Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The routine at K’s home:
A normal scene a week before
4 pm: K and S are both back from office. They grab a plate and have a generous helping of rice and homemade curries with pappad. Both love food and enjoy a good meal thoroughly.
K: “What sweets do we have?” after a burp of satisfaction, finishing off his meal.
S: “Nothing, we finished the payasam I made a week back and I haven’t had the time to cook anything new.”
K gives S a look of dissatisfaction. The way to K’s heart is through his stomach and well, let’s not talk about the other …
But S is not bothered. After 14 years of marriage who wants to be in the husband’s heart, anywhere near the purse is where she yearns to be!
S: “But there are those Arabic sweets, you can have those.”
K moves towards his next target, a bit mollified.
S doesn’t budge from her position, with her legs outstretched…and hands not letting go of the remote, a precious possession now….
The younger 11 year old, Kav is prowling nearby.
One has to be careful, or the programme would be suddenly change to Kav’s preferred Hannah Montana or Wizards of Waverly place…
K finishes the sweets and moves towards the bedroom and gestures to S, asking her to follow.
S ignores him while watching a mediocre Mallu programme and acts as if it is the most interesting programme till K gives up and moves on …
10 minutets later
K: “Daaa…”
S: ‘Varunnu….coming.”
Another 10 minutes pass by but S hasn’t budged from her seat
10 minutes and a sterner “Daaa,” later, S relinquishes her power position and hands over the remote to a victorious Kav.(who was expecting this move anyway)
S settles in quietly between K and N and the whole household rests in peace, the afternoon siesta time which extends into evening…
By 7pm
S is up and about making coffee and repeatedly calls out to K to come and have his cup…
By 7.30 finally K is up and relaxes with his coffee watching TV.
S cooks dinner while watching over the kid’s HW.
A peaceful scene but look out, a storm is already brewing in there…
K trys to be helpful but soon enough there is a huge commotion, Kav is not agreeing with the father K’s version to a certain solution and thus starts the war…
The younger N leaves her HW half done. She escapes unnoticed in the commotion and packs her books back into her bag.
By the time S reaches with her peace mission, the atmosphere is charged with verbosities and emotions are flying out into the air.
S’s mission is entirely unsuccessful. Father K now accuses S of bringing up the kid leniently and thus the entire cause of the whole incident is now resting squarely on S’s shoulder. She carries the load back to the kitchen, leaving the war scene unresolved…
By 9.30PM…the angry family again converges for more verbal debates and dinner….

The scene now at K’s house:
K’s family has finally registered with a club, after a month of hunting through the few options available. K has finally given his verdict, found the best one and the family too seconds the master’s decision.
6PM: K’s household is thriving with activity and everyone seems to be in a rush…packing, trying out old and unfitting training gear.
The younger one, N is again trying to finish her HW as that was a condition for being taken, but she leaves it after a few futile attempts…
N’s completed HW is a dream for the whole family and for N too …
K is smarter; she has cut short her TV watching session and has completed her HW way ahead of time.
The afternoon siesta is cut short, the bickering sessions are minimal and by 7pm, the whole family is on their way....

Moral of the story:“An active family is a peaceful family”
Quick take:“Hope they keep this interest alive for a month at least…”

17 comments:

Solilo said...

"K gives S a look of dissatisfaction. The way to K’s heart is through his stomach and well, let’s not talk about the other …"

Ha..ha..ha.. You know that 'daa' I thought he was calling you for the other. :))))))

sindhu said...

well, Solilo, it was, but then some things are best left unsaid...

Solilo said...

Ha..ha..ha.. when there are readers like me you don't even need to mention. Dirty minds work overtime. :)))

Anonymous said...

ah ha so the family has joined a club,huh??which is it? Let me know,Sindhu,will join you guys too :))

"The way to K’s heart is through his stomach and well, let’s not talk about the other …" u knw,even I thought,like Sols,the 'daaa' call was for the other. LOL

Sols,the part wherein S sneaked in between K & N? yeah thats one of the onsets to the things that Sindhu said were best left unsaid,right,S?? :P :))

sindhu said...

To this, D and Solilo, I can only say...dirty minds work overtime...

AnjuGandhi said...

I liked the moral of the story, : active family is a peaceful family" How true? when there is less interaction between the members the chances of fire works between them and sparks flying between members are less so the whole atomsphere is quiet and happy

Anonymous said...

After 14 years of marriage who wants to be in the husband’s heart, anywhere near the purse is where she yearns to be!

;)

Kamini said...

Ha ha, such a fun read. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

Reflections said...

Nice.....very nice;-D
And ur right....even I've realised activity keeps us all occupied & gets all work done on time too:-)).

Reflections said...

And LOL at Solilo & Deeps 'daa' theory.

Anonymous said...

helloooo....just dropped in to say Hi! will come back to read

Anonymous said...

Happy Onam Sindhu.

A

Reflections said...

Hello...arent u back yet????? arent ur kids missing school because of these vacations????

Dreamer said...

Hey the first scene is so reminiscent of my own home :) great read.

Reflections said...

Where r u??? What kind of vacation is this????

Stop hiding. Get ur butt out here;-/

Anonymous said...

waiting for 15th to get over to get back to blogging in full swing,is it???
high time you came out of the hiatus,Sindhu :))

Reflections said...

;-/