Let me tell you things I have accomplished in the last 2 months as I now have the gift of time!
3 weeks holiday with my family, agenda less!
Over 25 new recipes learnt and prepared and enjoyed
My garden looks fabulous - I live in a desert and this is summer so I would call this an achievement
Written 3 blog posts
Read 2 books, on my third one now :)
(For more info: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/82125766)
Watched Breaking bad- finally! and I highly recommend it!
Watched countless movies that had been pending forever!
Enjoyed my time together with my partner, he travels a lot, so this is a boon for us.
Life has been kind to me. and I would like to acknowledge that with this post.
I made some significant changes in my lifestyle, my thoughts, state of mind and I can confidently say that I am so happy to be back to where I belong. Healthy, happy and at peace.
I sometimes feel sad about the time lost in pettiness or greed or whatever you may want to call it, but then, it has helped me regroup and introspect what matters to me the most.
Time for me to wrap this up and go for my after dinner walks :)
Talk soon
M
It is 2:30 am on a Monday night, yes, a week night and I am wide awake. This doesn't happen so often as I am a morning person. Every morning, I wake up at 5 am as I like to start early. Last couple of days have been different! Well, last few months have been different. and I will tell you why!
This is now a common story in general, but for me, this was new. I recently moved houses and was overwhelmed with everything we own. We are two people who own a village worth of stuff. I never realized that we had become this materialistic over the last 4-5 years of our lives. It was almost depressing and embarrassing to see how much we owned and how little we used.
It took me ages to arrange and organize my home, I am also obsessively organized. It was stressful and expensive to find storage options and solutions for everything we owned. And I started to day dream about a lifestyle where we only own things we use and need. This is also quite subjective! Needs are different for different people.
I also didn't want to act impulsively and throw away everything only to buy it again. Which happens! Trust me!
So I made an exhaustive list! of things we own. It was even more shocking and I felt a sense of shame to realize how materialistic I had become. nuf said!
Its 2 weeks later and I have great news. I have now painstakingly discarded, sold, or donated things I don't need or use. This has been a process that took hours and days. Its not that long, is it? What took longer was the thought process. I now feel relieved, stress-free and happy! Cleaning and maintaining my home is no longer a time taking task. I spend more time cooking, which I love, reading- love love love and many other things which I had no time for before!
I urge you to give this a thought as it has brought a lot of mental peace and joy to my household!
Signing out for now.
M
I met him in the most weird circumstances and together we have been through some trying situations. But the fact that he is with me, makes it easier and worth going through.
A common friend introduced me to him some 2 years back I guess. We met for 45 mins in which he spoke for 42 mins about how he played pranks on some people and screwed them. I thought nothing about him, like usual, much less think he would be my best friend in the coming days. We would sometimes chat online and then some shit happened and we drifted.
We came to talking terms again because of another screw up. Yes, screw up is what made us friends. :) We have fought, yelled, argued, abused etc and have disagreed on everything possible. But we still, still freakishly think alike. Tall, not dark and handsome guy with the most honest eyes ever.
Some more about him:
Likes: Sleeping (18 hours a day, yes he can) Women, Food, Ice creams (He loves to eat and is crazy about ice creams :|) Mumbai, modesty, honesty, talking, pepsi with a zillion ice cubes, Vanilla and Coffee :P, Expressions, Slow and soft music, white school uniforms :P (oh you crazy boy!) and so many more..
Dislikes: Fuss :P, Studying (he told me he cannot sit with a book for more than 5 minutes. Sigh... ) Delhi, Heat, nosy people :P, people who make issue about nothing, hypocrisy, indian education system etc.
A technical geek (eww) who knows about Google more than I do. He thinks I can't use an ATM, which is complete bullshit. I just have a weak eyesight :P I hate him for being right most of the time we fight. I love the fact that he is understands me no matter how confused I am!
He isn't really around me but is just a phone call away! which reminds me to mention that I have never spoken to anyone over the phone as much as to him. I literally call him whenever I feel like calling him, whenever I feel low, high, happy, sad, or simply for no reasons many a times. Very patient I must say!
He ridicules me for everything, makes fun of things that I do like reading a book, writing, poetry, watching clouds and stars, prefering dogs over people etc. These are just a few things out of a million other things. Nevertheless, he is my best.
My best friend :) whom I simply adore and no matter how much you try Vaibhav, I will be around ha ha ha!
Love you loads :)
Lets just say he was everyones favourite. He was of the size of my dad's palm and had a round, no structure body! white in color with 2 black spots (read eyes) and a pink spot. It was his nose. how cute and tiny and delicate! We were very careful not to trouble him. He would sleep and only sleep. Then one day he grew up and 'destroyed' everything (read toys, socks, shoes, car seats etc) that we owned.
He would chew our books, run with peoples shoes and socks and steal fruits and vegetables from our kitchen garden and kitchen! sigh...He gave us nightmares and troubled my mom so much that she was tired and quite literally tired of him. She asked dad, "Did you bring him from the woods? Why is he so wild?" My dad had no answer.
He would shout and yell, demand freedom, then cry a little and then within 5 mins he would be free as he had the most convincing eyes. Would apologise to my mom, saying he would never ever do it again! 5 minutes later, he would be chasing a frog or a cockraoch, running with my brother's books or doing exactly what he was punished for.
He kept my mom super busy. Punishments would happen four times a day for 5 minutes each as he was cute. Nobody could be mad at him for more than 5 minutes. We would come back from school (all three of us in schools, yah, long time back) and would listen to all his horror stories of the day. He was, aah, is, our topic of conversation everyday, lunch, dinner, breakfast, chats, phone calls, dreams everywhere! I told you, freaky!
We moved to Delhi and he hated it. He had nowhere to play and run and nothing to chase down the street. He complained in a silent way by becoming aloof. He found his corners in the house and would sit there hoping to go back. He changed. One day, when he realised we are here for good, he was fine! He would chase all the birds and squirrels that were in the vicinity of our apartment! Would scare away any kid in our building.
Basically, he was back to being wild!
He made no friends ever, except for the 5 of us! He didn't care and was very asocial :) He was well mannered in the elevators and in the gardens. We were proud of him! He did his cute little things like sitting in a basket as he felt the cold floor, getting stuck in a corner where he could never fit in and god knows why he tried to do that in the first place, looking at the aquarium and wondering, what the hell is that, waiting endlessly outside the kitchen to eat his favourite things like laddoos, chicken curry, carrots, peas, biscuits and what not!
He would sit on one of the dining table chairs when we had our meals. He would sleep off listening to our routine conversations, but still be there! He would listen to songs and watch cricket matches and lousy tv soaps. He did it all.
I miss you so much and love you more than I ever did. and I really hope and secretly want to know where you are as I am worried about you. He hated to be by himself!
The most wonderful thing that could ever happen to us, my sweet sweet tobi!
P.S. We should be together!
We played with his hotwheels cars and rode an imaginary plane (which was a bicycle in reality.) Made a library and a bookshop of all the books we had and sold them to some imaginary customers. In short had fun. And we still have fun. Eat out, watch movies (last show, our favorite show) come back walking, talk about the movie endlessly.
He tells me the intricate details of cricket, football, basketball, age of empires, hitman, guitar chords, metal music, rock, and the list is endless. My smart kiddo. He sings super and plays the guitar well too. Complete rockstar, would introduce me to all the awesome songs :) Simply love him for that.
We talk nonstop. All of us and our round table conferences about cricket team selectors being stupid, atheism, books, movie directors, food, travel, dreams, future……. basically everything.
I miss him so much, now that he has moved out.
Molu baby, you rock /m\
Papa, reminds me of my hero. When I was a kid, I admired him as he was a brilliant player. He played TT, badminton, cricket, golf and carom. He was a champ in everything. He is not like usual dads who would go to PTAs and listen to the teacher complain about their kids. He would simply not go and say what do they know about my kids. Ha ha
Mom would make us sit and study. When we got bored, we dialed 490, Copper Club and ask for Papa. They knew it was for him. Didi and I took turns in telling him how bored we were and he should quickly get back home. 15 mins and papa would be home telling mom star movies is showing a brilliant Jackie Chan movie. Freedom.
Train rides and road journeys are simply incomplete without him. I can never forget a 2 day train journey from Tata to Delhi by Tata Amritsar. Fun and more fun. He would buy everything junk that was sold in the train and on stations and would let us try it.
He has made us whatever we are today. Very warm, has the sweetest heart and is so caring. He loves to bring flowers home and would cook Chinese food. It is the best Chinese food (after Franks Jamshedpur.)
He can brighten up any grim situation by his funny jokes and cute pranks. He would fight with my mom as she supports Sourav Ganguly whereas he is a fan of Sachin. He would try to beat my mom’s scores in tetris and bejeweled yet never be able to do so.
His love for nature and animal came on to all three of us. We love roaming in the forests and doing nothing. An artist, a painter , my dad is a genius who is still saved from all the shittyness of the world.
Simple living High thinking, thats my dad and needless to say that I love him very very much :)
She has always been there for us, forever. Be it failures, accidents, dance performances, plays and dramas, break ups and patch ups, boyfriend issues and trouble with school, always and everytime.
She is a rockstar for a mom. Super cook, super listener, super at everything. We fight, laugh, giggle, yell, play, go shopping, eat out, just be there without talking. I guess m used to her presence.
Good at spider solitaire, very good at tetris and bejeweled, superb at any arcade games, a total movie addict. She would watch every single movie and never remember their names. Sing songs with all wrong tunes and lyrics yet enjoy them to the fullest. Radio happens to be her hot favourite.
She loves to eat bhutta and amrud, pizza and maggi, kurkure and chaat, Fanta and Chai..She loves it all. She goes shopping with us to places like Janpath and Sarojini. Would bargain to get a decent price and regret later that she could have done better.
She always always forgets her ‘chashma’ which simply annoys me as I have to look for them always. A complete neat freak, will clean a perfectly neat and clean wardrobe for no reason. She has the ability to appreciate other people’s perspective and acknowledge them also. She has always been ahead of her time. May be that’s why we found a friend in her, not a mom really. With her around, you just don’t need anyone else…like I never needed anyone else in my life.
Another thing which annoys me most is when she watches horrible hindi news channels and to top it all will let me know what all she saw. This happens everyday when I come back from office and I eat my dinner sitting on the kitchen slab while she cooks for didi or papa.
She is naughty like a kid. Would play pranks on papa and coin funny nick names for everyone. She has a great sense of humour. She loves to laugh and trust me, she has the prettiest smile.
She is the joy of my life, My Mom!
