Month: January 2019

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Laddoos and a Motorbike.

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Laddoos are a very famous and savoury food item for Indians and made by Indians. They are round in shape and are sweet to eat.Nowadays they cost a huge amount to buy, still they are in demand. My friend Kutty had bought half a kilo of laddoos, but was astonished to see the bill.He insisted the shopkeeper to reduce the amount on the basis that the laddoos were very costly and he was their semi regular customer. The shopkeeper upon hearing his plea reduced the quantity of laddoos and the cost henceforth reduced by nearly a hundred rupees. Kutty has decided not to buy anymore laddoos from that shopkeeper ever again. Instead he would save the money for a motorbike and only on Diwali would he partake of sweets.

Two days later his sister’s in laws were coming so, unwillingly he had to buy laddoos, samosas and other savoury items of thousand rupees and when he complained about this to his mother, she replied-“you don’t eat sweets but others do.”

His plan to buy a motorbike got pushed back by a month, but on Diwali his father gave four thousand rupees as gift, so his pushed back got a lucky forward push.

Adios!

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A seedless plant.

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In a patch of completely barren land near our house, a green plant grew up steadily without any water or fertilizer. It had survived on the nutritious rays of Sunlight.

A few days later a mali (gardener) came for doing a bit of gardening for us and upon hearing about the seedless plant , he took a look at the plant and told us that such a plant can’t survive without water. Hearing him say that we were bit surprised as nobody wasn’t watering it.

Nearly ten days had gone by and nobody had bothered about it. One day I had woke up at about four am in the morning when I saw a small boy of about eight years age was watering it and afterwards he was playing with a ball around the tree.

I thought that he must be the one who was watering the plant everybody.

Later on I met him in my building, playing in our compound. He had come for tuitions in our building but that day with God’s blessings the teacher had developed flu, so he was playing.

I spoke to him about the plant,he replied that he had seen an old man plant it early one morning and ever since that day he would water the plant. I was surprised hearing this as nobody would generally worry about anything as insignificant as a small plant, but he was a small boy and the plant was source of fun, play and fascination for him.

From that day, whenever I would get up early I could see that boy either watering the plant or playing with a ball near the plant and that plant kept on growing.

He had told me-“That plant is lucky for me.”

I thought that it was a seedless plant but it turned out that it wasn’t but that plant was indeed lucky for the little boy.

 

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Mild Afternoon.

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Mild Afternoons are like autumn flowers which are soft, flowery and still yet breezy. Going for a walk on an uphill road in such an afternoon is a pleasant experience. These are the afternoons where sleep doesn’t suit one’s body, where laziness doesn’t seem calling and when tea and coffee can’t do justice to any mood.

Flowers in their trees swing with the afternoon air and play with the afternoon breeze and aren’t bothered by anything.

At such times, kids go out in the grounds to play with their toys while big children play games such as cricket, badminton and football.

Poems and feelings are better expressed and written when the nature is itself in a poetic mood.

high rise buildings during golden hour

With dusk going to settle at the horizon, afternoon seems to retire to a place from where it would be visible only tomorrow and like all citizens of this earth, it too takes a break.

Whenever you find such an afternoon happening, go for a brisk walk and see the wonders which it does for your health and with that have a lollipop or a stick ice cream.

Adios!

 

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Freshly Made Cookies.

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To be honest, ma makes the best cookies. Be it caramel, pineapple or anything else.

Well we had gone out and ma bought for me freshly made cookies. The cookie man was making them in a big machine right infront of us and then and there he packed those cookies in a tin box.To quest our thirst for cookies he served us a plateful of cookies. But as it was getting late I took the cookies and kept them in my pant and shirt pockets and while coming back home we had most of them very relishingly in the autorickshaw. After reaching home, I found two cookies broken in two in my pant pocket and one cookie intact in my shirt pocket.

Fresh and hot cookies are seldom had by people. Majority of the people have medium and lukewarm cookies. My maternal grandfather used to buy food items which were made and packed then and there so that the freshness and quality of the food remains intact and can’t be polluted by insects or flies.

It is a marvel to have hot cookies. Hope you too had tasted fresh and hot cookies.

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Happy New Year.

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The new year of 2019 has begun. Wishing that the new year turns out be as melodious and as good as it should be. Let only happiness be there and let the year be full of fun and frolic.

Wishing Ma, Baba, Me and Lord Himself (& our friends in heaven) a very Happy and prosperous and delightful New Year, with each day turning out to be as golden as the Sun God and as beautiful as the rose.

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Adios!