The last weekend was one of the best weekends I ever had. On Saturday, I had my first ever shoot for a television channel. It all began with an email from a program producer at Manorama News. They wanted to do a feature about Blogswara for their program called “Vanitha“. I, along with Pradipettan and Divya, went there and talked about Blogswara. The shooting was in an Ayurveda resort at Thrissur. I was quite nervous in the beginning and tried my level best not to show it, but gradually it turned out to be okay after the first few minutes. Thanks to Karthika and her team from MN and the friends accompanied, who made it feel like a casual outing. Those who can, do check out the following dates and time to see us on the mini screen. 🙂
August 24, Monday – 2:30 PM
August 25, Tuesday – 5 AM & 9:30 AM
Channel: Manorama News
Sunday was even more interesting. I went to my mother’s birthplace and roamed around the place for sometime. We have cousins there and we do visit them now and then, but it has been a long time since we have seen the whereabouts. Amma was tired, but was so happy to walk around and show us the places. There was an old well in their property which they used to water the farm. She talked about people from her childhood and the old framing techniques etc. She could meet a couple of her old pals too. There was my old Aunt in my mother’s ancestral house and she did not recognize me and my brother when we greeted her. Can’t complain as she is 80 now! But she could walk faster than us. I don’t have any memory of the place, but all my brothers and sisters have nostalgic memories of the place from their childhood. They used to tell me stories of their summer vacation trips to this place, about taking a bath in the village pond, a walk through the paddy fields etc. But the old village is not a village anymore. While showing us around, my Aunt told me that the old paddy fields are all gone and it is now filled with the newly built houses. “Those were our paddy fields in those times“, she said.
Here are some pics.
This is the house that my mother was born and brought up in.
“All the paddy fields are gone now” – tells my Aunt walking with my bro and his kiddo.
The old village pond, it is so beautiful!
A small water stream on the way. There were some tiny fishes which caught the interest of my bro’s kid.
And that’s the 80 yr old young lady. 🙂