Kavin's Day.....

And so....15th came and went....and it took Aby and me two days to recover from the onslaught!! I had taken days to prepare for this event for Kavin's sake....and it passed off in a flash (an exhausting, tiring, sapped out flash!! ).

It was so great to see my little baby jumping around joyfully, screaming with his friends, snatching his presents (when they forgot to hand it over), eating cake, messing around, kicking the balloons, staring agog at the birthday candle, screaming 'la-ee-on' on seeing the cake...so unstoppable....demanding....and gleeful. Raise this to the power of 26 and u will be able to comprehend what i am talking about......26 such little brats.......all equally energetic, excited and uncontrollable......like a terminator force!!!

It was a great day...and i thoroughly enjoyed myself. Flashing back two years...i would 've preferred a torture camp to a room full of kids....but now I would'nt exchange it for anything in the world!! Wow!! How one transforms!!

The party went off smoothly....for people who didnt know where all I goofed up!!! he! he! Should i let the cat out of the bag? oh heck....y not? Here goes:-

1st goof up - forgot to handover the birthday hats to the kids! Realised it when the party was about to end...so handed it then!

2nd goof up - one of the dishes on the menu (cheese sandwiches)....made with such details and pains was left forgotten in the fridge.....it was only later in the night....when all the crowd had left that i saw it.....and sheepishly offered it to Aby and some friends to finish it off!! Thankfully they did!!

3rd goof up - "aunty we are leaving"......"ok, bye kids....thanks for coming..ta-ta" Oooops forgot to give them return gifts! I think .....it was only after 6 children had left that i realised i had something called return gifts for them also! Panic!! Rushed the maid after them to hand over the goodies....

One would think that with 8 years in the Army ...I would atleast be a flawless event manager.....but evidently I have a lot to learn about birthday parties!! Well next year....no FU's.....i will 'cakewalk' thru it!! :)

The House.............

Whats more important......love or money? Whats more important...contentment or hunger to achieve more? Whats more important...to constantly keep dreaming( even if the unfulfilled ones cause heartache!) or to be satisfied with whatever you have? There is so much the world has to offer.......but why is it that we feel satisfied (momentarily) only if its something materialistic? Ramblings of an empty mind? ......not really.

Today, Aby and I went to see a house.... a dream house. We stepped inside and we knew we wanted to buy it......but a few moments later we knew we could'nt! It was way beyond our budget. We loitered around some more and then finally...grudgingly.....left. But my heart stayed behind.....it walked into the bedrooms again,it stood in the balcony again, it felt the coziness of the family lounge again....it touched the water of the pool again....it felt the smoothness of the wooden floors again.......it smiled when it saw Kavin in the kid's room again......it took in the fresh fragrance of the flowers again. My heart stayed there! It refused to come back with me....it had abandoned my body and was floating around in that house!! I was walking in a trance. Aby understood but didnt say anything......he is more level headed and practical than me.

For hours, I kept up conjuring ways (and I dare not share them) to come up with something that would give me my dream house. I was restless.....uneasy.....urgent....and totally irrational. Exhausted with myself I finally went to sleep...and thats when I saw Kavin sleeping.... peacefully...lips slightly apart....spread out (like he owns the whole of the double bed)....with no care in the world! And my heart ...........it left the house and came rushing back.....back to Kavin.....back to Aby...back to my family. Back to where it belonged!

Hey! no way am I saying that my frivolous heart wont leave again to haunt the corridors of that house again....most probably thats the first thing it will do tomoro morning as I wake up....but I know it will come back!! Come back to the 'home' that we have created. :)

27th July...Aby and I completed 7 years of togetherness! More good than bad!! Oh sure, we have had our ups and downs (who doesnt?)....but at the end of each day we have known that this relationship is 'priceless'. Aby with his fetish for cleanliness, clothes, shoes (God save the person who meddles with his shoes!), watches, mobile...is a typical cosmo guy! Me, with my laidback attitude, over -obssesive motherly instincts (as Aby perpetually keeps pointing) and a knack of littering everything around.....hmmm....a typical non-cosmo female!! But our common love for eating, travelling, photography, partying and not to forget dancing...binds us solidly! I may crib at the amount of time he spends in the toilet (45-50 mins every morn!!!) and he may roll his eyes every time he picks up my stuff and keeps it back in place......but boy! do we love each other!! U are priceless, my perfectionist husband....and so am I!!!

Happy 7 years!!

Didnt make it....maybe next time!!

Well...we didnt make it to the top 12 in the Great Drving Challenge!! Feeling bad....but being what we are (ever positive!) we are already looking fwd to the season two of this challenge!! We will try twice as harder...gather votes 100 tomes over ......and get down to the last 3!! Promise!!! :)

Crazy 6 days..

The last 6 days have been a rush.....crazy, fun, euphoric and adventurous!! We started our holiday (if u can call such an hectic schedule one!) on 18th July....and have been in a spin ever since. Our plan for these 6 days was to chill out, relax and just enjoy each other (thats the reason we left Kavin with maa in Ald).........but like always we went overboard and squeezed evrything we could into our tiny schedule!!

We started with Sridi and did the darshan of Sai baba....all happy and ok....but when we came out and Aby fiddled in his pocket for the wallet to give donation.....voila!....Gone!! We had been pickpocketed!! Then started the anxious rush to cancel all our credit and debit cards. Driving license, pan card....all taken! Thankfully, we had some cards which were not in the wallet and thus we wer able to survive the rest of the days.....we still counted our blessings and thot that maybe this incident had happened to avert some bigger-unknown-ominous happening (ever the optimists!) So cheerfully we proceeded further in our Journey...onward to Pune!!

The road journey from Shridi to Pune was breathtaking....never knew such landscaping existed in India!! Absolutely green-hilly terrain, with cool breeze, constant drizzle and a cloudy overcast. The horizon was visible in so many shades...starting with dark grey, white, blue and merging into the greenery below!! wow!!

We reached Pune after a 5 hour drive and the mad rush started...!! From squeezing in to meeting all our 9 friends (scattered along the length and breadth of Pune)...to midnight get-togethers..to visitng Lonavala...Khandala and Ambey Valley (omigod! what a heavenly abode)....pata nahi where the days vanished? Had we decided on relaxing? on taking it easy? on enjoying each other? hmmmm....everything happened but that! But we enjoyed all the same....again one of those holidays which leave you totally exhausted and you have to take another one to alleviate the exhaustion of the previous one!!!

A fighter never quits......

This seems euphoric......seeing our friends respond, and makes me feel that all these years we have not just whiled away time in pursuit of freindship but have been successful in winning a lot many friends who shall stand for us in need....

Life's been kind to us, we started our journey with the two of us to each other and now, 7 years old together, we stand surrounded by our families, relatives, well wishers ...... and more remarkablely new found Pals during the course of this journey till now.

'WE' have shared a lot many beautiful moments, all arguments have ended up in a final concensus, our thoughts have found a place in the strings of our fantasies about this DRIVE....we have had a lovely journey so far.....

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Thanks to all of you who gave us support, guidance, assurance and reminded us that we are fighters and .......

" A fighter never quits"

Freaking out.....

Today is the last day to vote or write a testimonial, that shall decide our future in this competition. Never did we know that this competition shall grow on us so dearly, we are already freaked out with the thought of not being in first 100 just because of entering in so late and thus not having enough votes & testimonials.

Though being quite ardent netizens, we don't know how we missed out on seeing this competition happening, but well there's no point in booding about but putting in our best foot forward....thats what we have being trying to do since the past 5 days, thats when we entered here and garnered about 150 votes and 50 testimonials...that too on week days when people are busy with the rutt...we have been working on it almost 24x7 on the idea...lets see how and where it pays off.....

Though one thing is for sure that this gave a new high to our 7 year old marraige and we ended up enthusing a fresh lot of energy in the relationship...wow in toto it's been a great experience till now...hat's off to the conceptualisers and the organisors for having seen through this amazing DRIVE....

We are fighters....and a fighter never quits...so we wont call it quits till the clock is ticking!! Nothing is wasted!!!

Hi Guys!

Always wanted to participate in a reality event or an adventure show...and now when we did get the chance to do so...it seems we got late!! The Great Driving Contest....now that we are participants...it seems the whole world knew about it, except us!! What were we doing? Travelling yes...but is that excuse enough to miss out on this opportunity?

Tho I thank all my friends because without them it would ve been impossible to garner 124 vote in 3 days!! Just imagine if we would have been participating from the very first day.....we would have been on the first page of TGDC!! Never mind....maybe the jury will notice our intense efforts and shortlist us!! U never kno.....

When i was a little girl......I used to notice only toys, dolls, colorful ribbons etc; When I first fell in love........all around me I could see people in love; When I had my first heartbreak.........evry where I looked I noticed the people who were in pain; When I got married....it seemed like world wide marriage had taken place; when I was carrying......the malls, the streets, the movie halls, all seemed flooded with pregnant women; and now when I am a mother...I see children....happy, sad, poor, hungry, laughing, playing! How, with each phase in life....our perception towards it changes!! :)