Day 189 - 190 : 35th Anniversary Gift!

It was my parents' 35th wedding anniversary! To celebrate this momentous occasion, I decided to gift them a trip to Rajasthan. So on the 25th of September they set out for Rajsthan and covered a 9 day trip of Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Bikaner and Jaisalmer. They had a ball and couldn't stop talking about it for a long time! This blog entry should technically pan across many days because they kept sending me pictures and messages, updating me at every stop, recounting what seemed to have been an amazing experience for them! It was so heartening to see their excitement and happiness that I felt pretty proud of this idea for the gift!

This one is for my lovely parents and their 35 years of togetherness!

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Day 164 : The Rajasthan Gift!

My parents celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary a few days ago and I wanted to give them a nice little gift. For their 25th anniversay I had sent them to Bali, for their 30th anniversary I had taken them to Europe, so for their 35th anniversary, I thought they could do a round of Royal Rajasthan.

As of today, I have booked everything - the tickets, the hotels, the car - and in the process, got a mini virtual tour of the various destinations - Udaipur, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Bikarner - myself. It is indeed a gorgeous place and one that I would love to visit myself some day!

They will be leaving at the end of September for a 9 day trip and am super excited for them! I can't wait for them to get there and be wowed by the place (and am hoping, also by some of the palaces turned hotels that I have booked!).

Here's to my parents and their 35 years of togetherness!

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Days 39 - 42 : Four Reasons, Four Days

It was a rather crazy week. Firstly because as part of the innovation team, bulk of my work for the year is cramped into this quarter of the year and May will be choke blocked with meetings, meeting and more meetings that I have the good fortune of leading. And I had to prepare for all of it before my upcoming business trip to London. Secondly, the film team is going to be here in a week's time and there was much prework and coordination to be done. On top, I have Madam who is more and more acting like my grandmother and dictates much of what I do these days.

Anyway that is my long winded explanation on why am clubbing entries right now. I actually have no recollection of what happened which day either but I definitely have four reasons to be happy about - so am just going to state them and imagine that they were spread across the four days.

1) So yes, work was crazy busy - but I had a few really good meetings which were initially expected to be pretty tough. So there was some progress, I got my team to be excited over a few things, and overall things seem to be progressing in the right direction, so it was all good!

2) I think we are finally at 99.5% of locking the background score of the film. And I know how the 0.5% can be fixed, so that is good too.

3) I finally managed to spend some time with my dad who is in town when we went to the National Gallery where he and I explored a few of the many galleries, while the husband played with Madam in the Art Education Centre with its colourful painted jungles. True, we didn't do too much exploration because soon we got a call saying Madam had different ideas as always, but at least we made good use of the little we did have and enjoyed the various historic photographs, sculptures, some really good paintings and other exhibits.

4)  We finally fixed all the logistics and prework for the film before everyone gets here in a weeks' time. Only a week more for the work to start and in another week, I would have the completed film. This is really the most exciting part of the journey and I. can. NOT. wait!

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Day 38 : Happy Kid

My dad arrived this morning for a short visit. And along with him also arrived a carton of mangoes fresh and directly from the orchard, bananas, banana chips, jackfruit chips, jalebis, mysore paks,the books that I had ordered through Flipkart and were delivered to our place in Kerala, my mom's preparation of prawn pickle and tender mango pickle, a top that I had given for alteration, a collection of medicines, a repaired mixer and even a safety valve for a pressure cooker. My mom was the mastermind behind a lot of these items and my dad was the faithful transporter.

I can safely say that am their happy kid for the day.

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