History and present... Part TWO

Ordnance Factory Medak-11 Years (complete Schooling):

What to say about this Golden era of my life. A wonderful environment, a pleasant and peaceful place to live and cherish every season. There were many poems written by many students in our school about that small estate (like a township) and even I too wrote one. It is located in an isolated area around which there are fields and forests and small villages. It was just a like a single shelter (home) divided into various levels of quarters and schools and parks and all other amenities.

When I feel tired from my work or in a frustation, I just think of those days and recollect the fragrance of those rainy days to refresh myself. I still hope my father could get transferred to that place so that we enjoy its environment again.
Coming to my times spent there- We shifted from Musheerabad to Yeddumailaram (village name associated with this place) as my father got job as a Sanskrit teacher in Kendriya Vidyalaya (see for another blog regarding my school days...). I was 5 yrs old and used to cheer at home while sis was joined in her first class in the same school. We got quarter (portion of building) in Type II (the houses are classified as Type I, II...V) and Qtr No was 2017. The next yr I joined the school and while in IInd class we shifted to Type III, where our Qtr No. was 3323. We grown a very big garden in front of our house and since there were no houses after ours, we extended our garden further to grow more plants. Here is the list of plants/trees/herbs etc we used to grow in our garden, remember it is exhaustive:
- Guava (we had four varieties of this fruit and they were famous in our colony which we used to distribute to all those whom we know around and who visit us as guests.)
- Banana
- Mango
- Avisha (they are very tall trees and whose flowers are used for making delicious Daal and even its leaves can be used for the same. It was very difficult to pluck those flowers due to its height, but we had our friends who come daily morning, pluck those flowers and drop them in our garden. Guess who are they, they were Parrots, and in turn they got the sweet Guava fruits of our garden.)
- Custard Apple (Seeta Phalam) these are the sweetest fruits grown in our garden and some times they used to have 90% pulp than seeds. They grown up when we thrown some seeds in our back yard and they get lot of water when our overhead water tank overflows. I never ate that sweet custard apples as they were.
- Papayya - I use to hate them as they were in plenty and my parents used to force us to eat them by saying they are good for heart and eyes. We even had them in raw in Daal and Sambar. Now I miss them very much which I fulfill by having few pieces in fruit bowl which I take in my company cafeteria.
- Vegetables like brinjal, beans, bhindi, many varieties of leafy vegs, drum sticks, mooly, bottle guard, bitter guard, kari leafs, etc.
- Some other seasonal fruits like Pomigranate, Ber (regi), were also there
- Coming to flowers, we had Malle, jaaji, chamanthi, banthi, mandaaram, paarijatam, nandi-vardhini, december, rudraaksha, kanakaambaram, lillies, jasmine... you wont believe, but I can show you all these if you come with to our garden though somebody else is staying there, but hope they still maintain them as we did... :)
-Snakes: - The only scare was, there were many snakes of many types roaming around just like any street dogs there. In our staircase, as many as 7 snakes were killed when we stayed there and one or two small bachha snakes came inside our house too. This is routine in many of the houses there and very regularly we used to hear about these snakes from some or the other. We need no Discovery channel to explore nature there.. :). The best scene was that of a rattle snake patiently catching a lizard and eating it and leaving from the place without any fear though a dozen of us are watching it curiously. I raised alarm when I heard the noise in front of our tulasi plant and all my family members as well as neighbours came ther and stood silently to watch this scene and it was discussed for many days. Though we used to play hide n seek and some so called adventure games in those places and never hesitated to slide our hands in the bushes to search the lost cricket balls. They just scared elders, but children never listened to them (i.e. we...:))

My journey in OFPM is very long... In my next blog see for my adventures, tragedies, happy days... etc in OFPM.

History and Present...Part ONE

My path to present:

Hyderabad(Musheerabad) - 4yrs(Birth to Pre-school)

I dont remember much how were those days, but small clippings which come to my mind when I roll back my memory, I find following few flashes:

1) Saying bye to my father while he was going to school (he was a teacher in people's high school(near narayanaguda) ) and waiting for him to come and lift me up in his arms. I was very jealous of my sister when someone lifts my sister up and I used to cry until they put her down and take me up. I felt like I've achieved a great thing by doing so.

2) A dark room inside house usually used as store room or rarely used one. I was very scared of that room even if somebody accompanies me, I frightened to enter it, so was my sister also... :)

3) First Exhibition trip and we went around on that toy train.A very good experience.

4) We used to visit one of our relative's house nearby whose owners have a shop and I used to cry for those little colorful sugar coated sounf and pepper mints (we used to say-pippermentulu).

5) One small girl named Bujji, she used to play with us.

6) I had one red color toy gun with plastic round balls a bullets. I dont know what excitement it gave me, but one-by-one, I dipped each of those balls into one gutter on the road in front of our house) perhaps the way they fitted exactly into those tiny holes made me excited and after my sister complained regarding it to my parents, never in my life I asked my father to buy a gun while buying toys. Moreover I cried a lot asking my parents to somehow get me those balls back from that gutter.... (too funny .right). That bullet less gun was there till my 10th class but in an after explored state. yeah it undergone various stages of distruction including its springs and to the surprise I made the system work in that stage also with alternative bullets (rocks, paper balls etc.)... :) .

For later below stages in my life, pls tune in.....

Ordnance Factory Medak-11 Years (complete Schooling) Hyderabad(Alakapuri & Uppal)-2 yrs(Intermediate) Hyderabad(Uppal & Peerzadiguda)-7 yrs(B.Tech and Job) Bangalore - 1 yr and 7 months and continuing (Job)