Open House & Old Friends

Attended an "open house" in Dhriti's play school today. That's bascially for the parents to be with their kids alone in the classroom and learn what their kids are bascially "learning" at school.
It turned out to be fun, Dhriti (as I had anticipated) knew everything we asked and all that..
but what added to the pleasure was she was able to understand the questions posed in english and she responded to them....Yaaaayyy..!!!

So that's one more mission accomplished!!

And we had Aps & family visiting us yesterday...No, we werent able to catch up much and were pretty much tied-up with the kids but then it was fun tooo...
You don't have to worry about blabbing over and over about your daughter, the other person understands that perfectly well!!!

It was actually nice seeing the kiddos playing together...something that we didn't even visualise in our wildest of dreams when both of us were studying together...
Hmmm....time sure flies!!!

And yeah I know, this post screams for photos...and yes they shall be uploaded soon...

And now for the tag...

Have been tagged by Vidhya to blog about 7 weird or random things about yourself...

Rules of the tag...as explained below:
1. Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

I might have to deviate with 3 & 4 not sure whom to tag next...so will amend that and say whoever reads this gets tagged (not sure if anyone is actually doing that!)

Anyways...coming up with 7 weird/random things that I do...

#1 I am your priority: I can never be happy being any other person in a gang/in a family etc. I need to be loved, pampered and need assurance that I am your first priority. I actually got around to asking my husband to prioritise between myself and our 3 year old daughter...I am that "bad"!!

#2. Always impulsive: I can never plan anything. I am that impulsive person who does things at the 11th hour. And I have strongly influenced everyone in my group at college that only things that we do impulsively succeed anything that is planned fails miserably..

#3. Strong exterior: Anybody who has known me would say I am very strong-willed, adamant, stubborn and then brave...I've tried very hard to build that image. But, actually none of that, maybe stubborn and adamant at times, but surely not brave, that's just a facade.

#4. I hate cooking: No I am not trying to be "hi-fi" by saying that I am a modern woman and hence don't have time and patience for cooking. Not at all, but I somehow detest cooking, staying in the kitchen for so long, waiting endlessly for that "right" taste by letting things simmer on low heat. I really can't do that and that's maybe because to be able to enjoy cooking you should be able to enjoy eating it.

#5. Very short attention-span: I can't concentrate on anything, any activity for a long time. I have very very short attention spans. My first month in the job and a very shrewd manager of mine was able to spot that. I strive hard to hide that fact since that day!

#6. Think & Analyse too much: Smallest and most insignificant things also, I spend too much time analysing them. And somehow I do this only for things that are not meant to be analysed like relationships, frienships, people and their actions...And finally having done this much of analysis I start acting impulsively when the situation demands it...Hmm...so much for the analysis.

#7. Can't really maintain relationships: Yeah that's very true, wherever I am, I have a new circle, new set of friends, new set of things to do. I somehow don't "maintain" relationships as in call up friends, chat with friends, mail friends...not regularly. I have been the most "active" member in my school days and had a whole gang of friends, but don't have contact of any of them now...
Thanks to a few very very very good friends (can't elaborate enough) I am in touch with some of the friends I've made since then...

That's it, its done!!!!!

The usual and the unusual

The usual:
Still going to school
Still not really happy about going to the school alone without mummy being in the class
Still the usual "allari"
Still not very healthy person - was sick for 1 whole week with vomitings and motions...(viral Diarrhea)

The unusual...:
Unusually stubborn, very very painful to deal with...
Doesn't like the rides in the exhibition anymore...scared of getting on any rides
Started singing film songs as in the right lyrics..!!
Very much attracted to TV
Watched a full length film (was asleep for one half though) in a theatre
Dancing like never before...

But most of all...
Not at all keen on going to school...why...????!!!!!!!!!!!!

My thoughts....

Your Brain is Green

Of all the brain types, yours has the most balance.You are able to see all sides to most problems and are a good problem solver.You need time to work out your thoughts, but you don't get stuck in bad thinking patterns. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about the future, philosophy, and relationships (both personal and intellectual).

What Color Is Your Brain?

Needed something random to post...and I was getting very lazy...so why not this??

If only Fairies really existed..!!!l

I really really wish a fairy would come, run her magic wand and get Dhriti to stop being so stubborn....
Every time there is a certain phase with this girl...a phase that is traumatic when she was sick most of the times...down with fever and I was in the constant peril not knowing what to do and getting very panicky....the phase where we went to the hospital and got her admitted for almost 3 times in 6 months...the phase when she was fairly good with her health...the phase she started conversing and becoming more mature over-night.....the phase where she started growing-up....
some of them looked "impossible"...but after a couple of days that tension would just go "puffffff..." and she would become her good old self....that adorable...loving...highly energetic and great-to-have kid that she really is......

I just hope that whatever phase it is now...would also vanish into thin air and never...ever re-surface again....

I wish there was a fairy...a god-mother who could help me with this unpredictable, highly demanding kid...
Since that sounds too far-fetched and impossible...
I just wish I could stop yelling and screaming at her and be more patient....
I know like everything else this will also fade-away someday....but still can some fairy intervene and help me pleasssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Caught somewhere...inbetween

....thats how I would visualise my generation...
was blog hopping and found this interesting note about being proud of the generation we are from...couldn't agree better...

Yes, we (as in the current 25-35 year olds) are somewhere in between...we are not as othrodox or "playing it safe" generation that is a decade older...and neither are we irresponsible and immature generation that is a decade younger...

So many good and changing attitudes to our credit...maybe this is taking it a bit too far...but some things I've observed in common with most of my friends in this age group are...

We tend to enjoy our lives...yeah we (atleast most of them) also look at investing money,savings etc but it is not very uncommon to go on vacations, take a break, travel and have a good outing..

We tend to earn more and again most of us either donate or have an urge to donate....

Most of us tend to come from middle-class to higher middle class families (that are not affluently rich) and hence appreciate the value of money (and spending it right) and have values (whatever they are!)

And those who have kids (again most of them) ensure that they spend lavishly on their kids, see that they dont lack anything but still think twice about enrolling them in "International Schools"
Its the scare of kids having a totally different mind-set and values...

We don't cringe to eat at Dhabas, road-side pani puris, we still love them and have the "enthu" still within us to stop a car beside a road-side shop and enjoy a bite

How much ever we might be busy and all that, we still believe in "movies" being the number one source of entertainment!

And somehow we are more open with our life partner and show that. That equality is surely here to stay, we share the work load at home...but then when parents or in-laws are visiting, we get very "insecure" about the whole "equality theory" :)

Most importantly, I think we will always be young at heart, no longer old and aunt-types if you are 30+

I guess everyone has something to brag about!!

But somewhere some things have to change, we need to become more friendly, more open, have more time for friends. We are almost there......!!

And Thanks a bunch Vidhya, for that "rocking girl blogger", felt like having won an "essay writing/oration" competition like in the good old school days!!

And then the world changed....

Yes, Dhriti started going to school...play school nevertheless, but a sea-change in our lifes...
It's been more than a week since she started going to the school...and no I am not the kind who tries to remember milestones, keeps track of dates etc...aren't we keeping track of those in our work-lifes anyways???!!!!

So....it was not as we predicted....we thought she would enjoy going to school....enjoy the atmosphere there....never want to come back and all that...but no...she was like any other kid...who cried when I left her in the school...
I stayed with her in the class for about 2 days..and then left her on own for another 2 days...that was when she cried...

I had a very very very tough time convincing her that it was okay to leave her in school and mummies are not allowed to be with the children in the school...
And finally as if by miracle, the next day..she went to the school...and waved goodbye and said, "Wait for me outside"...!!!!

And no, I am not celebrating yet, I've just had the toughest day getting her ready to school and no I am not celebrating..

But one thing I've decided..confirmed is "Yes, my daughter is very very VERY unpredictable" and no I don't love challenges anymore :(

Deathly Hallows-Terrific Read

I've managed to read Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, not once but twice. I ashamed to admit this, but could not resist the temptation to read from a pdf copy that got forwarded to me..(how the hell am I supposed to resist that!!) and then I lured one of my friends to "gift" me the book and re-read that during my flight journey...non-stop even in the queues :)

So, did I like it...Yes...and big YES...It had that typical bollywood masala feel to it...sentiments, action, drama, nail biting tensions and ofcourse romance and a typical "bollywood-ish" ending...
What more can I ask for...?

The book itself aside, walking with that book in my hands, made me strike conversations with a whole bunch of people, all around the world while travelling...
There was this lady in Detroit who was reading the book and asked me what portion of the story I am at, how did I like it and all that...
And I had the airhostess in the Amsterdam-Hyd flight, asking me if the book was good enough...should she wait for her sister to finish and give it to her or should she go ahead and buy the book...! (Ofcourse I asked her to buy)
And kids in the plane were very fascinated seeing the book in my hands and started conversing with me...referring to me as "akka..." :)

Couldn't think of any other apt example for "truly global", "small world", "one family" and all those cliched terms...

Missed You...!!

Yes...I've probably used that word more in the last couple of weeks when compared to the last 27 years of my existence...But that's how badly I've missed you!
I would never want to do that again...those 3 weeks in US away from you, were very very tough...!
I might not be the "ever-present" parent...hovering around you, but I always want to come back to you in the night...come back and spend some time with you, get angry with you, wake up in the middle of the night (how much ever I hate it) whenever you cry...

I want to be there for you, always...and not having to see you all these days, literally broke my heart...

Doesn't everything really come in a full circle??

Yeah...it seems so very true...here I am back in Detroit airport....
Yeah I would have surely appreciated if this was earlier...maybe a week earlier as originally planned...
but come to think of it...I am not complaining...
I mean...I would have missed that chance to catch-up with Aps and Putchu...I would have missed that chance of feeling excited about gifting...giving friends surprises....and so much more...
The weekends that I spent at Birmingham & Chicago were definetely the highlights of the trip....
It was a pleasure to realise that there was no silences...and space fillers....and we were able to actually start off where we left about 7 years ago...

It really feels great...almost like a sin to have such good friends....
Thanks everybody....for the great trip...for all your phone calls....for all your support...for all your tips abt cooking in an oven (really appreciate this!!!!)

And I hope and wish and pray I don't miss any more flights and reach "home sweet home" safely and sooooooooon...

Okay......here I comeeeeeeeeee............

Okay...I am finally here

I am right now sitting in Detroit airport...waiting for the connecting flight to Phily...
This is ONE BIG tiring stupid journey....
and add to it the confusion that my colleague who was supposed to travel with me has a different schedule...and I was banking on him to lead me and guide me through this maze...But...I guess I've done okay....actually good.

I am already home-sick....can't look at any 2-3 year old kids without thinking about Dhriti....called up home just now...and she seems to be okay...and doing good..

I really wish I wouldn't have to do this again...that is travel alone...without family...
Maybe earlier it was different...I mean pre-marriage...but now that all 4 years after marriage we've managed to stay together day-in/day-out...made me more dependent and too sentimental..:)

So long then....here I am and let's see what's in store...

It's over...

okay....so that lump on Dhriti's neck...that's nothing to worry about...atleast for now...
it is not any tumorous growth or whatsoever...
It could be some kind of cyst that might reduce in size over a period of time...thats what the doctors say...

So...its finally over...phew...the tension...the pain...

And one MAJOR piece of advice...never..NEVER check the internet, never google and find irrelevant information and then get scared...until the diagnosis by the doctor is done and over...Never..ever do that

A few thoughts....

--Why doesn't that lump on Dhriti's neck go away....why need a surgeon also to check her. Cant wait till I get to that hospital and get this over...I am not simply scared...I am shit scared...:(

--How to keep yourself occupied every day...every single day...?

--Can a person really become so lame and helpless if there is no means to travel...??

--I have a 100 things to do, all the time in the world to do them, but somehow things dont get going...why...??

--Can't I get something, anything noteworthy to do? I guess I should be asking for it first right, why can't I simply go and ask..? But then why should I?

--Photoshop is so much fun :)

--Someone's offering a crore (cool!!) for a good screenplay. Should I get enrolled in a workshop and learn script writing and screenplay...sounds better and interesting than a MBA :))

--Learning new things is always fun as long as you understand and get to implement it!!

--When can we actually earn "enough" and not bother about the EMIs' and the expenses...??

Something to look forward to...

Was arranging photographs in my folders over the weekend and picked some of Dhriti's. Planning to get them developed, hopefully sometime soon so that they can adorn the otherwise lack-luster TV cupboard in our house.

Dhriti's been having a lump near her throat (lymph-node) for the past 1 week. We were terribly scared intially as to what this growth meant, not sure what it is even now..

Giving her some medicine and hoping that whatever it is will subside and never come back again..,,

Ever wondered....??

I've always wanted to know why Nathuram Godse killed Mahatma....happened to find a link to this play called "Me Nathuram Godse Boltoy" (originally a Marathi play, translated to English)

An interesting read actually...

Has it really been 4 years..?

we celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary over the last weekend...and it's been like..is it really 4 years already..???

So...what did we do for our 4th wedding anniversary...we went to Ooty...had lots of rest...did some basic sight-seeing, read a few novels, watched TV like a maniac...and ofcourse missed Dhriti terribly...(yeah we left her @ home...)

And some ways in which I changed over the past years...
I dont get to watch as many movies as we used to...sometime back
I dont get to read as many novels as I used to...
I've become more sober!!!!! :))
I've developed a slightly "telangana accent" :)

Here's to many more years to come...and lots of fun.....

So...how has she been doing?

Good...great actually!!
Yeah she was down with cough, cold and viral fever for a week (actually more than that!)...
but then she was very good and most of the times "well behaved"....no more fighting off taking the medicine, no more crying and fuss when at the doctor's.

Maybe she's really grown-up now :)

I mean....its okay!

The world...the things...the way things happen...they never change...
Its just that the way "we" look at things makes them good or bad...

I know nothing's changed...but still everything doesnt seem all that bad now...

what to do....

when there is no sense of direction...?
when you don't really have anything to look upto?
when there is absolutely no interest to think of making life interesting?
when all you need to do is think about something worthwhile to do?

oh yeah...we've bought a new car, Maruthi SX4, looks good...
Dhriti is fine now after a short 3 day viral fever
and I'm done with a week long training @ work...

So...now comes the big question....what NOW...and what NEXT???

Everything that can go wrong

will go wrong...and the best part of it is...when the latest thing goes wrong it looks as if the previous one was "really not that bad"!!!
Life sucks

Lots of expectations to live-upto

The summer camp @ our office is over after a fun-filled 2 weeks time.

And the closing was a big bang affair, with competitions organised for kids.
Dhriti was dressed as a "beach girl", accessories and all and yeah won the first prize hands-down.

First competetion and winning a prize, now I'll have a lot of expectations to live-upto right?? Yeah, I am talking about me not Dhriti :))


So, celebrating the spirit of summer camp, some fond memories...

Ready for the summer camp...bag and all smiles :)

Playing in the lawn...don't really know how I managed to get this shot of hers...stable and not running around!!

And the fancy dress...!!!

Notice the wine glass :)) Credit for the accessories goes to Vandhana and yeah without Ashok's help we couldn't have got her ready. Thanks guys!! :))

And thats how it all ended..Looking forward to sending Dhriti to a play-school and lots of more competetions ahead...Welcome babe!!

Too sad...

to talk about that Virginia Tech tragedy. What a wastage of life?
One of the most unfortunate events that should have never, ever happened.

There is already so much pain in everyone's life with things like tsunami, earthquakes, accidents.
We really don't need stuff like this. Can't humans be just humans anymore????

Summer Camp

Yeah, dhriti has been attending a summer camp for kids conducted in our office premises.

It kind of showed me how things would look once she started attending school

1. She would never want to come back home from school
2. She would always love to play and never learn
3. She would talk non-stop about her school if we ever manage to get her home
4. Every morning is going to be hectic (not that it is any less now!) with getting her ready for school
5. It is going to be tough to decide what she has to wear everyday to school (play-school). Thankfully, schools have uniforms!

But, the best part is I can get to bribe her. All I need to say is "If you do this-this-and-this, that's it, I am not sending you to school anymore!"
And yippieee....my job is made easier :))

'coz today is your birthday!

College days...it's been a while since I've talked about them. Am I getting old..?No way :)When I first joined the college, the classes, the hostel everything was a new experience. But once we went for that "all-famous" picnic in our first year, things changed. We formed a bond for life, friendship . I am still in touch with most of them and today is K's birthday. I haven't been in touch with him since quite long.Definetely my loss! He is a gem of a person, always there for his friends, somebody you can count on ALWAYS.
There were quite a few crazy things we've done together...we sure had great time together, maybe coz we were like-minded, more like a male-female version of the same characteristics. Our bond strengthened when he came to visit my hometown once along with Putchu. We've had our shares of ups and downs, fights, immense affection and all that. I've always admired the way he cared for others, he was never outwardly emotional but it was all there in his heart.I can never forget the unwavering support he gave me during my initial days in Hyd,when I'd newly joined my job here. He was there almost every evening to take me out of that wretched hostel, to cheer me up.The best part of it was the way he "let-go" of me. I mean, I was making new friends, new acquaintances in office. He chose a different career path, our lives drifted apart. It was my mistake all the while in not continuing the same levels of friendship, but he never said a word.
At times his unwavering support makes me guilty, makes me feel as if I've run away from the responsibility of being a true and good friend. But then, that's me.Maybe now is the time, maybe I should pick up the phone today and wish him. Coz today is his birthday.(1 year,1 month, 1 day elder than me!)
Happy Birthday

Hrudayam ekkadunnadi...?

Yeah, I should say she is managing herself quite well...
I really don't know how much of it she understood, does she really understand that we've left KL for good...left all our friends (her friends!) there..Ramu, Pavani, Raji, Bubby, Bublu, Phani mama, Udaya atta, left our life style there (i.e for her sake it's just means we working late, but still going to the mall religiously atleast 4 times a week!!)

But she's somehow adjusted quite well to the lifestyle (yeah I still can't define what it is right now!) here
She played with ammulu and pandu her cousins very well, she now talks to all our relatives, plays with them, converses with them and all that
The first 2 weeks we were here she had a rash and bad cough and cold, which is okay now

In many ways, she adjusted much much better than us, and we were always worried about how she'd be once we came back to India..:)

Let's see what India and staying close to the family has in store for us, for now all seems good and nice and happy!

A new beginning???

Is it always really that painful and time consuming to settle down in a new place...and the new place is none other than "home". I really don't know but ever since we've shifted base to India which is more than 2 weeks now, I've been having a dreadful time.

The kind of effort that goes into setting up a new house from scratch is overwhelming, the options to choose from, the kind of money that gets spent and the hours spent deciding on what to buy are so so so time consuming and yeah don't even get me started on the "place" to find the right things and the traffic while reaching THAT place.

Oh my god...seriously did India change so drastically, it no longer looks like the Hyderabad that I stayed 4 years back. So crowded, so full of people and their vehicles, so noisy, so stylish (this needs a totally separate post!)
I somehow have the feeling that these people are too much into themselves, caught-up with their own work, house and family, no time to spare for others!

Maybe I am little bit on the edge now, need time to settle down and all that, maybe then my way of looking at things will also change and I'll have a better perspective, a better way to go about my life.

But till then....it's a "sulking me" and a "cribbing me" all the way!!

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For some more time...

I am still in KL and will be here till atleast 2 more weeks. after that ...?? Yes...back to india..."for good".
I don't know what's in store...?But after all it's INDIA...its HOME...and what can go wrong with that??!!

And my "dream schedule" for a day will be:
Wake up @ 6.30AM
Squeeze fresh fruit juice...and enjoy that
Read newspaper...both English and Telugu till about 7.30 (Yeah...I'll need that much time to cover the movie section in both the papers!)
Get Dhriti to brush,eat something...and get her ready...
Get ready for office
Drop Dhriti at a play-school @ 9 AM
Reach office by 9.30AM
Work, eat,work, eat, drink something (Yes in that order!)
Reach home by 7PM
Don't know what to do till 10PM (No, surely not watch TV serials!)
Finish dinner and off to bed by 10.30PM

Looks so fab!! Hopefully I get to do that...will keep you posted :)

A few things on the resume that might look good!

1. Learn to drink from a cup instead of a bottle
2. Potty training (You must be kidding!!!!!)
3. Stop screaming and shouting and pinching everyone
4. Learn counting (No she doesn't know how to count or read numbers)

What is right and what is wrong?

There are so many things in life that you are not sure of...not really sure if you are doing the right thing...

Leaving Dhriti at home and going to work...This is something that I don't really know if it's right or wrong...
Maybe the kind of profession that I am in will not allow me to work on a part-time basis, maybe the kind of comforts that we have might not be achieved with only one of us working, maybe I am not the kind of person who can stay at home all through the day and still stay sane!

But, I'd love to be at home, be with her, sit with her all through the day and not worry about some invoices, some extra resources that need to be deployed for a project.

Yeah, I know I am very lucky to have found a live-in maid. She is good with Dhriti...to the point of annoying me sometimes and at times I am left wondering whose house it is...

But, maybe still maybe I need to be at home with her....and maybe in a few months from now she will start going to school and then me staying at home will not have any use at all...
Maybe I should have thought about this 2 years earlier and not now :)
But that is for a different post...different time...about how to take decisions at the right time!!

So long..farewell..

Ok one more year's gone...
and almost a month in the new year also had gone by...
was 2006 good? Yeah it was mostly

But there were some really bad, heart-wrenching stuff in 2006...things that should have never happened...
all over the world...all over the country...there was some much havoc...so much of terrorism...sometimes you wonder if we are really "progressing, advancing" and all that...
Maybe we were better off in those age old days...
One thing that I cant forget in this year or for the rest of my life is the day A.Sirisha passed away...simply unfair....

Things on the brighter side included Dhriti, Dhriti and Dhriti....her vocabulary almost doubled and tripled ....tends to be the attention-grabber @ home...I haven't been able to read any novel in the past few months and that shows how busy she keeps us @ home!!

And like everybody even I wish the new year is even more good and kind and happy
and above everything else peaceful

Happy Sankranthi

Celebrated sankranti...or rather Bhogi well @ home. My mom was very particular that I get Dhriti to put up a "bommala koluvu" for every Sankrathi. She used to do the same for me and she was quite good at it. I am not that good, but with the limitations that I have (like only chinese dolls and limited creative ideas) I think I did a good job :)

You don't believe? See for yourself..



And yeah...we did puja also...both Dhriti and myself..

And yes, I had to take the blame for having done the puja in jeans...but see they were very comfortable !!

See this now..
Shocked...that's okay...I didn't do it...all credit goes to Pavani :)

The actual program started in the evening. As usual we wanted to start at 6PM, we eventually started at around 7-7.30PM. Bhogi pallu program was a success, not much running around
That's Dhriti and Bubby-the mischief maker



After dress change, we went to Udaya's house:

Repeat tele-cast in Udaya's house :)

Happy New Year!!

We were at a resort in Melacca for New Year. Came back from Genting on 30th night and then drove to the resort on 31st afternoon. It was a good 2.5 hrs drive and the place was worth it.
Phani and family were already there and got us the rooms booked. So all we had to do was go, dump the luggage, eat some snacks (yeah we did that straight away!!)
And then headed to this "Animal Parade" in the "Cowboy Town".

The event started off with red-indian show and then fun part of animal show started.
Though the animals paraded were dogs, hens, oxen and stuff like that (the reason for not uploading more photos!!!), Dhriti had loads of fun.
Towards the end of the show, there was this "band" playing and people were invited to come and join the dance.
Dhriti promptly went off and started dancing. No, we didnt ask her to go, no prompting what-so-ever. She just heard the music and went off to dance. So, I had to literally "jump the railings" and catch up with her while she danced to glory!!

I never knew she was such an extrovert :)

Some snaps taken during the trip:

At the animal-parade...

Yes these are "REAL" and Dhriti actually scratched and pinched the lion.

Cake-cutting @ 12...welcoming the new year.

And no...nobody did this to her. She herself took the cream off the cake and rubbed it all over her face. Udaya just added that red color cream on her nose. She has been calling herself "green dragon" ever since :)

Horse-riding. She kept saying that the "horse was falling down", so we had to get her off the horse's back after 1 round only...

What did we do...?

We had one more looong weekend last week: usual weekend+ New Year+Bakrid
So...we went to Genting...a lovely highland with good indoor and outdoor theme parks.


Enjoying the cable car ride....

In the hotel room, don't worry I unplugged the phone so she is just playing with the phone...

The xmas decorations and Santa in Genting...

Enjoying the rides...she literally had a blast during this ride, everytime there was a sharp turn she would shout gleefully. She actually held the steering quite religiously as if she was actually driving the car!!

The usual-normal rides that she might get bored of soon. But this one had a monkey and an elephant together-deadly combination!!

On the way to outdoor theme park. She was trying to smile here!!