Life As I Knew It

Recently i attended this wedding which it left me thinking " bloody hell!! we have grown up".

It is imperative to point out that the wedding bell are not ringing for me anytime soon, and when i say anytime soon, i literally mean "anytime soon" i.e. not in the least bit near future which spans a period of about five six years.

So what i was trying to say is that that shaadi made me take a very nostalgic trip down the memory lane to my childhood. now whoever said that childhood is the most carefree and happiest time of our lives is one trillion percent true, i am willing to bet my life upon it!.

We used to do crazy things. i have played all sorts of games be it king- king, baraf panni, tip top, unch nich, dark room, telllo express,king stop,khoo- khoo, you name it and we have played it. i have also played all the boy games too - gun point i.e. is our version of chor police. not to mention, all the innovative games we used to play, like ghar ghar; we used to make this makeshift tent in our garden, with bedsheets. then putting the garden chairs up side down on top of each other to make fighter jets. oh and when our moms wouldn't let us go out in the garden, in the afternoon, we used to pretend that the entire stair case area was our spaceship and we had to protect it from aliens. darzi-darzi, i.e. tailor tailor was another favorite of mine with the store room being our shop. i remember at one time i placed all my clothes in the TV lounge and pretended that it was my shop. and how can i forget the countless times we made a home with cushions in the living room.

Playing all sort of sports like basket ball, foot ball, cricket was also a hobby of mine, my bros and i even played cricket with soft ball in the living room! that and badminton too. badminton is my, no not only mine but of all of us, cousins, favorite sport ever. i remember in winter we used to put up the badminton net and have matches, even my dad, my tayya and chachu played with us. winter also reminds me of another game, ya you guessed it, the good old monopoly!, when Ramadan used to come in December, coinciding with our winter holidays, every day after the iftari, we used to play monopoly, at times my chachu would join us too. and how many of you climbed trees, we did, a very large part of my childhood has been spent on this tree that stands directly in front of the entrance door.

As children, we celebrated each and every festival with immense ardor. bassant was more like a function at my place. we even spent hours under the scorching sun just making" paharries i.e. little scenes from mud, on the Eid milad-un- nabbi, ya i can see now you get my point. and yes 14th august, independence day... uff we especially used to go badge and sticker and flag shopping a day or two before the great day and then used to spend entire afternoons putting the ghandiyaain(little flag attched on to a string) on the roof and terraces only to have them ruined by the rain on 14, seriously, it used to rain everytime we made this effort. i remember at time we were even mad enough to make our own glue wid rice flour, i guess, and then used it to attach the little flags on to the string.

Summers were ruled by luddo, chess, caram board, name place animal thing, cards and computer games.. now we have this thing between us , that all of us start a game together e.g need for speed, carbon edition, and all of us then try to end the game before the other does .. this we still do.. not me anymore but my brothers, right now my bro and ma cousins are trying to end this game, mafia.

Ahh this list can go on and on as i remember all the crazy things we used to do. hey i have to write this, just have to.... cycling.....my childhood is incomplete without cycling, taking out our bicycles and riding them every afternoon all the year round, be it winters summers any season.. come rain thunder and what not, cycle tuo chalani must thi...no wonder my parents got our once so lush green lawn into a brick- lined veranda sort of thing!!!



p.s. tagging is in the air so i invite mubi, e.t, and anyone and everyone to write about their childhood.

p.s.s. i just remembered another of ma favorite game: teacher teacher.. now everyone esp. girls have to have played this if not..you have my sympathies for being a sad loner!