Not so young Gen

After my office hours, I took Aki to park, a part of routine now days. Swing and slides are something that he associates with dawn now :) !

This was late yesterday and the usual mom-n-kids crowd had left for the day. There was a “herd” of kidos. Herd is true sense, given the noise and commotion they were making and each one increasing his decibel to be over the others.

I was so busy overlooking Aki, that I hardly paid any heed to their “noise” as I would call it. Till a time I heard one of them say “C’mon da he just joined a couple of months back ..which is too early to show results and deserve the Nobel prize”… huh!! Excuse me..are they talking about Obama and arguing over his deserving the Nobel prize!!

These kids in cargos and capries, so concerned about their looks and attitude -are they abreast with the developments? Ok this is not cricketing; that guys get interested may be from toddler age!! This was the current affairs.. And almost all 8-10 of them had their side of argument on it..
They talked about coming weekend,diwali plans, fast approaching board exams, skipping the swimming classes,Manmohan tripping to arunachal pradesh, their cool cycles ,racing..Almost anything and everything around..

I heard them for a while. their arguments their opinions, their ways of weighing things.. What was I doing at this age??
Mind you, they weren’t the “Elite” society kids ..Ambani or the like.....these are kids from a normal apartment that gets flooded almost every monsoon..

I was pleasantly surprised with their exposure and “not so young” mind set at young age.
They are cool , full of attitude, concerned about their appearance but as informed, if not more, as adults..The age for “innocent childhood” is fast decreasing..! necessary evil now!!

A trip to Yercaud

Yercaud is a hill station in Tamil Nadu,widely known as “Poor man’s Ooty”
So we had our expectations set when we left for the place on Saturday morning.

Had a comfortable drive in Innova, SUV makes a huge difference in comfort in long trips, specially with kidsJ The “Clifton Inn” where we stayed was good, good enough as per expectations from Poor man’s land.

We started for our first destination- “Lady’s Seat” at around 6:30 when it was still bright. And to our surprise, when we stepped out of Innova, it was thick mist. Dense to an extent that you would see only a meter or tow. It wasn’t as cold as thick the mist was. We got lost in our photography, and in no time it was bright again!! Aaha.. those are the moving clouds..!! Man.. that experience was amazing. Ooty also hadn’t felt so good to me. And from that eve till the day we left.. it was this wonderful experience every evening.. on the roads.. in the lake..on view points..anywhere we went ..Simply Amazing..

Apparently the place is coming up with good high-end resorts. There was club mahindra’s association resort “Lake forest”. Had good lunch buffet…some good food after a long time. and even better resort…Well spread ..British beauty in IndiaJ
Pleasant morning and amazing evenings, very good viewpoints and temples, lovely lake and on every corner there was a perfumery. In all good place to spend time with family
A pack of cards and a game of Tambola is all you need to enjoy this place to fullest, at least from our experience !!

The place is not the activity place. It’s small with just one day sufficient to explore it. Good for letting your hair loose and relaxing.