Facebook Nostalgia 2021@66

Happy birthday my ammachikuttyyy. Feels terrible to not be able to come see you today. That the times have us all safe and healthy is something to be thankful for. While my friends and acquaintances find themselves in very trying times, I am happy that I blessed enough to have you around me. I rememeber how I would say when I was younger than I wanted you to atleast stay alive till the 10th. So stupid of me to think of life as such a short span of years. I am going to be 29 next month and my latest updated wish is that you atleast touch 99 :D I love you, everything you were and have aged to be and will continue to grow to be. I take a lot of pride in the things I have learned from you and through you. I would have been a very different person, if I wasn't born to you. I would have been a very different person if you did not have the life experiences that you did.  I hope you see them all as experiences that made you the person you are today, with no regrets or pain holding you back. You have lived phenomenally and I can't wait to be around for the remaining. I love you. We are all lucky to have you to ground and nurture us in ways that are uniquely yours. As a teen I may have briefly thought that you do not love me, but that doubt is long gone. 

I love you ammachikutty. I hope you are proud of yourself. I hope I make you proud :)

My first Booking

It was quite funny, I booked an uber auto from my home and felt elated at my success.

Next time, again ,well ahead of time I got ready to book but luck did not smile.So I switched to cab but after well past my appointment I got one.

I was happy again but tensed for being late.I got into the cab and knew the pin also.I reconfirmed the place to where I was going.He asked for pin.I totally got confused why he is asking pincode.I thought now again I have to go back to the address for pincode felt a little uneasy.

I did go back but suddenly I remembered that he was asking the pin for booking.

I told him and we carried on.

What confusion we create for simple things and then shy away from doing it.Now I know how to go about it.

Many a time I have learnt to let go of things nowadays.Nothing is a big deal.

The Project Grandparents -VMKC-6

Now there was an addition to our family .Can you  imagine, my mother went into labour at the same hospital ,for a second time  with a gap of ten years and delivered our little brother Ramesh.

My Fauji father, a gem of a man, had got transferred to  a nonfamily station .So again ,we came back to Trivandrum when Ramesh was barely a year old.

We reached to the news of Valliammachi no more.My dad got his posting changed to Shillong.He once again came to take us but Valliachan was dead against us going as in those times naxalbari was very active.

But on cross checking with mom ,she says she was not willing to travel  with the four of us as it would take a week to reach Shillong.For me the former reason holds good even today.

Today, I questioned my mothers decision at having missed the opportunity to see Shillong. 

So we rented out Omana aunty's house.Valliachan joined us.We spent two years with him where my bond grew with him.

Now,I joined sixth std at Kendriya Vidyalaya,Pattom.Sarsi joined Arya Central school first std.Ramesh not yet ready for school ,was at home,Meena continued at Holy Angel's.

For me,it was full excitement.

New friends,new school.Most of the classroom were like sheds with walls mounted with palymra mat or pa as we call.

It was always fun for us giggles and laughter,with flying dusters and punching the palymra making holes so big as for our heads to pass through.

We were not many of us in a class maximum twenty.or some times less.

All friendly girls and boys.

When a teacher was absent we enjoyed running around desks and playing with one person looking out through the hole for Principal madam.

Then it will be hush.

One day we were caught off-guard she grabbed Jacob Thomas neck with the handle of her kalan koda.We were trying to stifle our laughter and that was it.