Ah!!! bliss!!!

Life suddenly is so organised – it seems strange to sleep at sane hours and wake up early, to have a decent maid to take care of things that bogged me down earlier, to devote more time to work and to go for walks without worrying about another late night to complete pending work…
I hope the state of things last… most of all I hope that this time the maid lasts she better I am paying her a big packet.

Learning to lose

Yesterday Aasim participated in his first skating competition. Its been just about a month since he started learning. He did not secure a position but completed the race -fell a couple of times, but did not give up. He cried and was very very upset on not winning the race but got over his disappointment … Continue reading Learning to lose

Bad Products, Advertisements and Children

Aasim got interested in “Liril Cool Mint” after seeing its TV commercial and made me buy the soap.Today morning he very excitedly took the soap for his bath and started screaming when I soaped him – the soap has so much mint that it burns on skin specially his soft baby skin. Not just that … Continue reading Bad Products, Advertisements and Children

Another insipid entry

Tarique says my LJ entries are rather insipid. So be it, such is my life. And who should I blame for it? Asthma is at its worst. Home has been taken over by the pest control guys, the carpernter and the painter. We have shifted bag and baggage to the two spare rooms in the … Continue reading Another insipid entry

Into My Own – A Poem by Robert Frost

One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding … Continue reading Into My Own – A Poem by Robert Frost

Aasim fighting sleep

Of-late I am finding that Aasim is fighting sleep a lot – his eyes are red and sleepy by 8 PM but he manages to stay awake till midnight. and sometime even past midnight Earlier I had attributed to his staying indoors in summer and not getting tired, but since his skating camp began, he … Continue reading Aasim fighting sleep