How come, childhood is the most cherished part of an individual's life?Is it because the sheer innocence a person has during that time ?
Off late I have been thinking a lot about the past years. There was a decade change which I was fully aware of as I was a teenager/adult during 2000's. A transformation from being a teenager to an adult. And the decade before ,1990's I was school going.
I was born into middle class Christian Family in Angamaly where the sole bread winning member was my father.Even though my father's family was rich and influential in that area,we dint benefit from that much. He always got treated secondary by his own family members.But my mother's side was different.They were everything that my father's family was not. As children, we spent our summer vacation at my mother's house and us and our maternal cousins grew together. Those fights with them,quarrelling , getting mad each other but always making up at the end of the day . Cousins, like someone said, they are the friends what we get by birth.
Numerous weddings that I have attended of my cousins,second cousins, my father's cousins.I tried remembering the very first wedding I attended. I have four distinct memories of which I guess 2 of the weddings were in 1989 and the other 2 wedding's time line I don't remember. I should ask my mom about it.
When I was pregnant with my son, I craved my mom's breakfast like anything. School time she used to make very tasty peas masala and we used to have it with Bread.Somehow my in-laws are not very fond of green-peas but I made sure that I ate it though what I made dint come upto my mother's original taste.
I am feeling very homesick and should visit my home soon!
Sunday, 20 January 2013
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Memories
Sometimes when I really don't have anything to do,not even something to think hard or brainstorm,I refresh my memory back in the time line to trace till where I can reach... My friends always tell me that I am a person who can get lost in thoughts in just a snap of a second...Yes I am a day dreamer.. I agree!.
In one of those memory sessions,following are the things I can remember.
1. I have a vague memory of having a cow at my home. Recently,When I asked my mother about it, she said it was around when I was three years old.Probably my first memory.
2. I remember writing the year 1989 in my notebook .I was in grade 2 then. Again, I recollect writing 9/9/99 during a Physics Lecture in 12th Grade.Also I remember 12/12/12 which happened last month... :)
3. I remember my father taking me to attend the very first class in 1st Grade (year 1988)and asked me to say "Haajar" when my attendance was taken.
4. I dint attend any of KG classes. Only class I attended before joining school was "Ashaan Kalari" where I learned those Malayalam alphabets.
5. I studied in 'Malayalam Medium' school where formal English classes started only in Grade 5.Till then, the only English what I knew was alphabets.
6. During grade 2, I was so scared of a girl in my catechism class that I used to make reasons for not making into to the classes.I can still remember her face.
7.Once some draw happened in my school for some prizes and I got '0' .. I still laugh thinking about this.How could someone drop '0' in a box where each student was asked to take one slip and whoever get '1' wins the Grand prize.I was in Grade 3.
Above listed all are my first memories of my life (the significant ones..:).Whenever I hear a past date or an incident I usually try to recollect what was I doing then? Do you also do the same? :)
Cheers!
In one of those memory sessions,following are the things I can remember.
1. I have a vague memory of having a cow at my home. Recently,When I asked my mother about it, she said it was around when I was three years old.Probably my first memory.
2. I remember writing the year 1989 in my notebook .I was in grade 2 then. Again, I recollect writing 9/9/99 during a Physics Lecture in 12th Grade.Also I remember 12/12/12 which happened last month... :)
3. I remember my father taking me to attend the very first class in 1st Grade (year 1988)and asked me to say "Haajar" when my attendance was taken.
4. I dint attend any of KG classes. Only class I attended before joining school was "Ashaan Kalari" where I learned those Malayalam alphabets.
5. I studied in 'Malayalam Medium' school where formal English classes started only in Grade 5.Till then, the only English what I knew was alphabets.
6. During grade 2, I was so scared of a girl in my catechism class that I used to make reasons for not making into to the classes.I can still remember her face.
7.Once some draw happened in my school for some prizes and I got '0' .. I still laugh thinking about this.How could someone drop '0' in a box where each student was asked to take one slip and whoever get '1' wins the Grand prize.I was in Grade 3.
Above listed all are my first memories of my life (the significant ones..:).Whenever I hear a past date or an incident I usually try to recollect what was I doing then? Do you also do the same? :)
Cheers!
Monday, 7 January 2013
New Year
Its New Year again. 2012 passed in front of my eyes, just like a flash of light.
Rewinding back the past year, it was good.Lots of good memories to ponder.It was the year,I became a mother for the very first time.. :).Hubby's promotion,my mother's new house,various functions,visiting Thailand, reconciling with an old friend after 6 long years ,all happened in this year.
About the new year resolutions, the main one is to loose some pounds.
Get fitter,be less to anger, save 20% of the salary every month also in the cards.
Be more adjusting and also to cut down arguments and fights with the better half.(Planning on this one :D). Also I want to visit Europe or US.
I wanted to get 4-wheel driving licence before I hit 30. I did and I am driving to work nowadays.I am turning 30 on 9th of Jan this year,which is tomorrow.
At 30,life starts yet again or is it @ 40??LOL
Rewinding back the past year, it was good.Lots of good memories to ponder.It was the year,I became a mother for the very first time.. :).Hubby's promotion,my mother's new house,various functions,visiting Thailand, reconciling with an old friend after 6 long years ,all happened in this year.
About the new year resolutions, the main one is to loose some pounds.
Get fitter,be less to anger, save 20% of the salary every month also in the cards.
Be more adjusting and also to cut down arguments and fights with the better half.(Planning on this one :D). Also I want to visit Europe or US.
I wanted to get 4-wheel driving licence before I hit 30. I did and I am driving to work nowadays.I am turning 30 on 9th of Jan this year,which is tomorrow.
At 30,life starts yet again or is it @ 40??LOL
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