Vegetable Rhyme

Carrot, beetroot, tomato
These vegitables that we grow.
Eat 'em cooked; eat 'em raw
Eat at home or on the go.

Have 'em fresh; stirr some stew,
Juice them up or make a soup;
Daily drink this healthy scoop
For their vitamins make us a happy troop.



(A song written for my son)  

Hang in there my friend (Quintain)

Depression is tough!

Been there done that.

Life will look rough

Hang in there and stir up a chat,

I'll listen, thats the fact. 

I might not be at sight.

But let me know,

Be it an ant bite

Or you're caught in a bear claw,

I care, I'll show.

All I want is you be fine

I'll do whatever,

Be at the other end of the line.

Together, lets cry a river

But alone - never!

   

                            -  Ammu Rajeev

Yandramunshyan

Jeevidem yaandrikam aakunnuvrnnu chilapol parayarille?

Ennal nammude okke jeevidam etramatam yandrangalude karunyatilanennu oru tonnal.

6 varsham ayi tarakedonnum illathe pravarthicha washing machine onnu panimudakkiya njyar dinathil anubhavam velicham teliyicha oru cheru vicharm matram.

Angine azhchakalude triakkukalkkoduvil kaathieunna divasam ayirrunnu aa avadhi dinam. Onnu nadu neerthanam, pattumengil putrane onnum puram lokam kanan kondupokanam. Itrem okke agrahichullu.

Ennal vidhi veronnayirunnu. Varan ullathu vazhiye tangillennonam, kalathu grihanaadhan formals ellam eduthu washing machine-il ittu switch On cheithu. Kalikaala vyibhavam.

Mukki murandu alakk-ashaan pratishedham ariyichu. Pinne mudravakyam vilipole oliyittu.

Kolahalam makane issi nallonam pedippikkukayum cheithu. Pore pooram?

Putrante karachil oru vasham, apakadam vilichariyichu oru yandram matuvasham, ithinokke purame deshyam prakadippichu bharthavum. Talsamayam adupathukidanna prathal chappathi atyavisham onnu karinju.

Ellam off aaki service centre nu phone cheithappolo, repair cheiyyan tingalazhcha (nalla samayam) uchakku aale vidam polum.

Udukkan etra undelum, alakkan ittathu tanne istirittu kittanam nnu shadikkunna bharthavine samadanippichu tuni ellam kaikondalakkan teerumanichu.

Teerumanam edukkan eluppam ayirunnu - Bharicha tuniketteduthu nadakkunnathilum eluppam.

Alakki almbi pizhinjeduthappolekkum naduvoru pidutham. Itrayeere tuni tirumbi Sheelamokke marannu. Kalyanathinu munpu hostel il tamasichu padikkumbolum Chennai il joli cheiyyumbolm aanu ithinu munpu itrem tuni alakkirunnathu. Annathu atra prashnam ayi tonniyirunnilla. Makan janicha samayam kuttyuduppum tunikalum kaikondalakkan pakshe eluppamayirunnu ennum orkkunnu.

Ippo prayamayathupole. Maariya sheelangalum eeriya bharangalum nammude oro joliyum melle melle oro yandrathe elpichu.

Chamnandi arakkan mixi vanna pole, ari vevikkan aduppoothathe kathunna induction vanna pole, alakkaan washing machine undallo. 6 varsham itrakkonnum arinjilla. Ini ippo ennum oru bucket tuni alakki sheelikkam, shhelamayal pinne bhudhimuttillallo.

Ippo entho, innathekkulla pani kitty.

Rest edukkan yogamillayirikkum. 

നിലാവ്

നിഷയുടെ നിർമല നിമിഷത്തിലെപ്പോഴോ
തളിരിട്ട ചന്ദ്രിക നീ...
മന്ദമാരുതനോ നിന്നേത്തേടി
ആൽമരക്കാട്ടിൽ അലയുവത്തും,

ചെമ്പകം പൂവിട്ട ചില്ലയിലാരോ
ഒളിപ്പിച്ചു ഒരുകുമ്പിൾ വെണ്ണിലാവ്.

Mazhamukilukal kaitaalam tatti, kunungi chirichora nimishathil

Kalangalolam kaathuninnori bhoomikorittu daahajalam kitty.

Chennai says "thank you" to the rain clouds on 20.06.2019 ❤

The Secret of Our Marriage

It's been about 7 years but even now people ask if ours was a love marriage. We usually laugh and tell them the dramatic first meeting - how I was tricked into meeting a guy at the most unexpected moment of life and the conversation we had that later ended up in marriage.

It's obvious, we belong to the same village, studied in same school and were working in the same city (at that point of time); who would believe it was a well arranged "trap" ?😉

One thing is true, post engagment there was a solid one year time for us to get to know each other better. And, (quoting my dad's exact words) Kish was impressed by God know what 😐 
But he knew just how to make me fall in love with him. Therefore, by the time it was our wedding, we looked (and felt) like the perfect couple in love.

Infact, the point is to keep it going. How do we do it? Well, we don't. We are just another normal couple. Normal in everywhich way. 

We put smiling pics in facebook, we eat the food I cook, we have our owns ways of disagreements, we fall for each others sentiments...

The only secret is my fathers golden words : "whatever you have - be it joy or sorrow - it will belong to both of you equally".

Tarakangal

Mazha megha pravukal chiraku kudanjatho

tingal kala-kinnam tulumbiyatho

Vinnil aake velli tullikal chithariveenitha kidakkunnu. 

Infatuation

Like the rose that blushes at the morning sun,

Like the breeze that brushes the leaves for fun,

Like the waves kissing a hopeful shore,

His heart beats for the women he adore.

Never to belong, never to be one,

All shall fade before it's begun. 

Kanikonna

Medamaasa maanathinu ponnaadacharthum poove

Tanga tenmazha pole pozhiyu

Taazhe mannin manam tulumbu.

Kazhuthil kettyathu

Janichu 28 divasangalkondu maatha-pithakal avalude kazhutholoru swarna maala ketti.

Vayasu 18 kazhinjappol veetukar kandethya cheruppakaran avalude kazhuthil oru minnu ketti.

28 tikayum munpe aval tanne kazhuthil oru kayaru ketti. Avasanamyi. 

Perfect Match

There's a me in you, there's a me in me, there's a me in everyone.

There's a you in you there's a you in me, there are a million you under the sun.

Yet, the souls search in every you and me for the right one. 

തണലോരം

കുയിൽ പാട്ടിന് ഈണം ചേർന്ന്
വീശും ഇളംകാറ്റിൻ തലോടലിൽ ഇക്കിളിപൂണ്ടു നിൽക്കും
തളിരിലകളിലാകെ തങ്കം പൂശുന്നു സന്ധ്യയ സൂര്യയൻ.
പുല്കൊടികൾ പട്ടു പുതച്ച
 കുന്നിൻചെരുവിൽ നിഴലുറനിറങ്ങവേ

നിലാനിശയുടെ വരവറിച്ചുംകൊണ്ട് 

മുകിലുകളും യാത്രയായി. 

A life well wasted

I can talk non-stop

But not with a mic in front.

I love art and craft

But none that can be sold.

I can write beautifully

But cant let anyone read.

I can churn a joke about anything in my head

But I'm scared of you laughing at me.

I can sing pretty well

But only in my most solitary moments

I sure loves to dance

But I get cold feet.

I have cracked every single interview and tests

But I have no job or salary.

I have dreams of empowering the less fortune

But cant get out of my own misfortune.

I have ambitions to reach the sky

But my feet are chained to earth.

The only achievement is 

A life well wasted.