Gift of Love!

Beauty of Pure Nature 
&
All the Blessings of GOD... 
Be YOUR's Today and Forever
-my mother's little grand daughter!

I am my mother's daughter,

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Tumblr Birthday!

The Father and
The Son, both born
On the same day, yet
Generations apart
Linked through
Her Blessed self...

Mary the Mother
Blessed of all! And
Mother of mine
Blessed as well
For her father and
Son born the same day

Only generations apart, yet
Truly loved in her heart!


I am my mother's daughter,

Poetry: Copyright©2013VeerajaR

LAR-II

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P.S._ This photo is from mummy-in-law's English Teacher's Certificate(Ceylon) that she gave me as gift recently---knowing that I'll cherish regardless of its monetary value.

Rajaratnam Sportsmen:Father Like Son!

Gunaratnam Francis Rajaratnam: Table Tennis Champion--Colombo YMCA

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Augustine Shantikumar Rajaratnam: Badminton Championship-- Jaffna University

GFR is the grandfather of my kids D, J & N

I am my mothers daughter...

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Uduvil Women: Ahead of Their Times!

Having been raised by one, I have always admired the intellect and leadership characteristics of ladies from Uduvil.

Samuel Abraham, my grandma's cousin and author of several English language books (A.S. Kanagaratnam) had written proudly about my mother as being the first girl ever to ride a bike, in Jaffna. It was in the 1930's and I wouldn't be surprised if it's a national record. In fact, I first heard this from my best friend's Mom -- when we met for the first time and I was trying to answer her about where I was from and who's daughter -- she said "Oh, I know her from Uduvil Girls' School... very pretty and was the first girl ever to ride a bike to school."

The first thing my mom did when she started teaching was to buy her own car and drive to work. Mind you: This was in late 19-forties/early fifties. She always told me that the challenge was to reverse the car and that she avoided it as much as she could. This was a real car with stick-shift, not meant for faint-hearted ladies. In the seventies when mopeds (cute version of Scooters) showed up she wanted to get one to go for marketing, etc. Me and my brother managed to discourage her -- only because we were not so brave like her.

So it was no surprise that my mom was disappointed that I had not learned to drive even after being abroad for sometime. She would ask my husband to teach me driving and often offered to baby-sit Deepan and sent us off to practice. However, it took 10 more years before I actually muster my courage to drive on the street. But I drive now and I am sure she is very proud.

Just happened to read "women of Uduvil" in Wikipedia and amazed to see it explicitly described as "highly educated" compared to anywhere in the world!

I am my Mother's proud daughter,

VeerajaR

P.S._ Samuel Abraham, my mom's uncle is the son of former Hartley College principal Abraham (my grandma Lily Arulamma's dad--Dr. Breckenridge's brother). The Hartley College sports house "Abraham House" was named after him.

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