When I came out of Asda after the same boring weekly shopping, a whiff of the icy cold wind froze my spine!!!God! it wasn't that cold when we came in for the shopping!!! Right from the store's entrance I could see some flakes like things falling from the sky. What were these? I wondered? There was a snow forecast on the sunday, but today was a saturday! And it does not look like rainfall as well!! Is it SNOW!!!I wondered both with curiosity and excitement!! It was a moment that I had always been waiting for. Waiting for witnessing a snowfall!!! I really hope it was!!!
When out in the open and as the flakes touched my face I could not stop myself from jumping with glee and shouting 'snow atlast!'
By the time we reached home there was 3 cms of snow all around. I was so excited that I quickly put the little one off to sleep as I did not want to miss even a moment of my dream event. The freezing temperature outside could just not prove to be a deterrent in front of a super excited human being that was me from enjoying this historic moment in my life. I quickly grabbed the camera, loaded myself on with the woolens and out I went. It was 10 in the night, about 5-6 cms of snow all around, and an excited me out in the open making snowballs and throwing them all around.
As I woke up in the morning, and removed the curtain of my bedroom window, I saw a scenery that was just picture perfect. It was as if someone had thrown a white blanket all over. Our community lawn looked like as if a massively big white canvas topped with cotton was spread all over. Trees and shrubs were covered from head to toe branches of which were swooping down due to the weight. Snow Snow all around! It was actually 'an eye full of snow!'
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
My baby turns 2!!
If I had a time machine I would have gone back to the day my little princess was born and start writing her a mail everyday telling her how she grew up. I would write down even the minutest of the detail of each day. Things she does everyday, things she says everyday, the number of smiles she puts on my face everyday. But since I don't have a time machine and neither can I go back on time, I have decided just to write her a mail on every birthday she celebrates with us every year.
So my baby turns 2 this 6th Jan, 2012. She has grown so fast. It just feels like yesterday that she was born. The nurse placed a tiny girl on my hand saying she is my daughter. Oh God! she was so tiny. So tiny that it scared the hell out of me even to lift her up! Lest I might drop her or I might hold her in an inappropriate place that it would hurt her. And most of all the very idea of me being a mother was still in the settling down period. It was a transition period from a girl to a woman to a mother. I quickly kept her in the cot beside my bed as my fingers were trembling with joy, fear, uncertainty, and most of all due to the cold!!! She was born on the coldest day of the season!!
Today, after 2 years since her birth, many things have changed along with her growth. We have moved to a new country all together (though temporary) with new and different people. Saanvi has grown from a tiny little baby to an over active toddler who is always on the move. Also she has grown from a little crying infant to a non-stop talker. Since the time she wakes up till the time she goes to bed, the non stop chatterbox goes on and on and on!!! It feels great when she calls me 'Mama' in different styles! Some times 'Ma--Ma', sometimes 'MaaaMaaa' and sometimes 'Chonuu'...She often runs around the house looking for her father and shouting 'Sud'!! Feeds her doll with the toy milk bottle the way she drinks her milk. She kisses me all day especially when I am angry with her or refuse to talk to her. She also does 'Sssshhhhh' with her little index finger placed on her tiny lips when I ask her to say 'twinkle twinkle little stars', and then gently says 'tinkle tinkle lil stars'....
The feeling of becoming a mother is finally settling down within me. Day after day I see my little princess growing from just lying on her back to lying on her belly, then to lift herself up, then cruise herself forward, then to start crawling, then holding on to things and standing, then walking and now running....She has grown within a wink of an eye from an infant to a fine toddler!!!! My baby has turned 2!!!
So my baby turns 2 this 6th Jan, 2012. She has grown so fast. It just feels like yesterday that she was born. The nurse placed a tiny girl on my hand saying she is my daughter. Oh God! she was so tiny. So tiny that it scared the hell out of me even to lift her up! Lest I might drop her or I might hold her in an inappropriate place that it would hurt her. And most of all the very idea of me being a mother was still in the settling down period. It was a transition period from a girl to a woman to a mother. I quickly kept her in the cot beside my bed as my fingers were trembling with joy, fear, uncertainty, and most of all due to the cold!!! She was born on the coldest day of the season!!
Today, after 2 years since her birth, many things have changed along with her growth. We have moved to a new country all together (though temporary) with new and different people. Saanvi has grown from a tiny little baby to an over active toddler who is always on the move. Also she has grown from a little crying infant to a non-stop talker. Since the time she wakes up till the time she goes to bed, the non stop chatterbox goes on and on and on!!! It feels great when she calls me 'Mama' in different styles! Some times 'Ma--Ma', sometimes 'MaaaMaaa' and sometimes 'Chonuu'...She often runs around the house looking for her father and shouting 'Sud'!! Feeds her doll with the toy milk bottle the way she drinks her milk. She kisses me all day especially when I am angry with her or refuse to talk to her. She also does 'Sssshhhhh' with her little index finger placed on her tiny lips when I ask her to say 'twinkle twinkle little stars', and then gently says 'tinkle tinkle lil stars'....
The feeling of becoming a mother is finally settling down within me. Day after day I see my little princess growing from just lying on her back to lying on her belly, then to lift herself up, then cruise herself forward, then to start crawling, then holding on to things and standing, then walking and now running....She has grown within a wink of an eye from an infant to a fine toddler!!!! My baby has turned 2!!!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
An Autumn in London
The English weather is like the English women! Very unpredictable!!
Whether a British or otherwise, it has been rightly put. It is almost 3 months that we have moved to London from Delhi, the weather has always struck me. It is so very unpredictable unlike its counterpart in Delhi. Though I had heard much about it from my husband who had frequented this place in the last 2 years, yet the reality just hit my face strongly. They say that the worse is yet to come. 'THE WINTERS'.
I sometimes stop to think how bad can the winters be!!It is already dark by 5.00 pm nowadays. Well the days are no better since most of the times it has a overcast sky. It feels like the sun refuses to rise in this part of the world. God! as it is it is so depressing and they say that the worse is yet to come. What more it will be. Snow all around with the rain, wind and darkness. How does it matter although I am very excited to witness the snow for the first time in my life. I had seen the remnants of the so called snowfall, much of which had already changed forms and had flown down the mountains through neumerous streams and by streams the last time I had visited Kashmir. Hence, the very idea of witnessing a real snowfall in front of my eyes exites me so much that the chilliness and the all the more depressive weather hardly proves to be a deterrent.
What irks me the most is that almost everyday I wake up to a bright sunny day which eventually turns into the same old rainy and windy day in the next hour or so. The sun plays hide and seek all day round. Sometimes the weather seems just so perfect and pleasing that I am unable to restrict myself to the confinement of the four walls. But the moment I step outside to bask in the sun and gather some Vitamin D for my body, a dash of icy cold wind hits me which is enough to freeze me to death forget about gaining some Vit D.
So unpredictable as it is yet I have slowly come to live with the English weather and have also started liking it so much that if it is sunny all day it makes me think something is out of place.
Whether a British or otherwise, it has been rightly put. It is almost 3 months that we have moved to London from Delhi, the weather has always struck me. It is so very unpredictable unlike its counterpart in Delhi. Though I had heard much about it from my husband who had frequented this place in the last 2 years, yet the reality just hit my face strongly. They say that the worse is yet to come. 'THE WINTERS'.
I sometimes stop to think how bad can the winters be!!It is already dark by 5.00 pm nowadays. Well the days are no better since most of the times it has a overcast sky. It feels like the sun refuses to rise in this part of the world. God! as it is it is so depressing and they say that the worse is yet to come. What more it will be. Snow all around with the rain, wind and darkness. How does it matter although I am very excited to witness the snow for the first time in my life. I had seen the remnants of the so called snowfall, much of which had already changed forms and had flown down the mountains through neumerous streams and by streams the last time I had visited Kashmir. Hence, the very idea of witnessing a real snowfall in front of my eyes exites me so much that the chilliness and the all the more depressive weather hardly proves to be a deterrent.
What irks me the most is that almost everyday I wake up to a bright sunny day which eventually turns into the same old rainy and windy day in the next hour or so. The sun plays hide and seek all day round. Sometimes the weather seems just so perfect and pleasing that I am unable to restrict myself to the confinement of the four walls. But the moment I step outside to bask in the sun and gather some Vitamin D for my body, a dash of icy cold wind hits me which is enough to freeze me to death forget about gaining some Vit D.
So unpredictable as it is yet I have slowly come to live with the English weather and have also started liking it so much that if it is sunny all day it makes me think something is out of place.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Travel and Living-Chapter 1- Ranthambore
The very idea of visiting Ranthambore in 2009 made butterflies fly inside my stomach. The National Park stretches to a total area of 392 sq km and is home to a decent number of tigers, birds, crocodiles, samber deers, spotted deers, chitals, neel gais etc etc etc. Am sure one can find a whole list of them in google. But am not here to discuss what all animals are found in Ranthambore. As you see the topic of my article is up, close and dangerous. What can be more dangerous than a hungry tiger hunting for its prey and walking just 20 metres away from us!!
We were tired, exhausted, hungry and dissapointed since even though we had spent a good 7-8 hrs in the jungle we hadnt got a glimpse of the majestic animal as yet and to add to our woes the driver of our gypsy told us that it has been 2 weeks since the animal was last seen. We felt like throttling the homo sapien until he says 'I die'.
The cameras and handycams also called it quits after we loaded it with photos and videos of irrelevant stuffs like birds, crocs, sambers, langurs...With a heavy heart we also thought we should call the day and return to our hotel. Just then Sudeep, my hubby, said in a not so hushed up tone, "Bhai Bhai Tiger!!" With the magestic creature just 20 metres or less away from us got all nine of us, including the driver, get so excited that the mere distance hardly posed a hurdle in the admiration. It just took us a couple of minutes to realise that we were in a open gypsy with no protection, a hungry tiger in search for its prey, walking beside us. But before the realisation could turn into a panic, the tiger, unbothered by our presense started walking towards the flowing river. We could see the purpose for the unbotheration; across the river was a herd of deers grazing unaware of the tiger's movement towards them. The majestic animal walking in its majestic glory made us awestruck. We stopped talking to each other and just kept looking..looking and just looking....We were about to witness a tiger catch its prey for real!!!
The deers oblivious to the presense of the tiger blissfully grazed on the green shimmering grass. The tiger sat in the camouflage of the surrounding trees and plants waiting patiently for the right moment and we sat patiently for the catch to happen. It could take hours for the wait to actually turn into a catch. But like the deers we were oblivious to the time. We were just too excited to witness a historic moment in our lives.
As often heard from animal lovers, monkeys and deers make good partners. Both helping each other in order to make their stay in the forest safe. It was this monkey troop which saw the approaching tiger waiting patiently but wakeful and alert eyeing the deers. Within minutes we could see the deers running frantically towards the opposite direction in a desperate measure to save their lives. The tiger started running after them but alas it was too late and little could be done then. Not every wait results in a run and not every run results in a catch. Very true for both the tiger and us....
We were tired, exhausted, hungry and dissapointed since even though we had spent a good 7-8 hrs in the jungle we hadnt got a glimpse of the majestic animal as yet and to add to our woes the driver of our gypsy told us that it has been 2 weeks since the animal was last seen. We felt like throttling the homo sapien until he says 'I die'.
The cameras and handycams also called it quits after we loaded it with photos and videos of irrelevant stuffs like birds, crocs, sambers, langurs...With a heavy heart we also thought we should call the day and return to our hotel. Just then Sudeep, my hubby, said in a not so hushed up tone, "Bhai Bhai Tiger!!" With the magestic creature just 20 metres or less away from us got all nine of us, including the driver, get so excited that the mere distance hardly posed a hurdle in the admiration. It just took us a couple of minutes to realise that we were in a open gypsy with no protection, a hungry tiger in search for its prey, walking beside us. But before the realisation could turn into a panic, the tiger, unbothered by our presense started walking towards the flowing river. We could see the purpose for the unbotheration; across the river was a herd of deers grazing unaware of the tiger's movement towards them. The majestic animal walking in its majestic glory made us awestruck. We stopped talking to each other and just kept looking..looking and just looking....We were about to witness a tiger catch its prey for real!!!
The deers oblivious to the presense of the tiger blissfully grazed on the green shimmering grass. The tiger sat in the camouflage of the surrounding trees and plants waiting patiently for the right moment and we sat patiently for the catch to happen. It could take hours for the wait to actually turn into a catch. But like the deers we were oblivious to the time. We were just too excited to witness a historic moment in our lives.
As often heard from animal lovers, monkeys and deers make good partners. Both helping each other in order to make their stay in the forest safe. It was this monkey troop which saw the approaching tiger waiting patiently but wakeful and alert eyeing the deers. Within minutes we could see the deers running frantically towards the opposite direction in a desperate measure to save their lives. The tiger started running after them but alas it was too late and little could be done then. Not every wait results in a run and not every run results in a catch. Very true for both the tiger and us....
Monday, October 17, 2011
A New Life
My biology book said 'life starts with a dot'. That was rather strange. A dot develops into a whole new life. There are seven wonders on earth, but can anything be as wonderful as the creation of a human being.
My daughter was born on 6th January 2010. It was a little unexpected date since she was due on the 17th. I was admitted in the hospital on 5th jan since there was this doubtful discharge, no pain, and the doctors did not want to take any chances. Probably being the daughter of a doctor had its own pros and cons. The following morning the visiting doctor examined me and said, "The water bag has ruptured and since you still are not having any pain you need to have a caesarean immediately." God I wasnt even ready for it!
There was darkness everywhere with a big concentric circle in the middle, lines of which were disapearing to a rhythmic beep. As the last line disappeared, I heard someone say, "The chord is all around the baby."
Where am I? Was I in heaven? Suddenly I realized 'I was on the operation table and I was conscious!" I could feel the doctor tugging the stitches. I wanted to shout and tell them 'hello, do something, I can hear you, I can feel you. 'But I just made futile attempts. I could well visualize my motionless body on the operating table. I felt so helpless. And then I heard what I wanted to hear, "Its a girl." The beeps in the background suddenly intensified, beep(1)..beep(2)...beep(3).......
My daughter was born on 6th January 2010. It was a little unexpected date since she was due on the 17th. I was admitted in the hospital on 5th jan since there was this doubtful discharge, no pain, and the doctors did not want to take any chances. Probably being the daughter of a doctor had its own pros and cons. The following morning the visiting doctor examined me and said, "The water bag has ruptured and since you still are not having any pain you need to have a caesarean immediately." God I wasnt even ready for it!
There was darkness everywhere with a big concentric circle in the middle, lines of which were disapearing to a rhythmic beep. As the last line disappeared, I heard someone say, "The chord is all around the baby."
Where am I? Was I in heaven? Suddenly I realized 'I was on the operation table and I was conscious!" I could feel the doctor tugging the stitches. I wanted to shout and tell them 'hello, do something, I can hear you, I can feel you. 'But I just made futile attempts. I could well visualize my motionless body on the operating table. I felt so helpless. And then I heard what I wanted to hear, "Its a girl." The beeps in the background suddenly intensified, beep(1)..beep(2)...beep(3).......
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