(Absolute
no connection between the kitchen table and blog anniversary, but I
like to keep it that way. Now read on !)
“Hirekai?”
“No”
“Hagalkai?”
“Noo”
“Hmmm..I
knw, its thondekai”
“No
Raag”
“Ok,give
me 4 options”
“ Look,
I have not created any vegetable, you have eaten this God knows how
many times, if you still don't recognize I will stop cooking this
hence forth”
“Well,
actually, honestly,really I know its name, its on tip of my
tongue,but just that I stammer when you ask”
“Enough
of all the bahaanas, admit that you don't remember the name”
“I
wonder how I forget the names of veggis whenever you ask!!”
“Coz
you are vegetably challenged, your ability to identify a vegetable is
zero. One last time I repeat, this is bend...”
“Yeah
yeah, I remembered, its bendekai,yessss bendekai, right? See I told
you I remember”
“That
is after I initiated,”
“No,
I actually remembered, I was testing if you know its name”
“WHT?”
“Ha
ha ha ha..”
“One
hell of cheater you are, you better recite the name 100 times else I
will not cook today!”
“Grrrrrrrrrr
this is unfair, I told you I remember”
“Fine,
I resign from kitchen”
“Noooo
wait, Bendekai bendekai bendekai bendekai bendekai................”
After
a couple of days
“Raag
which vegetable is this?
“Bendekai”
“Wow...excellent..and
this? (Pointing to other veggi)”
“Bendekai”
“What??
And this? (Now pointing a different one)”
“Bendekai
!!!”
“What
nonsense?? How do all vegetables look alike?”
“(Blinking
innocently) They don't look alike, but after the last imposition, all
I remember is only Bendekai !!”
“!!!!!!!”
And
I collapse. So much of my effort to educate him with nomenclature of
the greens is washed in drain. Readers, please don't doubt my cooking
ability, just that he is vegetably challenged. I'm left with no
choice but to try and try again.. hope one day he lives up to my
expectations..sigh !!
Admist
all the struggles of routine life, I forgot that its bit over a year
since I started writing on this blog. Looking at the past, I feel
satisfied at the year gone by.. Nothing much has been achieved and my
to-do list still holds the same number of tasks as last year, but
there were many incidents that touched my heart and rebuilt the
depleting hope. Wish, when I write the same anniversary post next
year, I see mentionable changes so that you readers will have better
posts to read !
Leaving
with the song that is right on my mind and apt to the situation :
Dard
me bhi ye lab muskura jaate hai,
Beethe
lamhe hame jab bhi yaad aate hai..
(Terminology
for my non kannada readers :
Hirekai
: Ridgegourd
Hagalkai
: Bittergourd
Thondekai
: Tindly
Bendekai
: Lady's finger)
Love
Ashwini.
