I recently got hold of a very interesting book called Chai, Chai - its a book about the places that we stop but never travel to. The author extensively writes about the places that have a life now cause of the railway stations in those particular towns. Very  interesting read especially if you love the rail gaadi and random travelling! Was so into the book, that it felt as though I was in the train hoping to reach Itarsi* and explore!  Suddenly I realised that I was actually travelling , but by air to Hassi Messaoud via Paris- a place that I despise :| However a Yellow label Chai and a donut that looks like the vada at the Charles De Gaulle Airport helped me daydream about the chook chook train! *The place Itarsi was named after Inta(brick) and rassi (rope)business that the place was known for!

I recently got hold of a very interesting book called Chai, Chai - its a book about the places that we stop but never travel to. The author extensively writes about the places that have a life now cause of the railway stations in those particular towns.

Very  interesting read especially if you love the rail gaadi and random travelling! Was so into the book, that it felt as though I was in the train hoping to reach Itarsi* and explore!  Suddenly I realised that I was actually travelling , but by air to Hassi Messaoud via Paris- a place that I despise :|

However a Yellow label Chai and a donut that looks like the vada at the Charles De Gaulle Airport helped me daydream about the chook chook train!

*The place Itarsi was named after Inta(brick) and rassi (rope)business that the place was known for!

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Happy as a clam in butter sauce!

I’m at the fag end of my 6 week long vacation at home, full of ups & downs and hahaas & boohoos but when I look back there is an amazing feeling, a contented feeling coz of the numerous things that give me enormous pleasure :)

So, here I am making a list of things that can change my mood from a :( to a :) in a jiffy!

1. Seeing this on the road

or eating them for breakfast without getting too distracted by the TV and trying to get the seeds out!!

2. An afternoon nap..zzzzzzz :)

3. Coming across a painting of a place (no points for guessing the place!) I have been to when I was at school and the part where it feels like somebody has captured a moment of your past in the form of a painting!

When I saw this painting, I just felt like walking into the Buland Darwaza :)

I am on a ‘Happiness’ Mission! Stay tuned for more :)

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Random :) moments of the day

— Was called to the Dist.Sessions court for a 14 year pending case and was thrilled when the guard announced - “Nalla Shravya haazziiir hoooo”

— The birth of a baby brings sooo much joy to EVERYONE in the family. My cousins in the US had a baby and my old grandparents and uncles and aunts gathered at my place in nizamabad JUST to see the baby’s pic on the net! Ther world is def flat! :P

— My 8 year old cousin was so excited that I was home for his birthday. But was angry tat I dint wake up early in the morning to wish him before he left for school! ( Well I did go to his school to give the return gifts he forgot at home to make up for it!)

— Balloons to decorate my cousin’s place - Rs 100. Snacks for his friends - Rs 500. Return gifts for the kids - Rs 500. Birthday Cake — Rs 400. Expression on my Athrey’s (my cousin) face when he saw the Mickey Mouse on his cake - PRICELESS! :)

— Writing an essay on Global Warming for another cousin who wants to take part in Dist. Science Congress - the same science congress I had taken part in about 10 years ago , just that the topic was - ‘Depletion of Ozone layer’

— Being pampered and patted to sleep by grandma while seeing grandpa hitting noisy kids playing around with his walking stick

— The fact that I have been home on a vacation for 6 weeks now!

— Listening to A.R.R’s Best on my Bose Speakers and thinking of times where I got to see him Live :)

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