allrighty!

Welcome home. Now is the right time to visit. The flat is immaculately clean. Believe me. Id holidays start today. And guess what? Including the weekend, it's 9 days this time. And... my bro n family are coming down from Qatar today. Finally.

Happy Id, friends. Enjoy!

Freud's Sister - Goce Smilevski

• Goce Smilevski pens down the novel in 2011 and Christina E. Kramer translates it from Macedonian to English. Smilevski snatches Europen Union Prize for Literature for the same. The translation is too good to be true. Good job!
• The novel sheds light to the story of Adolfina Freud, one of the four sisters of Sigmund Freud. The story starts n ends in concentration camp, but rest part is set in Vienna. Grateful for that.
• Throughout the novel, the main character accuses her brother of negligence n abandonment towards his four sisters. She helds his brother responsible for their unfortunate death. But a google search on Sigmund Freud fails to reveal any such foul play.
• Why Adolfina? Why this pathetic,depressing tale?

In the autumn of my life, I grow reflective

Landour Days - Ruskin Bond

Published in 2002, the book is sort of a journal about the previous year , seasonalized into 4 - reflections in summer, monsoon, autumn and winter. The journal is lightweight with only 141 pages with black & white illustrations. 

A simple yet profound n witty diary.

Life is What You Make it - Preeti Shenoy

Preeti Shenoy. I recently find out her blog. Also this book. The title of the book is misleading, sounds like an inspirational self help book.

The novel starts off like an M&B romance esp the episodes in Kerala. St. Agnes n Mahavir? It must be St. Teresa's and Maharajas I guess. Anyhow. I can relate to that part of the story. Later the novel becomes the life of a bipolar female. It reminds one of the movie Silverline playbook. But here somehow the efforts do not reap the same results. The characters n events look shallow n unreal. This story can be a big help for bipolar victims.

Grimus - Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie's first novel. A mix of magic, fantasy and science. The book is a difficult read. Actually the most tough book I've ever read till to date. But anything from the author. I liked the book. No, I didn't understand anything. Flapping eagle? Bird-dog? Whatever. It was fun reading  for the pure magic of his writing.

Between the blinks, this is what stuck home."Most of life has no meaning- so it must surely be a distortion of life to tell tales in which every single element is meaningful? How terrible to have to see meaning or a great import in everything around one, everything one does, everything that happens to one!"

Blink.Blink.

Do you remember your Grade 2 teacher?

No. I don't. That becomes my main objection in teaching in class 2. The other being well pointed out by Bernard Shaw -  "those who can, do; those who can't, teach". Till today.  I'm flattered n honored. No more qualms. I'm in cloud 99.

Tell me. Who is your favorite teacher?

onam again

Olan. Yes, olan. What do you think about olan? Is it a curry actually? Who invented it? God, it's the worst bland curry if all curries. Anyways Onam is already here. As usual the first Onam is @ cousin's place. And as usual...... no.... I'm not doing payasam. It's olan. Thus my first olan. To tell you the truth, this white curry is not  thaaaat bad.

By and by, it's Teacher's day today!! No comments.