Time to be back

I intentionally was keeping away from the blog. Apologies. My mind was preoccupied with certain things and I was trying to keep myself off from it. Trust me it was hard. Now that I am back I will release the details shortly. Be patient and bear with me… that’s what I can request!! I’ll be back …real soon! Promise!

Friends visit

Monali and Nayan were here this past long weekend and we had loads of fun! It was good seeing her after such a long time. It brought back some nice memories of Pune. When we used to hang out together... and see now, we both are married and settled in our own respective worlds! Isn't this amazing... looking back it feels, how quickly the time flew... phew!

They were here on Friday. They reached around 11:30 p.m. Thanks to Monali for changing the GPS setting :). It's hilarious how she my mistake set the GPS to ignore toll roads and hence took them hourrrrrs to arrive! Keeping that in mind, they surely arrived in time LOL!

They went to Disney theme park on Saturday and on Sunday we all went to Clearwater beach. Geez... the traffic was terrible!! Above all the parking!! I literally had to bribe (ofcourse through my talks) to let us in the parking lot... We started from home around 11 and got there at 3 p.m.! Namrata and Mayur were waiting for us on the beach. They came back to meet us from Sarasota. They had gone to Sarasota to celebrate their marriage anniversary. We spent almost 3-4 hrs in water - playing games, flew kites, had fun in the water! Talking about water- Monali and I almost got drowned in the chulu bhar paani [phrase for drowning in shallow water]

Overall, beach trip was fun !! I guess we all enjoyed. We met Vibha, Shantanu, and Meera on our way back and ate dinner in Tampa. Driving back we stopped over to show Monali and Nayan, Disney Downtown. Reached home around 12:30 a.m.

Next morning I prepared some bhatura's with channas' for the brunch!! Must tell ya all... they were yum yum!! I still can taste it :). After having heavy lunch, Monali and Nayan left for Atlanta and I believe they reached home around 9ish.

Thanks to Monali and Nayan for making our long weekend a special one!!!

Vacation time

Aha... it is time for vacation! I am waiting for I don't know how loooooooong to take time off from work and home...from all those time scheduled activities. And here comes the D Day. Well, not sure if you noticed in my earlier post, but I gave a Washington trip tickets for Cherry Blossom festival to Amit on his birthday. And here it comes! Cherry Blossom festival runs from March 29- April 12, and we will be going in the mid week – April 4 (today) to April 7.

Wish we could participate in all so famous Cherry Blossom parade, but guess not. The tickets for that particular time are so high! Geez! Almost 3 times higher than the normal price. So I decided to plan the trip for mid week, where we can get an opportunity to see some blossoming pink and white flowers around Washington D.C. I’ve heard the Japanese gifted U.S. 3000 cherry blossom flowers some decades ago. Thank you Japenese gentlemen… that’s very nice thought. Ever thought of gifting something to India??? *wink* wink*!

Alright now back to our plan… apart from attending the festival, sightseeing D.C., we have plan to catch up with our friends too. Puneet, Jasmine, Shikha, and Sona… well yeah lot of friends and the quite less time. But thankfully the plan is all sorted out and our friends are quite flexible too… so we’ll hopefully manage it well.

Alright now.. I have to rush back to work. There is a lot of stuff I have to complete at work, before we fly to D.C. today. I’ll post back about the trip after I come back.

Ciao for now…

Sneezing my way through!

It's spring and people usually welcome this new season with flower blossom, nice and natural fragrances, fresh-green look around...however for some it is an unwelcoming season and want to get over with it as quickly as possible.

Reason? Well the problem are allergens, such as airborne pollens and mold spores that burst out the whole season sneezing. Aaaaaeee....chhhhoo!

Yeah, it's me who got stuck this time with the pollen/sinus allergy. And that too BIG time. Since last two weeks I had these mild influences of running nose, but starting this Sunday (day of holi), the situation just got out of hands. Day was full of sneezes, running nose, watery eyes, headache... oh man, that was terrible! On Monday, we had to rush to the Pharmacy to grab a couple of sinus pills, that later on dozed me off for 12 hours straight! After waking up on Tuesday morning I felt a lot relieved, and the symptoms were subtle. Perhaps I think those subtle symptoms will remain till the end of this season. It's the first time this has ever happened to me, so guys I am all new to the allergens and allergy terminology.

I came across this interesting post on msn, which makes me wonder what could be the cause? Perhaps too much clean environment eh?

Holi Hai!

It is Holi time!! Yay!



We'll be celebrating the festival of colors with gulal, friends and food at a park tomorrow. Here are the details of the event.

Where I have been hiding?

Not in my closet at least! haha.

Well lot of stuff as usual kept us both occupied and busy. I know I know, I am not running for a country or in charge of some finance department, but to be honest- doing work, balancing it off with home, traveling, meeting friends, celebrating birthdays...does take a lot of your time and that is no less than running for President eh? Then talking about blog, you need to be in a mood, an inclination to divulge your inner thought and mind.. come on! it ain't no joke!

But don't you worry my dearest Tweety Blog- I won't make you feel left out. Here is what was going on at my side of town. hmmm where shall i start from... well lets start from the last week...

Last week (March 1st week)- or say last weekend, we went down to Daytona Beach to see Bike Week. Well the weather was bit chilly and we tried to take out some time off to see those gorgeous 3 B's... aka...bike, bikers (haha) and beach! Another reason for us to visit Daytona was to meet up with Pooja, who just came back from her 4/5 month long India trip. And hence we had a group get together, where we met with Namrata & Mayur and Manish, Ayesha & Pooja. While we were in town, we also drove down to see Manish's newly built home. Wow... that was one BIG house, running on a 4 acre land. Though the occupied area is like 25% (1 acre approx), but I still am wondering how are they going to live in such a huge house. It would scare me off if it would have been me! Sachi! And hats off to Manish who put his mind, soul and time in building his own home with his own hands! Can you believe it!! It's amazing and one nice achievement Manish!

And week before... that...

Now that is quite important week, cause it was my Birthday.... Yay!! I got soooo many wishes from around that world,that made me realize that I am still important and loved by so many people. And above all, I received WII
from Amit. Hurray! Thank you Amit.. that was one sweet gift... :), that will be played almost everyday! And also, Mama and Papa sent me such a nice Indian outfit that is so adorable. I wore it when we went to Atlanta the same week.

Now talking about Atlanta trip... well that was one long journey. Moto behind going to Atlanta was to meet up my friends Preeti and Monali. Preeti was celebrating her son, Daksh's first birthday and Monali recently got married to Nayan and moved from India like a month back. So it was the apt moment and we decided to plan this trip, which absolutely delightful. Well delightful cause I got to meet up with my friends after yyyyyyyyyyyyears! Its so nice to catch up after long. But since it was just a weekend affair (i.e. short duration trip), we hardly got time to chitchat like old times.... still something is better than nothing will help us sum up this trip on a better note :).

And the most important factor I wasn't regular on blog was that I was missing everyone back home... :( Well, coz - my brother, Varun (my brother) and Shalini bhabhi are in India for a month. And I will miss seeing Tanisha (their daughter and my neice). And then my Mamaji's daughte, Doll didi got married recently. I so wanted to be a part of her weddding but thats how distances bring in the constraint.. no!

hmmmm... for now i don't remember any other important events that might have happened in like last two months. And if I do remember something, I will surely come back and scribble it here.

Lohri!

Lohri

Lohri is a Punjabi (Indian) festival where people around the neighborhood including family and friends, would gather and enjoy the festivity around the bonfire. It is celebrated every January 13 and is filled with lots of food, music and love. It is also considered as a break even day for the winter season to start declining from this day onwards. Last year we had invited a group of friends over to our house to celebrate this festivity. And this year around, we thought of doing it in the temple.

On our way to the temple we were bumped from the back (of the car) by another vehicle over a red light crossing. We got so nervous as it is a brand new car and we can't afford to see a scratch on her! Well, we can't imagine how possessive we have become! Coincidently the driver of the other car was another desi, who slept on the red light. Thankfully our car survived with just little bit bruises, which did hurt us anyway.

Being almost an hour late cause of the incident, our excitement was a little dull, however it was fun to meet friends and aunties. Almost everyone was adorning their best clothes yesterday and was sparkling like a shine! And, guess what other excitement we had in store? We (Amit and myself) were chosen as the best dressed couple of the evening! Unbelievable for us, but true. Another incident that goes in our books :). This was the first time ever, for both of us to be given such a special treatment in such a large group of people.

It was definitely an evening to remember.

2007 Snippets

I've been wanting to write this post for long... but... you know how busy I am :P.

Anyways, here is a brief snippet of the year 2007:

January- we conducted a Lohri party
February- Mummyji Papaji came back from California
- We conducted Mata ki chaukki
- We celebrated my birthday at Disney Downtown!
March- We celebrated Holi with big bang!
- We celebrated Amit's birthday!
April- Nothing New happened...
May- We went to New York.. met Akhil, Gogi Bhayia and Ashish's family
June- - Nothing New happened...
July- Amar bhayia and family came to visit us; we celebrated 4th of July ; we celebrated our anniversary (car broke down); went to Chicago!
August- - Nothing New happened...
September- - Nothing New happened...
October- Car crash and got totaled. Celebrated Karvachauth
November- Vacation in India... Yay!!!!
December- came back from India, Bought our new car; Rakhi didi came to visit us

Happy New Year!

Yeah! We have now entered the year 2008! I hope this year brings loads of happiness, health prosperity to everyone!