Happy Birthday India and Singapore

This is as usual a belated post - I was supposed to write about Singapore's National Day last week, but as usual didn't!

Well, Singapore celebrated it's 42nd National Day last Thursday and it was day of pomp, pagentry and celebration. This year was the first there was a parade on a floating platform - a world's first. I have always loved a parade - the sense of nationalism it invokes in me always brings up goosebumps! And since I consider Singapore my home (even though I am not a Singaporean), Majulah Singapura brings up the same awe that Saare Jahan Se Accha or Vande Mataram does to me.

Today India celebrates 60 years of freedom and at this time I am proud to be an Indian! In fact I am proud of both my countries - India, which is the country of my birth and therefore my motherland and Singapore, where I moved to live my life after marriage. So in a sense India is my maika and Singapore my sasural. I am proud that in the last 42 years Singapore has come up from being a country filled with villages to a first world country and India which has grown so much in the last 60 years that it is a world Superpower now.

So HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDIA and BELATED BIRTHDDAY WISHES SINGAPORE!! Keep prospering like this!

I know it's getting to be a habit, but I missed posting for a week more!

Well the last week has been a pretty humdrum kind of life for us. I have been getting the kids to write on a daily basis. The Princess is pretty consistant and will happily write the couple of pages I set out for her but the Pilot is another ballgame altogether! He doesn't like to write and is not afraid to show it. Some days getting him to write is one long series of threats, cajoles and bribes till it is done; and more often than not, it will be very badly executed!! I have a new book for them now, so hopefully this week won't be so bad!!

On another note, I found a way to fold fitted sheets on on youtube and it actually works! Here are the two that I watched and which I used. The first one is from Google Video and the other one is from Youtube. I spent about 15 minutes sorting through my bedroom sheets and folding them and putting them away. The first sheet must have taken me around five minutes to complete and once I got the hang of it, it took me around 3 minutes to do each sheet. I also put the sheet with one of the pillow cases and put it all into the other pillow case and made it into one neat parcel!