Saturday, May 4, 2013

what's in ur tummy..mommie ??

watching home videos of the pre-birth era..my boys asks.."where were we in this video?..well... all reasonings like.."u were sleeping in the other room, u were playing outside"..never works..until i was like.."alright, u were in mamma's tummy".

 
 
Finally, something clicked. They brought it ;)
 
 
 
. ...later...looking at one of our wedding snaps...."Serg, definitely not happy - y u did not take us for ur wedding ???.....
 
by then, i knew what will sell best with them .... "well..you ALL were there...all three of you.... sleeping.. inside my tummy!
 


but...you know...too much of even honey, is no good.
Like said in malayalam..."athikamaayal..amruthavum visham!".
 
They got soo used to this phrase that for anything and everything ....the answer ends up in "it's in mummy's tummy!!!! Ask my little where where in the world had he misplaced his lost toys...and the answer is ready.."athu mammadae vaitilaa...its in mamma's tummy !!!...



Just sharing two of the images of the detailed scan that was done while i was expecting SMS No.3 @24 weeks.




Was not the doctor really excited ..saying..."wow!! luk at that...thebaby is waving to his mom!. Most of the time, the kids tend to keep their fits tightly closed even after birth ..but here, it was so widely open, as if giving a big hai...from within .
 
Gine me a fi..mommmie !!!




...and that was hi tiny weenie legs...
It was a great feeling, just seeing that. Well, proof that the boys were literally playing football in there. Thanks to their sports freak daddie :/


and..not so good part of that scan.
what the hell did  he think is in my womb! - Liqour !!! blody hell!!!


Think it was because he was born almost a month before his due date, that he still prefers to be in that state of existence :D


in the waters...most of the time
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just sharing a forward that i came across in facebook, and thought it's just worth to be shared

Grand Conversation between twins:




Baby 1: And you, you believe in life after birth?

Baby 2: Absolutely. It’s obvious that life after birth exist. We are here ...
to become stronger and to get ready for Whatever awaits us next.

Baby 1: This is absurd. There is nothing after birth! What would life look like outside the womb?

Baby 2: Well, there are many stories about the other side. I’ve heard there is a blaze of light there, an intense and profound feeling of joy with deep emotions, thousands of things to live for… For example, I’ve heard that we’ll eat with our mouth, there.

Baby 1: That's silly. We have an umbilical cord and that is how we eat. Everyone knows that we don’t use our mouth to eat! And, on the top of it, no one has ever come back from the other world… Those stories are all coming from naïve people. Life just ends at birth. Period. That’s the way it is and we must accept it.

Baby 2: Alright, then allow me to think differently. That's for sure, I have no idea what life after birth looks like, and I can’t prove anything to you. But I like to believe, that in the next world, we’ll be able to see our mother and that she will take care of us.

Baby 1: “Mother”? You mean that you believe in ‘Mother’? Oh! So where is she?

Baby 2: Everywhere, don’t you see it! She is everywhere, all around us. We are part of her and it's thanks to her that we are living right now. Without her, we wouldn’t be here.

Baby 1: This is ridiculous! I’ve never seen any mother so it’s obvious that she doesn’t exist.

Baby 2: I don’t agree, that’s your way of seeing things. Because sometimes when everything quiets down a little bit, we can hear her sing. We can feel her hugging our world. I’m pretty sure that our life will start after birth.






Wednesday, May 1, 2013

spot rain concepts


!!!! how cool is that??




well..today is an "overall" greyish day..the skies are moody, cloudy....as if its just about to breakup..but..not yet.....its desperately holding its tears back.


My home and work place is just about 25 minutes drive and and at one particular stretch, it was raining..and that too really well. That was for just about a half-kilometer drive...definitely not beyond. For before and after this stretch..the terrain was perfectly dry ! Absolutely no rain at all..



unlike back home in kerala..when it rains..it rains  literally everywhere - on my home..my uncle's home...my school....and definitely on the roads that we walk to and fro.






 
and what surprised me even more..is that.. during the way back home in the afternoon..it did rain, and that too at that particulat spot..a little bit less intense compared to the morning though.


 
Heard of SPOT LIGHT....but what do you call this phenomenon....SPOT RAIN .. as if the rainwater is poured down using a funnel ???
 

isn't that not a really cute picture? cudn't resist sharing...
 
(images courtesy - google ammavan :) )

 

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

how sweet is that ?

"think sweet little thoughts"
 
 a way too sweet a caption for a no calorie sweetner


one of my favourite product captions so far
 
and, My Good Morning chai ! :)

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

the magic phrase

When you're feelin' sad and low
We will take you where you gotta go
Smiling dancing everything is free
All you need is positivity !!!

 

one of those days when you are feeling just right crap..



.....and worn out....
 

 and frustrated...and all thats to be blame, get dumped on to the hormones.
 (what the hell did i do ?? - the estrogen skeerks).
" well..you are not functioning the way you are supposed to be"


 
 
and just like a chemical equation gone terribly wrong -
all these crap feelings adds up together with the tiredness catalyst triggering the fury ...it all ends up in one singer word - ANGER...and you feel even worse, coz you know, you are angry for nothing...at them who are absolutely innocent...what so ever.
 
You know..its the hormones again!
 
 
 

And it was one of those days exactly as above, and there was my dearest Mr. Little extension ..yeah, he is an extension to me literally...always preferring to be clinging on...always beckoning to be carried...rolling over either over your head, under your legs.....smiling his cutest little smile with raised hands..saying .."edukku eduku"..(take me up)
 
..and...to my greatest ever surprise, as if from nowhere....says....

"PEACE BE WITH YOU"

Of course, he has heard it being mentioned during our regular church service every sunday, but never before has he recited it.

 
was it of the magic spell of the words...or of the affection in his looks....i dont know...
 

it was just RAINING hearts

 

..and...you are all ..well.....the above image says it all !!!
 
 
 
Colors of the world
Spice up your life
Every boy and every girl
Spice up your life
People of the world
Spice up your life
 
and may
 
PEACE BE WITH YOU !!!!

(PS : none of the above images belong to me. they have been "borrowed" from google search ;) )

 

Saturday, April 20, 2013

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".

Thursday, April 18, 2013

....meet the characters.....

Welcome to my new space.
"pick quicks"
finally decided to get started off with a separate blog apart from QUICK PICKS just to be jotting down my random thoughts...musings....craziness....

to get started..let me introduce the characters who will be very often frequenting in this space.


 Our Mario boys, saying .."salaam!!!..to all the readers of this space !
Named Shayne Mario Santhosh, Sergie Mario Santhosh and Stefan Mario Santhosh in order of planet -landing ;)...their names reduces to SMS1, SMS 2 and SMS No.3.



SMS 1..who believes is a combo-avatar of Spiderman, Superman and Batman..all in one package.


 SMS No.2 - the baagavathar. (well...the instrument "was" a piano...luks likes one..just that its hollow where the all the black keys are supposed to be)



and...Mario Boy No.3 - the tiny weenie of the lot..the most cheerful of the lot....got to admit, i am addicted to him. In his self-invented means of transport.

 ..the MAN...the Sdad...
..and with your's truly....the SMommie....

ITS OUR WORLD !!!

WELCOME ..... to my WORLD !!!