He is to me what Hobbes is to him!

Background:
Calvin is a rebellious kid. He doesn’t like school and has problems with education. He is a little dark since he like being a little destructive. But his childish innocence is more charismatic than his mischievous!

His best buddy is Hobbes – His stuffed tiger doll. Hobbes is alive only for Calvin and is portrayed as a lifeless doll by the caricaturist Bill Watterson when there is a third person! So, what Hobbes says is just a figment of Calvin’s own imagination!

Here are a few that I enjoyed and why

The fun is actually in the mundane things you know but just don’t stop to describe it!

They say Math is not about plugging numbers in a formula and solving it. It is about “the approach” and “the angle” at which you look at it. Well, here is the approach and the angle!

Its not enough you arrive at solution to a problem. Its equally important to review it and look if something is wrong with your answer!

Writing (or composition as the sophisticated British call it!) is just as important as math!

Sometimes you have genuine reason for not completing your work at home!

If you are really focused in class, you wouldn’t realize the time pass! Would’nt you?

Knowledge is Power. But did you know it has drawbacks?
Plato, Swami Vivekandanda, Einstein, CV Raman, Jaggi Vasudev… all have a chink in the armour!
Calvin doesn’t!

But don't underestimate Calvin's creativity just because he is into reading, writing and math!

And finally, this is among my all time favourites!

There is always chear…
When Calvin is here!

Bliss!

Courtesy: Reader's Digest

A piece of genius

You must have heard an anecdote from the life of Einstein told to justify the fact that brilliant people people make stupid mistakes when the eventually succumb to making one. Einstein had a pet cat which inevitably gave birth to kitten. So, Einstein decided to construct a small home for the cat and built a home with two entrances, a big one for the mother and a small one for the kitten, missing the obvious point that if the mom can enter through the bigger entrance, so can the kitten. But that's the oft told story, too boring to merit a repeat. So sticking to the ubiquitous rule "only change is constant" let us narrate another story from the life of another undisputed genius.

This happened one day in his childhood when he had an upcoming basic mathematics exam involving addition, subtraction, place value identification, division etc... Being a sincere student he had been preparing hard for the exam under the expert guidance of his mom. On the morning of the exam, while he was taking stab at a random bunch of problems his mom realized that there were too many problems to solve in such a short time before starting to prepare to go to school. So, she told him "Don't worry about attempting addition, subtraction and place values..you know it very well. Attack the multiplications and division and get them right. That should be enough". And the genius obliged. Feeling confident after the revision, he left for school to conquer the exam.

That evening his mom enquired,"How was the paper?"

As if he was just waiting for his mom the answer the enquiry, he beamed,"The paper was great! I solved all the division and multiplications right!"

Puzzled, the mom asked, "What about the addition, subtraction and place values..?"
"Oh, but why should I even attempt them mom, I know I do them very well. I just attempted the multiplications and divisions. Isn't that what you said?"

Now who is this genius? Well..who else? :)

First thing in the morning!

Kids repeat what they see elders do. My nephew is no different. Only, sometimes he pushes it! I got up about 10 minutes ago and walked out of my room to find him like this!

Innocent Prayers....!

1. "Dear God, thank you for the baby brother but what I prayed for was a puppy" - Joyce
2. "Dear God, I bet it is very hard for you to love all of everybody in the whole world. There are only four people in our family and I can never do it. " - Nan
3. "Dear God, If you watch in church on sunday I will show you my new shoes" - Mickey
4. "Dear God, if you give me genie lamp like Alladin I will give you anything you want except my money or my chess set. " - Raphael.
5. "Dear God, Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones why don't you just keep the ones you got now..?" - Jane.
6. "Dear God, Are you really invisible or is that just a trick?" - Lucy

:-)

Innocent ……….Kids at their best ;-)

While heading towards our most important task of the day…i.e.…having “Tea” at ground floor stall, two kids were playing with a basketball. I snatched & asked playfully…”Kiska hai yeh basketball? The kid answered in true hyderabadi style.....”... hai to ye Big Bazaar ka…humne sirf khareeda hai” …!