Jan 24, 2011

Fight for laptop

Date: 22nd Jan, 2011
Time: 9.30 pm

I was sitting with my laptop, playing chess online. Normally, I like to play blitz games (1 min or 2 min). Since Chinni was with N, having dinner, I got hold of laptop. Otherwise its always Barney, rhymes, Mr Bean, Tuli or lakdi ki kaati playing on it. Even now I feel, computers/laptops are used mostly for watching videos.

I had already played couple of games and had won all of them. Was in a good mood and wanted to win more to keep my score ticking. I had just accepted a 2 min, Chinni came running to me asking for Mr.Bean. I said "Chinni wait for 2 minutest, pappa will give you the laptop and you can watch as much, as long as you want". But no, she wasn't in a good mood since her ammi was forcibly feeding her (its always forcibly) and demanded the laptop immediately.

I didn't want to lose that game as my points would go down. She banged the keyboard, fortunately the browser didn't close to the weird key combination pressed. I just smiled and kept making my moves. My intention was just to finish up that game in 2 minutes. Chinni got more wild, she brought her face in front of the screen and started distracting me. I politely moved her aside quickly continuing the play.

That was it. Chinni started screaming and pulled the laptop. I sustain any attacks on the 64 squared black and white board for any duration, be it either 1 min, 2 min, 5 min or an hour, but could not sustain even 30 seconds of Chinni's attack. I had given up.


Jan 10, 2011

Joy of giving

This was a unique feeling and experience throughout till date of my life. Have never felt such a joy, happiness and ecstasy before.

Saturday, a day where you begin planning to finish up all the pending work of the past week. As usual, Chinni is sitting on my lap and not allowing me to go anywhere. Well, even I wasn't so enthusiastic. But I had to atleast drop my credit card check to avoid penalties. Tried to escape from Chinni's eyes, but got caught in fraction of a second and she started crying.

Having no other option, took her along with me. We dropped the check. There was a fruit shop just in front, so felt let me grab something for her. Here is the conversation -

ನಾನು: ಚಿನ್ನಿ, ಏನು ಬೇಕು ? apple ಬೇಕಾ?

ಚಿನ್ನಿ: ಹ್ಞೂ

ನಾನು: ಅರ್ಧಾ ಕಿಲೋ apple ಕೊಡಪ್ಪ. ಮತ್ತೆ ಏನು ಬೇಕು? orange ಬೇಕಾ ?

ಚಿನ್ನಿ: ಬ್ಯಾಡಾ, ಯಾಪು, ಚೊಲೊ ಇಲ್ಲ.

ನಾನು: ಅಯ್ಯೋ ದೇವರೇ ????
ಚಿನ್ನಿ: strawberry ಬೇಕು !!!
ನಾನು: strawberry ಏಲ್ಲಿ ?
ಚಿನ್ನಿ: ಅಲ್ಲಿ!!!
ನಾನು: ಓ ಓ ಓ . ಸರೀ, ಒಂದು ಬಾಕ್ಸ್ ಕೊಡಪ್ಪ
ಚಿನ್ನಿ: uuuummmmaaaa , (ಒಂದು ಮುತ್ತು ಕೊಟ್ಳು)

Even N had not kissed me for gifting her an expensive watch!!!
Conclusion: Small things, make you happy, share your joy.