The Balancing Act

My daily dose of Ordeal I face a mammoth task daily, that of commuting from my home to office and coming back to home in the evenings…you may think .. how is it a mammoth task ? Okay let me tell you … this daily commuting form home to work and back.. it inevitably saps all my energy in the morning and leaves me dead tired in the evenings. It is my daily dose of ordeal… the huge traffic jams..thanks to innumerable projects of construction of flyover, grade separators, underpass etc etc.. which has to be completed before Commonwealth games in 2010.. this has given way to unending lines of vehicles.. honking incessantly… uncaring pedestrians ignoring the green light and walking away merrily in midst of blaring horns and angry abuses. Struck at one place in the traffic not moving even an inch for as long as half an hour. After all this chaos on road, by the time I reach home around 8.30 / 8.45 pm or sometimes even at 9.30 p.m ( I leave office at 6.00 p.m sharp) all thanks to atleas...

This is my first ever tag on blogosphere. I picked this up from Deepti's blog... A - Available: Always for my family and friends - Age: Please don’t ask…!!! - Annoyance: Unpunctual late lateefs - Animal: Like them in zoos and forests B - Beer: Yup ! - Birthplace: Delhi - Body Part on opposite sex: Eyes - Best feeling in the world: Seeing the happiness on my children's face - Blind or Deaf: Neither - Best weather: October – November in Delhi neither very hot nor very cold.. pleasant - Been in Love: Yes - Been on stage: Yes - Believe in yourself: Most of the times yes.. - Believe in life on other planets: Yes - Believe in miracles: Yes.. absolutely - Believe in Magic: Yes ! - Believe in God: 200% C - Car: Audi.. Skoda.. this is my wishlist - Candy: Does not have a sweet tooth - Color: White and black. - Cried in school: Yes.. many times - Chocolate/Vanilla: Vanilla - Country to visit: Switzerland D - Day or Night: Night - Danced: in parties .. with friends… at home with my kids...

During my childhood days I used to roam around the big area at the back and the front of our house in Kerala, this area is known as ‘aiyyam’. Everyone else at the house used to be in their afternoon siesta at that time, which was the time when I used to smell the roses, weed out the plants and run after happy yellow butterflies and sit on the rock on which my grand mother used to wash clothes. I can still feel those times as if I have been freezed there, I can still smell the jasmine flowers which were strewn on the mud and still see the orange coloured coconuts (karikk) hanging in bunches from small coconut trees. I was always fascinated by the parrots who had made their nest atop of a coconut tree which had a burnt top and was not growing any more and had become a hollow wood, I used to spot a bird daily, this bird had red rimmed eyes, yellowish brown and dark brown wings, it was called as ‘uppan’ in our area. The knocking of the wood pecker on to the tusk of the coconut trees a...