Nostalgia.....

Yes, this took me about 20 - 22 years back. Rakshabandhan day. In the snap, me and my sisters - Suchita, Monica and Sonica.

Me and Monica(seated on chair) are elders, born within months of each other. Suchita and Sonica (standing right and left) are respective younger siblings. Sonica got this snap out of some old dusty album. Over the years, both our families have often remembered this day and had a good laugh over it.

Story of this snap : the elders look happy, smiling (dimples and all!!). But look at the scowling younger ones.
Well, before the snap was taken, both families went shopping.
I vaguely remember, all of us had got into our old Fiat and gone to Gandhi Market in Matunga, it was raining, dad had some trouble finding parking and things like that.....
While the parents and elders got what they wanted, the baccha log liked the same thing - a football shaped water bottle! Unfortunately, there was just one piece available and ensued was a tug of war! Finally the parents took the bottle away (hence the scowls!)
Now I cannot recollect who finally got the bottle..........

Between jobs......

In the last break (http://rachitst.blogspot.com/2010/01/break-from-life-as-i-know-it.html), it was just a break from work. At the back of my mind, i still had the list of things to do once i am back to work.
Now, in effect, i had the same thing, but still this was different. For one, now i was not worried about what i had in store once the break is over. I might have been anxious, though. After all, new job, new places, new people.
But till then,nivaant........
Not that it was planned to be a nivaant break. After planning out trips to places like Bangkok, Pattaya, Bali, Leh , Vaishnodevi, Lonavala, Matheran........ which were all cancelled due to reasons varying from professional commitments and exam(which never happened) to plain laziness.....i was left with an option of doing nothing much.... even Akash dropping in at precisely the same time did not help - a trip to Mocha is all we could manage.....
And it isn't as if , i did nothing at all... i did a few things like...

1. Rest - nothing better than plain old rest. Get up, eat, sleep......
2. Stay away from PC - my phone took care of my net requirements, hardly touched a keyboard last 20 days
3. Cricket - Test matches, ODI's, T20's, replays, classic matches, best performances, best catches - bring it on!!! Thank you Star Cricket and Ten Cricket.
4. Hospital trip - Munnabhai said 'Zindagi main bahut kuch paheli baar hota hain mamu!" so, i had my first hospital trip. Thanks to one mosquito. And for the first time i had experiences relatd to wheelchair, blood pressure, IV and so on. Sad. And dont let anyone tell you how much fun it is to have pretty nurses taking care of you. When you are in hospital, your only thought is to get out asap - even if Katrina Kaif is the nurse!
5. Moustache - Kaafi din shave nahi kia, socha dekhu kaisa lagta hoon, to rakh li. Jury is out.
6. Shopping - after maybe 2 years. some formals. 25 mins, 6 shirts, one trouser, done. I never get how guys, and i mean men, spend hours on shopping.

Phew, thats quite a lot of things done.....from Monday, back to life (but i dont know how it will be)

Back home.....

You may come back home from a vacation, official tour, some function in the family or something like that, but coming back home after 3 days in hospital is quite a feeling.

Not that lazy....

Ideally, I should have put up a couple of posts by now - after all, what am I doing for the last few days???

But there is a certain something about being lazy.........doesn't matter if you are 28 now.....
Funnily, 27 seemed just a number, 28 seems like a "time is running" out signal...... dunno for what though...... guess for some of those time bound goals one sets.....

Anyways, among other news is a change of job. And believe me, leaving a place after 4 years isn't easy.... but one of those things you got to do...... moving on.....

Have another 10 days to do something or , as i have been doing, nothing. Lets see what happens....