10 Reasons why Daughters are better than Husbands

Daughters are a blessing, we all know that! But have you ever noticed how good daughters are for your ego? Have you ever realised how good daughters make you feel? Rather have you ever seen how much better they are than your husbands. Navya, in the recent past has made me spell out some reasons why daughters are better than your husbands.

1. They Notice, they Compliment: Unlike blindfolded husbands, daughters take notice when you wear a new dress or get a haircut. And they don;t stop there, they even compliment.
2. Love to talk to you: Daughters can go on talking to you endlessly. They listen to you, love to hear you talk and share things to the final details. Unlike 'youknowwho'.
3. Say Sorry: Daughters say sorry when their mommies are hurt by them unlike their 'feel nothing, turn to stone' fathers. They apologize, complete with the ear holding and sit ups etc.
4. Hug you and Kiss you: hugs and kisses are never rationed when you have daughters. They want to hug you when you are happy, when you are sad, when you are cooking and even when you are in the toilet. Bear hugs and wet kisses are a present daughters come with each day.
5. Ogle at you when you dress up: If you need an audience and your own personal admiration choir, then get a daughter. When putting on make up, little girls are completely in awe of you. They look at you with delectable pride when mothers are putting on make up and getting ready and the blizzard of compliments start even before the task is complete.
6. Say I Love you a dozen times: While hubby dear things the 3 magical words are 'Pass the Remote' or 'Chicken for dinner', daughters know that 'I Love you' a dozen times a day is the magic portion to get the groove going. 
7. Hold hands while sleeping: While the husband steers clear of the hand while sleeping, your daughter will hold it long enough for you to get tired. Hold hands, hug tightly and sleep is the order for the night with tiny girls.
8. Shares the Remote: While the remote is the 'remote' property of the husband, daughters are different. They will share the remote control for TV's with their moms and don't assert that their bosses in the living room.
9. Looks at you when talking: Daughters stare in your eyes dreamily when talking to you and not at a screen. Your little girls are always awestruck by you and always look at you when you speak unlike your 'man' who prefers to look at a screen than you.
10. Has the household weaved around her little finger: Last but not the least, these little angels hold the key to the household. They have daddy around their tiny finger and have remote controlled access over him. They can make anyone do anything they want to. Especially make the daddies dance to their tune.

Dedicated to my Two Little Girls....

R

Of Pimples, School Bags and Band-Aids: Aboard the TSRS bus-sy

I didn't know mornings were this pretty. The nocturnal animal that I am, I always missed this part of a day when as they say ' the sun rises from the east'. I just could never make my lazy self to rise and shine with the initial rays. Now I am forced to do this and more.

With the first born starting school, I am up early in the AM. 6 is wakey-wakey time for me now which might be regular for several others but is 2 hours too early for me. Two tiffins, one child to bathe and feed and the self to look sane enough for the bus stop parent greetings! This is all that I can manage within an hour. What with the schools rule of parents accompanying a toddler to school for the first few days in the bus? It proved to be a blessing in disguise, it not only gave me inspiration to write this blog but also live the good ol' days.

Now school kids these days are poles apart from the time I was a school kid. We wore pleated skirts which almost touched the ankles. They wear shorts that are so high they don't have a measure in the Centimeters for it. The language they speak is also alien to most of us who winded up school in the early 90's. While we were stuck with 'haww, usne tujhe aisa kaha' and 'arre, tu meri best freind hain' and some more of 'chal, aaj college road se samosa khane chalte hain'. The kids of this millennium are way too cool with 'Come on, I ain't going to his party' and 'Eeks, like get your smug face off me, dude' and some more of 'Chill mate/babes, see you at starbucks in the PM'. I heard them all and understood just a bit.

Some of them, rather a lot of them have red, yello, printed, polka dotted Bandages on their knees, elbows, chin, finger and even cheeks. I wonder how so many managed to get hurt at the same time. The pimples are an even phenomenon on the adolescent ones but so diverse is their language.

The energy of the school bus of today's times has 'coolness' borrowed from the mornings, it seems. While there are those group of 9th grade girls with cool, neon bangles and funky, bright backpacks; there is also a group of 6th grade boys reading the morning newspaper and discussing their science project. Both are conversing in a lingo I cannot decipher. The former because I am too backward and the latter because the conversation is too smart for lesser mortals.

Even the toddlers on this bus are cooler then their worried moms who are accompanying them on their debut trip. Mine chooses a seat next to her neighbor-cum-classmate-cum-male-acquaintance(she says he isn't a friend cos boy's aren't so), buckles the seat belt and holds the front latch of the bus for support. Me, the mom struggles and shuffles in the bus seat almost till the school gates open. She walks with poise, holds the neighbor cum classmate cum acquaintance's hand, puts her school bag on and waves bye from the pit stop in school. I wipe the tear off and wonder! A 10th grader comes to me and tells me to chill and go home for a cuppa. She even pats my shoulder. I am so surprised at the grown-up support from the school kid that I am forced to say in their lingo and spell the abbreviation loud- OMG.

Where was I while this generation next was growing up? Not only are they cool but they are also so strong, informed, intelligent, confident and all the other good adjectives. The bus was a good trip, thanks to these new insights for me. Good work, I must say! Kudos to today's schools and parents alike!

The Biology of an AAP Supporter: 5 ‘B’s’ that go to distinguish them

I always thought the husband was wasting time when he went heads-up against AAP supporters and burnt the midnight oil trying to have a debate with them. Now after burning my hands in my first ever debate over political thoughts, I do not only think but am confirmed that not only my husband but several others like him are truly wasting their time. AAP supporters are a different species and I have tried to sum up my experience with some such species in the following 5 B’s. Correct me if I am wrong and please do not take anything personally.

1. BIASED: they are baised, in CAPS and they know it. They have a biased notion set in their mind and hate to listen. They believe that there are only two shades of politics: Black and White. They believe AAP is white while everyone else is black. They move with the pre-conceived and self-proclaimed notion that AAP and all its candidates are clean while the whole world is corrupt. They sit on a high moral ground, thanks to their biasness that they have rights to say anything since they are an AAP supporter. They have a clear bias against Narendra Modi and thus try to converge all discussion about damage that AAP did into the 2002 riots and blah bah.
2. BLINDERS: They have blinders on their eyes which not only gives them the capacity to only see in the AAP way: the way that AK and AAP has hypnotised them to see but also BLOCK all other material facts. Their blinders block them from hearing anything else out and only apply allegation after allegation. 
3. BAFFLED. Here is what they do in debates: Ask Q1 on topic 1. Someone answers Q 1 with facts. They swerve away to Topic 2 and ask Q2. They receive an answer supported with facts and URL’s. They go back to Q1. And follow up with Q 3 and Q4. When someone starts answering Q3 and Q4, they go back to counter allegations that why wasn’t Q2 answered. So they jump from here to there ignoring any facts and figures and carry their ‘BAFFLED’ and confused opinion from one debate to another.
4. BELIEF: Their belief in AAP is always backed by emotional attachment and their righteousness claims. They have no facts to support and they also do not wish to accept or listen to any facts. They just stay emotionally attached to their belief with no factual data to distinguish their AAP guys from the other politicians of India.
5. BJP: Yes, the 'bhajpa' of India is one of the biggest thing that they have on mind. Always in an anti-BJP mode, they love to throw links to vernacular websites that have opined against BJP ever. They keep down grading BJP and have nothing to credit AAP with. 

Some of their ‘BELIEF’s-

·         AAP performed during their 49 day stint...HAHA! They sat on dharnas! Heard a CM sitting on a dharna! They gave freebies. That’s giving away my tax payers money, not governance.

·         AAP sacrificed their government and didn’t quit: WOW! Big myth! They were power hungry and they RAN away. They quit at the earliest pretext because they had a larger plan in mind. They wanted time and space to campaign for the biggest ‘kursi’ in the country and thats why QUIT.

·         AAP is Honest, everyone else is corrupt: Please explain the number of criminal cases against your many candidates and also the fact that why is their party full of BJP-Congress reject candidates?

·         AAP doesn’t believe in vote bank politics: That’s what they claim others do while they are truly secular? Why talk of Muslim appeasement in their manifesto then?