Rigved

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Rigved is down with chicken pox and he is thoroughly enjoying his little enforced vacation. He watches movies, plays games, builds castles and ships, silently orchestrates wars in the afternoons, spreads love in the house with his presence and of course reads like there was no tomorrow. We have to literally tell him sternly to stop reading now!

Day before yesterday we saw a fantastic movie called ‘The Majestic’ starring Jim Carey, one of Rig’s favorite actors. Towards the end of the movie, Rig asked, “Do these actors have to ‘actually’ kiss when they are shooting a kissing scene?”, I said, “Well, Yes…” He replied, “Ah, so an actor’s job also has its drawbacks!”

Rigved had ordered a movie from BigFlix called the Narnia, The Caspian Prince(the older one). While giving a pick up request he saw a box to enter a review of the movie. He asked me what is this for. I told him that he can write his views about this movie so that other people(kids) can get an idea about it and decide whether to rent this movie or not. So he wrote the following:

war is cool
if you love fantasy wars filled with goblins, talking animals, mystery then stop reading and order!

A couple of nights ago, while we were lying down to sleep, Rigved softly asked me whether Shrek 4 will be made by Dreamworks? I told him thats possible. Then he wondered aloud as to what makes the creators of the movie to release sequels. I told him that depends on the overall ticket sale worldwide, sale of the VCDs/DVDs of the movie etc. He thought for a while and sheepishly suggested, “How about buying 10 CDs of Shrek 3.”

He probably thought, if we buy 10 movie CDs of Shrek 3, it will increase the total number of sales of Sherk movie CDs and that will prompt Dreamworks to make Shrek 4!

Rigved generally makes something out of CDs. This is something he picked from ´MAD´ a TV program on Pogo. He has made an owl, a peacock and stuff like that using the CDs. Today i gave him a couple of CDs that i did not need anymore. He took a marker and wrote ´Panchtantra´ on one of them and ´Moral Stories´ on the other one. Then he made a computer with pillows and cushions. It had a screen, keyboard, CPU and also a scanner! He said he´s going to watch the movies he just wrote on the CDs along with his toys!