Yup! It’s that time of the week again…the Beginning…and I’ve decided that since I love Monkton so much and think he’s a great way to start a day, a week, most things in fact; and because I love the cheesy alliteration…Mondays will henceforward be ‘Monkton Mondays’…well at least until he stops creating new stuff which I hope is a long long way away ๐
Before I post this week’s Monkton pearl however, let me share with you a rather startling thing that happened last evening. Ishaan and I were downstairs playing cricket and having fun as we always do, when he does all the running around ;), when there appeared a Monkey!! No!!! Really!!! Ishaan had hit the ball for a six and as I was following it in the air, there it was, a Monkey, walking along the ledge of the house next door, bold as can be! I couldn’t believe my eyes and my shrieks brought Ishaan & the watchman running over to see what had happened! Mr. Monkey meanwhile having reached the end of his jaunt, calmly leaped onto the coconut palm in our compound and then onto a fruit tree of some sort in the neighboring one, where he settled down to eat, oblivious to the curious if rather nervous observers below ๐ That done, he leaped on to the wall again and disappeared from view, as suddenly as he had appeared. The whole episode was so surreal, I only believe it coz I saw it with my own eyes! How does one solitary monkey find it’s way to a Bandra neighborhood far from theย National Park (here in Mumbai), or theย valleys and mountains, which are its natural home? I’m sure I don’t know! Ishaan was excited though and kept calling to it to come bowl ๐ while I kept yelling at him to stop lest the creature suddenly obliged ๐ Now I can’t bear to leave the windows open for fear of a Monkey invasion!!
And since Monkton is the best way I know to explain the inexplicable, here we go ๐

As I type, I remember, I’m a Monkey…well in many ways ๐ but more specifically in a Chinese Horoscope kinda way…I was born in the year of the Monkey…that I have a rich & rare genius is obvious by the fact that I married a Rabbit ๐
Cheers to the Inner Monkey, People. Revel in it’s Genius, Glory and yes – in its Madness ๐
Have a Great week ahead ๐
Cool! I love monkeys! Such fun observing them, they’re so cute and human-like. Always dreamed of having one as a pet ๐
Hope you have a great week too!
M…I’ve seen some pretty fierce ones and bold ones…they’re rather scary and not very likeable ๐ See them without fail when we drive to and fro from Goa ๐ The babies are cute though ๐