This afternoon while at the wheel I was completely scared to death at what I saw on the road, at the intersection to be precise. I was taking a left turn and it was a complete NO NO for pedetrians to be crossing the road from my left to right. After the signal turned green I started accelerating and WHOA! there was this lady crossing right in front of me when she was not supposed to! She stood right in the middle of the road and as if out of no where she started making some funny movements with her hands as though she were boxing some imaginary person in front of her. YUP! You got it. The poor lady was mentally derailed. Almost everyone waiting at the other signals had this " what the hell is happening" kind of a look on their faces. One man was cursing her under his breath without realising that she is mentally unstable.

Believe me I felt so bad for this wowan. Infact coming to think of it this was the same lady who was walking right in the middle of a very busy street a few days back too. And that day she was cursing and imaginary someone loudly on the road Luckily, with the speed of the oncoming cars she moved out in time. You might ask me as to how I know it is the same woman. Because I was on the very same street today too just like I was a few days back.

This woman is putting not only her life in danger but the lives of the drivers on the road too! I could have killed her accidently had it not been for my presence of mind to look on all sides of the road before making my left turn! Boy! So important to obey ALL traffic rules.

I beginning to think someone has to report this lady to the law enforcement officials. Maybe I will the next time I see her. Where the hell is her caretaker, if at all she has one, I wonder!

Isn't it amazing what a melodious piece of music can do to your soul? I am listening to one of my favourite songs from this evergreen hindi movie "Kashmir ki kali" and I cannot begin to express how elated and wonderful I am feeling! This is what good things in life do to you, especially great music from the golden era of Bollywood! I am great lover or classical music and I would like to blow my own trumpet by saying that I have a great ear for it. I have tears in my eyes when the music touches me deep down in my heart and music from yesteryears does that to you.

Where has all that great music gone today? Today's many movies are nothing but absolute trash as far as the music goes and let us not even get to the plot! If you ask me ,the hallmark of a great song is when you feel that tingling sensation when humming it! Even after movies 50/60 years old I still get goose flesh when I hear the songs from those movies . That to me is great music and those to me where great composers and lyricists with all due respect to the song composers and lyricists of today!

I know one thing everytime I sing a song, I am in a different world all together and I wish I could just never come back from it. I find solace in singing! Especially classical songs. I should have never stopped learning classical music in the first place! Well! It is never too late to commence again.

There is this nursery rhyme that goes:

Rain rain go away,

Come again another day.

Little Johnny wants to play;

Rain, rain go to Spain

Never show your face again.

Last night when it was raining my husband and I went out to our backyard and stood in the rain enjoying every second of it. That is when this poem came to my mind and I thought I would most definitely not want the rain to go away! It was cold and dark outside, the stark white flowers of one my trees were breathtakingly beautiful against the black sky. It was almost Bollywoodish with both of us soaking slightly, but this time around there was no director saying "action", instead there was a cold, howling wind brushing against us as though urging us to linger on ! I was even transported to India for a few seconds! When it used to rain back home in India I can still remember the earthy smell of the mud just beginning to soak up the lovely drops thereby emitting the most wonderful smell of mother earth, mom making some hot pakodas and me ofcourse gorging on each one of them! I absolutely love the rains. I can almost see some eyebrows raise!

There was something so magical about last night as we both stood there in the rain.It's a pity that sitting inside the house with so called dual pane windows you can never really hear the rain patting against your windowpanes. After all they are dual pane like I said! To me there is nothing more beautiful than lying in my bed at night and hearing the puddles outside give off some nice music as they fill up with the rain. The next time it rains, just have a window open and try and hear the sounds of those droplets dancing on the puddles as they fall from the sky! It is wonderful!