Posts Tagged ‘Siblings’
Weekend crazy language
Posted by Phoenixritu August 22, 2009, under Uncategorized | 26 Comments
My children often complain that I am childish. I always counter that I am child-like not childish. I have innocence and simplicity and ……. GAAH I give up ! That sounds over sweet, which I most definitely am NOT!!! Well, like they say, Growing old is mandatory, growing up is not! Grown ups do not [...]
Examination Stories (Apni toh Paathshala, Masti Ki Paathshala)
Posted by Phoenixritu May 14, 2009, under Uncategorized | 23 Comments
Was going through Brown Phantom’s memories. Started a chain of memories for me I grew up with siblings, all male, most of ‘em older than me. Which means I grew up as witness to wonderful capers all to be blamed on exams ….. One sibling was totally exam challenged. What aggravated the issue was that [...]
The mad world of childhood
Posted by Phoenixritu April 13, 2009, under Uncategorized | 15 Comments
This is inspired by the post Goofy stuff by Pal. We were a bunch of hyper active, insanely imaginative kids. School for us was tame ….. home was just base – you know to eat, visit the loo, change clothes. Our life was spent in the garage+lawn/the roof/where ever there was scope for “interesting” activities. [...]
Rites of Passage
Posted by Phoenixritu October 24, 2008, under Uncategorized | 9 Comments
I have got inspired. I read two most hilarious blog posts on menstruation, one by a woman, and the other is a male view point on the subject. Thanks Sue for pointing me in the right direction. There is no doubt that men got lucky in this department. The don’t have these rites of passage [...]
Some school time memories
Posted by Phoenixritu October 23, 2008, under Uncategorized | 9 Comments
That tag I did yesterday stirred up some school time memories. So here goes ….. I must have been about 12 or 13. I had a whole lot of brothers, one real and about 9 cousins that I grew up with. It was wonderful for me, when I was a kid, since I always had [...]
For Dony, on Raksha Bandhan
Posted by Phoenixritu August 14, 2008, under Uncategorized | 16 Comments
He was exactly 361 days younger than me. He was the apple of my mother’s eye. He was the SON in our typically Punjabi family, the heir, the prince. He was the person on whom I practiced my skills of bossing over hapless males. When we were little kids, he was the one who would [...]
Sibling Rivalry Part 2
Posted by Phoenixritu August 5, 2008, under Uncategorized | 5 Comments
Parenthood sucks …. it is a big swindle and when I signed up, I did not get to read the small print. Remember the thrill one got when the infant in the tummy kicked? Well, that was the beginning, these sweet little people come into your world, make you fall totally in love with them [...]
Sibling Rivalry
Posted by Phoenixritu April 16, 2008, under Uncategorized | 6 Comments
Aaaah, it really brings back memories. My brother, a year younger to me, would blackmail me into doing his home work and then bash the shit out of me for coming first in class. I was no sissy either. Being female, there used to be a plot in the revenge I would extract. The funniest [...]
Weekend crazy language
My children often complain that I am childish. I always counter that I am child-like not childish. I have innocence and simplicity and ……. GAAH I give up ! That sounds over sweet, which I most definitely am NOT!!! Well, like they say, Growing old is mandatory, growing up is not! Grown ups do not [...]
Examination Stories (Apni toh Paathshala, Masti Ki Paathshala)
Was going through Brown Phantom’s memories. Started a chain of memories for me I grew up with siblings, all male, most of ‘em older than me. Which means I grew up as witness to wonderful capers all to be blamed on exams ….. One sibling was totally exam challenged. What aggravated the issue was that [...]
The mad world of childhood
This is inspired by the post Goofy stuff by Pal. We were a bunch of hyper active, insanely imaginative kids. School for us was tame ….. home was just base – you know to eat, visit the loo, change clothes. Our life was spent in the garage+lawn/the roof/where ever there was scope for “interesting” activities. [...]
Rites of Passage
I have got inspired. I read two most hilarious blog posts on menstruation, one by a woman, and the other is a male view point on the subject. Thanks Sue for pointing me in the right direction. There is no doubt that men got lucky in this department. The don’t have these rites of passage [...]
Some school time memories
That tag I did yesterday stirred up some school time memories. So here goes ….. I must have been about 12 or 13. I had a whole lot of brothers, one real and about 9 cousins that I grew up with. It was wonderful for me, when I was a kid, since I always had [...]
For Dony, on Raksha Bandhan
He was exactly 361 days younger than me. He was the apple of my mother’s eye. He was the SON in our typically Punjabi family, the heir, the prince. He was the person on whom I practiced my skills of bossing over hapless males. When we were little kids, he was the one who would [...]
Sibling Rivalry Part 2
Parenthood sucks …. it is a big swindle and when I signed up, I did not get to read the small print. Remember the thrill one got when the infant in the tummy kicked? Well, that was the beginning, these sweet little people come into your world, make you fall totally in love with them [...]
Sibling Rivalry
Aaaah, it really brings back memories. My brother, a year younger to me, would blackmail me into doing his home work and then bash the shit out of me for coming first in class. I was no sissy either. Being female, there used to be a plot in the revenge I would extract. The funniest [...]