Little Akshara

Little Akshara: little snippets

uf....its been so long and i have been craving to write certain things... I.The first goes like this. Morning Akshara woke up early with a doubt in her little mind.She asked me, amma what do you call a bottle in english. I broke into a laugh. I told her bottle is an english word and a more equivalent word in telugu would be something like a "dabba" (I am open for corrections)(PS: It occured to me in the morning that bottle is actually called a sisa only if it is made of glass). and yes dabba more correctly means a container. But this is as accurate as i could get. II. The Second one is on our trip to the Zoo. Akshara's trip to the Zoo was memorable, more for me than her. I have been longing to take her to the zoo and finally we made it. The animals were lazing on a sunday afternoon and looked the least bit interested in their onlookers. We were all excited to have seen them but they gave us something like"to darn with you" looks. And yes the monkeys. Child...