Figuring Me Out!

People have tried figuring me out for ages, with varying degrees of success. The latest addition in such a pursuit is my daughter. For those who keep track of my posts, this post is basically the post hinted near the end of my previous post. So let’s get to it then.

On the father’s day of this year (I don’t feel like searching for the exact date, but it feels like it was a month or so ago), Sakura made a colourful postcard / greeting card for me. It had the expected “HAPPY FATHER'S DAY” written at the top:

Then a paragraph followed which was “dedicated” to her father, i.e., me. Once again, this was her own creation; her mother did not help with it (as stressed in the previous post linked above). It started with my name… well, let me not ruin it by “explaining” it. Here it is for your own reading pleasure (with a few corrections, as usual):

My father’s name is Dharmesh Jain.

I call him Dμ. Dμ is a physicist.

He solves a lot of maths and physics problems.

He knows how to cook milk and junk food.

He does not like kids that much.

But he has one. And I am writing it.

Well, what a twist there at the end! This paragraph was followed by some doodles, dedicated to various things I “like”:

I think she swapped Maths & Physics there and I do not understand what Logic has got to do with an icecream! Maybe it is a puzzle she set for me and I am supposed to match the subjects with their correct doodles (then my answer is in the previous sentence!) because she knows I like puzzles and keep showing her videos from this channel. Anyway, if you have started thinking this postcard borders on being a poster instead, you may be right. Because there was one more thing after the doodles; and that was to indicate the end of it all:

I guess I will get back to my usual style of posts, by which I mean

Showcasing Shayari

Story from an Unexpected Source…

Since ideas for a post are hard to come by in this day and age, I instead want to share a story. An unusual story written by my daughter last week for her weekly “3H activity” class on Friday. On Thursday, my wife got an expected message detailing what the 3H activity class this week was about. The unexpected thing was this activity was first of its kind. The kids were supposed to write a story given the following picture prompt:

They were to draw and colour this picture and write a story about it in class but they could prepare at home, that’s why the advance “warning”. As soon as she saw this picture, my daughter got thinking and wrote some sort of a draft story in her rough notebook. She did not show that to me but next day after school, she showed me a colourful page with her drawing and her story.

The story had the “usual” typographical and grammatical errors expected of a class 3 kid but the story made sense and incorporated all the elements of the picture. At first, I thought her mother had helped her with it, but NO!, it turned out to be her own idea, her own creation. It was a good story with a setup, some action, and a funny ending. I was quite impressed so I share it here with those trivial errors fixed for your reading pleasure.

The Pet

It was a sunny day. A girl was walking through a garden. She saw a caterpillar in the grass. She followed it. Then it disappeared. But it had left her in a place where a snake was sleeping. When the girl went near it, it woke up. It hissed loudly and angrily. The girl found a rattle and picked it up, then she made some sound with it. The snake calmed down. She took the snake and kept it on a bench. And she said, ‘stay here’ and the snake understood. She left it and bought a collar. She put it around the snake’s neck but not tightly so it would not get choked. She had the rattle with her, she put the rattle in his tail and the snake held it! The girl had a pet now. (She didn’t have any pet before.) The caterpillar came back again. This time the girl picked it up, the snake watching closely. The girl said, ‘You got me a pet!’. ‘I don’t have to pay for it, right?’, she giggled.

The End

Hope you had a good read. Enjoy the week and till next time when I share what she really thinks of me!

Snakes as Pets