Check this! Thoughtful Day

Starting this day, I will regularly (hopefully) post links of sites i have seen, visited and liked - it could be anything but it will definitely be either pretty or interesting or eye-brow raising or all. I hope you enjoy seeing what i saw. Do leave your comments and let me know what you think. After blog hopping, skipping and some jumping i reached Erica Miller's Thoughtful Day - I fell in love with the header of her blog. The design is simple but oh so pretty... I so want it for myself. And then definitely go see her website - her wedding invitation and stationery boutique... i simply loved the designs. Very pretty. 

Picture this! Misty morning

I took this picture of a qooden bridge in the morning mist, with a Sony point n shoot, several years ago, on a trip to Thailand.

Picture this! Blue, white and grey

Blue skies. Taken with my 5310 Nokia Express Music that i lost. Don't know if it was the first phone or the second one that i lost, though.

Raam-esis

The coming soon took quite sometime to come, i know. But using a cliche, it's better late than never. The same can be said of Raam. Pyar se, I call him motu raam aur size se bhi woh motu raam hi hai.

I am sure you didn't miss the extra 'a' in Raam. Apparently, he changed it a couple of years back because RAM could be read as RAM as in Random Access Memory or Ram into something; the latter being true when it comes to him. Besides ram-ming into stuff like stones, bikes, trucks an autowallahs, there are lots of things Raam can do. Raam is Raavan - a man of excesses.

Raam likes to cook and loves to eat - the reason why he is motu raam . And when Raam cooks, all the characters of the Raamayana can eat - including the Lankans. Once he takes 2 hours to boil potatoes but this was only the one time where he did not want to cook but was forced to. Mostly he just cooks for the entire apartment. Whenever he comes home, he looks at what i have cooked and will say, "won't this be less?" His argument being 'there should be enough'; my thought being "enough for who? - 6 hippos?"

All things said, must say he cooks well - you must ask him to make cucumber poha and cucumber dal for you when you meet him. Both are the best use of cucumber in a cooked dish that i have ever tasted.

Another thing about Raam - he is extremely large hearted - there's that saying naa - dil dariya, g-samundar... Raam ka sab kuch samundar hai! If you ask him for something nicely he won't think twice; consider it yours.

And when he goes shopping to Metro... wow!! He spends more than the grocery store owners who purchase from there to sell in their stores. Have you seen anyone buying like 10 packets

Happy families

There are 5 of us living in a largish 4 bedroom apartment, with two living rooms, two dining halls, 2 kitchens and 1 corridor in between the 2 entrances.

There is 4-legged Happy - the youngest and hence obviously most ragged member. He is very agressive, very loving, very mischievous and almost always very happy. He is also the most fussy eater, a little less than Anand though - but i will come to that later.

He (Happy) likes going for walks at 6 in the morning and sometimes at 12 in the night and then again at 2. Happy is also the most good-looking male among the 4 of them - and i am the best looking female :)

 Happy rarely gets angry but is extremely moody, he is very loving and can almost kill you with his love if he is in the mood to show it - some tough love that is.

He frequently gets into trouble and i have to as frequently save him from the other 4 men who just wait for an opportunity to pounce on the poor little fella. You should actually hear Raam, when he starts these really long Marathi lectures. My poor baby - Happy obviously... has to listen to his raving and ranting and then like the single-minded individual he is is, happily gets back to whatever he was doing before. He is the only one i have broken my 'no-non-veg-food-in-the-house-rule' for. I frequently boil eggs for him... but that is for the moment the most i can do. He loves ice creams, sweetmeats, and meats of another kind. He also likes playing catch and loves being chased around the dining table.

Happy's birthday is April the 1st and he was born last year. His parentage is unknown and he was the last person to become a part of our family .

Coming soon: Raam