little butterfly tattoo on his cheek. He was indeed very happy about it. Following that we stood in the queue for caricature drawing and mind you that queue was long. eventually when Pratham got his chance, he sat still like a good boy for sometime and that was enough to capture his main features says me. But the end result of the session wasnt too satisfactory for us. Na Na.. The sketch didnt capture Pratham's still Baby features and actually looked like a boy of about 8-9. Pratham too wasnt much impressed by it.

All this and we missed a good 1 hour of the colouring competition. We did hurry there and Pratham Drew a cute little garden scene complete with butterflies and clouds:-) He painted it with the new crayon set that i opened for this ocassion. We were happy with the end result and were sure he will win a prize. After all he was the youngest in the free drawing group.

The evening were supposedly exciting since the prize distributions and then the screening of a children's movie was in the cards. There was no cultural evening planned orginally, but on the 12th, the cultural team decided that they should have some items and Suja contacted me to set up some group songs. I am always ready for such challenges but wasnt aware that i would face some problem there!!!

SO immediately after the request came to me, i started going through my Karaoke collection to choose good numbers for group singing. Having done that i also set about tweaking and cutting them inorder to join them for a medley. in the meantime i contacted NY and CK so that they could join me in the singing. Well..... probably i was asking for toooo much. CK was down from abroad for a few days and had quite a few errands to complete. She did let me know when i talked to her the first time and so i was prepared for her negative answer at the afternoon of the show. But NY did dissapoint me since she didnt even have the courtesy of showing me her interest in it whether positive or negative!!! and eventually when i did call her on Nov 13 Aft to discuss the practice timings, i received terse replies from her hubby " N is napping " !!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW SO much for courtesey.

Now this is what I think -> When People request you to give a program, you should first take it as a RESPECT to you. Obviously, your were asked for a program since they though you could do it!!! else why would they bother! right? That is why, even when Suja asked me for the program at the last minute, I took it up. There is much effort involved in choosing, smoothening and setting the songs. One needs to respect that too. Thirdly, if you cant make it for whatever reason, one should have the courtesey to let the organizer(in this case -> me) know rather than springing last minute surprises!!!

BUt then you are right!!! MOST of the prople have no regard for your efforts and time. AND my luck has always been such that for every program that i set up, I have to face some sort of a negative action from someone ( i presume so do many) This has happened for almost every program i gave in my current apartment complex. (EMPTY MINDS and BIG NOISES)

Any ways, Thank god i had 3 hours before the program to get everything ready. I had to change my songs and redo the smoothening and editing and merging. The end result was a 15 minute of medley. My hubby darling(muah muah) pitched in for a song and so the end result was

1: Kajra MOhabbatwala -> me
2: Chaiya Chaiya -> Krishna
3: Dhoom Machale -> me
4: Rangeela Re -> me again.

SO in the evening , when i checked out the CD, it wasnt working well and Krishna had to rush home to get his laptop to play the mp3 (thank god that could work) . I requested one of my friends to video record the event on our camcorder till krishna finished his song and relieved her. And the ball was rolling!!!

The songs were a GREAT HIT!!! even till today, i have people (who didnt want to smile before) stopping me and saying "Hey your sang GREAT" or "We had a GOOOD TIME" .

Kishor from the cultural committee said that we should now have a 1 hour program from me for NEW YEAR CELEBRATION!!!!! WOW YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. that is an honour!!!!! Thanks Kishor.

The cultural program ended with the screening of CARS 2.

Once home, we tried playing our video. BUTTTTTTTTTTT, my friend had not recorded the initial 5 mins of the program!!!!!! All my speech and the start of Kajra MObbattwala was GONEEEEEEEEEE!!! That was disappointing !!!

I just had this feeling -> CANT i trust anyone outside my family?

Yet, Here is the video :-) Your comments will be great to read.

Pratham creates Greeting Cards

Pratham's fav activity for this Dasara Holiday was creating greeting cards. We actually created them and posted too... He drew everything himself, painted them and also suggested the words , which he again wrote himself. Of course i helped him with the spellings... He is still in the alphabet writing phase.:-)
 

Now that Dasara is over and Diwali is around the corner , he is gonna create those cards.

Should i have him send you one?  :-)

Musical Performance -> Raag Hamsadhwani

I gave a Classical performance for Ganesh Chaturthi Celebrations in Purva Riviera on Sept 1,2011.

The performance had Shankarji on the flute , Chandrshekharji on the Tabla and Me on the Keyboard.

The Raag was Hamsadhwani, Shankar played the Aaalap while I continued with the popular Hindi Song  "Jaa Tose Nahi" and the Taana.

Pratham and Cold

SO Pratham always has cold and the DOCS are of the Opinion that Bangalore Climate is the culprit. (We even had one suggesting that he has Asthma!!!!!!  LOL)  Anyways we are always on the NO ICE CREAM MODE . I even stopped giving him ghee(even though it was homemade) . But his Cold doesnt seem to subside!!!

WRT this cold there are a few funny things we experienced

1:  Once Prathm was coughing so badly and was in no mood to take medicines. I (wrong of me) exasperatedly said "You will die coughing, take this medicine" . It worked then. And i forgot my words.  The next day, Pratham got another bout of cough and immediately came running to me " Mummy Mummy!!! I am going to die now"

Me: What!!!

Pratham : I coughed and coughed and now i am going to die!!!

I realised that this was the result of my careless words and immediately hastened to pacify him.


2: At another instance Pratham Said " This cold is not GOING only!!!!!!  "

3: Latest , when he went to one of my friend's house, she asked about the tears in his eyes . His answer was-

" My eyes are always leaking!! Because my COLD is IMMORTAL "

LOL

Pratham and Ganesha Celebrations 2011

This time's Ganesha Celebrations are special to me.

Because Pratham participated in two items !!!

"Fancy Dress and Koligeet."

Fancy Dress :

Last year we had dressed him up as Krishna but Pratham was sooo not interested that he actually fell asleep and we were left feeling frustrated. But this year we decided that he should participate in this Fancy Dress event and so asked him what he wanted to become - Guess what he said ??? BUTTERFLY.

So this was the idea that we had. We create a Big Butterfly on a Chart Paper and Pratham Wears it.

Krishna is our resident painter in our family. He Sketched a wonderful Butterfly on a pink chart paper(yes pinnk.... instructions from Pratham) . He painstakingly coloured it and adorned it . Later he made straps so that Pratham could wear it. He also made a hat with antennae and probiscus . The costume was thus ready. As for the lines I wrote a small poem hoping that Pratham would sing it on stage. It went like this

"I am a butterfly, I am a butterfly

I am a dancing singing happy little Butterfly"

So on the D Day, Pratham Happily wore his costume and stood on the stage till his name was called. Although he didnt sing his piece, the judges liked his costume i presume.

Pratham Won the 2nd Prize ! HURRAH

We were happy . But Pratham wasn't!! He said " I wanted the first prize mom, why didn't they give me 1st!" We tried pacifying him that second was still a good position and we could try harder next time.

KoliDance :

Encouraged by His performance in "VIVA" where he danced on Bam Bam Bole, I decided to choreograph a KoliDance for the cultural event. I chose "Dol Doltoy Varyavar" and appropriately slashed 2 of the 4 stanzas.

What we had then was a marathon of practices. Pratham was the only boy in the entire group of 10 gals!! At one time he did say "Why am i the only boy here" to which i said "you are the main hero" of the show. That worked!

On the Actual Day, All the tiny tots danced so well. We dressed Pratham like a typical Fisherman ie a Triangular cap in black, a Maroon T-Shirt with Ganesha , a Teal short and my Flowery Duppatta as the Triangular Lungi. My darling boy wore all this without much ado. He was tickled by the thought of wearing a little lipstick and rose on the cheeks.  He danced soo wellllll. and as the song ended the other kids trickled out of the stage but Pratham continued  to do his step till the song ended and then gracefully ran to me.

We are sooooooooooo  proud.

Here is the video


The coming events are going to be more eventful. Now that Pratham is showing a cultural bend of mind, I shall groom him to that. What say you?

Independence Day - 2011

Come August and then starts the preparations for the celebration of the mosty important day of an Indian's Life. Yes - the Independence Day.

As an artiste, the day means a channel to put forth programs celebrating the liberation from the tyrant English.

This year at Purva Riviera, I was involved with many programs in the capacity of a participant and /or as coordinator.

Firstly I set up the Swagat Geet - Swagatam Shubh Swagatam - This was originally composed by Pt. Ravishanker for the Asiad 1982.

I used the song as is but did minor changes to the alaaps in between the stanzas. Towards the end i incorprated a mixing effect of the chorus where two groups started the lines at different times and later joined together to finish.

I joined the group as the Singer and the Keyboard player.

The Video is uploaded here . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSSfnc8LCvI

The socond Item I helped set up was a Song for a group of Children . The one i chose was "Humko Manki Shakti Dena" From Guddi. The Children sang it well.

The Third item was a Classical Fusion Dance. I was one of the Odissi Dancers and the song was "Mahaganapati " Apart from Odissi, we had two more pairs performing in Bharatnatyam and Mohini Attam Styles.

The Video for this is uploaded here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q7IVfc3Ae0.


All in all it was a great event. I was happy that I could contibute to these celebrations. More so, I danced after a long time (the last i remember was in College)

Comments please.

Raag Yaman and Pratham

SO everyone, nowadays you will see me strumming my keyboard whenever i get the time.

I m trying little experiments with raagas and different tones.

So today when i got a little time between Feeding Pratham his dinner while watching Tom and Jerry and till "Sleepless in Seattle" started, I played raag yaman's bandish "Aree Eree Alee Piya Bina"

and i experimented with the various tones from Dulcimer to Saxophone and what should have been a short practice ended up being a full 10 minutes recital replete with Taana and Murkis!!

and you what i liked the best...

My 3 year old son clapped on his own accord and said "mama, you played nicely"

That is the accolade that is most important to me than any one else's...

(this proves that Pratham has an ear for classical music!!!! :-)

VIVA Pratham!!

Pratham had his first ever school concert on Feb 5th. It was named VIVA.

It was a huge affair!! The school grouped classes and had multiple concerts

(incase you are wondering what is this concert well its nothing but school annual gathering/parents' day function)

So Nursery A to E, Jr Kg A-E and Sr Kg A-E had it on this particular day - Pratham is in Nursery A.

The Preparation had been going on for quite sometime. We paid for the costumes some 2 months ago. Although Pratham didnt spill the beans on what he was supposed to do, on one fine day he just said - I am dancing on this song. Ah at the time the radio was playing 'Bam Bam Bole' from Taare Zameen Par. and welllll I knew thats the event!!! After that try as i might he didnt show me the steps. When he would play on his own sometimes he would make the Murali (Flute) actions. It was only towards the advent of the concert date that he actually showed us some of his steps.

I immediately downloaded the Track and he gave us the sneak peek of the dance!!! HURRAH! MY SON CAN DANCE! and hey, he has RHYTHM Toooo.

So the D Day arrived and one hour before the nominated time we were supposed to put him on the school bus, we started the makeup preparations!!! AH we had one bad time. Applying the rose powder and cheek blush was fine . He just loved that but wearing the costume......

ok you guys know that Pratham hates to wear long sleeve and long pants. He is happy wearing shorts and T shirts even on a chilly winter morning!!! and the costume was sleeveless shirt and a golden long pant!!!! What a ruckus we had!! he didnt want to wear it and well eventually we convinced him to wear it with the pant legs folded up!! phewwwwwww and thats how he went to school!!!

In the course of time, i think the pants came to their normal length and when he was on stage we saw that they weren't folded. Thank God for that.

Seeing him on that well lit stage was great, all the tiny tots danced soo well, but ofcourse we had eyes only for Pratham. I was camera happy and Kris was on the camcorder!

The video of the performance is here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9YeD0iuSRE

The Fotos are here. https://picasaweb.google.com/prabhupratham

Pratham on stage

Yesterday, we went visiting some relatives. Incidentally there was a YakshaGana Program to celebrate the yearly anniversary of the Ganesh Temple in that colony. As the artistes were getting ready, the MC called for some games. One particular game was saying the numbers in two languages consecutively. eg one don three chaar....

Pratham ofcourse didnt understand the game , but was insistent that he say numbers on the stage.

SO Off I went with him and when the MC handed the mike to him, he rattled out 1 - 10 in english .

Everyone was appreciative of this, to have a small kid fearlessly say numbers in front of a large crowd of unknown people was pleasing.

What we were happy about is that this was yet another instance when Pratham proved he had no stage fear!!

Atta Boy Pratham!!! muahhhhhhhh

Pratham the Pious one

Yes, we would call him that now.

Firstly neither Krishna or me are too much into piousness. We belive in GOd and celebrate all the festivals. We know our shlokas and mantras. But we surely are not the type who do all the fasts and celebrate every tithi that comes in the hindu calendar.

But Pratham is showing signs of godliness!!:-)

It all started when he saw a foto of Goddess Durga at Mali Maushi's place. This one had the godess replendesant in her glory, perched on her tiger and carrying all weapons and items in her numerous hands.So Intrigued was he that he insisted on knowing more about her and well i told him the story of Mahishasura and Durga. He loved it sooo much that he was asking to hear that story and was also reciting it to every person who showed interest.

His Durga Story recital has become a rave in the family. Cousin, grandparents' favourite request is "pratham tell me the story of durga". I have captured it here, you can hear it too.

The next in line is Shlokas. Usually while bathing him, i say the shlokas. But now he insists on specifically learning them. Of course I am more than ready. Its such a heartening sight to see him with hands folded in reverance , standing in front of the POoja Mantap reciting all the shlokas. At the time of writing this post he can clearly recite the folowing shlokas

GururBrahma

Shantakaram

Gangecga Yamunechaiva

Yaa Kundendu Tushar (A HOT FAVOURITE) [> herevers all goddesses saraswati included

Vakratunda mahakaay

Durga Arati

Karagre Vasate Lakshmi

Krishnaay Vasudevaay

Shubham Karoti

Divya Divya DIpatkaar.

I will slowly introduce bhagvadgita and the like...

He loves visiting temples and usually when we move out on weekends, a trip to a nearby temple is a must. You should see him pray with his hands folded and actually recite all the shlokas. People are usually amused at this sight. Some actually asked him to say aloud and yes he humoured them.

Pratham basically is a very obidient child. He does childish mischief but is otherwise very disciplined, non violent and well a gooood boy. Nowadays he has taken to asking me "Is Durga Devi happy with me? Am i a good Boy?" I feel soooo touched... My Answer usually is -> Of course!!! My Baby you are the best. She is veryyyy happy with you.

If at the rare times he decides to be naughty, all i need to say is "hey Durga Devi will not like this!!!" and welllll the naughtiness stops right there!

Hows that for quality disciplining?

Pratham speaks 6 languages

Yes, thats true. Like all parents, I always like to note my baby's giftedness. The one I am going to blog about today is his multilingual-ness.

Pratham started speaking proper sentences a little above 2 years. For that matter We always spoke to him in our mother tongue konkani. Unlike many indian parents who believe that its better to teach their children English, we reasoned that he would pick up english when he went to school and its best that he learns his mother toungue well. So right from the time he was a baby, we and our family members always spoke in Konkani. Even as a baby of 2 years , pratham prattled and lisped in North Canara Konkani. He picked it up while i was away on my work trip to the US. When I came back i got to hear my baby speak in this accent of Konkani so unlike mine( mine is a mixture of konkani, goan and marathi hahaha) TOday ofcourse he speaks like a seasoned guy.

The Next language he picked up was Telgu. How come? well... at this daycare that I first put him, the aunty knew only telgu. The few english words that she spoke were typical south indian accented(!!!!) so we had Pratham say "Aepil" for Apple and u get the drift? so from 1 years to 1.5 years he understood telgu and seems conversed in telgu with the aunties there. Of course back home with us, he never responded to any other languages other than Konkani. Even today when some people try talking to him in telgu, he responds(in english though) but looks like he still remembers the language.

The next in the list is Tamil!!! yes , no surprise actually, bangalore has more population of tamilians than kannadigas. This he picked up at his later daycare where all the caretakers are tamil. I am told that he spoke in tamil and was very much a tamil guy. He actually tried speaking to us in Tamil, but we are illiterate of that language and told him that we cant understand it ( this was when he was around 2).

Now comes the turn of English. I think he picked it up in the daycare again. The Daycare incharge speaks in english and well thts where he must have picked it up. TODAY he is extremely fluent in english for a child of 3.5 years. Surprisingly, during our US trip last year, he didnt venture to speak English at all!! But the moment he landed back in india, he had a new motto - When at home speak Konkani, But when out speak in ENGLISH(even with papa and mama)!!! Its funny to see him speak to the house maid in ENGLISH when the poor thing doesnt understand one word of it. What more, the daycare ladies are telling me that he no longer speaks to them in tamil but only in ENGLISH!!!!! He has become quite an english man !!! I will blog about his prowess in English. U will be surpised!!

The other two languages are Marathi and Hindi. He understands them to some extent . He tries some Hindi sentences and sings songs in marathi.The other day he said "Ke Kar rahe ho" in a funny accent. He meant to say Kya but ended up saying Ke and well.... i am afraid that he was getting a southindian accent in his HINDI. OOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOO!! Alarm bells in my mind.

I am soo proud of my son speaking so many languages and that too picking them up on his own.
During our recent US Trip, I remember speaking to a cambodian lady now settle in US. She was proud that he knew "2" languages" - english and cambodian. I almost laughed aloud(no i didnt ) when I informed her that an average Indian speaks 3 languages at least!! and my son all of 3 years old speaks 6 languages!!!

lemme see which is the next language in his reportaire!!

Food for Thought..

One way to identify colleagues who really care about you

-- Put down ur papers

-- send ur Bye bye mail

-- people who really care, will contact you whether they knew about this before or just then. Others under the guise of busy-ness and indifference will ignore you.

Hows that for a sieve of people to hold on to?

Marathi Ganyanchi Mehfil - January 15, 2011

Friends , Remember I had blogged about a Marathi Mehfil to be held on Jan 8th? well anyways that got postponed to January 15th. Yup on Sankranti Day.

For me this day is special . Not becoz its Sankranti, But because its my MOM's Birthday.

Sooo.. this Mehfil was more like a Birthday gift to mom, only she couldn't attend it since it was held in Bangalore and she stays out of Bangalore.

BTW the Mehfil was a huge success. Everyone praised it. Especially, my singing skills.

Know what? Pratham proved that he can sing publicly!! Yes , When Kris and me sang the duet Koligeet "Gomu Sangateen" Pratham joined us and sang the whole song by rote!!! We were soo surprised and also soo happy. It just proved to us that He is musically gifted and reinforced that he has a highly developed grasping power. While both of us were looking into the lyrics whiel singing, Pratham just sang along, no paper and all!! Anyways guys, remember he is just 3 years old and doesn't actually read!!

Also, this was a good opportunity for Krishna to venture into performing arts world. He sang really well for an untrained singer. No Besur Swara anywhere, a little voice training and he surely will sing like a pro!

The snack were potlucked by all of us singers. We volunteered to get Dhokla.

Now this is an adventure to remember . The first set of Dhokla that we prepared was done in the Microwave for the very first time and welll.... it didnt rise too well!!! Worried that it might not be enough , Kris Set off to prepare another round and this time in the Pressure cooker. This puffed well.

moral of the adventure -> Dhokla rises well in the cooker and not the microwave! HAHA

Kris also wanted to prepare SolKadi. I wasn't much for it since we were supposed to have softdrinks. But Still Kris Pertsisted and prepared luscious SolKadi(visit his blog for the recipe).

By the way, it was such a hit that no one touched the soft drinks and welll there was no Solkadi remaining for either of us to savour later!!! Atta Boy Krishna.

This Mehfil thus was a great one for us, our entire family enjoyed and also got acclaimed for our skills.

As For me, now I m enthused to organise more concerts in the future, I do have one planned and will shortly blog about it. Watch this space.

For more details on the Mehfil please visit Swara Shraddha Blog Post here

Had my Cake and Ate it too…

So after much thoughts and discussions I put down my papers. What were my reasons?

Well, Delivery roles in IT are extremely stressful and time consuming. In the projects that I worked in the past, I saw work affecting my family ie my son – I had very less quality time with him and hubby – he had to sacrifice on his work as well as personal front. Yes it did help to have a helpful and understanding hubby, but when his career starts getting affected one falters. And Falter I did. Of course my permanently hurt back (courtesy long hours of sedentary work) also gave me a jolt to reality. Of course I did try to find some less demanding roles within my current organization... But nothing really worked out. Signs of promotion weren’t anywhere near the horizon… it didn’t happen when it was supposed to , I couldn’t wait anymore. My thoughts were -> Why lose on both family and also career front? And I took the decision (again in collusion with my family) I put down my papers…. I resigned….

After 6 years of working in this organization… I decided to leave it. Indeed was a tough decision.

After I sent across my resignation, coincidentally one of my earlier Senior managers offered me a meaty role.. after much deliberation I gave that up and went ahead to sail through the 3 months of notice .

And then yesterday , ie one day before my Last working day I sent my friends a mail title ‘Au Revoir` ’

Hi there,

As my last day in ****** seems imminent, I cannot help but cast a retrospective glance on my first years in Accenture. I remember vividly how excited was I to get this offer back then in 2004. Ignoring the other offers in hand I had decided to place my destiny in the hands of this organization and decided to give it my best shot.

And give it I did, the initial years have been a fulfilling set of years. I progressed in both my technical and management skills. I am thankful to that. Every Project I worked in Accenture has been in a different technology and a different management flavour. This in itself was gratifying. Back then I didn’t consider leaving.

But Time flies friends. Thoughts change. Experiences teach you a lot. Also Priorities change.

I have taken this giant step (to me it is) and hope that I now succeed in my next Endeavour. Wish me luck.

As I leave today (tomorrow to be exact, I write today only because the account may be disabled tomorrow morning) I carry with me the good memories of the times I spent with you and ******.

Wish you good luck.

Reach me at ****** or *****

This mail pretty much sums up that I will be with out today. (if you want to see the responses to this mail click here)

And now the action starts….

Another of my erstwhile senior managers contacted me saying

I really wish we could have figured something for you. At least I can think of one or two options from moving to ABCD team under me or even roles like XYZ where we can leverage from someone like you with effective communication/planning skills incase you are open to non-technical role for a bit…

Do reconsider as we can always reverse anything even at the last minute.

If you have made up your mind, then my best wishes to you for many more successes and new experiences.

Friends that was a sweet mail for me. The feeling that someone , no, a senior manager cares for u!! I say to her – Thanks Shanthi.

Anyways, I replied in negative to her and yet my train of thought was in the direction of the roles she mentioned. And as if in answer to my thoughts Shanthi called me on my mobile and we had a great discussion!!!!!

Yesterday ended up in discussions all around trying to figure out whether this is what I would like and the other logistics. Hubby dear was all for it. (Love u a lot Kris)

ANDDDDDDDDD I sent my withdrawal mail to HR. Ah the rest is history….

So friends what would have been a last day in ***** has ended up being just a ordinary day for me apart from the excitement of having the various teams stopped from disabling my presence in the company. I must thank my HR rep for that BTW.

Now you know why I said I ate my cake and had it too..

Sheela Kee Jawani

Haaa, that’s the hot item song of this moment in India. Katrina (wow ) is the item girl and every amar , akbar and anthony is humming this tune, if only unknowingly.

I am one of them too... this song is sooo catchy!! I have been humming it (and that too audibly at times) for the past few days. Imagine humming when typing that important Weekly Status Report!!!

Ok, Leave me, My 3 and half year old son is also SINGING IT!!!!!! Since we do not turn on music channels he doesn’t know the wordings too well (thank god for that, pat pat on good parenting) so he sings (and tht too loudly)

Sheela kee jawaani Faayoooo

HAHAHAH, and how exactly did he start singing this?

The culprit is the mail sent by one of my colleagues titled as the song. Naturally I had to hear it once to know that the big hullabaloo was about. And well... so smitten I was on hearing the song that I rendered it in my vocal chords even louder than DJ AQeel, forgetting that I had an impressionable tiny tot at home!!

Imagine my shock when my son who usually never sings, started "Sheela Kee Jawani !!! Mummy What is Jawani?"

Wellllll , now I couldn't explain that to him right? I made the mistake of telling him "oh nothing it means Sheela kaa dance"

Pratham: Hmm ok. What was that next line?

Me: Oh I forgot.

Pratham : No mom u know, its some Faayuuuu

Me: no dear I really cant remember.

Pratham was incredulous. He understood that mom was hiding something and that there is something really wrong with the song.

So now we get to hear doses of sheela kee jawani with sheela subsititued with whatever girly name he knows !!!

Hmmmm... the other day he stood in the supermarket aisle and screamed "Mummy Kee JAWANIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, FAAAAAAAAYOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

Marathi Mehfil Coming Soon...

I am organizing a "Marathi Ganyanchi Mehfil" in our apartment complex.

I have managed to get a group of like minded friends who are as enthused about the Mehfil as me.

The tentative date is January 8th, 2011. I shall post again once have the confirmed the dates.

The objective of this Mehfil is to sing and revive Marathi songs. I have already shortlisted these songs

1. Reshamachya Reghani -> A Marathi Lavani
2. Latapata Tujha Chalana -> A catchy Song
3. Mendichya Panavar -> A slow melodious song
4. Gomu Sangateen -> A duet to be sung by me and Kris.
5. Shukratara -> A Romantic Duet
6. Gagan Sadan -> A Bhaktigeet to start the session.

More information later... Watch his space...

HNY!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE.

I hope this year of the new beginnings for me is as prospering to me and to you.

A resolution this year is to be more active on the blogsphere!!.