The following list ensued during a conversation with a friend, when she told me that I should make a list of all my activities and hobbies since she felt there were many. I have always led an active life both physically and mentally and as I grow old I find more new things to learn and experience and this in fact keeps my mind from aging even if my body does. Since I stay mostly alone in my house all by myself, I find engaging in all sorts of interesting activities keeps me not only busy but also enriches my life and I follow the motto of - never say No to life. So I am still growing, learning and I will never grow old. And I must admit that since I got a laptop and learned about internet and email, my life has grown richer exponentially. My cookery book titled - Mom's Kitchen, is now available in Amazon Kindle version all over the world.
Here are some of the things that keeps me engaged -
1. Music – classical,
toppa song, Rabindrasangeet, Najrul geeti, Ramprasadi, Atulprasad, Rajanikanta,
Raag pradhan Bengali songs, patriotic songs, P.T. Songs, devotional songs, folk
music (Bhatiali, Baaul, saari gaan, seasonal songs (Ritu gaan), biraha geet),
Kirtan, Hindi Bhajan and geet, Punjabi folk
2. Writing – short story,
poetry, limericks and nonsense rhymes, articles, novels, lyrics, raagpradhan bangla
gaan, folk songs, cook book, nursery rhymes
3. Crossword puzzles
4. Braille writing
for the blind
5. Riddles in English and Bengali
6. Designing Braille toys
for blind children
7. Herbarium
collection from around the world
8. Counselling needy
people from all age groups
9. Social work to
help needy children and senior citizens for over 44 years
10. Patient care of
autistic people
11. Patient care of
schizophrenics and their families to cope up with the trauma
12. Helping depressed
people, saving marriage split ups
13. Humorous caption
writing
14. Played various
sports at high level when young – swimming, cycling, knife throwing, fishing,
climbing hills, bamboo rafting, skipping
15. Yoga practitioner
16. Fine needle work
17. Knitting
18. Crochet work
19. Patch work
20. Fabric painting
21. Collage painting
22. Egg shell
painting
23. Teaching
underprivileged children
24. Gardening
25. Cooking
26. Music composition
of my own lyrics
27. Tailoring
28. Rebus creating in
English and Bengali
29. Montessori
training to children
30. Homeopathy
31. Acupressure
32. Study psychology
33. Worked as matron
in YWCA hostel
34. All-over
in-charge or Mother super in a Residential Institute in the past
35. Play instruments –
harmonium, sitar, tanpura
36. NCC cadet when young
37. Interior
decoration
38. Reuse and recycle
of old things (clothes, articles, newspaper, magazines, etc)
39. Latin language
40. Autograph
collection of celebrities like singers, players, scientists etc
41. Newspaper article collection of ordinary people doing
extraordinary things
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