Bon petit

Akshay would have finished his grade five this summer. We have seen his score keeping skills in games and sports. He displayed the same interest in studies and kept close track of his academic progress in the Excel sheet progress card with remarks like - same , progress, decrease.
He was particularly good at mental math and French.

Feels like yesterday

Feels like yesterday...it's already six months

Akshay's birth star was Dhanishta.They say this star is governed by Vasu, the God of the Flute. This star is known to bring symphony into the lives of others. He sure did bring a lot of music into all our lives. But his song was gone before we could learn the tune.

He used to be shy as a small child of about four or five. We would go to receive him at the Begumpet airport. On spotting us he would make eye contact and smile sweetly and hide behind his mother with his head down. That was only briefly till he was scooped up into our arms and hugged and kissed.

Dhanishta borns are known to have an inherent musical ability and athletic skills. We all have seen his skill in Taekwondo and heard him play Beethoven.

 On his holiday in India he would love spending time at home, busy with his Gameboy, the cartoons and sports channels. He loved Nanima's 'shakkar paras'. On a visit in 2010, Nanima had made a special 'Tricolour' paratha for him.
He was a confident child, mature beyond his age. You can see it in his eyes.

A cosy room

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

Five months on...Here's poem that Akshay wrote on stars one night - about two years back

 

 

Stars 

Why do stars stay up

so high. Don’t they feel

 cold at night? I wish they

could ever come down.

But for now lets enjoy

the stars in their rightful

place.  At least we can see

them in the nice shining night.

By 

Akshay

This is a poster Akshay made in school for an Anti Bullying project, just a month before he left us. It got selected as a finalist in the competition and was sent to the US. His school has branches all over the world.

Akshay  was studying in class 5 at The international School of Choueifat, Manama.

The hand print in the poster is Akshay's own hand. He placed his hand on the poster and outlined it.

If you can't read it, it must be Google!

This is today's Google doodle dedicated to a master of pop
art Keith Haring. There is reason why I put it on the blog. Like me Akshay used to love these Google doodles and had copied the whole lot of them from my laptop in July 2011 on his visit to Hyderabad. He enjoyed going through the collection. Some of these doodles are such that when viewed in isolation you cannot read it or make out what it is.I remember one comment Akshay made -
"If you can't read it, it must be Google", he said.
His remark came to my mind today when I saw this one. Here is one more for your collection Akshay.

Akshay, Nanima and a Day of Carroms

Akshay, Nanima and a day of carroms

First week of August 2008. Akshay and Nanima spent almost the whole day playing carroms at Vaishali in Hyderabad. Akshay diligently kept the score card.