the reflections of abis.

“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness”

– i’ll get back to the quote at the end!

I believe sunday is the ‘odd man out’ of the entire week. During my school days this is how sundays pass… I normally wake up at 8 30 am those days… ‘The Hindu’ newspaper would have colourful attachments then and lot of advertisements, without even brushing i will be going through the newspaper (pictures only!). Then its a special breakfast at sunday, usually chappattis with channa or puri & masala, I always eat to my fullest on sundays. Then moma wants me to go and get chicken for lunch… Sundays are also notable for watching TV, some of my fav childhood tv shows in DD channel are Shaktimaan, Captain Vyom, Chandrakanta, Om Namasivaya, Small Wonder and so… how i used to run home to watch these! Then the evening usually goes playing cricket in our ground which we fondly named as the Shit-ney pitch… We used to play matches against different area teams, bet matches, team splits, rain spoilt matches and so on! we also used to play hide and seek, lagori, happit in pambaram.Also, frequently we used to visit train track nearby, which has a forest appearance with a small hill and a deep well on the way. Other time-passes were fishing in valamkulam, cycling races, flying kite, playing with pups etc…

Next phase is sundays from my tenths standards… this is when tution classes start… so most entertainment cut as time passes studying for tests and writing them… Then after school its college time… During these years every sunday i used to meet my school time friends, somedays we go for movies, somedays we played cricket on my friends appartment terrace, we also got addicted to roadside chat shops and visited them every sunday evening… Dinner was mostly outside home, ranging from petty shops to grand buffets.

Next phase in sundays is when i started my internship… the location changes to bangalore. mostly we used to visit some pace here like forum, mg road, and do any shopping or atleast window shopping… also a lot of money gets spent on food by trying out different restaurants. Some wekends i visit my home, during these days its very hectic, meeting friends, spending time with family and so… Sunday nights have been similar throughout, gloomy, recalling whats the work to be done on monday, so with a heavy heard i tuck myself under my bedsheet, awaiting for the next sunday!

Well, this is how this Sunday (25.3.2007) went… I went to my hometown cbe, but since parents out of station i had to stay alone… I thought of making it a different day, so surprisingly went to dhanvanthri temple, dhanvathri is the diety for health, then i went to a charity home for the orphans, i have never been to this place by myself. I remember my mom taking me there once when i was a kid. I was welcomed there by an old lady as “come son!” and another little girl came running to switch on the fan, she told “please sit here brother”… I saw photos of Mother Teresa and Jesus Christ all over… i din have a look at all the children there… I told the sister there “I’ll come again” and left the place… it was a different experience… I like to share a Mother Teresa quote on this occassion,

“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness”