Thursday Challenge - 5

Theme for the week: "MANY" (Candies, Crowd, Paperclips, Coins, Collections,...)

Fevicol ka mazbooti ya logon ki majboori?

Jus yet another day in life of India!!! Clicked en route to Hubli....

Wordless Wednesday - 4

The 7 Year Itch.....

Begins today :-D

N ofcourse to all the women in my life (real n virtual)~~ Thank U for jus being what u r ~~ U rock!

Christmas came late(or early)!

All it means is it was time for some 'gifting' business.... yoo we(or at least the hubbs) hit the jackpot! One thing thats been there in his wish list for a long time  is a DSLR n thts what he gifted himself over the weekend!

Pic courtesy Google!

Remains to see how soon ma boy outgrows his fascination :-D. For since yest hes literally been eating-drinking-sleeping the cam .....Imagine the booklet accompanied him to Loo today(!), I wake up to the sounds of photo click-click!!

Imagoine a shopping spree, yum yum food(read fishy fishy :)) with a few of my fav peoples... The perfect weekend bonanza formuale!

But of course this links upto the Colordeckors weekend wrapup... No betta feature than weekend wrapup huh.. after all don all good things happen on a weekend ......I got married on a fri tooo... LOL!

Lyrical Sunday - 2!

Ha dono if I ever mentioned this in ma blog here... while u may hv on n off seen the tag of 'guruvayoor' in ma posts... The place I actually hail from is 'Mammiyoor' which is a few meters fom guruvayoor temple! Now if u from anywhere in God's own country you would know that Mammiyoor is known for Shiva Temple!

Now now I come from a family which firmly believes that their day is incomplete till they pay a visit to the temples around... So goes without saying that a good part of ma vacations hv been spent in these temple grounds.... Two visits a day(morn n eve) was the doctrine then!  The eve part was at least a bit more 'Pleasurable'... the air is much cooler(Imagine walking a good one km bare footed in the hot sultry summer sun in kerala) n there was the evening 'Aarti' to look fwd to(Not tht I remember looking fwd to it ever)!

N in Mammiyoor the evening Deepaaradhana(aarti) is bought in with a prayer-song 'Samba Sadha Shiva....'.  Imagine  a group of ladies(with a few boys n an odd ben) singing this in chorus(Ma cousin used to lead this in her hey days)........... While during my school days I truly couldnt wait for it to get over n get out, today this very song brings along nostalgia n a lot of precious memories :). Here's the abridged version of the same....





Maha-Shivratri is the only reason I can think of for this devotional-nostalgic burst

What is the worst abuse in a marriage.....

Physical abuse or mental abuse?

Well I know each is bad n each to be condemned! But today I hit over a new perspective...

Physical abuse is something that jus about any 3rd person can see , will generally involve a lotta hue-n-cry n so many educated, so-called upper middle class husbands of today will refrain from doing! But look at the Mental abuse esp the subtle ones.. You know the ones tht if pointed out looks silly but jus makes the daily life difficult and is bound to  make the persons life miserable(if not hell) n look at the catch! Nobody will out rightly point  a finger at the culprit, the victim over a period of time learns accepts it as one of the 'Peeves' n learns to live with it!

So while in physical abuses the culprit is sooner or later pulled up, in mental abuse the victim most possibly than not doesnt even realize that he\she is being subjected to it!

No no no don let any alarm bells ring! All is welll... Must be all the reading n talking thts put this idea into ma mind!

Baby of the House :-D

Aaaaww... Isnt he the cutest baby around :-D.

 

Anybody waana guess who this cutie pie of a baby is?? :-D. The title should be the biggest hint.

Linking this up to the Friday Faces ... Interesting concept aint it... Putting up any random pic for the theme 'People' ...  may be a child on the street who smiles back at me… a singer who fascinates me, an artist who impressed me which her art, a street vendor who sold things to me with a biggest smile and happiness, sometimes a face that Ojas made that amused me, pretty looking sister or cute looking mom and so on….


Truly there cant be a betta theme than people for any photographer(Not tht I claim to be one) ...... The pleotra of emotions, expressions, colors......

Thursday Challenge - 4

Theme Of the Week: "CARS" (New, Old, Sedans, Convertibles, Station Wagons, Sports,...)

Wondering what an ordinary car like this is doing any justice to the theme..... Haa read on...

This dear car was our first car.. Well truly hubbs owned this few years before marriage! So goes without saying that we hv a lotta pleasant memories associated with this one... The first date, the first drive, the many hols, the first home, A stolen kiss(:-P)........ N not to forget the 'Hide-N-Seek' stories that hubbs played in dodging the police(Thnx to the out of state registration).  Thou as a dark cloud remains a reminder which I hope we bid goodbye to soon....

N this weekend this dearest Rampyaari(title courtesy hubbs frnds) of ours atlast bids good-bye to us :(. Here is hoping that it brings its new owners a lotta pleasant-happy memories!

Wordless Wednesday - 3



Pooja Thali



A closeup!



R.I.P Uncle Pai!

This piece of news took me back to a few what I call 'Tinkle Memmories'... Now now if u were a child in 80s ur intro to world of books would be more often than not via Tinkle! N then there ofcourse was the famous Amar Chitra Kathas....

Come summer vacations we would be packed off to good old guruvayoor... which meant a daunting 24 hrs journey in train... Now truly Daunting isnt the word to be used... Thou it was the regular 2nd class sleeper n tht too in scorching hot summers, train journeys were always 'Fun times'......Haa the joy of eating those regular cup-cakes n Payam-pooris @ Palaghat(something like  ripe banana bajjis!! Ok we are digressing, so back to the topic.....



Pic Courtesy Google!

 The regular accompaniment in those train journey would be the good old tinkle(Tinkle Digest anybody??) :-D. N we (ma sis included) couldnt wait for the train to start to flip the pages...........Now why should the train start to read a book?? Well well u wouldnt understand those nuances :) Haa memories :) The stories of Hoodja, Supandi, shikari shamboo can still take me back to those good old days! This was one ritual that continued even when I outgrowed(supposedly!) the Tinkle days... Cause well thts the only book ma sis used to read (Continues to read...)

Another memory that continues to stand out is of one odd summer that I spent at home(instead of Gvr) n for the entire duration of those months ma daddy would bring home a copy of amar-chitra katha(courtesy a lending library) :).

RIP Uncle Pai... Thank you for brightening up our days... come to think of it the illustrations a good 20-25 years back can still given a run-for-money to any of the modern day illustrators!