Luka chupi …bahut hui …saamne aa ja … kehtein hain mom , suraj se

02^nd December 2010 :

            Melbourne streets were wet for past 1 week with the outbreak of the unseasonable monsoon.

Enough of avoiding nature’s outburst said I, decided to continue our Melbourne darshan plan. This day I was thinking we should take dad and mom to Chadstone. Sravan as always willing to stay back home, he says, “well we could watch a movie at home.” Not taking risk, I said ok .Because I knew, if something goes wrong after we reach there then no one would spare me. We checked the weather forecast and found out that Saturday is going to be fine. Hence, we decided to go to the Werribee Zoo.

Mom had an overwhelming prayer requests to be delivered to Bhagwaan.Not that dad did not have any, dad also had to help mom in delivering them. The prayer request for Vandana that everything should go well and smoothly, signing the flat agreement that they were signing today. In addition, a prayer that the LIC loan is sanctioned this month before the interests rates raise. On the other hand, Keerthan presenting his calendar for the first time to the client, should outperform, and receive client appreciation. Nevertheless, our prayer request that we should get the PR at the earliest. It was a busy day indeed for mom and dad. With the intention of going out to the groceries shop, mom and dad finished their lunch. Soon after they washed their hands, it started pouring when mom says to the sun god “luka chuppi .. bahut hui.. saamne aa ja…kahe aisi pyaas bhujaye jab hum iske pyaase na ho “

Left with no other choice than play a movie, they watched “Kavya’s diary”.I told Sravan “wldnt it be too serious  a movie to watch”. After an hour so it , it must have stopped raining when mom persuaded dad for a walk to groceries shop. They purchased Taj Mahal tea powder and dettol. Mom had been asking us to get a spare broom to use it specific to bhagwaan room. They seem to have notices a “2 Dollar shop” which is when they thought the broom would just cost a $2.At the time of payment the shop owner says not all the items here are $2 hence they end up paying $5.

It was 5.15 pm when I called up Sravan asking if we could leave early... He says “what is this.. These days you ask about leaving early so often.” We waited until 5.35 pm and started. We reached home at 6.20pm.We thought of ordering Methi Thepla in Spice n Ice for Saturday Werribee zoo visit. After placing the order that needs to be collected the next day, while we came out we saw one of our friends outside. We took her to our home. Mom & Dad were dressed as usual and it was a surprise to them .Sravan very swiftly came and stopped the DVD playing in the laptop. We tried to chitchat with her for sometime .Initially we thought mom would be comfortable talking to her, as she is from Warangal... however, she did not talk to her as much as we expected. After few minutes, she asked her husband to pick her up.

After she was gone, it was time to prepare dinner. Seems like there were many noodles left over; there was enough curry, and daal. All I had to prepare was to prepare the next day’s lunch. I decided to prepare moong dal ki kichdi. While the preparation was on Sravan tried to play “Maryada Ramana “for mom and dad. We tried to give a break after watching for a half hour. It was time to get updates from Vandana on how did her agreement signup go. We heard from Vandana that everything went fine and they were going for bhoomi pooja in the afternoon. Keerthan came late to the office and he had worn new T-shirt, which is why everyone seems to be pulling is leg. Well we spoke for 15 minutes and tried to understand about his presentation scheduled at night.

Dinnertime with lots of salad and the left over everyone seem to be enjoying .Dad says moong dal is “Fabulous” and mom says it is just like Iskcon prasadam. Well I was happy to know that khichdi turned out well. We called up Keerthan again, when in the background we heard him having arguments with someone. Mom and dad got worried and started praying Bhagwaan that everything should be smooth enough. After a while, we heard from him everything was quite normal. It was time to sleep when Sravan was almost in the bed, I aksed sravan to say good night to mom & dad and ease their tension. I could hear their conversation from the living area, Sravan trying to change the facts saying I had insisted to buy that spring bed. Well the fact was I opted for a wooden bed but it was to be picked from a far away place. Sravan opted to buy a spring bed, which was to be picked up from nearby which made our lives easy.

Excited that the next day was a Friday we wanted to get up early and reach office early. Not worrying so much about hide & seek of the Sun next day we slept at peace. It was definite that we will go to Werribee this Saturday.