Rakhi 2007

Rakhi this year fell on August 28. This was Mamli & Bablu's 3rd Rakhi. Rohan Padhi (Gulu), my brother-in-law, visited us for Rakhi. Gayatri, my sister, had sent Rakhis for me and for Bablu (from her two daughters, Meghu & Chikoo).

We celebrated Rakhi in the morning.

Gulu had brought his camcorder and shot a movie of the proceedings.

 

Video Album 2 - Rakhi 2007

(Click image above to see the video on Picasa Web Albums)

Here is the embedded video.

Mamli & Bablu On Independence Day (August 15, 2007)

This year both Mamli & Bablu participated in the Independence Day celebrations in our complex (Steel & Mines, Srinagar Colony, Hyderabad). They had practiced a song each and sang them after the flag hoisting. Watch the videos below.

Mamli's Song

Bablu's Song

Flickr Slide Show On Blogger!

I saw this neat Flickr Slide Show app on Blogger Templates, a great place to find Blogger related information, tips & tricks etc.

This post is a test to see how things work. I will post instructions on the usage in a subsequent post.

 

Bablu's Experiments With MS Paintbrush

Bablu loves to play with the computer. When he is not playing games, he is drawing pictures with MS Paintbrush. I showed him how to save his paintings and he hasn't looked back since then. These are a few samples of his work

Bablu out of the Rat Race for two months!

Padmaja and I decided not to admit Bablu into play school after all. We will wait till September this year.

Let him be a baby for some more time! Get up late, have a late breakfast and then potter around the house all day... No point in forcing him so soon into the rat race that is life these days. He will be thrust into the mad mad world soon enough anyway!

Mamli unfortunately didn't have the same luxury when she was a baby. She started play school when she was just over a year old. At that time we didn't have any family support here in Hyderabad (not that we have any now!) and the live-in maid was a bum. The maid was harsh to Mamli when we were away and we thought it better to have her in school than spend the entire day with the maid.

The situation is better now. Mamli is all grown up and supports her little brother. So Bablu is not alone and has somebody to look out for him. The current maid is a little better than the first one. Not much but still an improvement over the first one.

We hope Bablu will enjoy his toddlerhood for a little while longer. Something his elder sister didn't get to do...

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No School for Bablu today

Yesterday evening Bablu seemed a little apprehensive about having to go back to school. Kept changing his mind about the whole thing. One minute he would rush off to look for his school bag and the next he would shake his head and say "no school".

Well, it was his lucky day today :-) It was raining throughout the morning and we decided to let him stay at home. No point in tempting fate and having him fall sick. Anyway, the boy was thrilled and jumped about the house all morning. Made Gunu late for work. Insisted she put on his favorite Nursery Ryhmes CD in the player before she left. She couldn't find the CD and called me while I was in the middle of a teleconference with the chaps at HQ (Oracle HQ, US). Anyway, she finally managed to get everything working and was allowed to leave :-)

I took Mamli to school today because of the rain. We picked up another class mate of her's along with her mother. They were trying to get an auto-ricshaw just outside our appartment complex and we gave them a ride to school. The traffic outside Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan Jubilee Hills was as bad as ever. Dropped off Mamli & her friend near the gate.

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Bablu's First Day At School

Bablu started play school today! We took him to the EuroKids at Ameerpet at 9.00 am. Mamli had already left for her school at 8.15. Gunu, Bablu & I drove to EuroKids. Bablu was excited at times and rather apprehensive the rest of the time :-)

Photographs: Set 1, Set 2

Anyway, he was fine initially. The classroom was full of kids, mostly crying for mommy. Bablu looked as if he would love nothing better than to burst into tears himself but held out as best as he could. Gunu went in with him while I stayed outside chatting with other parents. Gunu came out after a little while and I got a peek of Bablu sitting on the floor playing with a set of building blocks or something like that. I left shortly after that.

Gunu called up about 11.30 to say that she had dropped off Bablu at home and arrived at work. It seems the boy burst into tears a little while after Gunu left the class room and kept pointing towards the door. The poor chappie can only manage a few words in Oriya and has no Telugu, Hindi or English. Anyway, he quitened down in a little while and played a bit. Gunu and Bablu left the school at about 10.15 or so and returned home in an auto-rickshaw. Bablu threw a tantrum the minute he reached home, shouting "Daddy Gua, Mummy Gua...". "Gua" in Bablu-speak means gone/go/went away. His tantrum was about us leaving him alone with a bunch of strangers and going away. In typical Bablu fashion he kept quite till he got home and then started throwing things around :-)

Lets see what tomorrow brings!

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Jyotiraditya's First Birthday

Pictures of my son's first birthday on March 21, 2005. We cut a cake at home. Had a party the same weekend. See the website (www.satpathy.in) for more photographs.

Jyotiraditya Satpathy, my 1 year old son on his first birthday.

Jyotiraditya's first birthday cake. He was more interested in the matchbox than in the cake, which incidentally was from ICRISAT.

The candle flame was of course even more interesting and he desperately wanted to have a go at trying to touch it.

Finally. Time to cut the cake! Helped by elder sister Durgesh Nandini and mother Padmaja.

The chocolate cake was yummy. The orange stuff on my forehead is sindur from the Hanuman temple.

©by Gautam Satpathy. All rights reserved.

Holi Haii !!!

Holi, the festival of colors is a time to have a lot of fun. I will write more about Holi in a later post. For now, here are a few pictures of my daughter playing holi with some of her friends.

Holi Haii...

Niki, with Durgesh nandini in the background, filling her color spray gun...

Afshan, another friend of Durgesh Nandini.




Durgesh Nandini with her color spray gun...

©By Gautam Satpathy. All rights reserved

Jyotiraditya being Naughty

Jyotiraditya or Bablu, as we call him at home is growing up to be a handful. He is naughty and he is an angel. We love him a lot. Here are some pictures of his recent antics. Mamli, my daughter, gave him a crayon and a piece of paper because he was crying. The little tyke went and drew all over the dinning room floor. We had a really tough time getting the crayon marks off.

Jyotiraditya in a naughty mood. "I have a crayon!!! And the walls look lovely"

The floor was better than the wall. Look at those cute curves...

"Real cool, eh? Ya right." First time I had to rub crayon marks from a concrete floor. Ya right...

Sunday afternoon. One of those lazy, summer weekends when clothes are better off than on :-)

Jyotiraditya with mom, Padmaja.

With dad at Runway 9.

Flying Kites (Sankranti 2005)

On Sankranti this year we had a get together at Mathew's place in Secunderabad. Ravi, Vatshala, Padmaja, I along with Mathew and Nivedita. We had a good time in the late morning, then we went to buy kites and all the other stuff you need for flying kites. Came back with about 8 kites. A colleague of Mathew who is an expert at kite flying also joined us. Got back to the house in time for lunch.

After lunch we took the kids to the roof top and had a good deal of fun with the kites. The kids enjoyed themselves a lot. And so did we !!!

From left to right - Nikhil (Ravi's eldest son), Ananya (Mathew's Daughter) and Durgesh Nandini (My daughter). Getting ready for kite flying..

Mathew & Ananya with their kite...

Durgesh Nandini's kite...

Durgesh Nandini flying her kite...

Ravi & Nikhil with their kite.

Mathew showing Ananya how to tie a kite...

Jyotiraditya with Sangeeta. He was sleepy that day and rather out of it...

Ravi with Druvh, his second son.

Padmaja & Jyotiraditya...

Padmaja with Jyotiraditya and Vatshala with Druvh

By Gautam Satpathy. All rights reserved.