Summer vacation is on.Children and parents, especially moms are free birds now.Though it is unfair saying freebirds as these creatures are super busy these days.Super moms are flying to several coaching classes with their wards.
I happened to visit a friend's place before couple of days alongwith my daughter Manvita as my friend had arranged a bachcha party . Children were busy playing various games like housie,dumb sharods,passing the parcle and others. We,the moms were preparing snacks for bachcha party and talking on and on never ending subjects.One of us told that her son is going to swimming,chess,some science projects ; while the other said that her son is also taking the same coaching. one of us said that her daughter goes for a western dance,arts and crafts ,drawing and what not. After returning home, Manvita was telling Vivek about the party .I kept quiet as i was recalling my childhood days....
Gone are the days..when the word VACATION means only and only dhammal masti.We used to play ,play and play..there was NO certain time table to play.Anything any time was the only tagline . we all used to wake up early in the morning.( Even today, i wonder that why do children get up early in the vacations only?) We ,the vaanarsena,used to play outdoor games like gulli cricket,french cricket,badminton,marbles,bhamarda i.e.lattu .After the sun reches at its peak,we got back to our homes unwillngly,ofcourse. After having lunch again we used to gathered at any of us;house and yeh lo..again playing..this time its turn for indoor games like playing cards,carrom,chess,ludo,snakes and ladders,business etc. I still remember that i never liked to play cards,though i knew many games and was a good player so i played it just for my friends. ( my all friends were BOYS only at that time also,as there was not a single girl except me in our two blocks. Till the date ,i feel more comfortable with boys :) ) No cricket match was held without me (they had to include me to complete the 11 players team :)).after the sun sets we used to play hide and seek,i-spy (the game which we called ice pice)
EATING OUT : No wway..we hardly went out to eat . It was a luxury at that time .We enjoyed quite a lot eating burf gola and ganne ka ras.. SANTOSH SARBATWALA was our favourite vendor to purcase these mouth watering things.
We had no t.v. sets at that time as the revolution in entertainment was years away.so we read many books,comics,magazines for children..wow..
While recalling my these days how could i forget my school days also? Neha and Heena became my first friends who were girls :P. even today ,we are very good friends ,touch wood.Both of them are in US but distance could not make any distance among us. Rightnow ,i dont intend to write my school memories. It would take some more pages.. :P.
ay sh hhh..hh..listen.. shh hh..i can hear the jagjitsingh 's popular treck..Yeh daulat bhi le lo.yeh shauhrat bhi le lo...magar mujko lauta do bachpan ka ssawan ..woh kaagaz ki kashti ..woh baarish ka paani........
Can you hear it????
