The rainy days!!

The aroma emanating from the heated earth when the first raindrops kiss her flesh... I love that scent. I wish some perfume company would bottle it! They would definitely find an endorser in me! I have always found it refreshing and enchanting and with it comes innumerable memories of the rainy days...when the skies would open up just at 4pm when we were about to be let off for the day...we would curse the rain gods but in fact we really enjoyed it! RS, RN and me trying to rush home, while taking turns to push the bicycle with all our bags on it! Trying to watch the puddles and vehicles that conspired to splash us with muddy water. With our long raincoats covering us from head to toe...carrying an umbrella that's big enough for 2 of us to go till the bus stop to have corn on the cob and got gappas... Carrying the same umbrella 2 of them to go and drop RN to her house which was 3 roads away...going to eat the hot hot chilly bhajjis. The dancing on our terrace in the drizzle. The most classic of them all is, sitting in our balcony shielded from the downpour and watching the world go by in all their drenched glory

Busy weeks & Hectic Weekends!!

This time of the year is usually action packed at work as well as the home-front. We have a lot of events at work and life events as well. So, you never know how the 2nd qtr goes...:-)!!
We have 4 birthdays and 2 annivesaries during this time which ofcourse burns a huge hole in the pockets ;-)
On the professional front we have our yearly townhall in April followed by our team offsite in may with a couple of senior leadership visits thrown in for good measure.....and these 2 months being the holiday for schools, one trip atleast needs to be planned....it doesnt help at all that I am the one who needs to plan for this trip as well as the team offsite (I am one of the Spocs)
This time also, it is no different- both my parent's birthday, their anniversary as well as my birthday in march...one family dinner at the end of march on my father's birthday is a family tradition...
Then my birthday as well.

In April, we have the townhall, one team offsite with the visits and Aptril has gone past me...
In May is the hubby's birthday, our anniversary,  a trip and with all this our team outing with a training.....before you can even say blink! It is over...

Another year gone by...

Another year has zipped past me!! So true they say- time & tide wait for none!! It feels like I just celebrated my last B'day. But another one came and went- interesting part was the special time coincided with M traveling for 2 weeks on work and Neethi finishing her last exam for the year on the very same day....I was all ready to party! A small problem, it was Thursday. I did not want to go to office on Friday, bleary eyed! (Wink wink)...
So, S, A, R, Ap, K and S & D- we decided will have a night on the town, live it up and party hard!!
We started the evening with slow music at  Skye and continued it with Bollywood night @ I bar, the Park then ended the night @ S's place...then we did a movie the next day.

The week went by and again yesterday we decided we will go out for Thai food and ended up at Benjarong. Had a lovely time with the kids as well. Hope the year goes by in the same tone..all about living it up!!  :-))