Monday, September 14, 2009

Flames

It's been a very tiring evening ... I went over to teach the small boy . He's got Maths test tomorrow - Division .. So i took a small test and he did well ... but was too slow .. I spent an extra hour with him to get things straight.. He's a small kid of class 3 ,so couldn't even rush .

Came back home at around 10 p.m . And was sitting at my PC for checking my mails . Suddenly there was this cacophony ... After checking out from the balcony saw that a building behind ours has caught fire .. People were shouting at the top of their voices.

Me ,mom,dad,my cat and our domestic help all went up to the terrace to catch a better view .
OMG ! I had never seen a deadlier site ..... The building was aflame . No idea if there's been any casualty .I hope not . The gas cylinders were bursting with huge , trembling sound .... The fire reached great heights and the black smoke curled upwards like a huge gaseous spiral .

The fire workers came after a couple of minutes , but by then i guess 75% of the damage had been done .Came down from the terrace after the fire was taken under control . My friend's mom expired a few months back . Her dress had caught fire while she was lighting candles during her daily worship . The flames reminded me of nothing but her face ...
What heights of pain she must have had endured for more than a month and then finally gave in ...

Through this blog of mine I just want everyone who reads it to spend at least 10 secs and wish Aunty happiness and peace where ever she is now ...
Pray for her eternal rest ....

2 comments:

JAYALAKSHMI said...

Wish her peace. Dying in a fire accident is the most painful of all.
I have my personal loss to remember everytime I hear abt a fire in the kitchen...
You brought back those agonising memories.

I think you write very well Sohini. Now concentrate on punctuations and edit yr work b4 puting it up.The fullstops and the commas. They musn't become an eyesore through a nice pice as this.

Sohini said...

tha ks mona mashi for ur lovely comments ... yeah i know ,I'm bad at punctuations ... I'll work on it ...
never gave it so much thought actually :)