PTM Meeting

Looks like I am the only mom cribbing about the children's progress.

I am worried about the fact that the kids do not seem to be reading perfectly well in Hindi

I am worried that 3 digit subtraction was not given much focus while the school insists they had done it.

The coordinator assures that the new Hindi teacher will make things better.

While the report is good I have this vague sense that perhaps I am not focusing enough on their studies. 

Perhaps homework is not comprehensive enough for parents to understand how much the school is doing.

So I need to make them read more, practice more sums and focus on hand writing.

Still trying.

All Rounder

The fight was on.

The kids all wanted to bat and no one wanted to ball.

I said, how will you become Dhoni if you don't do batting, bowling everything.

Mamma, Dhoni does not ball, he bats and does wicket keeping

Silver

Ojas gets school rank 2 in maths olympiad.
I hereby faint.


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On World Fragrance Day

Here is my top recent favourites after rejoining the dark side post the escape four six years ago. My last update on this topic was 6 years ago. 

Elie Saab- very unique, floral with accents of green, almost like a betel leaf, first perfume from this designer. Mark my words, this one is a winner

Narcisso Rodridges For her...very chic, flowery, powdery.

Be Delicious for women- crisp, fresh apple, floral, very diffusive. 

Body Burberry- sweet, floral, vanillic, Powdery, musky.

Issey Miyake- very fresh, lily, marine, sharp. I have developed a taste for very marine, sea breeze fragrances, an extension of my liking for lily  (or muguet as we call it in our industry) fragrances. 

Kouros for men- evocative of leather, tobacco, woods...I would gladly wear it myself. 

Politeness

Ojas- I don't want to go to school tomorrow.

Tejas advices- ask her properly without crying and she may give you leave. 

Sing this

Baba Black sheep, have you any wool.
Compare it with...

Rock on socha hai...

Gol kyon hai zameen...


Did you know both use the same notes of the Sargam....albeit different tune and scale.

I didn't until Tejas pointed it out to me.

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New Words in the Vocab

Ojas- Mamma, S is Tejas' fan

Tejas- I dont have autograph

Me- What is autograph?

Tejas- what we scribble. my handwriting is very bad. how will I give autograph?

Overheard Ojas remarking on a ghost story- that is bull shit.

The school carnival

Proved to be quite nice in fact. I was quite loathe to sacrifice a weekend chasing the kids all over their school but surprisingly they were well behaved.

The stalls were quite good too and if my weight and figure were standard size, I could have indulged myself.
The horse cantering was the best part I believe. They also got a few prizes here and there at the counters.

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Jamming

To their favourite song socha hai from rock on.

Believe me its simple to play and the effect is awesome on the right instrument. Overdrive that is....

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Bill checking

Do you ever check your bills after paying for your veggies/ grocery?

I make it a point to run my eyes through it and pay attention to atleast the bigger numbers.

Not that I suspect them to cheat but sometimes there could be mistakes.

Like a discount promised may not have been deducted. 

Or perhaps something else got billed from their checklist of codes.

Yesterday I got billed Rs 300 for bread. I almost did not check my bill yesterday and was walking off without taking it. 

Just out of habit I ran my eyes over it and the 300 figure jumped out at me. I wondered if Ojas had slipped something in. 

The shop guy realised that the bread had a wrong sticker on it!!