On Leave for a week

Yesterday my father-in-law called saying that my Mother-in-law's health is really bad. She has been hospitalized for the past 1 week and now her condition is getting bad . So we decided overnight that we need to visit her immediately. So I am flying to Delhi tonight. Would stay at Rajeev's aunt's place and then move to Agra tomorrow morning. Lots of things to be wound up in office and in the house before I leave. Would probabaly be back on Mondy. Till then bye bye.....

YAHOO BLOG SITES HAVE OPENED UP!

I am soooooooooo very happy that I am back into the blogging world!! Its terrible to be an outsider. I missed all of you so much!! Mari and Nidhi - Thank you so much for mailing me your snaps. It was more than a week I guess that the blog sites were not working. India is a democratic country and I hope this never happens again!!

I am so upset

Hi Everyone!! I am so very upset with the Indian Government . You must be wondering why ?? Well because for some odd reason they have blocked all the blog sites in India .Which means I will not be able to check anybody's blog including mine. Although I can update my blog but can't view what I have updated. Also won't be able to check any other blog. This is going to me terrible because I CAN'T DO WITHOUT BLOGGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just have to be intouch with all of you through our blogs. Please pray this gets corrected soon!! Thanks Mari for this information because for the past 4 days I was clueless as to why I am unable to check any blogs!! I also called the IT Engineer in the office to check!! Read the site below :

Blogs Blocked in India
But I will keep posting my snaps and other posts in my blog because you guys can definately check them!! And yes please do send me your latest information to my mail id

Spirit of Mumbai

Mumbai Blasts
11/7 WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN IN THE HISTORY OF MUMBAI. The 1993 bomb blast terror was seen again. I wonder what kind of people are these who don’t give a damn for human life ? How can anyone be so cruel? Certainly these anti social elements of the society do not believe and fear GOD. However one thing I would like to mention and appreciate is the spirit of the Mumbaikars which is amazing. I have personally experienced this last year when I was stuck in the rains in Parel on 26/7 . And some surveys prove that Mumbai is the rudest city in the world! What crap!

12/7 , Everything is back to normal , all professional , educational and government institutions are open. Trains running fine , Western Railways late by only 15 mins! SALAAM MUMBAI-----THE ECONOMY STATE OF INDIA ( Mumbai contributes to 40% of the revenue generation in India ) IS TRULY THE BEST CITY TO LIVE IN INDIA!!

And yes please do not forget to pray for the victims of the bomb blast , please click here to submit your prayers : PRAYERTOWERONLINE

Lonavala Khandala Visit

This Sunday we had invited a couple friend of ours - Pinal and Deepali for lunch. They have a 4 year old son Aryan. After lunch we went to Lonavala in the evening. It was an amazing site. There was fog all around, so much that one could hardly see a few metres away!! The scene was amazing!! We eat corn and had nice hot tea at that spot! We also had a glimpse of the famous Ambey Valley ( the most beautiful residential comple in India , but only for the rich and the famous!!). Although one cannot go inside the premises till you have a pass. So next time we will go prepared!! Most fo the celebrities like Amitabh Bacchan , Aishwarya Rai , Sachin Tendulkar etc have their bunglows inside. Then we went to Dukes Retreat for dinner! So overall it was a nice trip. Didn'ty really click many snaps , just 3 of them :

My Pune Trip!!

Hi All,

I visited my parents , brother and sister in law in Pune this weekend. I was there on 3rd and 4th of July. Let me start with what I call as a spectacular view of the Express Highway which is connecting Mumbai and Pune! For those of who have never been on the express highway , you must visit the same especially in the rainy season. It is the first highway to be created in this manner between Pune and Mumbai. The roads were wet , the mountains on either side looked green and beautiful!! The wide roads were shining in the rain!! There were waterfalls in a row one after the other on one side of the road. It was raining heavily and a sight for sore eyes on the express highway!! Pune Expressway connects the commercial and cultural capitals of India. To drive the mumbai pune expressway is to rediscover the joy of disciplined and responsible driving. It completely lacks the indian road chaos. It is another landmark of modern India.
Notable features of Mumbai Pune Express Highway are:
· Six lane concrete highway divided in center by a 7m-wide divider. An extra lane provided on each side as a hard shoulder.
· The Mumbai Pune expressway should cut down travel time between Mumbai and Pune to less than 2 hours at an average speed of 80kmph.
· Separate tunnels for traffic in each direction.
· Complete fencing to avoid humans/animals crossing the expressway.
· No two wheelers, three wheelers and tractor vehicles allowed.
· Provision of Petrol pumps / motels / workshops / Toilets / Emergency Phones and Breakdown Vans etc.
· Proposed planting of 70,000 trees along mumbai pune expressway
Finally we reached Pune at 1pm in the afternoon on Sunday. This time most of my trip was dedicated to my nephew Raunak. I gifted him a nice electronic car! He is now 1.5 yeard old and very very adorable. Rajeev was playing with him throughout the day till late in the night. In the evening we all went to Gold Adlabs where Raunak was busy playing in the mall in the kiddies section and all of us were doing window shopping. We also went to the Horror Show which is present in the mall. Me and my sister in law Chinar were really scared while that 15 min thing lasted. On Monday morning, I went for a haircut to Jasbir’s in Camp. This haircut was long pending!! Then I caught up with a friend of mine who is also my ex-colleague . We shopped on MG Road in the afternoon. Then later in the evening Rajeev and me visited one of his friend outside his office at Tadiwala Road . Pune brings back my old memories! And while I was crossing Gera Plaza , Nandu’s Paratha House , Mazorin’s etc , I missed my old friends and remembered them a lot! Later in the evening we left for Mumbai. There was some minor landslide which had happened near Khandala so we got late by half an hour. Otherwise the journey back home was good. For more snaps click here - PUNE SNAPS