Going to be a new Daddy

The sentiment simultaneously moves me and scares me silly. We decided early on that we wanted to know the gender of our child (we don’t really like surprises), and were excited to learn my wife was carrying our daughter inside her belly. My friend, Shafeeq — who has three daughters of his own, so naturally, I asked him for advice — said this to me: “You will be the first man your daughter will fall in love with, so take the responsibility seriously.”

His wife is 38 weeks preggy and they are expecting any day now: Here are his possible scenarios:

(I hang up phone, which then slips out of my hand into the patient’s vagina)
Female Patient: What was that?
Me: Umm, this is a new medical device which checks the cervix.
Patient: Is it supposed to vibrate?
(Patient squeezes thighs together and shoots out the cellphone hitting me in the forehead.(okay, that really can’t happen, but let’s pretend))

அதெல்லாம் ஆம்பிளைங்க சமாச்சாரம்

புத்தகத்திலயே போட்டாச்சு

எப்படி தூங்கறது?

குழந்தை தூங்கத்தெரியாம அழுமாம்.

logic and science to explain how babies are not born knowing how to get themselves to sleep

தூங்க வைப்பது எப்படின்னு ஒரு புத்தகம் படிச்சுட்டு தன் குழந்தைக்கு நடைமுறறப் படுத்தினதச் சொல்றாங்க

In the Ferber technique, you don’t just abandon the baby to cry it out till he falls asleep. Rather you keep going in at regular intervals to reassure the child that you are still around but you don’t pick him up.

So in the final analysis, it was a much longer road than the book suggested but it worked in the end.

ரிசல்ட்-உம் சொல்றாங்க

Ayaan went from being a clingy, irritable baby to a mostly cheerful and playful little fellow.

எந்த ஊர்த்தண்ணி குடிச்சு வளர்ந்தீங்க வாத்தியாரே

Unbelievable! தமிழ்க்காரர்னு (தமிழ்தான?) நம்பவே முடியல.

So next time somebody calls you humble, it would actually mean that you can afford certain socially acceptable action and are refraining from that and thus getting recognised for it. So by acting modest you are actually displaying your power. And thus by displaying power you are no more modest. Thus is the paradox of affordability 

ஒரேயொரு கொஸ்டின்,(அதானே, நக்கீர புத்தி சும்மா இருக்குமா?),

it would actually mean that you can afford certain socially acceptable action and

socially acceptableனா ஏன் அவங்க refrain பண்ணப்போறாங்க? not acceptableனும் சொல்லமாட்டேன், action that is affordable, but refrained னு வேணும்னா சொல்லுவேன் நான். கரெக்ட்டா? 

if you dont wish to be criticised for being selfish and thus ‘lose’ on the advantage

அருமை.

பின்னூட்டங்களில் சில அருமையான கேள்விகளும் சில அருமையான பதில்களும்கூட இருக்கு.

ஜீன்ஸ்

Of late, it has become quite fashionable to attribute any abnormal (or even otherwise) behavior to the genes.  Chemists are not lagging behind.  The link shows the attempts by researchers to explore the underlying chemistry during love.  In a nut shell, they have found out that fallling in love illustrates similar symptoms as obsessive-compulsive disorders. 

Does it mean lovers are all “மறை கழண்ட கேஸ்????” 

பரிந்துரை: அனான்.

சின்ன பூவும் தனி அறையும்

சின்ன பூ(ஆஷு)வுக்கு ரெண்டு வயசு முடியறதுக்கு முன்னாடி ஒரு தொகுப்புரை போட்டிருக்காங்க அம்மா-பூ. I guess I chose the wrong parents! Boo, Please adopt me, I promise I won’t complain about the “adopted child psycholgy” bullshit.