27th June

Completed morning program. Amolikaa objected to going to swimming classes today.  She said that  the swimming teacher shouted too much. Ruchi somehow managed to take her...When i told Amolikaa yesterday that two grandchildren of a friend of mine, aged 3 and 6, visited and stayed with him for a week far away from their parents, she said that she would also visit us whenever her parents sent. In fact Abhishree wished to come along with us to Birmingham for the cricket match, but could not as she had to go out on a week long trip with her school outside London. She would return on Friday, the 28th. I noticed her theatrical anger a couple of days earlier on a trivial issue. It appeared to me as if she was not happy with going away from us. She is loving. When she was just 3/4 year-old, she was very naughty and playful. When i would practice Yoga, she would try to open my eyes, sit on my shoulders, jump on my lap, kiss me. As i continued the practice, she would go away. Now she does not disturb me. Cookie does the same thing. I have to keep the door of the living room closed during the practice..... Amolikaa was watching a Children serial on the TV today in the evening. I joined her and wished to start a conversation. She did not like it. She asked me to leave the room. I left. She wished to see it undisturbed. Like a true Indian, i liked to gossip without caring for her engagement with the serial. As a true British, she did not like any disturbance/dislocation in her work. The British are highly individualistic whereas Indians are egoistic. She is born British. I have to keep this fact in mind in my dealings with her in future.
Retired to sleep at 10 pm.
News of the day from London for children :1. In the mixed double category, Mahesh Bhupati, Sainia Mirza and Bopanna of  India advanced to second round.
2. As many as 7 players quit Wimbledon matches due to injury, a record.
3. Vicky Raitt, a 23 year old zoology student in Aberdeen woke up and found a scorpion crawling on him. He jumped out, managed to take it in a container  and called Scottish SCPA to hand it over to them. It appeared to him that the scorpion had crawled and hid into his personal belongings during visit to Borneo some time back and sneaked out now.