BFFF

I was working like crazy last afternoon wishing I had a few more hours rather than just 24 & I got a msg from friend 'S' - It read " I am listening to the Sun zara sun zara on radio right now"...It may not mean anything to any of you out there except for 3 of my friends & me. I am sure the other 2 would also have broken into smiles after reading this msg just the way I did! :)

Thats what friends are for- to remember you exactly at the time you want them to :-) - 'S' this is especially for you...that is how I call you whenever you are about to have a meal or Wen u r having one ;-)

I have had my silent conversations with them on a nice evening sitting on the porch swing (a chair in this instance) & come off feeling really satisfied that I had meaningful conversation with them & also I have gone on trips with them to figure out if we r really good frnds & I truly know that they are...including you N even with all our fights on those trips, would love to go on more of them!!!!!

Anyways lets come back to the present...so this msg from 'S' came at a very nice time...i thot i shud call her & speak to her in the evening. So on the way back home I did...& as expected S was having her dinner ;-)! so still I went ahead & spoke to her for a few minutes and made plans to meet over the weekend as we do always...but end up not meeting

Then I called 'N' and to my luck she was also having dinner...so again the same conversation as with 'S' of meeting this weekend. She told we cannot depend on 'S' cos we end up seeing 'Taj Mahal' or 'Qutub Minar' again so I told 'N' - that may be we can ask her to show us some more wonders of the world like 'Leaning tower of Pisa' free of cost ;-)

I came back home & wanted to call my friend 'R' in Singapore but held back thinking it is 11 in the night for her and her daughter will be fast asleep but neways msgd her I got a reply right back saying I almost woke her daughter up :) :)!!!!

Thank god for the bigger mercies in the world called FRIENDS!! & I am three times lucky to have 3 total gems!!!!

Thank You "S" "N" & "R"!!!!!!!

Glorious Chiidhood!!

The other day I was reading this blog by an Internationally acclaimed blogger about a thousand favourite things of his...which in turn kicked off a list of my favourite things too...
This memory goes a long way back to those lazy summer afternoons when we would have holidays from the school, we would all go to our granny's place, where we had our uncles & aunts in the same house & too many cousins.
We had a lot of trees in our front yard & back yard - mangoes, chickoos & papayas in the front yard & then Jack fruit, Papaya, Cashew, berries etc at the back. there were also some veggies & flowers like chillies, brinjal, tomatoes...we would throw stone at the raw mangoes, grate them mix a lil chili powder & salt and we would have some yum raw mango salad that would be over in a jiffy and we would be left with wanting more of it :)
It was the same case with raw tamarind. We would pluck tamarind from the tree put a lil salt, a lil jaggery, some cumin, some green chillies, roll it into a ball stick it to an end of a tooth pick and lo you would have a delicious lolipop! hmm.. my mouth is watering just now....where can i get one right away?? :)

Birthday of My Angel

Yesterday was one beautiful day!! I was off from work & had been planning this day from 2 weeks. It was my darling daughter's birthday & she turned 4. God! how the time has flown...It feels like she was born yesterday but in actuality it has been 4 years to this day that I held that tiny wriggling bundle for the first time in my hands! From then on she has become the core of my world! I really dont know where the time has disappeared. One of cousin yesterday was saying it was just a few days ago that we celebrated her 2nd B'day.... :) As she is the first kid in both our families she is spoilt rotten. When i asked her in the morning what she wanted to do she told me she wanted to go to the Mc D which is far away ensuring she gets to go on a long drive as the outlet that she is speaking of is in Maddur..
I had taken off so that I can spend the day with her & when I told her to take off she said no ma i want to finish school..cant teach your kids to be absent from school :( so I finally got to drop & pick her up from school :-) lucky me & not the school van.
Got her ready for school in her birthday dress & took her to school myself...spoke to her teacher & gave the chocolates told her I will come & pick her up at 12pm.
Took her out for a long drive to have a few frenc fries :-( not even the burger!
That was a day Well Spent!!!