My new scooty goes vroooooom.....

I just so love my new scooty - a Honda Dio. It has such fine acceleration. I mean compared to the old Kinetic that i was used to , this is charming. Old Kinetic was little stiff with age. It needed to be coaxed a few times before it volunteered to accompany me. This younger one is brimming with enthusiasm and starts purring the minute i press the start button.

It's a pity i cant use it to travel to office in Pune. Mom has confined the scooty's limits to Mumbai alone. Its gonna be the good old rickety six seater to office then. The whole of Pune is filled with them. They look like monstrous rickshaws. Though the seating capacity is 6, the drivers force in at least 10.

Well if u look at it positively, rickshaw pooling at least helps save the environment! Way to go monstrous rickshaws!!


Something i found interesting: The Honda Dio is named after Dyonisiac or Cupid, the Greek god of love and son of Venus . So yippeee Cupid is with me with his bow and arrow.. what does this translate into ?? ;D


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Christmas or X'mas ?

The sermon in church tonight was about the relevance of Christ's birth in our lives. About how we have both knowingly and unknowingly separated Christ from the Christmas. Christmas today is just another celebration. Achen put it as 'Christmas' being no longer a standalone noun, it's almost always used in conjugation with some other noun which shadows Christmas like christmas cake, christmas party, christmas decorations, christmas father and so on.

I remember a skit we had once performed. The idea was the same.

A christmas card maker once got an order to photograph the 'Best Christmas Card' ever. Exhilarated, he calls up all the actors. He calls up Mary and asks her to bring baby Jesus from the cresh. He calls up Joseph. With just these three the card looked plain. So he put in sheep and goats and cows. It still looked dark and gloomy to him. And so he pondered on ways to make it better. He then brought in a tree and decorated it with the brightest lights. He got in balloons and streamers. He called up Santa Claus and asked him to come along with his elves and reindeers and sleigh. He got in flashy gifts and mistletoe and candles. With all this in, the frame wasn't sufficient to contain all of them. As the addendums kept increasing Jesus, Mary and Joseph kept getting pushed out. Finally the photographer thought it perfect and when he clicked the shot which was to be the best Christmas card ever, Jesus was no where in sight in the frame. This play was a hit, people took home a message similar to the one dispensed today. Christmas has become X'mas - we have crossed out the Christ in it.

Let's keep Christ the protagonist in our Christmas activities and celebrate in a way Jesus would want us to. Let us endeavor to make this Christmas beautiful for someone else too. May Love and Charity be the hallmark of this Christmas season.

Wish u all a wonderful Christmas.


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A warm thought for the season.

Merry Christmas



The season of love and joy is here. We have all been busy singing carols, exchanging gifts, decking the tree and shopping for that perfect Christmas outfit. I was no stranger to this and so yesterday night when i came home from Pune and switched on the computer, the message on my desktop struck a chord in my heart. Whether dad had changed the desktop to this particular message on purpose, I didn't ask him. But it was something i needed to practice this Christmas season.

Here it is for u :

Christmas gift suggestions:

To your enemy, Forgiveness.

To an opponent, Tolerance.

To a friend, Your Heart.

To a customer, Service.

To all, Charity.

To every child, a Good Example.

And to yourself, Respect.



Signing off for breakfast... Merry Christmas folks!!


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Divide and Rule... even God was not spared.

I was reading up a bit on the history of the church. There were schisms in the church,i realized as early as the fifth century AD. I feel that this was bound to happen when each group of people interpreted Christ's doctrine in their own way. I wonder if the church was split up only due to some obdurate ministers who weren't willing to accept any other idea but their own. However accepting all ideas would again lead to no consistency in the church, it would be like a irregular patchwork with different ideas glued unevenly to hold them together. Had Christ anticipated that we would tear up his bride so. Whichever sect of Christianity we to, i feel that we are each responsible for dividing the Church.


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On getting back...

I finally blogged after a long break. It's good to see some new content once a while. I just cannot understand the reason why i am writing three posts in one night :)

it's probably because once i start writing,i find that i have much to say and describe things that happen around me and happen to me.

I have purchased a few more books. Mein kampf, Jinnah and Pride and Prejudice. I still find that i am partial to classics. I need to read some new (classic) authors :D

there is always a struggle to read books on current issues an history and philosophy, but i find a lack of passion in me. A friend has given me a book 'Rome sweet Home' i was supposed to have started reading it by now, but it's still lying in my bag :P

I am soo lazy... Garfield and I would have been great friends :D


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Mumbai rocks !

A couple of my friends and I went to Crawford market today. The place was so crowded that to in order to from one side of a 10 feet wide street to the other, we had to dodge traffic for nearly a minute. We were in the wholesale section of the bazaar. Crawford market is the best place in Mumbai that i have seen till date for huge shopping discounts. This place is full of narrow gulleys and winding roads. You will many people thronging the streets and shops, along with laborers pushing cartloads goods to be sold from the go-downs to the retail shops.

We were searching for good Christmas decorations and we weren't the least disappointed. There were so many articles multicolored streamers, santa clause caps, X'mas trees and a plethora of decorations with chiming bells and glittering stars. The prices quotes in these shops were nearly half of those quoted in shops in Miraroad.

We also went to Zaveri bazaar, where there are lines of shops selling exquisite jewellery made of beads, pearls, gold, diamonds and everything. I made a mental note to visit this place before my wedding :P

We then found our way to fashion street in Colaba. Bought some stuff really cheap from the streets. Street shopping is so much fun, especially with friends. Those who aren't from Mumbai shouldn't miss this if they get an opportunity to 'shop till u drop' :D

It's great to roam around in churchgate and colaba. The old colonial British buildings, the cobbled streets and the amazing shopping options make this place an excellent hangout. Five stars to the townside !!!


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I was bored of seeing the color scheme on my blog,and so decided to put in some lighter pastels. I like the effect. Change is always good but sometimes change is good only temporarily ;)