Wow! can’t believe I setup the first blog entry on Aug 5th, 2003. Some days, I blogged regularly and some time not. But it is a good autobiography!

What all I have gone through.

If you are interested, here is the first post:

http://follow.jjude.com/2003/08/05/finally-there-is-something-working/

http://www.jjude.biz/2011/12/looking-back-at-2011-with-pride-and-satisfaction

Though winter started late this year, it’s already colder than previous years. Today there was heavy fog and visibility was just 10 steps. Scary!

Though I have been in colder climates, experience here in Delhi is different in many aspects.

Managing Piyo is a challenge too, as he doesn’t understand the fuss behind wearing socks & three layers of clothes.

Just a month back my father-in-law passed away. It was a solemn moment.

Today I heard of another. Today early morning, Dr Ananadaraj passed away. I owe their family quiet a bit. When I went through difficult period, it was his wife who said, “he is like a son to us. We will look for an alliance for him.” And they did. If I have a good life today it’s because of their family. When I heard the news this morning, a deep grief engulfed me.

May be its compounded by what my mom told me yesterday – “Time has come to say bye.”

I strongly believe she will live longer and see many of her prayers answered. But when I see everyone of her age pass away one by one and when these words come out of her, grief fills me.

I know one day they will pass away. I have thought of it many times. It’s going to be a lonely world without them. My dad has been a strong pillar of hope all these years & mom is the glue binding all of us with her jokes, wisdom & love. Sure, I will get busy with kids, family and all. But a world without them will still be lonely.

It will be grievous if I would regret, after they are gone, for things I could have done but didn’t do. I got whole list of things. Just few got ticked so far, like going to holy land, holding grand-kids. But there are others like taking them on a cruise trip to Srilanka, going to Vatican, Lourde & Padhuva and so on. I pray that the Lord will give them long healthy life.

I can live a lonely life but not a life of regret.

It is as though it happened yesterday. But already we are here for 3 years in Delhi.

Only here I have not been as mobile as everywhere else. I dont have many friends as to go for a weekend outing. I have not gone for a movie. It has been almost a year since I took my camera. I have not been to swimming pool at all.

But you know what?

These are my best three years.

Yesterday there was a carnival in a nearby school. For the benefit of Piyo, we went.

He enjoyed & we too.

But not entirely. I put him on a slow rider (of course neither Rani or I could jump in with him). Because he was alone & the noise from nearby roller-coaster was too loud that he started to cry.

Good thing is we did Christmas shopping for Rani there.

In 2009, winter started in October; in 2010, in November and this year only in December. May be global warming.

We are also told that it’s going to be a colder one too