Truth Hurts! we have so often heard someone tell us this and know it is the absolute TRUTH. My husband and me were at the other end of the saying, we spent the last few days contemplating what it is that make people so wily, so cruel, so ruthless and in our experience shameless. All for a few pennies more.
It was a tough situation that we were in and things had to be told straight faced, with no compromises and no brokers.
There was an absolute halt in functioning as many people decided to walk out when told the truth, But sorry ! no roll backs on our values and principles instilled in us. Sad to add that sometimes even your own family disbelieves yr intentions. Many hurts and harsh words were said by all and sundry and to cut a sad story short, We walked away from it all ........
Why did we do this ? walk away from something that you so truly believe is a very hard thing to do but putting in so many fruitless hours of toil,( the family was absolutely on the backburner. We had to weigh the options and with both our feet on the ground.... will it finally work out ? Will the childrens growing years standstill for us in our quest for this ? will our health permit us to take on ? many a late night tending to various issues had made us forgo our morning walks, All these questions and more were something that came foremost to our minds and did what we did.
Just walked away ... I am glad as we are a few days into the new way and realise how important it is not to compromise on the values and your principles.
Thank my Mum and Dad who have been with us through this ordeal and have been the main support in our trying times.... Thank you all for the prayers that you have prayed too ! God Bless

Summer is back ! what a lovely sight to see the mango trees outside my window bursting with blossoms all waiting to" grow-up". Some have already turned over into tiny mangoes and some big mangoes.
On our morning walks have seen a jackfruit laden with TINY jackfruits, tiny as in comparision with the size of the fully grown up jack. The birds cannot decide which fruit platter to choose from, will it be this or that, must be their state of mind in summer everytree is showing off, the jambuls are there up too, when the tree is too tired to hold up sooo many ... there they go all over the pavements, streaking it, with a lovely royal purple. The targula will arrive shortly and a corner on the street where I live has this vendor bringing the delicious targula directly from the tree breaks the nut and there for all to see the lovely sweet kernel a smaller version of the coconut.
The watermelons have been around for most part of the year, not the big round variety but the tiny oblong ones, which are crisp and sweet, I still prefer the huge round watermelons.
The grand entry will be made by none other than the KING, of all fruits, at the wholesale market we will see trucks unloading huge baskets and not so huge boxes, and then for us truly summer has arrived...

On certain days, the parent/guardian is permitted to come to see their child, at the orphanage in the vicinity where I live. It is an all boys home and maybe housing around 200 boys of all ages the biggest being in class 10th the littles ones who are so kindly housed here are a treat to behold, they are so little the tiniest maybe in the range of five/six years cannot really place a finger on the right age, however they are a lesson for us to learn in terms of so many things that we and our children take for granted .
They wake up at 0600 am every morning except on holidays when they are given a little extra time for sleeping, and then they go for their prayers and breakfast and school and the usual happenings that would take place in a little ones life except that they do all this without the aid of their parents no pampering to wake up, or go thru their breakfast eat what is placed before you and they look well fed,( mind you not obese) they get their share of play every evening and the very tiny ones are looked after by the nuns from the nearby convent (Glad for that as they have a mothers' touch here!) When dusk settles I can hear the hymns and praise they give The Almighty ... which is so touching ..
Whenever I watch the little ones play sometimes a small boy will look around and see me and smile and a braveheart will even wave at me, such innocence !!! At this moment I can only feel so grateful for everything that HE does for everyone of us and cares about each of his creatures both Big and Small ... He is the God of all.....

Happy days are Here Again...!!!!Have been enjoying a couple of days of "Winter"and it definately makes a difference, to most of the happenings around us, the people in the buses are more than happy to have the windows shut, and a slight crowd does not matter in this time, the fruits are luscious the blushing strawberry and the sugar watered Oranges, the black currants are all the rage in the fruit market, ....
I love this season, the cool morning walks, and some pet owners even wrap their little doggies with jackets and scarves, people sitting around a wood fire to warm themselves with cups of chai...I love these simple pleasures
Maybe we have just a few days left, as we have the festival of Holi which is meant to herald spring and then we get into the blistering hot summer, on the flip side don't we all wait for the King of fruits to arrive ?
For miles around us we will see a" golden sea"mounds and mounds of mangoes around us, people carrying boxes of them and some of them like me, setting out to make pickle, that is really meant to last till the next cycle, but believe me ... it really does not sit around for that long, an aunt here a neighbour there and the rest is meant for "us" "Hey mom where is the pickle you made last month ?"
Till then happy winter days !!!!

The year seems to be extremely busy and the same old ...time flies so fast, surely it does, with the year one month already flown away and my husband and me completing 25 years of marriage surely it does, The years are crystal clear and have lovely memories of the past .. miss my mother in law and father in law who had been part of us so many years ago and like I mentioned "Can feel their presence in our midst" it was a lovely evening we all had family and very close friends I missed my bridesmaid .... it was difficult to finally make out the guest list, had to leave a lot of people out of it, but some things have to be done and that was it,
The family support one gets in these times is tremendous and it was a wonderful five days of partying and fun, we hardly slept,the earliest we slept was at 0230 am ...... every morning bleary eyed, gulping coffee and grouchy for a while, then back to getting things finalized for the B Day.
We have the Almighty to thank in all this who has been with us every nano second,
parting was tough and it was very difficult I had my sisters in law together with their families who came from two different worlds and it felt good to know that we meant so much to them, certain we are blessed...
It has not been a smooth journey one of ups and downs, sometimes it was only downs left us both wondering when we would see the top, times we would feel so low had to reach up to tie our shoelaces..but like we know every grey cloud has a silver lining and that was it... sunshine after the rain, a rainbow out there lots of signs that tell you so,
Thank you all for being with us for the past 25 years ...

Spread Happiness

Hello Happiness
Christmas and New Year have come and gone faster than we can imagine and it is hope that we look forward to their coming around again.. Hope that this year will be better than the previous, hope that the global meltdown will ease, hope that all our troubles will be halved, and joys doubled, and the list can go on and on and on..But all that is upto to us to happen
Make the best of all that is not suited to us, take time out for close friends and family, share happiness with people you pass, smile at a stranger help the elderly and see the inner change within you the, my bet is that you will never be the same again, you will be a Happy person and and closed doors will open, things that you have long been waiting for will happen, that friend you had lost contact with... will happen and finally you will realise you are looking back at 2010 and what a wonderful year it was for me....

It has been a long time, since I last posted an article on my page, had been very caught up with this and that, in short was plain lazy to post one.
Christmas is knocking at our door and it is with excitement that we see the little ones all dressed up as Santa and his helpers, the most popular being Rudolph, we even have a song dedicated to him.
The radio channels are all agog with the carols and very soon Christmas will be upon us.Christmas parties have started, and the nip in the air completes the feeling..
The smell of guava cheese is all around us, so too the traditional kul kuls and neuris.
It is this time of the year where Love and Peace takes precedence in our lives, where we look forward to meeting our faraway family and friends,"Bye when will we meet," and the reply
"See you home for Christmas"
That makes it so special for one, the midnight mass, the warmth of the handshakes and "Drop by for a christmas visit."
Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year