So, I brought a new mobile...a Samsung galaxy ace, thanks to my wife and parents for their continuous nagging, which I believe, is stretched over years.
An android phone, I installed certain games, especially card games which I love. A day in office, when I had no work at all, I started playing the games and suddenly I was reminded of the past where my aunt and cousins would come over to my home and we play.
It would be usually for Onam, Vishu, or may be for some marriages. My dad's sister, Janu Attai (as we call her), and her kids (Sreeram and Ramya) would come over to our place. We all would be anxiously waiting for her arrival from the day she would have announced her trip:) And never will the vacation be complete, if it was not for them. If it was Onam, we did the flower carpet everyday, if it was Vishu, we had loads and loads of crackers. Then there was kallanum policum, hide and seek, and many more... :)
Whatever occasion it was, one thing which was almost a routine was the card games. We used to play kazhutha (Ass/Ace), thuruppu (28 card game), and bluff. It was a lot of fun, especially, when another of my cousin, Vinuanna ( as we call him) joins us. He gets angry very easily and sometimes the sole purpose of playing the game would be to irritate him. Even if the rest of us don't explicitly form a "gang", there was a sort of mutual understanding between us, and Vinuanna would get angry so easily. Even if we played our normal game, he gets bugged, irritated, throws away the cards and walks off. We used to love it so much and got us stomach aches almost everytime, laughing our head off.
And playing the game itself involved lot of preparation. The playground was the car parking area and the cars there had to be parked outside. After that, the pitch needs to be prepared by neatly lying newspapers. Then 1-2 deck of cards has to be brought and shuffled. And then, the game would kick off, and would continue till late evenings. It was a lot and lot of fun, and those days would never come back again.
How much ever the technology advances, there are always things that the technology can never replace. One can have a great phone, work in Singapore, make cash, but none of these makes a life complete. None of the card games in the phone brings the happiness and laughter that the childhood game used to bring in me.
But still, I sincerely thank my phone which made my day , helping me remind the fun I used to have, and establishing that the robot in me has atleast some human feelings left, after all. :)
