In the last 24 hours I have slept 7 times for a total of 15 hours.....it is a different experience to be able to sleep so much and the feeling when you wake up after a full (umm more than full) sleep. Had quite forgotten that feeling. Everything comes at a price.
posted by Tuya @ 22:13
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In July we are off to Germany and then India in August. Packing, thinking of packing, packing and thinking again.....
Arunav is very thrilled with the sleeping bags for the camping trip we have planned.
posted by Tuya @ 12:18
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That's where the kids went whole day today to pick and eat Lychees. They went in a rented big bus. It was hot but they had more than enough fun.
posted by Tuya @ 17:22
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When I return will things be same
Will the door still creak to open;
the sticky mark on the table, will it be still there..
or the things I had left behind will undergo a change?
Will it be difficult for me to know them again
Should I look for things as they were
or should I just take them as new
As if I never knew more about them.
I tell myself, it is just a break
But it is never 'just'.
posted by Tuya @ 09:21
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This walk was different.
Dark grey clouds hovered above. It was very misty, the mist touched us, made us wet , it was breezy, it was also fun. The lunch after, with the rain pouring outside was ......beautiful.
posted by Tuya @ 07:50
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When I told a friend if I don't have interest in something I cannot make myself do it. She replied, yes I know you must have interest in order to do well, but I also know you will do well in whatever you choose to do.....why are such words balms for souls.....priceless! (I hope I dont sound too vain when I say these - maybe at my age I need these words! :)
Always makes me blink when I hear them and recently I am lucky enough to hear them ever so often - thank goodness for friends!
posted by Tuya @ 01:32
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hate farewells. In this month, I am having to say good bye to so many friends and some of them just so close to my heart, that it is killing me. I wish I was a child who can cry and things change....if only, if only.
posted by Tuya @ 23:38
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I heard today I got 97/100 in my DELF A1 and I am so happy and thankful to everyone who wished for me and also those who did not explicitly wish but I know their wishes are ALWAYS there for me! Giving me so much encouragement at the wee hours when I felt nervous(this time due to lack of proper preparation) and that voice which said, 'Dont worry, you are there! You cannot but be good.' Oh those words meant so much. Today when I read the results, I felt so happy and so on top of the world!
The wind beneath my wings - thank you!!
posted by Tuya @ 16:59
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Yesterday I was getting dressed for a party and after I wore my dress. Arunav said, mamma this one is not looking too good - the red one looks better on you. I am so not used to any feedback on my dresses that I was super happy - actually I was surprised that such a simple feedback can make you so happy - specially when it comes from your son! Life seems so beautiful because of these simple joys and simple surprises.
posted by Tuya @ 07:41
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I dont really plan these memory trips, sometimes they just land on me - totally unplanned and as sudden as a knock on the door. And when you open the door, there is that piece of virgin memory standing in front of you.
It was like that when I got a photo of Somadi("DIDI") from Ruma.
In daily life, I dont remember her everyday. She is not part of my life. The photo was a memory labelled several decades back - a flash from the time when I did not know what to do in life, am I good at geography, am I good at maths - should I study geography, should I become a mathematician. Life unexplored, untouched.
In the midst of that uncertainty was the certain thing, I idolised this lady - looking back it is so difficult for me to reason why, was it because Ruma was so much a part of my life and I loved her as completely as I knew love then? Or is it Didi's personality and her constant encouragement for every success I attained - time has washed away the nuances.
So I did what she did and which sort of matched my strongholds....my future was shaped by her at that point in time.
So many years have gone by, yet as soon as I saw that photo I did not feel it necessary to stop the tears that flowed spontaneously, the feelings that wrecked through me. I guess this is as pure as love can get - you dont feel because of "anything", you just feel.
posted by Tuya @ 19:11
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http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=6FYrrIJ6kI0&feature=related
It is more than the song this time since it is an eternal love story which Bengalis have read many times over. I read Parineeta when I probably first stepped into my teens and it was so unlike the other SaratChandra stories - a sweet love story with just a little twist and not too much pathos involved.
But this scene is so beautifully picturised! A morning treat for me.
posted by Tuya @ 06:32
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