Funny side of childhood :)

Recalling few funny incidents from childhood ;)

- This one was in Banur. We (me and few cousins) used to regularly go to farms and spend a lot of time there, playing . Once me and Ashwini (cousin) were walking back home .We had to walk through farms to get back.Just then we saw a snake passing beside us at some distance :O. We had seen in movies that snakes come after you once you see them and believed it :D We ran and ran and didn't look back till we reached home :D I was carrying some clothes which fell on the way , I didn't even pick them up fearing that the snake might be just behind us and bite us :D

- I don't remember how old I was when this happened.I was in udayagiri and some friend of doddappa and doddamma was staying with us for a day or two. D'mma was in the kitchen and called me to ask uncle (friend) to go take bath since hot water was ready and he had to leave that day. I went and said the same to uncle and came back and told d'mma - " Uncle said they have water at their place and he will take bath in his house itself ". D'mma was now totally confused . She asked me as to whom I called , and I reply - "Nagesh uncle" :D (son of the neighbours :D) .. I had gone all the way to the next house and called him to take bath :D

-This one was in Mysore . Usually after coming back from school , I used to stay in my aunt's house which was close to my house till mom came back from office.I don't remember why , but one fine day I went home directly.I was shocked to see that the house door was not locked , since at that time it ought to be. We used padlock at that time.I thought may be mom has come back soon and rang the bell many times.But no response. I decided that there are burglars inside the house. I started walking back towards aunt's house and met 2 of my friend's on the way. We decided that we have to fight the burglars and started collecting weapons :D I took a big stone , and they took a big stick and a knife. So armed we went to our house.We didn't have any plan in mind as such :D When we reached there , our neighbor saw us in this avatar and asked us what we were upto.When we told her , she laughed heartily and informed us that our parents have changed the padlock to door lock :D We were so disappointed :P

There might be many more and it always makes me laugh whenever I think of these incidents :D Hope I remember more of these so that I can add to the list ;)

Come back yesterday

Why is that I always look back and hope that I could go back in time and live some of the days again?What makes the past so endearing,even when the present is going good?

Many a times I think about the times in Mysore and want to re-live my those days again.How nice it would be if I can get just one day of those times again..Few days back,when I was in Mysore and was staying at our house.It was around 7 in the evening and we (Myself and Deepu) were on the terrace of the house.I went and sat for sometime in the same spot where I used to when we were actually living there.I felt like I was back in time , and if I go down into the house now , there will be amma cooking in the kitchen , and will call me for dinner :) But then , my thoughts were stopped when Deepu said we will go down.

So , I come back to present , and think that my life has changed so much now.Even if I go down into the house now , I won't find my parents and Yashu there..It's a different aspect that they are there in Bangalore now , and I we keep meeting very often , but still it's not the same..

So , I just wonder , why is that , I always have this feeling that I would want things to be as they were in past , though I am happy and content with my present?The past always has its own charm which makes me re-visit those memories now and then.After some days , I might be yearning for one day of my today's life ;) 

Banur Series - Part 1

Yashu,Atte,Myself,Manju,Varun and Teju

When I think of childhood , the places that first come to my mind are NR mohalla and Udayagiri in Mysore and Banur in Chikmagalur.This series is about all the nice time we had in Banur and all the sweet memories :) . I am already forgetting bits and pieces of that time. So before my memory becomes more hazier , let me start penning down all that I remember of those precious moments :)

To start with , Banur is my Mom's native place. Its a village in Chikmagalur district. All my summer holidays were spent there. I actually don’t remember even a single summer holiday that I spent in Mysore.We(me and Yashu) would pack our bags the day exam got over ( rather my mom packed them for us ;) ) and keep waiting for our parents to take us to Banur.And once we reached there , we would eagerly wait for the arrival of all my Cousins.

Teju,Dodamma,Atte and Dayanna

I remember Thatha ( My mom's Father ) used to keep ready a huge sack of rice during this time for the next 2 months ;)The day we reached there would go off in just having dinner and sleeping. But my eyes would be looking for Ashwini and Raju ( my other cousins whose house is just in front of my grandparents house ) ;) . 

And from the next day , we would all start off :D . We would wait eagerly for breakfast and run out to meet all cousins and friends .We would start off on all games - hide and seek, kunte pille, chowka baara, carom, halli gulli mane, kalla police, pagade etc,etc . Oh my god! What fun it was. We played so many games with those tamarind seeds, small stones, broken bangle pieces, etc.Though I remember the rules of those games now , I don’t remember there names :). May be we were inventing those games and rules then and there:D

And the amazing thing was, while playing hide and seek and such running around games, we used to simply go and hide in anyone's house or backyard of the houses, without even asking them and not thinking much about it :D And even they didn’t ask us not to make noise or as to who we were or anything :D.I remember once I was hiding in some house and they had given me roti and other stuff to eat :D

And during the night , we would all sleep in the hall and in between if any of us felt hot , we would just take a chaape ( small carpet ) and go and sleep outside on the street :D It was not a tar road , but a mud one. And there would be already many people sleeping outside ;)

So many more things to write about! But this is it for the first part of the series :) More to come in future posts of this series ;) .Yashu,Raju,Teju,Dayanna - If you guys happen to read these posts , do put across your memories of those times and any correction/additions to mine :)

Hum aapke hain kaun?

No , I am not going to write about the movie ;) Everybody knows and have seen enough of this movie already :D  Its about one memory which comes back every time I watch this movie or hear its name ..

I think the movie was released in 1994 . I badly wanted to watch the movie but sadly no one was ready to take me to theater :P Myself and Yashu went to Udayagiri ( area in Mysore where my mom's elder sister ( doddamma ) and her family stayed for a long time ) . I have lot of memories from childhood spent in Udayagiri .. :) May be I will write about them in my future posts ;) I really don't know what came upon me on that day . I started bugging doddamma to ask Dayanna ( my cousin bro ) to take me to this movie :D She tried to convince me saying that Dayanna had already been to this movie and Doddappa will scold him nicely if he comes with me again. I was not at all ready to listen and was very rigid on my stand :D So finally doddamma relented and we caught a bus to city to go to the theatre ;) Dayanna must have been all happy to see the movie again since he was a BIG fan of Madhuri Dixit ;)

 As we got down from bus , we met Dayanna's classmate and she smiled at Dayanna. Dayanna was trying to avoid her and later told me that she speaks a lot and hence he was trying to avoid her :D

During the movie , I remember one girl who was crying almost all through the movie ;)

We went back to bus stand to catch the bus and to Dayanna's agony , we met the same girl ( classmate ) again  :D

On the way back we discussed as to which is the best dress which Madhuri wore in the movie , etc , etc :D

This movie is played very often on one or the channels and every time I remember the above happenings :) Thats how some memories are .. They will be a part of us even though we have moved on from that phase and come a long way from there .. :)