Jungle Adventures - Characters

On a far away land called Kompu, there was a big jungle Jaku. In Jaku, the animals lived together happily.


Jaku is a beautiful forest, with tall trees full of ripe fruits. A small stream called Trickle flowed through Jaku. The animals ate fruit, drank water, roamed around, played and laughed all the time.
The lion, Len was the King of the forest and his wife Liz the Queen. They had two little cubs Leo and Leon and they are twins.

LEO & LEON

Leo and Leon are naughty little lion cubs, who loved to play with their friends Appu and Kuppu, two mischievous monkeys. Appu and Kuppu are twins too and carried Leo and Leon and jumped from tree to tree and made them laugh...

APPU & KUPPU

One day Appu, Kuppu, Leo and Leon jumped and walked through the trees and came near a pond. There they saw two little rabbits snowy white with red red eyes. They were eating red berries as red as their eyes.

CHIMPI & CHILUKKI

Leo, Leon, Appu and Kuppu wanted to be friends with the two little rabbits. They called out,"Hi little rabbits... can we be friends?"
Rabbits shouted "Yes"... "My name is Chimpi and his name is Chilluki".. "Would you like to eat Berries? I have two and we can share and eat."
Appu and Kuppu climbed the tree and plucked 20 berries and Chimpi and Chilluki were so happy. Leo, Leon, Appu, Kuppu, Chimpi, Chilluki sat below the berry tree, watched the rainbow and ate the berries.
They played and played till them became tired. They fell asleep under the Berry tree.. Appu felt something jumping on his tummy. He opened his eye to see two little mice jumping up and down laughing. Appu did not feel angry but loved the way the mice laughed...
"Ahem!" he called out. The mice looked at him but they did not stop jumping. "Hey! aren't you afraid of me?"
They said, "NO"... "We saw you smile."
"Want to be friends?" said Appu.
"Why not?" said the two little mice, "I am Jerry" and "I am Merry".

JERRY & MERRY

Appu woke Kuppu, Leo, Leon, Chimpi and Chilluki and introduced them to Jerry and Merry.
Hey Kids! did you notice... there are 8 little animals in our story now and all are twins..
LEO and LEON - Lion cubs
APPU and KUPPU - two little monkeys
CHIMPI and CHILLUKI - Rabbits
JERRY and MERRY - two little mice
They went to the Trickle (the small stream) drank water and planned for a picnic. They shared their dreams.
Leo and Leon wanted to go far beyond the mountain called Mt. MAGIC. Their mom Liz told them stories about the Mt. Magic. Where the trees were full of chocolates and the waterfall swith fresh cream.
Everyone listened to this and wanted to go to Mt. Magic. "But how? " said Kuppu. It will take at least 10 days to climb the huge mountain and we do not know the way".
"Yes" agreed Chilluki, "My mom will search for me".
All of a sudden there was a huge noise and poor animals they were scared.
They hid near a huge tree and watched what was happening.
Two giant elephants came to Trickle and trumpeted and sprayed each other with water. They were having fun.
Our eight little friends saw this and slowly came out of their hiding place.
They went near the water and called out... "Hi Elephant brothers, can we be friends?"

JUMBO & MUMBO

The Elephants stopped playing and looked at our 8 little ones and said "Why not? We would love to be your friends.."
"I am Jumbo and he is Mumbo" said Jumbo. They all shook hands and started to play.
They played in the water, rode on Jumbo and Mumbo's back and as the Sun went down, halfheartedly set to go home.
As they started to walk and jump and slide all the way, they told Jumbo and Mumbo about their dream picnic. Jumbo and Mumbo promised to carry them on their back. They can leave early in the morning and come home by night.
Thrilled about their picnic, they decided to go to Mt. Magic the next day.
In the next part, we can join our friends and meet more interesting characters too...
Till then... See you guys!

Childhood days

World revolved around school and home
full of fun and friends around...

I wish to become a child again
not a worry about working, washing or cooking...

wish! I wake up in my school uniforms
and my feet hardly touching the floor...

I ran with my hands stretched before me
honking and spurting like a Harvey inside me.

Stopping at a puddle and jumped high
splashing water all over my friend and passers by...

reading comics, watching cartoons
watching at the boys with sly smiles....

sitting below the school desk
playing mom and dad...

little love,l ittle explorations, little curiousity
taught life and taught love to me..

I wish to become a child again...
not a worry about working or washing..

Mom and dad, taking care of my needs
Brother devil beating the hell out of me...

World revolved around school and home
full of fun and friends gallore..

I wish to become a child again
not a worry about working or washing...

wish! I wake up in my school uniforms
and my feet hardly touching the floor...

Blue, Green, Orange and yellow
reminds me of my childhood days, bright and mellow...

My little Kitty

My little Kitty

Wanted to be DIRTY

Mom put her in the sink

To make her look PRETTY

Little soap

Little shampoo

A gentle scrub 

did the job

Now look at the way she look

Picture perfect isn't it?

Robin Hood and his merry men

Robin and his merry men
lived in a forest where
even the sun dared not to enter...

Robin and his merry men
rode their horses
with wind as their mentor

Robin and his merry men
robbed the lads
with lots of money to spare

Robin and his merry men
gave the riches
to those who needed it bad...

Robin and his merry men
when a maiden in distress
rushed to save her pride

Robin and his merry men
not a disgrace
but a friend in disguise...

Rat - O -Man and his boat

There see the Rat - O – man,
 Paddling his broken boat.
 See the holes! Oh! See the holes
 Do you think, he will come ashore?

 Rat - O - man reached the shore,
 Took his boat to Dr. Jose,
 He told his doctor,
His boat had faltered.

The doctor came
 With his stethoscope,
Heard the boat's
 Heart beat little slow.

"Oh! Rat - O - Man
 Your boat is very sick,
We need to admit
To make him fit.

Come here after two days
 Then your boat will be okay,
 You can take him for a merry round,
Even on a storm or a gale around.”

Wednesday saw Rat - O - Man
 Rush to the hospital on his hands,
 To see his boat looking cross,
With band aids, cotton strips stretched across

 Rat – O – man took his boat
 For a test ride along the shore,
 Watched the boat move with pride,
Through the gales and the storm alight.

For kids

I love kids.  Who doesn't?  I have a knack with kids, though for the first few minutes they would look down their noses at me, they will settle down.  

When Ani was young, I used to coin stories for him.  My dad was my teacher.  All my cousins, friends adore my dad, for he is a good story teller.  From Crime stories, adventures, funny ones he had kept us glued many a days.  His masterpiece is "Kaatilae Deepavalli", on how Animals celebrated Diwali in their jungle.  The way they robbed the Shops for new dresses, how the elephant threatened the tailor to make him new trousers and Shirts.  It used to keep us laughing, my mom used these moments to feed us, stuff us with food :( We love listening to him for hours. He is also a very good artist and he gave shape to his characters and how we used to enjoy.  Those days were sheer heaven. Even today I go sit with him, when he spins his stories to younger ones on how the wooden horse fly carrying the Prince and the princess.

I copied the same tactics, and told Ani stories not just at bed times, whenever we are free.  When Ani turned one, I took a break from work and 7 years I was at home enjoying every spare moment with Ani.  We used to draw, colour, make figurines out of clay, sing, dance.  We used to maintain a scrap book for him, a little different from others.  I used to help him with sketches and he will colour.  I will tell him a story and he used to write them in his words.  I also used to coin puzzles, jigsaws, riddles and keep them ready.  When he is back from School, everyday 2 hours will go on his scrap book.

There were several stories, I made up for him.  The dragon that breathed butterflies and Animal adventures, where all the animals were twins with rhyming names.  These animals takes a trip around the world, various destinations, every destination a new couple (Twins) gets added to the list.  I drew them for him. Planning to scan those sketches and reproduce them here.  

Ani still love these stories and he is behind this idea of publishing in my blog.  This had been there in my mind, for quite some time.  Thought will give it shape.  Will have to wait and see how it goes.

I know this is going to be for a very limited audience.  I am writing this for my Son and my son's son.  The art of telling stories, is sadly neglected.  We don't have time to tell them stories and they opt to watch TV.

Already started to work on my first story for kiddos :)