Saluting with a Head Stand
It should be her 66th birthday but she insists it is her 67th. Do not ask me the reason because I could never understand her calculations in the “fast mode”. Always a step ahead, always ready for a leap, almost ever ready for take off that is surely an interesting way of leading life!
Mixed together in all this is an awesome sense of humour and deadly observation skills. Can lip read and mind read words as they are being formed. Flights of fantasies and ghosts creeping up are a reality for her!
Scrabbles and puzzles, news and fiction, atlas and capitals are her daily bread. Bookworm thrives on data, never mind its authenticity. An eye for minutest of details. She reads between lines and what is not in the lines!
Love beads and colours. Ornaments are to be flaunted is her humble motto. Why she must wear her sun dial locket to the jewelers or why she must ask the time when she wears the watch locket that she bought from Switzerland, remain an obviously in your face unanswered question in our minds!
Brought up in a large illustrious family among seven siblings have lent its own hue onto her. Loves to be amongst people, chirpy talking 119 to a dozen. Giving always, be it in kind or service. Laughing, not paying heed to her missing teeth!
Anything that is purely “English” brings a gleam to her eyes. High teas, snooty airs, English pronunciations, sun peeping out after a shower makes her feel that English weather is here. Wonder if the Britishers regret leaving her back!
Every afternoon that I spend with her, she takes me on a journey around the globe. We begin with her favourite Jakarta and move onto the Far East. Then we briefly stop over to say “hello” to my son in the USA. Then we could be anywhere! Maybe on an African Safari or in Europe soaking in the beauty. Or we could be on a cruise on the Mediterranean!
Chocolates, kittens, puppies and dolls are a few of her favourite things. Children find her to be an excellent friend. I have been left stumped seeing small kiddies walk in through our door and hold and her hand and drag her to a corner so they can play undisturbed. I have peeped through closed doors and have found her follow intricate dance steps and do precarious balancing acts all that she is being asked to do!
Roller coasters, giant wheels, rocking ships, bouncy cars, tumbling seats and what have you are her favourite rides. I have stood gaping as she threw up her hands with glee enjoying such pleasures. I have had dizzy fits just watching her but she was cool as cucumber waiting at another queue for another ride!
My children love her because she is their answer to all their wild desires. She went in search of a pet shop at night for my son. With my daughter she used to be her singing partner. Have seen them blissfully share an ear phone lost in listening to music. Also can talk about Einstein and Shakespeare in the same breath!
Oh she has acted in plays, won debates, quizzes, and champion in table tennis. Written plays and poetry. What takes the cake is her act as a joker at an official function, the photographs stand as testimony!
An achiever in short. Always in the fast forward mode. Daringly optimistic.
Tomorrow is her birthday, 66th or 67th we shall debate on it. But today, all I want is to wish her with all my heart a very happy birthday.
Let time stand still for a moment and recollect your journey. It is not everyday that life creates a unique creation.
Wish I could do a ‘Head Stand” to wish her! She deserves one and it would have been just appropriate!
She is my mother!
Mixed together in all this is an awesome sense of humour and deadly observation skills. Can lip read and mind read words as they are being formed. Flights of fantasies and ghosts creeping up are a reality for her!
Scrabbles and puzzles, news and fiction, atlas and capitals are her daily bread. Bookworm thrives on data, never mind its authenticity. An eye for minutest of details. She reads between lines and what is not in the lines!
Love beads and colours. Ornaments are to be flaunted is her humble motto. Why she must wear her sun dial locket to the jewelers or why she must ask the time when she wears the watch locket that she bought from Switzerland, remain an obviously in your face unanswered question in our minds!
Brought up in a large illustrious family among seven siblings have lent its own hue onto her. Loves to be amongst people, chirpy talking 119 to a dozen. Giving always, be it in kind or service. Laughing, not paying heed to her missing teeth!
Anything that is purely “English” brings a gleam to her eyes. High teas, snooty airs, English pronunciations, sun peeping out after a shower makes her feel that English weather is here. Wonder if the Britishers regret leaving her back!
Every afternoon that I spend with her, she takes me on a journey around the globe. We begin with her favourite Jakarta and move onto the Far East. Then we briefly stop over to say “hello” to my son in the USA. Then we could be anywhere! Maybe on an African Safari or in Europe soaking in the beauty. Or we could be on a cruise on the Mediterranean!
Chocolates, kittens, puppies and dolls are a few of her favourite things. Children find her to be an excellent friend. I have been left stumped seeing small kiddies walk in through our door and hold and her hand and drag her to a corner so they can play undisturbed. I have peeped through closed doors and have found her follow intricate dance steps and do precarious balancing acts all that she is being asked to do!
Roller coasters, giant wheels, rocking ships, bouncy cars, tumbling seats and what have you are her favourite rides. I have stood gaping as she threw up her hands with glee enjoying such pleasures. I have had dizzy fits just watching her but she was cool as cucumber waiting at another queue for another ride!
My children love her because she is their answer to all their wild desires. She went in search of a pet shop at night for my son. With my daughter she used to be her singing partner. Have seen them blissfully share an ear phone lost in listening to music. Also can talk about Einstein and Shakespeare in the same breath!
Oh she has acted in plays, won debates, quizzes, and champion in table tennis. Written plays and poetry. What takes the cake is her act as a joker at an official function, the photographs stand as testimony!
An achiever in short. Always in the fast forward mode. Daringly optimistic.
Tomorrow is her birthday, 66th or 67th we shall debate on it. But today, all I want is to wish her with all my heart a very happy birthday.
Let time stand still for a moment and recollect your journey. It is not everyday that life creates a unique creation.
Wish I could do a ‘Head Stand” to wish her! She deserves one and it would have been just appropriate!
She is my mother!
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