Monday, May 21, 2007

Square One


Me: What were you doing?
Nephew: Nothing
Me: Ok
Nephew: No interest
Me: Still something that u will be doing
Nephew: I am into writing
Me: What did u write?
Nephew: Something
Me: Will you be able to show me that?
Nephew: I write it in a book
MeLthinking)
Me: Do you have anything you write?
Nephew: No it is somewhere. There is nothing much.
Me: Fine
Me: Why don’t you start writing blogs?
Nephew: What is that?
Me: I started it again recently
Nephew: I started it again. Which means you had that before?
Me: Yes in 2003. Even I mentioned that in an army interview. The guy did not even know what it was. It was rediff blog.
Nephew: Fine I will have it in my book.
Me: Noooooooo. You know it is fun. You can know your level of maturity and your change.
Nephew: What difference it makes?
Me: At some crucial crossroads of life you can associate with you what you once were?
Nephew: I need to concentrate on Studies.
Me: This is extracurricular. This makes you different from one crore junta you are competing with.
Nephew: Presently I do not compete.
Me: Yes you know there is something called bigger picture.
Nephew: Fine what difference it makes?
Me: U will be different
Nephew: I need to get into IITs
Me: You do not want to write
Nephew: Not now
Me: Ok. Fine.
Nephew: I planned to start on Maths today but I have postponed that to tomorrow.
Me: You cannot get into IITs like that. U need to shave the beard when it is young.
Nephew: Lets watch a movie now. We have a Rajani Picture running
Me: Alright. Lets do that

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