Jayeeta Majumdar Singhee

As throwing the shoe becomes a global trend, how could India be far behind?

While this shoe went to Chidambaram, I would prefer it being thrown at Tytler himself, or maybe Sonia whose generosity towards this useless bugger seems to be getting him one clean chit after the other. Or maybe the CBI buffoons’ show us what a big joke the organization basically is. But no one in my view deserves this show more than the Sikh Prime Minister himself. Talk about letting your community down…yeah yeah I know, he is “supposed” to be above all this :(

While on politicians, you can get to know a little more about your MP/MLA http://www.nationalelectionwatch.org/ before you go and caste that very important vote of yours.

No no..this is not an andolan for making Cha Lover and Tracer Buller stop posting multiple blogs in one day!!!

This is more about the last three Indian authored books I read…and the fact that all three of them have the "Jessica Lal" case as a main plot. Surely, there’s something amiss when you see all these writers want to write about one murder trial, and each one outdoing the other in bad writing? Agreed it is a gripping story and it managed to catch the eye-balls of an entire nation…but then…whatever happened to creative writing, and thinking beyond the known and the obvious. So if you really want to save some time, please to pass these books: Six Suspects, White Tiger, and The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay.

That said, I think I will actually want to keep my initial thoughts of andolan intact. I mean, imagine a day when your rss actually doesn’t update multiple times with the latest on these ladies’ blogs :-p

Well, I am sure Calvin was an inspiration for Ishaan's character in Taare Zameen Par. Haven’t read much on this, though with all those Captain Spiff alter ego cartoons thrown in between the movie, I am sure Calvin was Aamir's main inspiration.

Came across this strip today, which tells me there must have been more things picked from Calvin’s character. Remember Ishaan’s flip book?



Speaking of which, I think I read way too many Calvin’s while preg. Look at this snap of Ishaan. He has a way with girls :-p. He has this “I am listening but don’t care” attitude written all over his face. This was one of the many girl firend’s he made in Coorg by the way.

Yes, I know it's early to pick the 2009 quote of the year, but I dare anyone to top this :-p. For me, this is the quote of my lifetime!!

Saturday night, Ishaan was playing with the microphone on my dad’s comp. A few minutes on, and Rima (Manu Kaku’s eldest) asked him to repeat whatever she said on the mike.

Rima: Hi, I am Ishaan Singhee.

Ishaan: Hi, I am Ishaan Singhee.

Rima: And I am half marwari and half Bengali.

Ishaan: And I am half marwari, and FULL Benagali.

Yes yes, my life is fulfilled now. There’s not anything more that I need to prove to my FULL marwari husband :-d

Last Saturday was Observation day for Ishaan’s parents. In a Montessori school that means Ishaan’s dad and mom get to watch him showing some of the things he has learnt at school. Ishaan as usual started with his favourite “belic tiles”…where he closes his eyes and pairs tiles after touching them.

He then went on to show me some pretty complex and long activities, like dinomial squares and the map of Asia. He knew most of the countries in Asia, some of them….mmm, dismal as it sounds, his mom and dad didn’t know :-p. Just so that you know, he knows all his continents :).

But the most important of them all came last. “Movable Alphabets”. Or the art of moving alphabets based on their sounds to make a word. Well guess what, my four year old Einstein did every one of those words given to him. The teacher simply looked around the school and picked up a word. Ishaan then moved his alphabets around to make that word.

And his mom smiled, smiled, and then smiled some more.


Ishaan with his teacher, Maria Anna


Thinking......


Mission Accomplished


And that ladies and gentlemen is my son's snap on the left. Eyes closed. Belic tiles. This snap of his appeared in a Montessori schools association magazine. Didn't I tell you that's his favourite activity?

Ishaan loves to cook. He loves making nimbu pani, helping me around the kitchen, putting plates, making imaginary dosas on his cookery set (yes, he has them too) and even watching Cookery shows with me (in case there is no cartoon show of his interest).

On an unrelated note, there are few things more annoying than realizing that your half bong son is more impressed with marwari food than bong ones. His taste buds simply go slurp slurp with kadhi, bhujiya, papad, golgappe, shikanji and all things CRAP. He simply has no taste at all for begun bhaja, panch mishali or shorshe anything or any of those great bong dishes that his mommy craves for most times. The only bong thing he loves his phuchka, which his dadu gets every evening while in Uma Nagar colony with us. OK, OK...maybe he likes that because that tastes like his maru golgappa :-p

Ishaan’s favouritest poem currently:
Ghar me bhi Sabzi, School me bhi sabzi.
Oye Rabjiiiiiii (with that rabji in full throttle)
Courtesy: Chibi_Maruko-chan

Meanwhile, here’s a sample of what he did with me on one of those lazy Sundays. To escape sleeping by 10:00 PM.

By the way, do check out Tina's cookery blog, Slurrrrrrrp! I don't think I got the number of R's right though.

Lakshmy sent me this Garfield strip, which I just just had to share.



While on Garfield, one of Ishaan's first and favouritest movies was Garfield, and all of us at home (Sanjay, Simi and me)..especially Simi and me had the lines by-heart. Because we watched it atleast once a day...most days. And then we also watched the sequel as many times. If you don't have it at home...get it. Its a definite keep for the kids.

Adults: You may not find the adult humour found in the original comic strips, but good fun nonetheless.

Movie 1: Garfield
Movie 2: Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)

While on Garfield, this next one reflected my state of mind...completely.