Father's Day fun!

Happy father's day to all!

Hope everyone got to spend some good time with their kids/dads/husbands/brothers/friends - a special dad on this special day.

At my daughter's preschool the parents were invited to father's day party last week. The teachers came up with a very fun and original idea. Previously they had asked each child by turn what their dad did at work and put the responses down verbatim in their respective father's day personalised greeting cards. These cards were all taped to a wall in a straight line. They were numbered serially below each card. Parents were asked to take a look at all the cards and pick the number of the card they thought was their child's response. The children's replies ranged from a terse 'No comment' to some really humorous views on their dad's employment. Finally the teacher took each card and read the contents, after which the dads raised their hands to claim that number. Some were right, some weren't. Take a look.

Z



Nothing in particular-isms

Wow! Feels good to be back after a long haitus.
I don't really have anything compelling enough to say, so I'll share a few random things that popped in my head and things I read from here and there in the past few days.

* Take care of the body that houses you. But don't obsess about waist size, every strand of grey hair or every pimple. Your body will eventually get old, sick and die - and that is, if you're lucky! I am sure nobody wants a quicker or more dramatic exit.

* Life is a beautiful journey. Enjoy every step of it , in beautiful shoes you love - if possible!

In news I read this week :
1)  'In the hands of New York's celebrated chef, Mumbai-born Floyd Cardoz, the unpretentious upma shot into international culinary limelight on Wednesday. Asked to prepare an item based on food memories, (or dishes that inspired them in their lives), in the final of the much-watched Top Chef Masters contest in Los Angeles, Cardoz whipped up an upma of semolina and mushroom to beat two other favorites and win the top prize of $ 100,000.'
I make a mean upma with green beans, carrots, potatoes - all finely chopped, with peas, green chillies , curry leaves and cilantro, a spoon of freshly grated coconut, ginger slivers and a small dollop of ghee - a far cry from the plain vanilla upma that brings out groans and grimaces; I am willing to accept just 50% of the above prize amount, as it's not my original creation. Sigh!

2) A Meerut resident married a girl, only to discover the next morning that she was forced into the marriage, and has already secretly married (in a temple) the man she is in love with. Originally this girl's older sister was the one who was supposed to be the bride. She eloped with her lover just before the wedding, and the parents of the bride drugged this girl and got her married after convincing the groom's party to accept the younger sister in place of the older one.  Upon learning how the girl was forced into this marriage, the righteous man immediately shared this with his parents, had the girl tie a rakhi on his wrist making himself her brother. The parents of the boy also gladly accepted her as their daughter and now the girl's new family is all set to get her formally married to her lover, much against the wishes of her birth family.
This news has enough masala to cause your head to spin uncontrollably and give you vertigo than any 360 deg loopy dangerous rides of any amusement park in the world. Life imitates Bollywood imitates life.......