Of special people and their beautiful souls...

Certain special people come into our lives for reasons... and go away just like that also for a reason... but the soul definitely lives on. Rest in peace Mahtani uncle.. you really meant a lot to me. Thank you for teaching me and showing me what love and faith really is. Now that your beautiful soul has merged with Baba ..We know you are where you want to be.. Love you.
12th February 2015..Thursday. .9:00 am

Of love and life..to Many more ...Happy Birthdays! :)

Happy Happy Happy Birthday My Soul mate.
May we have manyyyyyy more to celebrate together!
I love you.

Of Dust to Dust and Ashes to Ashes.......

C'est la vie!  Such is "life" ?

Seeing death THIS close had definitely left its scars....
Seeing death THIS sudden has definitely left its questions...
Seeing death on someone like him has definitely left doubts....

Irreplaceable. Inconsolable. Unacceptable.

Only time will heal....


May your good soul rest in eternal peace uncle and may you shine bright and look down upon us , smiling and proud.From dust we came and to dust we return ....An inspiration to so many people, including family, this is our prayer today ;that we be at least a spect of what you have been...

13.5.1949 to 26.3.2014

We love you more than words could ever say.....
You will live forever in our hearts,
- all of us...

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!! :)

Of My B'day and all the lovely Surprises :)

Cannot thank you enough my Love :)

I Love you!

:)

Of Him , In Him , With Him , Within Him , Within Us.....

Sathya Sai Baba - 1926 - Eternity .. 

It is heart wrenching, that God, that is to say our Dear Lord Sai, has made us convey what we earnestly prayed we would never have to do. But God's will always prevails. If He has decided to bring the curatain down on this incarnation, so it has to be. However, He cannot go away from our Hearts, where He has to be forever... 

His legacy will continue. He still walks and He is still amongst us. It pierces like an arrow not to be able to see His physical form but now He is literally living in us. I can't describe the feelings but I feel so very much closer to Him and all that matters now is to continue His work and never to fail Him. We are His voice, His vision, His senses, His limbs and His heart who will go on spreading and showing the never ending love and support to every one. We are His messiah's in the Golden Age that has begun !

In wallets, on car dashboards, in between pages, on desks, in our music systems, on cupboards, tucked in photo frames , everywhere else and most importantly in our hearts .. ..Swami , you live on ...forever & ever.... 

Samastha Loka Sukhino Bhavantu

♥ Sairam  ♥

 

Of " How are you? " 's ...and how much they matter...

I wonder how many of us have thought about how important it is to ask another person this question ,

Here is some food for thought :

Most of the time , when we meet someone it seems like the most obvious thing to say " Hey , How are you? " ...but i wonder , how many of us really mean to ask it.. and how many of us wait for a response , only then continue with the conversation ahead...


I recently met someone after very long, who is sooo full of herself/himself (i'm not getting into those details), that the person did not even bother asking me, even once, in the 3 - 4 days that i continuously met the person ,as to how i was!

In the begining i did not even realise that i was not asked THE question... but as days passed by , and as i kept listening to stories about whats happening in her/his life ...
I finally realised..not only had i not spoken much! (not that im complaining about not being able to talk , considering how much i love not to!)... but neither had i been asked EVEN ONCE in the last 4 days as to HOW I WAS!
Wow!! it really woke me up!! and made me think and realise how important it is to ask someone , more than just casually  , " How are you my dear one? " ...

It makes soo much of a difference! It just shows that you too care .. and that you are there .. with him/her in that conversation...as someone who matters..

Over time and growing up , i have realised a few things , and this definitely is one of them!
I'd probably even ask a stranger , i've just met, as to how they're doing! Maybe , some of you think thats taking it too far , thats fine.. i could agree to an extent! but that's just me! :)

How many of you will actually now on not forget to ask  the next person you meet or talk to today ,  " How are you? " , " my dear one " .. is something i would love to add, depending on how dear the person is ;)

Is there anyone who doesn't agree with me? I'd love to hear from you and exchange views  :)

Of the First .. and many many more to come ...

Love brought us together as husband and wife,
And gave each of us a best friend for life...

 

Here's to our very first and many many manyyyy more years of togetherness!

I love you !  :)

Of one day of fame...

 

Of February , Hearts & Valentines.........

There's something about the month of February ....

There's this mushy feeling in the air ...

A Special someones Birthday ...

And Valentine pairs! ;)

So, here's  to the month of February, Hearts galore ..:)

CheerS! ;)

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Happy Birthday to my most precious! :)

 

I Love u Ameya! :)

Of 2011...

The end of the best year of my life , bidding Adieu to 2010 , and Welcoming 2011 ,I'm sure the best"est" yet to come :)

Of the festival of Lights ....Happy Diwali Folks!

Asato ma sadgamaya
Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya
Mrtyorma amrtam gamaya..

Lead me from the illusion to the truth.
Lead me from darkness to light.
Lead me from death to immortality.

Wishing each one of you a very Happy Diwali and a Prosperous New Year!
Lots of Love and Light to all! :)

P.S -http://archives.amritapuri.org/bharat/mantra/asatoma.php