Of Gratitude and More....Thank you good lord....

Today has been an extremely gratifying day .

All FIVE puppies have gone to places and people they can now call HOME.

Thank you good lord. Thank you very much.

This has not been easy. I don't mean to blow my trumpet at all , but the mental stress this whole episode has given me, is something that I now understand , that all animal activists and lovers go through.

Once the puppies were born in my society , in a place where 2 other doggies who I feed live, it somehow was a given that I was responsible for their little lives. And honestly, that was pressurizing.

This time I promised myself that i would give this my best shot and test my power of networking and social marketing skills  . So , advertisements and Facebook posts were written galore. I pestered each one of you time and again with my posts and re-posts AND re posts.

Guess what!? Those posts and ads DID help! All 5 puppies are adopted into beautiful homes and families.
And thus proved , good , genuine people do exist in this world . People who are not conscious about adopting only so called "breeds" . (for those of you who will wonder - Scooby Gholap is a rescued baby ) 

This whole exercise would definitely have not been possible without the two most important people who were majorly instrumental in helping me out-and were bearing my extra sensitive nature towards everything-Ameya Gholap Edita Paluri. I cannot thank you both enough. Love you both,
  Shamli Krishnan Poornima Nagarajan Geeta Malkani Varun Malkani YODA - Youth Organisation in Defence 
of Animals WORLD FOR ALL - ANIMAL ADOPTIONS Holding Suffering Animals in High Vibration and Prayer Pet Adoption pune Pet Adoptions India Devna Arora Christina Lobo Jha Rifka Bose Huzannah Banajee Joseph and 
all the other pages and people who helped to spread the word, and the people who i dont even know and are not 
on FB... I will be relying on you guys if I do come accross a situation like this again.

LOTS of love luck prayers and happiness . 

These are pics of the lucky families and their sweet hearts . 

All photo courtesy Edita photography Gratitude- all the way ! 

Sorry Anika, we will have lots of more puppies to play with , i promise 

p.s : two of the families returned the puppies within a day, :( which was heart breaking. But god sure has plans... Both of them got adopted together by one family who I know they will be very safe n happy with :) 

Thank you lord ..........

Birthdays of Special ones and more...

Happy Birthday to you... Happy Birthday to you.... Happy Birthday my love... Happy Birthday to you...
May you have many many more and live a fantastic and blessed life! :)
We love you! <3 p="">

Of Anniversary Gifts and more....

Been ages since i wrote... this too cannot go undocumented... apologies on the delay... but here goes...
Annnnnnd she arrived - annnd shes only mine... he he haw haw -- as my anniversary gift!
Thank you my love! Thank you very very much!
Its so easy being with you and in love with you! ...

Of this date...that year...3 years and many many more to come....

I cannot thank you enough my love for the fantastic day it has been...it cannot go undocumented :)

Luxurious spa at the Westin Hotel...temple...exotic Thai lunch at Malaka Spice ...my second tattoo...which I've been longing for SO long....and then to come home to a surprise that I did not and could not even dream of!!!

Well post the rest when it arrives :)

Thank you Ameya! I love you !

Happy Anniversary my love!

**i do know my gifts are pittance in comparison but be rest assured they are with as much love if not more **

Yours forever and ever ....

Of "it's handmade" and how I love it!!

I'm sold!!! To this website www.itshandmade.in

I've been a fan of theirs on facebook for a while now but never really ordered anything...just like to browse through how creative people are and get some great ideas too!

For the first time last week I ordered something. I fell in love with the product the second I put my eyes on it. Way to go Ujjvala for being the creative genius you are :) something so simple yet made to look so elegant ! Wow!

So yea, I ordered it and since it did not cost a bomb or anything I was willing to take the risk.
The website had two options for payment. Of course one was by card and one , which I thought was very interesting, was someone comes to your doorstep to pick the money from you (of course at a minimal additional charge) , hands you the receipt And assures you if delivery of the product soon enough.

And Voila!!! I did receive mine today :) to my utter "glee" it was not only wrapped awesomely in Xmas colours ( red and green satin ribbon) but there was also a personalised note inside from the maker of the product wishing me merry xmas et all! I actually felt as if it was a gift sent to me by a friend :)

So go people!! Please have a look at their website and do order if you fancy something... I give my word for them :)

Thank you once again!! And it indeed is a merry Xmas ya'all!

Enjoy the pictures! :)

Of my special birthday and more.... Much more!!!

Just cannot thank you enough my love for making my 30th birthday feel like THE most special birthday of my life!!!

A sooper dooper fun filled treasure hunt which led me to my 2 sooper dooper gifts!! Ahh!! Life i say!!!
Thank you SO SO much and also a BIG thank you for all those who were a part of it and contributed to the surprise element and kept it intact till the very end!! Mom, Dad, Bitts, Rifi, Shamli, ofcourse Scooby Doo!!!

If this is how special my 30th bday is i wish i could turn 30 every single day!!!

I love you !!! and Thank You!!!

Of different hues...

Holi Hai!! Rang Barse bhige chunar .....! Holi Hai!!! How many of us have not grown up on those numbers and our neighbourhoods screaming with glee every Holi?!:)

As children , my brother and I used to wake up at 7 am ! For some reason have a quick shower (although it was not needed as one would get filthy almost immediately anyway) and rushout in our olderst of clothes - which were kept ready the previous night - after much ado about whether it was old "enough" or not!

We were so many growing up kids in our neighbourhood that we made teams and had a holi-war ;)

The previous night used to be abuzz with our team mates filling water balloons , discovering and inventing different ways to "attack" our apponents ;) and then ofcourse burning the Holika was another experience altogether where we "burnt" our evil thoughts and gave birth to fresher and newer "holi" (holy) ones :) .. which was followed by dancing and singing...almost all night around the bonfire...

My brother and i were obviously in different teams and we couldnt contain the excitement about the fact that we hid secrets from eachother about our "weapons of distructions" ;) which were - balloons! eggs! buckets of water! hose pipes! and stuff like that !

Where have those days gone! :(
Where has childhood gone! :(
Why do words like "war" "weapons of destruction" , "burnt" have different meanings now? :(
Where has the spirit of neighbor hood gone? Everyone is busy playing the blame game and so easily forgotten the good ol' times! :(
Ahh! How i wish i could rewind time and recreate that kind of a "time" we had ! :)

For now , i'll keep happy with just memories and creating some new ones ! :)
Who knows what the future holds for us , our neighborhood, our country or even this world! :)

Holii Haiiiii!!! Happy Holi everyone!! :)