How dates were in the earlier days?

When is my mausis marriage anniversary?
It was at some date of September when it was neither too hot nor too cold.

What is my grandmothers age?
She is around 16 years (hmmmm, maybe 15 on the days she is feeling younger :)) bigger to her eldest daughter.

What is my grandmothers date of birth?
The worlds best kept secret

How do my relatives remember moments when I was born?
There was a song being sung on the radio in the background: Yashomati mayia se pooche nand lala..... (For a change, this date is well remembered :))

Even more amazing

My grandmother, around 76, knows English and she does not even know that :) The penetration which English words have made into the Hindi language is really amazing and my grandmother is an example of it. She knows that if a landlord asks his servant to do something, its an order. Two generations elder to her, one of our relatives was a Civil Surgeon (She knows who is a Civil Surgeon and the hindi for it is Bade Wala Doctor). She knows that if she eats something really oily, her whole digestive system becomes heavy (she understands what heavy feels like but doesn't know heavy is a gift from the English world to Hindi). The hottest discussion (and we had to involve my mother also in it, which hasn't been concluded yet even after her involvement) that came up was whether Ice Cream is a Hindi or English word. Now my grandmother and mother are pretty much convinced that its Hindi, but somehow I tend to disagree. The final conclusion of the debate was that we all agree to disagree :)

Its Amazing

I am reading "The Monk who sold his Ferrari" these days. The book is all about positive thinking and the changes you can bring in your life if you want to. One of the things mentioned in the book is that for a change to become a habit, it takes 30 days. Now the amazing thing which I felt going through by blog today was that in the piece I wrote some time back on Change, my attempt at inducing a change in some of my habits also took around 30 days. I had not read the book when I attemped to make changes in some of my habits, but the fact that the numbers of days it took me to change the habit comes out to be the same as those mentioned in the book is simply amazing.