My sister’s friend has been looking after 2 kittens who now need a home. If anyone would like to have them please drop me an email at marise.lobo@gmail.com. I’ve included a few pictures so that you can go ga – ga over them 
Here is Ginger aka Adraki
Presenting Pepper aka Mojo
The kitties
Hindustan Times(Delhi Edition) ran an article titled ‘When Work Rocks’ in which Directi was one of the companies that featured. Have a look
“The article has a bunch of photos of Directians in it and it talks about the various work-life balance measures like dance lessons and yoga classes at Directi. Bhavin has been quoted as saying that it is natural for us to ensure a healthy work-life balance as the individual is at the core of our business.” - Directi Announce
My cousin Michelle married her best friend Jordan in a lovely wedding in Toronto, Canada. Here are some pictures from the wedding.
Hope along here for some more
I had a super duper birthday party this year (I know I know it has been a few months since then….. but since I’m in the mood to do some blogging … here is another post)
Although Ajay was a wee bit reluctant I decided to go ahead (steam roll him as usual) and plan a combined b’day party . Not sure how many of you know but we celebrate our birthdays on consecutive days
The gang from SCMHRD came over – Sneha, Akshat , Neha, Arijit and Aditya (who flew in from half way across the country- Thank you so much for that), my friends and family. We sure did have a ball.
Thank you guys for coming. We love you.
Here are some pictures for you to have a look at
After plenty of planning and some more, we finally decided to leave caution to the wind and head out to Nashik . The purpose of the trip – wish Joel for his birthday and see rural Maharashtra.
I asked the car to come pick me up, picked up KJD and then headed to Vasai to pick up Virgil, Joel’s Mum and Granny. We might have gottten lost in Vasai itself if it had not be for Fr. Wendell who gave us precise directions to get to Ambadi – sitting in Nashik!
Loaded the car and set out for Nashik only to get LOST in Bhiwandi ….. just when it seemed like we had to call our long distance navigator again we managed to get on the right track and sped to Nashik.
We got to Nashik and promptly lost our way to the Novitiate – AGAIN! (maybe its a sign that we need to go there more often what say Tony V? ) A few phone calls and a motorcycle escort later we reached Sadhnalaya and our darling Joel
We dropped both the aunties there and headed to Sula Vineyards which is about a 15 minute drive from the Noviatiate.
Lunch was at a local restaurant from where Wendell picked us up. I have never been to the Infant Jesus Shrine in Nashik and our trip there provided a perfect opportunity to pay a visit.
I fell in love with some pottery and had to stop and buy. I ended up buying a lot of stuff which I belatedly realized that I had to cart all over Nashik!!!!
We then drove to MPSM along long beautiful winding roads. After an exotic supper we tucked in for the night in anticipation of the long drive through rural Maharashtra the next day.
We had a short mass and headed out. We ended up driving hundreds of kilometers in the interiors of Maharashtra all the way to Ambatta and back. We visited two Jesuit mission stations, heard the stories, learned about the plant kingdom from the two Botanists we were traveling with, the shocking tale of some political lobby’s plan to submerge a whole valley to build a mammoth dam and the hope filled story of the idea of building hundreds of smaller dams that will be connected to each other thereby enabling pumping of water from dams that have filled up to those that have not at no risk of displacing people.
