| Kids Combo: School Bag with 3 Pencil Colour | | | | Kit became her most prized possession. |
| Sets+Pencil Box+Desk Sharpener | | | | Her excitement was immeasurable once she sat with |
| School Time | | | | her School Bag Kit. Allowing nobody else to touch her |
| Bag the box, pack all stocks | | | | stuff, Alyssa would open her school bag, take out her |
| Years have passed but I still remember the morning | | | | drawing book, the pencil box and the set of colours |
| when I packed a small, bright-pink school bag. Fondly, I | | | | (that were a part of the combo) and sit to draw. Using |
| had put a bright-yellow ‘Book of 1000 Words’, a | | | | the sharpener (or ‘shopner’ as she called it) she |
| bright-green pencil box, a bright-red sharpener and a | | | | rolled out rings after rings of colourful saw-dust, her |
| pack of bright colour pencils in it. It was the morning of | | | | little fingers smoothly rotating the sharpener-handle. |
| my little daughter Alyssa’s first day in kindergarten | | | | Moreover, as the sharpener was fixed to her desk, it |
| and everything had to be bright that day. As I carefully | | | | removed my initial hitch about Alyssa getting hurt or |
| zipped the school bag and slung it on her delicate little | | | | the pencil not being sharpened properly. She would use |
| shoulders, I remembered the moment when Alyssa | | | | the colour pencils to fill the blank pages of her drawing |
| had pointed at my PC screen saying, “Mumma, I | | | | book with colourful figments of her imagination. Her |
| want that bag…and that shopner…and those colours | | | | smile would grow wider as little colourful lines turned |
| also!” | | | | into houses, flowers, pets and then mumma and papa. |
| It was the Kids’ School Bag Combo on Bindaas | | | | The multi-pouch pencil box that came with the School |
| Bargain. It was the perfect school kit for my darling | | | | Bag Combo was used to keep, lots of pencils, lots of |
| – something that would attract her instantly and yet | | | | erasers and lots of badges, clips, ribbons and what not! |
| with very soft, adjustable straps and three zipped | | | | The School Bag Combo was like her treasure box |
| pockets would be very light and comfortable to use | | | | – full of colourful wonders! So precious, Alyssa |
| and carry. Without much thought I clicked the ‘I | | | | would keep it by her side even when she went to bed. |
| Want One’ button. It’s rare to see a child so | | | | All old memories are creeping in today, as I am getting |
| excited about school. But my darling was different. I | | | | my younger son Vivaan ready for his first day at |
| was overjoyed to see her so gleeful after I made the | | | | school. Seven years old Alyssa is by my side and we |
| purchase. It was a moment that I would remember for | | | | are packing her kid brother’s bag. We look at each |
| life. Alyssa smiled at me, little hands clutching the straps | | | | other and smile as doe-eyed Vivaan watches...Yes, it is |
| of her schoolbag and tiny feet taking quick impish | | | | the very School Bag Combo that Alyssa had taken on |
| steps towards the school gate. Soon the School Bag | | | | her first day in playschool. |