Small Life, Big Happenings

There is so much happening in the blogs that I sometimes wonder if I am behind the times. But too much has been happening in my life too. aadi is 7 months now, naughty is the nicest of words you can find for him, he is absolutely impossible! wonder how am going to manage in a couple of months.
there is too much happening in office too. many faces that i have first seen in IE have almost disappeared. and the common faces sometimes change colours in such unexpected ways that i wonder if i had actually known them before. its true there cannot be a better office atmosphere anywhere else. If you cant work here, u can work nowhere. still i miss many faces, voices, talks and friendships.
at home, wedding bells are ringing for bhai. he is the most happiest face around me now. i am reminded of my courtship days actually, seeing him learning the first lessons in love...in three weeks, a new member is to arrive, too much going to happen. by the time the hungama of bhai's wedding will end, it will be time for another IFFK.
IFFK is always a time to return to some old memories. this time i will make sure i see atleast one movie. last time with my tummy full , there were no movies for me. but meeting subhash ghai, pandit shivkumar sharma and ina puri was a memorable experience. wonder when i will sit to write next.

Mama's World

He is here. three months now though his acts look even older and naughtier! he wants to swim in our bed n is working hard towards it. i never thought old wives' tales about bringing up children could be so true. its a tight-rope walk. very dangerous if u r not careful. every minute u r taught new things, u are open to new ideas (which have been there for ages) and u follow a rare intuitive call of ur mind which is amusingly always right with ur kid.
i wonder about the biggest magic called child-birth. how do a child know to suck milk minutes after its birth? who teaches them all these yogasanas which we think are their ways to cry and make noise. many of their acts are so matching of the asanas we do in yoga. if it can help a child to walk, no wonder it helps adults who already know to use their legs and hands...
right now, i am sad to resume my office from monday. i will have to leave him home for hours. but someone said its good on a long term basis that ur child has a working mother, who can give him a new broad world better than `housey' mothers. dont know if its true. but after experiencing a god-like magic for some months, its hardly easy to be back to normal...its more easy to be a full-time amma.
Lesson one i learnt is that `nothing is as simple as it looks' when it concerns ur child. Lesson two-u r bonded with ur child in ways u can never imagine until u become a mother. lesson three-u hav entered a fire -pit, better learn the tricks easier and emerge successful. coz for the first time in life, u r writing the exams and ur child is set to win or lose.

Blogspot n me!

Been away for so long, just that i cudnt find the right words to put down. i was so busy coping with motherhood! but blogs have almost become a part of me. eversince we have started out with this blogspot column in our paper especially. It's been wonderful, meeting so many talents in the blog, speaking to unknown faces and listening to unheard voices, writing about them, and reading their comments, seeing it published in others' blogs.....its the way to live!
blogspot has almost rejuvenated me. it has opened a new stream of thinking i was so far ignorant of. Look at the way people write, they are chemists, teachers ..but on the blog they are so wonderful with words. much more than we scribes!!
even when my baby comes, i hope i am able to continue with blogspot. atleast he will get to know from very young that words are the ultimate power. u hav that, u can win over many hearts..
by the way, he will be here in two months...but i cant get a name for him. it should start with `a'. is there anybody thinking of helping me???