Ma Home (one out of many…)

Everything’s just been pending on the blog ever since I’ve moved into my own place this August. It’s quite a crazy experience for me, since it’s the first time I’m completely out of a protected environment; from home to a hostel, where everything is provided for, to my aunt’s place, no less than home at any cost, to living on my own with a couple of friends. The first thing I learnt was that you can just move your stuff into a room and call it ‘home’… It totally doesn’t work that way. The only challenge was how to make this place home? Et voila! That’s when I decided to put academics to use… Mood lighting! :) I learnt about that in college. So I went-a-shopping and got these really pretty looking lights that filled the entire room and also gave it a nice cozy character… :)

That’s my cozy corner in the house – my laptop, my roommate’s speakers, a wall and them pretty lights! :)

Next up on the list was ‘doing up the room’ – which included bed covers et al. What better than a crazy black and white stripes? My guitar liked it too!

And this is the view I get while sitting on the bed on a lazy afternoon…

Child’s Play

My recent visit to my niece and nephew when I went back to Delhi this June…

That day she came up to me and said, “Sruti didi, I also want to wear hairband and tie my hair like you”. So I sat and did up her hair just like mine. I don’t know how great she looked, but she seemed pretty happy. And I had my dose of ‘Barbie-doll-games’ at age 21!

Activity-filled that day was. Surya was showing off his new pets to me – lovebirds – and of course showing me that it’s okay to pet the bird. “I’ll show you. No! No! I’ll hold him, otherwise he’ll get scared. You’re a new person; he knows that I’m just playing”. But then he was kind enough to teach me how to hold the bird… which I very apprehensively did. He sat me down and explained the temperament of each bird – there were four – and told me of stories of all of them. :)

My niece’s friend, this girl seemed like the star that afternoon. It was quite a show she put up that afternoon, with all her madness – most delightfully entertaining! While my niece and nephew were a little more than just conscious of my new camera, she just swayed callously across the room as though there was no camera! :)

The sole goal of all games that afternoon was to prevent the brother – the enemy – from climbing the top bunk and throwing tidbits to the floor. Sigh! :)
But in vain, it seemed..

Battling the Rain

This year it’s my first proper encounter with the rain, as opposed to last year where I was in the hostel most of the time in Town – where it hardly ever rained as much as it did in the suburbs. Now that I’m the ’suburban mumbaikar’, I see how people keep the rain off, at home. It’s obvious that you sohuldn’t step out when it’s pissing down, but that’s not where it ends. Totally safe from the rain is when you’re home with windows shut and dirty blue or black plastic sheets put on the outside of the windows so that the rainwater doesn’t come in.

So we mounted acrylic sheets on the grill. And now we just sit by the window sil and enjoy the view! :)

Good Morning!

The last 2-3 days, Aj and I were busy clicking photographs at home with some really good results!

The Homecoming

It just gets better everytime! I get to see things that I miss seeing in Bombay…

The confused look on my nana’s face when he saw me enter the room with a camera covering my face…

Mom avoiding the camera in the funniest ways.

My niece and nephew being silly in the cutest possible way!

Thatha smiling and talking, making the best of all that he can hear!

The romantic discourse between my grandparents!

Apu agreeing to drink milk after much coaxing.

Thatha slowly tearing the paper off a chocolate bar…

I’m now counting my days in Delhi with mom and dad and the rest of my family, and hoping against hope that my stay extends longer!

Lizzie again!

And she’s got a roommate too!

 

 

Lizzie of the Lamp

This is the new resident in the house. She found a very cosy place in the lamp that hangs from the ceiling.

 

 

Auto-manic

On my way to the station in the evening. Traffic jams and autos… :)

Happy Easter! :)

This year Easter was a little different. Had a lovely Easter lunch with family. And caught some nice moments. Missed you there, kaddooo! :)

 

Happy Evening!

Nice evening with that little bundle of energy, a fat nose, Revolting Rhymes and Phantom Cigarettes! :)