Blog marathon post---20

Anu"s Chatter....

I tend to think and sometimes think very deep....is life the way  it is because we make it or because it was supposed to be? to hold or not to hold or to hang on to dear one or not to? Is it all about what and how you handle life or it should just happen and flow ...sometimes I contemplate all this and cannot come to a sane conclusion....that allusive word called happiness just eludes me....and finally I decide to shut my mind and turn to my only source of happiness called-------WRITING!

Need not figure who you are...

Anu's Chatter...
Friends.....today I have read an amazing few sentences from a post by an American wanderlust ....that is going to stay by me.....It is like------
"You need not figure out who you are at 20, 25, or 35 ...or even 45 but need to live by the hour, feel thankful for all the stability and love around you and that is ------life! This I read in the morning when I was contemplating about life big time! Have a happy day!

No Apologies for being me....

Anu's Chatter.....

No apologies dear friends for being who I am......I have learnt to be proud of who I am.......what I wear and what I do ......I see that people around respect more and accept me unconditionally now that I am comfortable being who I am... for example I would look else where , be more apologetic ,if a traditional aunty or an old grandmother / Grandfather chanced me wearing a short dress to  a party or for that matter when the moral policing  in my building( there are many oldies) is the highest in the night .......as some look at me as if I am not supposed to be go out or come home late....I have learnt that -----if I am not doing anything wrong why should I worry ? I have learnt to look them in the eye and say Hi rather to shun them ...and all I get today is a resounding Hi and some  respect! I am proud to be who I am!

Ganesh...

Anu's Chatter...

The year turned so fast that I am again here in the process of selecting my Ganesh for the oncoming Ganesh Puja at my home....It is the most exiting part as I go to one of the artists tent  in my locality , displaying many idols.....( there are lot many tents around ..that add up to the festive spirit) then I select the one idol that is beautiful and tiny and also that comes in my budget....I generally ok the one my daughter selects......which has become  a kind of family tradition that we enjoy immensely....then comes the day we need to collect the idol from the pen dal that is a ritual in itself..........all of us go and get the idol home with a lot of spirit  .....I am looking forward to this year too but ...the bottom line is the year turned very fast! 

The meaning to it all...

Anu's Chatter......

With the songs of Govinda songs going around..I sit around listening to them..cannot move out as today is a holiday and the roads are all crowded to the hilt....I sat here writing my blogs and the  pending assignments but my mind wanders for the most part on the festivities going on and the reverberating noise......there is crowd that has gathered in the street across me and there is a pot that is hanging in the middle of rope That I can clearly see from my window........I am most part at the windows sipping my coffee and getting every inch exited about the gang that would go up creating the human ladder that would finally  take the guy to the top who would finally burst the pot ....I am waiting guys but I cannot but wonder about the meaning of it all...???? I cannot also miss out on the fact that it has brought about a feeling of togetherness...a colorful togetherness!

Govinda

Anu's Chatter...

Today is Janmashtami friends  all the roads and bylanes are laden with beautiful garlands and decorated with Earthen pots with milk and Butter Milk with songs of Govinda reverberating from most of the nook and corner of Mumbai City........It  a festive feel guys even though most part I feel its a nuisance.......with ..the Loud speakers and other noise but you are pulled into the festive feel in spite of your own volition....and finally a part of it all ....what say?

Comp problems.... ....

Blog 14..

Anu's chatter...

Guys its been  frustrating week as I could not blog not because I did not want to but because of some technical problems with my comp .........the mouse was not working the comp was hung for a long time in spite of the constant trial from me ...it was not functional..finally my hubby dear set it and today I am in the process of posting five blogs catching on the lost time.....Irrespective of what I was doing I was missing on this 'ME TIME' that I had mentioned earlier.....so I am Maha  happy to be back....and to find my Centre again.....

Blogathon blog---13

Hey I love Me time..

There is no time like me time and do you know what I do during this time? I read and write ..most of the time write and nowadays the best pastime for-- Me Time is ----Watching the pelting rain on the window panes....what do you do ? Please share here..How do you spend time with yourself? And also I would love to know if you really love your own company or you hate it?

Happy Raksha Bandhan

BLOGATHON BLOG---12

Hey guys last week it was friendships day and today is Raksha Bandhan....last year i had written an amazing blog on the Raksha Bandhan which was much much appreciated .....Hope all of you out there had real fun today ...Take care!

Commando with a Tattoo...

Blog marathon Blog number 11...

Anu’s Chatter....

Today I read an inspirational story of a man who was lost in one of the Mumbai slums in Thane and he went back home after 20 years to his biological mother....at the time he was lost he was around  6...I have just finished reading a real life story of Ganesh Dhangde a Mumbai slum dweller who lived to become a commando in the Mumbai Police...all the years he was lost from his mother( his father a construction worker  had died when he was a child) he was taken care of by kind strangers and Mumbai orphanages gave him the education and courage and brought  the best in him and he became an athlete of the state level to be re-united with his family 20 years hence  because of a tattoo of his mother’s name ---Manda Dhangde ingrained on his left  underarm, a tradition in the most Mahar-ashtrian villages...That made me think a lot about my country's culture guys. It is in fact a tradition to inscribe a tattoo I understand .....with the family name on small children..its awesome I feel ...its like an identity card ..Dear friends there have been instances of children lost and found because of  a birth mark ...so  a tattoo after birth on a babies body is  really a wise tradition....Well three cheers to Mumbai and its awesome spirit!