An Awesome Day!!!

Are you all wondering what am i doing up at 7am on a saturday morning?? no school, no work?
I thought the same thing too when my eyes opened this morning...but i was in a kind of a mood today. You see it all goes back to 3 days ago, when suddenly my hubby sprang it upon me that he was going on a trip to Coorg with his factory workers and I had big plans for this weekend!! It was the last day of holiday for my daughter and I had thot we cud atleast take her to a day trip somewhere... So last night I said bye to my husband and in the last 2 days I planned all sorts of things to do - spend some really good quality time with my daughter. But yesterday my cousins came down from my native and finally settled on taking the kids out to Cubbon park like we were taken when we were kids. We had some wonderful, joyous times then and we would look forward to holidays just because we were going to cubbon park...we would carry lunch and make a picnic out of it. Those were some fantastic times.
So, today I am going to follow in the footsteps of my mum and my aunts and take the kids there for a toy train ride. I am actually really excited! I hope the kids are too...
So, I got up at 5.30am in the morning, really couldnt go back to sleep...sat up reading a novel till 6.30. Then went for a long walk in the park, came back home and brewed a cup of tea for myself, all the while listening to music and I really wanted everyone to know what I was upto...So, sitting down and putting it on the blog.
Now I am going to make breakfast and then wake my daughter up to a wonderful day, like I did!!!

C u all!!

TV Serials of the 80s and 90s!!

These days there have been major power cuts in our area. Today was also just another day in the same order.....I was tied down with so much work that by the time I left office it was 7.45pm. Then came to mom's to discover there was yet another power cut and I had so much work pending for today. I was going home and just took a de-route to go to my aunts house that is just a few minutes from my place. again, there was no power. So my cousins were there at home and we got talking. My aunt was lamenting that she could not watch her serials as when they had power the cablewala wouldnt and vis-a- versa :-). So, the 3 of us started discussing serials on TV and how there was just one channel a few years ago and lovely programs that were telecast. As we were in school and the quality and the length of the serials were just enough....they were telecast once a week and get over at about 13 weeks. That was the golden era of the TV serials..
When we are talking about serials, we started counting some of the nice one we were fortunate enough to see...
1. Bharat Ek Khoj - this was such an epic serial of its times and so much knowledge. and i remember this from school - we had a classmate of the same name and we would call him by this name
2. Buniyaad - was one serial which was about the Indo-pak partition and it was a bit over my head at that age. but all the characters were so poignant that they stood out as though they were real. Kanwaljeet Singh was so smart in his hay days and he is as smart now in Mere Brother ki Dulhan..
3. Chanakya - I know there is a new serial with the same name but the original version is always better.
And next come the detective serials-----
1. Byomkesh Bakshi - a Rajit kapoor starrer was as gud as the detective serials that came in those days
2. Tehkikaat - vijay Anand (Dev anand's brother) as Sam D Silva and Saurabh Shukla as Gopichand - i still remeber the song that gopi would sing, "yeh mera prem patr padhkar ke tum naaraz na hona"
3. Karamchand - eventhough came at the end of these serials much later left its own fan following in its wake and Pankaj kapoor as Karamchand Sushmita Mukherjee as kitty wow! classic. Though at that time who knew Pankaj kapoor had such a handsome son in the making...;-)
Later ones were the comedies - there were innumerable ones
1. Flop show
2. ulta pulta
3. Dekh Bhai Dekh
And the horror shows of all times -
Khiley ka Rahasya -as soon as i say it the tune comes to mind -do u get it??
Zee horror show
Aahat - started after all these

I know there are many more : if you guys have any favourites do let me know...............

chao!!!

TV Serials of the 80s and 90s!!

reminding you I am very much here!! :-)

Its been quite some time that i visited my blog! i have become so infrequent that I hardly have time to check on comments and to comment on my friends's blogs. But what the **** i am trying to....work is heavy, to top it off no access to these sites. If you are blogging it really helps to have the system and access handy when, how and where you want to write!!!

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.....