Friday, March 4, 2011

Moon Light Dinner


I wanted to write about my most unforgettable moment and that would be the day I had a moon light dinner with sister and a cousin.
      It started on a pleasant evening when my parents went to banglore to attend a wedding. My cousin came home to spend time with us and can have some fun with no adult supervision. We were in our intermediate and staying all by ourselves was a big adventure.  We started planning for the dinner but none of us can cook. We gone through all the magazines and finally after a long search we decided to make fried rice with the potato kurma ( I know it feels like do we have to search for this but remember we were small then and don’t know yet how to cook). Each one divided the work and made everything ready. But just then an unprepared thing happened. The cooking is about to finish, we have to check the taste and add the touchups and the electricity was gone. It was dark outside and we don’t know where the candle was. We searched for the candle and luckily we got the torch and so we finished the cooking. My aunt from next door came with a candle and a matchbox in her hand. She came to drag us three girls to her house as it is dark outside and is not secure. We didn’t listen to her as usual; we thought this is the real adventure staying in the dark. We pushed her out. When we were waiting for the current to come back so that we can see how we actually did it, we got another idea. Why won’t we go and sit on the terrace and have a moon light dinner. And immediately we took the dishes and plates and had our meal enjoying the view. The moon lighting on the top and all the houses with the candles lit and the kids playing antakshari and we enjoying our first meal cooked from the scratch.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Memorable moment with my MOM

I thank all my friends and family who encouraged to write a blog.

I got a call from my sister asking me to help her write an article about a memorable moment spent with our mother. She had to submit for a newsletter at her job.
      When i started thinking, I had mindful of memories. But I need to write about one single incident. Which one should I write about?
        she taught us the very important lessons needed for life. she never liked when we say that we wont go to someones house as they never come to our place. She used to say that they are busy in their life, they are happy to welcome you so if you have time and want to meet them then dont take your step back saying, they didnt take that step. Another was, dont impulse your hatred on a person to others. If you dont like a person thats up to you but if you say others not  to talk to him is not correct. When our family had some misunderstandings i was not sure whether to talk to my cousin,  very close friend. Then my mom said this to me. "We have the misunderstandings, its between us why do you even get a doubt of continuing your friendship.Today we might have misunderstandings but tomorrow we will be together again but you will be the one who will loose " and so we continued our friendship and even today we are good friends than cousins.   She allowed me to make my own decisions. She used to say the two ends of it, whats the good part and whats the bad of that and made me decide what i want.
                There are many other things and how can i just say about one particular incident spent with her. It is difficult may be because she was there in all walks of my life. Now, after three years her passing away, all the memories of hers are memorable. I cant just mention about one.  It's not right of me saying there is no single memorable moment with her. May be, if she is beside me today, then I might have come up with some thing.
             But today, I can only thank her for being there for me and for each and everything she did for me and my sister. Thank You MOM