C/O Joseph Annaya

It was September 2000 when Vinayak and myself were desperately looking for a house on rent. We were to get married in Nov and he was in a bachelor’s accomadation which was not possible for me to go and live. We started our search saw many houses, but liked few and the few we liked were not ready to give us the house since we were still not married and they wanted us to get back when we were married..

While we went to one such house, there was a lady on the road who over heard our conversation and told us of a house that was on the main WOC road. She just said that it belongs to a gentleman by name Joseph who visited the church with them. She said he is really good man and we should try our luck there. Desperation made us to quickly search the place and go meet him. He was a well built man at the age of 76 then. We told him our story like we did to many, and he did not even think for a moment but said , he was delighted to give his vacant house which was adjoined to his house on rent t.
There was something that made me have an instant affection to this man, maybe I saw my grandfather in him. The way he dressed himself, the purity in the English he spoke all reminded me of my grandfather who had passed away for a year then. This man was fondly respected by all as annaya, “Joseph Annaya”. His wife Philomena , sons , daughters, grandchildren… all god fearing people. It is now going to be a good 8 years we have come to this place. Sometimes, we both wonder , why have we not moved… what has made us stay here… maybe it was his affection always made us feel so comfortable and made us reluctant to move....

Even my daughter is so attached to them that every evening it is her playtime in their portico. All our communication address always bore “C/O Joseph Annaya” Coz he used to collect our posts to ensure it is not lost. Who would do it from today…..

He reached the arms of Jesus peacefully today morning while he was doing his morning walk in the portico. His face was the most peaceful as though he had embraced death with joy

Last Sunday he celebrated his 53 wedding anniversary in the church, and today we are in the church mass praying for “his soul to rest in peace” . He set set out on his Last Journey today to enjoy heavenly bliss forever
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Death is the most difficult to accept and the cruelest of them all.
But guess it is because of death, we release what is Love.

Jinxed@25

It has been over 5 months that i have now been blogging and i am quiet delighted to see that i have been able to put up 25 posts...filled with poems, daily doze and even some rubbish if you have noticed....
Generally one would want to read another person's blog if it has some learning , information which would be useful... but my blog is so full of me... actually it could have been called
"me... myself and ...krupa".
I guess over time when i can impart some good learning ..will surely put it up... but till then don't stop reading....
i usually keep every saturday night as a time to make my draft or put up my post...
but last few days i am just not able to find the time for any creativity in me.....
Guess the kind of work at office i am doing now..has made my brain feel more robotic that i dont seem to find my creative space....

Kind of wondering if my blog was getting jinxed@25... so just to break that i am putting up this one...

Good night.

VI Thinking Hat's

I was going thru Google today to understand about what is “six thinking hats”, it is supposed to be a very effective management technique in decision making…

I could see that there were several colors of hats and each on had a particular attribute to it….such as
White hat- to understand what we have, factual data and trying to see if we understand that fully or are there any gaps
Red hat- looking at a decision using intuition.. emotions…
Blackhat- look at things pessimistically, be defensive
Yellow hat- look at things positively
Green hat- looking at decisions making creatively, come up with creative thoughts to handle
Blue hat- managing the whole process… taking control of the process rather…

This is supposed to be invented by Edward De Bono in the 1980’s… But when I read thru this… maybe this is one simple technique that he must have got inspired seeing his mother at home…. Coz I guess every woman ( men no offences here please) while running her home… runs it with this technique, except she does not know which hat she is wearing.. and when…

I am quite impressed by the way he has put this technique in a simple but effective manner.

A Silent Bird sings a million songs!!!!!

I guess i would leave this space... with more silence..... so a million thoughts could roll .....