A New Hope...A New Promise...

At times, I really wonder is this happening with me…is this something that we usually nickname as Sixth Sense or just coincidence…especially when things that were so close to what I intended to say become a reality..it gives a shiver…The news of the aircrash came in as a shock and today as I am typing this down I have already missed quite some heart beats…

Believe me or not…few days back, I had started typing in some stories of airport and things that have happened during my tenure at an airport years back…Ok, I missed saying that b4..let me update u with that info…I have worked for some years with the passenger service in an airport…during those years, I learnt all the “Behind the Scene Actions” before and after a flight took off and landed…Many of the misconceptions I had as a mere passenger were broken…I understood WHY it was as it was…WHY not it be as we wanted…and so on…

Including myself, had made mistakes in trying to cheat the Airline staffs by taking an extra baggage or excess weight along with us to the aircraft to avoid paying excess baggage…Even when my relatives were travelling a few days back…when I was lecturing them, WHY THEY SHOULD NOT CHEAT ON THE WEIGHT CALCULATIONS, they laughed me off…Little did they know, how much dangerous their one piece of unsurrendered baggage could turn to… They didn’t want to know the Safety and Security hazards it could pose to an aircraft and thereby the passengers…

Anyways, when I was talking to u all abt their excess baggage on my last post, I felt that I should be sharing with u all some of my stories from those days at the Airport and the problems I faced with passengers due Excess Baggage…I had typed a whole post with a few hilarious and funny incidents, but then ended it with a warning of what could happen if we really din’t abide by the safety regulations during an air travel…

For some idiotic reason, I forgot to take the copy of the post with me home and thereby, I couldn’t post it into the blog all these days…Everyday, I thought, 'OK tomorrow, I will do it'…and it just went on …Today, when I came to the office after the week end…and while reading the news papers about the yesterday's crash, I opened the word doc…and the first word that caught my eyes were, the last word of my post…The warning that I wanted to give you all…In bold letters it read ‘An Air Crash’ …

This is a truth…I wouldn’t want to post that anymore…But some day, I will surely share with you all those incidents that happened …not to warn you, but to make you understand WHY IT HAS TO BE THE WAY IT IS….Atleast for some of you, (who had taken a flight atleast once before) it will be new knowledge and could alarm you when you realise the fact that be it unknowingly how big a threat you have been to an air craft and fellow passengers during your flight....

But now, at this point all I want to extend is my heart felt condolences to the family who lost their loved ones in this horrific accident...Praying that the souls of those ill-fated people who left us today may Rest in Peace...In memory of those deceased in the crash …

"Life is a journey.
Death is the continuation of the journey.
Heaven is a temporary rest.
For the commencement and fulfilment
Of a new life, a new hope
And a new promise"

Welcome Back to Myself...

Ok….so that is it…been away for quite some days..and reason u should be knowing…I was busy with my relatives from India..taking them around…long sleepless nights really posed great danger to my health…uhmm…been down with heavy throat pain and allergy…between son again had a 3 days hospital visit…due his allergy probs…and so on….to top the whole thing up…I have a bandage on my left ankle as I twisted my leg during a dance spree on their last day of vacation…uhmmm…but then…it was all worth it…really enjoyed the days and now really miss them…

Home is back to normal with lots of space to walk around…a week back, it was filled with people bumping into each other every now and then…or atleast walking in between the loads of Excess Baggage that they managed to build up through shopping…uhmmm…Lol…They could take with them almost 300 kg and they victoriously succeeded in crossing the limits by atleast another 100…thereby, leaving the remaining 100kg at home for us to cargo it ASAP….haha!!!

To think of it, really did they do that much shopping…???? Naaah!!!..but then, the excess baggage is still lying at home waiting for the cargo guys…

Between, would also like to share a sad news with you all…Kindly pardon me, if I don’t drop in to ur blogs often…our IT people has become really bad the last week…they blocked all blog sites and now, I can’t read or post blogs from my office…uhmmm…That means, I have to do it from home…which is almost near to impossible…I can type in my posts in a word doc and post it in the eve as I am going to do with this…But then to sit and read blogs with my son on my head is like hell…

Somehow, my son, lovessssssss switching on the laptop…even if he is only 2 ½ years old…he already know how to switch on the laptop, connect the charger, mouse onto the laptop…and then u shd see him sitting in front of the monitor with his hands on top of the keyboard…as if he is doing some real hard work on the computer….grrrr…and when I try using the laptop, he wants to do all the above stuff along with me…That means, if by mistake I switch on the laptop myself, he will switch it off and then switch it on himself…If I had already connected the charger…he will remove the plug off and then re-connect it himself…

I have really noticed one thing after the visit of my relatives…He has started trying to talk with whole sentences using every single word cautiously and slowly with correct tone and intonation…(you should have heard him when I tried feeding him some rice…the way he tossed his face away from me saying.. “NO, I Don’t want…I won’t eat, I won’t let you….” Gosh, I was awe struck…he very clearly learnt saying NO to my demands….grrr…thrashing on the way, dear son…haah!!!) Another change was that he started becoming choosy…now, he prefer selecting his clothes…and once I had to literally threaten him to wear the shoes I had selected for him…(lol, few days before that, while he was trying to select his shoes from the shoe rack cupboard, accidently the whole of the rack almost fell over him and that scared him a lot…now I am using that to keep him off the shoe rack…)…

But the worst one was his learning a regional language song…which is supposed to be a romantic song in an arrogant way….In that song, the Heroine is walking behind the Hero singing a song (close to a conversation type) and the Hero shoos her off saying PODI…(which is a colloquial word meaning “GOOOOOOOO Girl…..” the word as such is OK to be used between friends…and NOT AT ALL OK to be used to elders...)…when the Hero says Podi the heroine says back PODA…(which in turn meant “Gooo Man”… )….Now, my son, even if he never got the tune of the song right, could very well pronounce these two words…and walked around singing (or rather saying)… “PODIIIII, PODAAAAA….”…grrrr

Now, I was in for real shock, when he decided to sing this song just when the nurse was leaving his room during his hospital visit a week before…lol…I was like sooo embarrassed and had to literally tell every single nurse that he was just singing the song…Thank god, the song was quite famous among South Indians…at times, I even had to sing the song along with him to just show others that it was just a song and not that my son was disrespecting them by shooing them off….lol!!!

Anyways, now, I am continuously stopping him from singing that song…and now what happens is…Somehow, the words escape his mouth at times…and this is what happens… “PODIII, PODAA…(and then he looks at me…and continues…) is a dirty song…isn’t it Mom??? If I sing, Mom will slap me…” hahah!!! And there were times when he very craftly acted as if he never sang that song as in … “Podi, Podaaaaaa…(he would just continue the ‘aaaaa’ sound and continue with the song) Aaaaare u sleeping are u sleeping, brother John….”

Trust me, you can never hold back your laugh if ever u see his such divine ideas to escape my scoldings… I know that there r still a lot more of his pranks for me to witness and go thru…hehe!!! I really wonder if I was this intelligent as a kid…But guess what others have to say about him when they see him on action….

“No wonders…After all, whose son is he…typical Mother and Son …”