How far back
can you remember?

Some of my oldest
memories


- Tripping and hurting my knee on my way to nursery

- My first day at school seated in the KG class looking for my mummy at
the door.

- Evening walks to the Gateway of India, eating Joy Ice Cream,
boiled groundnuts, and feeling the hot exhaust from the basement of the Taj
Mahal Hotel.

- Trying to pull Santa's beard at the X'Mas Tree (for children of Taj
staff) in the Taj Ballroom.

- Crying on the stairs on my 5th birthday because I didn't want one boy
(Marku) at my party

-  Playing in the corridor of Mandlik House with Mathew, Murli,
Savio, Sunil, Kayoz and dreading if the ball went into Louis' house.

- Getting my picture clicked in a studio dressed in my school uniform,
holding my blue bag with "C.Vaz" inscribed by my mummy.

- Eating Champion Oats for breakfast

- Talking back to the radio, thinking I'll be heard.

- Being hand fed lunch by Mathew's mom

- Eating "Chooha ki lendi" (sugar coated aniseed) from
Amritlal Stores

- Listening to my surrogate dad play the mouth organ.

- Hearing my dad sing "You are my Sunshine" to me almost
every other day.

- Reciting the rosary after an evening bath

- Going for horse rides to the Cooperage Bandstand

- Believing that I was bought from Chowpatty beach (opp Purandare Hospital, where I  later learnt
I was born).

- Hearing a priest offer to adopt me in a children's home and my mother
refusing.

- Recording nursery rhymes, "Miss Molly had
a..." on a cassette recorder...



It's all feels as if it were yesterday.

Everytime I look at this photograph of Mathew, Murli and me.

(I'm at the extreme left)

I must've been all of 5 years old.

And that was 36 years ago!



Hope you have pressed the rewind and play in your mind too.

Ritu V said...

10:26 PM | 23/Mar/07 | |

Nostalgic post ..

Neelambari 07 said...

11:38 PM | 22/Mar/07 | |

Very Nice and you are right , I pressed
the rewind button also..

Arpita Mahipal said...

6:33 PM | 21/Mar/07 | |

indeed Caje.... took me back to those
days... i have often realised that the best period of a person''s life is
the "childhood".... excellent..

eden
iram said...

4:53 PM | 21/Mar/07 | |

you correctly guessed it.....i was also
going through my memories as i was reading your blog.

aravind das said...

12:56 PM | 21/Mar/07 | |

so quick !fast forward ?

Usha Shetty said...

3:19 PM | 20/Mar/07 | |

Hey wow that was nice, certainly sets
my memory rolling, coincidentally I had been thinking of my childhood,
recalling that the earliest birthday I remembered was my 7th ( all this
reminiscing was happening becoz my daughter turned 7 today!)

madhumati chitale said...

11:02 PM | 19/Mar/07 | |

Hello, One more of Gods fantasticincidents,
I too was born at Purandare hospital and so was my brother , I remember it
was 21st march and our nice neighbours took me for a movie Pathar ke sanam
I came back home to find out i had a little brother my first instinct and
memory of him is trying to feed him and being shot down.

J G said...

4:38 PM | 19/Mar/07 | |

Nice one.. even me to was thinking of
posting ----I 27 years b4... sometime ll post it!! ...... cheers..IP

Malini Laskar said...

2:27 PM | 19/Mar/07 | |

Wow that was too good

kanksha p said...

5:41 PM | 17/Mar/07 | |

I realised the charm these memories can
have...! Guess what i can remember reaches far back than that, and i hope i
will share with you some of my own childhood moments in a blog soon.....

PRIYA JOSEPH said...

5:33 PM | 17/Mar/07 | |

your post has given me this idea
now..........................

Revati Sadawarte said...

3:52 PM | 17/Mar/07 | |

I enjoyed every frame of it.......made
me recall my golden days also.....too good......................

jaspreet tina said...

9:57 AM | 17/Mar/07 | |

i lost in my memories what ever i did
in my child hood well done yar keep poting me u blogs i always waiting for
your blog

Divinity said...

9:19 AM | 17/Mar/07 | |

awesome.......i plan to frame my
childhood pic, been planning since long.Ur post gave another push to the
same...........memories and memories.......just rewind and u are
happy........it was plain sweet.

amrinder tiwana said...

12:41 AM | 17/Mar/07 | |

very nice!!some memories are so vivid
in my mind too coz they are so close to my heart though I often forget the
present day to day things...wierd....eh...keep up the beautiful chain of
thoughts....

leelu singh said...

2:59 PM | 16/Mar/07 | |

really nice one, while reading it i cud
visualize my childhood and the unforgettable memories....... keep posting
such blogs.

ayesha afri said...

2:56 PM | 16/Mar/07 | |

liked it very much....wonderful post...

shivani narula said...

3:16 PM | 16/Mar/07 | |

that was something
wonderful............and nostalgic...

rinki m said...

2:54 PM | 16/Mar/07 | |

after watching ur childhood movie ,i went to my
flashback...good post

Prachi Sameer said...

1:52 PM | 16/Mar/07 | |

Once again the Sensitive & Thinking
Soul has done wonderful job which has made all of his friends Nostalgic! I
feel great for you, Cheers Caje! (I am sorry, I had ''mis-spelled'' your
name last time! Best wishes, Pra~! If you feel like you may read my Blog:
http://prachidublay.spaces.live.com

C V said...

1:04 PM | 16/Mar/07 | |

wonderful post

dilnaz b said...

12:03 PM | 16/Mar/07 | |

I pretty much remember most of the
stuff fro my childhood too! Always helps to remember... puts things in
perspective i guess. Na?

shweta said...

9:12 PM | 15/Mar/07 |

I really enjoyed reading this post...
as i do all others :-)

pammi kishore said...

7:45 PM | 15/Mar/07 | |

Thanks. In my mind I can already see
all those friends I have left behind and those dreamy days of childhood.

divya said...

7:19 PM | 15/Mar/07 |

Those moments are the one we can never
forget, just need some time to recall, and magic is, by recalling them we
also started smiling.

sahil banga said...

6:58 PM | 15/Mar/07 | |

that was nostalgic...

urvi s said...

6:57 PM | 15/Mar/07 | |

looking back at memories is such a
mixed feeling. u smile and u get a tear missing those days...its a truly
heart felt post caje, loved it

rachita chauhan said...

5:29 PM | 15/Mar/07 | |

So we can find your age now, Ha ha ha,
Rcahita

Gouri Sarkar said...

4:32 PM | 15/Mar/07 | |

These moments are precious collections
of life, never to be forgotten. Enjoyed the read

dee vine said...

4:25 PM | 15/Mar/07 | |

rewind button has been hit : ) thanks

dee vine said...

4:25 PM | 15/Mar/07 | |

thought 1 - i remember things way back
to when i was under 3...thought 2 - is the pic deliberately blurred to
protect identity? or is it a bad scan?...thought 3 - heck! you look younger
than you are!....