Learning at 33!!

How I love learning a new language!!!

N especially, when the teacher(one of my students) is so passionate about his mother tongue, and about every other language he knows!!

And, I am just loving this calligraphy....Excited!!! 

Hare Ram Hare Ram!

OK, the disclaimer comes first. No religious offences.

Today is an auspicious day in the Hindu calendar..the Purattasi Sanikkizhamai!

I wake up to my own clock(don't ask me the time! ;) ) ticking the hours towards my beauty sleep, after a late night - answering students' queries.

I hear claps, really loud voices out of sync, and some devotional music. OK..that's my neighbors in action... immersed in religious fervor. The noise plus the nauseating smell of their cheap frankincense pervades into my house... Enough to precipitate the migraine I dread! OK OK..these are times of intolerance, right? Happy the nay-sayers to achche din? ;)

There is something evades my level of understanding. We don't help neighbors in need; we don't smile at them; when we can`t put up with their unobtrusive way of living(by which I mean, no maids, no gossip ;) ; we harangue them with unwanted advice even at the lamest opportunity.... But on certain auspicious days, we seem to transcend to that euphoric state chanting the Divine name, singing His praise wanting to get into His good books..but to what use? When you are intolerant enough to bang the door shut when thy neighbor innocuously walks past to buy a packet of milk!

I was still not in a frame of mind to sing His praise..no, not yet.. had not had my morning coffee..and am always crabby until my first cup of caffeine! ;)

So, I come back, brewed my hot cuppa and sat down to block the external voices(noises), tuned in to the radio..Lo n behold.. ~ Hare Ram Hare Ram from Bhool Bhulaiya!

Whatta life! Karma, huh!!! Hare Ram Hare Ram!!! ;) :P