MOSAIC OF MEMORIES!!!

This is a Blog basically to salute certain things that will always be a part of me with lot of Childhood memories attached to them....and though they are mere non living objects ....just the thought of them can bring a smile on my face and a teardrop in my eye.......and a thankyou to the three most imp pple in my life whithout whom these memories mean nothing......THANK YOU MIMI, APPA and MEERA.....

The most memorable part of my childhood was that of Mom reading out pages from timeless Classics, novels, renting out few "all time classic movies", putting up some silly stage acts for parents and enacting the songs straight out of "THE SOUND OF MUSIC" , "MARY POPPINS"........Whew!!! those were the days....

I still remember those chilly nights when Meera, Mom and Myself used to curl up in a Blanket , Mom sitting between the two of us sipping her piping Hot coffe...and both of us struggling with our Hot Chocolates, all our eyes and ears on the book that Mom was reading.....That book has been and will always be the most important part of our Childhood memories....It was this GIANT BOOK OF CLASSICS, very pictorial, Hard bound Book of Classics (DAD had bought it during some official tour)...The pages so smooth and Glossy covered with the most beautiful paintings ever seen...and filled with 5 Classics in Original......Treasure Island, Robin Hood, Tom Sawyer, Heidi, Huckleberry Finn....taking us fro a journey through the adventures of Long John Silver through the Shearwood Forest and then to the banks of the MISSISIPPI and finally to the highlands of Swizerland...... Mom had virtually taken us to all these places and left us both starry eyed....

THE NEXT MEMORY FRESH IN MY MIND - The day the school vacations would start, Mom would neatly chalk out a timetable of activities for the day.She set out time for classic reading sessions, enid blython reading sessions, self reading sessions, music classes, skating classes, swimming sessions and finally the evening would be something to always look forward to, it was called"MOVIE TIME"....While the rest of our friends would be going to watch some telugu or Hindi movie in the nearby theatre....Meera and Myself would be only fed on Walt Disney Movies, Broadway Musicals and II nd world war movies.....some of the most memorable ones were, "MY FAIR LADY", "PIPPY LONG STOCKING", "CHITY CHITY BANG BANG", "DIRTY DOZEN" etc.....


Then came the times when we teamed up with our close friends and put up acts of playing Fairies and Witches in a self choreographed DANCE DRAMA, sang sweet SONG DANCE sequences like"SO LONG FAREWELL", "SUPACALIFRAGALISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS" to our parents just to entertain them......


The sweet memories of the MIDNIGHT SNACKING SESSIONS inspired by Malory Towers and St.Claires and the climbing trees and feigning as if we were child detectives in pages right out of "THE FAMOUS FIVE", or "THE SECRET SEVEN"....


GOSH!!!! Suddenly i realise, childhood for me meant a hotchpotch of all these things:

GIANT BOOK OF CLASSICS, "MY FAIR LADY", "PIPPY LONG STOCKING", "CHITY CHITY BANG BANG", "DIRTY DOZEN" "SO LONG FAREWELL", "SUPACALIFRAGALISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS" MIDNIGHT SNACKING SESSIONS

This wonderfull childhood wouldnt have been possible without MOM DAD and my little sister.......CHEERS TO THE GOOD OL'DAYS........