Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Amme n Ache

The moment she hears that I am carrying a heavy bag .  . My mother catches an auto to get her pregnant daughter back home from the bus stop. . Amidst heavy rains. . N d usual power cut aftermath. .
When I scolded her for taking the trouble. . All she said was. . Hello . . I came only coz u were pregnant . . Or else u think I wud have come?. .
I still think she wud have come.   . even if I weren't pregnant...

My parents did so much for me both as a child and when I was growing up and even when I was all grown up....

Everytime my phone used to ring at work, my friends at work used to know that it had to be Seema's dad....who used to call me religiously atleast 2 times a day...to enquire if I had food...and to enquire about how Im doing....I so so miss my father now:(..but you wont believe it...my bestest friend...Manju...when I told him that I miss my dad calling me....made up for it for 2 years..almost every other day....asking me if I had food and if I was doing OK...sometimes I wonder do ppl like Manju really exist?

My parents used to surprise me on my b'day with gifts....they have always respected my line of thoughts...n taught me to be an independent decision maker...today I might take a million opinions before I do something...but I take the final decisions...as my wise n not so old aunt once told me...U make ur choices in life...but always remember u made them..so u gotto take whatever comes with it!

Feels so alive to be blogging again

n Im so gonna spam my blog...have missed writing so very very much Man!!

Child labour rephrased...


Monday, January 19, 2015

Snacky Gifty:)

Ever since 2006, Christmas has been a very special festival for me. December is usually one of my busiest months in the year, where in there is fund collection to do for Christmas gifts for the schools and orphanages we work with and also the bestest thing everest..buying and wrapping gifts:)

U may have noted that I use superlative degrees any way I want...but then let me not digress from the story I want to tell...

Over the years...there have been times when I have wondered if we will collect enough funds to do all the gift and snack purchases...but somehow every other year....we never run short of money...

This year, we collected a total of 30,000 INR and were able to buy snacks and gifts for 350 kids:)

Snacks shopping was a breeze....Rumna and me did this in Metro....n v got good discounts too..

For the gifts, this year I went to multiple shops....found this small shop in Yeshwantpur, where I saw a whole lot of toys hanging outside ...the shopkeeper was a young chap....but he was extremely polite and courteous..that being the one good reason why I thought of checking out the shop in the 1st place...I hate rude shopkeepers and always make it a point not to buy anything from them...

When I told him..I was looking to buy 350 nos. of toys and gifts for children from orphanages, he told me that he would offer me a good discount..n he actually did!!...he also delivered all the stuff back home and gave me 200 gift covers for free, something which is not only hard to find ...but which also costs atleast 5 bucks a piece!!!

For the 1st time in years, I decided not to be kanjoos while buying gifts...d only thing I was looking forward to was...If I were a kid...wud I like getting a dart gun or a nail polish or a bubble gun or a neck chain or a loom band or a tennis ball as a gift?

The shopkeeper told me that loom bands were very popular among the girls...so v got that...nowadays I see them everywhere...n one shopkeeper told me ki yeh cheez toh daudthi hai...when I asked him if loom bands bahuth chaltha hai kya?

After shopping for around 150 gifts....I bought nail polishes, stickers, fancy looking clips and chains and was done with shopping for the gals...

Have u ever noticed how easy it is to gift a gal...n how u easily run outta options trying to shop for guys!!

Ceej came home and helped me pack the gifts in Ceej orderly n mannerly ways...n we were done with over 100 gifts of packing in no time!

I absolutely enjoy sitting around with friends and family wrapping gifts....Back at home...my Achan, my Amma and even my sister's mother in law have helped me wrap gifts...

A pal of mine once told me this...arrey ...y do u run around so much...take all this trouble....But the fact is...that doing this ignites a part of me...which makes me very happy and content...I think anyone who cares about me knows that I do this more for me...than for anyone else...

Alas...alas....turned out that I spent all the weekdays in the coming week accompanied by my 2 year old son in toy shops...trying to buy gift wrapper pouches...while my son n me had a blast....v were also running from one gift centre to another and then to steel shops n then to plastic shops doing the search for gift wrapper pouches..I finally came to the conclusion that they cannot be found in BTM....tats the place I stay in....

So, I bought 40 colouring books at a gift centre and had them do the packing for me then n there...yes..yes...urs truly had a blast setting people off to work :P

Happened to goto Jayanagar BDA complex and the 1st shop I asked had the gift wrapper pouches...this is one place which has everything under the sun..I tell U

Majority of the packing was done by my amma n my maid.....I would tell them..I need this gift to be mixed and matched with that....n they would dutifully do all that...while my son ran around with the kitchen sets and the doctor sets and the chains...:)

When I took the final count and segregated the gifts for the boys and the gals...our total number of gifts was 360:)

My final moment of joy came in during the Christmas party, when while distributing the gifts...the volunteers were trying to figure out what was inside...n I was like showing off big time...Oh that gift...tats a loom band...or that...tats a gun..or this...this is the doctor set:)
 

Yahoo Pregnancy


Yahoo only had pregnancy related news items!! ...n this was like 5 outta 6 stories..looks like celebrity birthing is the hottest topic offlate....

 

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