Conspiracy revealed

Oh.. what fun! Everywhere I looked, I saw people. You are never alone in India. I loved it ! But I am going to reveal the BIG conspiracy that I unraveled for the benefit of fellow babies (toddlers?) who go to India for the first time.

On March 9th, I was woken up by the usual household noise (which was a little more than usual) at around 6:45 a.m. I was excited to see Lakshya and her customary smiling morning greeting "pApA pApA" Soon people were carrying me, kissing and pampering me and saying the same words "piranda nAL vAzhthukkaL" Oh well.. who would say no to pampering :)

In a while, Lakshya and I were made to sit on maNai and athai started tickling our feet with turmeric and red stuff, then applied oil on our head and then... but we were on our way to explore.

Soon ammA gave me a bath, fed me breakfast and dressed me in a new pAvAdai. When we came into the living room, I saw a lot of people; many mAmA-s dressed in white. They had spread out many things on the floor. So exciting! Even before I could go and check out the stuff, ammA held me tight on her lap and the mAmA-s started talking loudly at the same time while appA was intently following and repeating what they were saying!

Aravind mAmA came along with a nice poo mAlai for me and everyone clapped as I wore it :) A little later mAmA along with mAmi and Kittu gave me some sweet mammu. I took some rest away from the commotion at our neighbour's house. After I woke up, people treated me with lots and lots of gifts :) After a while, I didn't know what happened. Chaos gave way to orderliness. Everyone were perfectly organized, sitting in line. Oh... mammu time for elders !

It seemed like things were done for the day.

Aravind mAmA who was playing with me sat me down on his lap with everyone crowding around. Another mAmA appeared and marked something on my ears and everyone around approved it! Before I knew, shot.... awww...shot... awwww....

damadamamdamammdmamadamama........Before I could bring my short crying spell to a logical end, I was distracted by the sound of crackers. There emerged my athimber smiling victoriously after celebrating the success of their conspiracy (puncturing my ears) by bursting 10000 wala. Still can't believe.. You too athimber??!