Rain musings

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...

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 bith...

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 ....

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...

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 ...

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...

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.