Merry Christmas!!

So..it was Christmas and we kinda celebrated it...Yeah dhriti was maha excited about christmas tree and so...we took her "mall-hopping" and showed her the christmas decorations :)


Getting ready to go to MegaMall. Destination-I


Christmas decorations there...it was awesome! And we had a really tough time getting Dhriti to pose for the photos


One "proper" snap we could get her to strike a pose for!

Next day we went to TimesSquare, yet another mall. The decorations were not "ooh-la-lah" but quite okay.

Our latest "family photo"

We then went to the indoor theme park and Dhriti took a few rides...On one of those rides...

Waiting for her "train" to come and pick her up!

And finally on Christmas, we got her a "dress" and dressed her up...


Ofcourse, a Christmas tree too!


So...that's it...our 3 day long holiday :)

A movie on a week-day

Okay...our maid was sick so I couldn't come in for work yesterday. So, after having some incredibly good time with Dhriti and getting her to sleep, I started watching Umrao Jaan. Yeah, we bought that DVD some weekends back hoping to see it someday (the seeing part is ME only, not WE!)

And it was actually quite okay, slow-ish kind of movie but really...Ash was not bad....she actually was good in some way...Abhishek was the one who was bad...not really suitable for the role and Suniel Shetty ...blahhh..

this actually set me thinking...we normally follow the trend don't we? If lots of people say Ash is very plastic, doesn't know how to act...we expect the same thing. I am really not sure if Abhishek is the greatest amongst the current actors, is he really that good? Or is it again the people's voice and not mine? Don't really know!

But who cares..as long as I get to watch a movie un-interrupted on a weekday, that's good enough for me!

A quick snapshot of what i watched over the last few weekends:
Don-Good and all but too many twists in the tale. And couldn't compare with the older version coz I almost forgot that :(
Dor - Interesting movie and every one was good except for Nagesh Kukunoor. Gul Panag is actually very cute :)
Janeman- Yet to finish this fare, maybe wrong timing (Dhriti was trying to eat food off my plate) or whatever but I somehow didn't like the part that I saw.

Going the family way

One of my colleagues is getting married today...and I wish I were there right now...
there are just too many marriages that I missed out...marriages of my best friends...relatives..

I was never really all that excited when i was a kid to attend marriages..maybe thats got to do with the fact that there were too many relatives all keen on asking how you have been studying!!

How I wanted to grow-up...not care about the studies and enjoy the marriages...Aps and Suneetha's marriages were one that I'll never forget (Never mind the fact that i cant seem to recollect the exact date...thats another story all together)
Both these decided to get married on the same day...one in the day @ Hyd and one in the night @ Vja...and this was when we were just out of college...so we were all still closely knit, in-contact and all that stuff...
so we had this special bus to take us from Hyd to Vja just after the marriage got over
Since I stay @ Vja...all of us landed at our house and somehow it looked as if we were having a marriage @ our place...

These were the only friends marriages that I attended...and then Sunnu's marriage in Nellore...
I wish I could have attended the rest...

And a new friend again

Dhriti has a new friend at home, Pavani...yeah one of our colleague from India is here to work from the KL office. And dhriti has taken instant liking to her..she treats her more like a friend

And courtesy Pavani...we have some amazing snaps of Dhriti taken over the last weekend...



A thinking Dhriti...????


That's her new bag!


The teddy is bigger than her, but she still manages to lift it up...carry all over the house and actually even sit on it..


This is her "house". We had just too many of her toys lying all around the house...so I decided to buy this "house tent" and dump all the toys there..


Her fav chair...now she stands up on this chair and does all sorts of stupid things...maybe joining circus could be one of her career options..

I wish...

....I were at home right now, not bothered with the timelines and deadlines at office
....It was my birthday today, I got so so influenced by Vidhya's blog
....I could go back to India and spend some time with my parents...
....I could go back and relive those college days..ofcourse minus the exams..
....I could afford to buy that Sony vaio yesterday...or maybe not think twice abt buying something that's so dreadfully costly..
....there were no traffic jams in the world..
....dhriti had never fallen ill...

I hope...
..Dhriti is never sick again..
...Shiva has a good time at work..and doesnt get stressed out..
...i'd be able to share a good rapport with my relatives once I'm back in India
...my father stays fit for a long time to come...he still needs to see dhriti and play with her
...my brother settles down well...he deserves it and he's been working hard on being a good doctor all these years..
...we'd have enough money to donate and lend to people in need

And there are loads of other things like this...but yes essentially looks like I've gone mad and not fit to work anymore!!!