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Ok, it has been exactly 13 days since my mom decided to go on a world tour (actually just Tokyo and LA, but from India; one is the East and the other is the West). This journey of 3 months, will break the previous record for the longest time i have been without her - 25 days; which was when I was 13 years old, an age where you are tended to by all living relatives as you are still "too little to take care of yourself". But now, 4 kazhadha vayasaachu, so, no one really croons over you, which kinda set me on the backfoot right from the moment her visa was stamped. My daily routine consisted of exactly:
(i) wake up
(ii) eat
(iii) go to office
(iv) back home and sleep
so, you can easily guess; i don't exactly fit in the category of "physically active" persons. Things get further complicated when you have a dad who has as much knowledge of cooking as Ajit Agarkar has on pace bowling. So, the story so far has been, I have to say (and proudly) not as bad as i expected.

Achievements:
(i) re-discovered my tea-making abilities; the last time i made good, drinkable tea was way back in 2006; i am slowly getting the hang of it again.
(ii) learnt to cook rice in microwave; last time i made rice in Hawkin's pressure cooker right under my mom's nose is a story better left untold.
(iii) not hibernating anymore. when my mom is here, time spent in house (minus time for brushing, bathing and err.. everything else) is equal to sleeping time.
(iv) feeding the kakas and the kuruvis and the other paravais, mom was lapping up all the punyam by doing this, now hopefully the kakas bless me with a better birth next time around. Oh, while my mom used to feed it only rice, i am dishing out a lot of variety - marie, milk bikis, cheeslings, kara chev, sev puri (yes, sev puri).
(v) talk to my dad without using a mediator
(vi) biggest achievement - haven't called the fire service yet!!

proud of myself for sustaining 13 whole days!!

Sigh!! 77 days to go!! :(