I keep telling myself

I keep telling myself...

"Come on, worse things happen!"

Forgive and live

The smartest people sometimes do the stupidest things

Super mum

It was may be a little over five years ago when I came home from school just like any other day. I never actually cried that night. It still remains as one of the most sorrowful nights of my life.

That night - I could not imagine what my morning would be like. I had never spent a night at home without grownups. I didn’t know if she was going to make it. My heart skipped a beat at the words on the phone call. I could barely follow the instruction given - I had to pack her some stuff, she was being admitted. She was bad –very bad. I lost the rest.

While doing what I was asked to, I was trying to imagine what it would be like without her. She was too young. It was a vision that had never crossed my mind before and I was plagued by it.

When I was sick or in a bad mood I would simply curl up in bed with a long face or pretend to be doing something. But she – no matter how healthy or ill she was she would wake up much before dawn, cook, make breakfast, clean up, send us to school and go to work. There were no servants. She did it all by herself. She never complained. I wasn’t much help either. I even fussed sometimes. She would come up with elaborate spreads of her delicious cooking for visitors from all over the world. What I loved best off her deserts was the creamy chocolate fudge. Often we had overnight visitors and when they ask us if he have enough room, mama would just say “as long as there’s room in our hearts there’ll always be room in our home”. Again – it was all her alone.

I never actually got around telling her how much I love her. As we grew up the habit of giving her a goodbye hug before leaving home, slowly died out just like the bedtime stories and nursery rhymes.

When mama came back home from the hospital I just knew one thing in my heart – she was truly irreplaceable and I would never in my life be able to do all that she did as good as she did it. I never realised how much I had until God knocked on my door.

Today is her birthday. Over weeks, I’ve been thinking of stuff to get her and stuff that I could do with her together. May be we’ll cook something or bake a cake. May be I should tell her how great I think she is. May be we’ll play scrabble or go for a walk. Whatever I do for her, for sure will not be enough to show her my love and gratitude. My mind has no capacity to think of what she’s worth of. I hope the Lord will take care of her just like she took care of us.

Acres of love and mountains of joy

Yeah that’s what she gave me

That’s all that I have

Wonderful advice

Some good spanking once in a while

Sweet childhood memories

And much more to come

To carry to my grave

Thank you so much mama

Just Everybody

Everybody knows something that you don’t

Everybody’s got some sort of vocabulary that he/she does not know how to spell/ pronounce or the meaning of.

Everybody is ashamed of at least one thing

Everybody has something to regret about

Everybody made some big mistake in their life

Everybody has to cry sometime in their lives

Everybody needs a friend

And if that doesn’t make you feel any better

You are not everybody

FAQs

Q: Why are your blogs sad?
A: Sorry no answer

Q: How come you walk so fast?
A: Don’t look

Q: So when’s the big day?
A: Soon

Q: Do you like lecturing?
A: Don’t like to call it that but yeah I love it!

Q: Hey, you hardly smile!
A: I’m saving them! :)) (No actually -lost a tooth, unfortunately)

Q: How do you make mountains off very simple topics in your blogs?
A: Just think about it a little more

Q: What’s the worst thing you ever did?
A: It’s definitely not bad enough to stay in my mind

Q: How much did I get?
A: As much as you deserve

Q: How old are you?
A: As old as I look

Q: Can we have an extension?
A: NO!!!

Q: What’s your favourite batch?
A: The one in which I was :)

Q: Do you like us?
A: (I get really lost here)

Guys, it is not easy being a lecturer so please, please think a little before asking me those questions.

Welcoming Alf to blog world!

Hey people, we have a new comer. He was here about a year ago and then left after some bad experiences. Check him out!

I can’t see

But I’m not blind

I can’t hear

But I’m not deaf

I can’t talk

But I’m not dumb

The Thesaurus

Why waste so many words to say the same thing?

Truly Happy!

There is no greater happiness than making someone else happy....

What next?

The tsunami came and left; tearing our lives apart while at the same time bringing us as a nation together. The oceans discriminated none.

However, if one takes the past few months into consideration, just how many troubles have hit the streets in a span of six to nine months? Starting from Shahrukh Khan’s issue, to rallies to strike after strike disrupting normal human life, standing in the way of whatever little progress there is, causing absolutely unnecessary disputes and pain and worst of all demeaning the status of mankind. You wake up in the morning to realise you cannot make it to work only because whatever simple and ineffective modes of available transport are completely non-functional. Parents send their children to school and wait at the gates with heavy hearts to see that the children arrive safely. People double check the locks of their vehicles to make sure they wont be carjacked or stolen off their dead bodies. A peaceful life of no worries and fears is almost unimaginable to us, leave alone the idea of making a home of your own for the future. It seems that the vicious circle continues destroying the joys and lives of many more generations to come!

Lord, I leave it in your hands as I hear your voice echoing that you leave it in mine!

“Business has become the most powerful institution on the planet. The
dominant institution in any society needs to take responsibility for the whole.
Business, however, has not had such a tradition. This is a new role, not well
understood or accepted. Built on the concept of capitalism and free enterprise
from the beginning was the assumption that the actions of many units of
individual enterprise, responding to market forces and guided by the “invisible
10 hand” of Adam Smith, could somehow add up to desirable outcomes. However,
in the last decade of the twentieth century, it has become clear that the “invisible
hand” is faltering. It depends on the consensus of overarching meanings and
values that are no longer present. So business has to adapt a tradition it has
never been throughout the entire history of capitalism: to share responsibility for
the whole. Every decision that is made, every action that is taken must be
viewed in light of that responsibility.”

WILLIS HARMAN, cofounder of the World Business Academy