Time keeps running and infact it flies…. I am talking about
how early my little darling had grown up J
Chinnu is (my little nephew) 6 years old now.
Finally he joined a school 3 years back where he got
the “application as well as admission”(ChinnugaDu…Application form J) and now in 1st standard.
He is a very busy guy now…whenever I call him on phone, he
says “Atta….nenu koncham busy gaa unnanu, nuvvu weekend vaste manam aaram se
maaTlaDukundam(Atta, I am busy
now, if you come home in the weekend we can have talk lesiurely”.
As every kid, he is also very enthusiastic about learning
new things, and want everybody to think that he is best at what he learnt!!
He has his own little dreams…… he has his heros
identified…..his dad, Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar J
And he imagines himself that he is as good as his heroes.
Whenever I visit their house and have my lunch/dinner, he
prefers to sit with and chit chat while taking food.
Just before our lunch/dinner we both might have played
something or he might have shared with me what are all things happened between
my last visit and now….how well he played the other day how he colored
the pictures etc.
When it comes to eating food, as every child,he does not like some dishes,
and says no to them.
Then I tell him…that he should eat that particular dish and
why he should do it.
Whenever he plays cricket and he bats ,wherever the ball
goes, it is a sixer for him, and he feels very proud and say “ Atta, Dhoni
kuDa elaane six koTTaDu(Atta, Dhoni also striked 6 like this only)
“
Like that one day we played cricket and as usual he was very
proud that he did more runs than me.
Then we sat for lunch, and while having food he did not like
brinjal curry and said no to it.
I told him …..Chinnu, Dhoni vankaya kura tinTaaDu ,
anduke anta baaga sixer lu koDataaDu, nuvvu kuDa dhoni la bat cheyaali anTe,
vankaya kura tinaali(Dhoni is able to strike sixer because he eats brinjal
curry, if you also want to bat like Dhoni, you also have to eat Brinjal
Curry)”.
He reluctantly ate that dish though he does not like
it, as he does not want to miss the chance to play like Dhoni.
On other day, we were playing caroms and his care taker came
with milk and asked him to drink, he again said NO. By that time he was not
able to strike the coins with force. I told him that if he drinks milk he will
have strength to strike the coins. Immediately he drank the milk.
He thinks he is very taller (actually he is taller to his
age,, gone on both his parents), and always compares himself with his Dad, Mom
and me. He says to me “when I come to 2nd Standard, I will be more
taller than you. Whenver I visit him, he never forgets to measure how tall he
is compared to me J
Another day, we had this usual talk and compared our heights
and he asked me to wait until he joins 2nd standard. Then we were
having food, and he said no to snake gourd curry. I told him,” snake gourd is a
very tall vegetable, if you eat it then you will become taller even before you
join 2nd Standard”. Then he ate it.
Like this, I always make him to eat by telling some story
related to what he wants to excel.
Swaroop scolds me for this…that I am making fool of
little kid J
And then happened the incident- French and Pappu Annam….
The other day, when we were starting the lunch, his mother told his grand mom (My
mom is his teacher at home) that they started teaching him French in the
school, and since his grand mom is new to French, she suggested his grand mom
to write all the words he learnt in school in a book, so that he can read those
words regularly.
He was also very excited that he is finally learning
something which his grand mom does not know, and now he can teach her. He
uttered 1 or 2 French words that he learnt and started feeling proud as if he
already knew the whole language.
I asked him that he should teach French to everybody at home
as no one knows it.
We were having lunch, and as usual he said “No” to the dish,
this time it is Pappu Annam.And as usual I started my story to make him to eat it.
Being from “IT” family, he knows what Google is from his 4
years old age.
I started saying…. “Chinnu, google lo em raasaaro
telusa….(Chinnu, you know what is written in google).” and I turned to my mom
and continued “ Amma, nuvvu kuDa vinu, google lo French gurunchi em raasaaru
anTe……(Amma, you also listen, what they have written in google about French
is…)” and I waited for few seconds to complete my sentence as I was eating……
before I continued …..immediately chinnu said “ Pappu Annam tinTe French baaga
Vastundi ani raasara Atta google lo?(
Did they write in google that if we eat Dal rice we can learn French,
Aunt?” and he took the small bowl in which the dal is kept and he started
eating J
I was very surprised and started laughing that how he
correctly he could expect that I will relate eating this dal rice to learning
French!! He remembered the incidents happened earlier and correlated to what I
am going to say.
Well, now I joined French classes at office…..have to wait
and see how much I excel in French as I regularly eat Daal Rice J who knows, Chinnu may come and
ask me how much French I learnt as I don’t say no to the dish J
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