Am I A Bad Mom??

Howmuchever u try somethings never go the way you want them to in life! Parenting is one of them. You work so hard to give a good, comfortable living for them but in the process loosing out on precious time (their wonderful, growing up years) :-( the future looks very bleek for a mother especially. You try so hard to make them good humanbeings. But your efforts just goes down a huge black hole. You try disciplining them and the father and the grandparents pull the kids the other way and in turn you become a devil. I had read an article in a magazine, no a poem a long time ago in school when I truly did not appreciate the sacrifices that my mum had made to bring me up. Only after I had my little girl do I truly recognize what mountains she has scaled...she must have really bled when i would do exactly the opposite of what she had asked me to. I realize now how she would have felt when I went ahead and defied her.... My mum is the greatest in this world there is none to stand up to her image. I guess my daughter also will understand this some day for I am hurting right now... I dont know if i should seek an expert's opinion on how to bring my kid up. But I am holding on tight to the dream that one fine day she will finally recognize me for what i really am... HER MOM!!

One Fine Sunday!!

This last saturday, my impulsive husband suddenly (as usual) decided that tomorrow was "The Day" that we had to visit our family deity at Nittur. The temple is about 3.5 hours from Bangalore about 40 kms from Tumkur. But, I had my aunts housewarming ceremony on Monday and the pooja was also on sunday. It was all a little bit rushed. We left here at 8am in the morning on sunday. We stopped at Kamat restaurant on the way to have breakfast. The best part of the drive till Tumkur was the very pleasant and cool weather and the 2nd was the lovely, melodious songs on the FM.
They were putting awesome songs one after the other...starting from 'golden oldies' to the 'naya daur' songs. It was a wonderful drive alright!
The pooja there went on from 11.30am to 2.30pm then it poured like the sky opened up to rain so heavily that not even a grain of mud escaped the rains!
I would still say the best part of the whole day was the FM...there was a time when I used to listen to radio everyday non-stop for 3 hours - Sheetal's show. Now, I really miss listening to those lovely songs!

Eternal & Evergreen - Kishore Kumar

I was sitting in the office yesterday morning almost bored to tears and I came to know it was Kishore Da's birthday and i had chosen this day not to get my earphones.
So, this blog is what I wrote like a small tribute to him -

Today is Kishore Da's Birthday...and they are paying a tribute to him on the radio by playing his songs the whole day :-(....i am sitting in office working with no access to listen to those beautiful songs.

To top it all such lovely weather outside just perfect for the mood the songs set. I just wish i had a cup of hot coffee/tea/chocolate milk. With a plate of some munchies and a real good book so i could curl up on the couch at home without any disturbance and listen to these melodious mood lifters.

The song he sang for the movie "Padosan" in the year 1968 - Mere saamne Wali Khidki mein ek chaand ka tukda rehta hai was a kind of anthem for all those boys who fell in love with the neighbourhood girl.

he is one of the finest singers of all times that the hindi cinema industry was fortunate to have.... he might have written and sang a lot of songs but some of my all time favorites are here below in not any particular order.
1. Ek ladki bheegi bhaagi si
2. haal kaisa hai janaab ka
3. Eena meena deeka
4. Zaroorat hai zaroorat hai
5. gaata rahe mera dil
6. ek chatur naar karke singaar
7. mere sapnoki raani kab ayegi tu
8. roop tera mastaana
9. yeh jo mohabbat hai
10. pal pal dil ke paas

There are hundreds of more songs that have given me perfect company throughout my teenage years during the phase of my innumerable crushes.

This is just my small tribute to the greatest singer ever for giving us all those beautiful, soul-rendering numbers for listening to on just perfect days like today.....