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Saturday, December 11, 2010

The world of .com

It so happened that one day my father in law's inbox was open on the desktop. He stepped away for a few minutes to attend to something else. It was during the time when IPL was going on this year. I think the Mumbai Indians team was flashing on the side of the inbox that caught Vansh's attention. He clicked on it and lo and behold. All the pictures that he could ever dream of, a very very catchy look with all the jazz, it was like a dream come true. He spent a lot of time on it looking at cricketers' profiles, snapshots of various matches, speeds of bowlers because speed fascinates him.

In more or less the same time frame, looking at his passionate interest in airplanes, airports, etc (he remembered the color of the two planes that we had taken one and a half years back from US to here, the time when the wheels folded when the planes took off, he remembered E8, the gate number from which we had boarded the plane and that was the first combination he made if you gave him magnetic letters and numbers), I searched for some take off videos and videos of inside the cockpit on youtube and showed it to him. His little yet fast paced mind put two and two together and gradually made him realize that there's an address bar where in you punch in a few letters followed by .com and what follows thereafter is nothing short of a magical journey. Ever since, there has been no looking back.

The things that he now does are rather amusing. One of his favorite thing to do remains looking at airplanes' videos on youtube. It helps that once you type in the first few letters of 'kingfisher', say 'kin...', several spellings come down below making his job super easy and rendering mom's help useless.

During the Commonwealth games here, he saw Ashwini look at the games' schedule and book tickets online and in short create magic again and so he added it to his mental list of favorites. He was often found browsing through the website clicking on various stadium names and trying to book tickets himself. Thank God he still doesn't know the concept of credit cards, for the concepts he does know, he puts them to excellent use. Like he once put in Ashwini's company name, say XYZ, in google. Unimpressed by the technical website which was the first result, he clicked on the second one which was a jobs website where you apply for jobs. He typed in his name at the correct place, our home phone number which he has recently memorized in the contact number space and XYZ where it said company's name and went on to announce smugly that he had applied for a job in papa's company.

He often visits spicejet.com or air-india.com to book tickets to Bangalore or Chennai which was where Ashwini recently travelled for some trainings. I mentioned his immense interest in KBC in my last post which is also a regular destination because he is very very keen to register me as a contestant.

And to get an opportunity to get his hands on the computer, he has become one smart negotiator knowing and implementing the tricks of persuasion, black mail, sweet talk to the hilt.

16 comments:

Sumana said...

LOL cannot believe these kids are such computer freaks. They will be teaching us in a few years time and we will be at th ereceiving end. So when we going to see you in KBC??? Good going Vansh!!

Preethi said...

From the world of .com it will go on to emails and chat and facebook.. you better watch out mommy dear.. you are in for a new era!! :)

PG said...

LOL! A smart boy.
Right from day one since he is allowed to use the computer and infact every time I allow Rishab to sit at the computer, i give him a big lecture on never to open the advertisement windows on the side bar. LOL!
Luckily here we have a wonderful website with links to different other websitres from the German TV without any advertisements at all. But, yes, I do wonder, if he will get tempted and do something God know what...
A Very Happy New Year to you all!

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dipali said...

So clever!!!!!

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Neera said...

Sumana: Ha ha ha ..watch out for the next season ;)

Preethi: I know I know, it has given me a whole crop of greys in the past few months.

PG: I know its scary as to where they might land up owing to those advts. A very happy new year to u too.

Dipali: :)

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Jill said...

I love your blog and unique voice.

I am a new follower from Australia and also have younger kids. I think you are right in your post too- watch out world, the kids are coming!

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Jill said...

Oh, and have you tried dancemat typing for the kids.
We have a recent post about it, the kids love it!!

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Neera said...

Jill: Welcome here:) I'll drop by soon.

Neera said...

madhu, sushil: Thank you :) and welcome here!

Tulika said...

Neera, I'm really amazed... how much can Vansh do at this age:)& I never knew you could write so well :)

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