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ऐसा भी होता है

फिर उसने भी एक आहट दी ,  हम ने भी बस यूँह पूछ लिया  क्या तुमको भी वो रात याद आई, जब हम ने पहला smooch किया हंस के वो बोला ,ओह वो रात ! उस रात की तो बात ही अलग थी  जब दिए जलते थे, तारे टिमटिमाते थे, आसमान सॉफ नज़र आता था, एक छोटी सी आहट भी शोर समझ पाता था जल रही थी दो सफेद candles, मैने सोचा मौके का  फ़ायदा  ही उठा लू   आगे थी तुम तो मैने लेफ्ट से approach किया  जा रहा था मुँह मेरा cake की तरफ , जब बीच मे फिर से आ गयी तुम  अब मेरी तो स्टोरी की यही है सच्चाई  अब बोलो की क्या सच मे तुमने smooch किया 

Guest Post by the lil one

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Hello all This is my first post today & I’m very excited to be writing .I’m only 6 months now but already feel quite old. My first & favorite shoes have started bidding me farewell. I wonder how unlike me they are growing smaller cause my mom keeps telling me that I’m getting bigger. What do I like about them?? Oh! when I’m on my double bed I just lay flat on my back , try and bring my feet closer to my mouth and it’s a eureka moment when I can lick them .One of them tastes so that I sometimes even forget to cry for my milk . The other 2 aren't that good so I start kicking my feet for them to come off.  That’s when my mom rushes towards me and either starts putting them back or cribbing that I’m no good for those shoes.  Don’t you think it should be rather me yelling for one tasted so bad and the other which wouldn’t come anywhere near my mouth easily. Anyhow I wonder where mom and her friends get these so called shoes from. ...

Let’s do the Singam dance

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What’s the best way to enjoy a monsoony day rather night in Kerala? It’s by watching some hard core commercial masala mix Tamil padam aka movie in a local single screen cinema. It’s not just the movie but the accompaniments that come along…  the loud claps , over the  top whistles, maddening crowd, lame comments ,ladies line for tickets and thus your new found privileges, fryums , kappa & banana chips served with some not so hot filter coffee.   Looking forward to all the above thus we ventured 20 mins further south to watch Suryas Singam Part 2 in Shornur. The chaotic scenes outside the theatre upped my spirits as I was really looking forward to a houseful theatre which I have rarely seen in London. Going by the number of cars & bikes parked it was becoming evident that this masala flick had already become a massive hit with masses. Talk about taking pride in being a woman, this is one of the places where the guys literally go on their knees to get the...

Just an Average

In academics life is more challenging for the people always in top 10 but not the top 3. Most appreciated by class teachers but not by principal cause he only gives away prizes to top 3. Why so, because you always are fighting to get into a rat race just to be in top 3 without even understanding why or why not that Top 3 matters. If you aren’t the super geek who is always on the lookout for a new invention then I believe that you were probably better off not trying to be in that top 10 as well but rather doing something more relevant or to your liking(*). You know it that you are probably just an Average . What’s the problem in being average – its expectations? PARENTS expecting that now that child has managed this he/she will make it to some good engineering college which of course will convert to a good job. YOU expect that you will definitely now make it to IIT but end up compromising .And this vicious circle of expectation & compromises goes on & on until one day you ...

I know !! only you can explain

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Dear Indu, Glad that you got time to read my letter. I hope you are done with your washing, cleaning, dusting, cooking and of course eating and what about the compulsory exercise. Did you skip it today as well? Did I not tell you that you are venturing into the territory of the brave and though I did doubt your bravery initially but looks like you are doing quite well .Uhmm!!Hold on, this is not yet an appreciation but yeah you can treat it as initial moral booster. Motherhood test has lots of rounds mind u.!!l Before I again start ranting some words of wisdom for you :-) Today something else urged me to write to you. Yeah I know I could have messaged you but I know you like it this way & anyways it’s about Mr X. How I bored you with his stories on that rotten narrow-enough-to-make-us-cosier hostel bed. Today lying on this mattress by my open window (unlike feat in London), cool breeze has thrown me back in time when Mr X was actually a reality & not just a mer...

My 3 Learnings – On my way to Happiness

Jina was the only child of her parents. As close to them as she was with her husband & her 5  year old kid. Her journey  from  being a kid herself to a wife & then to a mother  demanded at every step to be selfless. She knew at every step that she is letting things go which she always wanted the most.  But every step cajoled her that its after all for the betterment of herself & her family.. Today she was disappointed with her life. She wanted to do something different. Well, finally she got this opportunity . Jina : You know they are  coming. Sheila : Now who ? Please I don’t want you to get busy again entertaining other people. Jina (interrupting) Weirdo …I am talking about my favourite band Guns and Roses .They are in London and guess what I managed a ticket from Gig.com Sheila : Kewl.. But how come the ever buzeee Jina has found the time to bloody  buy a ticket as well. How about your kid ? How about  your husband’s ...

My Teenage Hiccups- Part 1

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1990's was the time when kids like us were trying to catch up on English music. The number of English songs you knew heightened your status in your own silly kid’s society.I will not lie & accept that I too have been a victim of such rat race. However given that we  didn't  have any internet in those days, no YouTube to explore  or incessant downloading techniques as available to today’s kids this information was solely   dependent  on exchange of cassettes, exchange of lyrics , which  you  would  write down after listening to the song many many times on your headphones. Not that this was a fool proof solution as it still puts a little smile on my face when this friend noted the lyrics as “Beat my lover” instead of “ Be my Lover-La Bouche ":-) . Few other techniques my friends used 1)   Buy a cassette, which you like, as gift  for someone’s birthday & then just  queue up shamelessly so that  you could record t...