@ 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 :-)
Monday, July 11, 2011
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!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Of childhood friends, dinners and reminiscence ;-)!!
Yes! it happened again after 3 months. We met again on the excuse of using a gift voucher from Splash which was about to expire today.
We met in Spalsh on MG Road. RN & were already there when i went. S used her voucher and i had used mine way back in May itself. S picked up 2 tops & a pant then we walked to trinity circle where S's father was waiting for us and he dropped us off in J'nagar - we had decided earlier that we would shop and then go back to our side of the town for dinner. So, we went to Eurasia for a yummy meal of Pizza & Pasta. We started off with awesome Crostinis and progressed to pizza that was so light & tasty and simply out of this world. The Chefsdon Pasta was the chef's special which was a gooey pasta with all the veggies thrown in with creamy cheese sauce. We decided to forgo the dessert as we had already overstuffed ourselves. between all this eating there was constant free-flowing chat punctuated with hoots of laughter ;-). yes, now coming to the topic of the blog - the 4 of us have been friends for ages now - may be early 90's hmm..to be exact - for 22 years. so the 1st point is covered. ( We miss you cats!) and ofcourse i covered the 2nd point in the beginning. coming to the 3rd and last point of the topic header when you have been friends with someone for so long that you dont remember how many fights and tiffs you have had with them, then you will have so much to talk,refresh and reminisce about. so, the chat went to all the places and back again. we started off from the time when we met S for the first time, she was on the bicycle and was a pretty little girl with 2 plaits. she was all of 8 yrs and her aunt got her to where we were playing on the road and introduced us asking us to include her in our evening play time. RS and I (we were neighbours)took an instant shine to this girl and RN we met in school. RN just lived 3 roads down and the curious cat that she was, wanted to know where we stayed, which school we were from and what we did in our free time etc., this to be put in 2 words which was our life history.
Now, about RS and me. In the beginning RS was such a snobbish little creature with greenish blue eyes and she was very cautious with this girl who was her neighbour whether she liked it or not! i would stand in my compound and see her do stuff but as soon as she saw me observing her she would run inside and lock the door. It took a lot of time on my part to thaw her out but in the end we have all stayed real good friends for most of our life and hope we will remain the same for the remaining years. only RS is not here for the last few years where she has been in Singapore for 7 years and now is in the US. but we still miss you especially during times like these when we meet once in a blue moon!
I can put up more posts with all that we reminisced over dinner. May be I will!!
We met in Spalsh on MG Road. RN & were already there when i went. S used her voucher and i had used mine way back in May itself. S picked up 2 tops & a pant then we walked to trinity circle where S's father was waiting for us and he dropped us off in J'nagar - we had decided earlier that we would shop and then go back to our side of the town for dinner. So, we went to Eurasia for a yummy meal of Pizza & Pasta. We started off with awesome Crostinis and progressed to pizza that was so light & tasty and simply out of this world. The Chefsdon Pasta was the chef's special which was a gooey pasta with all the veggies thrown in with creamy cheese sauce. We decided to forgo the dessert as we had already overstuffed ourselves. between all this eating there was constant free-flowing chat punctuated with hoots of laughter ;-). yes, now coming to the topic of the blog - the 4 of us have been friends for ages now - may be early 90's hmm..to be exact - for 22 years. so the 1st point is covered. ( We miss you cats!) and ofcourse i covered the 2nd point in the beginning. coming to the 3rd and last point of the topic header when you have been friends with someone for so long that you dont remember how many fights and tiffs you have had with them, then you will have so much to talk,refresh and reminisce about. so, the chat went to all the places and back again. we started off from the time when we met S for the first time, she was on the bicycle and was a pretty little girl with 2 plaits. she was all of 8 yrs and her aunt got her to where we were playing on the road and introduced us asking us to include her in our evening play time. RS and I (we were neighbours)took an instant shine to this girl and RN we met in school. RN just lived 3 roads down and the curious cat that she was, wanted to know where we stayed, which school we were from and what we did in our free time etc., this to be put in 2 words which was our life history.
Now, about RS and me. In the beginning RS was such a snobbish little creature with greenish blue eyes and she was very cautious with this girl who was her neighbour whether she liked it or not! i would stand in my compound and see her do stuff but as soon as she saw me observing her she would run inside and lock the door. It took a lot of time on my part to thaw her out but in the end we have all stayed real good friends for most of our life and hope we will remain the same for the remaining years. only RS is not here for the last few years where she has been in Singapore for 7 years and now is in the US. but we still miss you especially during times like these when we meet once in a blue moon!
I can put up more posts with all that we reminisced over dinner. May be I will!!
The 7-year Itch!
First of all before i start let us try and de-code what is "The 7-year Itch"...
1. I think according to the scholors, it is the inclination to become unfaithful after 7-years of marriage.
2. It is the title of a 1955 Marilyn Monroe movie which is even now famous for the image of her white dress blowing up over a subway grating (white dress, red lipstick, super hot blonde) wow! what an image...
but in this super fast day & age when marriages & divorces are going hand in hand, the 7 year itch has lost several years..has also become 1,2,3,4,5 0r 6 years. :-)
for me it is not so much an itch to look at something or someone new but it is an itch to just have some breather or space away to spend on my own.
I keep threatening my husband sometimes ( all empty threats ofcourse) ;-)
I am 100 percent sure i would not want to swap him with anyone else as he is what i would have wanted and had the good sense to go for( even in the face of all the opposition and people breathing down my neck - hey R2 & S are you guys listening???). He doesnt question me, doesnt stop me from doing what i want and he is such a good one that he comes and picks me up from wherever & whenever I go drinking and partying with my pals. :-) ( this is a huge bonus)
And also there is this major thing - to get to know someone again in the smallest possible ways and understand...I am too old for all these games.. I think! and that is what i keep telling him all the time.
So my version of the 7-year itch is actually just an empty threat when i get irritated that things are not going the way I wanted.
1. I think according to the scholors, it is the inclination to become unfaithful after 7-years of marriage.
2. It is the title of a 1955 Marilyn Monroe movie which is even now famous for the image of her white dress blowing up over a subway grating (white dress, red lipstick, super hot blonde) wow! what an image...
but in this super fast day & age when marriages & divorces are going hand in hand, the 7 year itch has lost several years..has also become 1,2,3,4,5 0r 6 years. :-)
for me it is not so much an itch to look at something or someone new but it is an itch to just have some breather or space away to spend on my own.
I keep threatening my husband sometimes ( all empty threats ofcourse) ;-)
I am 100 percent sure i would not want to swap him with anyone else as he is what i would have wanted and had the good sense to go for( even in the face of all the opposition and people breathing down my neck - hey R2 & S are you guys listening???). He doesnt question me, doesnt stop me from doing what i want and he is such a good one that he comes and picks me up from wherever & whenever I go drinking and partying with my pals. :-) ( this is a huge bonus)
And also there is this major thing - to get to know someone again in the smallest possible ways and understand...I am too old for all these games.. I think! and that is what i keep telling him all the time.
So my version of the 7-year itch is actually just an empty threat when i get irritated that things are not going the way I wanted.
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