Confidence 

Sis n me during our Dec vacation in Daman 

Beautiful Daman - At Hotel Miramar 

My lil visitor

Yesterday morning, I found my auto driver who was waiting to take me to work, chasing away 2 dogs. One of them was a stray and the other "Sparky" my neighbour's dog. Wondering what had come over him, on investigating, found hm trying to keep away the dogs from a baby pigeon which may have fallen from its nest. Dont know how it got there, but it was bitten real bad and the dogs adding to the chaos. To my utter surprise, except for my auto driver who was too frightened to pull the dogs away, the others were just standing and watching (could have really throttled them). Managed to chase away the stray. The bird had chosen a bush to hide in & Sparky, who's a 1 year old, not realising that the bird was not in the mood for playing kept tryin to nudge it with his mouth scaring the wits out of it. Somehow managed to haul Sparky away from the bird (luckily for me didnt get bitten in the process) and as everyone refused to do anythin abt the bird, whisked it home for first aid and askd mom to babysit.
When I got back home, fearing the worst, I wz pleasantly surprised to see it alive. Tucked my new pet in for the night in the balcony, happy with myself.
Alas when i got back today I found it missing and got to knw that it passed away albiet peacefully.
To my amazement, when mom woke up in the morning, she found the bird had toddled over to my bed (perhaps to say its last goodbye), i wonder how it managed to do that, coz its back/feet had been badly bitten, mom put it back in its box, where it slept and didnt wake up at all. Good bye lil one. I lost you even before I found you.

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This morning I woke up at 4 am, gosh, poor me.. had no choice as had to catch the 5.40 am flight to Gujarat. Had the option of leaving last evening, but had loads of work to do yesterday, hence had to wake up at an unearthly hour today. Was an exacting day, fortunately the presentation that I'd been sloggin over last evenin went well today. Ended up with a throbbing headache tho, thanks to my return flight being delayed by an hour.
Gosh, am I exhausted ! n sleepy ! Yawn !!! Nighty nite!

Tsunami - God's fury or Man's stupidity

I was vacationing in Mangalore when the Tsunami disaster hit. Everyone was glued to the TV as the news reports kept coming in. One of my friends even called up to check that everything was fine at Mangalore. Fortunately Mumbai and Mangalore were spared.
Now rumours are rife that the tsunami may hit Mumbai. Interest in the mangroves has suddenly begun to intensify. Political parties have begun to give suggestions on how to protect the city from these destructive waves.

So did it take a disaster to bring man to his senses? Unfortunately, no. Whispers go around - is it near judgment day, end of the world, is God warning his people, sending signs... and the speculations continue. Some wonder how could God be so cruel, taking so many lives, when He is supposed to be a God of love.
But man fails to realise that what he's sees as the hand of God, is nothing but his own undoing. If one tampers with nature, what does one expect?

Years ago, I set out to write a book on a subject dear to my heart, lil knowing the ramifications that subject would take...I penned down what I'd put on the jacket of the book, what the cover design would be, and then left it incomplete, promising myself that I'd complete it somewhere in the future... It goes something like this:

MY GOD EXPERIENCES

“In today’s day and age where man has near about overcome all environmental and natural hazards by way of scientific inventions and breakthroughs, the word GOD has been pushed back in the deep recesses of the human mind.
Today sees en number of possibilities, which perhaps in the past may not even have seemed possible. We have the current generation not only planning babies but also deciding on what type of a child they want – a specific IQ, height, color and good looks. Not forgetting the quest of men to clone human beings.
When today man has begun to play GOD where exactly does he stand? Does this prove Darwin’s evolution theory right or is there really a GOD?
This book is not a religious introspection but a genuine search by the author on what role GOD plays in our lives.”

Today when I look back over what I wrote years back, I shudder to think where man has reached. Today, indeed man has forgotten that he's only a custodian of what God has created, not God himself. If today disaster has hit, it's only nature paying back man in full. Amen.

The bestest compliment I ever received!

When my lil 7 year old nephew Shaun was down for Christmas hols, everytime i was around he'd kiss and hug me. I wondered why he was showering so much of affection on me, perhaps he'd really missed me that much. Out of curiousity I asked him, and he replied, " Aunt, you have the softest skin in the entire family". Needless to say, I was floored (",)

When I hugged him on hearing this, he thought for a while and said, "You have the 2nd softest skin in the entire family". When I asked him who was the first one, he replied, "But obviously, its me!"

End of a loooooooooong Vacation!

It's been a real long hiatus from the blog. It's already been 3 days since I resumed work but have not been able to break out of the vacation mode. Sigh! It was a nice long 3 week vacation, hectic but enjoyable. But what I miss most is my sis who'd come down with my niece and nephew. Guess, I'll give myself a couple of days to break out of this depressing mood :-(