A long drive in Malgudi

Malgudi, an imaginary town created by writer R K Narayan. All the stories and novels revolve around the town, the kabir street, market place etc...which gives  reader a real sense of that place and it is very hard to believe its all pure imagination. My journey begin in malgudi around 8-9 years before but as not a voracious reader I take breaks while reading and some time it could be very  long to resume my reading. My love for reading R K narayan's books developed after watching the series on TV as a child. 

I still remember the scream Saamiiiii by a child which is part of the title song of that series and it is followed by la la la. I was a regular viewer of that series. 

Then when I grew up, I started to buy books of R K Narayan, like most of us ,  I started with Sway and friends. Mot of  the characters in that novel, reminded me as well as people around me. I was almost similar to swamy as a child, trying to invent new stories to avoid going to school, throwing my bag in the corner and creating a big fuss for even something which is of very least importance. 

It gave me great pleasure in the reading the book. Then I remember reading tiger of malgudi, painter of signs , Malgudi days adventures , stories from malgudi.. I feel dumbstruck with the way the writer has handled the characters and describing each character in a most comprehensive way for the readers. 

The last I was reading 'the Malgudi adventures', which is a collections of best episodes from the novels written by RK Narayan. 

The writer proves his genius in each of his writing. My drive in Malhudi is always cherish able.  

Its more than two years since I published my last post. The main reason for such a long gap is my son, who is now two years and two months. In my last post I talked about the fear I was undergoing due the ongoing crimes on children during that time as my son was a fetus but still the  fear is well rooted as the crime against children are still growing.
Ok now, I am thinking what  and how to start?, ok let me start with my son's musings. My thoughts are competing with itself on what to write about?. Ok like usual mothers let me also start "oh I cant believe how two years have passed after my son's  birth (in fact I seriously cant belive this)". After working till my delivery and now I am travelling in a completely different phase of my life, looking after my toddler, cooking etc.. its also interesting but I feel my social life has almost come to a halt and I need some time for my own self at least to keep my brain occupied with something where I can enjoy doing it.
I dusted my cobwebbed contacts , it was very pleasant to talk those with whom I almost lost in touch. Thanks to the growing social networking site, through it I was able to meet so many of old contacts and I also put an effort in picking up my phone and talking to them. It s always good to  maintain a network of friends because you may never know who might be useful to you and when?.

Its just an re entry to blog after a long (not very long) time, my other musings and experiences will continue. 

This is your World my Child

Child abuse or Child harassment is something that I have been hearing since my childhood, but I came to understand the context, when I reached my Higher secondary level in school. I am a very conscious and cautious person by nature since my younger days and I am still the same. When I was very young I used to feel very delicate when people touch and talk to me, irrespective of their gender and I still hate this, but due to social obligations, I have permitted myself to be hugged(only with Women) and shake hands with anyone.

After I have been confirmed of my pregnancy, I have become more responsible in every aspect I do and in particular to the developing fetus in my womb.

In the recent past I came across a lot of news related to children kidnapping and trafficking and this has created a strong state of concern to my unborn child and I am preparing my mind from now to be a responsible parent in terms of rearing my child.

I hope I do justice to my child as a parent in teaching what a society is and exposing my little one to the practicality of the world then imposing or stressing on what is good or bad.

Honey we blew up the TV

Since my parents in law left to their native, our idiot box shrunk from 21 inches to 14 inches in size. We gave the 21 inches TV to them and used their 14 inches TV. During the initial usage of the TV, we found it little difficult but thought that this is enough as we dont use it much.

On a Sunday, my husband saw an advertisement which had a discount offer on Panasonic LCD TV s. He told me that it could be a good deal to buy during this offer. We researched about this TV model on the net and it had almost similar features of Sony LCD TV, which we had intended to buy earlier. The cost offered by this dealer was less in comparison to the others dealers in chennai.

My BIL also suggested us in going for this brand and gave us some technical gyan, in which I am still an alien.
We booked the TV on the day of the offer, it was delivered on last Saturday, and I was thrilled to watch my favourite programme in the enlarged version of this electronic gadget.

Our television viewing was normal, then it shrunk and now it’s blown up.

A small Desire

It was nearly 2 months since me and my Hubby watched a movie in theatre. I was feeling movie theatre sick for some time and told him that I wanted to watch a movie now (this happened last Friday night). He thought for few seconds and said ok done. Our journey started, we reached Satyam Theatre which is hardly 1 and 1/2 Kms from my home. The tickets were available only for two movies; one was for 'Pen Singam' and the other for 'Katrathu Kalavu' both of us did nt give a heed to watch any one of the movies. We asked for the movie 'Singam' it was full, 'Iron Man' it was also housed packed. I told my hubby "let’s go, I am hungry, we will eat and then come to find if we can get any cancelled tickets". But he wanted to get the tickets first and then eat, then I thought ok let’s wait. But we did nt get any, then we left the place and I told him I want to eat Paper roast, he asked " do u want paper roast or to try for tickets in Inox?" I immediately said "Inox" (after answering, I felt that I was acting like a kid who responds to her parent). My Husband's bike took a U turn reached the theatre Inox.

Inox also showcased the same scene as satyam, I checked with the security guard, who was standing near the counter, whether any cancelled tickets were available, he asked me to check with the counter person. I asked the person in the ticket counter, he said there are no cancelled tickets, but to wait for some time, so that we can get. I was very keen in watching as this is my first experience in watching a night show; I have watched an early morning show of 'Aniyan' with my cousins but not a night show. Since my college days, I have been planning to go for night show movie, but it never happened. I thought at least after marriage I could implement , I told my husband that I have nt watched any night show movie and wanted to watch one, he was fine, but we had restrictions from home. Thought my dream of watching a night show movie will never come true. My In laws have gone to their native for some time, I thought it’s the good time to fulfill my dream [Cheap thrill :)] and the so the above said happened.
We were still waiting to get tickets; suddenly I noticed a change in the ticket counter table, under the movie Singam the status has changed from full to fast filling; now I decided to go for it. I was waiting in the queue of 5 people before me, my turn came, I asked for 2 tickets, the counter person said "madam I have 2 tickets, but it is not together" I said "Sir we are Husband and Wife, how can we sit separately ?, please konjam paarunga( please consider) , then he said "oh he he I have Madam" I was thinking " Seriyana loose" (crazy fellow). Anyways we got the tickets, we entered the theatre hall, now my stomach reminded me that it is not fed, I looked at my husband and said, "Pasikuthu". We bought some burgers, French fries and some junk (this was our dinner).
We entered the screening hall, watched the movie, I enjoyed, it was a fast one, did nt feel bored.

I was complacent that finally my wish was fulfilled :)

Naanum 'Aval"um

I do not have the habit of reading, the reason is I get bored, and I lack concentration in reading , but in recent past I developed this habit, rather an ‘affair’ .

The reading I mentioned is in English, but now I have developed this habit for Tamil as well. This all started after my marriage. My MIL buys Aval Vikatan ( a Tamil Magazine for Woman), I usually don’t pay much attention to Tamil magazines or books, I am ashamed to say this as my dad is a Tamil writer and is very passionate about this language, his passion for Tamil follows him everywhere, he does nt sacrifice his love for the language at any cost. ATM counters are also not spared, he chooses the language option as Tamil only and even if that option does nt work he will wait for few seconds for it to work and then he will proceed.
In my in laws place, my husband, parents in law are very strong in Tamil. Many times I try to avoid using difficult Tamil words, so that I don’t blabber and become a laughing stroke.
Though my dad buys Tamil Newspaper and some popular weekly magazines, I never used to pay attention to those journals other than the movie reviews and tit bit columns which always interest me. In my home, we also buy Tamil Newspaper and 3 to 4 weekly Tamil magazines. Among those, I started to pay attention to 'Aval Vikatan', the language was very easy for me to read and the style of writing impressed me. As usual I started with movie articles in the magazine and gradually started to read other articles as well. The magazine focused on various sectors which interest many readers, and I was one among them.

I realised one thing reading is enjoyable in any language.

Paiyaaaa

Finally we watched the Tamil movie Paiyaa yesterday. My husband was planning to watch this movie, since the launch of the movie's audio release, the reason; we watched the audio release live. This happened, when we came out of the theatre hall after watching kanden Kathalai, when we were walking through the way to exit the theatre, on the left hand side of the theatre mall, there was an other movie hall which was crowed with video cameras flashing at the crowd and the crowd was anxiously waiting for some people, I did not know and I usually dont pay much attention to anything once my work is over.

My husband sneaked and said that it is the audio release of Payiya movie, I asked "So ?, he said come lets go in and see it live. I was very hesitant as I was thinking that the entry is allowed only with a gate pass and also did not have much interest to watch it. But my hubby, pulled me through the crowd near the hall and said "its fun, chumma va , its nice to have cheap thrills, I have not seen and audio release before, va polam". His honest explanation broke the barrier of my brain and said ok what’s in it pooi than parkalame" lets go and see". We entered found 2 seats which was not very far away from the stage. Though I agreed to go, I was looking around to see if any one was looking at us as we did not have any pass or invitation for the show.

The host began with his usual introduction and praising the director of the movie and called each guest at the dais to talk about the director and the film. It was for about 1 and 1/2 hours, I enjoyed watching and appreciated my husband for his brave task :).

After that audio release we went home and me and my husband were thinking that we will watch the movie immediately after its release. The movie was released, from the day one, we were planning to go but did not find time as some thing or the other came on our way. Yesterday both of us were jobless and were thinking what to do?, so we thought that we will implement our long term plan and watched the movie.

It was a typical commercial and Lingusamy's original version, I enjoyed the songs, its picturisation and the dialogues, but it’s not a great one to review as far as I am concerned. A time pass one, so finally we watched it :)