Love - Hmmm what a lovely feeling!!!!

It might sound funny, but its true everyday I experience love of a different kind from Roshan. Its truely magical. I sometimes feel that by his constantly telling those three words " I love you" to me, he is ruining the feeling , but then I wonder it wont be the same if he stopped doing that. 

With him its very different than your regular stuff. Usually people say that those who keep telling dont show it or those who show it dont say it. With Roshan he does both. Tells me loudly and shows it even louder. I find it very over whelming at times but then I enjoy the feeling. I find him very cute. Call me mushy but its the truth he is cute. 

I like it how when he returns from work he smiles at me. No matter how bad the day has gone he smiles. I like it when he compliments my cooking when sometimes the food isn't up to the mark. I like it when he looks out for me when we are in a public place. It may be termed as PDA but I am totally comfortable with it. It just shows what I mean to him. 

I guess I could write volumes but somethings are very private. This is the most I could disclose.

I Love You Roshan. Thank you for coming into my life and changing it for the best ( I wont say better as that a wrong word).

A Place Full of Drama - Delhi.

We went to Delhi for a friend's wedding. The wedding itself was great. It was one of those high, up market weddings in which it was all about what you were wearing or who you were wearing and all that jazz. The wedding was presided by 2 events, we went for one which was the Mehendi function. It was kind off in the open. So we Mumbaiwalas froze. It was cold. The next two days was the actual wedding and the reception. again we froze because it was cold. The wedding party had organised heaters so it was comfortable around them heaters.

I will come to the main point of this post. Well I felt Delhi has a a lot of drama with an attitude attached to it. People can be so daft. Its not funny. People out there are not ready to acknowledge the fact that they don't know something. They have to show there intelligence. Will give you an example. When you ask for directions to a place they won't say they don't know but they will say that it just 5 minutes down the road you are on. But its not only on an entirely different road but in a completely opposite direction. 

Then if you open your mouth and say that you are from Mumbai then you are bombarded with one or all of the following three topics. One whether we know anyone from Bollywood or are related to any of them. Two the underworld and Three and most popular 26/11 whether any of us saw or had someone we knew in the venues of the attacks. Its not funny how they ask these question.

We have always heard of the Delhi Walas showing off about their connections to some politician or a land lord or some big police fellow. We had just heard of it but had never seen it in person. One night we went to a night club called F bar and we witnessed the show off in person. One local guy throws a glass at this foreigner guy and starts yelling " You don't know who I am . I am Lucky". Apparently his name was Lucky and the other guy was just Marcel and was unlucky. well that was a high drama there.

Then of course we women went shopping to the usual places and did what we do best. we went to Chandni Chowk for the Parathas In the Parathe Wali gali. Those had its own charm. Chandni Chowk is know famously called Delhi 6 after the movie by the same name. 

I all we noticed that Delhiwalas were always wanting to compete with Mumbaikars but sadly don't know that Mumbaikars are not even in a competition. 

Its a place of high drama and zero expectations. I would say its a livable city provided you have a car and the attitude to live there. 

In the end I would just say the line from the movie Delhi 6- Yeh Delhi Hai Mere Yaar!!!

Veena's and Hemisha's Joint Venture and More

I mentioned somewhere in my last post that I have started a business with my best friend in Sydney Australia. I am very excited about it. Will explain the works of it in detail.

1. I do the shopping of a number of items namely Junk Jewellry, Bindis, Clips, Purses, Mobile Purses, Artifacts, Heram Pants, Stolls, Kurtis etc etc....

2. Click pictures of all the products (sometimes I have to act a model and pose for the products hahaha) and send to my friend.

3. She checks them out and puts them on to the blog www.madeinindiya.blogspot.com.

4. I send the parcel as a courier to my friend. 

5. Parcel takes 3-4 days to reach my friend.

6 My friend sees the stuff ( gets excited) and also clicks some pictures which might have not come good in the first try.

7. Updates the blog and sends it to her friends and family out there in Australia.

8. She gets calls from potential customers tells them to come and pick up the items over the weekend.

9. She lets me know on the email or on gtalk ( I love the voice calls btw) what items are a hit and what are a miss.

10. The entire circle starts all over again.

Basically ( thats my favourite word) its a 10 step process. There are certian other things that don't really feature in the 10 steps. They are the research that goes into the buying (on myside) and the leg work and hard selling expanding which goes into ( on her side). In all feels good to be doing something. Oh ya and the fun it is to shop with a purpose, it is too good.  

Well both my friend and I are learning in the process, we know its going to take time to start off in a big way, so we are keeping our patience. 

Hmmm thats about it about the business front.

And now for the More part.

Again so many things happened that its very difficult to write about. only would like to say a generalised statment.

"I just hope some better sense privails in everyone in India and around the world at large."

No Idea!?!?

Its been long I know. The thing is so many things have happened that one can't seem to understand which topic to choose from and write about it. 

Terrorism, reccession, petrol strike, satyam fiasco, Barak Obama, Pakistan said this India said that, Mumbai attacks. These were the topics that came in mind to write but......I thought hasn't so much been writen already about them.

Of course these are topics in general. I could have writen about things that are happening in my life. Buying washing machine, getting my new driver's licence, Trips to Mangalore and back, Starting a business with a close friend, The renovation of the bathroom, Christmas, Attending a full flegded Mangi wedding or even Roshan and I completing a year as husband and wife. 

I figured there would come something more important and more worth talking about, rather writing about.I am still waiting for that. Something tells me that I will definatly get something soon. 

Till then I am still observing from my deck. 

Rain rain go away come another day, little johny wants to play.

Hmmm the rains are here. The lovely cloudy skies, the cool breeze, the puddles, the getting wet when you are about to open your umbrella etc. the list just goes on.

In Mumbai unfortunately the rains are more of a nightmare rather than a beautiful experience. It’s about some things like the bad roads, the BMC, the high tide timings and yes the local trains.

I remember that as a child we would wait for the monsoons. We would want to get wet in the rain, make paper boats and put them in the puddles, have bhajiyas, etc.. There was that excitement of spotting a rainbow also.

But since the past 5 years the monsoons kid of brings all the kind of negative feelings with it. People are getting scared of the water. One doesn’t want to go out fearing that they either might get stuck somewhere or getting sick after getting wet. People are getting less and less immune health wise so they don’t want to go out. They are scared of eating out also same reason. There is one more reason also people don’t go out. I guess the various government organizations are responsible quite a lot about the scares of people. The water is contaminated, the roads are bad, and the gutters are not cleaned on time.

But I sometimes wonder whether the cleanliness of the city is only in the hands of the BMC. I think that we as citizen are equally to blame. We keep throwing things on the roads. Well I can’t say that all of us are like that but the thing is that there is a very negligible amount of us who don’t litter.

The other thing which has become very popular point of conversation is the high tide timings. Everyday of the monsoon there will be a new tide time and life seems to revolve around that time. It is said that if the is very heavy rain when there is a high tide, and then we are in for very big problems. The thing is that that’s when flooding will happen.

Personally I love the monsoons they give us a cool weather after the hot summer and it also gives us water. Everything gets cleaned and trees look more green.

What kind of change is this?

I think that India as a country has advanced a lot. I have seen a remarkable change in quite an avenue. I have witnessed a lot of the change in my short life so far. It makes me wonder what next is going to happen. I am very proud of the modernization of things in my country.

I remember we didn’t have cable as kids. We had only two channels Doordarshan national and doordarshan metro. We called them DD1 and DD2. They had interesting programmes. Also we had radio in which there was only MW and SW. Those were fun to listen to. Best was the SW frequency there were so many different sounds in the same channel it was very difficult to understand what was being said or sung.

Later STAR TV started. STAR was an abbreviation; Satellite Television Asian Region was its full form. That was a welcome break as DD was all Hindi and Marathi, so STAR TV was English. All nice programmes there. Then came MTv so we very extra happy as we could listen to English music. Later of course there was a flood of channels like Zee TV, STAR WORLD etc. At the same time there were a lot of audio cassettes of movies, bands, musicians etc. which one could buy and listen to.

After that came the computer. That was like a Pandora’s Box. WOW its like never ending source of activity in every field. It still keeps bringing out different surprises. Along with that there was a start of better looking television sets and video sets. Then there was a lull in things for some time. Then came more TV channels for which I think cable was responsible.

Sometime after that we had CDs and CD players. Also FM radio had started by then. DVDs also started coming in. Our cinemas also improved in their quality. Dolby sound was a big thing. Multiplexes also came in.

And the list is endless with laptops, notebooks, ipods, iphones, fancy mobiles, and God knows what.

But with so much improvement in technology and science does it change a person’s mentality? Terrorist activities, wars, riots, crimes, murders, rapes, robberies etc.. The same technology which has helped in making lives so much easier has also been used to make life hell for you.

The same computer which has helped us with a lot of things are now being hacked into and meddled around with , credit cards which help us not carry cash around are also being made into fakes and used to fleece the poor card holder. The terrorist have been using technology for their attacks as well. I dont want to go into detail I guess you know. Kids are sing mobile phones for wrong things like making MMS clips of fellow students and passing the clips around.

My question is are we ready for so much change? Are we responsible enough to use technology?

Unbelievable things happening.

Just in the previous post I mentioned about the Noida murders. Now it so happens that the father of the girl murdered is the killer. Unimaginable, that is. I am a daughter I can't imagine such a thing.

Now the problem I have is against two things. One is the stupid over-enthusiastic media and the other is the very shoddy work done by the Noida police. Its so crazy the whole damn thing. While the investigation was still going on the different media houses had formed their own investigation teams. Now my problem here is doesn't the media have any sense that touching the crime scene is tampering the case?, the media houses have touched everything the mattress on which the girl was killed they touch the doors. Then they form their own conclusions. They don't forget to blame the police that they haven't collected the evidences. I think the police should file cases against the media houses for tampering with the scene. What all they do to get TRP ratings high.

The other is the police even if they have any evidences or proofs but that doesn't make them come all out and talk all utter nonsense to the media. They have given 2 motives for the killings. Which probably can't be the case. The Noida police have been very bad in their investigations since the Nathari case ( where skeletons were found buried in a bungalow). I am very happy with the fact that I live in Mumbai Mumbai police mite have their own problems but at least they would behave more responsibly .

My heart goes out for the mother of the girl.