Guru

Well I have renamed Simran boy on my phone as Guru as Simran boy and girl kept getting confused, As some of his friends used to call him that. The other day shireen thought I had a message from God as she read the meassage 'dont worry'.
Also he didn't like the look of my blog so he has changed it. I think I liked my orange and Red, But lets have every one's opinion.

Gap

Well a lot has happend to keep me away from blogging. So I have sort of lost flow of my writing, Hope I'll regain it. First Dad caught a bout of viral fever which he insists it wasn't , only becuase there were chillies in food. So its completely boiled food now. Ofcourse now he says he has gained weight and is back to having apple for breakfast etc.etc. Where is my will in these matters. Then Mum hasn't been keeping well, it's difficult to watch her being confined to the house and everytime she falls , she loses more and more confidence. Hope atleast she will regain enough health to atleast move about on her own. And ofcourse my biggest surprise in life. Its left me speechless and I went blank for a while.Thanks everyone, I think i'll start another blog on full story, And I'll start writing after i get pics.As simran is away i'll start from beginning, so u guys will have to wait for that.Bye for now

quit india movement

Today is 9th august . Dad remembered the day . he was in 6th class. and a rally was held in daresi ground and they also got down from their class which was on upper floor and shouted slogans of angrez bharat choro. Later around the same dates hiroshima and nagasaki were bombed. he missed out twice on 10th exams as riots would start and they lived on the other side of town from where his school was. His friend Om Joshi's father was hit by a stray bullet during one of these times while he was sitting inside the house and passed away, which was in old city. They have been friends since school days. Uncle was brilliant and had tooped Punjab Board. Dad says he would teach tution to the students of previous class. Lare on he taught in Simla and Sangrur before migrating to canada where he lives in Prince Edward Islands and retired as a school principle.

Village sangatpur

According to Mum she used to make cow dung cakes on the sly as she wasn't allowed to do so. Also she wanted to go to the well with others to bring water and she used to break earthen pot everyday so bapu ji bought her a brass pot to do so. She stayed with them, while rest of the family went back after world war 2 was over. I seems Bapu ji took retirement secretly ,didn't tell his wife and came back to India around 1940 or 41 because of world war II , he was scared tahat the japanese would come and take over the country. Only Bhapa ji, and Joga chacha ji satyed behind. recently when Joga Uncle came to India he told us, that they used to hide in a school nearby and he was fascinated by some poster paintings there and how he stole and hid them .Mum was sent back around 1947 back to Malaysia with friends beacuase of partition. There's another story how when went back she failed in each subject the first year because of change in teaching medium to English.Yesterday we went to have dinner at bhuaji's . she said they used to walk 1 1/2 mile to school. there were about four,five of them who were sent with an old lady. It was very difficult topersuade people to send girls to school as they were wanted home to do household chores. Boys school was even further . papa says they had a daily 5 mile walk to school when he was in village. he took us to see the school once.The govt school is still there. Recntly when we had his friends granddaughter from canada visiting , he took her to see their old school arya school in ludhiana where he and her grandfather used to sit together on the same bench. he was surprised to find that the same desk was still there. Probably had something written on it.

Family tree (mums)

(help required with Names)
Hardit Udai Singh Sohanpal m rattan kaur
had three sons
*Niranjan Singh m Nirmal Kaur of Kot Badal Khan(Malaysia)
**Ranjit Kaur m Dhanwant Singh Bhogal(Ludhiana)(Mum And Dad)
***Aneetapreet (me)
****Mansharan Kaur m Akshat Seth(Lucknow)
****Gursimran Singh
***Parmeeta m Xavier Fernandez(Spain)
**** Naira
**** Mikil
*** Sunita m Anup Kapur(Delhi)
Uday
*** Vaneeta m Maneesh kaura(Germany)
**Balbir Singh m Hans Kaur (Malaysia)
***Hardeepak Singh
***Hardev Singh
**Rabinder(Puri) m Gomez (Malaysia)
***Rehan
***Danny
**Daljit Singh M Angela Ramkumari(Trinidad)
***Sumeet Sohanpal
***Simran Sohanpal
**Tejinder Singh m Rani (Malaysia)
***Jasdev singh
***Harveen Kaur
***Sandev Kaur
**Harbhajan Singh (Malaysia)
***Kirat
***Shashi
**Jasbinder m Surinder Singh Bhogal(Ludhiana)
***Rohanjeet Singh
***Randeep Singh m Simran Malhotra
**Surinder Kaur m Bhagwinder Singh(Malaysia)
***Harish
***Taswinder Kaur(tessie)
***Kishan
**Sachinder Kaur m Jasdev S. Aujla(Vancouver)
***Jaskiran Kaur
***Mankiran Kaur
***Navkiran Kaur
**Patwant Singh m Chris(Malaysia)
***Jaideep Singh
***Mandev Singh
***Jasleen Kaur
*Joga singh m Ajit Kaur of Baloki(England)
**Baby m
*** 2 sons
**Sajinder m Anil
*** 2 sons
**Kingy m Chris
** 2 sons and 1 daughter
*Harcharan Singh m Balwinder Kaur of Dakoha(England)
**Harinder Kaur m Rick
*** 1 daughter 1 son
**Meenu m Steven
*** 2 sons
**Sonia m Micky
** 1 son 1 daughter
Jagdeep m Harpreet

Grandmother Nirmal Kaur's side
Three brothers four sisters
*Sohan singh Birdi
*Gursharan S. Birdi
*Gyan Singh Birdi
*Nirmal Kaur m Niranjan S.Sohanpal
*Jamna m ?
*Harbans Kaur m Pritam Singh
*Dev Uncles's mother

More on Bapu ji

A poem in his diary(i won't try to translate)

ik din satguru passon main prem surahi peeti,
bhai asade likhi fakiri so mastak par leeti,
pichli umar gunahi beeti har ki bhagat na keeti,
aggon samajh chalo nand lala jo beeti so beeti!


Also the meaning of what he wrote in front of his book of accounts.

If somebody wrongs you, it is better to forget and forgive. if you don't do that you suffer otherwise it is bliss.

More on Bapu ji

His father's name was Hardit singh and he too was employed in Railways. They were posted at Nagpur and bapuji studied in King George school Nagpur. Later on he was posted at kharagpur.(Gyan singh Sohanpal the minister from kharagpur is a his cousin)
He was born in aprox(13-8-1889)acc. to diary and left for africa in 1911 acc. to one of his diaries. He reached Malaysia around or before 1918 to work in railways. and later on his wife rattan kaur and elder son Niranjan singh joined him in feb 1918.He took early retirement and came to settled in Sangatpur earlier named khusrapur.He used to write a lot not only to relations but govt., radio stations, and Gurudwara committee. And each letter was copied and documented. In the room on the first floor these letters filed a wire witha hook used to be hanging from the walls. All I did was look for stamps in these letters.Unfortunately we didn't realise what a treasure of history we were throwing away when we did away with most of the correspondence. All this information is from bits and pieces whioch we had kept. Also a lot of it was destroyed when the house was locked for a long time. More later..........