a bright, sunny, cold afternoon..all to your self...

 

 

11.12.13                                                                                                       Wed, 11:30 am

 

                                                                                                                    

Had I been a Stay-at-home-mom (well. I was...for the last 3 years)...today would have been the kind of day that I would definitely NOT be  Staying-at-home. Alright, the mornings and evenings are cold, about 3-9 deg C , just like that...but, the afternoons are lovely. A stroll out by our neighbourhood beach, or play-yard pushing one of my younger boys in the pram...do miss those days, at times...ever since I got back to workforce .

 

 

 

 

(Thats our Boy No.2 on his rounds while he was around 2 yrs old (a 3 yr old click). And that was our very very handy jogging stroller..it stayed all though his days and Boy No.3 as well.)

 

Anyways..like the old saying goes in our language..malayalam..

 

"vaidhyan kalpichathum...roghi ichichathum paalu"

 (what the patient longed..is what the doctor prescribed..in those lines.)

 

I had to take a half day off from work today, to be back home before our two younger ones reached back from school and I had about an hour to kill before they were back. So, either I reach back home early and just be there alone by myself... doing some browsing or watching TV..or ...or...or...

 

I take the other road and go straight to the beachfront for a stroll ! and yes ! thats exactly what I did.

 

Was not in the best of dressings for a walk, esp in workwear shoes ....yet....It felt good...a silent walk by the beach..eyes just wandering....

 

The usually, crowded playarea was soo silent, being a weekday afternoon except for few adults who were taking their afternoon walks ....

 

and, there was this Mom-Son duo

 

 

just sat there at the bench watching them play for a while..making sure, they dont notice that i was clicking as well (some paparazi work, i admit..but harmless ;) )

 

 

 

 

and what i felt cute...was this. More than the kido enjoying the sand..it was the Mom...making a mound out of the mud...then breaking it down as if the architecture doesnt fit and then trying out some other shape. 



At times..its fine to let out the child in you..to enjoy the beauty around us, to the fullest.

311 - The Beauty & The Beast

 

Day # Beautiful # Waters # Calm # World # Happy # 311

 

 

 Day # Beastly # Waters # Scary # World # Terrified # 311

 

Look across # Serene # 311

 

Look across # Fearful # 311

 

 

Son # Alone # Water # Merry # 311

 

 

Son # Alone # Water # Despair # 311

 

Trailing behind # Mind # Relaxed # 311

 

  Trailing behing # Mind # Turmoil # 311

 

Mom # Baby # Secure # Happy # 311

 

 

 

Mom # Baby # Insecure # Thankful Just to be Alive # 311 

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I hope you could co-relate. It is definitely a disturbing post, and i was just being selective in not keeping even more disturbing pictures of this incident in here.

 

The two phases of the world...the same day......same time....just across the globe.

Friday, 311 - March 2011 - was a beautiful day here. Sky was blue...few cottony clouds around...weather was perfect that you had to be out to enjoy it to the full...the sea was soo calm.

Mother Nature was being really pleasant and sweet.

 

But right across, straight across the globe..she was putting on that most wicked mask. Unleasing terror all around.

 

She could be soo calm and soo violent at the very same time.

 

 

 She could just be ME, YOU..and honestly, that look on her face, just makes me wonder.."are you prepared for the unexpected, God forbid something bad happens.? Manmade...natural disasters ..are way too common in the papers these days, that they dont move you any more, unless you yourself gets affected by it. Personally, ME..am not at all prepared for anything bad..and I would go blank. Unable to respond.

 

Mamma Earth....pleeassee...dont do this to us . Their pray ?
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That was of the second episode of Tsunami that we came to witness.

The first, Dec 26th 2004, was even more scary, for me. Coz..he was there..right in the middle of it, in Maldives..when it hit, and me, a 5 month preggie lady back home in India !

 

 

you will have no clue what i went through....

 

...to be continued.

 

my world..here...and across the seas...

Having a walk round one of our marine work sites...and looking back towards the mainland, took this picture....and thought..

"wow! it would be great if we were living some where there"

 Never in my wildest dream did i know that within a few months...we would move over here. A lovely suburb, close to the sea - Mahboula, here in Kuwait. Thats where we are, for the last 6 years... right behind those cream coloured twin hi-rise buildings.

                    our home.. my flowers....the clear blue sky....and the sea beyond...

just tiny saplings barely half a feet tall while they first came home...now they are full-grown up trees, standing tall, touching the ceiling.

..and...moving across the seas....ocean really....my homeland....

 namma metro - The mighty Kochi @ Kerala.

 Staying just right next to the National Highway...this is what i can relate to more than anything. "My" vyttila junction - the traffic...the private busues racing to overtake each other..literally moving on its sides with the people hanging from the doors and windows....

 the most common sites...peole moving forward and forward almost to the centre of the highway beckoning the oncoming vehicles for  a lift back home

and the scores running towards the buses while the conductor would have already blown the whislte for the buses to leave even before the people have loaded in.

not...not at all...to forget...the reputed autorikshaws lining the side roads.

This was something that i would be really looking out for. The signal to turn red, and one run across the road. All those years....yest years that i have literally spent a good part of my life walking up and down the side roads along the highway..to school...back from school..to work...back from work.

...and then..this city girl moves home (gets married) to the country side...where its just green green and green all around.

 It was an entirely different world and i loved it....still does.

 (view from the balcony)

(Shayne, as if in a wonderland - clicked about 4 yrs back)

(way leading to my in-laws place during heavy rains. The kids just shout in excitement seeing the water splashing on either sides of the car passing through this waterways.)

...going back home for vacation, its our kids who gets to embrace these two distinct worlds...one which is full of trees and rubber all around - their "Pala veedu"...and the other, where its all buses and cars and bikes all that is seen peeing out of the window - their "Kochi veedu".