The blue sky

Yesterday was a day, well spent with 2 of my best friends, talking, chit-chatting, discussing, laughing as if there was no tomorrow. And the venue was? Ritter Sport Chocolate museum in a small town called Waldenbuch near to Stuttgart. It's an international and popular chocolate brand, famous for its peculiar shape and size, that of a quadrate, a square! Alfred and Clara Ritter started this business and now it is handled by the third generation, has grown in leaps and bounds, I must say! There are 22 varieties of the regular kind e.g. made from a combination of one or more of the following things: Chocolate, nougat and milk and different berries, lemon, nuts, biscuits etc. There are regular new varieties depending on the seasons too! E.g. spring introduces two new combinations this year! Simple cocoa beans changed into such varied kinds of chocolates! Just amazing! We saw a film on the process of making the chocolate and we were amazed to see huge machines doing their work rele...

I returned to Germany after spending one good month with my family and friends in Bangalore, Pune and Mumbai. I slipped out at the right time, because it had started getting hotter in Mumbai and my mother told me that 2 days after I returned, the temperature in Dombivli had touched 42 degrees Celsius. It was the hottest day ever in history of my home-town and I escaped it thankfully. Last two days in Dombivli had become unbearable for me and I couldn’t sleep though the fan was hovering in full speed. That is when the Air Conditioner came to my rescue and I slept peacefully for last two nights there.  I was thinking that when I go back, I would be surrounded by snow, but strangely, here, in Stuttgart, the snowfall didn’t happen at all this winter. It snowed for about 5-10 minutes in the city, twice, but that was it! In the mountains and higher areas, it did snow, but it did not touch Stuttgart much. I was not sad on not seeing the snow, because for a working mother like me who...

17th Feb 2014 - 3rd birthday of my blog! I was in India and hence couldn't write about it here! I take this opportunity today for thanking all the folks who regularly visit my blog and take time to read my thought and opinions on various issues and topics. I know a few of you and I do not know the most of you, who read my writings. But that's ok, I guess. As long as my thoughts get a voice and you find them interesting, this anonymity is ok! I am an extremely sentimental person and you may find some topics touchy and preachy and outdated, illogical, but that is the way I am. I think from my heart and not head and I value every small thing in this world and created by God. I value my friends, my family and my work. The Blue sky helps me to introduce this inside and valuable world to the outside world and also satisfies the creative writer in me. It doesn't complain, doesn't fuss, is not judgemental. It just presents whatever I feel and write! It is a platform to f...

I was waiting eagerly for the trip to India and the day finally dawned. After spending 11 months here, at work and in Germany, I had got a chance to go home and meet my folks back there! I was super-excited, but the thought of taking Tanay all by myself was also little worrisome, but we managed it well. After a long flight and stop-over at Dubai and then after reaching Bangalore in the early morning, it felt like I had overcome a great hurdle and finally reached my destination. Tanay did not cause any trouble and he behaved like a good boy, he was either busy with the remote control of the TV set in the plane or was sleeping away to glory in a crammed, small seat, next to me! My parents had come to Bangalore to receive us and they were extremely delighted to see us after a long time in real sense. We skyped every week, but then the experience of being there in person and in front of our loved ones is something else! Tanay immediately got hooked to his grandfather, whom he lovingly...