Life.. before Pune!!

Born in Delhi & bought up in the small town-bhopal..( actually.. its not that small :) ) i was this naughty li'l brat always upto sumthin :D. I was in St Joseph's convent till upper KG!! and gosh i was pretty famous there..obviously for the wrong reasons :)!! Mom keeps on telling me the time when she use to go for parent-teachers meet... teachers would actually tell her "Oh..ure Arushi's mom" :D. You see i was this 'innocent' student who use to get out of the class without taking the teachers permission and that too while she was teaching and go for a nice stroll around the school :)!! and the teachers fearing other students wont follow me.. would actually never scold me ( You know .. 'child psychology' )!!
Believe it or not.. one afternoon wen i was around 4-5 yrs old.. everyone at home was asleep..& i actually unlocked my house door and went for a walk on the streets.. a maid actually found me on the streets got me back home and said " yeh aapki beti hain na.."& the next afternoon my hands and legs were tied and i was made to sit on the dinig table.. n i was still smilin ( u c.. sum ppl just dont change ) and .. i still love disappearin :)

Then dad got a job in 'Republic of South Africa' and we shifted there!! I really never made good frendz but alot of family frendz.. We went for innumerable picnics,holidays,events,etc.. Those were 'royal' days!! I really never liked school :(.. But exept for one thing.. and that was hockey!! i loved hockey and played for my skool out there!! i had a British accent .. which i know now is difficult to believe:)... but life there was completely different.. of course not better than INDIA coz INDIA ROCKS!!

Then when i came to 4th std.. we shifted back 2 india.. My sis went to pune, my parents were still in SA and i shifted to Bhopal with my grandmum ( who i lovingly call 'ma' ).. Life was pretty difficult.. i joined my old skool without knowing how to write even a single word in hindi!! got a 1/20 in my first test :D.. but at the end of the year i scored 69/100.. not bad na.. after my tution teacher breakin her head on mine and my mum & dad pataoing the teacher ( trust me.. dey actually did that & she practically told dem 40% of the paper ).. i managed so much!! i recall that since i was not wid my parents i just use to get Rs 25 as my pocket money.. and i never spent a buck out of that 25 bucks..saved it all & i still have it till date :).. Life was soo spend thrift those days.. but after bhopal those days never remained :)

That phase was an awful phase wid our family being in various parts.. but it definitely helped me in forming a really close bond wid ma.. and how can i forget.. vipin uncle, rashmi aunty,Rohit bhaiya and neha didi ( who i now call Ndi :) ) who we were tenants with.. in the same row house.. were actually like a family to me and made that 1 year in bhopal possible for me...Love u all....

Then dad got a job in pune and we shifted there.. my sis was neways there but not only her.. my mum's whole family was there & life has been beautiful since then...

I sit back today & remember all those days which i can.. life was not easy.. but probably that was a childhood to remember.. :)