What is the blessing from the almighty?
Only one answer. BABY
Not what you are thinking, I meant, for example, 'KhushiRam'.
6th 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.
7th 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.
9th 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.
by P G Dodeja
