Nov 9th, 2006 - My great-grandmother waited patiently for about 5 hours in order to perform the Ponti Vaath function. The literal translation of the term Ponti Vaath is seeing the great grandchild under the light of a sacred flame. My uncle had arranged for  a small function for our very close family so most of my grandmother's cousins and their children had come to attend. A Hindu priest commenced the function by first creating darkness in the room and then he recited some sacred chants. Once that was completed, he put a cloth in front of my great grandmother so that she could not see me. My mother brought me out without any clothes, apparently that is how its to be done. I did not seem to care much even though there were 25 people watching my strip-tease.

 Nov 8th, 2006  - Looks like I am getting used to the Indian Standard Time (IST) (it does not mean that I will be late). I woke up at around 7 AM and spent the day doing masti. I  have started crawling today. There is plenty of space in the house and I have slowly started crawling.

In the evening, my father's friend Amiya came to visit me. He bought me this big softtoy dog, called ChiChi. I was more interested in playing with the gift-wrap than play with the toy. I am sure eventually I will like the toy. Also, later in the evening, my father's friend Parag's wife Laaj came to visit us. She came to Bangalore for some training and stopped over to visit us. Unfortunately, I fell asleep by the time she came so I could not play with her. I will probably play with her when I get to Mumbai. Tomorrow morning, I will be going to visit my great grandmother in Hyderabad. 

Nov 7th, 2006 - Seems like my body is somewhere between the Pacific Time Zone and Singapore. I was up early once again at around 4 AM. As usual, I started kicking my legs and woke my parents up. I had my early morning feed and started my masti. For some reason, I was in a really good mood early and I was screaming and kicking my legs all morning. I took a few short naps during the day. After the long flights and the hectic journey, it was nice and relaxing day at home with my parents and my grandmother.

In the morning, I met Mr and Mrs Miranda who are my grandmother's neighbor.

 Nov 5th, 2006 - We left for the airport at around 5:30. The cab ride took us about 20 minutes. Once we reached the airport, we realized that the flight time had changed to an hour earlier. Luckily we had plenty of time. We went through immigration, went throughsecurity check and boarded the flight. The person who was boarding the flight did a poor job of it and did not pre-board families who had babies. Anyway, I had a  special seat once again with the  bassinet. Once the flight took off, I promptly fell asleep. The flight was fairly smooth but I had some pain in my ears when the flight descended into Bangalore.

Nov 4th, 2006 - One of the major attractions in Singapore is Sentosa Island. Its a small island off the mainland and has been specially built for tourism. We took a taxi cab to the main starting point. My father bought the tickets and then we went up to the Cable Car ride. There is a beautiful cable car that connects Sentosa Island and the mainland. On the other side, the cable car connects to Mt Faber. We first took the cable car to Mt Faber.  We got a nice view of the city from Mt Faber and then took some pictures there.