Goggles In Space

Like most wives, usually every year i remind the husband many times before September even starts so that my bday doesnt go unnoticed and i get some gifts too. This time consciously i didnot give any hint or remind about the bday. After all, i have been with him for 8 long years and that was more than enough for him to have Sep15 engraved in mind. I was mistaken. He forgot to wish me, didnt give even a card (forget kiss) and no gifts absolutely...He dressed up for office as there was a recruitment drive and spent the day there. Initially pissed off and later disgusted, i told kids that its mom's bday ,made them wishe me and made an instant mug chocolate cake(Sharmi's Passion blogsite). There ended my 31st bday celebs !Phew !!!!!!!   Come October and i will take double treat from you at Jaipur,Sreetta :)

Bdays started becoming significant during College Days. Back in school, i cant recollect how my bdays were celebrated or whether there was any celebration at all - probably for star bday, parents would go to temple,perform archana in my name, prepare sadya if it falls on a weekend..Three out of four in the family had bdays around onam time (me, hari and achan), so sadya/payasam combo was mostly the routine. Back in college hostel, friends used to celebrate everyone's bday by cutting cake at midnight and giving surprise gifts. Love my friends for that :) After engagement with Sree i had some of the best birthdays - not because Sree bestowed surprises on me or religiously took me out on bdays but he acknowledged that i felt elated to be wished/gifted on birthdays ! He would have thanked god that the day comes only once a year ! After our engagement, we used to talk every night. During one of those calls,i had told abt my Date of Birth as well.We used to talk over phone at night (mo...

We just finished making 3 cards - 2 for the kids for Teacher's Day (Today) and another one for my dad's bday..Parents never had the habit of celebrating bdays and we too never bought gifts as such. Amma loved sarees, so for her i used to get sarees since i got a job - For the past 9 yrs , i have been doing that! these days there is lot of hype abt bdays, Mother's Day, father's Day etc but we are not used to buying and sending cards. For our anniversray and sometimes for Sree's bday, i buy cards form the shop and gift it...This time for dad's bday, we 4 got together to make a card. There was hardly anything at home to decorate it, so we pasted few pics, some cutouts using color paper and then made a card. Yesterday, it reached him and the "grandfather" was profoundly happy...Next in line is a card for Hari..sigh ! how life has changed since he got sick in 2009..

FaMILY - Father says I love you to the Mother and thats when the family gets life. Now the father is too busy with Kindle, yoga, laptop, weekend baddy court ,phone and dont know what else when he is not into reading/eating/sleeping. The mother is busy in the kitchen, kids,studies, reading etc...There is always whole lot of noise in the house and Father hates it.Something is missing and the Pa-Ma combo is no more making a good couple .That has led me to think we are not a FaMily in the true spirit. Earlier, the four used to sit in the bed in the evenings , reading stories, fun fighting, hugging each other but not any more. To be frank, I am hating it. I didnt talk to Sree in the car saying he is not spending time with me. He says i am not talking to him when he comes to me. We start the day together with yoga, drive to office together, meet for lunch, go for a walk in the campus but that glitter is not thr in his eyes nor in mine. Yesterday we spent time in The Baby Shop getting toys ...

To me, my mom's place and relatives were more near. One reason definitely was the distance and hence the chances of getting to see and spending more time with them. Me and my brother used to spend summer vacations with grandparents and cousins. I cherish those days of watching movies (both in theatre and VCR),occasional temple visits, vishu kaineettams,tasty food (pappads, chips as well)from my grandma, tales from my grandad about his military days etc. After a long 10 months of school, this was defnitely a good break. For reasons, good and bad,dad's native and his relatives were always very far. Last week, for a marriage, we decided to go there and spend couple of days in the malabar, walk on the banks of Bharathapuzha and relish some good moments in the serene land. I had opted a week long vacation from work, so it gave me enough time to plan the trip. Along with parents and kids, we reached the wedding house in the afternoon. The house was so well decorated with a huge white...

Life is a struggle and i feel there is no end to it. As long as you have wishes and desires , you dont feel contented. When we were married, we were happy though we didnt have any savings. Honeymoon in Munnar was the best trip ever ! Back in blr, my only work was booking train tickets to and fro between Chennai and Bangalore. Life was very colorful and lovefilled.Soon i started dreaming about owning a flat in blr and realised we couldnt afford them with our monthly salaries. We were spending decent ampount on phone and travel,many times calls spanning the whole night when we realise one of us has fallen asleep while talking. We didnt have enough bank balance which could be used for downpayment and we didnt want to ask parents for help. So my search for apartments ended almost the same time it started. Life was otherwise good as with most newly weds - diamond ring for the first New Year, hotel visits,new dresses, movies and so on. When the first onsite chance came for Sree, we were exci...

Its been a 4 weeks of early morning yoga classes for Sree and we had to celebrate it. He is one lazy brat and morning starts after 7 for him on weekdays and after 8 on weekends. But he has got adjusted to getting up in the morning and doing an hr of hathayoga under a trainer who comes to the neighbourhood since 1 month.Sad part is that he has apparently succeeded in making me also attend the same, some relaxation that they are in the evenings and i can still catch some early morning hours of sleep ! On second thoughts, i realised it is necassary for the sedantary workstyle of my job and the luxury of having a fulltime help at home. So coming back to celebrations, i wanted to see this movie "manjadikkuru" the lucky red seeds. Directed by Anjali Menon, i had been wanting to see it for a while now, so we set off. Bunked office at 3:30 pm (rarest thing to happen to us),headed home,picked kids and in 30 mnts we were gazing at the tiny seeds on screen. Good movie featuring paddy fi...