Memorabilia

I’m one of those most fortunate souls on the earth who were blessed with a beautiful childhood.

Everyone of us owe our lives to two angels who brought us into this world, nurtured and nourished us, investing their whole physical and mental energies on us and leaving no stone unturned into shaping us as the individuals we are today.

Yes, those angels are our parents.Does any language in the world have words capable of describing exactly the love of our parents?

No words can render justice to describe this love.

I cannot describe how much my mom and dad love me or how much I love them. It is truly inexplicable. I have a younger sister who is the apple of our eyes. My sis and I share a wonderful childhood, which passes, before my eyes like a beautiful fairy tale whenever I reminisce about it.

I’m trying to relive my childhood through this blog.

The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of my childhood days is the book Tinkle (I dare not call it a comic or a magazine for fear of undermining its value. It is too good to be shrunken to those words.)

A few days ago, while I was surfing through Orkut, I came across a community of people who grew up reading Tinkle. I was amazed to find so many Tinkle-lovers. It was like homecoming to me to be around people sharing a common bond through Tinkle (virtually though).

It was the January of year 1991, when father brought us (sis and me) our first copy of Tinkle.

Dad, love you immensely. You introduced us to this wonderful world of Tinkle, which made our

childhood beautiful. We used to look forward very eagerly every fortnight for the latest copy of

Tinkle. Sis and I used to take belligerent turns in reading the stories (who could wait till the

other finishes the book! :)) So thoroughly we loved the book that we used to play the characters

in the stories. We even nicknamed each other as Keechu and Meechu (we fight even to this day

for the latter name, coz it sounds sweeter than the former. Lolz :)).

We learnt new words from Tinkle; we learnt science and interesting

facts from Tinkle; we learnt tricks and got treats from Tinkle…

Uncle Anu, Shikari Shambu, Suppandi, all these characters were like neighborhood figures to us.

In short, Tinkle became a part of our life.

Ok folks, this dose of boredom should suffice for now. More doses awaiting you in the nearest future…lolz :)