Early Childhood

A friend of mine has asked me to upload my childhood photo, so I was going through my album when suddenly I realized the huge transformation that I have gone through. The dresses I wore and the way I got ready reflects my grandparents taste. When I was a kid, I spent most of my time with my grandparents and those days are still very fresh in my mind.
I remember roaming bare footed in the open lanes along with my baddu sister and a girl called "Saadhvi".We have played many games like "choor-pulice","running race”,” gully(silly) cricket”.” cycling kampeteesion(competetion) , some weird games like ---"miss Mary, ham cheese ham burger,aaa meena khatta meena,zeeb-zaab-zoob,who stole the cookie from the koooookie jaaaar(with a lilt), The very thought of these games brings a huge guffaw among us.
My daily routine was like this-get up in the morning and get ready very neatly. Getting neatly like--platting my well oiled hair with black ribbions,cut my nails, polishing my shoes(phew!!),wearing a neatly pressed uniform(not to forget the tie and my badges) and then wait for my "aatu onkul"(I mean auto uncle) . and then a very crowded auto comes and picks us at 7:30 for my protestant missionary school which was at 8:45 .Then my day at school started with bible psalms, hymns ,prayers singing in the school choir, going through a number of senior prefect checks like the 'nail check’,’ uniform check’,’ tie-badge check' etc......Then we had some ultimate classes like Mrs.Esther Michel's boring history and Mrs.Kapoor's strict hindi ,Mrs.Elizabeth John's inspiring math etc.. Then we had our P.T classes where Madavi miss used to make us jog all over our big ground(No ,it was not a punishment)then we had some stupid exercises like the 'neck rotation','knee rotation','hip rotation' and the like.Considering ourselves to be the best basketball players ,we used to jump a hell lot.To escape the tiring big ground jogs we used to come with stupid excueses like stomach ache,fever......BUT Madhavi miss was tooooooooo strict.She would never allow us to sit.After the tiring P.T period we had our lunch recess for one full hour where we dumped off everything in our little mouth in a jiffy(not more than 5 minutes).Then we had plenty of time on earth to play kho-kho,out-out and the like.Afternoon periods were very boring.(We were very tired actually) .We literally waited for our last hour to get over and then rushed to our auto,threw our bag and waited for rosary convent, little flower and bharatiya vidya bhawan kids to come.
After a long journey we were finally in our grandpa's house.We would finish our H.W's quickly and would run to play with Saadhvi and Srinu (my cousin) all those stupid games that I mentioned before.Finally,ma and pa used to come and pick us at 7 p.m. or so and then we had our dinner and slept by nine.
This was my general life for many years.There seems to be nothing special but they are really very special to me.I will descirbe them in my next blog.Enough for today.ya,jaane se pehaele "woh suhane din kabhi laut ke na aaye ; jinhe hum kabhi na bhool paye......."