Gardening is perhaps
most common and most interesting of all hobbies we Bangalees pursue. It not
only gives pleasure, as all hobbies do, but it gives a sense of achievement
too. I have some hobbies, with gardening dominating all others. Every morning I
get up very early to roam around in the garden. Then the serenity of the fresh
morning air refreshes my mind. Lulling odor of various flowers and the eye-catching
panorama of motley-colored
leaves and flowers make me feel as though I were
perambulating in a dreamland, like a lonely cloud over a remote hill. After enjoying a "light"
walk, I start working—watering the plants and weeding the garden. In the
afternoon, too, I enjoy working in the garden—clearing withered leaves flowers
and twigs, digging and loosening the earth, fencing, trimming plants, and
sometimes fertilizing. Hobby is for life, not for livelihood. Yet my garden
also pays me much. Life is a huge garden needing to be attended upon—this I can
feel when I work in my garden.
A tea stall
Tea is as sweet as idle gossip and as adhesive
as the prattle of folk politics. A tea stall, as such, is a place of immense
public interest. It is, as it were, the parliament of the common public. In the
by gone days, people gathered in a tea stall in the morning and in the evening,
especially in the winter. Now, what summer, what winter, the tea stall attracts
almost everybody in all seasons alike.
Sometimes storms blow in a tea-pot,
sometimes the stall becomes overcrowded with people bored with daily chores,
seeking leisure in the social get-together. There are "tea-fans"—if
they might be called so—who cannot but drink tea in a tea-stall environment. To
these people, what is even more attractive is the gathering, and not just the
tea. Therefore, There is no denying that tea drunk at home is different from—or
inferior to, as some might opine—tea drunk in a tea stall, the latter being the
tea spiced with an exceptional taste. The price of the tea drunk in a tea stall
may not be different from that drunk at home, but the value is.
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