Wishful

Right now all I want is to go somewhere far, live among strange people, listen to unknown melodies and sleep peacefully.

Up the Ladder

It seems one of our ministers had to climb a tree to get the mobile network when he'd gone visiting his constituency. One more reason to be thankful to the good old trees. I would've expected him to go the full hog for childhood's sake but he conveniently used a ladder. Disappointing.

"Daughter-in-law is busy slogging and the mother-in-law is sleeping on the sofa having finished her breakfast. She wakes up after 3 hours only to ask the daughter-in-law if she could make okra sambar instead of daal". Now this is the kind of joke that keeps me going, really. 

Animated

It's peacock's turn to feel like the king, I mean the PM, now. I mean, it belongs to the same league of celibate and thus celebrated, animals. I'm sure many got their biology facts re-verified after the revered judge's praise of the bird's chastity. By the way, did peahen have some early form of IVF? May be he would want to claim that too. 

All the Cow's Men

If today someone tells us the meaning of being cowed down, we'll understand it instantly, more clearly than ever before.

In love with the sky once again. You look up and it's a cloud and breeze show.

Surprise in Stock!

My boss told me that I got stocks and I was the only one to get it in our team, including himself. It was not even on my horizon and considering that we aren't doing great, this really was a bolt from the blue. My boss admitted as much too and now I'm trying hard not to take this as an additional pressure.

Japan has been hard on us. The project now is under CEO's radar and my ever-positive boss also occasionally sounds down these days. But I also think it's the case of too many cooks spoiling the broth here and we sometimes don't even know what's cooking because onsite is not very transparent. Just waiting for some clear sky. 

Knowing Jagjit Singh

I didn't have TV at home while growing up and my introduction to Hindi movies and songs happened rather late in life. My only source, that too only after reaching 11th std, was Hawa Mahal on Vividh Bharati, when Pappa was coming home late. Apart from the guys who came selling rugs, I hadn't met anyone who spoke Hindi till I reached KREC. So when my batch-mate MJ from Rajasthan would ask me some question in her super-fast Hindi, I would just stand there stammering and she would shake her head and say, "Kya yaar..."

Anyway, so it was the end of our ragging period and seniors had thrown us a party inside the hostel, as was the custom. We were to entertain them and people sang songs, mostly unfamiliar to me. Then MJ stood up and said she was going to sing a Jagjit Singh song, "Sangeet Amar Kar Do". I knew a Jagjit Singh - another batch-mate I was introduced to some days ago - and I knew he was MJ's good friend. As MJ started singing her song I was very impressed. Here was a fellow-student who could write such nice words and I wondered if he had even composed it! L would've enlightened me but I didn't ask her anyway, I was pretty convinced. It was only after TV room was thrown open to us that I could laugh at myself.

Above Expectation!

Anu took her Frisbee to the play area and lost it. I found out as she came home wailing and I also heard her tell her friends that her mother might send her out of the house(!!). As she figured that I had no such intentions, she calmed down fairly quickly and went back to play. But Rishi is not one to let things go so easily so he and I went down to look for it. I spoke to Anu's friends trying to get some clues and I noticed that they were looking at me quite reverentially. But the Frisbee had vanished into thin air and as I turned to go home, one boy blurted out, "Auntie, Ananya said you were the kindest mother in the world". Vow! Of course, then I gave them some general kindness talk and happily returned home. Frisbee? We'll buy 10 more!