....Finally we are doing something we wanna do!!!!!

All thanks to that some entrance exam of mine for which we had to go to Jaipur and had 4 hours free before our return…..of course with Gud di along, we went for shopping and apart from all faltu shopin we bought this set of plain t-shirts (which I so much wanted)….tat was it…

We were back home and one night Gud di calls me urgently upstairs…and what I see is that this plain white t-shirt has a smart design that too with hand…I was actually surprised, was like “WOW!!!! Ye kaise hua??? Then she revealed her dil me dabi hui tamanna…jab se plain t-shirts kharide the, train mein  she was thinking of designing them (Something like how JKR gave birth to HARRY POTTER!!!!!)…and the  first thing that came to our mind was “ lets design t-shirts and sell”…..and so we are here presenting you this exclusive range of hand designed t-shirts…

Of course it took a very long time…..she had this khujli in her hands to design t-shirts …”jahan bhi jao plain t-shirts lao”…was her only cry…. And now I have this smart collection of t-shirts (in all pastel shades possible) filled with Gud di’s art and creative designs!!! At one point I stopped getting plain t-shirts … but she didn’t stop, designed t-shirts for Sneha (our Einstein), asked my friends to get their plain tees and hadd to tab hui jab Khushbu (who now wears saree after marriage) ko kahan  “tere liye to poori saadi design kar dungi”…. She actually did not stop… But there’s a secret I wanna share “out of all tees she’s designed, mine were the smartest”…Arpita ne to kaha bhi “ haan accha h par tere jaisa nahi h”…to the first t-shirt designed for her!!!!!!!

This shauk of hers (one of many other hobbies she’s recently discovered in my company) is now taking a new form…we’ve decided to start this online platform to also give others THE PLEASURE OF THIS TREASURE …..wah …wah !!!!!!

Its just the beginning so you guys will have to wait till we actually bang the markets (which will be online), Just look out for the seven letters :

“ENTROPY"

P.S. : The name has another story and there are many other stories of  “the making of ENTROPY”, which will be blogged soon.

Happy shopping and ask Dear God to please BLESS US….THANK YOU !!!!

Accha lagta hai

I got an early morning call 2-3 days back from Sushila ji Bohra saying Sunita got through the exam. "WOW...Thank you so much GOD...you made my day!!!!!!!!"....was all I could say before calling Sunita to wish her.

Now coming to Sunita...I met her 2-3 months back when she was preparing for II grade teachers exam alongwith her M.A. Eng Hons. final yr. exams, which were falling on the same time. Meanwhile, just for experience and practice, she's utilising her B.Ed. degree in teaching senior secondory students. No doubt she's been a very good student in her school.....You guys must be wondering whats SO Special in this C.V. I am writing about..... The wonder is, all this has been achieved without the eyes.....SUNITA IS HANDICAPPED BY Sight....I am not writing blind coz its just the eye sight she doesn't have, rest she's brighter than any of us. Writing handicapped is also very wrong in her terms because thats one word not in her dictionary....

Sushila ji Bohra, an eminent social worker in Jodhpur, runs this Blind School (with hostel) for both girls and boys. I am her neighbour and thats how I was introduced to Sunita. I got this privilege of being Sunita's reader for a month, just before her II grade exam.

The first day I met her she said "Shrutiji, mujhe padhane ka bahut shauk hai,isiliye maine B.Ed. kiya, or ab II grade ka exam ki oppurtunity mili hai to mai isse nahi khona chahti. Waise to hamare liye material kuch hota nahi (she meant, in Braille), par agar aap ya Shradha ji (my sister), mujhe ye book read kar de to bada accha hoga".....

and thats where my learning began....I was actually amazed by seeing the way they lived in hostel...anything they did like wearing the same footwear (from among many kept together) in both feet or taking the right pair of kurta and pyjama from the hook, handling the mobile perfectly well or just picking up the correct book from their pile of identicle books......all this seemed so difficult to me....from their eyes....but for them it was actually nothing...just their daily routine!!!!!!

Once Sunita came with 2 books to read from...kept them on the table...then gave me one and said "ye nayi hai, isme se padho..", I actually asked her "Sunita, how did you differentiate between the 2 ??? " She asked me to rub my hands on both...and I got my answer...their eyes are in their hands!!!!!

Talking to her, made me realise that any of my problems which I crib about is just nothing in front of the difficulties she's faced uptill now....writer (for exams) not coming on time or refusing at the last moment when she's waiting in the examination hall...or getting to the wrong examination centre just because she was dependent on someone elses eyes.....not only this, her school teacher refused to give her highest marks when she deserved it (but later her brilliance and hard work made the teacher realise his mistake)!!!!! .....she was also denied the writer she chose for this II grade exam, and had to find some other person..... Believe me whenever I feel low about anything or I start listing my problems, Sunita automatically comes to my mind and I feel blessed, as if my problems are no problems anymore!!!!

Today Sunita is a well qualified student, you'll be surprised to know that she can very well handle the computer. The school provides them with softwares they require, printer which type in braille and ofcourse very good teachers for their support.

Visiting that school was another pleasure. They had everything that You or I have used, played in school. From maps to books to computers and games- cricket, snakes and ladder...and all in their language, in their form.

This was Sunita I came across but there is a complete lot in this school - many students, brilliant, achievers,gold medalists in academics as well as sports....all on the path to brighten their lives!!!!!

I wish Sunita and all others ALL THE VERY BEST.....GOD BLESS THEM!!!!

Being a part of this society, taking everything from it, try giving anything which you can and are able to..

Aisa kuch karke dekhiye...ACCHA LAGTA HAI...

This is how friends make your day!!!

Wow!!! This is what i call a DAY!!!!! Thankx a ton  Shruti, Arps and Ritu.

Shruti u know what, yesterday night coz of some reason i was very sad had decided not to attend this function of Ritu's, come what may, din't inform Arpita that m here n not going, got up very late today morning and even kept my phone switched off....infact i dint go for my exam (ruined my course)....and then from no where you called up...and the rest you know...u guys actually made my day....aisa to books  n movies me hi hota h yaar!!!!!

 I was just going through the pics and the videos....peeping into the old classrooms and labs and finding them the same as we had left, singing the school song in the empty corridor just to check that we remember it or not...such a lovely  welcome from baiji and that shikanji..hmmm just awesome,the same taste even after 7 years...it was as if our movie running in flashback .....and spending such a good time in school even when it was all empty (being a sunday)....could only be possible with you guys...

The best compliment we got from ritu's mom.. " beta tum log jis tarah se milte ho (with the bang)...lagta h wahi rajmata ka time hi hai...dil khush ho jata hai mera!!!!! "........Thank you Aunty :)

n the day doesn't end here (wow ek hi din me itna saara!!!) the purpose of YOUR coming here....had a wonderful time there too...a very good start for my camera....wish you could stay back.....

This day 6th of march ,2011, will be written in golden letters!!!!

Thank you GOD....

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,

Merry merry king of the bush is he.

Laugh, Kookaburra laugh,

Laugh, Kookaburra laugh,

Kookaburra, Gay your life must be!!!!

I can very well remember Sangeeta Ma'am singing this lovely poem to the tiny tots of 3rd standard in Rajmata, and we all were so mesmerized  by what she told us about this little unusual bird.Its unmistakable call, which sounds uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter.Then she told so many things about Australia (native place of this bird.).....the small triangular island below it (Tasmania)....the coral reef.

This was all out of course books. Just for our knowledge. We learnt that poem n used to proudly sing it to everyone in school n at home as if it was something very special and no one else knows it coz Sangeeta Ma'am taught us.

Its been 15 years,I didn't hear it anywhere.  I came across this poem in a newspaper article sometimes back.It brought back all those lovely memories!!! But then reading that article made me sad.It said:

"In 2010, an Australian primary school director, Garry Martin, asked school children to replace "gay your life must be" with "fun your life must be." After outcry from internet users that he was banning the word gay and the Australian gay and lesbian advocacy group (Also Foundation), Martin tried to clarify his position. He stated: "All I was doing, relatively innocently, was substituting one word because I knew if we sing 'Gay your life must be' the kids will roll around the floor in fits of laughter." 

A sweet,simple nursery rhyme meant for innocent,little children could be given such a meaning and dragged to a controversy which had no logic and sense.Its pathetic.For these toddlers Gay is just Gay...happy...fun...it'll be a different meaning only if they are told about it.

The World's same for all, its just how you see it matters.

Someone has rightly said " I am only responsible for what i say, not what you understand"