KUTZ THINKX!!

I moved to Fujairah, UAE from Madras, India in the year 1992. I was 5 years old. My first memory of this move, was being reunited with my dad who had moved a little earlier to settle into his new job.  I loved our new home, the new city, the park right around the corner & mainly the fact that we were all together again. Do not recollect missing my school or anyone else! I had all my people with me. This is clearly a great age to move somewhere new 😊  We lived in Fujairah, UAE for a few years -  the most magical years of my life. It was a small town, a small parish & we were so close with all our friends & neighbours. The doors were always open for us kids to hang out & play. It was a time & place where it was safe for kids to get on their bikes and venture out alone. I made sure to be out to play at 4pm sharp every single day & be back at 6pm aka sunset - no permission to stay out beyond that. I'd then wait eagerly for my dad to get back home...

I wrote my first diary entry when I was 6 or 7. When sentence construction and spellings were a struggle! Since then, every New year meant a new diary! I remember my very first diary entry, when I thought I had to introduce myself & my family (go figure!) because I had just met the diary of course ;) My diary was my secret keeper those days! And I chose to write my secrets in the most unusual places! Inside my cupboard! - The side where clothes hang, I'd sit under the coats and dresses, with my teddy bear & a lamp! Yes a LAMP which had to be connected & I would sit and write in the faint glow, even though I could go out and write in the sunshine/tubeshine! :P The top of the same cupboard was my other spot to write about the day's grievances - which was either my mom not being nice [in response to me breaking a vase or some other expensive piece with my so called 'indoor squash game' ;)] or a fight with my sister who may have refused to play one of my various...

Your probably??!! about the title huh? Well that's my teddy bear's name! How I came up with that one at the age of eight well:) (Is only because I was 8!!he he) Puggzy is a Kodiak bear cub, chocolate brown fur, with a big orange bow and a huge grin stitched onto his face [I mean literally ;)]; at-least that's how he looked when my parents brought him home! He was a surprise present for my sister originally but I kinda changed it to he's "ours" hehe and my poor innocent sister bought it of-course! After I decided he must have a name I also decided he must have a life, a story, a voice! Yes he has a high pitched squeaky mul-accented voice-(thanks to all the malayalee teachers influencing me during that period of my life!) ooh now coming to who he is.. Puggzy is the baby bear from goldilocks and the three bears! Also his grandpa is Baloo from "The Jungle Book" :) I know I know different origin and stuff but that's the story :) Anyway.., Puggzy is a ...