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Urjit Singh Sorokhaibam

Future Planning

Urjit loves talking about his future and most of the time he keeps discussing about his future. It is his favorite topic. He wants to have a Big house, big garden and everything BIG in his house. The other day, Urjit was asking his dad “Papa, where exactly is this boarding school?”. When his papa asked him, “Why?”. He replies.. “I want to know, where it is, because I have to send my kids to these boarding schools no..” It really made me laugh. He is in 1st standard only and he has started planning for his kids schools ;)

These days he is having Diwali Holidays, so we both were busy making videos and recoding songs.He enjoys singing and dancing.This is the latest video, where he is singing various songs and then he sings his favorite aarti ‘hare krishna, hare rama..’

My beta

My beta has got a new pet and he is very fond of his new pet. He has named it Bruno and loves to cuddle the pet all the time. He wants me to bring along his Bruno, when we go pick him up from school.He always keep talking to his pet and he likes the fact that his Bruno does not do potty..!! He says..”Bruno, if you ever become a live dog, then also.. you just bark… Ok.. don’t do any susu and potty..

My beta has a habit of saying pick upping instead of picking up. He says qweet.. for cute.

My beta was busy making a website in his sketch book for his bobo mamu when he saw that we are working on Bob’s site. He  made  various sections  like Bobo mamu’s school, Bobo mamu’s college, Bobo mamu’s zoo… He calls it bobomamu.com. Whenever I tell him that I am feeling sad and missing Bobo mamu, he tells me..”Mamma don’t be sad for mamu now, mamu is a God now and he is up in the sky.”

My beta was so excited when he joined school after a break of more than 4 months. All his old friends were happy to see him back in school and all the didis and bhaiyyas were also happy to see Urjit baba, back in school. He is in the same school since he was just 1.5 yrs. old. My beta is very fond of telling everyone that he is in PYP I class.

My beta loves to call up his nani and mausi as he knows those two numbers by heart other than his mom and dad’s number. He always calls up his mausi and starts making plan for saturdays and sundays.

My beta makes it a point to goto sleep early so that he can get up early and is not late for his school. In fact he also asks me to sleep early so that I can cook his tiffin and keep it ready in time.He loves to take bath on his own and play under the shower.He feels that he is a grown up boy now and he can take bath himself. He also loves taking bubble bath in the bath tub and he will request me for a bubble bath everyday.

My beta loves to sing “Pappu can’t dance.. saala..”. Loves to listen to Radio Micrchi in the car. He loves music and gets very irritated when we talk in the car.

My beta is a great fan of dinosaurs. And he can give a good speech on dinosaurs, type of dinosaurs, the various periods of dinosaurs. He is waiting eagerly to see all the Jurrassic Park movies.We showed him this movie called Shaolin Soccer and he enjoyed it so much. These days he loves to watch the serial Jai Shri Krishna on Colors channel.

My beta knows that we can find anything and everything on the internet. If he asks me some question, and I say..”beta, I don’t know..” He will reply “You can check it on the internet Mamma and tell me.”

My beta often teases his dad. When his dad calls me and asks for my opinion regarding any topic or mails to be sent to client, my beta will say “Mamma.. i think papa should also goto school again and do writing and reading.He is always asking you.” He loves to join in most of our communication and give his valuable inputs.On dusshera both of us were busy making marigold garlands for the car,doors and the mandir and from the flowers, he got two worms. First one, when he showed it to his dad, his dad threw it. He got another one, so he got a nice tiifin for the worm, got some leaves and flower petals, made a nice home for the worm and kept playing with it.. he started calling it wormy.. wormy.. he was telling me that his wormy will soon turn into a butterfly :) . When he again showed the next worm to his dad, his dad shouted..”Sanna, why are you playing with that..throw it away”. My beta came to me and he is telling me slowly..”this papa, he will never know what kids like and what kids don’t like”. I just smiled.

My beta came from school very excited the other day. When I asked what happened.. he says.. you know mamma, my library mam knows manipuri. She was speaking to me in manipuri. He said.. I don’t know what she was saying, but I know it was manipuri only. He adds..”i told my m’am that my papa also speaks manipuri” When his teacher asked you don’t know manipuri.. he replied.. I only know ishing(water), chak chare(had food).

My beta asked me a very intelligent question last week. He was asking me..”mamma, when my heart wants to say something then does it come from my mouth or my mind is saying what i am saying.” I asked him if this is something related to their class discussions, whether his mam said like that. He says no.. he only wants to know and was telling me that in his school they are reading about public places these days. SO most of their discussions are related to public places and he was explaining movie hall,hospitals, railway stations are all public places and one day, their teacher gave them an assignment to write down the list of public places and one of the kids wrote ‘chocolate’ as public place…and how everyone in the class had a good laugh.

My beta was narrating me some incident today and he said.. you know air hostel(he meant air hostess) mamma.. I was like.. air hostel? yes air hostel, those who serve food and give juice and chocolates..I said.. you mean me.. I also serve food and give you juice and chocolates too.. but you are just home hostel mamma.. he tells me.

My beta loves to sing aarti with his nani and has learnt to sing ‘hare rama hare krishna’. He was requesting me to compile a book of all the aartis that I know so that both of us could sing it together when we do our pooja.

* this post style is inspired from Romila’s I post, and she is a regular visitor to Urjit’s website.

Urjit with Bruno

Urjit with his pet Bruno ;)

Tiki did the trick!

When it comes to eating habits, my son has been more into the junk side.. fries, McDonald’s burgers, pizzas from papa john, pizza huts and pizza corners. He is more happy to go to McDonald and get a happy meal for himself then to eat a proper meal at home. I noticed that it was more because he was getting that small toy for himself.

Things continued the same when we came to Toronto. With McDonalds just across the street, he was always after eating Happy Meal and collecting the transformer toys. After some time, he started getting the same toy set as McDonalds also has just a limited selection. And Urjit had all the toys in his collection. When it comes to eating pizzas, he will never want to eat any pizza with vegetable or other toppings. He is more interested in eating just his plain tomato and cheese pizza.

Cheese is what he really likes. At home also, every now and then he will just open the fridge, take out one cheese slice and finish it. I on my part was trying hard to make him understand that it is not good to always eat junk food. Maybe he was not too big enough to understand or we also used to give up early and fall to his demand.

But things have really changed in the last few weeks and I am so happy. It started one day, when I was reading a cartoon strip to him. He has this habit of making me read something before he goes off to sleep at night. Since I carried just a few story books over here, and we both finished all the books, Urjit used to pick up newspapers with cartoon strips and I used to read it out to him. In that cartoon strip, there was a man, who was suffering a lot and there was depiction of all these worms and germs in his stomach, that they were all enjoying the junk food, and they were discussing how this man keeps eating so much junk food and keeps us all happy. I told to Urjit that the same thing might be happening in his tummy as well and that’s the reason he sometimes complain me about stomach pain. He gave me a very surprising and worried look. And then I explained him how it is always good to eat good, fresh and healthy food.

Next day I searched the net to find something related with kids eating habits and good food and I came to this website of Tiki, the Penguin. The Food page was so beautifully illustrated with all details about good and healthy food and what is the difference between fresh and processed food. We read the whole web page on food and I explained how one should eat fresh fruit and vegetables to be healthy and processed food is not good for health.

Fresh food for kids

Processed Food
Source : Tiki’s Food Guide

He kept asking me.. Mamma why people make processed food, if it is not healthy.. and why people sell bad food like McDonalds and all. I told them how they just want to earn and make money by making a fool of small kids and all you kids again wasting your parents’ money. It seems he really understood what is good and what is bad. After that day he also spent 3-4 days visiting the Tiki website again and again, checking out all the illustrations and now we have completely stopped going to McDonalds or any of the Pizzerias. He started eating Subway sandwiches, which I felt was a good choice as it is all fresh and healthy. Then I told him that as Tiki said, let’s make the same sandwich at home. So I got him along to the Food Basics and we selected all the fresh stuff and ingredients required for the sandwich and now I make it at home for him, whenever he wants one. And for lunch and dinner as well, he happily eats all the green and fresh vegetables we cook. He asks, mamma what is there in this vegetable.. protein? vitamin? which vitamin? He wants to know everything and is happy to know that he is eating all good food.

He tells me “Mamma, I was such a fool earlier.. always eating junk food all the time, but I was small no.. and I was not knowing anything.. Now I am big.. so I want to become strong and I will eat all healthy food only” . And these days you will always find him eating some fruit.. and he will say his favorite dialogue.. I want to become strong and healthy. So finally Tiki, did the trick for me :)

Visit the Tiki website here.

Some snaps of Urjit taken recently at Chinatown,Toronto

Urjit in Chinatown

Urjit’s best holiday experience so far has been his stay with Jackson and Callum in Vancouver. He had a great time playing and having fun with both his friends. Jackson is of same age as Urjit and Callum is 2 years younger, so all three of them got along really well.

We had been to Grouse Mountain, where they enjoyed the Famous Lumberjack show, the birds of prey show and then theatre in the Sky. On Sunday, they were taken for a picnic to the light house and they had a great day though it was a bit tiring. They enjoyed playing so much on the sand near the beach that it was fun to watch them. Two of them would fill up the bucket with sand and the third one would religiously take the bucket and put the whole sand on the toy train. They did so much hard work in digging out the sand, but there was perfect harmony and each one knew his role. So there was no chaos and it was a good sight for all of us.

Urjit was so happy to play with the sprinklers in the garden and then jump on the big trampoline. The three guys got along so nicely and they were feeling sad about leaving each other. The day before, we were to leave for Toronto, Jackson told his dad that it is going to be a sad day tomorrow as Urjit is leaving. When I narrated this to Urjit , he was telling me.. mamma you are telling me a sad thing, so you should not smile while telling such sad thing to me, you should have a sad face. And I was like.. ya.. I am also very sad about it and he felt good to know that I am also sad along with him and his friends.

Urjit liked his friends and also Vancouver so much that he has decided to build his house in Vancouver only. It was a tough time for him to decide the exact location, so he was asking me and his dad to help him out in finding the exact location in Vancouver for his future home. He keeps remembering both his friends very often. I wish someday when they are big boys, they get to see each other again.

Urjit with Friends
eating watermelon


busy digging sand..doing very hard work

Urjit with Friends
at light house..

Urjit with Friends
with the team of LumberJack show

Urjit with Friends
with a staff of Birds of Prey show..

Urjit with Friends
The Lumberjack Show

Urjit with Friends
Playing in the garden

Urjit with Friends
giving a stylo pose for the camera

Urjit with Friends
@ Grouse Mountain

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