Smile to light up ur life

Today, I realised how profound the statement is ..
" A smile can light up the face "..
After a long time met up someone and smile perked up everything she said to me ...
Atleast brought out the positives in life and allowed me to refocuss on
"God's in his Heaven n All's right with the world!"
Things will work out.....i.e eventually ..

A wonderful day... :)

Its a wonderful day... Just something that you keep it save in your memories..
And a nice one to look back on ...
Just remembering a good time and chill out on best times ahead...
Awoke to get ready to go church ... Sleepy wishes were passed..
Got the coffee ready and sipped in the wonderful morning tranquility..
Spent time draping saree..(wearing it after couple of months hence the time factor)
Just finished 5 mins before the start time of the mass.
Warm wishes from the near and dear ones ... And yea we raced to be in time for the morning mass.
Breakfast followed in 'Taj Mahal restaurant' ... a place we hadn't visited in a while..
After which went to supermarket ..You bought milk and I did not want to spoil any surprise (not that i needed to worry about it) so was attending the wishes on phone...
After which on reaching home ...came the flowers :)
Nice to receive flowers ...though I guess I first worried about the expense... :)
But sometimes should give a miss to trivial issues of cost when the thought behind it is comforting :)
Got some more calls with some more warm wishes and some thoughtful messages.. Nice to be remembered.
Black forest cake followed ...after which there was not much appetite for lunch...
So cancelled plan of going out for lunch.

Instead had a light lunch ( if you could call it light) ...phulkas, egg roast, onion tomato raita plus pickle and yesterday's mango dal..

Wore the new salwar kurta for which we searched quite a bit for matching aqua marine duppata..
Finally found that in "Fab India" when we went to shop yesterday as ur treat...

Then you humoured me by taking me to "Walden".....Checked out books and bought some..
Took part in a lucky dip..
Bought some plum cakes for taking to office tomorrow to distribute it to team..

Then we were doing time pass browsing "Home Town" wondering how to redeem the Rs 25 parking ticket..
But got the news that dad's wallet was picked in his ride on the local train to catch the passenger.
However no major harm as no debit or credit cards though caused some anxious moments both here and back home.

Then when all was fine browsed through "LOFT"... just to check out and in search of the elusive pair of shoes... However nothing worth the price.
Left for " Our Place "..but we lost or rather did not remember the turns and gave up going there for dinner..

Instead went to "Uttupura" and had parotta and kadala and chicken curry ...:) I know cheap and modest treat but what to do since we could not find "Our Place".. Maybe that will be for some other time ..

Came back.. perused the books..got a call regarding the dip and saw the new serial "Custom Made for Vir Sanghvi"....
Nothing exceptional but a wonderful day...
Thanks for humouring me to go to all the shops esp on a Sunday evening ..

Wonderful yet simple though tiring way to spend a birthday :)

P.S(8th Aug 2009) : We won the Rs 1000 gift coupon at Walden ..Splurged today on books again :)

Best Things Done..... :)

Drawing inspiration from Kiran's post here ... I too thought of penning the best things dear husband has done for me (till now )...

Dear Husband…….

The Five Best Things Dear Husband has done for me

1) Married Me :D….Taken the load of my father ‘s chest …. :)
2) He really show small gestures which bring out the greatest love he has ..though he won’t verbalize the love part… it is implied :)..Waking me up at 2.00 in the night so that I can take the fever medicine for the sudden fever I have developed. In addition rubbing my back when back is hurting on account of fever…Plus some random day night when I groggily awoke crying disoriented with a muscle pull, massaged the leg back by the time I realized what the problem was.
3) Patiently listening with a zen like calm to my ranting, grumblings and verbalizing of stuff which has caused irritation , anger etc and which has churned itself into a major melting pot of venting out. Of course sometimes I mis-understand this calm as not able to empathize with my point of view.
4) Does some of the stuff un asked. … If the maid has taken an impromptu off and there is a bucket full of clothes majorly mine which has been already soaked, then will not hesitate to wash them. Broom the cobwebs away at corners of the room where my bulk and height will never reach. Of course sometimes I have to ask to wipe the microwave..( I leave it with more stains)
5) Doesn’t mind the old hag look I take when I am at home in “maxi”…Reminds me to put cream and take medicines if any.. It is another issue that I don’t do it if I am too tired.

In addition to these , these are some other best things to be added …. :)

6) Taken me to lovely places and different places for shopping or for eating .. :) Be it finding out about where FabIndia exists (which earlier with friends was not able to go to) or trying Barbecue Nation or Yoko’s… Or searching for a CASIO battery replacement shop in ABIDs area. Although some more exists in the To Do List…like going to Golconda, visiting the main office campus along with me(before it is closed down), visiting Bawarchi, buying pearls and hyderabadi kundan work sarees, etc etc
7) Likes to humour my suggestions and whims especially like going out to a Thali place which is not that great or taking my suggestion of Dhola ri dhani which we went with friends which turned out ok..
8) Tolerates my shopping especially grocery shopping whims especially when not feeling well and accompanying me to shop random grocery…
9) Takes care of House Owner interface , Gas booking and follow up with Fridge repair where I would have seriously sucked..
10) Brings out the humane perspective especially in dealing with maid,etc. :)
11) Really gets thoughtful gifts i.e be it splurge on Crossword or a wonderful and tasteful ring.

For future references, watch the space :D…

Warm regards,
Wife :)

Wonderful Thought on Togetherness

I was checking a wonderful post here.
Here’s wishing Art and Navy more wonderful years ahead.

But wanted to post the thought mentioned in this post.

The thing with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Having quoted that ,
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness ( sometimes delayed) blow the rest away

I especially liked the one below.
And hope someday we will never measure nor weigh the thoughts or words instead pour them out.

Pattiwalii chai .......

From: Tina

Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 4:18 PM

Subject: Pattiwalii chai .......

Yippppeeee …. !!!!!!

Pattiwalii chai has come to our cafeteria……almost after a year ….
Which means we are free of vending machine ‘chai’…

Which also means that for that mandatory cuppa in afternoons we don’t have to trudge down to roadside tapri at 40 degrees from a 25 degrees temp in office AC and trudge back.
Hope fully we won’t fall ill :)

Plus flavors bhi hai … elaichi aur ginger toh dekha aaj….

It is a different thing kii kab tak yeh karishma rehega and chai kitna aur dilute hoga…… :)

But for now ……chai is just at crawling distance woh bhi patti waaliii :):)

Njoiiing the afternoon cuppa..
~Tina.