This is Life!

The guy next to me is continuously blabbering loudly on the phone in Tamil for the last so many minutes... shoot..where is my fm radio and my headphones!! Aaah that's better at least it's a language I understand and definitely has more melody!


A quote I fully stand by...
"I swear - by my life and my love for it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
Atlas Shrugged

My manager is leaving our group and moving to another one. I've worked with her for almost 5 yrs now and we were now in a comfort zone with each other. We were very open and direct with each other and giving constructive feedback got easy. I'm sure I'll miss her presence in the group, and it will never be the same for me again.

But I guess things got to move on - even if you like it or not!

Early in the morn at work... a quick look through my mailbox, another quick one through the 5-6 blogs I visit daily. A steaming hot cuppa chai with a plate of poha and I feel all charged up to begin my day today!

Have a feeling this is gonna be a great week! Wish you guys the same...

Ashna's stitches were opened yesterday and doc says the plaster may stay just for another 2 weeks, which is really good cos we were told 4 earlier! Back from the hospital and she was really tired and fell asleep at 7:30PM itself!

It's funny how she sleeping early made both of us happy! We've been under a lot of pressure since I got back this accident etc. and hardly had any time together - so yesterday was a good time.. we jumped out of the house in 5 mins with no plans in mind, rushed to inox and got tickets for Hum-Tum. Had a quick bite at the Nibbles burger cart near the multiplex - we just had 15 minutes to eat anyway. Overall a fun late night - we were continuously talking nonsense and passing funny comments all thru the movie! There were just a handful of people anyways in the hall. Sometimes the way we freak out makes me feel like a college girl! I hope this freshness always stays - i want to feel young and freak out till I possibly can!!

The operation stitches are to be opened tomorrow, I hope it's not too painful for my angel!

Ashna loves cuddling up with me before sleeping as most kids do I believe. These days especially after the month long distance that we had, love seems to be increasing in progression.

Here's how our typical dialogue is just before sleeping:

Me: Goodnight Ashna, I love you very much baby.
She: Good night Mama, I love you 'two'
She: Giggles... Mama Actually I love you 'hundred' much.
Me: I also love you 'hundred' much!
She: No, I love you 'thousand' much
Me: Oh my! Really! That's very sweet of you.


Today Thousand is probably the biggest number she knows and that's her own sweet way of expressing her infinite love. I cherish this time, this age and this phase of Motherhood. Once she grows up who knows for the same thing she may say "Mama please don't fuss so much with me!"

A day after I landed home, Ashna fell off from a chair and broke her elbow. The bone had broken in 2 places and a ligament also got dislocated. A surgery had to be done to put it back into it's original position with the help of 3 pins. It's been really tough on my lil darling. She's got a plaster that will have to stay for more than month and then another small surgery to remove those pins.

I thought I had the weakest heart in the world and break down very easily. But in the past few days I learnt that when you have to encourage your child not to cry, you become very brave! I cried buckets after she was taken to the OT but not a tear in front of her.

Things are better now, we are sending her to school as per the doc's recommendation so that it's a change for her. Looking at the positives - I'm glad it's not the leg cos being bed-ridden is the worst thing to happen at her age or rather any.

There's a whole lot of medicines that she has to eat for some days now. She's such a sweet child and eats them all without any trouble - I feel so bad that this had to happen with her at this age!

I've resumed work too, for shorter hours than normal, tho half my mind is yet on her.

I'm leaving for India tomorrow! It's been a nice and extremely busy month here. Will be back with my folks in 2 days!

Spoke to Priya on the phone while I was here - and it felt like we've known each other very well for some time :-)

Next post would be after I'm back home I guess... See ya!

There's something so comfortably sweet and unbeatable about the feeling of being with old friends!
While in US I managed to meet up with some of my old friends and I almost relived the good old days with them.

Most of my closest friends are the ones from school/college and some from the first org I worked in.
Does climbing the so called ladder of your family and career slow down making new friends. I think it did for me -wonder if it's the same for others?


Here's a snippet I liked on what I feel about my old friends...
All other friends may come and go,
All other friendships fail;
But these, the friends I've worked to win,
Oh, they will never stale;
And comfort me till Time shall write
The finish to my tale