Nikhil Kini's Blog

29th June 2006 -  Can you believe it, there is a TV channel for babies now? Its called BabyFirst TV. There are tons for TV channels in the US for Sports, Cooking, Travel, Music even a channel called Jewellery Television. All they do it talk about Jewellery all day.

28th June 2006 - My father calls me Das Numbari. I thinks he calls me that because I have a football  jersey with the number 10 on it. The number 10 jersey was made famous by the legendary Pele from Brazil. Over the years, wearing the number 10 jersey is a prestige issue for players. Some of the famous players from the past include Diego Maradona from Argentina, Roberto Baggio from Italy and Michel Platini from France.

In the 2006 World Cup football touranament, the following players are wearing the number 10 jersey

• Ronaldinho from Brazil
• Micheal Own from England
• Zinadine Zidane from France and
• Francesco Totti from Italy

25th June 2006 - Its Sunday today and was a pretty slow day at home. My father had some office work and so I spent most of the day playing with my mother. In the evening we went to  the local Indian grocery store Bharat Bazaar. My parents have been visiting this store ever since they moved to Los Angeles. They like going to this store as they are always greeted with a warm smile. We picked up the weekly groceries and Indian veggies like Bhindi (Okra) etc. Bharat Bazaar also opened up a vegetarian restaurant recently and they serve chaats, samosa etc among other things. I wonder when I will be able to eat all this. Quite bored with this milk now. 

After Bharat Bazaar, we went to Al Watan restaurant on Inglewood Avenue. My parents love this little restaurant where they serve Pakistani food. Their Chicken and Lamb Biryani is amazing. My parents eat there almost 2-3 times a month and my uncle usually picks up food from there when he visit Los Angeles. The food was smelling very nice in the car. I started dreaming of the day when I could eat this food and I guess I fell asleep in the car.

June 24th, 2006 - We went to visit my cousin Ayush today in San Diego. He is going back to Des Moines after being here for the past few months and we went to wish him, my aunt and uncle good-bye. Also, we went to pick up my grandma.  It was a long drive as we hit a lot of traffic (Tip: Never go on the I-5 towards San Diego on Saturday morning after 9 AM, its really bad). We reached my aunt's place around lunch time, just in time to catch the 2nd half of the Mexico -Argentina game. It was a great game that went into overtime and Argentina won 2-1.

Everyone had a nice Lebanese lunch that my aunt had ordered from a local restaurant. Falafel and kababs for every, milk, milk and more milk for Ayush and me. This is not fair. I spent the rest of the day playing with my cousin, watching TV. It will probably be a while before I see him again.

June 23rd, 2006 - My parents wanted to take some passport pictures  so that they can get my passport done. We went to the "Picture People" store in the mall. They specialize in taking portraits, special pictures etc. Since I still cannot sit upright, they had to place me on a bean bag.  The lady at the store made it really nice and comfortable for me. I was very co-operative during the photo-shoot (since this is Hollywood, lets call it a photo-shoot). The nice lady took about 7-8 pictures and gave us copies of the best picture. I liked the store and will be back soon for a real picture. We spent the rest of the evening in the mall before heading home. My parents had dinner from CPK.  Smelled nice, but I am not allowed to try all that stuff.

Next week, we will apply for my passport. That will be another fun trip.