Mrs. Hari passed away yesterday. Brings back old memories. Yesterday only I had written about being invited by her for lunch. We learnt so many folk songs from her and it brought back memories of 472 sangat road.Everyone remembers the tall lady with bigi bindi. How we everyone used to get togther almost everyday and everyone in and out of each others houses like they were their oen. How times have changed. The area looks completely different now. New people have come in and old oones have left. passing of an older generation and advent of new and suddenly all the responsibilities are looming up wondering how will we ever cope. .........May God rest her soul in peace.

This one I have told many times but it has to be put on the blog. Mum was away to Malaysia at that time and Mrs . Hari our neighbour had called us for lunch. Vinu was very small I think it was when chindi chachaji got married, she was troubling and one of us I don't remember who called her an idiot and she started howling. To quieten her I managed to convince her that idiot meant very good girl. She was convinced and stopped crying. Few days later again while they wer bickering with each other , she told me Neeta, Bawa Gunna are dirty girls and both of us are idoit.

Joginder uncle, Grewal uncle's younger brother rang up from canada yesterday. His wife was suffering from cancer and passed away in July. According to him she is at peace and she went the way she wanted with her family by her side and at home. Which reminded dad of his way of taking things.
Seems he had taken him to sanwalka's when they used to live on Rani jhansi road,(must have been years ago) and uncle asked him what he would like to drink. His answer was 'akal noo jinda hi launa, koi hove'. (to lock your senses it can be any)

Paper

Just remembered dad telling me one day that he was sure babaji's electric shop was in hoshiarpur not jalandhar, because when there shortage of paper to practice his maths or notebooks were too expensive(during world war time I guess( he was given those empty bill books to practice his maths on. which also proves the fact that his business wrapped up because the bill books were empty. (may be not enough households in hoshiarpur with electricity in those days)

Quotations

TALENT is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry;it is a voluntary power while genius is involuntary. W.Hazlitt
TIME is a dressmaker.Specialising in alterations. Faith Baldwin
TRADITION is an important help to history, but its statement should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. Joseph Edison
WISDOM is only found in truth.J.W.Goethe
WORLD - This world is a dream within a dream;and as we grow older,each step is an awakening. The youth awakes,as he thinks,from childhood;the full grown man despises the persuits of youth as visionary; and the old man looks on manhood as feverish dream.Death the last sleep? NO! it is the last and final awakening. Walter Scott


That concludes my book. Will find something else now.

QUOTATIONS

RASHNESS is the characeristic of ardent youth, and prudence that of mellowed age. M.T.Cicero
REFLECTION is a flower of the mind giving out wholesome fragrance;but revery is the same flower,when rank and running to seed. Tupper
SARCASM is the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good renounced it. Thomas Carlyle
SENSITIVENESS is closely allied to egotism-.Indeed excessive sensitiveness is another name for morbid self consciousness-The cure of it is to make more of our objects, and less of ourseleves-christian. Nestill Bovee
SILENCE is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself. La Rouchefoucaold.
SOLITUDE is as needful to imagination, as society is wholesome for the character. J.R.Lowell
SORROWS are our best educators.A man can see further thriugh a tear than a telescope.Byron
SUCCESS is the old ABC -ability,breaks and courage. Charles Luckman
SUSPICION is noless an enemy to virtue than to happiness.He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. Samual Johnson

Cinderella shoes(gun's)

Breaths

It is said that the no. of breathes we take on this earth is preordained. Papa was known as American Singh in Airforce. He used to do 50km walk and was national champion in 1958. I Think i have the year right, but will check it anyways. When he left Madras, his senior wrote him a letter saying, remember Mr. Singh we all have only a certain no. of breathes on this earth, so don't walk too much or too fast, otherwise u will waste them faster.

Quotations

PANIC is the stampede of our self possession. Rivarol
PATIENCE is the support of weakness,impatience is ruin of strength.Charles Caleb Colton
PEACE is not merely a negative ideal, it is the condition of all positive aims.G.Lowes Dickinson
PERSECUTION is not wrong because it is cruel,but cruel because it is wrong.Whately
PIETY is a silver chain uniting heaven and earth, temporal and spiritual, God and man together. Caussin
A PLATITUDE is a truth we are tired of hearing.Godfrey Nicholson
POETRY is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes it sorigin from emotion recollected in tranquility. Willaim Wordsworth
POLITENESS is like air cushion; thjere may be nothing in it, but it eases our jolts wonderfully. Samual Johnson
POPULARITY is a crime from the moment it is sought.It is only a virtue where men have it wether they will or no. George Savile

Quotations

MAN is a rope connecting animal ans superman - a rope over precipice.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. F.Neitzsche
MIND the mind is like stomach.It is not how much you pit into it that counts but how much it digests. Swami Vivekananda

OBLIVION is a second death,which great minds dread more than first. De Bouffers
OBSTINACY is the result of the will forcing itself into place of intellect.Arthur Schopenhauer.

Quotations

LANGUAGE is armoury of the human mind and it contains the trophies of its past and weapons of future conquests. S.T.Coleridge
LIFE is a syntehesis of opposites . The Vedas
LOGIC : an instrument used for bolstring a prejudice. E.Hebbard
LOVE is like measles: you can get it only once and later in life it occurs the tougher it gets. Josh Billings

New Year

Wish all the best in coming year to all of you.
The last year has been very emotional (may be the right word for it). It has seen the maximum ups and downs. First came the eye opener that your perception of people was wrong and the confidence built over the years came crashing down, and suddenly one started questioning everything, decisions etc. Then the illness of parents and suddenly life is very scary with all its responsibilities.And my holiday where I totally switched off from everything.
And somehow I can't use the word Happy in wishing everyone with the year ending and beginning on a sad note. There are very few people like Bhua ji but why did she have to suffer so much in the end is beyond my understanding. So just wishing everyone health and happiness .