I know wht I did in summer.....

Wakeup around 9ish, take a bath, get out of the house call out for friends from the neighbourhood if they don't come out keep yelling till his mom yells @ u n says " VO SO RAHAY" then roam around till u find some company, another wolf to your wolf-pack (hahaha...)

Walk upto provision stores arnd to get small random candy - sorat, churan, big-fun(bubble gum), sugar coated saunf, amla supari, pepsi(not the bottle, plastic tube), gola, green tamrind, chanya-manya bore, karamda,
Start 1st half with cricket, gulli-danda, das-bees (with marbles) then rush home to watch fun_time on DD @ noon....giant robot, tom n jerry, snow white and wht not...
Then have lunch fatta-fat, n gather @ someone's house with your stash of comic books - spiderman, superman, batman, amar chitra katha, tinkle, diamon comics - chacha chowdhary
Read these and sorta bring them to life in your imagination!!!

No sooner the sun tilts towards the horizon by a bit, rush out of the houses again and start off again!!!
Football, khamb-khamb (pole-pole), donar-pani(land n water), jhatta-patti, lapa-chupi (hide n seek), sankhli (chain-chain), building round, lagori, daba ice-paaees, langdi, koyba (apologize some of these I don't have. Aclue of their translation to english...predominantly a marathi dominated game pool) and keep playing till
a. Your legs ache like they're gonna simply fall off...
b. Mom yells in the whole colony n announces tht she'll not take u in unless u made your way home right now!!!

Year after year, I grew up but the games were still the same...the routine didn't break. Such was my summer vacation....I so distinctly remmeber...

After arnd 2 decades of Njoying summers that way... here i am... I'm spending time with my cousins borthers.

1st day started with a live cricket match - MI v/s PW in Wankhede....and I thought playing cricket was the true fun @ their age!!!

then there was glorified version of koyba - a bowling session they enjoyed it but I doubt it was as much fun as playing gotti n lagori...













I feel in these times, kids are exposed so much, a little too much!!!

I didn't know wht adult movies were abt. While I was busy enjoying the things mentioned above, but today some damned movie "RAGINI MMS" is gonna release n it had. A prop placed right in the middle of a family cinema hall - a bed; n the poster said it happened here, she was chained on this bed blah blah - and it was a threesome!!!

W T F!!! M sure there gonna be a lot of kids tht'll come out there n ask "mommy whts a threesome???"
Someone really needs to keep a check on these things I feel...
My childhood was less advanced, I didn't have my laptop/ ipad, I didn't know wht a cell phone was, I didn't have the odacity to ask mom/dad the money to watch a match in wankhede, I bought an "expensive" pair of clothes for 350 bucks!! (200 for jeans, 150 for a Tshhy...but I had fun it was an experience!!!!
And now here I am waiting to watch RIO - 3D in Red lounge am sure it'll be an experience...not a memory
My young cousin brothers will have a lot of experience, @ this young age....
but I wonder if their eyes will ever be dreamy (like mine @ the mention of comic books), their tongue's watery (@ the mention of amla supari n sugar candy) when they blog abt. It someday....
I wish they do....I so wish they do....

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