These are a Few of My Dad's Favourite Things.

• My Mom of course makes it to the top of the list.
  My dad always said that he was lucky to have her since she always took very good care of him till the end.
  
• Grand Children.
  There is no denying that he loved all his eight grand children. He would do whatever they asked him to do, like playing board games, taking them to the park, playing ball games, singing to them, helping them sleep and the list goes on and on .... The grand children loved him too. I'm very fortunate that my dad got to see Harshul, the youngest of them all.
  
• Meditation classes.
  My dad was a member of Brahma Kumaris Spiritual organization for more than 25 years of his life. He enjoyed it immensely.
  
• Singing Songs.
  My dad had such melodious voice. He loved to sing all the time. He used to sing a lot of Telugu movie songs ( especially Ghantasala ones). In fact he was learning a Hindi song to sing on stage for Rakhi celebrations at his Brahma Kumaris institution.
  
• Mathematics.
  My dad's love for Mathematics passed on to all of us. He taught us all Math and made it look very easy. In fact when 2 of my sister's were visiting him, he said I'm very happy 50% of my daughters are here, instead of saying 2 of my children are here. That is how much we used math in our everyday terminology.
  
• Cricket.
  He loved to watch one day internationals. He even got to see a few of 20/20 games which is the latest trend in Indian Cricket. We feel sad that he did not get to watch any of the IPL matches. Else I'm sure he would have supported Bangalore Royal Challengers.
  
• Tennis and Soccer.
  He would be on top of the latest happenings in the Tennis world. He was usually supporting Federer in the recent matches. I remember him watching Soccer matches at odd hours at night.
  
• Sudoku.
  The numbers game. He too got the Sudoku fever. As soon as he got the newspaper, the first thing he would do is solve Sudoku. Later I showed him the daily sudoku on Yahoo games and he started doing the online version.
  
• Mahjong
  This is another Japanese board game of tile matching. He enjoyed playing this a lot on the computer. I'm not sure what his best timing was, but I'm sure it was under 5 minutes.
  
• Music.
  He learnt to play Banjo (a musical instrument) in his 40's. He loved to play key board and piano. My Mom tells us that he learnt to play Piano by watching his sister during her Harmonium classes. He never got any formal piano lessons. In fact the last time he played piano was at my friends place. He played a Hindi movie song, "yeh apana dil to awara".
  
• Smile.
  He loved to smile. Whenever I visualize my dad, I always remember his smiling face.
  
• Roasted Peanuts.
  He loved to munch these any time of the day, especially in the afternoons.
  

The list just goes on .... As I remember more I shall add to the list.