Friday to Friday!
Well... this week has been a real topsy turvy curve as far as my mood went... I'd like to believe the Im not moody(
Dont think all who know me well will agree).. atleast i dont let people know wht im going thro! But it has been a helluva week for me! Anyway had lots of fun too.. so decided to write it down.
Saturday was great.. Sandhya had come down to write her CAT. Well..Sandhya being Sandhya decided to spend the previous day of her exam, roaming Chennai:-) So, Sreej n me went to Spencers where we were joined byRenu n Sandhya.It was loads of fun. The best part was in Landmark. There was this instant portrait stuff there. There was a small phone booth like enclosure where one should pose to a camera and can have a portrait taken in the form of pencil sketch, charcoal sketch etc.We wanted to have a group portrait taken. The place was too tiny for the four of us to fit in. We tried all angles and position but in vain. But the whole process was fun! The four of us had met a few weeks back @ Cbe.. so we kinda knew each ones updates. So most of our discussion was on Unni ofcourse. Unni mite get married to the infy guy! And Sandhya was describing all the details tht she heard from Unni. Unni had sent the foto of the guy n her. And from her mail she seems to be real happy. Good!She deserves the best:-)
Itz funny to think Im gonna attend Unni's marraige soon... All of us have come a long way from being the six brats in Avila. At times I wonder how we still are such good friends... I mean.. I never thought that we would all be in constant touch after leaving school. But itz great that we are. The six of us are so different but at the same time are so much alike. All of us are extremely ambitious, career-oriented, independent with strong opinions on any issue. But the fact that keeps us together is the respect we have for each other and the space we give each other.
Anyway Saturday went fast with all the shopping and the puking(yeah, i was in a puking spree... tht day:-)) And ofcourse the messages and the missed calls. I dont know if I had to be worried about it, but I found the whole situation funny!
The rest oof the week was happening too. A lot of things were happening @ office. Politics @ its peak! But I guess from this week, the take-aways by observing others was "Only good things happen to good people" and ofcourse the advice given to me by a stranger "Being a girl you should marry a boy not your job" Aah words of Wisdom!!!!;-D I wish I could just meet this person for more such words of gyaan!:-D
Revisiting Childhood!
Its Diwali once again... Though i dont celebrate Diwali..(
i dont celebrate anything as a matter of fact..yeah.. i lead a very boring life:-( ) i actually like this festive season. Previous day of Diwali.. n everybody seems excited. People are talking about their shopping, the gifts, the crackers, the sweets etc. Therez always anticipation and excitement in the air and somehow though i dont do any of the above activities I get excited too. The previous night of Diwali i left Chennai to Cbe..n as soon as i got there we left to Calicut n from there to Wynad. Kerala is the only state I know in India tht doesnt celebrate Diwali and it was so evident too. While Chennai and Cbe were buzzing with activity, Kerala seemed oblivious to all this. For people there, it was just another day. Some of my relatives dint even know it was Diwali :-)
I reached Poothadi very late... Only Mummy n Ammama was there with the nurse and the maid. I am seeing Ammama after almost a year.. She is walking a little but with great difficulty. At times what she was saying also was not clear. She seemed like a little kid.. getting excited about seeing me, being stubborn about a few things.. it was all very different. Even Poothadi looked different. This was the first time when there is nobody around. Even Pinky was not there. For me Poothadi always means lotsa people, uncles and aunties sitting around chatting, all cousins climbing the mango tree, going out to the fields, playing with the pillows, calling the spirit through a glass, never ending gossips, not taking bath fast n trying to escape vellichan screaming, eating raw mangoes with chilly powder and salt
(mmmmmmm..), playing cricket with everyone on tht big ground, running on the coffee beans on the ground n falling down
... there is nothing we dint do as kids. And today... all of us are in different locations in the globe engrossed in our own world.. the chance for all of us meeting is well..next to impossible!
One thing that is so different about Poothadi is therez lot of time there... while people here seem to be scrambling for time and space, there u find them in abundance. U hava a lotta time to do things there. And itz always the best place to be if u need to reflect upon life, or just laze around! My two days went off fast talking to amamma, irritating my Mom n speaking to Shobha vellima who had come down. Pinky came on the last day and it was fun to talk to her. She is the youngest girl after me... in our cousins gang(neices not included:-)) She is in the 12'th and it was fun talking about her class n guys in her class n their pranks etc.. Yeah Lets accept it.. She too has grown up
( or is it meeeeee i wonder)
I also discovered a few things.. the house is nearly 90 years old, and we are 69 members in all...uncles,aunts, first cousins their spouses, nephews n neices.(
Yeah, me and Pinky counted)
I left Poothadi this time with Daddu(
mummy decided to stay back with ammama for another week) to Cbe, it was with a feeling of nostalgia, a feeling of pride.(
i too have probably, "finally", grown up) For everyone, Gods Own Country means backwaters, coconut trees etc.. to me, its probably this place in remote Kerala called Poothadi which is a small world in its own.. Gods Own Country indeed!!!:-)
