Dancing to Kolaveri

As I recall, my first school picnic had been to Gannavaram airport and the Krishna river side near Vijayawada.

Anush had a wonderful time at her picnic at the Jade resort in Devanahalli. They seem to have eaten a lot as well as played a lot. She won some prize as well for one of the games.

The sore point-
She found it 'unfair' that her team got Kolaveri Di for the dance session they had! To me Kolaveri is a catchy song though some of the words are not okay for kids, but if they don't get the meaning and only use it while humming the song, then I am fine with it. I was surprised that her entire class ( as per her) did not find this song to be a likable dance number.

As some would say, "Good taste-u di" !

Guntur Paatalu Vinipistha

Tulika's blogathon calls and since most Tamil ones are covered and I do not know too many in Hindi or Marathi I decided to call in this one from my Guntur days

In Telugu-
Chukku Chukku raillu osthundhee
Dooram Dooram Jaragandee
Jo Jo Paapa yaydatthu
Laddo mittai thinipistha
Challanee kapi thaagistha

Translated-
Chuk Chuk comes the train
Please move aside
Sleepy baby don't cry
I will get you laddoos and sweets/ candy
I shall let you drink cool coffee!!

Wat err Post

On Saturday we watched Gods must be Crazy II with Anushka. Two curious ( bushmen?) children go to explore a novelty- a truck. They see drops of water leaking onto the ground from it and draw an analogy to God giving morning dew. They conclude that the tanker must be a Source of water!

The truck which is a poacher's, takes off. The kids frantically try to get off. They move on to the attached water tanker and into it as well. In doing so they discover a vast quantity of water- they have never seen so much water all at once! They are joyous .....at least for a while. So poignant.

Anushka and I had a discussion as to how there is no water in the desert except in the oasis. We spoke of the ship of the desert and other such details.

We then moved on to how sea water was different from river water but the sea is also getting dirtied by us

She recollected the thirsty crow which came to Anushka for water, who being clever, gave it a straw since its beak could not reach the water.
She laughed about our favourite 'humpy' camel who stored water like a fridge inside itself, for its own consumption.
She recalled how one of the first "manners" lessons we had taught her at home was to offer water to any guest/ visitor who comes over.

Then I spoke about how water was getting scare. How it was precious and how we needed to care for it.

Imagine not being able to have a shower bath ever again?
Not knowing how it is to splash colourful water at Holi?
Not being able to use water for painting?
Not being able to steam cook things? .... and so on.....

Till finally we came to Not being able to drink when and how much you are thirsty.

We sang the Karadi Song " Rain rain come again"


Anushka solemnly decided she would not play much with water - just a little bit, once in a while.
Some small drops contributing to the ocean of conservation!

Go here for an interesting book release from our favourites- Tulika.

Our favourite things

A couple of nights back , I was singing Raindrops on roses....favourite things from "The Sound of music." A truly lovely poignant song with an under current of nervousness and an attempt at reassurance.

Then I just made up an impromptu version with Anushka's favourite things.

Asked her what she thought was my favourite stuff and well she got a few right ( mostly actors, food and songs) and Navy supplied the rest.

We did one for Navy too.

Try it- it makes for great family bonding.


Mad momma did a post on how parents keep track of their children's likes and the viceversa leaves us pleasantly surprised. Then I remembered wanting to share this.