I remember...

Its been a while since I've posted something...and the reason is sheer laziness and a lotta office work, though more the former than the latter! ;) I was talking to one of my friends recently about how i wanted a break, to go someplace n unwind...i told him that i want to go to Rajasthan and Mumbai and other places..it was then that i realized that i have already been here, lived in all these states and yet my memories of them are vague..

I was born in Calicut, Kerala and dad was stationed in Zawarmines, Rajasthan then..so I guess we must have lived there n of course since i m no super woman my memories of tat place is zilch! I know we stayed in G too...n I know we have a lotta photos to show tat we have lived here, the huge house, amma standing outside the kitchen n achan sporting a terrorist-like beard carrying jram.. but i don't remember the place , the house or the friends that we made..the didi who used to be very fond o us, the kaka who would play with us...these are all just characters in a story narrated often by amma...

I do however remember the house in delhi, our second house in east patel nagar, my school, Faith Academy and for some reason the garbage collector... i have vivid memories of this old lady bejewelled and colourfully dressed with a pallu around her head almost like an old bride.. she had this big bin made of steel and would dump the garbage in it..
i remember the man who used to sell video cassetes..he had no tongue and for a long time i was fascinated with the way he tried to converse..
There are so many memories of Delhi that come flashing by me sometimes...I remember an afternoon when i was plodding through a late lunch and i was more interested in the new ring on my finger...silver with a shiny green paper stuck on it...n when the sunlight fell on it I was a super hero throwing green rays across the dining table.. :)
I remember.. and i want to go back again to that afternoon, quiet and of a childhood long ago where a paper ring meant more than anything in the world to me...