Friday, November 4, 2011
To all you salad eaters out there...
Have you tried pub style fish and chips dipped in tartar sauce?
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Ah, the 4th Anniversary
I thought I better post this before the 5th year rolls by!
Though sometimes it feels like ‘already four years!’, mostly it feels like, ‘only four years?’. It’s been one hell of a ride. Let’s see if I can sum it in a single sentence. Here goes – marriage, move to the US, move to the job in the US, a lot of ‘our firsts’ – our little rented apartment , our car, mostly our adventure (we did not know ANYBODY when we landed here, we just walked out of the hotel to see if we could find an apartment!) , then Eswar getting through his Step 3 exam, his research job, buying our own place, our very own baby (that’s what I say to Eswar sometimes as I watch the little fella sleeping, ‘Can you imagine, he is our very own baby!?’:P), I learnt to drive and got a car, Eswar got into his residency and I got admittance into PhD, commuting between NY and Philly. Yes, it’s been one of those rides. Sometimes I reflect if I would have wanted it any other way? Now looking back, I don’t think so. It has been a real rollercoaster with real highs and real lows and though sometimes it was a scary ride, I feel exhilarated, just like after the roller coaster ride in Universal studios in Florida where we went for the Christmas holidays in 2007.Okay, okay, will stop:)
Funny, I remember what we did for our second (I was pregnant and my in-laws were there, we went to the temple and cut a cake) and third (sent the little fella to daycare and the two of us took off and went for lunch and basically had a ‘we’ day) anniversaries, but for the love of me I can’t seem to recollect what we did for our first!
The fourth, however has been our best so far. It’s going to be a tough act to follow.
I am going to leave out all the complicated parts about how Eswar had to go to work on Sunday and hence we decided to go down to NY after our hectic vacation and so on:)
Let me start with all the things mummy made. She made Badusha (at home. I know!) and masala dosa for breakfast. We then went to the Sai Baba temple that’s close to our place. In the temple they also had Sathya Sai Baba’s big photo and they were offerings of flowers there. At that moment I wished I too had got a bouquet. To say thank you. I grew up figuratively with him. Before starting school, my parents took me to Putaparthi and he wrote Om on a slate for me. There were monthly bajans in thata patti’s house every first Saturday. The entire family would be gathered there. Warm memories of family, good food and the good times.
Anyways, coming back to our anniversary, had prasadam in the temple for lunch and went for a ride to Jones beach. By then Krish had slept. We too got back home and relaxed for a while. Mummy had another surprise waiting for us. She had baked a cake for us! I seriously don’t know when she did this! After the cake cutting and another photo session, Eswar and I took a train to NYC. The initial plan was a movie but since we were in Long Island, we thought we will catch a Broadway show . One of the items in my bucket list – to have watched ALL the Broadway shows:) Eswar had picked Chicago, don’t ask me why. Throughout the show I kept teasing him that he picked it up because that was the show with the scantily dressed females. Okay, okay, before the show Eswar took me to Tiffany’s but they did not have THE ring in my size and we had to come back another day to collect it . It seemed too complicated and Eswar promised that he would get it for me in KOP. Well, that did not happen. Ah wait! maybe the 5th year will not be that tough an act to follow after all! :)
Though sometimes it feels like ‘already four years!’, mostly it feels like, ‘only four years?’. It’s been one hell of a ride. Let’s see if I can sum it in a single sentence. Here goes – marriage, move to the US, move to the job in the US, a lot of ‘our firsts’ – our little rented apartment , our car, mostly our adventure (we did not know ANYBODY when we landed here, we just walked out of the hotel to see if we could find an apartment!) , then Eswar getting through his Step 3 exam, his research job, buying our own place, our very own baby (that’s what I say to Eswar sometimes as I watch the little fella sleeping, ‘Can you imagine, he is our very own baby!?’:P), I learnt to drive and got a car, Eswar got into his residency and I got admittance into PhD, commuting between NY and Philly. Yes, it’s been one of those rides. Sometimes I reflect if I would have wanted it any other way? Now looking back, I don’t think so. It has been a real rollercoaster with real highs and real lows and though sometimes it was a scary ride, I feel exhilarated, just like after the roller coaster ride in Universal studios in Florida where we went for the Christmas holidays in 2007.Okay, okay, will stop:)
Funny, I remember what we did for our second (I was pregnant and my in-laws were there, we went to the temple and cut a cake) and third (sent the little fella to daycare and the two of us took off and went for lunch and basically had a ‘we’ day) anniversaries, but for the love of me I can’t seem to recollect what we did for our first!
The fourth, however has been our best so far. It’s going to be a tough act to follow.
I am going to leave out all the complicated parts about how Eswar had to go to work on Sunday and hence we decided to go down to NY after our hectic vacation and so on:)
Let me start with all the things mummy made. She made Badusha (at home. I know!) and masala dosa for breakfast. We then went to the Sai Baba temple that’s close to our place. In the temple they also had Sathya Sai Baba’s big photo and they were offerings of flowers there. At that moment I wished I too had got a bouquet. To say thank you. I grew up figuratively with him. Before starting school, my parents took me to Putaparthi and he wrote Om on a slate for me. There were monthly bajans in thata patti’s house every first Saturday. The entire family would be gathered there. Warm memories of family, good food and the good times.
Anyways, coming back to our anniversary, had prasadam in the temple for lunch and went for a ride to Jones beach. By then Krish had slept. We too got back home and relaxed for a while. Mummy had another surprise waiting for us. She had baked a cake for us! I seriously don’t know when she did this! After the cake cutting and another photo session, Eswar and I took a train to NYC. The initial plan was a movie but since we were in Long Island, we thought we will catch a Broadway show . One of the items in my bucket list – to have watched ALL the Broadway shows:) Eswar had picked Chicago, don’t ask me why. Throughout the show I kept teasing him that he picked it up because that was the show with the scantily dressed females. Okay, okay, before the show Eswar took me to Tiffany’s but they did not have THE ring in my size and we had to come back another day to collect it . It seemed too complicated and Eswar promised that he would get it for me in KOP. Well, that did not happen. Ah wait! maybe the 5th year will not be that tough an act to follow after all! :)
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