Amrithaaaaaaa

It’s been more than a year since I visited my page. Married life keeps me busy. For the first time in my life I had to manage both work and household activities. I must admit that It was both different and interesting experience.

I have come back to pen some good news. It’s about the new addition to our family AMRITHA a Sanskrit word meaning "nectar of immortality” born 07-08-09 J, My husband wanted a girl baby... J Lucky me... I was able to fulfil his wish!!!!

The 9 odd months was definitely a beautiful experience, am bound to thank my husband for being there by my side all thru this period and comforting me during my Initial sickness!!!

My delivery was tough and one of a kind experience. I was eagerly looking forward for that day. Amrita was born only on the next day of my admission to the hospitalL.. and I had to go thru pain for more than 26 hrs ...phew!!!!! Now when I think back about It, It’s slightly haunting. I can’t thank enough my parents and my husband for all their support during 7 long days of hospitalisation...I badly wanted to get back home!!!!!

Now my new role as ‘Mom’ is even more beautiful and demanding. Amrita keeps us all busy. Each day, my bonding with her increases. Makes me feel more responsible towards life!!

Amritha - Our bundle of joy and happiness. I hope she is happy and content in future for having us as ‘parents’. I believe it’s our duty to make her feel that way. More to come up about Amritha...watch this page!!!

Majulah Singapura ("Onward Singapore")

I was leaving India for the first time…and all by myself. I was eagerly waiting to experience the ‘other’ world. The child is me was in full zeal. The modus operandi at the Chennai airport was a bit lengthy though. I finally boarded the flight to Singapore, where my Hubby would be waiting to meet me. We would be meeting each other after 6 longgggggggg weeks (believe me it was definitely longer than what I expected). I received lecture from SV for more than 2 hours as to how I should tag along in Singapore Airport and locate him. The journey was short & sweet. I didn’t make any friends on the flight though. I was with mixed feeling until I finally SPOTTED him. God that day was heaven. I was totally mesmerized at the outlook of the airport; it was small world by itself. We comfortably reached SV’s friends place. I was more than eager for the next day to dawn…cos we were planning to visit ‘Singapore’; we just had 2 days to explore the place. And I guess we did a decent bit of sightseeing…Singapore Botanical garden, Sentosa, Jurong Bird Park, Little India and Mustafa Mart…each of these places was one of a kind and unique by itself!!! Also, I should mention about the food that I had at our friend’s place!!! She is a gr8 cook. I must thank Girish & Subha for helping us spend quality time. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay there.
Finally the day arrived when I had to leave Spore and head to Hong Kong. The journey was too good…guessed why, cos my hubby accompanied me this time and I had no worries whatsoever. I was in safe hands....

MARCH 9th 2008

I finally found my 'Better half' with whom I would share the rest of my Life .I consider myself the most gifted of all. Venkatakrishnan (SV) is one of a kind and very rare to find…Im happy that I met him…and things worked out between us.

It’s been a long journey to arrive at this decision….but it’s worth the wait. Otherwise both of us would have missed something valuable in Life. After facing lot of difficulties we finally arrived with the Wedding date…MARCH 9th 2008. This day turns out to be the most memorable day of my life…it marks the beginning of a new phase….new place, new people, new feeling, new experience….and of course creation of a new FAMILY….

Out Invite goes like this

“We do not believe in love at first sight
So, we decided to meet again and again till it happened

And now, bit by the love bug, we are ready to start a new life as Man and Wife.....

We would be happy if you could be there to be part of our happiness on the day our joy ride begins, the 9th day of March 2008. Please be with us for our wedding reception”

And then on the joy trip started with holding each others hands in togetherness…….

NEW YEAR

Bye bye 2007 and Welcome 2008

I celebrated the last of the year as usual at my apartments in our own traditional way. This year too I had the opportunity to host the New Year Eve function. It was good fun and more importantly a feeling of satisfaction. At 12’o clock sharp we put off all the flood lights and the association members held up candle lights, the New Year message was read along side. It was a delightful sight and I could sense new hopes building up. The whole idea was so professional and neatly done.

I am not sure whether I would be in the same apartment for the next New Year eve celebration. But I would still hold strong memories of the all gala time we had here (Its about 18 years now)

Happy New Year……..

13-Dec 1981....

This day that year…I opened my eyes for the first time…to see this world...
Looking back…everything seems to have happened in flash…but indeed 26 long years have passed by…Each b-day had something special to offer….1 year of life’s experience and learning!!! I have made progress; Yes I have grown…mentally emotionally …all for good…I know…all for good…

CRY BABY!!! WHO? ME????

I used to be a big time cry baby during my school and early college days. Now, when I ponder about it, I feel so silly. My friend Ninu Rose at school, wrote pages and pages of advice in my scrap book, about me being very emotional and sensitive. That’s when I realized how grave the problem was. People took advantage of my weakness and made use of every possible situation to pull my leg and ultimately made me cry. They used to derive fun out it (of course at my cost). They hurt me knowingly or unknowingly, but this helped me a lot to grow and become what I am today. Thanks to all those people.

I’ve turned into a new and better leaf. I have become stronger, more practical person, increased self-confidence and self-respect. I treat every difficult situation as a learning lesson. From every character I meet, I try to discover something new. I observe their way of speech, reactions, emotions…etc!! I am looking forward to meet newer people and learn novel things in life.

I still do hold shades of my emotional and sensitive traits, but they do not affect me in any way. I am amazed to experience how much I've transformed myself!! I am now able to understand, analysis, judge and adjust to any worse situation.

So who is the CRY BABY? Me???? Nooooooooooooo(more)!!!

ISKOOL

My mom used to temme that she got the admission in my school the hard way. She had to stand in a longgggg queue to get the application and after that she had to complete lots of formalities to get me admitted. I should thank her for her efforts, otherwise I wud have missed something great in life!! FATIMA CONVENT (Chennai – 24) can be called as my ‘family’ school, wondering why!!! Cause most of my cousins and even one of my aunties studied here!! I am blessed to have spent 14 long years at this convent.

I still hold memories about my KG classes, the snacks, afternoon nap, my KG class teacher Ms Moorin, all the pretty frocks that she used to wear( I swear I don’t remember any of the rhymes or songs that she taught me..lol)...one would find it hard to believe, my best buddy then was my rickshaw man!! He used to take very gud care of me!!

Even though I used to be a very average student, I would always be ready to go to school. There were lots of gud things around me...good classmates, very efficient teachers, moral science classes, my school atmosphere was one of a kind, mother Mary statue, school Chapel, Morning assembly, PT classes, Sports Day, Charity day, Sharing Day, My favorite sliding board, my school lab ( but not the skeleton model, it used to scare me to death)...

My present character, beliefs, attitudes & values are all molded based on the teaching lessons by my school teachers. My 10th Std played very crucial part in my life. The so-called exam fear factor played a twist in the tale and I happened to secure very high marks, more than my expectation. ( I was basically school 3rd, and 1st in geography, now don’t ask me a thing in geo – nobody ever expected this to happen and it came as a surprise to most of them including me) I was elected as the class rep during +1 & +2, and this helped me a lot to learn how to handle people in a friendly and right manner!!

I was not a good athlete, but my PT teacher constantly tried to motivate me to take part in track events. And I would do so just to please her (I remember winning some prizes too). I happened to see her few months back (with her son on his bike) after 8 years, but still she remembered me & gave me a big wide smile. I was totally drenched with joy.

One of the most surprising ever fact is that, there isn’t a single day in my life where I have missed a dream about my school. There would be some sort of dream everyday that connects me back to my school. When I think about this, it is some kinda miracle. 14 years of school life & its memories are so deeply rooted in my sub conscious mind. And I treat it as a blessing cos am able to rejoice school stuff even though am not a part of it any more.

My best buddies at school are
Bharathy: She did her B.Sc and then MCA, happily married and settled in Pune. Apart from managing home, she also works for Capgemini. She is one of kind & a very nice person.
Sudha: Did her BE and still sticking onto her 1st company Infosys. She is a sweet and charming girl. One interesting stuff is that we both share the same birth date. It’s a very rare thing to happen.

There are lots of other good friends at school, just that I cannot name the big list. I’m happy that am still in touch with most of them. THANKS to Yahoo groups & Orkut.

I have loads & loads to boast about my school life, but thought I would stop here (this Post is already very lengthy)

I guess all those who read this, also experience such ‘special’ feelings about their school life.

My School ‘IS KOOL’. I miss ya!! Keep rockin’ baby!!!