Thursday, January 22, 2004

little things are of great value to me. I concentrate more on certain things which usually irritate my mother...to quote, I postpone things to the last minute which she just hates to the core. I like collecting anything that looks different.mind u I've even got collection of coca-cola bottle caps, collected about an year ago.I collect greeting cards, and even bus tickets(all my friends and classmates would be knowing this!), chumkis and what not, u name something that would sure be having a place in my cup-board.this unfortunate shelf somehow failed to attract my mother and its pathetically called 'junk' or even 'garbage' by all my family members.I don't mind all that.there is an advantage of having a messed up shelf like this....u know what? nobody dares touch my shelf! there are umpteen instances which make others feel I'm childish...An aunt next house always keeps advising me about how girls should be bold,outspoken and this and that.(as if I'm not bold already! enough of my boldness and extrovertishness)but there's no point in opposing her..she was married at the age of 13!!! to a 21 yr old boy! unfortunately he died at the age of thirty and she had to bring her children up by herself. its quite natural that these sort of people feel like advising whomsoever they see...and that too, she'd tell my mom "avala nanna padikka vai! romba porumaiyana ponnu....nalla varuva" (allow her to study more....she's a very patient girl...she'd come out wonderfully well!) god knows, appearances are pretty deceptive..how can she ever say I'm calm. I'm a big mouth but not loose mouthed..
so why am I suddenly writing all these crap now and that too here? this has a reason...A relative of mine, a very distant aunt,had turned up last week after a long gap! I actually didn't know she was inside and as usual I jumped into my home yelling out something..don't remember what though?! suddenly when I saw her inside, I turned calm and quiet and greeted her, then went and greeted the uncle et shut my mouth and went in.I am usually very reserved in talking to guests. my mom, to make me talk to them, called me in front of them and asked me to prepare coffee for them.I'm bad in cooking quicklyi can prepare something but I take my own time.now and then I called my mom or my granny for help! I don't even know where all necessary vessels are! she explicitly said "how are u going to manage after u'r marriage, if u r so poor in cooking?" I was taken aback and didn't want to actually continue with the discussion. I came back with a grin in my face but as soon as I saw my father and brother sitting and laughing at her joke..even I couldn't control my laughter!
there are certain people who actually look at girls and upcoming professionals and experts, but there still exists a big group of people who believe girls are born to be married. I was inspired by an article taken from a book written by one of bin laden's twin brothers' wife, on the plight of women in a terrorist family like theirs. amazingly written article, it was. If only I had a copy of that I'd luv to put it up here!

btw, planning to go to saarang from tomorrow.hope fully, would be participating in most of the competitions, if there are no classes!

Posted by sree at 9:06:00 pm
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