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Another day from the home office

Well, my son still continues to suffer from fever.  Everytime he takes paracetamol (Crocin), the temperature comes down and then rises back again.  So, I am back working from home and trying to juggle him with my conference calls and emails :-)  It is fun and I can kind of understand how much work it is to go to work, cook, clean and tend to a child.  I think I would be terrible if I had to do it full time so, full credit to my wife who does it quite seamlessly.

While at home, I get to watch all the kiddie show and current favourite of my son is "Chhota Bheem".  It is quite clean and little educational, no where as educational as Dora though.  I enjoyed the Bheem show though and wouldn't mind seeing it again.  We are again hooked to shows on National Geographic and Animal Planet.  It is so much nicer to learn about nature than to watch mindless soaps or slapstick comedy programs.

Thinking of Chhota Bheem and Dora, I am reminded about the monkey that is roaming around in our complex.  It is scary though, as he has peacefully gone into people's flats (courtesy an open balcony) and into their kitchen and grabbed whatever food he wants (banana, water melon etc).  I have heard he has sat near the phone for close to 1/2 hour munching on the goodies he found in the house.  I have actually seen him playing with a dog whom the owner decided to leave outside in the balcony, while he went inside.  Interestingly, the dog never barked once.  May be, he is also surprised to see a monkey in the neighbourhood :-)  Let's see when he decides to leave us but, till then we make sure our balconies are closed since we want to take no chances with our toddler.

Comments

kashyap said…
wow monkey!!!! thats really scary...vandra no bharoso nahi...hope it doesnt bite anyone...

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