Pune... OUR Pune...MY Pune....

Its heart - wrenching to watch that they have reached our clean-simple-sweet-pure-beautiful city too...
Its numbing to realise how close to death we all are....




German Bakery - The Leopold - of my Pune... was where we hung out so so often..
Since our college days...way back from 1999 till date...Ive frequented it so much!
From the smiling guy at the cash counter to the masala chai to the cheese and chocolate croissant to the tira misu to the wooden benches to the lanterns to the adverts on the walls about tarot, feng shui, meditation to the whole smell and feel of it........i will miss each bit....

It feels like a part of me went with it....

Its difficult to fathom what and why these things happen to good places and people for no apparent reason at all...

Was it really a bomb blast?? Or was it the cylinder blast?? Or was it an opposition party or was
it really our buddies from accross the border...

We will never know...

For now, Id only plead to them , whoever it is... please leave us alone...please dont touch this virgin city....

And i say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives..may their souls rest in peace and for those
who are recovering in various hospitals...may they recover real soon with the good lords grace..

Amen....

!Happy Valentines Day!

Thanks a bunch!!! :)

Of Sex Lies and Videotape.....

"Is your Tiger a Cheatah" is what the article was titled... I loved it!

Its alarming as to how the world is a changing on values and traditions...
In the "olden times" it always was about being a "one man woman" or a "one woman man" ... it seems like the olden times have become golden times for both , men and women with multi partners... (by this i mean one man/woman at a time- not that one cannot have more than one relationship) -just to clear the air before i get accused of hypocrisy ;)
I for sure belong to the olden times and im glad about it....and i don't believe the fact that i have to call it so..
Its seems so easy to cheat on ones partner today... All over the papers and magazines one reads articles about how to detect a liar, how to find out if your partner is cheating on you, how infedility can actually save a marriage and how maybe telling a few white lies is a done thing...

I may seem like i come from a very old school of thought, but buddy thats what it is. You take it or leave it. I also know i sound enraged right now and I very well am, at what the world has come to.


From the above "white lies" between partners is something i would want to comment upon;
White lies - is an oxymoron in my opinion..
The world wide web describes it as -"an unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite)"
So if its unimportant, why lie about it in first place. Being tactful isnt always a positive nature, i say..
Lies are black. No matter what. There is no white lie between partners in my dictionary.
If one is not comfortable telling the truth then one should be even more uncomfortable telling a so called white lie. Just dont do things that are wrong so the question of even white lying does not arise.
But then again whats right for me may be wrong for the other and whats wrong for me may be right for the other, which can be a whole new topic of discussion altogether, where I am not going now.
For every one lie which is told, one has to create 2 - 3 more to cover up the first one.
One also needs to have a fantastic memory to remember who he/she has lied to and what...so that they dont end up being in a mess..

While writing this..I chanced upon a very interesting video ; for those of you who want to know how to detect a liar :) (ignore that last bit where they talk only about Americans) ;) .. i think the world is turning that way..

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:)

Have you evers….. and Wild guesses....

Have you ever surprised a loved one with so much love and affection that they are out of words to react…?

Have you ever felt that you know a person so well that you can read his/her mind ?

Have you ever felt that someone you know is a male / female version of you?

I have….and believe me …they are feeling that cannot be replaced by any other…

To see someone so dear to you so happy with something that you’ve put in so much love and effort for is PRICELESS….

To know someone so well that you can guess what he/she has in store for you as a surprise is CRAZY …

To feel that someone you know so close to you is a male/female version of you is like finding your SOULMATE….


Wild guesses… are WILD ofcourse… but this one time…I guess It was knowing eachother so well that made us guess whats in store!

It was his birthday . I had a surprise planned.
We went out pubbing to bring the birthday in.
I had obviously not mentioned it to him..though the plan was to blind fold him and take him to the venue !
Since there was no way I could do a kidnap-act – I had to spill the beans that there was a surprise in store.
His eyes lit up and like a child full of glee he announced he had a surprise for me too!
Uh – wasn’t it HIS birthday?! Then why surprise for me…
“you will know soon” was the response I got…
We waited..to be surprised…
He suggested a “game” – We write on a piece of paper what we thought the surprise was –
Was not tough for him I think – without being unfair I say this – coz it was his birthday- so !
But the awesome part was – he wrote in detail about everything .
My turn to write. I couldn’t think. I still wrote.

2 hours later – at midnight…when the plan was executed ..…We exchanged notes!

And Guess what!!?!? ?!?!? ?!?!

Both wrote the exact chain of events that took place!!!

Bliss I say !!! To know someone so well !
Bliss I say!!! To find your SOULMATE !
Bliss I say!!! To see expressions which are PRICELESS !
Bliss I say!!! To feel CRAZY !

Happy Birthday again! :)

and

Thanks a tonne for the "return gift" :)!

Of New Beginings and Old Endings.....

....One month down! Phew! .....didn't zoom as i thought it would...
Started with a bang no doubt....loved each day..no doubt again...but yea...would have loved it if it went by a little quicker...
How unsatisfied we as humans are..! When times goes by like a gunshot..we crib saying..oh how i wish i just had some time in hand ..and now when it is going by at a pace which can give us time for a lot of other things to do..here I am ... asking it to zoom....!
Alas! The human species.... the grass is always greener on the other side..innit?? :)

Looking forward to February... a very special month indeed... An angel was born , and I'm sure for me ; making sure we lead a good life with eachother ! I'm loving each bit... Thnk You! :)

A new job to add to it...Hoping it makes me feel good about myself all over again...after a long sabatical....not saying much as of now as today is just my first day at work!

Wish me luck as I wish all you readers too...

Much love and light...
:)