I had a Dream

Today is a special day for me. It's my birthday! The day itself is special, but today is something special. I got some pretty surprises from someone of whom I have never thought that way. From today it will be different, different from the previous days.
First, I woke up late today, but the blame should be upon me. I slept late yesternight. My wife woke me up and whispers the words which I was sure to hear many times today. Then it was the turn for my little cutie. Despite being able to walk or even run, she can't talk clearly. Her vocabulary is limited to 4 or 5 words. But as she is used to she sat on my chest and kissed me. Next were my father and mother.
Then came the turn of my best friend. We had a strange similarity, we both shared our birthday. Yes we were born the same day same year. It is unbelievable that it took us 18 years to find each other beside one other. But that is another thing. I will say about it later.
But the real surprise came at my office. It was scheduled for a treat to the colleagues. I was prepared to spend some for that. But one of them, Amlan, I call him Amlanda as he older than me, who was the master brain behind all this treat type thing gave me a surprise that was totally unthinkable. He himself bought a cake for me and arrange the other things to make it happen. I cut the cake distributed the pieces to others and it was Amlanda who fed me my piece. Everyone present enjoyed the treat. But that was not the end. Amlanda also bought a Pierre Cardin pen with matching colours to my shirt and gifted it to me. He also asked me to write something today with that pen. I wrote a thank you note to him immediately, to respect his generosity.
Once again I realized that it does not matter how much do someone have or earn, all it takes is a heart that brings people closer. Amlanda is not a permanent employee, but the surprise he gave me requires a lot of heart. I respect you Amlanda.

My Daughter on Sports Day.

It had been a busy day for the youths of our locality. It was the day for 'Annual Sports' for the kids and a entertainment for us who are a little bit older than them. There were numerous events, from ‘50 metre sprint’ to ‘go as you like’ to ‘sit & draw.’ The events were designed for different age groups under 6 to beyond 60!

The preparations were going for two days, from drawing the track lines to arrange the sitting arrangements, but the weather had almost literally washed them away. Frequent raining during friday night and saturday morning had lowered the enthusiasm of the organisers. But everything changes today morning when the sun rose and glowed at its full extent. They came and made the ground in no time. The track was prepared, the stage was set and the announcement began to draw the attention of them who were intended to. Kids came and conquered the playground. It’s when my daughter, who is a little ‘11 month old’, also started to point to the gathering of the children. I had no way but to bring her to the playground. Immediately she started to play irrespective of others who were a little bit systematic than her, also they were the older than her.

There were events for the under 6 years olds, a 50 metre sprint. When the contestants had taken their position my daughter also tried to go to there. However, I was able to restrict her, but when the sprint began she also started to run, though not along the line but sideways. To my surprise almost everybody cheered her and she completed her own course of sprint. Here is a picture of her completing her race.

After that she became uncontrollable and I had to call my father to assist me in keeping her under control. She played with her own self and my father. Meanwhile other events were going on. 100 metre sprint for the age group of 7-11 years and for 12-14 years. ‘Do the math and run’ and ‘Hit the glass’ for various age groups. And then the tiffin break.

Next were the events for the elders. ‘Break the pot’ for men and women of all ages. ‘Musical Chair’ for the women. ‘Go as you like’ for the kids. And the last, 200 metre sprint for men above 60.

We all enjoyed the day. My little goddess played enthusiastically and my father gave her company. My mother and wife watched the play from the balcony of our house (the ground is very near and our balcony gives a clear view of it). The organisers maintained the events sincerely. The kids had lived the day with their heart opened. I am looking for the day the next year, I hope the kids are hoping for the same too.

My daughter playing with my father.

She is busy with herself.

New Year's Resolutions.

Now the holiday time is over. The long week is over and it's the boring time ahead, the usual office and home and office again the next day. It's also the time to make some resolutions, resolutions that we would follow throughout the year. Resolutions that would define how we're going to spend the year. But our day to day work do not allow us to follow the path we had chosen the previous year. Though most of us forget what we had chosen, yet we make resolutions. 

So, here I am with some resolutions related to work that we would not forget easily and not that hard to follow throughout the year.

1) Be late to our office rather than being punctual.

2) Responsibility is for the weak people, we, the stronger ones will be irresponsible.

3) Bosses are there to do their jobs, we will not care about them or how they perform their duty.

4) The best way is to not involve in any critical work, but if have to in any case, we would be defocused and act as confused.

5) Frequent absence from office will be our trademark for this year.

6) But on the day of salary, we would like to forget what absence means!

7) If we have to attend any meeting or conference specially important and boring ones, and got a chance to speak in any case, the only word we say would be "Why I am here?"

I hope you are not taking it seriously!