This blogpost is dedicated to my wifey Radhi and our cutie pie Rithvik :). I am lucky to have a great wife :), together we have faced challenges and have made life-changing decisions! My special thanks to her :)
On Nov 27th 2010, the cute lil angel came into our family. I could not be with my wife during that time as I had stupid MS exams :( , but was in constant touch with her via phone. I had talked to her the previous day also. I dint expect that my baby will arrive 15 days early :)
My dad called me and said "Congratulations, you have become a dad now.........". I couldn't hold my tears of joy. It was such an awesome feeling. My dad said they would be taking the baby for bath and said he will call me back later.
But I forgot to ask whether it was a boy or girl :).
Few months ago :
I had been to one of the Chinese restaurant called "PF Chang" (2 -3 months back) with my friends, I was surprised to get a fortune cookie which just said "Daughter". I was like "How on earth will this fortune cookie know everything about me?".
I was pretty convinced that this is something, which I wouldn't believe in and had told my wife that since it says "daughter", I am 100% sure it would be baby boy.
Still, somewhere in my mind, this got registered. (Damn!! that cookie had controlled my thinking ability). Also, there is a popular gender theory : if it is 140+ beats per minute (BPM) , then that it will be a girl and under 140 BPM then it will be a boy. THIS IS NOT TRUE!
My son had 160+ BPM. :)
So these things somewhat made me think that it could be a girl. Anyway, I was waiting for my dad's call, I was angry that he had not yet told me complete information. My dad called me again and said that it was baby boy!!! he said "heLidhnallo munche call maaddhagle gandu magu antha......!!!" Ahhh, I had not heard the complete conversation bcoz of my excitement :).
If it was daughter, we would have named "Shriya Haritsa". Shriya means auspicious. :)
Rithvik means "chief of preist" / Acharya who performs Yagna to attain certain wishes in every Ritu( a season in Hindu calendar ).
So my message to the readers is "NEVER believe in fortune cookies and baseless theories". Also, try to avoid such things, it will definitely make you biased to the opinions you get from them.
