Goldfish medicine and exploding eggs

Let the juggling of bickering kids and flying objects begin. Happy holidays, Mums!

BY MELISSA DOMINGO

Both my kids are having meltdowns. I solved their bickering over the television by simply unplugging the cables.

Phase one over, phase two uickly ensued. My three-year-old dipped a handful of Play Doh into my nine-year-old daughter’s hot chocolate. One of them is crying on the couch, while the other is throwing a tantrum on the floor.

I watch them resignedly and simultaneously worry about our pet goldfish George.

Before I became a mum, regular things occupied my thoughts - career, loved ones and the future. I worried about my hair, wardrobe, music and lipstick. I once asked my mum to purchase my favourite lipstick – ‘Nearly Nude’– while she was at the store. She kept asking for ‘AlmostNaked’. Needless to say, it was unavailable - an unnecessary aside, but I do remember feeling deeply concerned for my mum.

However, after becoming a mum, my mind is overrun with more diverse and pressing issues. Take this morning, for example. I have been feeling anxious about our godfish George, who lingers at the botton of his tank. In spite of our multiple efforts, he refuses to return to his normal self. My kids consider him to be a legitimate, treasured family member. My daughter even threatened to sell the other two fish living with George, as she believes they are mean to him. I was supposed to test the pH level of the tank this morning but ran into some delays…

My son only eats ‘exploding eggs’

(sunnysideup). I unintentionally left his egg in the pan longer than needed resulting in him becoming quite explosive when the yolk didn’t ‘explode’. I quickly cooked him another ‘explosive’ egg. The

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I can’t recall a single notable (or even non-notable) Indian film based on the plunging dips and giddying highs of the stock market. Do you remember Harshad Mehta? How could you forget the podgy stockbroker who made thousands of Indians rich overnight and then it all ended in a financial mess in no time at all?

Saif Ali Khan’s Shakun Kothari’s destiny run on the same lines. Except that Saif as the wily ruthless him have. Rizwan’s a bristling her finale. He down moment in of the come ‘When (Nikhil Arora)

Machiavellian stockbroker is everything that Harshad Mehta would have wanted to be. This is Saif’s most gloriously written and performed part, meaty witty and wicked. He chews into it exposing a sacred hunger that I didn’t notice in his last over-hyped outing.

Saif as Shakun is a true-blue Gujju who won’t let neo-affluence corrupt his cultural integrity. He slips into Gujjufications with the unrehearsed cuteness of tycoon, who has long ceased to be cute to everyone, including his own wife and children.