my diary entree on 7/19/14

Some things I realized this week are:

Ø Allowed myself to dream about some unexpected things

Ø Realized that my persona has changed a bit

Ø Realized the value of time

Ø Realized that I am more mature than what I give myself credit for

Ø Realized that just what a lazy person I am

Ø Realized that I am stronger then what I give myself credit

Strange isn’t it?

Now, to understand the next part, you should understand me. And to understand me, you need to understand where I come from.

So it is here that I lay my life bare.

The earliest memory I have is of my second birthday.

It was November 23, 2000. My birthday cake had white frosting. My grandfather had hung a small baby swing, the type in which you can feed a baby, to one of the supporting beams of the roof. It was pink and made of plastic. I remember my mom tucking me in it and then putting the cake infront of me on a table. My neighbor Shristi, who wasn’t even a year old and in the arms of her mother, was on the right side, near the door. Immediately left to me was my mom helping me cut the cake and to my immediate left was my best friend Shubhi. Shubhi and I were born five days apart. Infact, from the story I know,

My mother along with my grandfather had gone to this hospital, ‘Kurji’ to visit an acquaintance. This acquaintance recently had a baby daughter and was the daughter a Sangita Dadi.

Dadi means grandmother in hindi.

Sangita dadi’s husband was some nephew or something of my great grandmother. So this sangita dadi, my dadi and one more Chanda dadi were (and are) very good friends.

So sangita dadi’s daughter who had a baby girl was my father’s cousin sister making he my bua, i.e. father’s sister.

This bua, whose name was Nidhi was BFF with my own Bua Beauty.

Now, Nidhi bua’s daughter was shubhi.

She was born on 17^th November.

My mother had a day off from her office. Yes, she was eight months along and was still working. On her day off, she and my grandpa went to the hospital. Now while in the hospital, my grandfather suggested that she herself get a check up. She did. The doctor’s realized that the umbilical cord was slowly moving and it might choke the baby in question which was me. So they admitted her in. did a C-Section, and I was born on 23^rd November.

More later.