A LOVELY HOLIDAY.................
One more holiday in this month of april,due to elections.i would like to share the beautiful morming sms received from my friend.
''friendship is like a mercury drop.........if it's dropped then it's impossible to collect.so,be careful.do not drop your friends.''but i have dropped many of them as they proved wrong for the title,'friends'.
we all know,smiles and laughter are good in many ways.smiling is apotent beauty treatmen,the simplest most easily recognised action-even a brief flash.so,friends,flash asmile,the world will be on your side.
the more we smile,the more we are known for our smile and more popular and likeable we will become.and it is abonus,we become happier inside.so,friends,sharpen your sense of humour.
on holidays,here we wake up to the konkani songs flowing through the speakers.the locals enjoy life with music,feni,beer and fish curry,rice.by the way,'feni' got 'GI' status;that's Geographical indication status.it's the hot news and all are thrilled.this is the first alcholic spirit to get the GI status.
now,no one need to smuggle out the liquor anymore.[i know,in many of the baggages,feni bottles were hidden on the way to their hometown].
the mood is upbeat and there is a sense of excitement and joy in the air.just within a walk of every five minutes one lands up in a bar here.
and i must say,an important feature is the crosses,the life of the people.we can often see,people stand together and say the rosary at the cross on the roadside.
here,neither exams elections nor the rising mercury levels are able to keep people away from dance floors. there are wide publicity for HIP HOP summer dance camps.
like in kerala,so many people have sold their old ancestoral homes here .the builders who buy them demolish these majestic houses and create a concrete jungle.
a depressing feature of today's landscape is rapid giving way of traditional houses to modern high rises.
the problem starts with the children migrating to foreign lands and the parents are left in a big house all by themselves,who ultimately crave for their children.they are also then taken along,leaving their houses totally unattended.finally when they come down, after four to five years they find the house in such a mess that they feel, it would be better to sell it off.
with the passage of time,we will have to see the wonderful ancestoral houses only in photographs.
a practice that is disappearing is ,'saving for a rainy day'.here,in the month of april,women stock up on chillies,onions,tamarind,dried mackerels apart from salt and sausages.
first they will be dried in the scorching heat of april.
women start buying onions in bulk from the month of may itself.these onions are tied into bunches and tied to the kitchen roof as we do with vellarikkas and kumblangas.
the joy of storing food items and being ready to face the long monsoon season was something that the people of the good old days thoroughly enjoyed.
waiting eagerly for the showers,to walk along the thin varambu in between the green green padam,occasionally,spalshing water in the small chira.so,cool just like the cucumber!
when we get down at punnayoorkulam bus stop,we cross these fields,playing in water before reaching achan's house,kamalalayam.very small paral mean thullikalikkunna chirayile vellam!ethra sundram!let's love nature.be eco friendly.when you cut one tree,please plant two trees.let's pledge ourselves.
celebrate ''THE EARTH DAY,EVERY DAY''.
it's time for me to pack my bags.i will soon be leaving for trichur to join amma on tricur pooram.nanda will be leaving for the city at the Hudson river.shankar is so excited as he is going to witness pooram after along gap of fifteen years!
even though iam a loud speaker,i don't like sound pollution!
achan used to take us to the pooram exhibition stalls.hope i may get a chance this time!i fondly remember those summer vacations,so colourful,full of excitement!
don't you have plans to visit this lovely place? enjoy the fish curry rice at the shacks in the beaches.you will love it!
it's anu signing off.........................
have a great day!
before,winding up,let me share another sms with you.
''the best cosmetic for lips is Truth,for voice prayer,for eyes pity,for hands charity,for heart love and for life friendship.''
let's be friends,ok?
sasneham,
anu
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