It is said pagalla pakkam paatthu paesu raathrila adhuvum paesadhe. It so happens that I often keep forgetting this and I realize that the person whom I am talking about or someone close to that person is sitting right next to me only after I finish talking! 😐 It may not be anything bad about that person but it will definitely be something that I wouldn’t want him/her to hear. I hope at least in the future, I remember to look around me before I open my mouth.

I first saw this tag in Dandilsa’s blog and decided to take it up. Now, Aparna has tagged me to do the same tag.

1. LAST MOVIE U SAW IN A THEATER?
Jodha Akbar

2. WHAT BOOK ARE U READING?
The Code of the Woosters by P.G.Wodehouse – The first ever P.G.Wodehouse novel that I am reading.

3. FAVOURITE BOARD GAME?
Scrabble

4. FAVOURITE MAGAZINE?
Reader’s Digest. Till a few years back, Gokulam too.
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I did a mistake by writing here about me being called aunty by a kid. When I saw the Search Engine terms for my blog in the Blog Stats, I saw the term ‘aparna aunty’ and when I did a Google search, my blog was the first result for that. 😐 🙁

Talking about blog stats, the hits for my blog has crossed 50K and it’s now 51,586. 😀 Thank you all!  
And here are the all time top 7 search terms for my blog.

• aparna

• jodha akbar dvd cover

• jodha akbar cd

• jodha akbar cd cover

• ar rahman
• a.r.rahman
• a r rahman

Thank you, Rahman! 🙂

The rickshaws, autos, cycles, cars and bikes causing a jam outside the school as the students and teachers reach, the sounds of ‘Hi’s filling the air as greetings are exchanged with every other person in the class, the showing off of the new pencil box, pen, scale, pencil, school bag, etc. proudly, the hurried copying of the homework from that friend who never fails to come with all the homework completed, the whole class waiting for the teacher to enter as soon as the bell goes off and the few who are so busy in their own world that they don’t even know that the teacher has come.
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During the last couple of years, I have made a lot of good friends. Though I made the many friends at work, today, not many are still my colleagues and even among those who are still there, many have become so busy that they don’t even have time for mails. 🙁 Same is the case with many of my other friends as well. 🙁 With so many friends becoming busier by the day, there are days when I feel so bored. 🙁 This is the reason why I enjoyed school and college more. Atleast you knew that you will be with your friends till the end of college or the end of the academic year and none of us were ever this busy….

With a couple of my friends leaving on a long leave last week, I thought I will be bored like anything today. But thankfully, today wasn’t that bad a day after all. There are only a few friends to whom you can pour your heart out and talk about your little triumphs, fears and anything and everything under the sun. I am glad that I did that after quite sometime now with a friend today. And conversations like those always reassure you that you are not alone in this and there are many others feeling the same way. Thank you, my friend. 🙂

And thanks to a wise decision that I took last week, today has been a great day so far. 🙂

Last week, for the first time in my life, a kid called me Aunty! 😐 I have always hated being called akka itself and tell ‘paeru koopadadhaane irukku. Please call me Aparna’ and I generally make everyone call me by my name only. But now I feel akka itself is better. Being called aunty makes me feel old 😛

You try your best to forget some things at least temporarily and try to do something that you enjoy doing, when someone starts reminding you of it all. How I wish it didn’t have to be that way! 🙁

And here I was, all these days, thinking that I cannot be without the internet, without blogs or checking mails regularly! How wrong I was! Though I didn’t plan on taking a break of any sort, I eventually ended up taking something like a break during the past few weeks. There were only very few blog posts that I read and I didn’t even check my mails for days together. Till now, whenever I have not blogged regularly, there was some specific reason for it. But this is the first time when I didn’t blog for no reason at all. I spent all my free time reading books or doing absolutely nothing worthwhile and I am happy to say that never once did I miss the internet. But what with so many blog posts waiting to be written and read, it’s now time for me to come out of this supposed break….