Saturday, August 31, 2013

26th August 2013 to 1th September 2013 [Bithday]

30th Aug : Kashyap once again celebrated his birthday in different way. Instead of having evening party, we selected few went out for morning breakfast after cutting his first cake of the day. Sharat, Ankit and Pallavi,  joined us at Jyoti restaurant for south Indian breakfast.

As I was telling my children, first ever birthday celebration was done in 1973, when Avi turned one year old and that continued till he was five years old. After brief pause of few years, next birthday season started with Neha-Akshay, which continues till date. However, it was Kashyap who created big hype on his birthday, and as it turned out, most of his birthdays are celebrated in some unique way. I would treat a whole week as his birthday week, we all would enjoy every day as birthday, doing one mad thing and other!

 Most surprising birthday for us was when he returned on 30th from Malaysia, where he had gone for ‘Jungle’ TV show edit. He landed on 29th Night in Mumbai, gave a surprise appearance to Dhwani at Matunga [they were not married then] and reached Pune, around 8.30. We are lucky to have good combination, Akshay is sober and never gets much excited on such occasions, where Muskan is bang opposite in this regard. Kashyap whereas is like Muskan, and Dhwani is not exactly like Akshay, but she is sober to some extend.

31st Aug : We have moved into the turbulent waters of changing time. Be it on national level, [high inflation, highest $ price, heavy corruption, election fever] or on business level, [major change in office, additional business] or on family level, [sharat’s wedding plans]. What was thought in Jan 2013 is not relevant at all today! And in those new changes the old tradition old ways thrived. Today Mummy made some snacks from 50 years old recipes for Ritu, who is going to Ireland! Muskan had joined her in preparation and  believe me, she was continuously praising 'Pakwan', 'Lolo', 'Badam Sera.' When I told her that we have grown on those snacks, she was jealous. Dhwani is busy with Anup-Nikita who have come to stay overnight. Thanks Sharat!

Quote:  “Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.”


by P G Dodeja

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