My Musings

I love the park next to the music class... Not only the park the streets adjacent to the park also. Broad tree lined streets, beautifully canopies of green hiding magnificently large and beautiful houses behind them. Some have elegant facades, flowing abundantly verdant bougainvillea...racks and racks of wall gardens... Large elegant roofs and balconies... For somebody who is never swayed with great houses and cars, this is one place where I really fall for the lust of wanting to own one of those houses.... Coming back to the topic... Today I decided to spend my time off 1 hour when the kids are at class in this park. Every evening I choose different ways to pass the time. Not going to delve into that right now. Today for some reason the park invited me... I had actually planned for a nice chi-chatting-walkathon with a newly found friend, but it so happened that she was occupied otherwise... So I ended up with myself, walking and chitchatting with my non stop thoughts.. T...

Though all our trips are planned almost a year in advance, there are occasions where we surprise ourselves by planning a weekend trip just two or three weekends in advance. Ahem! I think the day we plan a trip in the morning and start in the afternoon will probably never come - i think that is being too impulsive - for my character. So, that was how the trek to Kudremukh was planned for the weekend of Pongal, only after the year began. One moment R said shall we go, second moment a call went to our friends S&L and 3rd moment the search for homestays and 4th moment the homestay confirmed.  The toughest part was to convince the little ones to bunk school on Monday. I think by now they have gotten to use just how irresponsible parents we are when it comes to have 100% attendance in school - that they did not kick much fuss.  All was good. Early morning, packed to the hilt we started off in our little red wagon, enjoying the awesome weather and drive to Kudremukh. On th...

.... watching your chappathi/paratha blow up into a Puri on the Tawa...  .... listening to your favourite music on Alexa when nobody is around at home, while you cook / blog / read your favourite AChristie on the Kindle ... ... watching the sun rise while you cycle .. ... Soaking in the sight of this beautiful Tabibuea Rosea, which lasts for just mere weeks in the streets of Bangalore.

Last weekend we had been to our college friend L's new place and I was stumped by how lovely she had kept her house. It was no surprise for she had always been a stickler for neatness. After coming back, I carried a bit of the "clean bug" with me, I suppose, and looked at disgust with the dust laden shelves under the TV which contained an un-used DVD Player and a grandfather VCR ( I am not even sure anybody remember those anymore) and decided to declutter.  So out went the DVD Player and the VCR on OLX to be sold for a paltry sum. I had a bunch of VHS Tapes that came into sight. We had to destroy them somehow, so Jr.M and me sat and pulled the tapes out and snipped them into pieces. She found this particularly interesting having never seen a tape before. It took me back to old memories of using this VCR ... and my association with Video tapes and I thought .. Ek Post tho Banta hain :) My first recollection of video tapes were I think when I was in class 6 or 7. We ...