After much haggling over the date my Grandma, Ruth et Moi are heading for a Goan vacation. We are taking the Holiday Special which leaves Dadar at around 11:55p.m. We usually do the Goa trip once a year but I haven’t been there since the 2005 monsoons when I went for a week but had [...]

With the exams finally over and done with I decided to have a threesome date with Ajay and Ruth. We agreed on the Namesake which was running in town. After he picked me up from Dadar, I grabbed a quick bite before we sat to do some blog work. Left for the movie by [...]

It has been a year since Uncle Clement passed away. But time has not dulled the memory of one of the gentlest men I knew. He was the “other” grandpa to me all the years I was tiny and used to live with him and Aunt Anne at Vakola when my own grandparents were on [...]

I missed the last youth trip on Vaibhav’s fishing boat as I had journal completion. He promised another trip and this time I made sure I was on that boat. The trip was scheduled for 11 this morning. However it was going to be low tide at that time and so Vaibhav rescheduled for 3 [...]

My grand uncle Louis and his wife Jennifer came down to India for a short break. While I see uncle Louis at least once a year I haven’t seen Aunt Jenny at all except in photographs. They spent a lovely day with us with Aunt Jenny regaling us with tales of London.

After months of pacing my house during the course of preparing for my exams, I finally got done with my Industrial Psychology final examinations on the 17th April. Overall the papers were good. The results will show how well they actually went. The one niggering thought at the back of my mind is the fact [...]

I worried Ajay for this space on the world wide web till he finally relented and registered this blog. Then I incurred his wrath by not even bothering to post a single entry. He threatened to shut me down if I didn’t begin to blog double quick. It was then that I promised to make [...]

Woke up this morning feeling unusually hungry. I guess it was just psychological, because I knew I would not be able to eat or drink anything till post 10. 30 a.m. I had to go to the Metropolis Clinic in Worli for my pre - employment medical examination. It was going to be the first [...]