Ganpati Pappa Mourya
9th Monday: This
week is full on Ganpati week. Five days is continuous fun filled, celebration
filled, ‘Sharada’ filled week. The decoration and setting was replay of
last year. In the decoration department no
new experiments
were done. After lot of deliberation
between, ‘Big Ears’ or ‘Bal Ganpati’, ‘Big Ears’ Ganpati won. Why? Obviously, ‘Bal Ganpati’ would
have invited lots of ‘Bal’ comments from myself, Avi & Pinky. So
Akshay-Muskan played safe and ‘Big Ears’ was selected. Coincidently, we have being buying ganpati from the same
stall at the chowk! And he is our newspaper vendor also. Manju, who is
going on two months visit to Singapore came and said her goodbyes and had
Ganpati Dharshan. Her flight is on 12th from Mumbai. She will stay
with Neha for two days.
10th Tuesday:
Nandas came to visit our Ganpati. It was first visit of Mrs Kunal, i.e. Kajal.
Now that I have firsthand knowledge of typical
Punjabi girl (though
Muskan is not so typical), I
can safely say that Kajal is perfect Punjabi Bahu. Muskan’s Mother and Kajal
were sitting together and they both were looking more as mother-daughter then as compared
to Muskan or Nandani! But then Nadani & Muskan are more of ‘Bambaiya’ girls now, being born and brought up in Khar, then a
Punjabi Kudi of Amritsar. Had
a good photo session after long time with Kajal as most willing model.
In office front, due to postponed launching
to 12th by Xrbia, we got three days for final touch-up job on furniture, which seems will never end. We have made up office in white color as per Xrbia's color scheme.
12th Thursday:
Akshay & Lali visited Mumbai for Xrbia Launch. Lots of hopes are on success of Xrbia
business. The last year success [3200 units sold in 3 days flat] will not be
repeated, but even if 5% of that
response falls in our lap, it will be great. The learning process is on.
13th Friday:
Visarjan Day. This Ganpati season we took full advantage of Mummy’s presence.
Many great dishes of Mummy were cooked by Mummy & Muskan, specially, Petha Sera, Khash-Khash Sera etc. and I am relishing all childhood dishes like Baingam Ka Barta etc made by mummy. And it is no wonder that most of us had
overeating problem during this week. Nowadays our day starts early. One due to morning aarti and
secondly, as Munju has gone to Singapore, it is Muskans responsibility to prepare
Sharat Tiffin by 8.30 in morning.
14th
Saturday: Just five days of routine gets so engraved that on sixth day, while
making tea, ‘Aarti’ was playing in my head. And Muskan’s first dialogue of
morning was, home is so empty! Meet – Karan came for flying visit.
Kashyap-Dhawani have lined up 8 meeting in Mumbai, so they left for Mumbai. And we rushed to SB road for our learning class with Xrbia.
15th Sunday: No Ganpati - No Chinky - No Rinky - No Mummy - No Kashyap - No Dhawani. Muskan was at verge of crying! This is how life is.
by P G Dodeja
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