Pixel Poems - #2

I have never bothered to think too much about the non-dairy creamer my office has in the coffee break-rooms excepting that they are a poor substitute to milk and I have put up with that for many years now. Recently when putting creamer into a cup using a plastic spoon, I noticed the creamer leaving a rather fine art in the spoon. Initially I thought it was something engraved in the spoon. But its the creamer powder still sticking to the spoon. Each day it was different. I captured two of them here with my cellphone camera. Notice the fern plant like pattern drawn by the creamer.

Whose Line Is It Anyway ? - #13

My wife started trying to drive on highways recently. And invariably our young man is sitting in his car seat the back and waiting to ask tons of questions while she is driving. To make a point, I told him, "When mom is driving, you should not keep talking to her as she is new to highways". Immediately a question was shot, "if so appa, are you old for highways ?". Being my early thirties, I dont like to hear me categorized as "old for" anything. So, I tried to rephrase it to salvage my pride. I told, "I meant I am experienced for highways and amma is a newbie". The only bee he knows is the actual flying insect. Thinking I was playing with him, with a smirk, he asked "then are an old bee ?". I am done.

In our patio garden, a couple of Dill seeds we planted in a pot got really taller that they were almost touching the ceiling if kept on the patio wall. While his mom was watering them one day, this young lad noticed it and quipped - "Don't put water on those plants. If they grow more bigger they will come in the way of aeroplanes". All this with a matter-of-fact serious face !!!

While I was riding in my car with this inquisitive mind in the car seat, I thought of engaging him in a productive conversation. Here goes the transcript -

"What do you want to be when you grow up ?" - me.

" I want to be big when I grow up"- the reply.

Okay. Let me try another way to make him think along lines of profession etc.

"What does appa do when I go to office daily ?" - me.

"You check mail, eat lunch, sleep, throw away trash, check more mails, come back home". For him sitting before PC is checking mail, and he mixed that with what he does in preschool. I decided to try it again later after I develop a better image for what I do for a living.

Stills: The fighter jet and peeping into library return box pics taken with my cellphone camera. I desperately wanted to capture the library moment when I saw him doing this peeping. I had to use my cellphone camera from inside of my car.

Pixel Poems - #1

Bamboo door and Conifer leaves - symbol of Japan and its local fauna - at Japanese Garden at Balboa Park, San Diego.