Childhood memories
February 4, 2010Nostalgia time:
1) Playing badminton with pappa.
2) Sitting pillion on Bhava’s yezdi.
3) Going to chickpet in hordes to buy smallest of items.
4) Tonnes and tonnes of groceries from Yestwantpur wholesale market.
5) Shanti Sagar in Bhashyam circle, having bread chola! Parties in one of the sagars for every occasion – and having three course meal – phew!
6) Exhausting, yet fun, Udupi/Sode trips and arriving back in Bangalore at 3 am. Sleep deprived, hungry and tired. Dreading to wake up and go to school/college.
7) Filter coffee on stove – forever. Staple breakfast: concrete (Do I need to elaborate?).
8 ) Neem leaves kashaya every amavasya, never figured out the reason. Bhimana amavasye, omada kashaya. All of us drinking it with various ‘supplements’ like water, sugar etc. – and one of us invariably bringing all that back!
9) Enne snana with homemade sheegekai powder. Shampoo was almost a taboo!
10) Bambai bonda and goli baje.
11) Watching Yakshagana till 4 in the morning in a nearby school and facing the ‘music’ for coming home late. I was 8 
12) Going to santhe every Tuesday or Thursday, I forget.
13) Going to Krishna matha with ajji to listen to Mahabharata Purana.
14) And forever…Malpe beach and Churmuri (my mouth is watering…damn!!!)
15) Oh! How can i forget the copy writing and maggi…phew
13)Bhojane shale oota @ udupi krishna mutt.
14)Amrita bali rasa with honey.
15)Playing @ udupi and rajajinagar with all cousins.
16)Learning tables.
17)Going to various mutt’s in udupi and the market to buy gulla’s and harve soppu.
18)goli bajje @ mitra samaja
19)And all those piligramage trips, wow.
Haha, thanks for the lovely additions. Keep them coming.
20) Rajiv Mayi’s excessively sweet Horlicks/Boost 21) Bhoothada Kola behind Gudde Shale (remember Akkobi?)
How many of these are going to repeat for the oncoming generation? You bet they will be only juicy stories for them.
Yes Sandy. Such a possibility cannot be ruled out. We will resort to Google maps or some such thing to show these locations I suppose!
yes it is really a wonderful time spent in the childhood…
Picking of ranje hoovu form the GARDEN
Writing tables during holiday including 3 pages copy writing.
Drying up of uddina halappa and sandige etc.
Rajivi’s kannada slang words
really miss all these good thing in this electronic developed world.
Su what abt these? Most of these are Udupi specific:
1) Diana Falooda amele Hottenalli gadbad
2) Visits to Mangalore Gowri Mutt(Anthu Mama’s house)
3) Feasting on Mangoes & juice dripping from the mouth
4) Visits to Jayanthakka’s house and playing on the swing
5) As with Akshob, i cant get over Malpe Mayhem’s
6) Bhavaaji’s happala factory
7) The card games at night
8) The ghostly stories from Dodamma & others
9) The long walks to the loo at night
10) And the aroma coming out of Dodamma’s kitchen
The list is never ending ….
- Little-Angels – Stella Maris School Days………
- Holidays spent playing on top of Ajji Mane at 5th Cross SP Extn…..
- Long afternoon chats on the cot with radio playing retro music in the background…
- Chinnappa @ Radar Ears at LPO house?
- Bayamma’s Departmental Stores………
- Cabbage Vada at Planter’s Coffee House…..
- Waiting for M- Mama’s return from Chitradurga every saturday………
I remember several more…………
Yes everyone, the list is endless. Perhaps I should have made a longer list. @Niks, I don’t remember the Gowri Mutt bit. The maravanthe trips, visit to Karwar (!), etc. etc. @Van: Ah those were the days machi. Chinnappa actually broke into our house once. LPO house was locked as we were all away (college, office etc.) and he did an inspection of our house using his spare key!
Thanks for all the additional inputs everyone
su ,
chennagi ella nenapu madidi. neeninnu namma happala factory adu halasina happala, nenapu madikondilla.. Specially bealginda koothre rathri ge ready agi marudina happala madtha iddevu. AAa kala ondithu,divya thanagithu. balyavagithu. nijavaglu namma childhood innu bere agithu.
su
krishna astami vesha
addra hinde ninna otta[with jaya]
tata vijju mammana hudukatta
at night 10 oclock mannge bartiddya…