Mood:  bright

Sumit's friends trickle in .. the cake is in place, the burgers are in place and the cold drinks in place .. time for party to begin!

" Sumit Happy Birthday" and here is your gift. "Thank You" repeats every time a friend of Sumit comes in. All are welcome.

  The friends grow .. Sumit is enjoying every bit of it ... he has planned almost every thing (Sunil suspects that he has told his friends what to expect - you see Sumit is one boy who can not keep secrets - he may not tell you directly but will give you sufficient hints which will leave no doubt as to what he is trying to tell!)

Sunil, "Sumit, I think it is time to cut the cake". Sumit, "Chalo lets cut the cake". "I will plant the candles" ... "No, it should be done by adults only", "we should have nine candles" "but he is only 8?" "last year he had 7 on his cake so may be 8 candles is right" ... more discussions .. we settle for 8 candles ;-)

 Cake cut. Namita feeds Sumit and Sumit feeds Namita. The distribution starts .. Namita moves the cake to teh kitchen .. "Uncle, we shoudl burts the big baloon" , 'I will do it" "I will do it" ... the baloon burtst .. teh choclates colected .... Payal (Sumit;s friends monther) ... All the kids come here ... for a photograph ... kids move to one corner ... Namita in kitchen .. there is a loud band .. the electricity is out .. it is dark ... there has been a shortcircuit and something to do with the aloon attached to the fan ... chaos ... glass pieces on the floor .. children want to move .. testing time for Sunil and Namita ... luckily no damage to the kids ... relieved.

The electrcian (2!) come and sort it out .... Namita feeds them with the birthday dinner .. 

Time for masti ... Sumit spills a mix of cold drinks .. on his new shirt and wants a change ... the kid there wants more coke .. the kid here can not eat anymore ... the kid there wants more chicken ... no rasogolla ... one kid doesnot want to eat ... all possible stuff ... Jhuma and Payal help and the possibly everyone gets what they want or donot want ... 

It is well past 10pm. Namita is trying to eat ... we need to drop a couple of kids in Anushaktinagar ... some in Trombay and some more in Vashi ... all comes to an end around midnight .. Sumit sighs ... My birthday is over?

Posted by sunilkopparapu at 2:27 PM

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Mood:  chatty

July start and Sumit has started ... it is my birthday ..  Sunil says, "Son, there are 30 more days". He stops for a day and again the same .... it is my birthday month ... need to plan .. Sunil, "You please plan whom you want to invite", Sumit, "But Baba I want you to write the names of the people whom I want to come in my birthday" ... finally in the first week of July we both sit and start writing ... the list is growing ... Sunil is a bot worried ... how do we get to manage so many kids especially so with the not so large hall in the current house of residence.  Namita shares the same concern. So we tell Sumit, "You make the list but Baba and Mamu have the right to determine how many come to the part, you see we can not acomodate so many kids". Sumit is not happy ... but then he reluctanly agrees. Namita and Sunil relieved a little.

Sumit, "Should we decide what all we should serve in the party?". Sunil, "Later Son". Finally Sumits pulls up a list .. we need to have burgers, noodles, chicken, icecream, cake, chips, cold drinks ... we plan extensively.

The day comes. Sumit has school .. gets up early .. the previous night Sunil packs the return gifts, decorates the house with all those colorful papers and sets up a treasure hunt for Sumit to find his 'surprise' gifts. Sunil and Namita have purchased gifts separately and they total to seven ... books, ben 10's .... Sumit looks at the first gift ... the says wow my second gift in the book shelf .... the third gift he can not find ... "Baba, where do you keep your comb?" ... Sunil wants to test Sumit's observation .. "You should hve seen me keep my comb" .. "No Baba ... Mamu wher e does Baba keep his comb" ... Namita shows and he gpes and get all his gifts ... wants to play .. but there is school ... he gets ready and wear his dress purchased in Darjeeling ... and picks up choclate and pencils for his classmates and some ball pont pens to be given to his teachers .. he is ready .. "It is my surprise day" ...

Sunil has take off ... Namita come back from work quickly ... we make pulao to save time and make preperations ... clean the hosue a bit ... then pick Sumit up from the creche ... we go to Chembur andpick up the cake "The incridbles" from Crossiants ... then burgers from McDonalds ... and some 9l of cold drinks from food bazaar. We ate home at 1800 ready for the celebration ...

Friends trickle in ... 1900 is the invite time .. 1930 not many ...

Posted by sunilkopparapu at 7:37 PM

Updated: Thursday, 6 August 2009 2:32 PM

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Mood:  celebratory

Sunil came back from work late and was working later into the night. Sumit is a bit restless - Sunil thinks probably he is sleepy. Sunil, "Sumit, Why donot you go and sleep?". That is when Sumit walks up to Sunil and  says, "I want to make a surprise for your bitrthday tomorrow, can you go into another room".

Sunil is surprised but obeys and takes work into the bedroom. Sumit asks "Baba, where is the glue?". Sunil, "Ask Mamu", Sumit, "Baba, where are the old visiting cards?", Sunil, "Ask your Mama". Sumit then closes the door so that Sunil doesn't get to see what Sumit is doing.

There is a lot of bangs on the door. Sunil thinks he is sticking something on the door. After a couple of minutes Sumits knocks the door and asks Sunil to turn the other side and then slowled walks into the bedroom and asks "Where are the sketch pens?" - befor Sunil can answer he has spotted a few and carries them by opening the door - all the while making sure that Sunil doesn't get to see what he has done so far!

After 20 minutes he makes sure that Sunil has slept and then he closes the door and goes to sleep.

Next day Sumit wakes up early. To Sunil, "Have you seen the surprise?", Sunil, "No Son". He then asks Sunil to close his eyes and positions him so that he can see the surprise. What does Sunil see? Sunil's age shaped by using the old visiting cards and on one of the cards a message "Wow Baba, You are xx years old today. 17.09.2008". Sunil is really surprised and definitely happy ;-)

Posted by sunilkopparapu at 2:23 PM

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Mood:  energetic

It is just the begining of July and Sumit is waiting for July 30 - starts his count down. Unfortunately for him he has practise unit test. He still wants to celebrate on the day (a test the previous day and the text the next day and a test on the birthday). Namita and I convience him saying that "Sumit, no one will come to attend; you might celebrate but none of your friends will come". He is not fully convienced - but finally agrees and we decide that it will be on Aug 2 a Saturday.

Sumit has decided the menu. It will have noodles, fried rice, rasagolla, icecream, cold drinks, chips, cake, choclates. He has also decided on whom he will call. Initially it was 40 children - but he invited a several of his friends in the school and the count swells to 50 children (a couple of his friends come and ask namita when she picked Sumit after school - "Aunty, can I also come for Sumits birthday?"; Namita, "Sure").

Namita plans to procure rasogolla - she says 125 pieces for about 50 people (mostly kids!) should be alright! We order a 3 kgs cake - Sumit chooses a 3D model ship cake with a Shinshan standing on the deck (though he was involved while ordered the cake - he later felt that it was not a good cake! probably the taste). Sumit and I pick up some 9 1.5L pet bottles from a nearby super bazar along with some 1.5 kgs of chips. Namita orders kind of 20 plates of noodles and 10 plates of fried rice along with 1 kg of paneer chilli and 1 kg of manchurian. And we are ready for the celebration.

Gupta and I go to pick up rasogolla; we turn and pick up the cake - it is raining - we reach home by 1915 - kids pouring in- Sumit enjoys every bit of it. Namita and I are dazed - the kids make lots of sound - but then it is Sumit's 7th birthday. Sumit's fiends mother helpsin so does Gupta's wife Aarthi. By the time the last kid has gone home it is 2200.

Sumit is upset. "Why what happened?" , Sunil. My birthday is over, I will have to wait for another 1 year ;-(

Posted by sunilkopparapu at 4:50 PM

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