4th Oct 2015 – 10th Oct 2015 [Back to School]

 

What is the blessing from the almighty?

Only one answer. BABY

Not what you are thinking, I meant, for example, 'KhushiRam'.

6^th Oct: Akshay surprise birthday was planned by Muskan with great gusto. And surprise of all surprise is that she was able to keep this party secret from Akshay. All the family members, Dhwani’s Mum and two partners of Akshay, Kamal Khetan and Ali also joined us, to celebrate his birthday. For the first time we shifted our sitting arrangement to terrace area. Excellent weather, superlative food and cordial atmosphere made up a great birthday party for Akshay. It was most relaxing and cool party. Muskan had made Paneer, [9/10 score], Manju made her patented Pulao [8/10], Pinky made Dal [8/10]. Mummy had made Gulab Jamuns for ‘ladla’ grandson. In short all food items surpassed the distinction marks. And with the excellent fruit cake, duly endorsed by Muskan, who never touches 'Fruit' cake. This was made of KK neighbor, who has made her hobby of cake making into a business venture.

  And “Sone Pee Suhaga” was arrival of Ankit & Pallavi after dinner. They joined us for chatter, some snipping of ice cream. Ankit is nowadays looking quite fit and healthy, and as Pallavi is pure Punjabi ‘kudi’, laughing and enjoying life to full and growing health…ier.

7^th Oct: Coldwell has training program for senior management of its franchisees. Full day we sat in class room in Mumbai, [somehow I was not able to connect to my school days at Sind Cosmopolitian High School] went through 6 modules, had plenty of chat, heavy lunch with 2 coffee cups. All the lessons taught were same old things, but presented in fresh cloths, communicated clearly and highlighted properly. The full impact will be felt only after its implementation and results. Soon we will be starting this venture, with our figures crossed.

On our return journey, after gap of six months, Shyam uncle, Ratna aunty and Moni joined us. Recently, aunty had gone through a serious health scare, thankfully she has fully recovered from it. Though she has lost weight in big way, she looked relaxed and vibrant. Uncle and Moni must be feeling great as a major challenge has been accepted and conquered.    

And, Khushiram is growing fast. He is in hurry to grow. He just completed 4 months in this week and he is already getting ready to crawl. Mummy says, the babies normally start crawling when they are at least six months old. And we all are devoting big chunk of time on him like his Great Dadi, Dadi, Nani, Parents, Akki, Niki and above all, his most favorite person, Dada. He is diplomat in big way. He has instant and big smile for Dadi and Nani only.

9^th Oct: Kunal Narang accepted Dhwani – Muskan invitation and came over to Pune for overnight stay. He is odd man out in current mold of new generation. Today’s generation is more made of materialistic matter, running after elusive targets and more and more consumer products. Here is a boy, give him, his laptop, access to net, model cars and he is happy as a child. He talks about money a lot, but is away from money culture, for sure. He is ‘shewadhari’ of Radha Swami, taking his duties seriously.

Nice boy, currently life is turning him into a hard, sad, lonely man. But I can see, he has good family support, so hopefully, he will come out of it.

Last night after ages I was wide awake, till 1 O’clock. Learning how to handle Andriod Phone. Akshay is my ‘How to use’ teacher, whereas, Kashyap is my ‘Technique’ teacher.

This week for me was ‘Back to School’ week.
 
by P G Dodeja