
No Aaliyah! Its not what you are thinking. Its the South Pole. Yeah! Antartica. Not sure if it will still be there when you read this but you can Google to see what it was. i.e if Google is still there. Anyways.
When you were 7 months old, Daddy, you and I drove down from Karwar to Goa. It was a 2 hour drive which your Dad successfully crawled in 5 hours. All because there was a Baby on Board. I am the one in the family with a bad back and your dad would check on YOU at every speed breaker and pot hole he managed to get in and out of. The same day cheeku and chaachu with Maji and Piya, and PG were at Goa but for a short while. Cheeku rushed to see you and show you off to Chaachu for about 20 minutes and rushed to take her train back.
Thats it! Right after that you Dad seemed very troubled in small installements and I knew that there was something about 'LIFE' that he was going to conclude.
On our drive back at a petrol station, we stopped to have some road side chai and your dad was looking for some organic stuff to feed you with. Then in a very philosophical tone he asked, will Aaliyah too come and visit us for 20 minutes and rush away. I could not believe he took 24 hours to frame that sentence. Usually the turnaround time is 10 seconds. Anyways! I said , 'Yes Kishore, she is going to be a very cute girl that boys may want to ask out and yes she will have a 'lot of friends with whom she will travel and its a little unrealistic to expect that your baby angel will go to Goa with YOU every year.
Long Pause.....
He looked at me and the exact expression was 'Even if my daughter didnt want to go this witch will push her away'
Then he says, I will move down south with her...and for a moment I thought he meant Kerala...and then he speaks the rest of the sentence..."to south pole...Antartica".
Thats yet again your daddy for you darling. All I have to say is, I am sorry :) manufacturing defect.