From the kitchen table to blog-anniversary

(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.