Today was Holi or the festival of colours.....or in other words the one day where you can freely catch people and dunk them with dirty water....so like most people I stayed at home scared by the thot of getting dunked....which was good cos I got to sleep a lot ....
and in the evening my aunt was celebrating her b'day...she is over 70 now so she does not remember her b'day she says....she just celebrates it in March....and she had called her friends from her bridge sessions...and they are all 90+ I think...last time I met them one of them was in a wheel chair and we had the toughest time picking her up when she along with the wheelchair fell down.....and one of her friends is a lady who studied at the lady's college at Lahore and then ran away to India during partition....she was also married to a Pakistani....and later fell in love with an Indian army officer.....and she still has the blackest of black hair and looks like a slightly older version of Zeenat Aman....her hair was carefully styled with clips in the right place.....I just could not stop admiring her...am sure she thot I was some kind of freak...but my aunt herself is amazing...at her age she is still active...have to admit that my wish is to be that active when I am her age....happy b'day Sarah Kochamma....heres to many more....
And today the tiniest of kids came and begged me while I was travelling on the train........she was so tiny that I could have picked her up with a finger...and she was just about crawling her way around.....she didnt know how to speak but she knew the gesture of begging.... now whose heart wouldnt melt with that? she saw the bunch of flowers in my hand and just raised her hand asking me for them...she was so tiny I could not refuse but since she was the same size as the bunch of flowers I just gave her shiny ribbon to play with....she promptly went and gave her sister the ribbon... as always seeing such things make me wonder about how bad things are with some people....which is why when Christy sometimes raves and rants about not getting some things I keep telling him to look at those kids and realise how much better he is....needless to say Christy mostly ignores such talk....
Mind your language please:
And now the latest on the english language lessons...
I was asked by the american partner not to use the "ampersand" in my draft....ofcourse! I merrily replied...but what the hell was an ampersand...it turned out to be the sign for AND ..you know this sign- "&"....well I consoled myself saying that everyday is a learning process ...besides I realised that I was not the only one.......when asked whether she knew what an ampersand was, my friend Juhi promptly replied "Yeah. My friend works in that Company." Ha! I am not the only one people....
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