Furry Friends

One of the interesting mails that I had shared with Akshay.We have all read the story of the lion and mouse as kids. This real life version of it, is with a leopard. The little mouse has come to lunch with the leopard!

Fun with Accents

Reflections and recollections continue as we prepare to leave 2013 in the rear view mirror. In this post Carolyn remembers the slight Canadian accent Akshay had and the way he would roll his eyes.

Akshay used to come to the office with us, and the poor boy would be quite bored on the days we were packed with work. One day, he sauntered up to Raj's table, and asked him, "What are you working on?" Raj told him we had to do a card for some client. So he said, "Why don't you do a poem? You can get them online" " A what?" I asked, because our Canadian boy pronounced it pome. "POME", he said pronouncing the word clearly to this half deaf Carolyn Auntie. "Oh A poyem!" I exclaimed in my best South Indian English. The little boy instantly gave me a very teenage eye-roll and walked away. The rest of the day, he kept teasing me, talking to me in his version of a South Indian accent. At which I would reply in his Canadian accent... We had good times - Akshay and I.

Here are Akshay's friends in his room on his second anniversary.

This is Roshan,grown bigger now. He and Akshay were about the same height.

Touch down on Mars

Curiosity has been sending curious pictures from Bradbury Landing on Mars. These are being interpreted in even more curious ways by scientists. Akshay would have found this amusing. One of his dreams was to be an astronomer and strangely enough he had written a poem on Mars a year back. He would use Arial Black for his poems and use Word art for the title and his name at the bottom.

Mars 

Mars is such a rocky planet.

If there were aliens on Mars

I would make friends with them

and claim Mars for Canada.

Americans will come and see

that Canada has already claimed

Mars.

A cosy room

Akshay's room in his Bahrain home, where a few of his friends gathered to remember him