Gee… *blush* I was asked 5 questions this wednesday about my Daddy-pan on Indian Mom’s Connect 😀
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Tongue in cheek !
- Mrs Hitchwriter says we love marriage wala’s cant really be called the ones who did love marriage, infact she thinks arranged marriage wala’s actually fall in love and marry, where as most love marriage wala’s have weighed all options and then fall in love !!!!! 🙄
- Strange how when the rest of the world is switching from plastic to paper… Parle has gone from paper to plastic… Parle-G and Krackjack are prime examples… Krackjack is one of my most favourite biscuits and I seriously believe the plastic packaged Krackjack is just not at all the same as earlier while it was in paper…
- Once on a train journey during college I was humming, “Kahi door jab din dhal jaaye…” and hone waali Mrs Hitchwriter asked me to stop as people were listening and I just said, so what, I sound like Mukesh… and a guy besides us interrupted and told hone waali Mrs Hitchwriter, “actually he does sound like Mukesh !” sigh… I seriously never have felt like hugging a guy other than my son… but that day, then, THAT was the one guy I should have hugged !!!!!!!! 😛 😛 😛 😛
no logics…
I am a Jain by birth, by “Karma” though I dont qualify for any religion.
I simply need a strong logic to back up everything and unless there is some really logical scientific reason to explain, why I am supposed to do so and so… I wont do it… However if my free mind wishes to do it I might as well do it…. So basically I do what I like and what I feel is right and cannot toe a line… just coz a Jain is supposed to do it…
I am thankful to my best friend Vijay for introducing me to the world of eggs and flesh ! I simply love eggs and chicken and am a proud meat eating Indian !! naa… I dont care about jain or hindu or muslim !! never have, never will !!!
I am more than happy to eat cakes on christmas at my friend Vaibhav’s (christian) house and most most most pleased at the lovely Chicken Biryani Asif’s mom makes on Eid!!! She is my favourite cook !
Now… I married a non jain girl…. who also used to love eating chicken ! In her house they dont cook nonveg, as mom in law doesnt eat or cook, but they always indulge outside in restaurants….
Now strangely, my girlfriend who loves eating chicken, suddenly marries me and decides to quit eggs and non veg !!
No in my house this is not allowed most definitely… If my mom comes to know about this post… I am banned from entering her house… !! 😦 thankfully she doesnt read my blogs
But I still eat, never let my mom know ! My wife was to do the same thing, eat and not tell at home, but she quit ! why ? i dont know !!
Than my wife does “ekashana” (eating just once a day and consuming only boiled water, water is only allowed between sunrise and sunset, after that no water either) in our festival “Paryushana”, this festival comes once a year for 8 days in the monsoon.
So she ate only once for 8 days, now I have never done half a fast or even an attempt ever, nor has my mom ever done a fast, nor has my dad done a fast ever !! Neither my brothers… who both are also not jains by “karma”
Maybe she was trying to impress her mom in law, this was just after our marriage, who was very proud of her Daughter in law doing all the tapasya…. but the fact remains she was not forced, my mom herself could never fast !
Two days back, was “Mahavir Jayanti” … our samaj in Indore had a function and we were invited, the moment I read the invitation, I announced, we or atleast I are not going.
But missus, non jain by birth, decides she has to go… I live with my brother who is married to a jain girl, this jain girl says she doesnt feel like going to the function and will stay home and eat….
My wife accompanied by a cousin’s wife… This cousin is also my boss… goes to the function, please note, my jain cousin is married to an assamee again a non jain !
So eventually these two Non Jains go and attend a jain function while I and my cousin are at office on a Jain holiday, not just do the ladies go to the samaj function which are not parties by any means, lots of silly bhajans and a few games… these ladies then come to office and advise us that we should go to such functions… or we will be left out of the samaj !!!!
I rarely visit any temples or derasar’s (jain temple) …. the last I can remember is going to an Ayappa temple about a year back, coz my son dragged me to it as he had been to the temple from his school and he loved the decoration !!!! (amazingly all that my mom or wife cannot get me to do, my son can easily )
Very often I am given a lecture that I should be visiting derasar’s and samaj functions more often by missus citing or else our son will not become jain !!! (I aint a jain you aint a jain than why do you want to make your son a jain ? Cant we be Indians ? no religion ! )
When I try and feed eggs to my son, my wife objects ! She wants me to allow him to select his own religion ! She says he is a born Jain you should allow him to grow up as a jain and than he may select his own religion !
I am like whats the logic behind all this ??
( i can understand if i want my wife to change etc… but when I am least concerned why is she so concerned… no matter how much explanation… she thinks she is a jain, that I am a jain and I must try and be a jain and most importantly my son must be a jain !! )
Over the years, I have been hammering away at my wife and now I have got her to slowly start eating eggs and the gravy from the chicken… but I can never stop her from stopping eating roots and greenery during “Paryushan” or from her wanting to follow all Jain customs…
Religion is a highly complicated matter isn’t it ? Why people do certain things is totally beyond me… as my wife’s logics…. which I have questioned many times and she just doesnt have any answers…. just like that she says always !
What also strikes me is the uncanny ability of women to accept changes and try and adapt to different things… Would a man do these things… even if he were asked ?
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THE TIMES OF FATHERHOOD
Being a father is a rather challenging job. At different stages there are different challenges, these days, my son is near his 5th birthday and has well and truly entered his question anything & everything phase and yes, question all the answers TOO ‘phase.
No matter what is happening, there always is a why ? When you reply there can be a WHERE ?, WHAT ?, HOW ? or a WHY again. When you are not able to reply again, or you don’t know there is again a WHY ? & than when you refuse to answer you are told,
“Adha tamne to kai khabar nathi.” (dad you don’t know anything in Gujarati)
When you say Yes, I know nothing,
again,
WHY ?
and than
more questions ..
Didn’t you go to school ?
Didn’t you ask your dad questions ?
Didn’t your mom teach you ?
Impossible to beat him eh !
Than suddenly the attention will shift to lets do homework. This is one job that somehow I am blessed with, he writes his stuff very very neatly without stopping or pausing, even drawing keeps him occupied and he gets lost in it.
However I am one father who never has any ambitions that my son would become a champ in his studies, I have hated studies all my life and I shall be more than happy if my son also dislikes studies. I don’t want him to come first in the class, ever. I think the first rankers are snobs and no arguments on this.
My inner wish is he become India’s fastest bowler ever, and he bounce each and every batsman of the opposing teams, injuring them and giving them the scare of their lives. I have had enough of opposing teams always bouncing our players and hitting them. (however the pitches these days scare me if taking up fast bowling is a wise option).
However so far I have not forced him to play cricket, it seems he doesn’t like it, coz when cricket comes he cannot watch his cartoons. This is one area where I and my son cant seem to agree. We fight over the remote, while he used to win always earlier, slowly but surely now he has started to allow me to watch cricket !
I at times am sure he will not become a cricketer as my Mom wanted me to study all her life and I never did, she wanted me to be a ranker but never after 5th grade I could manage being in the top 20. However whether he becomes a fast bowler (please son, India needs you) or a leg spinner is not in my hands but to fantasize about it is surely my right !!
However I sincerely hope he can be something that he will enjoy doing. Earn while doing something he loves & not something he loathes and I am sorry but it is beyond me how can a person enjoy stiching patients, or making audit reports, or fixing bugs in the computer or machinery or making presentations on excel sheets or by hosting dinners to sell cotton.
I am sure fun is in what Sachin, Veeru & Ishant do, in what Bryan Adams or Rehman do, in what Sonu Nigam or Kay Kay do, in what Zakir Hussain does, in what painters or photographers do. Surely fun is in jobs of Rajdeep Sardesai or that guy in the series Man v/s Wild on National Geographic. Surely Chetan Bhagat’s or Veer Sanghvi’s enjoy their work more than me, fun surely is in lives of travel writers, movie critics but it surely is not in offices where you reach after becoming a Doctor or CA or an Engineer.
God, I have a tendency of veering away from the subject. However, coming back to some of the few other challenges :
Son : Lets say ABC (alphabets)
Me : Ok, ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (that’s easy we say it together)
Son : Adha, A says Apple. Me : rite. Son : B says Banana, C says Chikoo, D says… Adha, which fruit starts from D ??
Me : mmm Dry fruits !!
Son : That is not a fruit, there are so many dry fruits…
Me : Oh… who told you ?
Son : I know
Me : well D se…. (scratching my head) [ Wait dear son, so many people reading my blog, yes readers, will you tell me what fruit starts with a D and a E and a H and a Q and X and Y a Z please…. Urgently needed. ] I am at wits end. No dear readers, its not a for apple, b for ball, c for cat naah not so easy, its fruits starting from each alphabet… these new generation kids I tell you.. All we used to say as kids was mango, orange, banana, papaya… we didnt even know kiwi fruits existed !
You think a father’s life is easy, think again !!
& hey dont you think it ends with just fruits !
No no no…. its not just this…. You also have to name 5 animals/insects/birds with each alphabet. Fruits and vegetables starting with each alphabet.
Then ofcourse in between there is translation, wanna know what ???
Ok
Son : Adha, What do you call a Hyena in gujarati ?
Me : Zarakh.
Son : Hindi ?
Me : Lakkadbagga.
Son : Kutchi ?
Me : Hriday, I don’t know. ( sometimes he takes, I don’t know as an answer )
Son : Adha what do we call a platypus in gujarati ?
Me : Platypus only, its not an animal found in Gujarat so it doesn’t have a gujarati name.
Son : Don’t just say anything, you don’t know anything.
Son : Adha, what do you call a Dinosaur in Gujarati ?
Me : Hriday, lets stop this, we will sing poems.
Geeee, my life is in an intelligence crisis. Dinosaur in Hindi anyone ?? Platypus in hindi anyone ?? There are more… Walrus, Dugong, Hedgehog ….
My parents were really smart to not introduce me to any other animals other than cat, dog, cow, goat, buffalo or lion, tiger, fox, cheetah, elephant… but those damn animal books me and my wife brought thinking of educating him…..
We forgot we weren’t qualified enough to get such books.
Than suddenly : Son : “Adha, when will we go to see Dinosaurs ?”
Me : Hriday, dinosaurs don’t exist, they all died years ago.
Son : Don’t lie.
Me : Really, one meteor came from the space on the earth and there was a big explosion and the atmosphere got very hot and they all died, now they don’t exist !
Son : waaaaaa….. sob sob…. I want to see Dinosaurs….. (weeping)
Boss is this a reason to cry ? Dinosaurs died years ago, what can I do ?? (no matter what, he has to see them he won’t stop wailing if you say the animal is dead.) I am going to kill this Steven Spielberg for making that silly Jurassic movie…. And the channels who keep showing that movie and all the dinosaur cartoons, the kid is obsessed with dinosaurs !!! I don’t know whats with this new generation kids and dinosaurs, can’t they be like us as kids just be happy with the puppy on the roadside or a cat ! If we saw a pet rabbit somewhere we would be as pleased as punch.
This new generation wants a T-rex as a pet !!!!!!! No matter what you tell him he will not stop, eventually ok ok, they exist in Africa and we will go to Africa and see them.
Son : When will we go to Africa ?
Me : Son, we don’t have a passport so we cannot go now.
Son : When will we get a passport ?
Me : Son, we have to go to Bharuch for that, our residence proof is there.
Son : But we live in Indore ! Me : But we have no proof that we live in Indore !
Son : Our Chowkidar will tell we live here !!
Me : Ohh… okk… we will get the pass port soon… ok…. Ok
Son : Dad… now we say Ka, Kha, Ga in hindi… Nahheeeeeeeeeee…… geee….
While I learn Hindi Barakhdi….. its ta ‘da until next time buddies…. Like I said its really really challenging !!!! But I am going to overcome the challenges surely !
Btw how many of you can say Ka, Kha Ga fluently by heart ??? just to make me feel a lil better !! perhaps !!
Reply to a tag ;)
I was tagged by Shayari and it has now been a few weeks since any one tagged me… lol… suddenly I feel very keen to do this tag…. so here I go :
100 things about me
1. Last beverage → Coffee
2. Last phone call → 5 mins back
.3. Last text message → Rupee getting stronger, now at 50.48. (sent this to boss)
.4. Last song you listened to → Aa Dekhe Zara Kisme Kitna Hai Dum.
5. Last time you cried → while singing Meri Maa Mumma a few days back when i was going home ….
SIX HAVE YOU EVER:
1. Dated someone twice → Yes
2. Been cheated on? → Na
3. Kissed someone & regretted it? → Yea
4. Lost someone special? → Yes
5. Been depressed?→ Yes
6. Been drunk and threw up? → Na
HAVE YOU:
1. Made new friends → Yes
2. Fallen out of love → Yes.
3. Laughed until you cried → Many times 🙂
4. Met someone who changed you → Yes, Many people have left impressions on me. 🙂
5. Found out who your true friends were → Yes
6. Found out someone was talking about you → Yes
7. Kissed anyone on your friend’s list → Yes
8. Made the first Move → Yes
10. Do you have any pets → Nope, they should be free and on their own.
11. Do you want to change your name → No
12. What did you do for your last birthday → Attended calls, went to office, and had dinner outside as wife would just not cook.
13. What time did you wake up today – 03.30 AM
14. What were you doing at midnight last night→ sleeping.
15. Name something you CANNOT wait for → rite now going to the zoo on sunday !!
16. Last time you saw your father → 8th March
17. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life → Have a lil more money.
18. Most visited webpage → GMAIL Inbox
ABOUT U:
1. What’s your name→ Dhiren
2. Nicknames→ Dhirubhai, Dhiru, Dhir, as a kid i was quite healthy with chubby cheeks and in Baroda people would call me Dhir Dhir Gatta…. and i would love it then… but its really silly.
4. Zodiac sign → Saggitarius.
5. Male or female or transgendered → Male.
6. Elementary→ what is this ?? sorry no clue…
7. Schools → St. Xaviers, Mumbai & Jamnagar & Rungta Vidya Bhavan, Bharuch
8. Colleges → M.S.U Baroda (Marriage Setting University, Baroda)
10. Hair color → Black
11. Long or short → normal, short.
16. Height → 5’7”
17. Do you have a crush on someone? → Sonam Kapoor these days.
18: Ever been in love? Yeah, lol lots of times actually
19. Piercings → wanted to do it but my wife, then my girl friend didnt think it was cool, so didnt try.
20. Tattoos → Nope.
21. Righty or lefty → Righty
FIRSTS :
23. First piercing → N.A.
24. First best friends → Vijay from my childhood. My wife from my teenages, Nigam from my work days.
26. First sport you joined→ Pakada Pakdi.
27. First pet → had brought a stray puppy home once for 3-4 days but Mom got fed up eventually.
28. First vacation → Mahabaleshwar with mom and dad, dont remember a thing.
29. First concert → In first year in college, our rock show that happens on 31st January. Had a whale of a time !!
30. First crush → The first one that I remember was for a teacher when I was in class 4. But I am sure I had crushes before that tooo…. girls were a fasciantion always and will always remain… !!
49. Eating → I love eating, when at home I am constantly munching.
50. Drinking → I love drinking fruit juices.
52. I’m about to → be in trouble, havent followed boss’ instructions on the dollar trying to be a smart ass and the rate has gone awry… I still have 2 hours and I hope the dollar doesn’t make me pay.
53. Listening to → rubbish conversations in office.
YOUR FUTURE :
58. Want kids? → Nope. I have one son and thats it for me !
59. Want to get married ? → again ? geee…. my wife will kill me if i answer this !
60. Careers in mind? → Work for National Geographic or the Indian Cricket team, take me please…. I will work as a porter, as a drinks carrier…. anything… just take me pls.
68. Lips or eyes → eyes
69. Hugs or kisses → always both, but if they are from a female… from males, nothing thank you very much.
70. Shorter or taller → Taller
71. Older or Younger → A li’l older. I love women older than me !!! 😉
72. Romantic or spontaneous → spontaneous.
73. Nice stomach or nice arms → Nice arms. now…
74. Sensitive or loud → Sensitive
75. Hook-up or relationship → nothing, whatever i have now is enough !
77. Trouble maker or hesitant → I aint a trouble maker for sure, not so hesitant either.
HAVE YOU EVER :
78. Kissed a stranger → No. actually guys can never kiss a strange girl and get away…. however the girls do have this option…. guys are always game …. lolz 😛
79. Lost glasses/contacts → Yea, many times, glares.
81. Sex on first date → Lol…. ha ha ha…. no comments !! 😉
82. Broken someone’s heart → Yes
83. Had your own heart broken → Yes.
85. Been arrested → No. had a couple of close shaves though !
86. Turned someone down → I would never turn a female down earlier…. sadly after marriage none has approached…. 😦
87. Cried when someone died → Yes
88. Liked a friend that is a girl/boy? → Yes
DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
89. Yourself → Yes. But at times I do have my doubts.
90. Miracles → Happen.
91. Love at first sight → no way… lust, yes !
92. Heaven → yes and it is in India !
93. Santa Clause → No, I dont believe in it.
94. Peace in this lifetime → will come once I have sufficient money. No I dont want to be a crorepati, but a lil more than right now… or please get this f@#$ing sensex up…. my investments have gone down the drain…. Once sensex is back at 21000 I am sure I will be at peace.
95. Kissing on the first date? I wouldnt mind !
96. Angels → Exist, in the form of small kids.
97. Is there one person you want to be with right now? → Yes.
98. Had more than one boyfriend/girlfriend at one time in the past? → Yea.
99. You will die Young → I wouldnt mind. But not till I and my wife explore a lil more of India !
100. You will end with the one you love and learn to love the one you are with – I am with the one I love already !!
Whew it didnt take a lot of time !!!!
Now …. I tag….. should I ???
Tell tell ??
Ok Ok….
dont run ….
I leave it to all of you to take this tag voluntarily.. if you do take it, let me know in the comments !!!!!!! 🙂
Intellectual me … !!!!!!
Just did the test, didnt want to post right away as wanted more people to read the mango post I just posted… I want you all to drool bout the mangoes !!!! I worry too much and want the comments a bit tooo much !!! 😉 but what the heck… I’ll post this anyways… Can’t resist either…
“INTPs are relatively easy-going and amenable to most anything until their principles are violated, about which they may become outspoken and inflexible. They prefer to return, however, to a reserved albeit benign ambiance, not wishing to make spectacles of themselves.”
Yes I agree to the above.
– INTP Profile (TypeLogic)”The INTP is above all a thinker and his inner (private) world is a place governed by a strong sense of logical structure. Every experience is to be rigorously analysed, the task of the INTP’s mind is to fit each encountered idea or experience into a larger structure defined by logic.”
Yes I agree to the above.
– An INTP Profile (intp.org)”INTPs live in the world of theoretical possibilities. They see everything in terms of how it could be improved, or what it could be turned into. They live primarily inside their own minds, having the ability to analyze difficult problems, identify patterns, and come up with logical explanations. They seek clarity in everything, and are therefore driven to build knowledge. They are the “absent-minded professors”, who highly value intelligence and the ability to apply logic to theories to find solutions.”
n yes again I absolutely agree with nodding my head firmly to the above…
– Portrait of an INTP (The Personality Page)
“The Architects’ distant goal is always to rearrange the environment somehow, to shape, to construct, to devise, whether it be buildings, institutions, enterprises, or theories. They look upon the world — natural and civil — as little more than raw material to be reshaped according to their design…”
well a bit to the above…
– INTP – The Wizard (Lifexplore)”likes solitude, not revealing, unemotional, rule breaker, avoidant, familiar with the darkside, skeptical, acts without consulting others”
Not exactly me …
Some others who are like me… :
Abraham Lincoln – American President, Albert Einstein – German physicist, Charles Darwin – English naturalist, Meryl Streep – actress… there are also 5 other US presidents like me… unfortunately they don’t show any Indians…. it would have been fun to know if I am like APJ KALAM Azad tooo… wish he would take the test !!!!! 🙂
I am just thrilled to know I am intellectual !!!!! yippeeeee…. Its a fun test… if you want to here is the link : http://www.mypersonality.info/personality-types/
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