Gabbu Singh Diaries 5 | The Newbie Speaker goes on rampage.

What do you do when you miss your family, your partner or your girlfriend? In all probability, you would right away call them up or text them on Whatsapp. But what do you do when you are at work and you miss your 2 year old sweetheart son who at that point in time is in his nursery? You can neither call him nor text him (albeit for few more years, till this new gen kid as well demands for a smartphone J), all you could do is just helplessly wait for the day to end.

It’s certainly not a very good feeling and at times you really wish that you could search for your son’s contact on the Whatsapp contact list and drop him a ‘miss you’ text. And this feeling is highly exaggerated when your kid has recently started talking and you excitedly wait whole day to hear me blabber in his heavy British accent. So cow now is ‘couw’,  bear is ‘beaa’, car is ‘caa’, no is ‘nou’ , Jai Shree Ram is ‘Jey Shee Ram’, and potty is ‘yucky potty’. And this extremely funny and cute blabbering is on endlessly.

It’s quite contrasting though, that not too long ago I used to find these continuously chattering kids in a bus, train or a movie theatre very annoying. Though today when Gabbu does the same publicly, it’s hardly annoying, in fact it seems cute and funny, much to the annoyance of other bystanders, I am sure. Love is blind they say J.

But children do learn very fast and at this age what they pick the quickest is to greet everyone with ‘Hi’s’ and ‘Byes’. But it gets really embarrassing when Gabbu vociferously greets strangers with his newly learned ‘Hi ya’s’ and ‘Byes’ in the lift, bus or tubes. And the situation gets such that even the usually snobbish locals have to reciprocate to his greetings with a reluctant Hi or Bye J. A good cue to break ice with those gorgeous English ladies, may be J. But this Hi Bye syndrome has another funnier side too. Whenever he continuously persists for something that I don’t want him to buy or have, I tend to tell him that it is finished. For e.g. if he endlessly persists for Kinder Joy or say Garlic Bread, I say ‘No Avyaan it’s finished’. So in turn what he does now is every time we go past Dominos, he keeps on saying ‘Bye Garlic Bread’, ‘Bye Dominos’, assuming its already finished and same with Kinder Joy on passing through Tesco, ‘Bye Tesco’, ‘Bye Kinder Joy’ J.

And it keeps on getting funnier. Not too long ago Gabbu’s mom apparently spent a lot of time in the kitchen cooking something really sumptuous. She excitedly gave the first serving to him and expectantly asked him ‘how is it Gabbu?’ I doubt anybody could have given a much blatant response to such a question. He replied, saying ‘its yucky’, that’s not all he kept on singing it for 5 minutes, ‘it’s yucky’, ‘it’s yucky’, ‘it’s yucky’, ‘it’s yucky’ J. And by doing so the newbie speaker managed to do something that even his dad couldn’t dare to do in so many years.

And there is something funny or the other that keeps happening every day. In fact, these are the moments you look forward to after a stressful day at work or post an unwarranted tiff with someone very dear. These experiences are blissful, rejuvenating and reminiscent of the fact that how simple, easy and happy life can be. But for me the best moment of the day is when I go to pick him up from his nursery in the evening, that smile, that exhilaration on his face when he sees me coming, greets me with his accented ‘Hi ya’ and runs towards me to give a cuddle is truly priceless. It evades all the stress and emphasizes on the fact that whatever good or bad the world may think of me, at least he is the one who really waits for my arrival with such exuberance and anticipation every single day J. Unconditional love!

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