Piku's Career

One of the initial scenes of bollywood blockbuster movie - 3 Idiots. Parikshit Sahni's face looking upon his new born son (Madhavan - the narrator), and he delivers his  first dialogue: "Mera beta engineer banega!".

I would say that the scene was somewhat unreal, but was true in essence! It was unreal because probably no one says this kind of sentence the moment they see their baby's face for the first time. But it was true in essence, because in reality, people start dreaming on their kid's careers from the moment they learn about embarkment of their journey towards parenthood. We weren't any different; but just to show my over-smartness I told wifey that we would not dream on our instincts, instead we would dream based upon his actions.

During a small ceremony, when he picked pen instead of money, we thought he might become a writer; but next moment he threw away the pen and grabbed the currency. Don't know why, but I felt relaxed :D

When we saw Piku playing with bat-ball for first time we thought he might become a cricketer. Although now bat serves the purpose of hitting anything except the ball. In fact, when Piku becomes overly affectionate, the bat lands up on me!

To see, whether he would be interested in reading, we gave him news paper to browse, and in turn he developed a hobby of tearing papers apart. Now, we've an additional daily task to keep newspaper safe, until we've read it. Otherwise, we only pay for the paper, but don't get to read it!

There were many such moments where we tried to guess his career, but it all came to end last week. After months of reluctance, last week I had to allow him to work on laptop. For that, I opened MS Word, changed the font size to 36 and handed the laptop to him; but I was totally devastated when Piku keyed in his first letters on the laptop. I knew that he was going on the wrong direction because the first 3 letters he typed were ...  JAV.... I didnt let him type any further!

9 comments:

Sunil said...

U stopped a budding JAVA S/W engineer in making. :)

Upendra Jariya said...

are bhaiya abhi se kyun ladke ka future soch rahe ho... woh aapka bataya kuch bhi karega iske chance pehle workout kar lo...

Avinash said...

Again excellent description of the moments and feelings.

Abhishek Mitra said...

JAV se JAVA to soch hi liya hoga .... aacha hai package ya import nahi type kiya :) ssedhe coding

If it indeed is JAVA ..... kaafi dino tak chalega JAVA

..... actualy he wanted to open http://javtours.com/

Amol Mujumdar said...

congrats...

vaise sandy sir ko to ye incident nahi bataya na... ;-)

Khalifa Sabir said...

shandaar !!!

Anand Mohan Shrivastava said...

@Sunil: It wasn't me... it was my instinct!
@UJ: Wo to abhi bhi apne man ki hi karta hai... hum to sirf apne man ko behla rahe hain!
@Avi: Prepare yourself, your days are also here!
@Mitra: It was panic attack :D
@Amol: Maine to nahi bataya. Ho sakta ki unke sath bhi aisa ho chuka ho...
@Sabir: Shandar ke sath daravana bhi ho sakta hai...

Anonymous said...

bechara baccha bol raha tha ki JAVA ghoomne jana jai ...hum soch rahe hain java seekhega...what a ****...I Think we We should Thank Piku for enlightening us to think something beyond our day-life.

Shweta jain said...

Mast ....

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