I dont think J K Rowling had even imagined in her wildest dreams that she would be creating a master piece when she started off on Harry Potter, the boy-who-lived!
Whichever ways she created a Wonderful, magical, mystical world of Hogwarts and everything else seized to exist..
This world that contained magical creatures, the finest wizards and witches who zoomed off on their firebolts, gaints and trolls, muggles and death eaters, chocolate frogs and vomit-flavoured candies, gaint spiders, basilisks, hippogriffs and thestrals. The best of it all was the game of QUIDDITCH!!!!
This story was about Harry Potter, his friends and his enemies. The boy who lived, marked by the darkest wizards of all time - Tom Marvorlo Riddle - Lord Voldemort!!! Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts who had a special bond with the boy. Sirius Black who went to Azkaban for a crime he did not commit. Peter pettigrew, the rat that was!
Ron & Hermione - his best friends
James and Lily Potter - the parents who gave up their life protecting him so that he could live to kill he-who-must not be - named!
Hagrid, the gaint who was there every time for this boy.
The Order of the phoenix who united to fight against the dark Lord. His very dramatic return
I have laughed with the lot of them and cried every single time one of his friends died.
Right now, I am wallowing in an all time low because it is over......
Friday, July 22, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
My Angel Soon To Turn 5!
Soon, my little angel is going to turn 5. I still remember the first joy of having her in my arm and literally tearing up listening to her first cry...
I asked the daughter what baby it was and she said - "A GIRL" and i was over the moon and I had happy tears in my eyes and the doctor thought i was crying coz I wanted a boy.She couldnt have been more wrong about it. She is who i wanted in my life and in my home. I had always wanted a girl. She was such a tiny bundle and now, suddenly she seems all grown up and drives me up the wall with her crazy questions (no wonder They have come up with a big hard back book about childre's question).
I am celebrating these wonderful joyous five years of mommyhood with her.
I did not realize when 5 months became an year and then a year beacme 5 but yes soon she is going to turn five.
Oh! she is very smart alright knows how to ask the right questions so she gets her answers. She is so manupulative and cajoling until her needs are met ASAP.
She is so possessive of her father and he plays along with her so well...and i am "The Demon", "The Dragon" and "The Outcast".....feels a little sad-bad at times but i lurk in the corner there for the right time when she is going to be mine more than his. only thing i need to practice aplenty is the patience..............but I am Waiting!!!.
When she turns 15,16, 17, 18 I know she will need me more......I just gotta wait another 1o years! 10years??? i am resigned to it :-) :-)
pure co-incidence - continued
@ RS - i have this picture already on facebook but i thought let me put it up again...the accessories are from Soul Santhe and Dastakaar Mela in Chitrakala Parishat that Navs and i had been on my birthday :-)
Friday, July 8, 2011
Beautiful Memories!
Writing on SimpleConcoctions triggers of myriads of pscycadellic memories -
1. Like calling out to each other from the window
2. Calling Ch-ch from our balcony to S's house
3. all those early morning walks and kind of cross country cycle rides
4. walking to school with a bycycle and all our 3 bags on the carrier of the cycle and taking turns to push it to & from school
5. waiting for the power cut at 8pm so we cud run out of home and on to the roads to play i-spy in the dark?? ( we were plumb crazy)
6. sitting in our balcony till late in the evening chattering away to glory
7. keeping crazy names to people whose name we did not know??
8. walking till the bus stop to eat churmuri and stopping every few steps to talk to people we know
9. Studying till late in the night sitting in our balcony
10. palying shuttle batminton in the evening and when it was slightly windy, trying to push the wind away from us with our bats
11. playing cricket with shuttle bats
12. drinking tea at 11pm in the night so we could be awake till 2pm??
13. Running back home from school to Watch Swabhimaan??
14. sleepovers at all our 4 houses
15. Going till S's house from our house just a few metres and asking her for water to drink like we had walked miles ;-)
16. watching movies like Enter the dragon, police story, rumble in the bronx and Gods must be crazy on saturday afternoons
and many many more that i can keep writing all night, may be continue even in the morning! ;-)
1. Like calling out to each other from the window
2. Calling Ch-ch from our balcony to S's house
3. all those early morning walks and kind of cross country cycle rides
4. walking to school with a bycycle and all our 3 bags on the carrier of the cycle and taking turns to push it to & from school
5. waiting for the power cut at 8pm so we cud run out of home and on to the roads to play i-spy in the dark?? ( we were plumb crazy)
6. sitting in our balcony till late in the evening chattering away to glory
7. keeping crazy names to people whose name we did not know??
8. walking till the bus stop to eat churmuri and stopping every few steps to talk to people we know
9. Studying till late in the night sitting in our balcony
10. palying shuttle batminton in the evening and when it was slightly windy, trying to push the wind away from us with our bats
11. playing cricket with shuttle bats
12. drinking tea at 11pm in the night so we could be awake till 2pm??
13. Running back home from school to Watch Swabhimaan??
14. sleepovers at all our 4 houses
15. Going till S's house from our house just a few metres and asking her for water to drink like we had walked miles ;-)
16. watching movies like Enter the dragon, police story, rumble in the bronx and Gods must be crazy on saturday afternoons
and many many more that i can keep writing all night, may be continue even in the morning! ;-)
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Pure Coincidence!!
Over the weekend I had been to Shopers Stop with hubby, daughter and a gang of his cousins. We went there...and the 3 men decided that they will ditch us ladies and go off to drink on their own. So, me who had planned on a little shopping was left stranded in the crowded SS and to top it all off the kid of one of the cousins also had to tag along with my daughter and both of them were going around in circles screaming and shouting drawing the max attention to themselves and ofcourse to me.
i was checking for formal shoes in my size and it was frustrating to not find one pair that fit me! In the middle of checking for styles and sizes and keeping an eye on the running toddlers, i was hanging by a small thread of patience and was irritated with my husband for deserting me.
A lady walked towards me and said - "hi! I love the accessories you are wearing! they are so beautifully unique and are going perfectly with the attire". I told her - "thanks! I picked it up from one of the exhibitions." So, she was like - "from where did you pick it up?" I told her, i picked it up from Chitrakala Parishad. Then i was trying to find the right size of shoes still and She was like - I understand your dilemma because i have the largest sized feet.
Then she told me - Ok! I guess i should be going and it was nice talking to you and lo! she introduced herself as Chaitra- as is my name...we were so absolutely thrilled to be sharing the same name and the same interests! Then we exchanged our #s and i have promised to call her and let her know when the next exhibition is on!
We parted ways and a thought of bumping into each other on another day and another time!
It was the best thing that happened that day!
i was checking for formal shoes in my size and it was frustrating to not find one pair that fit me! In the middle of checking for styles and sizes and keeping an eye on the running toddlers, i was hanging by a small thread of patience and was irritated with my husband for deserting me.
A lady walked towards me and said - "hi! I love the accessories you are wearing! they are so beautifully unique and are going perfectly with the attire". I told her - "thanks! I picked it up from one of the exhibitions." So, she was like - "from where did you pick it up?" I told her, i picked it up from Chitrakala Parishad. Then i was trying to find the right size of shoes still and She was like - I understand your dilemma because i have the largest sized feet.
Then she told me - Ok! I guess i should be going and it was nice talking to you and lo! she introduced herself as Chaitra- as is my name...we were so absolutely thrilled to be sharing the same name and the same interests! Then we exchanged our #s and i have promised to call her and let her know when the next exhibition is on!
We parted ways and a thought of bumping into each other on another day and another time!
It was the best thing that happened that day!
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Friends, dinner & reminiscence - Contd
We finished dinner at Eurasia at about 9pm. S & N claimed they had stuffed themselves more than a stuffed turkey at Thanksgiving. I was cajoling both of them to take the bus back home but, S came back pat - chai I will pay the autofare..meaning she did not have patience nor strength to go home by bus.
Ok, so we crossed the road to flag down aa auto but no luck and we kind of slowly started walking towards the bus stand. Still no luck nor auto. we waited in the bus stand for about 5 minutes. There were a lot of busses but not towards our home.
So, N Brilliant that she is, said - "let us walk" by then S had also kind of warmed up to that idea and we started walking home. We took about 45 minutes to come back home for a route which would normally take us 15 minutes in the ric.
But it was an immensely enjoyable walk back home and we got some extra time to spend with each other.
our respective moms thought we had gone out of our minds but we were really happy in our hearts!!!
Ok, so we crossed the road to flag down aa auto but no luck and we kind of slowly started walking towards the bus stand. Still no luck nor auto. we waited in the bus stand for about 5 minutes. There were a lot of busses but not towards our home.
So, N Brilliant that she is, said - "let us walk" by then S had also kind of warmed up to that idea and we started walking home. We took about 45 minutes to come back home for a route which would normally take us 15 minutes in the ric.
But it was an immensely enjoyable walk back home and we got some extra time to spend with each other.
our respective moms thought we had gone out of our minds but we were really happy in our hearts!!!
Friday, July 1, 2011
Love & Romance - Overrated??
What is love or romance?? I ask you...can anyone really tell me the exact meaning of these words? sometimes i just feel it is a over hyped word in the dictionary that sells a million little thingies and gets a huge profit & turnover for the vendors.
But me being silly little me - I have literally grown up reading Mills & boons for a little more than half of my life and i am kicked by the idea that it does happen in real life too.. :-) my mom blames these books till date for my getting into a love marriage of sorts (cos it was later arranged). But i remember all those days in my teens and adolosence when i would just curl up with one of these books and would read 3 books back to back in a day, when the Tall, dark, handsome, brooding hero of the book would give me a fluttery feeling in my stomuch like a de javu as if i was waiting for him to come and carry me away on his black beauty of a horse to this far off land where there would be just the 2 of us..
I dont know and have lost count of the number of books i might have read till date in the last 16 years or so..but all this said and done, I can still immerse myself in one of them and loose track of the time ONLY if my daughter allows me a little time ;-) OK! knock! knock! reality has come knocking on my door, I need to go open it right now!
But me being silly little me - I have literally grown up reading Mills & boons for a little more than half of my life and i am kicked by the idea that it does happen in real life too.. :-) my mom blames these books till date for my getting into a love marriage of sorts (cos it was later arranged). But i remember all those days in my teens and adolosence when i would just curl up with one of these books and would read 3 books back to back in a day, when the Tall, dark, handsome, brooding hero of the book would give me a fluttery feeling in my stomuch like a de javu as if i was waiting for him to come and carry me away on his black beauty of a horse to this far off land where there would be just the 2 of us..
I dont know and have lost count of the number of books i might have read till date in the last 16 years or so..but all this said and done, I can still immerse myself in one of them and loose track of the time ONLY if my daughter allows me a little time ;-) OK! knock! knock! reality has come knocking on my door, I need to go open it right now!
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