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Bright Rainy Days!!! :P

It started off bright and sunny, sunlight bathed the country side (Hoskote in this scenario). The sun god was out to proove a point... and every bird and bee was out to make hay while the sun shone. The bright smiles were back, and the same roads which were deserted over the past week were invaded by a myriad of beings! It was poetic perfection!!! But, as the day wore on and the morn gradually gave way to noon... The Sun shone with unrivalled intensity. Perspiration dripped down the side of our faces, yet the acclamatised beings bore forward, not even batting an eyelid! Despite this assertion, the grey clouds came back at aboutv 4.00 pm, their ranksvreinforced, their hearts brimming with renewed vigour! The downpour began... and continues as I write! But hold it, just as my dance of joy began... voices of annoyance emerged: "Damn! This rain is such a P-A-I-N!" "The clothes'll never dry!" "The slush is crating a havoc on the streets!" "I'm tota

THE CHIMES OF TIME

“Ma, I can’t find my new ear-rings!” “I left it on your bed Alisha.”, comes my exasperated reply. “Ayaan! Just bring it right back… Ma!!!” “Ayaan, return your sister’s stuff please!”, I command my son. These kids! Sigh! There is a crisis in the house. It’s packed with half a dozen teen aged friends of my daughter’s. They’re here, in all earnest, to help me with the arrangements for Alisha’s birthday party, but I dread to think about the state of our house once they’re done. Presently the ancient clock announces the onset of 4 o’ clock in the evening, chiming it’s age old tune, ushering a familiar sense of anxiety within me. I have always been one who does things in the ‘T’th hour. The breakneck pace, the adrenalin rush and the sheer exhilaration of it all, I confess, gives me quite a high. And thus yet again, I’m about three hours behind schedule, preparing for a party at 5 pm and with well over two dozen things to be ticked off the list…And my ‘helping hands’ are becoming more of a ha