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From today onwards the Christmas vacation has started. And if you ask me i was longing for this, All my colleagues [ whether they accept it or not] are making plans to spend their holidays somewhere but I would rather stay here in my house than go somewhere else, I asked my mother if she has any thing on her mind but she said no and she wants nothing as long as she has her cell phone, television and kitchen . She does miss West Bengal but she has learned to cope with things i suppose and she does not complain too often now a days, I insisted her to watch some cooking on youtube but she refused because she believes her television has more to offer her, I can't argue here. The other day a newspaper man we are no more in touch with suddenly left a Bengali magazine at our door. My mother got angry but eventually i found her smiling as she went on turning the pages of the magazine. Today one of my colleagues came to our house in the evening to show some sarees that she has bought from a fair stall near our house and my mom liked two of them and now I know what to do next. Just the way i spend a whole day in school doing something or the other, my mom too does it at home. On normal days she starts with the preparation of my tiffin, then she dusts and sweeps to keep the dining hall and our room clean. Then she takes a bath, prays to God and enters the kitchen and by that time it is already 11 or 11;30, she finishes her work within an hour or so and watches television or goes out to the market if she has got something important to buy. Then she takes her lunch, her medicine and lies down and wait for me to come back and after I come back home we fight on a regular basis because my right is always her left and she is way too affirmative here and again i cannot say she is always wrong. I mess up more often than can be imagined, She has made some friends here and has learned a little bit of Hindi, enough for her daily work i must say. And humorously she is more terrified than me at the idea of her daughter entering the kitchen to try her hand at something new. Well , my future husband will suffer and I know whom to blame. The other day when I shared this same thing with principal ma'am she said ' Kamalika, you will learn everything when the time comes, Don't rush', and i hope she is right. A few seconds back a call came from an unknown number and my mother did something that made me angry and hence I will stop writing this post. I might just harm my new laptop if i continue writing.
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