Just About Everything

I am just about to celebrate another birthday and it struck me that i won't be celebrating it at my parent's place:( There was just another time when i was away from home on my birthday:( Am i feeling sad? Yes, maybe , don't know... No big deal I guess... I am just cribbing. I think I have been very lucky to have my family around always. I have had a very protected upbringing. With lots and lots of love and pampering. My parents have been really great to me. This birthday I want to thank them for giving me this life and for loving me so much.

There are some people who can be compared to houseflies...they are not wanted... they make your life miserable and yet they thrive...and how well...

There are some very special sweets that are made at almost every home in Bengal. It is so special 'cause it gets prepared only in winters. Winters are so far away:( And I am yearning for those. They are knowns as peetha. Gokul peetha, patishapta, pische pooli etc etc. Actually I am missing my Grand ma:( Missing those Summer holdays...grandma's love & indulgence and lots of fun with my cousins My Grand ma used to make delicious peetha. I wishI had learnt from her. Now she is really old and barely manages to move around because of her arthritis. I really miss her:( I remember in my childhood days...she used to smuggle some extra for me always...I did get a bit spoilt...Whenever my favourite sweets were made, I always got preference! Wow! I just simply love dreaming of those days... She lives in another town with her Son and his family and well...i think it's time to visit her. Maybe it is time for me to indulge her! That would make me very happy.

Our office Air Conditioners are very special... Half of us get frozen to death and the other half get fried to death!!! So you can see two kinds of us.... One lot wears wollens and the other lot would be happy to strip:)

Last weekend was the "Holi" weekend and we had a three days off.What fun! Had a great time playing holi, having plateful of absolutely delicious food, especially home made sweets!Yummy. What a nice weekend it has been. It is wednesday and I still have a hangover! Oh! would love to have wonderful things to celebrate about every weekend.

Today on my way to work, I saw a cart puller.Nothing unusual about it...till I noticed something else... He was pulling his cart and talking on the mobile...quite possible... And he was telling someone that he has sent me the information over email and he should check it and get back to him. Picture this... a very busy market place with vegetable vendors pulling their carts and then this conversation... I was awestruck!

This morning my mobile started misbehaving.I could receive calls and make calls but The problem was ...I could hear the person i called ...but no one could hear me:( I tried calling different people from different rooms, inside the house,outside the house but nothing changed. There was full network but I was unable to talk to anyone. I decided to do the obvious. Log in my problem with the mobile operator.I called their helpline and patiently went through some of the automated recorded messages and then I was connect to the live operator who said hello and asked me for my details. I reciprocated and started giving my mobile no etc...but there was silence. There was a pause and the guy repeated his greeting again and I started trying my level best to reach him in my loudest and clearest voice possible... Very politely while trying to control his anger, he said that since no one is bothering to speak up, he was ending the call. He thought it was a crank call!!! I felt stupid, frustrated, ...