Mini's Scripts

Little Sia is afraid of every bug around. We lovingly called her 'button' because she was as cute as a baby could ever be. She is afraid of spiders the most, and any other bugs like mosquitoes or houseflies who are also 'spiders' to her. They are sometimes lovingly called as flying spiders (read mosquitoes) and buzzing spiders (read bees), yucky spiders (read slugs and earthworms) and spiders (the genuine kind). She once found a slug during her walk in the neighbourhood and called it a "naked snail"! She quipped, "Its coat is missing Mum! It will catch a cold!" Who could talk to her and make sense of the invertebrates! It's not going to be me! Sia also has a lot of words up her sleeve. And because we also speak Hindi at home, she ends up speaking Hinglish sometimes, "My vest is ulta-pulta (My vest is inside out!)", she says. Some noteworthy words are: Thunderstoms = Understoms Best Friend = Yest Faynd (as in Hair)  Brother = Brather (as...

Once upon a time there was a little boy called Adi who lived near a dense forest. It was a forest where the sun only shone when it was high up. There was no sunset or sunrise to be seen. Adi had always heard stories of the bright orange-ish  sun when it was at the horizon, but had never seen one.  And now, his current list of likes included, eating apples, climbing up very tall trees and following the sun. It was holiday week and Adi had gone out to explore the nearby forest when he came across a big giant tree. The leaves of this tree were very big, just like an elephant's ears and its branches were  also very long and went high up in the sky. Adi really wanted to see the view from the top of the tree but he was worried that he would not be able to do so as it was already mid afternoon and there was very little time left until the sunset. So, he decided to quickly call his friends Pixie, Jensen and Elze on their walkie-talkies, to come and help him make a very tall...