Lets dream !

As I sat next to my dad in one of those open air movies watching “The Exorcist”, I was scared to my wits. The head of the young heroine turned 360 degrees; the candle in her room burnt blue and there were a lot of flies that hissed around the blue flame!! I pulled my chair closer to him just to check if he too was terrified about what he saw. Well he seemed to have sensed my chair being drawn closer and he just smiled(more a smirk!) to himself that did get me embarrassed as he would quote this episode in one of our arguments.  I didn’t care! This was terrifying for the moment!

That night I recall having a dream (my dreams are very realistic?) that would have possibly had a lady(I am quite unsure why its always a lady!!:(   in white behind the mango tree at home. She normally had sound accompanying her walk! Now for the added part …the lamp she carried in her hand burned blue. There you go! Realistic to believe she stood there. After all,  the unicorns that exists only in the imagination are still products of real things- i.e.,. horns and horses. The human mind is funny! But fifteen years later I saw the movie all alone at night and I watched it with a different eye.  Many parts are humor pieces! The human mind is indeed queer. It remembers all the details of what once took our mind off …may be the tone and the mood of it is different. After all old is gold!

On the same note, recently a very good, well meaning friend sent us a forward that had allof us at home recall memories of childhood. This picture says a lot.

With the World Cup around the corner there has been too much of cricket talk at home (cricket matches are life changing events at homeJ). The happy grin on the batsman’s face resembles the happy grins at home when Sachin makes his centuries. Never mind the wicket keeper…too many jokes on Kamran Akmaal already. To me the drift is more than cricket…its also the giant pencils standing as stumps. These pencils used to be in boxes kept out off our reach in our school days. My bro once bought a 1000 of these for my daughter and when I asked  …he just confessed that he had this dream of a Nataraj pencil house(like Hansel and Gretel’s biscuit houseJ) . Today my daughter needs pencils with cartoons sticking behind or a fancy rubber at the end or she just needs those graphite nib sophisticated variety (most irritating discovery in my opinion as when u write on paper with a slight press, it will break and you need to reload the graphite sticks with as much precision as you will a needle and thread!! By then you have probably forgotten what to writeL

Another picture in her attachment was this phone.

Well, it was an event of the day when the phone rang with a volume slightly lower than the church bell. Loud as it was, the entire household would call out,”I will get it!”. Of course we could pick it up only if parents weren’t around. It had a cloth neatly spread on it and was placed in a special projection from the wall. Whoever was talking had the whole household drop the work they did and crowd around the speaker(I told you it was the event of the week also sometimes!).  Wow what a joy it brought …even if the call or the caller had no remote connection to us! A happiness for no apparent reason. Must admit that this whole rarity of the event brought with it a neat sense of discipline that can only be dreamt for our kids!

This picture took my attention for a  variety of reasons.

                                                   I am a Complan boy ! I am a Complan girl!
                                     

 First of all, not once in 11 years has my daughter held her Complan mug with that broad smile! That too with so many flavors she gets in the market to choose from. Secondly, the gender discrimination that this advertisement brought seemed quite uncalled for as though there wasn’t enough otherwise. Thirdly, the plastic cup they hold were a compliment with the Complan and we drank from it. Period! Today Science has proven that these plastic cups are a root cause for Cancer. Times have changed. Remember!  Wasn’t ignorance seriously bliss!!

Ah the white shoes with green soles.

                                                  The green sole sport shoe!

It had to be washed and polished with the wet polish and left to dry.  If you forgot to do it, simple just run white chalk on it  before the PE period. You are pretty much out of danger after the initial inspection of the shoes. Oh!What I loved the most was the smell of these shoes when they were brand new. The joy of releasing them from the Bata boxes and wearing them on the first day! Unbeatable!

Well, times have truly changed people. There are shoes and pencils bought with monthly grocery and handphones that blink every few minutes to give you status updates of social networks. With it has changed our understanding of the world and yes, we have learned to tweek our concept of happiness  too. Living and changing with the times is the key to happy living else you would be left behind(say all 'Change' programmes)!!  Having said that, how many of you can actually open a Vcard that is sent to you on your phone from a friend’s number? An old friend ..pretty much from my generation wrote me a message that read, “Please message me her number. PLEASE don’t send it by V card. Type it for me. I don’t know to open it!”. I obliged completely.

You know why!!!