Friday, June 02, 2006

Those were the days my friend...

When we blew our first big bubble out of the clandestine chewing gum; learnt to neatly roll the string around the ridges of a top, and swiftly flung the top from the tethered end of the string; first felt a thoroughly used prohibited catapult from a group of nomads who were ruthlessly aiming at the dogs, stretched the catapult to the maximum and splayed a mango off its stem; teamed up together, and contested with our next-door neighbors for wet-and-throw where we drew a circle on the wall, wet the tennis ball and threw it on the wall, inside the circle, and exchanged smuggled goods for the points we won; collected crystalline green marbles from our roadside friends, rolled it over the muddy roads and played aim-and-hit, and sometimes rolled ourselves over the mud, fought with them over a missing marble that fell into a nearby gutter, and when the rains gushed in and left us in solitude, we gazed at the small green marbles that had innumerous frozen air bubbles inside them.

Those were the days my friend, we thought would never end...
- Mary Hopkins

6 comments:

S m i t h a said...

that was beautiful! each one to be savoured...
hmmm.. long time no see? got married or something? ;)

reNUka said...

:-) thanks s m i t h a!
no no!! not yet... ;-)
was busy with work and also primarily bcos there was absolutely no source for inspiration...

S m i t h a said...

u really talk very little, dont u? :P what am i supposed to make of the "not yet" reply?

anyways, u want to know what i do for my inspiration? change my desktop's wallpaper! :P :P

reNUka said...

:)) nothin much...
desktop wallpapers - yeah even i do it sometimes. have u checked out ogphoto.com - you get some nice pictures there.

nithya said...

Pambaram vidarathayum, manga adikkarathayum ennama ingileesula vilakkiteenga, appppa! Superb. Konjam Japaneselayum concentrate panlaam, nalla Japanese recitation onnu kodunga! Konichiwa!

reNUka said...

thanks nithya! :-)
jap enna koopiduthu - koodiya seekira aadharikkanum :-)