Things I remember from my childhood

Time for a fun blog entry. For some time I have had the urge to write some of the fondest memories I have of my childhood. I find some of them very funny, hope I am not the only one who feels that :)

1. Although now it doesn't look like my brother could ever have been small but there was a time when he was. He was extremely good at making me aware of my bullying tendencies:P My favourite was me tickling him just enough that he falls off the bed. His ego hurt he would hurl himself back only to be tickled off again. Oh my god! that was so much fun. Now there are times when I think of the 90 kilos of fat in his six foot three inch frame and despite being an atheist, pray to god that he did not take those things too seriously.

2. Well this one is my favourite. I am the eldest in my family from both my mom and dads side. I think that led to my being the default punching bag of the family. Whenever anyone wanted to give a lecture, all they had to do was get hold of me. I have had lectures that continued for more than two hours on how my book shelf is not tidy, how when my grandparents were young they used to walk for five miles to school and so should I, how I have to make the family proud. The most irritating part was how mom used to add fuel to the fire by saying the wrong things at the right time. Interestingly, she does not remember any of it now. When grilled on how she could do that to me, her response is, " Really? I did that? "

3. I have faint recollections of this one. I was in prep class in my new school. Since my mom was always shouting at me, my dad was my favourite teacher and I used to study only with him. The class had 3 term exams. I secured third or fourth rank in the first two ones. In the last one I came twentieth or something. When my mom asked my dad how did this happen, he said to her, " I wanted to see how much he can get if he gives his exam without studying. Twenty is not that bad! " .

I can go on and on, but I have to get back to work and this looks like a decent enough blog entry to not get judged by S and D about me being a sucker for increasing my blog counts. So thats it for now.