Those were the days

When we were watching good serials on TV like Wonder Years and Doogie Howser MD. I was having this conversation with a couple of my friends and we were discussing how these serials introduced us to the world of America. Long before ‘Friends’ and the like. We remembered that one of the best parts of watching Doogie Howser was the journal entry he used to make at the end of each episode (Actually he could have been one of the first bloggers, he maintained a journal on the computer after all!!). Some of those entries did hit home…like these:   

“This week I butted heads with a very stubborn, closed- minded person. I’m just glad I had the sense to realize that it was me.”

“There’s nothing better than being cool and having a lot of friends… except being uncool and having one real friend.”

Check out the rest of them here.   

The joy of summer holidays

Going to the village Kanive in Coorg was a tradition during my school years. Owing to the fact that my grandmother lived there (no, we’re not Coorgis though), all my Bangalore and Mysore cousins, we would all travel every summer and winter vacation to join her and another set of cousins who lived there. Those were some of my best holidays. Just eat, play and talk (make noise was more like it!) and explore the surrounding places. There is this unbridled joy at being at a grandparent’s house, especially in a village. It’s something that’s associated with chidhood, something’s that’s pure and innocent. Something that will always invoke fond memories: Of bruised knees, of stories and legends, of head massages, of hot oil baths, of eating freshly picked fruits, of playing hide n seek, of climbing trees, of diving in the river, of running behind the odd vehicle on the road, of sowing seeds in the paddy field, of making all the mischief and getting away with it, of being wild and carefree…those were the days…<sigh>

Well, after my grandmother and family moved to Mysore, I hadn’t visited Kanive. It was almost 6 years since I’d been there. So this time, since we were doing a Coorg vacation (read about that here), we also decided to visit Kanive.