October 15, 2009

Skanda's rules of classification

A typical conversation with my 3 year old nephew, say, while watching animal planet. (Can be equally applied to any other show on any other channel too!)

Skanda: Adhenadhu?
Me(or his mom): Tiger
Skanda: Tiger kacchatte?
Me: kacchatte
Skanda(watching the tiger stalk a deer): Adhenadhu?
Me:Jinke
Skanda: Jinke kacchalla?
Me: kacchalla

I flip the channel to Cartoon Network..

Skanda(pointing to a book, that Tom the cat, is reading): Chikkamma, adhu?
Me: Book
Skanda: Book kacchatthe?
Me(Eh?): Kacchalla (Notice, I tell something that he is not expecting, usually whatever he asks, that should be the answer!)
Skanda(assertively): Kacchatthe!!!
Me: ok kacchatte!

So, according to Skanda, there are 2 types of people/animals/things etc in this world.
One that bites and one that doesn't.
Simple ain't it! :-) Aahh..to be as innocent as a child again!




7 comments:

Unknown said...

Vinutha's blog kacchatteee...kacchalllaa ??
Ans: Kacchaalla :)
Looks like you are reliving your childhood with your nephews being at the perfect ages..

vinu said...

@pras: yeah..enjoying every moment :-)

Krishna said...

I love this over-simplified classification! I am going to apply it everywhere too. [With due credits, given to skanda!]

Samparka said...

even now i guess we have 2 kinds...one set of ppl kachtare and another kachalla ;) ... so we are still in that same age :)

Anonymous said...

very nicely captured :)

- karthik

vinu said...

@krishna: sure go ahead. :-)
@sudks: nice play of words! :-)which category do u come in? ;-)

vinu said...

@kartha: thanks :)