Treasures - Love, life, and memories

I am home for a week - a much needed break! And, I decided to clear up some old clothes. Now, am left feeling like a sentimental idiot. I found my school uniforms! Higher secondary (1998) and middle school (1994)! Gosh! And, then II thought, why not take some pictures. So, I spent this afternoon clicking away :) This is what you get when I am home for a week ... fun :)

found the tie-and-dye fancy things I'd made in college - looks ridiculously funny now. I found a good load of saree blouses - my inheritance from granny!! I don't think I'd ever wear them nor do I have the heart to throw them! In fact, I don't even remember why I took them.

I found a favorites dress of mine - a pretty orange one with beads and laces. I don't know about you - but I have some favorite dresses - the ones that have some special memory or just made you feel like a princess (or a prince). This one and a couple of other pretty dresses have a story behind them.
Years later, when I was no longer the kid, when I could appreciate the prettiness of a saree, I got to know that some of my prettiest dresses of younger days were made from mom's sarees. When they couldn't buy nice dresses and new material for festivals, mom would cut one of her pretty sarees and make dresses for me and my sister. This orange frock is from one of her sarees. I don't know if I'd have the heart to cut a saree as pretty as that! Mother's love!

And then, I found a bunch of letters from school pals. You know, the good old days of writing in one of those inland covers, dropping it in a postbox and hoping they haven't changed their address... and then you'd get the reply in a similar cover after a couple of weeks - or even months. No pings, no diggs, no tweets, no calls, no emails - just the good old snail mail.

And guess what - I found something that looked like a baptism dress and asked mom - it's my brother's. I can almost see a baby there :)

So, that's how I spent my day today! Remembering my childhood and thanking God for my wonderful family :)

Assumptions

Headset on?  Listening to music

Eyes closed? Sleeping

Meeting? Busy

Slim? Weak

G? Loadsa money

SLR? Great photos

Analytics? Complicated

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Moment - Train in Rain

I think the rains over the weekend brought this memory up again. It was one of those mid-summer trips I made this year. It was April - the time when temperature begins to get to the higher side, the sleeper coach begins to feel like a hot oven, and we hope for a surprise drizzle or shower.

The train was in the middle of nowhere - rocketing through the vast, parched land (i.e., as fast as it can go - 60kmph? :D All of a sudden, I could see dark clouds in the distance, soon it became a drizzle. Funnily, though, it was raining on one side of the train. Even as we watched either side - we could see the train get under the rain clouds and soon.... it was showers on both sides.

The Picture I did not Take - Clouds and the Moon

It was a picture of the bright moon this evening. What's special? The sky was really, really clear and you had traces of clouds around the moon. I saw this on the way home and thought it was really pretty. The black sky, bright moon, and the thin lines of clouds here and there around the moon - it was as picturesque as it can be.

Only when I got home and thought I should take a picture, I realized the reason for the beauty - it was the clear sky. By the time I came home, the sky was hazy - the typical city sky! It must have rained or at least drizzled before I left work leaving the sky clear, if only for a while.