What a week it was!! As Dharam paaji would say, "Is mein excitement bhi tha, tiredness bhi tha, happiness tha and baad mein tension bhi thaa".
We thought to celebrate the first month with bit of partying and Maa (Thaami) decided to do some rituals for the day. As it happens with Bong calendars, things are always ahead so Reimaan's "BRATA" - one month completion fell on 23rd July, I still don't understood how. More than the Narayan Puja that marked the Brata rituals it was the preparations that took the sting out of many of us including me. The killer was the Puja being performed at 7 am, so preparation started at night 3 am. There was some respite as Puspadi and Shubha arrived at 330am from Chennai. However, everything went on fine and things were over by 10am. Supriya (maasi) and her mom also arrived in the afternoon from Hyderabad.
Next day was more planned as the party was in the evening. Some traditional bong food, some good friends from schools, college, office and Bangalore days and of course my extended familywere present on the occasion. We ended up cutting 3 cakes for his first month and that wont be the trend in coming months. It was really good to see everyone showering blessing as I didn't realise we would need so much of it in the next 1 week.
On Sunday, as all guest took a leave and normalcy was supposed to return, in came some virus that stayed with me for next 1 week. There was a day when every one from Reimaan to Baba, from Taan to Dada was running fever, even the cook and maids kids were having fever, only difference was some higher than the other. Only Maa was fine and how did she manage to handle everything still amazes me. What was looking like the arguable the worst week of my life turned into the worst week of my life by next Friday. The fever hit so hard that it took another week to recover from the weakness and that's the reason the post comes so late ! But as Funshuk Wangru would say "AAL IZZ WELL".
Pics coming soon with the next post ...
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