Moon walk

Beam shines right into room
We get up and walk up it

Scarla and the watery mountain

Climbed mountain to save friends trapped in cage
She cuts open cage and lets them out
Before she can escape the monster comes back and locks her in. But scarla has a key and lets herself out.
She goes home and has a party for the 20 2 year old friends at macdonalds.
When she goes home she finds the bad guys has killed the father!
She thinks her father is pretending but the sees blood on the face
When mummy coming home she dies too at hands of bad guy.
Then scarla thinks mum is pretending then sees the blood coming from glasses. When sister coming scarla punched bad guy to save sister
Brother came home from sch and saw big job in the lift.
Scarla kicked bad guy to save aunty.
She went home to share the sad news with siblings
She asked the 20 friends for medicine for parents. And then voila they woke up

Sections in my poetry book

On the kids for the kids
On partings
Nature
Family

Stuff my son says

He's my darling. Such a sensitive soul
Yesterday he was beaming saying "i'm so confident right Aatha!"
I had been praising him for going up on stage to dance,  for figuring out how to get balls out of a broken glass, for asking questions at a play, for making new friends...

Then at a function to celebrate someone's 80th birthday he asks when is he going to die??!??!??!?

Mortified. We had to educate him on the spot that that was not the thing to say! But innocent he was. Asking matter of factly without the burden of the fears and worry attendant upon death. Cherishable moment i guess.

Up to yesterday he wanted to be an actor. As of yesterday he wants to be a singer like sp balasubramaniam..says he wants to learn singing till he's 25 or more.

I am so proud of him.

The other day in bed he said hes god worst blessing. So sad. The picture of him says god's sweetest blessing. His self esteem is something i have to work on

Currently ignoring his bad behaviour is working wonders.

He's so precious.

god the painter of skies

God paints a pretty picture every morning of the skies and clouds
hues of pink and blue and purples and oranges and swirling patterns in clouds

Everyday a new picture
he then discards his masterpiece and does another the next day

The puppy and the ducky

Once there was this little puppy who was very sad because he didn't have any toy or friend to play with . A puppy angel felt sorry for him and decided to help him..so it threw down a red ball on the roof of his kennel. Bong! The puppy got a shock and went out to investigate. He was overjoyed with the ball and started playing happily with it. Inside his kennel then outside then in the park. He had so much fun!

While playing in the park he accidentally threw it into the pond! Oh no! He stared mournfully at it   and thought "oh I cant swim! I just got it today and now I've lost it"  and he sat by the bank of the pond and cried loud tears. While he was crying he heard a sound. "Quack quack quack quack quack "
He thought "who's making that awful noise when I just want to cry? I'm going to look up and tell them to stop right this minute"

He looked up to bark when he saw to his surprise a duck pushing his red ball towards him quacking away!

"Oh thank you ducky"! And they play and play all day.

Evening falls. Puppy says "i"ve got to go now but will be back tomorrow! " Ducky says : I'll be waiting for you"

That night dark clouds gather  . By morning the sky is overcast and a storm descends. What thunder what lightning !

Puppy shivers in his canal too terrified to budge. Every time he hears the roar of thunder he jumps and shakes his whole kennel. He does not venture out.

At the pond the ducky waits. Thunder storms are no big deal for her. Water off her back. She wait and waits then frowns then pouts. He said he'd come but he didnt.

The next day dawns bright and clear again. Puppy races out with his red ball. 

"Ducky! Ducky! Where are you? Woof woof I'm here to play".

Ducky hears him but she hides behind some reeds. She's not going to answer him! He didn't cone yesterday at all!

" Ducky? Ducky!oh dear. I'm going to try my luck anyway" and puppy throws the ball into the pond . Ducky sees the ball but does not go near it. She thinks it serves him right to lose his ball!

Puppy sees the ball floating far away in the pond and hangs his head. He's so sad he's lost his friend and his ball. Suddenly he hears a sound
"Croak croak croak" He looks up and see three frogs playing with his ball! They are throwing it to one another saying croak croak!

"Hi there froggies! May I have my ball back?"
The three frogs croak back to him grumpily saying "no" and keep throwing the ball to one another . Suddenly ducky turns up and catches the ball in mid throw. The three frogs croak in surprise. Ducky pushes the ball back to puppy.

"Ducky! You are here! Why didn't you answer when I called out to you? "
Ducky stuck her beak in the air and said " hmph! I waited for you all day yesterday and you never turned up!"
" Oh sorry Ducky! The storm terrified me! I didn't dare leave my kennel"
" Oh are you scared of thunderstorms ? " asked the ducky gently. I thought you didn't care about me anymore!"

" of course i care about you! You are my friend !" Said the puppy.

"Well let's play then!" said the Ducky.

They started playing throwing the red ball to each other. Then they heard a sound .

" Croak croak croak"

They turned to see the three frogs.

" we are sorry we didn't return your ball just now. "
"Can we play too? "
"Pleeeeeeesae? "

Puppy looked at ducky. What do you think should we let them play too?
Oh ok!
So all five played happily together.

The angel said " I only gave him a you nut he found himself some friends who care for him!

The end

Malaska and malaski part 2

Aishu s partially devised theatre story
So there was this monster malaska terrorising people.
Baby malaski rose to the rescue. She challenges it to a fight and each time it roared up she knocked it down until she kicked out the bad part and malaska turned good. Malaska thanked her for rescuing her from the demon within and freeing her from it

Aishus sad story about lions and tigers

Aishu told me this this morning.

I walked to Australia all by myself. A lion spoke to me. I was so brave.it said another lion killed a tiger. The tiger family is sad. The lion did not do anything.
I was so brave. I walked back all by myself.

Tomorrow I will take you there. We need to climb up the beanstalk and walk through the clouds and we will come to a castle. A crocodile is there too with the lion. They will share with us their sadness. I will take all of you there.
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Copy kitten

This was for aishu. 

Once there was this beautiful purple cat and this adorable cute pink  baby kitten
The kitten tried to copy her mummy in everything.  She  copied her mummy's graceful walk the swish of the tail. All in miniature. And she tried to copy her meow too. Mummy cat laughed and called her my baby little copy kitten!

One day mummy cat and baby kitten were walking in the garden when they heard this loud ferocious Barking. It was a wild dog! A fierce one that like to chase cats!
Mummy cat pushed baby kitten into  a hole in a tree to hide her and then she climbed up onto a hole in the tree a bit higher.
But poor baby kitten's tail was sticking out a little and the wild dog saw it. It came nearer and nearer and was about to bite the tail when... mummy cat leaped down and pounced on the dog. She clawed at it fiercely trying to distract it from baby kitten.
Wild dog was furious! He shook himself hard until mummy cat fell down
Then he bared his teeth and her and growled.  Just as he was about to snap at her ... baby kitten jumped on his back! She was copy kitten so she copied her mummy and tried to scratch and pull st the dog.
Wild dog was very Confused and angry. He tried shaking her off. Mummy cat saw what baby was doing and she too started attacking the dog from below. So mummy was scratching below and baby was scratching from above. The wi

ld dog could not take it anymore. He shook off both cat and kitten and ran off howling owwwww
Mummy cat and baby kitten got up and higher each other.  And mummy cat said "you are my brave little copy

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Ashwin s puppets story

Ashwin created a stage for his puppets - soft toys- and we all went on this epic adventure together.
The stage was set for a school setting. The teacher was taking the kids on a field trip . Was it to gardens by the bay? No! Way too far. Instead today's field trip would be to Russia! 
So we boarded an aircraft and headed to Russia.  But wait.. half way there we seems to be having engine trouble!  We are going to crash!  The ocean rushes to meet the craft when ... just in time.. the fearless captain / teacher changes the air craft to a sea craft . It lands on the ocean and we cruise along trying to get our bearings.
Which ocean have we fallen into? It's the southern ocean! Oh man we were totally off course from Russia!  And look out we are about to be swallowed b a whale! The sea craft turns into a submarine and we dive underwater just in time. .
But how long can we stay under. ?

We  have to get out. Captain turns our craft into a space craft and we head for the moon but we are shot off target by a meteorite  and now are headed straight to the sun!  The captain quickly  changes our craft to a sun craft to protect it from the powerful rays from the sun.  we arrive on the sun and then finally head back to earth safe and sound when the clock hits 9pm and the captain  realises it's time for bed.
What an adventure!!!