Remembering… Mama…

I am reminded of how you sneaked in chocolates and asked me to eat them after amma left for office.

I am reminded of how you used to speak to me soothingly when i was down with fever and bring in small gifts to cheer me up.

I am reminded of that first dress you gifted me as amma has always told me whenever i see that 1st year birthday photo of mine.

I am reminded of how you used to argue with amma asking her to allow me to sleep for some more time.

I am reminded of how you used to call me by that nickname.

I am reminded of how you used to pull my leg all the time.

I am reminded of how you used to convince me to come with you to your place when i used to stay at dhodha’s place.

I am reminded of how you used to lift those two eyebrows together in that signature style of yours.

I am reminded of all the phone calls you used to make every day when you were in Nigeria.

I am reminded of the calls you asked me to make as soon as i reach back home if I had come to your place in a two wheeler.

I am reminded of all those “I Miss You” greeting cards i sent you when you were in Nigeria.

I miss you a lot today! Where should I send in my cards now?

I am reminded of so many other things that remind me of you which leave my eyes moist with both happiness that i have this wonderful mama and sadness that i am writing this now.

Love you loads…Prakash mama! You always will live in our hearts and minds forever…

Home Alone

Alone at home again. Amma has gone out today else she is at office.Either way i have the house all for myself till she gets back. I really don’t blame her. Maybe it’s me. I am all full of life when I get up in the morning, do my shambhavi, have my coffee n all. But then all that is just drained out when my mom leaves for office, and the sound of the running CPU is my only company. My dad stays elsewhere, work you see. But he calls every two hours to know what i am upto, or sometimes like yesterday just listen to all that i have to say. Ya, i am done with college, at home all chilling out. Its all fun, but at the same time it bugs you. I usually talk a lot. Yesterday i heard my mom tell me, that i don’t speak much now-a-days,  I donno i just realized that only when she told. Now all the people reading don’t think i am some psychopath writing how i turned into one. Ha…ha…LOL  i just thought maybe i have run out of the various things to talk. Like nothing much is happening, though yeah, it happening, it happens, it keeps on happening, just that it is not interesting enough to get me speaking maybe! OK i am done with all this brooding crap. In spite of all the boredom, or is it the loneliness, i just don’t know, there are people, with whom when i speak i am back to my old or happy(i just really cant get the right word..hmm..maybe) self, also there are some songs that just turn your mood from mokkai to happy, i was listening to this song, kuch to hua hai, n its like so refreshing, and there is the rain, they always bring a smile on all our faces.

So if its your “oh-not-so-good-day” turn on the TV you might get lucky and they might play your favourite song or just talk to a buddy. 🙂

A Cherished Memory

During the odd semester of the final year, the IT department came up with the idea of going to Kerala for 5 days which included visiting Moonar, Allepey, Kochi, Athirapally. After crossing hurdles like passing in all the unit tests, convincing 4 staffs to accompany us in the trip we started this trip during the first week of august. The very depressing part of the trip for people like me was that we were traveling by bus, but thanks to some other people who gave the ‘me kind of people‘ disgusting looks and asked us to come to the trip without any further ‘DRAMA‘. Though I was a bit apprehensive initially, when the trip was over and I came back to Chennai, I never regretted going to Kerala by bus. We nearly traveled for a day to reach Moonar, though it was all entertaining with the various different snoring(not exactly snoring :P) sounds of people in the bus, the endless breaks taken by the driver during the night which was filled with reading out the various messages sent by some SPECIAL people to their SPECIAL ones traveling with us. Alas, when we reached Moonar we were totally exhausted, but once we all got ready and went for the sightseeing(no pun intended 😉 ), the beauty of MOONAR took our breaths away, n all the tiredness was just washed out totally. Jeeps were used to show us around Moonar and it was fantastic, with the cool breeze blowing on our faces, with slight drizzling! Wow I just don’t have words to describe Moonar!

That night we were supposed to have a camp fire, but due to the rains it was cancelled. The night was some night to be remembered, the havoc it created the next day, I am not going to put it down here. IT A will remember it perfectly! 😀 We started from Moonar in the morning, reached Allepey by evening, went for the very famous backwater ferry there, not very interesting, but all the antakshari and the ‘sing-a-song-in-your-mother-tongue’ made it fun, then saw the VTV church and reached Kochi in the night.

We stayed at this very interesting Apartment Hotel, where every group of four was given an apartment to stay in. I still remember how most of us girls gathered in a room for gossiping and playing cards :). The next day we visited Veega Land, super duper fun we had and not to forget the High Voltage Drama we got involved in there also. Here I would really like to mention, we girls are really blessed to have such wonderful friends who stand up for us in times of need! 🙂  The last day we visited Athirapally falls, wow! What beauty! Ah awe-inspiring!

This was the place where I dropped my camera into the water, and so did another friend of mine, but then the cameras where fine once I dried them with my hair dryer on the way back in bus. But athirapally is such a beautiful place; scenic beauty is what I would say to describe it. We started from athirapally in the evening and halted at Trissur for dinner, reached Chennai the next day afternoon.

No tiredness, no exhaustion, all that was running in our minds was “Wow! What a trip it was!”

PS: IT A, I hope even our Salem trip gives me something to write 😉

Vampires :)

My cousin long back asked me to write about Vampires. This one is for you sweetheart!

By now you would have guessed that we are ardent fans of the twilight series. Please if you people have misunderstood us to be followers of the crappy desi version of it, flush it out of your minds!

So how did this all start?

Robert Pattinson! ❤  yeah yeah! It started off like that for me! I came to know, he was playing this vampire in his upcoming movie! N I am like Vampire???? Is he insane? Then I heard it was actually a book that was made into a movie. I somehow got hold of the book, “TWILIGHT”

Really, when I finished the book, I was head over heels in love with the character EDWARD CULLEN. What a man! He is all that a girl wants, loving, caring, passionate, understanding… I can just go on and on. This is how I fell for a vampire and it is the case with most of the girls around the world. In fact I liked the character EDWARD so much so that I was not impressed by what was portrayed on screen by Robert Pattinson! Now u must be thinking I am insane 😉

So then I started pestering my friends to read it. With the people who have already read it, I have endless discussions about it. Some of us are like totally crazy about twilight. My cousin had recently shifted to New Jersey and she had put up some of the pictures she clicked there on Facebook. Particularly one picture caught our attention, a picture with the Elk statue! 🙂 As usual we had this huge discussion beneath it. If anyone has to catch a soap bubble in between their fingers, all of us in sync have to tell the whole conversation that happens between Bella and Edward in the jungle. We look into the Wikipedia to know more about Forks, the Quileute legends and the Cold Ones. 😀

I once put up a status on FaceBook, “ I don’t want a prince in his white steed, I want Edward Cullen in his silver Volvo”. LOL . I was also ridiculed so much by my friends for this status update! Boys truly have a problem with Edward, they just can’t stand anybody speaking about him. My cousin also mentioned that Edward topped the list of guys hated by the boys and loved by the girls!

You should see the look on my mom’s face when I said I was reading about vampires.  All through her life she had seen movies that showed vampires as the cursed ones and here I am telling, this particular vampire is a good one and is very romantic, she just fainted.

Yeah! We are a set of girls who are totally crazy about Edward Cullen, we spend sleepovers watching the twilight series of movies back to back, read and re read all the four books(not to forget Midnight Sun which is a draft) , madly discuss all the dialogs which are used in the books and movies.

So this is dedicated to the vampire who made girls fall unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him 😉

P.S Thank you Stephanie Meyer for giving us Edward to fall in love with 😀

uhh..?ummm…BORed?!?

When I was in college, all I wanted was a day off from the constant tension about my project work, now when all that is over and I am done with college…I want something to do..

When I go about brooding to people that I am really bored, very easily they suggest, ”pick up a hobby buddy.”

Now, this is a very easy thing to say. Each night when I go to sleep I decide, tomorrow morning I am getting up at 6 and going for a brisk morning walk. Next morning I get up at 8. 😦

Now coming to the hobbies thingy, I picked up blogging as a hobby last summer, and after a year I only have about 10 posts(please tell me I have ten posts!).

Facebook!!! I am just addicted to facebook! I really don’t know what makes me so very addicted to it! But I login into facebook like at least twice a day(note it, it’s just ATLEAST). One of my friends did ask me to quit facebook because he said it will eat up all your time and your brain will stop functioning. I never accepted what he told at that time. But now, totally agreeee! I just can’t quit FB!

So then, again..hobbies…I thought maybe I can start learning guitar. It’s is my dream to play a guitar. Have you seen this Freaky Friday movie? GAWD! I just love the way Lindsay Lohan plays guitar in it! 🙂 The problem is I don’t have a guitar! 😦 You might say, just go and buy yourself one! My parents are way smarter than I am; n they know that I will get over this attraction to the guitar within months. I will lose interest in anything within months when I am tutored for it, let alone learning it all by myself! 😛

You know I am like really into this TV show and I just can’t miss out on any of its episodes. Though now it’s a crap, it used to be the sweetest TV show I had ever seen! Still, then and there they give beautiful episodes and I am like “The show is back” 🙂 Now people who know me will be like… “We know! Don’t even mention the name”. So I am doing them this favor and not mentioning it. When I can’t think of anything to do, I just watch the previously aired cute episodes on youtube!

So hobbies???? People surely I am not into this coin collection, stamp collection and stuff. This reminds me; I once used to be an eraser collector, that was way back in school, erasers used to come in all these cute shapes like an umbrella, a train, a cap, a turtle and what not!

By now, you would have come to a conclusion that I a total moron! If you can come up with any hobby that might interest me! Please do tell me! 😉