First Quarter Results

I realised that i am living here for last 26 years. Gosh! Sweet 26 years of life went unnoticed.hmmmmm....let me not worry too much abt past. I decided to type in few words on evryday happening and keep this blog as my dairy.The oldest thing i recollect about my childhood is, my stay at Erode. I remember drowning in cauvery, i remember looking at my younger brother as baby in cradle; he is just 2 year younger to me;I remember my younger brother pullling jasmine flowers from neighbour girl and my mom telling me abt him.I wagely recollect the house we stayed at Erode. The aunty next door had a daughter; I remember going to school at Erode, my mom used to keep biscuits in the tiffen box for snacks.Pattu aaya would accompany us to school.Infact, i remember one Diwali tooo. I got up at around 5:00 in the morning and immediately came out to burn "Snake cracker".My age was 3.

Thiruvarur! Birth place of Saint Tyagaraja

We stayed in colony which had around 12 houses. Ours was the last house, ofcourse the house opposite toocan be considered last. It was in Appa pillai street.There was vast open junkyard adjacent to our house, called "kuppaimedu".

Bai or Boy

The colony was owned by a muslim whom we address as "bai".I was throwing stone into the well, when frind, i guess her name is meenakshi told me not to do so otherwise she would complain to "bai'...The only "bai" i knew was 'boy'..i said i wud fight the 'boy'..I remeber loong conversation between me and her on Boy....and tht night my mother explained me the difference between "bai-muslim brethern" and boy.

RC Fathima English School

I remember doing my early schooling here. It was a christian convent and had both tamil and English medium. The english medium prayer was something like 'O God, give my dialy bread...i shall not sin....bla bla" ..Tamil medium students would sing "tamil Thai Vazthu". I loved tht tune, but their prayer would start only after our assembly..I could only listen to first few lines "neeradum kadaluduthha nilamadhanai....". Always pined to hear tht fully, but we had to leave. The first time i got to see the lyrics was in my 4th class.The school has lot of nuns as teachers, we used to call thm "sister" and our principal was "mother"..i donno her name and we also had a "father".

Zaamindaar

The small town possibly had several landlords. But i remember only two families..possibly related... not sure..The one right opposite to our colony and the one lil away frm our house on the same road. These two ppl had HUUUGEEEE house with garden. I remember crossing their house to go to the other road.We would play hide and seek in their garden.

KayalVizhi

My first gal frinds name is KayalVizhi--she always had running nose and she would lick that. yuk! yea thts wat i wud tell her...yuk yuk yuk! She gave me a Gyaan tht phelegm are very nutritious and tht one should not spit out but swallow in. I remember this statement frm KayalVizhi very very clearly. I was standing on top of a stone meant for washign cloths and she was standing down, next to the well!

My first movie --Kandhan Karunai

one guy frm this landlord house had come back frm Dubai. He got the VCR and cassette. The entire neighborhood was at his home watchin m ovies. My father would not let us go at nights, whn thy screen the movie.One sunday afternoon he showed Kandan Karunai! hmmm my first movie was a spiru one!ok ok So wat!N big deal. Guess I had muyopia thn, only thing it was never diagonised, I was just 5 and thought tht is the limit of any human vision!

Vaikunta Ekadasi

I remember one Vaikunta ekadasi....some one would dress like hanuman and run across the roads! I used to believe tht it is Real God! oh! reallly a innocent chap i was! My mom would tell me abt fasting on tht day. She used to make nice iddlis and coriender chutney!I could never ressist the smell of the chutney. I will end my fast in 1/2 hr's time!

Night Parayanam! My first Ramayanam

Vasumathi teacher's mom used to give discourse at night in the terrace.Tht was the first time i heard Ramayama.She used to narrate so slowly and with lots of descreption.....I could not bear the suspense...one afternoon learnt the entire story frm my mother...The flashy thing i remeber abt my mothers version of story is 'Ravana took sita in a Aeroplane" ..Aerouplane pronounced in a typical Tambram accent is still vivid in my memory.

Lunar Eclipse

I remember my first Lunar eclipse.The popular story thn was snake swallowing the mooon...My mother explained sometime abt the shadow of earth falling on mooon.....
i did not understand tht thn and chose to believe in snake eating the mooon......it happend around 5:00 in the evening..The sky was decently lit and mon was visible..We all were in the terrace...ppl were telling hey !look the snake has come.....I and my friends were eagerly looking at the vast open sky with few cloud patterns in the horizon.....I could not see any snake and ppl said sinners cant see the snake....I cried the whole night..tough i felt i saw some snake at the end of eclipse whn the moon was slowly realsed by wretched Rahu...

Troubled Karthika month

It was month of karhika, I guess early november.Evry evening ppl in the colony used to light many lamps outside the house and during the Karthika festival, we burst crackers and light lots and lots of lamps in the evening. One evening i asked my mother for a pencil box. She said she would get me one tht sunday as she cant go out then. I creid and cried and she told me not to cry in the evening whn ppl are lighting lamps. Its not good shagun to cry. My maother gave me sweeets, sang laalaby, told me storied....still i cried..Thn she shouted at me and told me to keep quite. Ah! i felt so bad tht i went to the sweage nearby and shouted, cried and took all the gutter put on my shirt. Tht was real life movie for many..The entire colony assembled near me and stood around watching. oh! god! How embarassing it would hve beeen for my mom. She still persiaded me and told she would get me one the very next day. I continoued to cry and took out more gutetr and applied on myself...If anyone comes nearby ..i would throw something on thm....My mother got a pot full of water and poured on me and i guess she was soo angry....Vasumahthi madam came frm back and took me into Manoj's house...canged my dress and after sometime left me at home......My mom was soooooo angry.....She told to my father and my father gave me punishement of 100 situps or thopukaranam.....tht was the standard punishment frm my father in my childhood days. I did 100 thopukaranam at age of 5. I got my pencil box tht weekend.

I am typing all these to recollect at some later date!