The blue sky

On Saturday, I suddenly felt like having pizza. I often have cravings for junk food, but then I do not encourage myself for it. But once is ok, I thought. My mom was least interested in pizza and I had no other company. Tanay was already asleep and I wouldn't have shared the pizza with him under any circumstances. So, I took the phone, rang Domino's pizza and ordered a personal pan and pasta in white sauce. I ordered at about 8:10 pm and the lady at the other end promised me to deliver it within 30 minutes. I was happy and was waiting eagerly for the pizza. Half an hour passed, one hour passed. No signs of pizza. I called at the shop, she said, "my person is on way". I was already miffed by the fact that she didn't keep the promise, but then had no other option than to wait for the delivery guy. She then later added that I should ask the delivery man to give me a discount of Rs. 300/-.  I didn't believe my ears. Was it true? My bill was Rs. 315/- and ...

Owing to the hype created around the nation-wide strike today, I decided to work from a location which was near to my house and this new company is exactly next to my old company. The campus is very beautiful and I have so many good memories of the old company and the things around it. When we were a team of four, we often went to the eatery called "The Bay" which had a roof identical to an umbrella and under which there was a plethora of restaurants. Mcdonalds, Subway, Dominos, Baskins Robbins, Beijing Bites, Kathi zone, Costa Coffee, Cafe Coffee Day all under one roof! What a fun it was! There was also a juice parlor where we had tastiest sandwiches and milk shakes, which closed down later. My colleague Sudha, who was pregnant at that time loved to gorge on the sandwiches and the extra sweet "Guava milk-shake”. We have also waited for an hour for our pizza to arrive from Dominos and chatted away merrily with no sense of time and that we have come here leaving ...

I am so sorry my dear blue sky. Your 2nd anniversary just slipped out of my mind yesterday. When I hit the bed exhausted yesterday did it dawn upon me that it was exactly two years ago when you took shape! I share every trivial thing in my life with you and also the most important thing in my life. You are always there like a blank slate waiting to be written upon. You are always there to encourage me to play with words and put my thoughts into beautiful little essays, which will be etched forever as far as the technology will stay with us. You welcome strangers with open hands and also invite the well wishers and friends to comment on my write-ups. You stand neglected many a times, when I am very busy or just too bored to open the laptop and paint my thoughts on your vast and white canvas. You are not judgmental, you never criticize me, you never say that a particular article is senseless and doesn't deserve to be on your list. You are elated when you get positive comments ...

I am not a regular TV addict, but I like seeing a few serials here and there as and when I get time. Today, there was a telecast of Filmfare awards hosted by the favorite duo, Shahrukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan. They created quite a ripple the last few times they were together and I was looking forward to watch them together again after a long time, but I did not switch the TV on today! Why?                                                                                                     ...

I am a regular reader of the column called "O-zone" in the Sunday edition of "Life" in Times of India. The author is Vinita Dawra Nangia. In the last week, an advertisement caught my attention which said that a book is out called by the name "It's your life", which is a collection of the best stories published in this column. It immediately caught my fancy and I did not spare a single moment in ordering it from flipkart. I am not an avid reader of books, but I have read a few good ones suggested by my friends. The moment this book was in my hands, I got hooked to it. It's front page is so very colorful and vivid. On the front page, it says, "Reflections on contemporary living and relationships". Human relationships and their intricacies and complexities have always fancied my imagination and I often write about them in my blog. As I turned the pages one by one, I realized that all these short essays, write-ups are so very close to my h...

My HP laptop purchased in 2009 gave way recently. The fan was making noise, the system was getting heated and the laptop was switching off on it's own. Now that I need to travel to Germany for official purpose, I wanted to know if this laptop is going to be useful at all or not. I did not know where to look out for help in getting the laptop repaired. I sought the help online and within a week I got my laptop repaired and it came loaded with Windows 7 and MS Office 2007. I so very loved the look of it. I felt like a child at the candy shop who is happy and confused with so much variety of goodies in front of him. I felt as if I had bought myself a new laptop itself. Nothing was changed on the exterior actually, only the fan and the adapter were changed, but the interface was so very refreshing and cool. Same thing applies when I get a new haircut or wear a new pair of jeans. It makes me feel good about myself for the initial few days. What is so special about any "new...

Today was a relaxed day in office. Nothing much happened during the day except the usual stuff and as the evening progressed, things became little exciting. I came in early because my driver who drops me and picks me up from office had an emergency at home and so he had to be with his ailing 10 month old. So, he requested me to start little early and I obliged and we literally hit the house in 30 straight minutes. It was a smooth ride and I was very happy to meet Tanay outside the house playing with his buddies. My best friends in my society, Snehal and Sonali had come over with their kids to my place because Snehal would be leaving for her native tomorrow and she will be back only after a month and by the time she comes back, I would have already left for Germany. Our kids created a ruckus in my house today and I so very loved it. They were hitting each other, talking to each other in their own sweet language, were laughing with each other. My living room was so endearingly messy w...

I had been to a short visit to Mumbai and Pune with my baby and my hubby. There was a get-together with my friends and relatives in Mumbai and there was a Sankranti special program called "bornhaaN" in Pune. I had invited many of my friends for both the events well in advance as I knew very well that the week ends are generally busy. In Mumbai, the event was on Sunday and in Pune the event was on a week day. It was a great learning for me when many of my friends did not even acknowledge the invitation mail that I had sent out. I can completely understand if they hadn't turned up due to some xyz reason, but many of them did not even bother to read the mail and write back to me. Some friends told me that they will try to make it, but they did not turn up either, reasons - the mega block on Sundays in Mumbai and due to earlier personal commitments which were clashing. So, none of my friends turned up in Mumbai for the get-together, except two who were friends of Atul an...