The Month that went By

True to the promise I made myself to Blog everyday and to carry on the Integrity conversation from my last post, am trying to capture the time that went past from ur return from Munnar to the beginning of June.

The week after we returned, it was like a hangover of the good times we had in the trip and loneliness was catching up for Rekha, simply being alone at home during the day and not doing much. We then actioned to get her parents to Trivandrum as planned earlier and her mom and brother arrived in early May. Her brother was with us for a few days and had to return to look at options for his college. The time whisked past us and she enjoyed the company of her mom, good Karnataka food and some company. Guess this is the longest period she has spent with her mom in a few years now. We visited the Padmnabha temple and local beaches for some time of home.

The majority of my time was got occupied watching the idiot box – the IPL. I miss it now for sure. The tournament itself is a great idea and the quality of cricket went up. To add onto the cricket, the season of the English Premier League and Champions league were coming to close along with the tennis as well. In a nut shell – reflecting – probably wasted some quality time, but then one of my core interests is international sort for qualms of the same.

I enjoyed my mom-in-law being here as well, again thanks to some good food and of course upskilling my Kannada. Also that Rekha was kept engaged, took a lot of my shoulders, with respect to keeping her interested in something of her choice. It’s a phase of her life where she has nothing on her table due to some strategic decisions we are working on. As of mine, its an added responsibility to ensure she does not get bored and lose her professional skills.

Work does not take any of my energy as all is fine and smooth. Hoping we get more projects from a strategic and learning perspective. I have begun to read again and pulled out some unread books from my collection, bought a long time ago which were dusting away. I tried to dabble with the stock market and as novice I can be, lost a few bucks on day trading and sold my portfolio days before the election results, only to find they had tripled the week after. Bad luck or lack knowledge you can term it any way. On the topic of luck, I heard a great explanation of the term LUCK – ‘ the appropriate preparation syncing with an opportunity’. Simple isn’t it, you do all the preparation you to wait for the opportunity to come and for others, they feel your lucky – WOW.

As the first week of June appeared, I had my father-in-law and sis-in-law drop in for 3 days and they would then return along with my mom-in-law. The three days were good as we visited a few places (read in my next blog), had loads of fun and enjoyed their company.

That was the month that went by .....