Learning it the Hard Way

Nothing can cause more hurt than neglect. I'm glad because through someone else's behaviour towards me, I'm able to see and judge my own conduct towards others, especially SK. I must keep this as a valuable lesson.

Soapy Secrets

I'm yet to discover the beauty-potential of Dove soap - I'm a new entrant - but one thing I've discovered is that it takes more water to wash off the soapy feeling from your body. Or is that supposed to be the secret?

Today was a sort of eye-opener for me and I hope I go back to my good old days of minding my business.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

People have left me all alone at home after a long time. I don't even remember when it was the last time...was it ten years ago? Only two hours of sleep yesterday night and I've got to sleep...

I must travel to Mangalore by the day-train. Yesterday night thanks to lack of other options I looked outside the train window and suddenly realized we were in the ghats and after that the sleep left for a good one hour. I had seen the railway track up in the hills while traveling by the road and wondered if we really journeyed that way but it's much more awe-inspiring being up there! You see trees and endless darkness all below you and it feels as if you are somewhere in the sky, in some imaginary world. We kept going in and out of so many tunnels and somehow I wanted company, someone to sit next to me and marvel at the strange world outside us. Some trees were lit up with fireflies and when I looked further down, it was as if some fire had broken out at points! Then I realized it was the buses, laboriously winding up the road. It's an amazing feeling, really! I wanted to shout out to someone down there that I was far, far up in the sky....

Home is Where the Heart Yearns to be!

I'm going to vote tomorrow. Then I'm going to travel home! Eager to see the good old place. Plans for the remaining three days as of now - Pabba's, BedruguDDe and the dear old beach. Lighthouse? If they allow us. Wish I could meet Sir too but that's a difficult one to wish for.

Wronged Expression's

People have become very generous with apostrophe these days. They put them anywhere and everywhere, leaving the responsibility of deciphering them to the reader. Even people I thought had hobnobbed with apostrophe before are also acting strange! May be it's contagious! Incidentally, 'its' is the regular victim. 

Koi Taza Hava Chali Hai Abhi...

I want to just listen to some Urdu Ghazals at the moment. Beautiful words which mostly mean nothing to me...Reflects the state of my mind at present somehow.

Silent

Kids and parents left for my hometown today and the house is unbearably silent. It feels as if their echoes are still there...faintly. It's an odd feeling not to be disturbed when I'm working on computer, to be watching TV continuously, not to have Anu in my lap non-stop, not to hear them bickering....I'm a little apprehensive this time after what happened last October - Anu fell on the hot sambar vessel and burnt herself pretty badly - but I know my mother is going to try and prove a point this time. She is too busy when she goes there and I don't blame her for that, though....

Rajani and I have been arguing a lot on communicator these days but without any conclusion by the end of the day. She is stubborn and I don't want to give up. Everyday she reads about a new guy and picks up a fight with me and today I felt like going to her place and laughing, it was so childish.

Notional Losses

Had Karnataka had Assembly polls along with Loksabha elections, I guess Congress would've been the big beneficiary. Then Modi onslaught or otherwise, it would've won more thanks to the bad governance factor of the old regime. Now that topic is stale and nothing great yet to show for the new government. 

Scent of a Memory

Our lake is stinking again and it suddenly took me back to Ambigara Keri of my childhood. It's been ages since I have passed through it but the memories come quickly. To reach Taribagilu, our general boarding point was Tanmadige but sometimes we would miss the boat by a minute. Then the options were to either wait for the next one to come by or to run and catch it at the next stop, Cheenkodu. We usually took up the second one as a challenge because those were no motor boats and Ambigara Keri would be on the way. It didn't stink but had pervading smell of various nets and boats drying in the sun. As children, our task was to be civil to everybody we met on the way and yet maintain the pace. Occasionally we would meet Kariyanna, our favourite boatsman and he would talk pleasantries and we would answer them. But it was our community folks who I had a trouble with; many invariably asked if I knew who they were. It was easy to say yes, of course I knew they were one of our relatives and I had seen them here or there but to place the exact name on the faces...I would blush, they would grin and I would sheepishly admit I had forgotten it but yes, I knew them very much. I think every Brahmin in that place was our relative some way or the other...

Choices

I don't understand why Kejriwal had to contest from Varanasi. To prove what? He won't win anyway. To show off howmanyever votes he wins? I think it would've been better to contest from a place where he had a decent chance of winning. At least he would get a foothold there, do some good work and consolidate. 

Hits and Misses

I wanted to go to Somanathapura over the long weekend. But it seems children and I were the only ones for it and others came up with all sorts of reasons to discourage us. So we gave up and sulked for a while and gave up that also. I'm not going to give up that easily; if Pappa returns this week, I'll force them to come the next weekend.

Weekend passed happily enough otherwise. We bought an oven finally and my son is supremely happy. First thing we tried is the pizza and he says he's going to forget about Domino's now. I'm happy.

And then, we watched ULidavaru KanDante and I'm thrilled just like that. I can't make out what made me so happy. The language is all Mangalorean and so are most of the cast and it's great to have the authenticity for a change. I felt like whistling for Rakshit and I'm cajoling V to accompany me for a re-watch.

Young by Chance!

Our names are finally on the voter list. And guess what, they have put my age as 19!! My husband is complaining because his age is put rightly as 38! :-) Rajani said this was one more proof that women fudge their age everywhere.