Expressions - Like it says in my blog name - this is atleast the fifth blog that I have created to express my brights & blues. I am this great thinker and a poor writer. Like now, I always have a 1000 things to say and when I sit down to write 'em I am just blanked out. I am mostly inspired to write by my fellow bloggers. Some people would just make us live the situation with their narration just like R.K. Narayanan. BTW I have grown up reading R.K.N's and I think he is such a simple and wonderful writer. I always feel nostalgic when I think of him. Life was so simple and fun back then.
"It would be Saturday morning 8 am when I wake up and Dad would have gotten ready to go to work. Dad is a lover of languages and he made sure I and my brother are pretty good at it - Tamil and English especially. He would give us assignments in English grammar and if we finish it by the time he gets home, he would take us to a movie that evening. After Dad leaves to work, mom and kalimamma( will write about her in a separate blog) would drench me in oil and they say, it would cool me down. (At least that's the belief). And then, they would treat me with a hot water bath and finally Kalimamma (Kma) would take me to the Patio to feed me while telling stories. Those are the cutest stories I have ever heard. I still remember some of those. Around 11 am, I would be ready with my books ( RKN's "Swami and his friends" and my grammar assignments) in the patio. The day would be so bright and sunny with the birds chirping, vegetable vendors selling vegetables around the streets, the warm breeze from my neighbor's huge coconut tree, and my mom and kma's cooking aroma from inside my house. With all this in the background, and having taken a warm oil bath I would almost doze off with my book. At the end of the day, I would have finished my home-work and be ready to go to a movie with mom,dad & my bro. This is a typical Saturday routine 10 - 15 years back."
The very thought of all this brings such a warm smile in my heart. I wish I could get those days back.
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