Being What I Always Wanted To Be.....

 So today I was watching a YouTube video of a flash mob in Italy who performed for a guy who wanted to propose his girl in a very special way on the iconic Bruno Mars song “Marry me”. It was such a happy and emotional 4 minutes video that it took me back to those butterfly-in-the-stomach days of me and husband-dearest. My better half being the perfect shy gentleman that he is ..has never been too expressive. And I being the loud, talkative extrovert that I am have always taken the expressions to the highest level possible so much so that it has embarrassed him at many occasions ! Remembering one such xxl-size expression of mine, we were dating at the time and it was his birthday. We went out for a movie in the afternoon and in the attempt of doing something different than the past couple of years, something truly unexpected, here is what I came up with. A few weeks before his birthday, I dug out the multiplex manager’s contact number. And I contacted him to execute my super-special...

 So I got my first dose of vaccination of covishield on 11th May in a government centre of Karnataka. The experience was okay. I got a little lucky in getting past the local influence extremism and getting through vaccination. However, the worst part of it was they didn’t give any instructions on what we can expect post vaccination (1st dose) and just mutely gave me 2 paracetamol and sent me away. They didn’t ask me to wait around too so I also chose it better to get back home immediately. On second thoughts.. is that why govt centres are providing free of cost vaccination? They are like “ok we have vaccinated you so now go to watsapp university or google institution and go nuts on what’s expected and what not OR do a paid consultation with another doctor to get proper guidance?” Smart move though..! Anyway I got back and relied on friends feedback of their experience of getting vaccinated and found it’s not much of a hype. So while driving back itself I started feeling some pain i...

 So my kid brings out the best and the undiscovered in me since the 3 years (and 9 months) he has been born!  He made me a great cook in the first year (which I had no interest in for the past 3 decades of my life). In the second year, he made me a person who could paint, colour or think of atleast a handful ways of doing something crafty (which no matter how bad it turned out but it was still better than not being able to draw a straight line without a scale!). This year his goal is to make me a fit mom! Yes you read it right... so I resumed my pre-pregnancy routine of having a run atleast every alternate day and doing some cardio on the other alternate days along with doing the lessons learnt from son the dearest in the past 2 years. Things were going smooth.. I was getting fitter and after each lap of 200meteres, he would be there cheering for me and trying to race with me and give me high-fives along with husband dearest which made me push myself harder. He would be gettin...

 So this one comes after a really long time. Why?.. I wonder. Maybe I was busy cooking, managing home, office and a rapidly growing toddler or maybe I was busy shifting to our new home which is finally “our” home. All in all... I was really busy. Funny that when you are all hands and legs tied, you crave for the quiet and free time. Guess what? We are bestowed with this wish all over the country... even those who didn’t wish for it. Maybe that’s why they say “be careful what you wish for”. It’s not really quiet with a toddler in home but still so quiet in my heart inside that I can hear my heart beating (and this is not a cheesy Sharukh Khan dialogue... I really mean it). Yes... we are still very strict on “no outside food” but it feels that all the passion for cooking and eating has been stolen by someone which took up majority of my time in the first wave of this deadly coronavirus. IT industry at large understands the impact of this second wave and they are trying making it leni...