It’s The Book Of My Days, It’s The Book Of My Life



First ‘Sensible’ Conversation

My internet connection wasn’t working for a few days, hence the lack of activity on this blog… In any case, nothing interesting to blog about… just the usual… caught up with some housework… got some paperwork done… took Thaïs out cycling.. she fell down a couple of times and grazed her cheek and knees… took her out to play cricket with the boys…

Last night, however, she was in a rather naughty mood. Read on…

(It’s bedtime. Thaïs, as usual, is trying to stay awake as late as possible.)

Me: OK now… close your eyes and go to sleep.
Thaïs: Put on light. Can’t find ‘tebby’ bear.
Me: It’s right here. Now, close your eyes.
Thaïs: Baby finished milk. Get ‘thocolate’?
Me: No. You didn’t finish your dinner. Will you close your eyes and go to sleep?
Thaïs: OK. Goo-night Tana.
Me: Goodnight, darling.

(Thaïs starts tossing and turning and wriggling around on the bed. Finally ends up lying across my face)

Me: Will you take your bum off my face?
Thaïs (giggling): Smell it!
Me: OK… Enough now. close your eyes and go to sleep.
Thaïs: Ooh.. can’t do it. Can’t do it. Eyes not working…

(A little later)

Thaïs: Daddy flass asleep?
Me: Yes.
Thaïs: Tickle him???

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Circolo Italiano, Goa - 2

Sorry for the long break. Like I said earlier, I’ve been busy with the inauguration of our new Italian club. Mario and I had done a basic course in Italian a few years ago, and this year the students along with some of the past students took the initiative of forming this club called ‘Circolo Italiano, Goa’ with the objective of keeping in touch with the language and promoting Italian culture, art, cuisine, etc… We plan on meeting maybe once a month, if not more frequently, just to get together to practise the language, maybe watch a movie (in Italian, of course), even organize an authentic Italian lunch/dinner now and then — we’ll be doing the cooking under the guidance of our teacher who’s Italian.

We had the formal inauguration on Friday, March 16. I’ve uploaded an album on my Yahoo! Groups site, so go check it out!

Ciao!

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Circolo Italiano, Goa - 1

Sorry, but I’ve been extremely this past week. Haven’t had time to blog. Found a couple of minutes now…

We’re having the inauguration of our Italian club, ‘Circolo Italiano, Goa’ on the 16th of March. As the secretary of the club, I’ve been busy getting the invitation cards printed, the ID cards printed and laminated, memberships confirmed, etc.. etc… Will keep you posted on that.

I’ve put up Thaïs’ birthday photos on my Yahoo! Groups page. So check them out there.

Ciao!

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Beach Bum - 1

Took Thaïs to the beach today. How she loves the water! She’s not afraid at all. In fact, she looks forward to the bigger waves. You should hear her giggle when she gets knocked down. When we got back home, I told Mario to wash his feet first, before doing anything else, and, as was to be expected, he goofed up. So I started grumbling at him for getting water all over the floor. Thaïs was standing behind us, listening to everything that was going on. Then, when I was almost done with my tirade, she looks at Mario and says ‘ass’. That was it. Both of us burst out laughing. She was happily grinning at us and decided to take advantage of the situation. She looked at Mario again and said ‘asshole’. But that was taking it too far, so she got a scolding, but only a half-hearted one ‘coz we were still in splits.

Found out recently that one of her current favorite songs is “Dhoom Mathale”!!!

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How To Make A Steak

Check out this guide on how to make a steak. The images are graphic, so be warned.

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Lost

OK… So it’s been two days without Thaïs and I’m beginning to feel miserable. She went to her grandparents’ two days ago and she’s having such a good time there, she doesn’t want to come back. They tried to bring her back yesterday but she refused. So I’ve decided to go there tomorrow and bring back one way or another. It’s funny — when she’s around she makes such a ‘nuisance’ of herself, gets in the way all the time and doesn’t let me get any work done. But when she goes off I miss her dreadfully. Yesterday wasn’t too bad. In fact, I welcomed the peace and quiet. I was able to get some housework, etc. done. Today was a bit too peaceful. Kept thinking about her, wondering what she was up to, staring at the wallpaper (the computer, I’ve got her picture there… don’t worry, I’m not going nuts), missing all the mad thing she does… It doesn’t feel very nice when your own daughter doesn’t want to come back home!

Played badminton today after a long, long break. The exercise felt good. Let’s hope it becomes more regular. BTW, I think I’ve put on some more weight. I really have to start working out. But first, let me finish all the chocolate and cake that’s in the refrigerator…!

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Injection Time

We took Thaïs to her pediatrician yesterday. She just completed two, so was due her Typhoid shot. From the time we got to the clinic, she was very impatient to see the doctor. She kept trying to jump the queue, “Doctor, Doctor, see Doctor.”

While we were waiting outside, we happened to meet one of Mario’s friends who was also there with his son who was around Thaïs’ age and had some kind of viral infection. Suddenly this idiotic father tells his son to kiss Thaïs on her cheek. Can people really be so stupid? I should have stopped the kid before he got anywhere close to Thaïs.

Anyway, it was finally our turn to see the doc. Thaïs happily accepted the sweets the doctor gave her, little knowing what lay ahead. She stood up on the weighing scale and let the doctor check her with the stethoscope without any fuss — she was busy trying to unwrap one of the sweets. She did get a little uneasy when we made her lie down and tried her best to get up. But the doctor was ready with the injection and gave it to her in her left thigh. There was no reaction from Thaïs for about two seconds. Then, her eyes went as wide as saucers and there was such a look of shock and horror on her face, it was almost funny. She yelled, but only for a couple of seconds. The instant she got off the bed she was OK. She went over to the baby rocking chair in the corner and made herself comfortable there. So comfortable, that when it was time to go, she didn’t want to leave. She picked up the chair and was trying to walk out with it, tripping over the weighing scale in the process. So we had to go back in to disentangle her from the chair and the scale, with the doctor laughing away at the other end of the room.

Any other kid would have wanted to get out of there immediately after the injection, or, at the very least would have wanted to be carried. But not Thaïs. Pain doesn’t seem to bother her too much. She’ll make a good martial artist, much to Mario’s delight.

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Fun Facts

Interesting reading…..

There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows).

Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.

There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.

Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.

Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

The dot that appears over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split).

Dogs have two sets of teeth, just like humans. They first have 30 “puppy” teeth, then 42 adult teeth.

Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant cousins.

If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.

A chef’s hat is shaped the way it is for a reason: its shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool in a hot kitchen.

20% of Americans think that the sun orbits around the Earth.

A party boat filled with 60 men and women capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.

The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in winter.

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton Look-Alike contest.

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.

If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter “A”.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Mark Twain didn’t graduate from elementary school.

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

Your nose and ears never stop growing.

They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

An aspirin tablet is forty times more effective if taken with a cup of hot chocolate rather than a glass of water.

It would take 1,120,000 mosquito bites to drain the average human of blood.

There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

Astronauts cannot burp in space. There is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the ‘debris’ which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, billions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day.

Good night!

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