AMMA– oorige wapus hodLu

The very word wapas makes me feel guilty.I know she feels more at home with her son-still I want her to stay with me longer.

I wonder why..

Most people are vociferous in their appeals to sack some senior batsmen. Atleast they have some good deeds against their names.

I wonder why the AGED quack-quack has been featuring constantly on our team!!

Who is his godfather??

Powering one more team??

The ad world will be thrilled

thanks to Power’s past-time profession-they will have 11 more models.

In the new proposal our over-rated  (b)rats will now have substitutes .(to be used in modelling assignments too)  😉

BeLLary kade ondu gaade ide : mundige maadonige simbLa tegeyuvavanu obbanu anta

evarige kelasa illa-super 8 gu hoglilla eradane team enmadatante?

Goanalli Gowdru

Ellelli chuNavaNe  allalli naaniruvee..

Kelavaru Eleksun tamenaage shaaNe churukaagtaare

Ellirtaaro eno thutanta pratyaksa agtaare nodi somi

The days of pot culture

 We had to study applied sciences .For students of CBZ the only option then was soil sciences and crop practices.

We had two SUPERSTARS as our lecturers..

One was N whose English was a source of continuous entertainment.

Avara nudimuttugaLu were anarghya ratnagaLu.

We used to have his  classes in the somnolent afternoons ..zz ..zzz

His droning voice would make us doze off-as if it were a lullaby.

But tale- harteys like me would be busy writing down his notes seriously -as we would note it down in his  style-phonetically!!

The notes would provide comic relief when we would read them for tests and exams.

The other ratna was Mr.R who would come totally sozzled!!

To a middle -class ,sheltered girl it was scary initially to even look at him.Later we became so used to his inebriation that we would find it amusing to watch his eye-balls oscillating.

His lectures were totally a waste for us because his physical condition (or lack of it!!)was more arresting.;)

1980-84

The years which defined a profession for an otherwise susegaad girl.

(susegaad in Konkani means  happy -go-lucky,araam maduva,take-it -easy—)

Those years at REC ,(now RIE )Mysore are —

The days of being a front-bencher for all classes,the days of running to the library to read a fresh newspaper  early in the morning(untouched by others)–

undescribable ansutte.

But after 23 years of just savouring I want to chronicle it too.

So watch out dear hapless readers-here it goes.

The weekly supplement on College Days- wah! kya din the..

Tennis or write ups on Tennis??

 I have never held a tennis racquet .Yet I follow tennis grandslams on tv and more so in the print media.

I enjoy reading articles by sports journalists more  than actually playing now.

The way Nirmal Shekhar writes , the language he uses–it is truly delicious!!

There was one in which he had written about Paes playing inspite of cramps.that article was superlative.

I also enjoy reading cricket write ups by Brijnath,Peter Roebuck,and one other sports journalist whose name eludes me now. He used to write in The Hindu-in 80s.his name began with R…

Steve Waugh writing for the feature Gameplan also posted thought-provoking  and incisive comments on the game.I don’t know whether he actually wrote them himself.

Anyway I like to praise him-he was a good fighter-he never gave up.And he is a philanthropist.

Reading the newspaper from the masthead to -printed and published at–

has become  a luxury these days.

sachin, tula mee salaam kareet aahe

Sachin baba,as the mother of a budding sportsman I know that sports need perseverance.

But isn’t it testing our sahane and perseverance if you announce to the world that you want to play till praLaya kaala?

Bjorn Borg,Agassi la aathvan ghevun bugh!!

Kitti chaan –khelte khelte sanyaas ghevun taakli. 

maajha aik.neet basoon vichaar kar. WC 2007 itself tumhi passenger saarkhi aahes.2011 madhye kaay karaaychi tharavle–Commentary??

Nahi tar cricket khelta khelta  off the field ads madhye kasa earning karaaychi mhanoon  workshop karaaychi tharavli ka??

Ata uttar dya. Mug bol.Pahila hya WC cup madhye neet khel baba.

 Ugadi in Goa is called Gudi padva

Gudi means a flag and padva means the first day(prathama/padya)

A gudi in the form of an inverted tambige is hoisted on a stick.The stick is decorated with mango leaves and a new  orange -coloured piece of cloth.It is hoisted on top of the house.

The people say that the flag is to celebrate the return of the victorious Maratha warriors in the era of Chatrapati Shivaji.

Ofcourse a sumptuous feast follows.

And the business world announces all sorts of discounts 🙂

Goan Ugadi–