34 and Counting

Well I turned 34 on the 10th of Jan and hopefully will continue counting. Things are pretty good right now. Had a nice little family party and outing on the 10th. Got up early around 6:30 am, received a SMS from my dad and mom, wishing me a very happy birthday. Called up my parents and took their greetings and best wishes. Both of them are doing allright in Pune, mom said they wanted to come down to Bangalore, but couldn’t make it since her eye allergy flared up again. Sawani and Arjun then announced that they had got a nice cake from Just Bake, it was a pleasant surprise, Choco-Walnut Cake, wow it looked gorgeous…Took quite a bit of calls from my friends and colleagues. Vikram, Nitya (His daughter Gargi and I share the same birthday) and Mayur called me. Prasad from work had sent out an SMS to me on the 10th Morning 12:00 am, and mentioned, that I was a good mentor and good leader. It felt pretty good reading that SMS and I called him up to convey my heart-felt thanks. Had quite a time reaching him (he must have had a late Friday night) and here I am trying to say thank-you at a relatively early 8:30 am on a Saturday morning ;) Well he sounded sleepy…but he was gracious and kind to take my call. Well later on thought about going out for my cycle run, but then decided to skip it, and cut the cake instead. So I cut the cake with Sawani and Arjun singing Happy Birthday…it was special and felt great…the cake tasted awesome…i’m not the one with a major sweet tooth, but this time actually gorged on the cake, it was that good.

Spent the rest of the morning lazing around, thinking what to do ? Should we cook (get some fresh mutton) or go out for Lunch ? Finally decided it’s better to bunk cooking all-together and decided to celebrate outside. We went out for lunch to Radha Hometel a nice little hotel that has come up about 2kms from our house in the Whitefield area. Had a lavish buffet spread that contained well rounded starters (soup, salad) Italian Pasta, Mutton Curry, Chicken and Chicken Biryani and an assortment of veg items (too many to be listed) and one truckload of pastries, sweets and ice cream. It was pretty nice and well worth the price. Had to down settle everything down with a nice cuppa coffee.

Later after lunch decided to visit the Sapphire Toy shop at Richmond road, next to Lifestyle. Arjun wanted to buy a particular toy from the movie “Cars” and was really excited at the prospect. It was a truck that houses the “Lightning McQueen”…i forget the name of the truck…This Sapphire toy shop is one big shop (not as big as Macey’s) but it’s pretty big dedicated shop for kids and I must say it stocked a huge amount of toys. Unfortunately that truck was out-of-stock and this got Arjun topsy turvy….we spent almost an hour searching for his truck still, finally Sawani and I were able to convince him to look for an alternative toy instead, and we settled on one of the transformers car (a car that turns into a robot…well that’s one parental activity really) and Arjun seemed satisfied with that one. He had an eye for a racer car from the movie “Speed Racer” but that one was really expensive and we were able to convince him. My Arjun is real sweet in that sense, very accommodating, you explain to him it costs a lot and he understands. My good boy, as I call him..:) Out of the shop we were in about 2 hrs and saw the Reliance Mart sale going on nearby in an adjacent building. Went in to check things out and lo and behold, really nice clothes were on offer at real bargain prices. Got nice fully cotton t-shirts and some jeans for myself and Sawani also got some nice cotton tees and pullovers. The quality is pretty good and I must say impressive.

Headed back to home and reached in the evening,  decided to rent out some videos on the way back and saw 2 movies in the evening “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi” and “Sorry Bhai” …both were all-right. I liked Chitragandha Singh, she’s pretty smart and a good actress. In the night, ordered some pizza’s for us and were fully-loaded again. Went for a nice walk in the night and signed off for the night…satisfied…a day gone by…worth remembering…

Cheers,
YVR