21 Wednesday Jul 2010
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I know I know its my second post of the day inspite of being so busy but I had to do this… annouce as if u guys dont know about it already 🙂 I am off to Goa on my all girls trip…
Can any vacation be better than the ones no kids, no husbands, no work, no kitchen… can’t wait for it to begun
So I will see u around the break and I promise promise I will be back with loads of snaps and will come back and reply to alllllllllllll the pending comments…. dont go away guys 😉
08 Tuesday Sep 2009
Ok so here is the Back to Roots post… A brief of the trip we took the village recently…A Picture Essay I would say 😀
Before Starting from home, dont miss the dude’s style 😀
On Roadside and more
Food and more… specially for u guys… hitchy
Masti @CCD
The water bodies around the road, always have a calming effect… add to the charm of the road
Finally reached the village, Ojas enjoying the house totally…. I love the houses in the village
And we can enjoy too right, the tender coconut water directly from the trees and drunk straight was divine.. all scared me though that it will stain the dress…
And then the walk to the fields begin, total bliss
and I get space what else do I need 😀
the tree climber 🙂
In and around the house… gorgeous place I tell u and dont miss the brat trying to find the treasure in that age old wardrobe
and some lovely pottery on the way back, each time I go there I pick up some… this time I picked up the pink and the blue one and no guys U cant understand this
Everytime I go to the village, I am so happy and I dont want to come back at all…N’s village is the first association I ever had with a village… considering mom had been completely brought up in Delhi and dad moved to Delhi while he was in college and before that too was in Jallandhur which is by no means a village , only thing that made me a little sad this time was to see the empty fields… Granny can no more manage the farm and none of us are doing anything about it,… Sigh!!!
18 Thursday Jun 2009
So I am back…had a fantastic vacation, Munnar is truly the tea heaven…
so what have all of u been upto… still have to catch up on the blogs… 6 days and reader says 800 unread posts… will slowly catch up 🙂
Till then I leave you with some snaps, the stories and travelogue will follow soon
05 Monday Jan 2009
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I finally got around watching Amu in the vacations that I had, actually I watched quite some movies…
Jaane Tu ya jaane na found it just ok inspite of all the hype sure it was an entertainer but could have been certainly better is what i think
The_Bridges of Madison County and found it extremely boring
Devil Wears Prada and that was a wow!!I had read the novel before and felt the movie stood upto it… Meryl Steep is just brilliant
and then the much talked about Ghajini too.. I thought it was ok… a bit too violent but not as bad as the reviews its getting, surely not a typical aamir khan movie but then he needs to make some masala movies too 🙂
But this post is about Amu 
And what a movie that is… I have no words to explain how good it is…its a masterpiece…
For those who don’t know this is a movie based on Delhi 84 riots, To start with its unbelievable that a movie based on riots has so little violence (quite a contrast from Ghajini) and yet is able to convey the trauma of the people who went through it…
almost all the scenes in movie speak volumes… but there are some which are just not leaving me…
There is a scene in the movie where they show that couple of people quickly cut the hair of a surd and hide his head under a blanket and a south indian couple claims him to be their son… the feelings of everyone in this scene are outstanding… the sikh crying not to cut the hair, people trying to finish everything quickly, the wife and the daughter being hidden on the upper birth… speaks volume about what happened then…
then there is another one in which a lady is narrating how she tried to pass her little son as a girl but someone caught him opened his salwar and then killed him right there…
And then there are many more like this… Its a brilliant movie a must watch for everyone who hasnt seen it…
But I think to me it was also something that brought back so many memories of those days… I was all of 8 years then but it has left a big memory with me… I still remember the terror and the sadness all around me at that time… The house we used to live in had a shop run by a sikh on the outside and I still remember the way mom-dad and the landlords had to plead with those guys to not burn it as we were hindus… they agreed but on one condition they brought everything from the shop on the road and burnt it… burnt the daily bread-butter of the guy…
I still remember searching for a Tittu-Bhaiya whom we used to play a lot with for months afterward only knowing after a very long time that his whole family had been wiped off…
I still remember seeing so many people who had turbans before suddenly with hair cut and asking my mom that why has uncle done this… Mom had no answers but I got them in the course of time…
I still remember not being allowed to go out for playing for a very very long time…
The riots left a scar in my heart which will never be healed I guess… and I was just a child watching from the periphery, I dread to think of those who have suffered… God bless their soul and give courage to their families…
29 Friday Aug 2008
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As most of u know we had gone to Kerala in the Independence Day Weekend… It was a great break… Myself, Naren, Ojas, my sister Aparna, our friends Manish and Shivani drove from Bangalore to Kumrkaon in our new car and our friends new Honda City and then to Cochin… We spent a day in the houseboat, sometime relaxing in the backwaters resort getting Kerala Massage done (and it was a fantastic experience apart from the fact that they bring u in ur birth suit :)) and then in cochin we went for a Cruise in the sea and attended the baptism ceremony of our friends daughter all in all it was a great break and we all had a blast… will do a detailed post on my travel blog soon till then check out the pics…
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