How small things make your day…..was just thinking about making Mondays beautiful when the hot sun outside the open windows, gave way to clouds and a soft wind started blowing….at that particular moment, a ‘big’ (as in stature) man, praised me for being so spirited and enthusiastic and hard working and said I would do good in my life…..then Shruti Srivasatva (a super psycho IITian and an amazing friend) buzzed me something (3/4 of what she says, go bouncers for me) of which I gathered words like Mary Poppins.....English MCB .....Mangla mam and her perfume….and then I remembered my French classes at school where I sucked…….my 3rd std. experiment where we had to grow roots out of potatoes (and mine were amazing….Abhilasha you were with me at that time)…..water cycle…..school picnics….green eyes and Awasthi mam….white hair and falling ahem and Kusum Gupta mam…….the amaziiiiing Manju Sood mam….paach minute (a story from our Hindi text book)….the price of flowers (English)……from the huge windows of my office I can still feel the cool breeze after about 50 days of horrible heat…can hear the sound of a train, a sound which used to excite me so much as a kid.....I feel it's summer vacations already...the time between 1st of may to 30th of june.....dessert coolers making the horrible rattling sound, a thin chaddar, a dark room.....wow....A/Cs don't match the comfort of a cooler for me...mom made food....mom forcing a neembu paani or kaeryy sharbat after coming from school....holiday homeworks....oh wow, feel so great….
kya baat hai..full nostalgic these days.. Geetanjali playing Michka the bear in the French play..english textbook stories.. some days those were..well, at least the memories remain to keep us going :)
ReplyDeleteAnd ya..put hyperlinks to blogs etc when you mention people ;)
ReplyDeletenow thats really really nostalgic.... sniff sniff... i love the way u write yaar.... it connects to me easily.... :)keep up the good work!!
ReplyDelete-Abhilasha
reading this for the nth time since you wrote it :). you wernt really bad in the french classes..didnt u always get the "best notebook" prize ;).had to pay a visit to the chennai office of alliance francaise for some help with our scholarships for our summer internships (paris,summer 08).though the summer was wonderful, i still remember the bonjour line and diablolo monte textbooks and singing aaaaloooo vittta when the name alliance is mentioned.
ReplyDeletesee because I used to get the best notebook prizes I realised I'm meant for the creative field :)....also, when I go to Paris, the only line which I'll rattofy and go will be "how much is this dress for?" :p....
ReplyDeleten shruti thnx fr such amaziiiiing comments...wat else 2 write to praise u...wait...ummm....yup one more thng, i remember i always used to forget something or the other in the sanskrit classes n u used to get it for me...nddd...ow, remember d paper presentation sessions at Indore???? n i also remember u used to quote what we all had learnt in the th and 5th std in our 10th and 11th std classes...remember kya??? u r seriously a psycho shruti but damnnnn cute....do u fancy a blog written only on u???? reply
ReplyDeletesenti ho gayi main..sniff..sniff... to the latter question..bring it on ;)
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