All the A's

It's A's all over the place. 
On bits of paper on the sill. On the large Pooh board books. On notebooks. Everywhere. 


A's of all sizes and shapes. Some as big as my hand. Some as small as her little fingernail. 
Scrawled in the shapes of stars, some resembling W's. 
But they are all A's. I know because that is the only letter she has learnt so far. 


Her tiny hand holding the pencil tight. Moving Up, then Down and then Straight. 


The sheer excitement on her little face when she writes an A after another.


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"Ammu, shall I teach you to write B today?"
"No Acha. I want to write A".


And so it is A, again.


Lovin' it.

Books-owned-list

Lying very safe somewhere in Bangalore are a hundred books. All of which I have read except 6, which I started, but never finished. Some very close to my heart. Some which I dont want to be caught reading. Why put it here now? There was this list sitting at the bottom of my google docs page. Brought back so many memories. Funny how you can just think of a book from the list and wake up all the stories behind it.


A brief history of time

Alchemy of desire, The
Alexander - Child of dreams
Almost Twelve
Angels and Demons
Apocalypse watch, The
argumentative indian, the
Athabasca
Atlas shrugged
Autograph man
Black Sunday
Bourne Supremacy
Broca's Brain
Broker, the
Business @ the speed of thought
Catcher in the rye
Cat o nine tales
Code name God
Contagion + Vector
Contest
Cosmos
Da Vinci Code, The
death is my neighbor
Deception Point
devil's alternative, The
Digital fortress
Dilbert principle, The
E-Intelligence
emperor's new mind, The
Everything happens for a reason
Exorcist, The
Feast of the goat
Fermat's last theorem
Five Point Someone
Fooled by randomness
Foucault's pendulum
Fountainhead
freakonomics
Google Story, The
great Indian novel, The
Great short stories of the world
Hammer of Eden + Code to Rebecca
Hannibal
How can you move mount fuji
How Opal Mehta got kissed, got wild and got a life
idiot, The
Iginited minds
India Unbound
Interpreter of maladies
Invisible man
J Kishnamurti - Knowledge & Thinking
Karamazov brothers
last frontier, The
Last Juror, The
last temptation, The
lexus and the olive tree, The
Light of Asia
Made in Japan
Mediocre but arrogant
metamorphosis, The
Mila in love
Mister God, this is Anna
Music of the primes
My own country
Mysterious pleasures
No comebacks
Of human bondage
O Jerusalem
Old man and the sea
Oliver's story
One hundred years of solitude
One night at a call center
Pickwick papers
Piece of cake
Portable Thoreau
Power of compassion
principal Upanishads, The
Readers Digest 1
Readers digest - 2
Red dragon
Reminisces of the Nehru age
Roald Dahl - Short stories
Rule of four
Shadow of the wind
Shakespeare - Complete
Silence of the lambs
snapshots from hell
State of fear
Three men in a boat
tipping point, The
To kill a mocking bird
velocity
Vertigo
veteran, The
wheels
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Zorba the greek
damsel in distress
clocks, the
Rumpole omnibus
mammoth book of Jacobean whodunnits, The
maximum city
Hannibal rising

Miscellany

Read in the news - "Mr. Krishnakumar, who is a Coconut oil producer by profession..."
Wait. Is he a Coconut?

Office - "You know I am very scary sometime" - Someone describing how scared he gets. I always imagine him as Sulley from Monster's inc.

Priya made her 'Stone soup' last weekend. Sambar was on the menu, and something was missing from it when we sat down to eat. Sambar powder. True story.

Ammukkutty, after her tinkerbell (tittabell as she calls her) series and Tangled ('doll' as she calls Rapunzel for reasons unknown) has a new fixation. Rio. Yup, I know all the dialogs.

Priya was explaining to my aunt in Kerala how Ammu was always playing on her phone (iP). I could imagine the aunt's confusion, her imagining the wired phone and Priya talking about a 'smart' touchphone. (Yes, ammukkutty calls it Aditi's phone).

Reading a horror genre story after a loong time. Heart-shaped box, by Joe Hill, the 'Prince (King's son). The first Stephen King book was 'IT', after watching the movie. The movie was lame. The book, superb.

That's all. Oh yeah, and this - http://theviewspaper.net/the-diminishing-window