Rigved

Today Rigved drew a comic strip comprised mainly of stick figures. OK before I go into it, Rigved hates getting a haircut. The barber comes home, yet Rigved detests it all. Since he had not been keeping well since the last few days (all the 3 of us actually) we had to tell the barber to go and come some other time.

Anyway, so back to the comic strip.

A barber is cutting a kids hair. These are stick figures yet, the kid’s stick figure seems annoyed at the whole thing. The barber asks for 5 cents and after getting it, leaves. Someone asks the kid why is he so grumpy. The kid replies, “The barber took away a million of my black ideas!”

Last Saturday I contested for the PTA member on Rigved’s behest. He thought as a PTA member I will get a license to destroy kids who trouble him. I don’t need to be a PTA member for that! Anyway, there is only one boy who bothers him with what is known as the ‘One finger shock’, something fun to do but annoying to be done on! It basically means to tickle with one finger. I have more or less ‘advised’ against this to most children who used to do this to Rigved and only one boy remained. His name is Praful and he is about 3 times the size of Asad who is the healthiest kid in Rigved’s class.

I told Praful once to not to do all this and to be friends with children in his class but I think he did not get the message. Ultimately Rigved took things in his own hands and tackled the problem quite smartly. Rigved has a little rash on his right hand near the elbow. He went upto Praful and showed it to him saying, “I have got Chicken Pox, so if you must do ‘One finger shock’ to me, then you must realize that you are choosing to get Chicken Pox for yourself as this is contagious!” On hearing this Praful ran away never to bother Rigved again.

Anyway, I did not win the election and lost by 2 votes. It was quite a feat considering there were only 3 men in the room rest(about 55 of them) all being women. I got 33 votes. The woman who won is Akash’s mother and she seems like a nice lady unlike the previous PTA member who was totally sick. Thats bad considering she is a doctor. A dentist actually.

Yesterday, on our way back from his school Rigved asked me if an office has a principal… I told him there is a managing director or a CEO who can be an equivalent of a principal. Then he asked me if Banda is a manager, which she is. He asked me what is he. I told him that he is the managing director of Blackboard Films! He seemed happy to hear that.

We leave for school at about 12:30 in the afternoon. At 11:45 today, Rigved was still fast asleep. I was trying to wake him and I tried telling him that we might get late as we have only about 45 minutes to get ready. He turned the other way and sleepily suggested, “Wouldn’t it be better to take a day off instead?”

Yesterday it rained and we didn’t go to school. Later one of the girls from Rigved’s school said the school was shut and a holiday was declared.