never been this late to jot a thing on my blog.. obviously, nothing was happening in my life.. my love is away and managing the kids and family eats up my time.. yoyo... and sunday was cool with time out for a trip to the library with the kids..they really enjoy being there... sans the reluctance to get out!! hardly a minute after entering the library, i saw their hands full.. the elder one had already packed her hands with whatever Enid Blyton she could lay her hands on.. the younger one was randomly 'ransacking' stuff.. embarrassing to stay the least! somehow, i cajoled them to part with some of them allowing to keep only a handful of Noddy series and a few 'pooh pooh' stuff. the younger one was angry...he wanted to hold every single noddy book on sight.. ahem.. somehow i managed to get outta there, holding my single piece of fiction..:-) a day well spent after waging a fierce battle with the kids, literally true....
elsewhere, in the US city of texas..soon after hurricane katrina eating out the entire neworleans, her sister rita has lashed out at huston and other cities in texas.. looks like they have learnt from the past.. this time, the evacuation did the trick, no casualties reported yet... well, i was not really surprised by the 160Km traffic jam in the process of getting outta the battle grounds.. when every single house hold has a car-that runs down a little further to every single member in every single family-it really is possible.. all u see would be an endless row of cars, cars of every size.. i think this is high time the officials thought about a well maintained and effective public transport system, where buses and trams would be the key carriers..
and the hurricane season is going to be over by november or so.. promising another year of peace, snow and rains... and of course those cute little tulips of every color imaginable!
so long
roy
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Monday, September 26, 2005
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Story time Kids...Enid Blyton All the Way!!
ever since my daughter joined KG, i have been frequenting the local lending library more often than i used to hang out there.. and i cant resist the company of my two little ones either.. every sunday, soon after lunch and a nap, three of us head to eloor lending library, hardly a km away from where we stay.. it would be post-lunch time there, employees amuse themselves savoring trivia at home and at the work place.. most of the shelves would sport a deserted look.. bibiliophiles usually visit the place after six or seven in the evening i guess...
well, we head straight to the kids' section.. of late, my daughter's favorite is enid blyton.. and papa himself has fallen in love with all the characters in the toy town of toy land.. Noddy, Big Ears, Tessy Bear, the mischevous Goblins, Dinah Doll, Martha Monkey etc...it is fun and suddenly i see that i re-live my childhood once again...true, a weirdly vicarious feeling..
post dinner time.. the kids take ther respective positions beside papa.. the elder one to the right and the litttle one to the left.. papa takes over to read stories from toy land.. the elder one listens with utmost curiosity that all i can hear would be her slow breaths.. the younger one would ask occassional trivia but would go back to the storyline after prompt answers from papa..noddy drives dinah doll to the market for shopping... and on the way, the goblins cast a spell on them... and soon noddy's car is down with a flat tyre.. and big ears comes, from no-where, for resue.. i enjoy each and every moment of reading stories to my kids.. it is fun and immensely rewarding, if you notice their beaming faces post story time.. and this occasion would, in all probability, be rare.. since they doze off in between, almost always!!!
if a day passes without a bed-time story, i terribly miss something.. needless to ask their opinion on this.. and soon, a time will come, when they pick and read books on their own... would i continue to read stories from enid blyton and disney land then..? you bet:-)
PS: papa keeps his habiit of reading serious fiction, as always.. currently reading Chick Soup for The Bride's Soul..
so long
roy
well, we head straight to the kids' section.. of late, my daughter's favorite is enid blyton.. and papa himself has fallen in love with all the characters in the toy town of toy land.. Noddy, Big Ears, Tessy Bear, the mischevous Goblins, Dinah Doll, Martha Monkey etc...it is fun and suddenly i see that i re-live my childhood once again...true, a weirdly vicarious feeling..
post dinner time.. the kids take ther respective positions beside papa.. the elder one to the right and the litttle one to the left.. papa takes over to read stories from toy land.. the elder one listens with utmost curiosity that all i can hear would be her slow breaths.. the younger one would ask occassional trivia but would go back to the storyline after prompt answers from papa..noddy drives dinah doll to the market for shopping... and on the way, the goblins cast a spell on them... and soon noddy's car is down with a flat tyre.. and big ears comes, from no-where, for resue.. i enjoy each and every moment of reading stories to my kids.. it is fun and immensely rewarding, if you notice their beaming faces post story time.. and this occasion would, in all probability, be rare.. since they doze off in between, almost always!!!
if a day passes without a bed-time story, i terribly miss something.. needless to ask their opinion on this.. and soon, a time will come, when they pick and read books on their own... would i continue to read stories from enid blyton and disney land then..? you bet:-)
PS: papa keeps his habiit of reading serious fiction, as always.. currently reading Chick Soup for The Bride's Soul..
so long
roy
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