Reasons why my parents are the cutest in the world:
• I have yet not encountered an old couple who fight for computer games. The let-me-play, stop-hinting-me-the-next-move, my-score-is-better fights and the reasons they find to make the other move away from the computer are just adorable! Of course they keep me on wait on the phone till they finish their game before they talk to me!
• I have never ever ever seen a more enthusiastic couple when it comes to dancing. Play the music and see them dance away to glory! During navratris I remember asking my mom to stop the dance and come back home and she would say, just one last dance! It is going to get over after that! They are truly the dancing queen and king!
• I haven’t heard any parent complaining to their daughter “amma tithinaa” (your mom scolded me) everyday even if she didn’t.
• Cant imagine any other lady closing retirement taking part in her office’s national level sports meet, going places likes Pune and Allahbad for it and actually winning prizes there. That too, for weird events like long jump and table tennis! Ma, you are just out-of-the-world! Never known of a 39-year old pregnant lady taking part in an athletic race and beating all the 20-year old youth in it.
• Oh! My very passionate mom with that incredible participation spirit. She would take part in all her “hindi-divas pratiyogita” and keep reciting hindi songs and poems all through the day, so much so that even we would know every word by heart. There has been no event she knew of and didn’t participate in. Tiredness and hectic office-work are never excuses.
• So supportive they are for everything you do. All you do is study well and they are in for every little wish of yours.
• Oh my ever-talkative parents. Sometimes, I just sit spell-bound with my mom, not able to believe how innocently and candidly she can talk and talk and talk. And when it comes to my dad, the same old jokes that he cracks every now and then and laughs equally hard each time!!!! And if there is nothing much left to talk, there is the obvious “amma tithina” statement or my dad’s repetitive jokes on which he laughs as hard everytime.
• Who-on-earth has a fetish for water, collecting socks, body-splash, Tupperware and random chutka-mutka things but for my mother? Typical Moanisha character! And my dad, he would so excitedly try even female sweat-shirts unwittingly and ask how it looks on him!
• Who would wail at the top of their voice muthai-tiru-something-something while happily riding on the roads, much to the bewildered amusement of other people, especially at traffic signals!
• The very proud but innocent boasting that comes from dad that my daughters have done this and my daughters have done that to every person he can catch hold of who can be forced to listen to it. For the very reason, his insistence on asking us to keep uploading our photos online, so that he has visual proofs to his bragging big talks. And not just that, suddenly receiving 200mails in your inbox notifying you that “Venkataraman Iyer” has tagged a photo of yours! (And yes, his two-second come-on-skype calls!) Not to forget, the very embarrassing add requests from my dad on facebook, orkut and the other thousand webpages he has registered into.
• What a brilliant memory my mom seems to have. She would remember the names and specific memories of every single person I would have mentioned to her. Oh! Priyal, the girl who draws well, Oh! Shardul, the one who came home to get your Scooby-doo tazos! Oh, this guy and that girl, she just knows everybody!!!! And very contrastingly, my dad seems to forget the very friend he would have met yesterday! (Sometimes, comes to my aid, he forgets the friends he is annoyed of!)
• The couple who would just attend every bhajan-function they would know of and then on the same day go out to celebrate Valentine’s Day at SICA! And yes! Also wish their daughter valentine’s day and ask her for her plans! (Not that they would want her to have any!)
• Getting a mail which ends saying “truck full of love, Iyers” might sound cute but I also have greeting cards for my birthdays where it is signed only saying, best wishes, IYER! Not much sentiment expressed, one cannot consider it a card lovingly from a father… Pendulum of swaying sentiments or awkwardness, I guess!
Well, my emotions are always on the expressive side and so this note! TOUCHWOOD
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Not just their daughters but even their nephews and nieces (including me) always have adored them.
hehehehee.. happy to know that.... :):):)
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