Urjit Singh Sorokhaibam

Tuesday, first of July was Canada Day and we had planned to visit Toronto Zoo, along with Russ and Mo. It was a great time and we all were so tired after the long walk in the zoo and I know, it was Urjit who was still full of energy. We started early to avoid the rush, as Zoo was one of the popular destinations for most of the families with kids. We could tell that, by the long trail of cars in the traffic near to the Zoo and we thought that we were lucky enough to have decided to start early.

So as usual, Urjit was looking forward to the day as he is always excited about visiting the zoo. We had both checked the Toronto Zoo website before coming to Toronto. So Urjit was like… again night.. again morning.. again night and then when morning comes, we will go… why so late.. why not just next day and there in the Zoo, while most of us were tired, he was full of energy running around here and there. He enjoyed playing in the Kids Zoo section and posing for me.

Nowadays, whenever he talks to someone back home in India, he will tell them to come and visit us in Canada and will tell them, how they are supposed to come, take a flight from Mumbai to Canada. He is having a good time here, but he is missing Pune as well and always wants me to call up home so that he can talk to his mausi and grandparents.

These days he remembers his mamu and often talks to me about his mamu.I have finally told him that his mamu is dead and what happened to him, and he listened so carefully. He was asking me.. if mamu took all his clothes away with him.. what about  the monster tshirt? Bob always used to scare him after wearing that tshirt –neon one. These days he prays every night before he goes off to sleep and when I ask him, what does he pray.. He says he is praying for his mamu to come back soon as a child. He does asks me to show him his mamu’s snaps and videos and enjoys watching it.

this was a big one.

following the senior people

hatched from an egg..;)