Reading as a Habit...

Recently, I have taken up reading and have (re)discovered the happiness and joy you get when you read something. During my childhood, I would always spend all my free time reading, reading and reading. However on Sunday afternoon's between 12.30 noon and 1.00 p.m. (I think I am right), I would hang around the 1 and only transistor that we had at home. Vividh Bharathi used to play English numbers and  my favorite songs were Sunday Morning (by  Daniel Boone) and Knock 3 Times on the Ceiling..(Tony Orlando) and  Strawberries Cherries (By Frank Sinatra). I guess this was because we had no Internet, no mobile phones  so life was far more simple.

Consideration

What does this word mean? According to the Merriam Webster dictionary it simply means, "thoughtful and sympathetic regard". Of course we can never expect this from our neighbors (most often). I have a 1 set who always believe in leaving their smelly garbage bags outside their flat (so that they are not bothered about the stink within the house but have bounced it off to others by placing the bags out.). Another neighbor who parks his car in front of another car (in this case my car), and then disappears in the morning, to put me in a quandary on how to remove my car to go to office. Is is that people are so inconsiderate that they do not realize the inconvenience they cause because they do not realize or are they simply daft? I can never solve this mystery.

Sunday Chores

Plants on the kitchen ledge

My plants in the landing

This    Sunday, I enjoyed talking to my plants, I ventured taking some photos and of course I baked 2 breads (brown and white).. the result success -tasty bread

Freshly baked bread

Shopping Spree

I had the opportunity to shop in Balapet and it was a wonderful experience. I always like walking down the dingy lanes, jumping on to the road sometimes, when a cyclist is riding his bike on the footpath. Sometimes I jump on to the footpath (when I find space) to avoid the autorickshaws ferrying people around.
The rawness, colorfulness and the variety makes the shopping in these little lanes wonderful. This is the brighter part of the shopping. On the other hand you miss shopping in malls, miss the toilets, a/c etc etc.

Whatever, shopping is a wonderful therapy (in my opinion). I consider myself lucky that it today's tech driven world, I still have the choice to go back to something that my parents, grandparents enjoyed.

Never get an answer for the question/s asked...

Yes, this is a topic that I have never get an appropriate response to. Almost everyday, I encounter this. For example, when I ask a student, "Do you think you could have told the faculty that you were unable to complete the assigned task?" The response I get it, "My internet was not working". Now I am not asking her why she did not send us an e-mail, but why did she not speak to us, since she comes to class everyday. These are the youngsters who want to join MNCs, get a very very fat salary, becomes the COO/Director/CEO by the 2 nd week!!