As the thoughts flow -05

01 08 10.

A new day, a new month; so better to write something about old - rather about past.

It lay dormant behind a small button. You in your conceived wisdom you thought it fit to probe it with the small arrow. (this word wisdom is seldom used: usually conjoined amongst all things, with tooth, even dentists have forgotten it ! )

Within fraction of a second, pushing every thing aside on your screen, a map spreads in all its grandeur. There are curving lines, patches of colors mostly brown & green and of course words in different fonts and sizes.

Unexpectedly a word Amazon catch your eyes. Faster than the fastest computer your brain rings an alarm saying you knew this word. But when where how ? - as the back office work proceeds to search the dark crevices of stored memories you continue.

Wonder of wonders, by now the prodding arrow has become an helping hand and you started understanding the screen with a bit more clarity. Now, you wanted to navigate and see how INDIA looked !!

As you navigate, seemingly familiar but not exactly known words surface.

Suddenly you hear "eureka" and your back office announces you came across the word amazon in your eight standard geography.

As always, it also throws along a few extras too ! Memories of how you all nick named that geography teacher as oranguttan and your personal low score in the monthly exam in geography and the consequent dress down received from your father.

As the arrow of desire prodded me to write about the past, I find myself in an akin situation

Past is panoramic but blurred. Zeroing in is getting harder as many hands from the memory stand raise to get picked up. Anyway let me try to give a push start and see.

Here I go.

As I toddle into my past, the first relative etched in my memory is my aunt (mother's elder sister). A fat lady in white saree with an always unkempt hair. My mother used to say but for her sister GNANA {did not have an happy married life and subsequently became a widow too}, I would have been dead and gone as only a toddler. The phrase "Hale and Hearty" did not fit me well in my childhood. In those days.......

Stop! stop! The reader is guessing your age with these three words sequence. They are a lot cleverer than you think they are. Just because they devote some time to read your bragging, do not try to under estimate them.

Now, say a bye-bye and try hard to cover the slip up. May be already a gone case !

Best of luck !!!