Thursday, March 19, 2009

THE HOT OLD DAYS!!

Its official!!!...SUMMER is here!!...The sensex maybe falling but the mercury is on a bull run..!!

As i was walking to the bank, I saw the familiar signs of the arrival of summer...the old uncles with the umbrellas...the sugarcane juice bandis!!...N i got to reminiscing about the things that define summer for me....
  • The two month long freedom from school uniforms n homework n surprise tests... :D
  • The bottomless glasses of ganna juice on the rocks!!
  • The sheer bliss of splashing around in the pool with friends!!
  • The lazy afternoons sprawled on the cool floor playing pictionary!!
  • Digging my teeth into the juicy watermelon half moons..
  • Fighting over whose turn it is to fill the air cooler...
  • Dancing in front of the cooler with chunnis!!
  • Gorging on full mangoes blissfully unaware of the juice flowing down my elbows onto my clothes...
  • Lying on the terrace in the night n trying to spot constellations in the clear summer sky!!
  • The summer showers bringing much needed respite from the scorching heat!!..
  • Those cricket matches where it was a six if the ball hit the wall but u were out if it went over the wall...
  • Reading Enid blyton n hoping to find an enchanted wood of my own...
  • Making our own ice cream by filling glasses with RASNA and freezing them with spoons as sticks...
When i think back i realise that despite the fact that we had no AC to combat the heat then, summers always meant joy, happiness, freedom and loads of fun!!

8 comments:

Srinidhi said...

You brought back memories of some summery things i had forgotten! :) remember the picnics by the pool? god those were some really fun summers!
i like this post cause its very personal! it makes me imagine all those days!! :)
A part of me prefers those to these! :) but i guess just switching on the AC plug is better than filling the cooler! :P
nice post!!! update more often!! love reading! muaaahh! :D

Between life's doings said...

Dancing in front of the cooler with chunnis!! haha! reminds me of the zombie noises we used to make in front of the coolers :)
A happy post babe! I cant wait for summer here:)

Sneha said...

What a nostalgia inducing fun post! Super!

Parth Jhala said...

wonderful! i think the best quality of your writing is how you somehow manage to write things we have always known..but never realised or thought about! this one is very real..and one reason to be glad its summer!
p:s cricket? :P wow! full mustve hit off sixes! esp if your younger sister was bowling! :P

D!! said...

min!!..u n me had the most fights bout who has to fill the cooler!!...good days...:D

aarthi!!...im sure our whole year is like summer there...hehe!!

D!! said...

Sne..thanks babe!!..i also went off into some nostalgia trip while writing it...

Paarth...minnu scowled when she read ur comment!!..but its true!...she was like 6yrs old n we would all want her to bowl cos she would give us good full toss balls!!

thanks for the sweet comment!!

shuuuu said...

i want those summmerss back .... i want cold water bathss .. and being allowed to play at any time .. anddd waitingg for new school session with new dresses ... and i wanttt the dirty mango stained clothess ....... mann those were the days .. the heat was the last thing that we cared about ... and thats what made it all so awesome :)..... i loveeeeeddd the way u wrote it yogiii :)... muaaahhhh

D!! said...

aishum!!... i always look forward to ur comments!!..thwanks!!...ummaah!!