Who do u think came visitng last week??

Lemme give u a hint....

The persons typical schedule included ~~ Getting me ma cup of bed tea as soon as I wake up, pottering around in kitchen, Finding every trace of dust n dirt hidden in all nook n corners, removing cobwebs, mending all ma torn blankets n bedsheets, washing ma cant-wash-in-machine clothes n of course going blah-blah abt all the 'N' things am supposedly messing up with! Ha the last thing should given u the hint... Who else but your mother dearest ** Smiles**. N all this at the cost of missing her fav serials .......... Her fav past-time last week included talking to me (Even thou i acted pricey sitting b4 the lappie more often than not) Did I tell ya that when she realized ma maid is doing a disappearing act for a few days, she postpones her trip by few days (Yipppee) n makes sure the house is presentable (if not spic-n-span)!

N in few days joins ma sis who decides to indulge us all with gifts cause she is got a barely-there hike !! N her biggest past-time u said?? Ganging up with jeejeu n making poor mes life as miserable they can.... Grrrrrr!

One thing that stuck me is the confidence with which I dish up dishes for them... A confidence that I lack even in ma day - day cooking.... In rare cases when I do dish out something((N b4 u cry foul.. Lemme clarify I do all the donkey work...) I end up calling ma Mr. Pricey hubbs 10 times to taste the food! But not when its being dished out for ma sis n mom... I know whatevea I do they just gona lap it up with no whimper :-D!




It did Taste Yum tooo!


N then they left yest leaving me all :(

PS: When people act cheaply meanish n with an intention of jus pitting u down n hurting u n end up making somebody elses lifes sillily difficult ~~ basically for cheap thrills ~~ It makes it so so so v difficult to forgive them! Something I know am not gonna forget it in a hurry ~~ Jus remember what goes around comes around!

But ofcourse this gets linked up to Color Deckors Weeknd-Wrapup... All times are supposed to be linked up there u c :)

Lyrical Sundays - 1

Now now if u been in this space for sometime u know I jus don hv an ear for music! Haa so this is an last ditch effort to get ma self to soak in some music... Of course the big contribution in this goes hands down to ma hubbs dearest :-D.

So the first in this series is the song "All 4 One - I swear" ~~ A dedication from ma hubbs in those good old rose tinted pre-wedding days :-) Haa he did hv a romantic bone huh :-D

And I swear by the moon

And the stars in the sky I'll be there

I swear like the shadow that's by your side I'll be there

For better or worse

Till death do us part

I'll love you with every beat of my heart

And I swear.....

Hv a happy soothing sunday guys :)

The National Diet of Japan ....

is what Japan's legislature house is called :-D

Now now own up... How many of you thot am referring to Japan's foodie issues... LOL! An interesting snippet huh!

Hols - 2010!

Haa a good 2 months post the vacation is when I decide to even blog abt it... Hmpf! Well betta delayed than neva rt!

So heres is the post where hubbs dearest is done some justice to the vacation :-D... Atleast to part 1 of it!  Yo yo he is taken back to blogging .... N this is his photo blog! Do hop on there..... Free publicity u c :)

Ha we are digressing here ... So ma take on that vacation?  This place is possibly a contender for Poor-mans Ooty.... Jus that it gets a niche betta than that... Imagine ooty ,minus the crowd n commercialization... That summarizes Amboli for you! Ok now that I set the expectations high.. Lemme also tell u this... The entire place is hardly few kms with a highway running in between... So don go running expecting a Nirvana :)

A review abt the place we stayed in Amboli will follow soon! N if any of u heading there heres a tip(you can thank me for it)... There is a MTDC(Maharasthra tourism) resort bang on the Vengurla beach... Not that I stayed there but it looked a small cosy place..... Worth staying back for  night!

What betta day than friday to reminisce about hols n good times huh :). Happy weekend guys!

Thursday Challenge - 3

Theme of the week ~~ "MOVEMENT" (Shaking, Falling, Bouncing, Jumping, Curling, Sagging,...)

How did this go with the theme u asked! Well well cant u c those bean-balls (what else do u calls the balls tht fill in the bean bag??) "Bounce"!

Haa a pic of the happy times spent with ma little niece... **TouchWood**  Here is sending  a prayer up that this precious bond with ma niece never ever ceases ** Anti - Jinx**

If u still wondering what the pic was abt ... U heard of Pillow-Fight rt... well well this goes on v similar grounds... U jus gotta substitute the pillow with the 'Bean-Balls'..... no prizes for guessing the mess that followed (N the ear full we received ) ...Imagine a bedroom filled wth the bean balls :-D n then of course the pain of picking those kutti-putti balls which amanged to make their way to every damn corner!! But 100% Fun guarantee I say .... So now u know what to do the next time u r bored of ur wits.... ROFL!

Wordless Wednesday - 2

The Weekend Wrapup!

Nope....the fireflies nvr happened :(. What we instead did was this..

Ma Rock(ing)-Climber!!

Yosh! Thts ma hubbs on his first attempt at rock climbing ~~ He puffed n coughed but managed to drag himself up the 15 Ft rock (with minimal aid of the harness-rope I should add) ~~ Not bad for a completely out-of-exercise beginner I should say! But but reminds me that time I get him to drag himself out for some physical exercise (Me???? Neeeee :-D)

N then right behind went up ma frnd ~~ She with her not-so-lite frame(Now u know whom to blame if u don see me blogging again!) managed to go up the 15ft with the agility that would hv left many men there squirmy! This when many uncles there dismissed her as a mere wisp of a lady  ~~ Many assumed she gona scale a 5ft height n call it quits ~~ Way to go babes! Did I add tht this toyboy of a lady equally specializes in dishing up the yummiest of biryanis n ofcourse in all jatjkas-matkas of a sexy lady :-P

N what was I doing in midst of all this u asked? Does hopping over a few rocks(bullied by the above 2 ruffians) count as rock-climbing???????????

Linking this upto Weekend Wrapup .... Now now Do I hv to get people to sign a caption for you not to scrap this feature :-D

The Monday Blues~~

Cliched I know......

Haa but but don just blame me n ma work(A ant post alert!)... The nature too conspired to add to the blues! How else will u explain this dream....

Of somebody v v v dear going off far far away across the seas(Simply translates to going abroad :-D) ...So u say??? Did ya say distance makes heart go fonder? While i possibly still know that she is a phone call away .... It just aint the same as say meeting them every other week n then bugging them till they listen to u n well jus being difficult till u hv ur way or  having her give a nod to every big or small decision u need to make (Thus saving u from the pain of pondering if it was the right decision to make!).But Well the dynamics of each relationship is diff...... Esp when the person has a reputation of locking herself up at the sign of trouble, of not answering ur calls or mails :(  ... esp when she is your sister-friend-mentor all rolled into one!

Ha as ma hubbs said... Its jus a dream which may not come tru! But but I know she waana relocate n settle abroad ~~ so well while I hope her dreams come true (N this dream is jus a scene thts gona be enacted sooon) I know its gona be one irreversible loss to me .... Sob sob sob! NThe state of ma mind as I woke up today(DOWN)  is exactly how I gona feel then.... N b4 u call me a drama queen read up this  

n you may possibly empathize!!!

Do Boys Eva Grow Up??????????

What do ya do with a boy ~~ Big boy ~~ who while is happy to share his "Toys" with his visiting 4 year old cousin but well the toy just  suddenly disappears when the little boy decides to take them home!

Fair enuf u say ~~ After all he is jus a "Boy"??

Ha would u still say the same when I say that the big boy is nee... Not a boy really ~~ He is actually a man who is well almost into his 30s :-D!

N did u say tht u still give him a benefit of doubt depending on what the toy is ~~ Are we talking of some Macs, Digi Cams or some fancy Gizmos (After all he is Gizmo fan in his 30s rt)!! Ha I wish! The toys we are referring to here is a funny "Kaleidoscope" \ Mc Donalds "Happy-Meals" Freebies(which BTW is travelled with him for last few years!! \ Remote - Controlled Planes!!!!  ** Wail **

The freebies that caused the blood bath!

Do boys eva grow up????

Hubbs dearest Plz take a bow :-D

Idli - Orchid - Will Power!!

Huh did u jus say tht its some title!

Well well its no me thts come up with this... Its instead the autobiography of Vittal Kamat ...one of the many scions of the famed Kamat Group! Now now me no fan of autobiographies at all.. Thank U v much. But on the hol to Amboli (I know thts one post which is long pending!) ~~ One v prominent eatery tht u could never miss there was the Vittal Kamats ~~ So on a hop stop there happened to flip thru this book .... N I was so hooked that well I ended up buying it!

The writing is lucid .... No fancy English here but more than that it didnt have larger-than-life image thats usually associated with books of such kind! Its the story of a man who with his simple out-of-box thinking n enterprising ways made it big in life! Sample one of these many instances.....

President of India was the guest at one of the kamat hotels n out of the blue he comes up with a request for Lassi! Now as luc would hv it that very moment the hotel mixer decides to go kaput.... But but does our Mr. Kamat accept defeat... Ofcouse not! He climbs atop  a tall table and poured the lassi onto a vessel from that height... N hat do we have... yoo slurping frothing slurpy lassi :).

This is jus one of the many such interesting snippets that pepper the book! This one aint any intellectual gem or a gr8 fiction ... Its jus what it advertises to be... The autobiography of a hotelier but with a lesson or two that we all would be better off picking up!