Wow it is almost 3 years since my last post. Not that I was busy, I had ample time but I was being Appa (lazy I mean). I have come a long way in these 3 years and thinking about it makes me nostalgic about the beautiful vacations filled with life time experiences, my newly acquired skills, fun filled games night, sleepovers, etc but it also brings the trauma caused by Appa's decision.
To increase our bonding, Appa forced me and my Anna to play together. First of all, Anna is the worst playmate. 99% of time, all Anna wants to play is chess and I hate the game. We all will end up being someone's spouse in the future and chess players can never be a good spouse, there can be no justification to sacrificing your beloved Queen or going after someone else's Queen and that is all chess players do ! Anna's response to this is - who wants to be a good spouse when you can be a good "player". I know it is not his intellect but his hormones doing the talking
We tried playing carrom together, this is better than chess but again it was all about winning the queen in the end. I must tell that in carrom, Appa ends up with the queen, and in this aspect Anna is still lagging behind our laggard Appa. I am bad at carrom so it was a torture playing it and add Anna to the equation, the torture only multiplies (wow, I am good at mathematics isn't it .. )
Anna and me played quite a bit of cricket as well, Anna prefers to bowl and I play with full cricket gear even when he is bowling with a soft ball. My Appa thinks Anna has rekindled his childhood love for cricket but I think the real reason is, Anna wants to injure me with his pace bowling for his sadistic pleasure (i am convinced chess players are violent, in their game they strategize to kill others or sacrifice their clan for just few points in their rating..)
It is not just sports or games, we have been also asked to do some chores together like cleaning or cooking to earn extra XBOX time. He is the worst partner, he takes half of the extra XBOX time but when its cleaning time he rushes to the toilet and sits in his den for 1hr+ and comes out when I am done with the work. What a waste of 1 hr just to get few minutes of extra XBOX time but chess players are weird, they can spend hours staring at few pieces scattered on 64 squares..
Sorry guys whenever I speak about the last 3 years, the trauma caused by my chess obsessed Anna usually takes over my beautiful experiences. I think we should catch up over a glass of chilled cola and I can share my happy memories ! See you soon ..
