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These last two years, my son, Arjun, has been showing a healthy (whatever that means!) interest in the opposite sex – and I have been privy to his elation as well as his heartbreaks…
We are very close – he often says I’m more like the older sister he never had than mother – I can nag, chivvy, mercilessly tease – or share a joke and even music I come across – this hip hop dance track Good Vibrations by Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch (featuring soul artiste Loleatta Holloway) that I saw on VH1’s Cardio Video is a recent example!
Only later did I realize that Marky Mark and Mark Wahlenberg are one and the same! What a turn-around now compared to his bad-boy adolescent years!
Anyway, back to sonny’s love life! Here’s a transcript of a year-old conversation:
Sonny: You know, X isn’t really my type…
X was Sonny’s first girlfriend.
Me: What do you mean?
Sonny: Well, er… (with a slightly embarrassed laugh) she’s too, um, well-endowed - and she’s short!
Me: Desperation shows.
Sonny: Mom!!!
Me: Er, what’s your type anyway?
Sonny: (dreamily) Slim, athletic…
Me: (innocently) Oh! Well, I suppose opposites do attract…
Sonny makes a thunderous leap in my direction, muttering threats – and gives chase when I quickly scoot into the next room. We then have a mock scuffle that ends in a hug!
I really enjoy this complex, caring, maddeningly irritating, talented teen…
© Sosha Srinivasan
I’m ga-ga over this new FM radio station that Chennai recently got – Radio City 91.1. It has about 70% of its programming in English! Prior to this the local language ruled the airwaves. So this is music to my melody starved ears! My tape player has been on the blink for half a decade and I kept putting off buying a CD player and then passed up the offers on the World Space receiver – due to a combination of frugality and indolence, shall we say? Fortunately, however, good things come to those who wait…!
I’m thrilled to bits… I come home pooped after a long day at work and the harrowing 40-minute commute, just about fit to hit the sack… While I fix dinner I turn on the radio - and it’s amazing – I’m recharged, destressed… what blessed music does to me! In between flipping dosais (certified one of the world’s best pancakes, didja know?) with magically increased vigor, I do a jig and wave the spatula in tune to the likes of KT Tunstall and Herbie Hancock. Radio City plays quite a bit of retro, but I like it! I like it! Play on!
© Sosha Srinivasan
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