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)