It is raining 'mazhalai' in guwahati!

It is mazhai kaalam and mazhalai kaalam in guwahati. While Varuna is making the rains open up, Bunchin is raining mazhalai. Nobody is complaining about both the options! Bring it on is the war cry!

Now I am going to have a mazhalai quiz. All mothers are allowed to compete. Prospective mothers can have a try. But it would be a tough one. A quick sneak peek into earlier posts allowed only for first time visitors to this blog.

Now here we go.

1. goom tah tah tah.

 I can give a clue. Bunchin's face will light up and after a few more repetitions of the phrase will cock his ear and say  goom tak tak  ka. He will be a little despondent.Then he will say  'innonu' and look expectantly at the horizon. so that brings us to the next word

2. innonu.

This is a very common word in Bunchin's vocabulary now. He will say 'nonnu' or 'innonu' . Both are interchangeable words in his dictionary.

3.um tah

D is very happy when he says this word. Bunchin has had a tough climb expressing an interest in what this word denotes. Thatha has had a major role in getting him to learn to appreciate it! But now times are changing and Bunchin actually asks for um tah!

4. ta ta

Yes you guessed right. It means exactly what tata means. But then Bunchin has made a virtual world around this word, the way he will pronounce it, give it a peculiar accent and his facial and body language that go with it.

I will now give you the quiz questions:

He does not like to say tata when somebody is leaving. Yes, he does not want people to leave! But when they have left and gone a few paces away from him, he bursts forth into an inflexion of the word.What does he want to say now?

Thatha gum tah tah tah tata

Yes he actually says a full sentence. Decipher it at your leisure.

5. Dee dee tah

If you have been following my posts on this subject, you could crack this one. For new comers, this is a tough one.

6. Appagneeya

I am sure no other child has coined this tough sounding word when there is a very easy and rolling off your tongue word which means the same thing. He says this word atleast a thousand times a day with other words in his vocabulary to give news to us of what is happening in his world!

7. ammadeeya

D used to keep looking out for a very simple word which usually is a baby's first word.But no, Bunchin tried to bring out tough words first and again made a simple word a long and endearing one!

8. mama cah:  thatha cah:

I take him out and he goes non stop with these two words . Fairly simple to decode.

9. Aa too;
akka deeya and anna deeya

Again a very simple no brainer. If you solve this, you are allowed to go to the next question. No points for correct answer.

10. Atheeeya

Bunchin can say the correct word, but he has found a round about word for the same. I will give a clue, it started with 'thi' and then 'aathee' and now atheeya!

11. baba

No it does not mean 'appa'. Try harder.

12. choo tah

The clue is his mama used to say the same word in his mazhalai as "choo chai" .This should help!

13. We are coming to the end of the quiz:

We can finish with a flourish!

This is a star question and if you can even have a crack at it, then you will be crowned, "mazhalai mazhai wonder kid on the block"

Here it goes

"atha din din din din din, atha din din din daba, atha n n n n atha din daba,
huti taba"

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We will come back with the next level quiz after a short interval.