N SPEAKING

Hi Everyone!! This is Nishanth here. Thought I would contribute to the blog as well. I think everyone around me is trying to communicate with me. My parents and grandparents talk to me in some strange language. They also try to make some signs with their hands. They try to read to me from books. But I am on to them. I already know to talk. The problem is that others dont understand what I talk. I am a firm believer in "early to bed early to rise" and am generally the first one to wake up. If I don't find anyone around me, I start bawling. That usually gets someone very quickly. Nowadays, we all sleep together - baba, me, M and Aai. So I don't have to resort to bawling. Since I am very serious about teaching others to communicate with me, I start talking in a very melodious voice the moment I wake up. My parents don't seem to appreciate my sincere attempts at teaching them my language and call me "aakashwani" or something similar. Throughout the day, I keep on talking, hoping that someone would consider learning my language. No luck so far. Even at night time before going to sleep, I get to spend some one on one time with baba. I try my very best to talk to him but after some time he hushes me with a stern face. It is very discouraging but I am not one to give up. Finally I have decided to learn some of the alien language they are trying to teach me. I already know "woooon, twoooooo, thleeeeeeeeeeeee" and sometimes if I am in the mood, I can also say "fouuuul". I can say "mumum" and "dudu" when I am hungry.  Finally when I am done eating, I can say "aal dun". When I was a baby, they used to feed me tasteless stuff and I would say "aal dun" after the 1st bite. But no one listened and they kept on feeding me. I used to put up a fight, but how long can an individual fight? So nowadays I let them feed me whatever they want and let them decide when I am "aal dun". I also know my animals. I can say "bhu bhu" whenever I see a 4 legged animal and "kaka" whenever I see a 2 legged one. One day my parents and grandparents took me to Bannerghatta National Park. There were lots of animals there. I saw a big "bhu bhu" with stripes and whiskers, another "bhu bhu" that was black, hairy and likes honey, a third bhu bhu that is the king of the jungle and many more. For the benefit of others, whenever I pointed to a bhu bhu and said "bhu bhu" they would laugh. I just dont understand them.
I don't understand what else is there to learn. But my parents keep on trying to read some books. I feign interest for a couple of pages and then scamper away. Got to go now.... Bye Bye.