Rain musings

So I grow up by one more year today. And i look back to the blessings in my life. There are many misgivings in life but from this day for a year (to begin with) I would like to count my blessings every single day. My daughter . Every single time I look at her, I get to understand LOVE. She might drive me crazy on school days, but I find comfort in that routine chaos. S -  for being there always for support. Though not very good in showing off his affections/ emotions  or organizing surprise parties ,  his take it as it comes attitude, and little gestures he does ,  almost setting no expectations from me or others makes me thank GOD for giving me a good partner in life. My parents - Yeah , Iam truly blessed. Having them live close by and seeing them at least once a week  , thank GOD . I will be totally in a mess if it wasn't for my father reminders and mom's advice and her prayers for me. My parent-in-law-  They are easy going ppl and dont put pressure of any kind.  With

Same day 6 years back, we got married. The toy car loving book reading game creating S married the cartoon loving , book reading just a year work experienced me.  And what a ride it has been for  6 years.  Adding to the kid behaving adults came along Sanja very early on. It looks more like a family of kids with a mom kid, dad kid and the actual kid ..lol. Anyone walking into our home can either witness a kid fight between S and Sanja  / sanja and me.  If it hadnt been for our parents , we don't know who would have looked after us kids :P.  And S being the first grand child for his paati doesn't help either, he is still the baby of the family and being his wife makes me a baby as well :). When S amma calls  some one kutti ma - Sanja gets confused - whether she is calling her, her mom or her aunt.  While S is not busy fighting with Sanja , and his nephews over the toy cars , he is the person balancing our life. epitome of patience against the short fuse me.  With so much work

Yup, sheer laziness  on my part for not posting the soo many exciting stuff happening in our family.  What with self going on path of  self discovery and still discovering what I actually need in life. Surrounded by so many questions , so many paths to choose from can be tiring .  There is a kind of drag that Iam not able to pinpoint.  Always looking forward to week ends , holidays and sleep . Nothing seems interesting in life except for the Sanja conversations :P.  Am I totally lost , I don't know. So there have been ideas and thoughts for posting in the blog, I didn't feel like putting them down. Laziness.  Iam trying very hard to break the shackles , move forward .  At work front as well - procrastination is killing me .  Again trying free myself. Spending all my time reading blogs, sleeping, reading books , sleeping, cooking as if iam a robot , sleeping, - I am hating this .   I seem to be making no headway in terms of career( I doubt if I have one :) ) . Every day

Yes, the little baby has blossomed into a little girl. It has been 5 years of learning and fun for me and your dad. We were very young (at least your mom  was ) when you came into this world.  I hadnt yet developed the patience one ought to have to raise a child. But then these 5 years I have come to learn things are learnt as and when situation arise. You are a darling of a child. No major tanturms, accepting the life as it comes. This 5 years I have learnt many things from you than you form me. There are many firsts that you have done from a 4 year old to 5 year 1. Learning to cycle . You wanted a cycle and we got you one for this birthday. it is your prized possession. Polishing off the dust and riding the shining cycle. You wont take it on the roads if they are slushy- they will get dirty is what you say. I say it is  your laziness at your face but secretly I appreciate the care you take of your cycle. 2. Helping out in the kitchen. You love water and you love washing the d

For the past few weeks -work days and weekend nights - burning my midnight oil like never before - for reading some books- giving a a good laugh and memory trips to the 90's . -some seriously overrated book but actually found to be quite errrrrmmm un putdownable. -for once again living the joy my teens seeing the Road to avonlea series.  A better understanding of the dialogue adds to much more fun and admiration. -some crappy kollywood movie ( read singham2 ), and really good ones also. Have never actually done so much reading even for my exams. Ah, really glad that this year I have taken up reading again rather than watching movies . So what all I have read so far 1. The Anne of Green Gables - the whole series at it. 7 books ( Woow...fell in love with this). 2. Those pricey thakur girls. 3. The zoya factor . 4. The oath of the vayuputra 5. The taj conspiracy. 6. some other novels again related to taj. 7. some  e-books 8. reading the battle of bithora. 9. some M

Yep, done with my MS. Software Systems from BITS PILANI through WILP .  The feeling of completing the post graduation if we can call it , is yet to sink in.  The past two years were busy with studying on weekends, cancelling many joy rides with Sanja and crankiness, exam apprehension and want not... But at the end of it , gave me an immense satisfaction - managing - work, house, studies . It helped to have a great company for studying- my friend from coll and office - C- she also having to manage  work a small kid  and family.  Thanks C, for all the support and partnering . The two years we  re-lived our college days , taking last minute print outs , seeing lecture videos, comparing notes. Rants about was it really necessary for us to get into this mess exactly before the exams. It was fun. But two years rushed by with the final semester dedicated to project work. Ans we being we , we made sure we booked the viva dates for same day same place . We turned it into a vacation

Sanja was enthu to celebrate Holi after she had listened to our tales of Holi celebration in the past. The our includes me and my mom. Every holi we remember the fun we had when we lived in Blore and the all the families in the compound celebrated holi with great enthu. It would take several baths to rinse of the colors. Staying with neighbours who were Rajasthani made us celebrate holi in its true sense. At end of day Mom was orange in color and it wouldnt leave her for a few days ;). So hearing these stories , Sanja was asking us if we can also do this colour splashing at home and we indulged her with little bit of pink, blue, orange and purple.Granny has stored the color packets safely. Hence it helped.  Being a working day , we kept the celebration to just 15 minutes.  But those 15 min were the best having a colorful kid running across rooms and painting colour on her mom, dad, grandpa and granny. Her granny went one step further and poured bucket of water on her in the backyard.

For the past few days we ( esp my mom --your daughter and me ) have been thinking about you. What fun we used to have? How Sanja is missing the experience of being with you. I remember you as the 70th something kid playing  palankuli, parama padham. Fighting with your daughter when she cried you made some cheating moves , calling your grand daughter to settle the disput :P. Your kollu pethi is missing all this. wish you had lived some more years healthy to see me get married and provide one more team mate for the games . The way we used to pull your legs when you were watching the mega serials. How you used to complain to my amma like a child - ava rendu perum enaku tv veka mathengara ...( those 2 are not keeping the tv for me). The way you used to put food in our plate secretively ;) and say you had nothing to do with that extra food in our plate. The affection you showed by make necklace type muruku (savories) for me for the festivals. The way to adjusted to life as situat

yes it is long lost as in the post is delayed by almost 7 months :(. So here are the updates of her birthday celebration as I remember . This time around we had 2 cakes - one was ordered and another was a tutty-fruitty cake baked by me. I guess this will become a tradition of sorts for the years to come since 1. Sanja has a huge friends gang in our locality. 2. S Grandpa  ceremony is around this time -so the elders at home wont take outside food. This birthday  we ordered a photo cake with chota bheem and his friends . Sanja was and still is crazy about anything Chota Bheem. She is tired of the episodes but loves the characters. It has become a nighttime ritual for the gal to hear to chota bheem adventure stories spun by S . :) So coming back to the birthday- It again fell on working day and so we preponed the celebration to a weekend. Inivited her friends and cousins. The decorations were that of princess balloons and paper hangings. This time we invited 2 of her scho

That is tanglish. Sanja is in the middle oflearning many english words and she is trying make them appear more tamil but saying them in the way we pronounce the tamil words. A sample Amma,  I sing pattu, but R ( her class mate) always singamata as is to say  - I sing but R doesnt sing. We say in tamil- ava pada mata to mean she doesnt sing so she just substituted the pada with sing :P And as a baby she never said I , me , mine , she used to say naaku, naandu . Some other words that she used to say - ava kamballala meaning ava kelambarala (are they starting). And so these words have stuck to us. We have started using them in our daily talks having words of our own. Looking out for more of these kinds from her.

It has been a hectic weekend this Sat / Sun. Am left with a bodyache and reddened eyes . saturday morning we were off very early to an eye hospital for Sanja 's eye checkup. We had our breakfast at the hospital and since the check up got over by 9:30Am ,S suggested we take a peak at the Landmark sale. so off we went to nungambakkam land mark and waiting for half hour for the shop to open.. Sanja had a gr8 time looing at so many books. She was totally in awe with so many books around. we chose some books for us and 3 barbie stories (horse rider , zoo vet and ballerina) for her. we picked up some earrings from estelle and it was noon. We decided to have our lunch out at Pizza hut , Sanja stuck to her routine affair with garlic bread and we both had the heart shaped pizza. Came back at 2pm and were in dreamland till 5pm. Then went off again to some vegetable shopping. Cooked dinner and read some novel late into the night. Sunday we woke up at 8am and had our breakfast by 9:30. Cle

Happened on feb 2nd . So S, Sanja and myself  took our Duro for the ride till her school that is almost 12km from home taking a highway and beatuiful scenary of the air force training cetree on one side and small lake on the other side. As usual ,anythingto do with school, starts by visiting the awesome temple they have inhouse. Then we were shuttled to the play area where Sanja played played and played. She is addicted to the slides there . She introduced us to couple of her friends there.  Then we took a walk to the swimming pool area where Sanja showed us the safety tubes that they use. They also have some rubber made small cutting / shapes that are they play with to make patterns in water. Then we went to the environment (class room) building. Sanja studies is sec E2 , one ofteachers asked usto go to E24, Sanja was hesistant to go anywhere but her class her aunty. They then told she has to show what all she jhas learnt in in that specified classroom and then meet her aunty. S

conversation between my colleague say B and myself while having tea at office Me: What do you do on weekends. B: I take much needed rest. What about you? Me: I do grocery shopping and plan something to do with my kid. B: **shocked** - You have a baby ? How old Me: Oh she is 4 .5 years old B : **shocked again** : Such a big gal. I thought you were recentl married .. Me: thinking- do i actually look that young  (he he he ..) it has happened many times now, people cant believe I am a mom to a 4. years old daughter.

Happy anniversary to Appa and Amma as they complete 30 years of wedded life and 35+ years of knowing one another . Appa ,amma decided to visit the temple at Thiruneermalai where they got married. It has become a tradition like to visit this temple on their anniversary day (since they celebrated 25th year ). 30 years of  togetherness through the highs and lows of life.  To have had a love marriage in the 1982, to playing host many a friends get together, bringing up a daughter, maintaining relationship with double the extended families, and now spending their life together fighting like kinder garden kids, they have seen it all. :) The enthusiam to celebrate their anniversary has never left them :P **TOUCH WOOD** may they stay like this for ever S ,sanja and myself joined them for a lunch out. Edited To add:  S 's aunt and uncle from his mother side celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on same day. Wishes to them as well.

And no new year posts , no travel updates means I was in rather disturbing phase of life if one would call it . Updates are many from home side, work side and all sides ;) . It is almost a month into the new year , and the mayans actually made so many of us fools thinking we wont be there to see this day. However that was good timepass finding out what theories would one associate with the so called - END of  the world. Am at a better phase of life now than the previous few months. Growing up in years within a span of months. But that doesnt me I have become a matured lady... far from it, iam still the same getting excited in a moment, getting dpressed, gloomy the next instant.  Life is having a hard time forcing me to grow up :) . The princess of  our family has grown indeed to a beautiful young girl ( yeah girl, she is no longer a toddler). Has her own views, preferences and the works ;) Mr S is having a very busy time managing  2 kids as he puts it ( the younger one more man