My City...my MUMBAI!

It was like watching cheap some Hollywood action movie, where there are terrorists with sophisticated weapons entering the financial capital of world's biggest democracy ... opened fire at various public places, terrorize two five star hotels... Then arrive cops, commandos, military and in few hours a lively town turns into a battlefield

I can’t believe this happened to my city...MUMBAI...Two hotels, the Taj Palace Hotel and the Oberoi Trident, two of the best in India, India’s busiest railway terminus....CST ....all were terror attacked on 26th of Nov'08...Why?...Why my Mumbai?....Sitting so far from my land...i feel so miserable...so helpless...I had a sleepless night...Memories were flashing across my mind...my MUMBAI...

Yes...such incidents bring you so close to life....News was flashing on my T.V...i was holding celmira close to me..it could have been you, me.., my freind, my neighbour...anyone!....ooh gosh..it was so terrible...I am shocked......, helpless and angry..I have been watching television since yesterday and i am feeling sick in my stomach...I salute the police and security men who have been martyred in the encounter..

Bad enough the security guards check my car and bags each time I enter a mall or hotel in Mumbai..but all of this could not stop these terrorists to enter my city...

Meanwhile, I was just wondering where the hell is so called saviour of marathi manoos Mr. Raj Thackray?

I am not only with Mumbai. I am always with india. Because I don't think about just one state as Raj Thakre thinks. i have sympathy with the families who have lost their family members in this attach. but i wana to ask to Raj Thakre there where he is now, why don't he come infront of Terrorist now to save the mumbai...... .. where has gone his love for his state . why dont he fight with these terrorist for his people of mumbai....? I m sorry if anybody feel bad from my words but these words came from my heart so i wrote here...r they hiding behind their doors or have put on bangles when their "so called" mumbai is facing all this threat since the past 3 days??they shud all be pulled out of their homes n pushed inside the Taj, Oberoi & Nariman house.
if they have any shame left in them, they should'nt even show their faces ever again!!....

well someone jst called me and said..Raj Thakre is busy going through the list of NSG commandos and checking if any of them is from outside of Maharashtra...

If anyone reads my blog anymore I just wanted to let you know that I am still here...

hmmm..uhh?...

One trouble with having a blog is that since people are up to date with all your news, they hardly call you up. Moreover, it is always a one-way communication.....
Agar kissi cheez ko dil se chaho to saari kayanath tumhe usse milane ki koshish me lag jaati hai......
I wanna travel atleast 1 country in each continent,..... I wanna do some buisness of my own....I wanna experiment with different cuisines and continue to make them on a regular basis...I wanna start celebrating festivals the way it has to be done setting a good example to Celmira....I wanna start wearing sari on a regular basis....I wanna learn Salsa...........I wanna restart sports........I wanna have our own house rather than a rented flat....I wanna go in a helicopter....I wanna see the Himalayas....I wanna go for a couple massage with Assad off course....I wanna send my parents abroad....I wanna see the Taj Mahal with assad and celmi....I wanna read more books....I wanna visit all the Indian States especially North East....

Its all about "I"

i associate memories with dresses, songs, situations and even ring tones. i dreamt there was a bomb blast close to my house.. i grew up in a place (Mumbai) where there are frequent bomb blasts and hence, the bomb blast dream
i would like to have a pet cat someday... i had two pet cats... One was thrown in a well by a cruel boy in my compund wen i was 10 yrs old....away in the year 1991 and the other was thrown out my home by my mother last year right after i got married.....he was 3 years old.i donate clothes quite often, but i still have too many clothes....i married the man who looked me in the eye and made me see my mistakes but loved me too much...i have become more religious and spiritual after marriage.i have 1 sister and i brother.... I am the eldest and I miss my brother and sister practically everyday....i can never give up eating fish or prawns. i have given up meat..i have not been able to finish Shantaram... Have been reading it since a long time....

zzzzzzzz

why does everything make so much sense at 3:45 in the morning? why am i so awake at 3.45? and so crazy sleepy and not able to be wake up in the morning even after half an hour of the Celmi waking up??. why m i so so sleepy....?

interesting article by Yogesh Chhabria

It's interesting article by Yogesh Chhabria.....

LATELY, I have been thinking a lot about the Lehman crisis .. Spending money
that they didn't have and going beyond their means is one of the mainreasons for their situation today. In fact that is the cause for thecurrent economic crisis in the US.
When I see all this happening, I can only remember the good old days. Then,
karz was bad. People looked down upon those who took loans. Parents wouldnot give their daughter's hand in marriage to a man with loans.
But of course, the times have changed now. Everyone I know has a loan. Thebuzz word is EMI (equated monthly installment). Today, you can buyeverything on EMI - a house, a television, an i-Pod. In fact I know ofsomeone who just bought a fancy BMW 3 series on EMI, instead of buying acheaper car outright with cash. I mostly prefer to take public transport,but then I am an old man with old thoughts!
Anyway, coming back to what caused the crisis. Imagine having Rs 2 lakh inyour bank account, no regular income, yet buying a house worth Rs 65 lakh,in the hope of selling it for a higher price. Even if the price of thehouse fell by just 5 per cent (that is Rs 3 lakh), you will go bankrupt.This is what Lehman Brothers did; with around USD 20 billion they went andbought assets worth over USD 600 billion. Isn't it suicidal and simplyfoolish?
I am sure things would have been different, had I been the head of Lehmanbrothers. But who wants an old conservative man like me to head a complexfinancial institution.
But there are a few lessons that we can learn:
1.Live a balanced life and avoid overspending.
2.Don¢t buy things we don't need.
3.Don¢t buy Branded good¢s.
4.Don¢t buy excess Food, Cloths, Cosmetics, Footwear, electronics andFashion accuraciesjust think before you buy.Tip: World still has a lot of growth ahead and the future holds immenseopportunities for us. Let us make the most of it and save and investitwisely instead of wasting our precious little on things we don'tneed.
5.Try to balance life with work (No one is happy to work in thereprofession¢s).
6. Don¢t stress out your self, after work try to do some extra activitieslike swimming,yoga, walking, running where you can divert your mind from stress.A thumb rule: Health is more important than money.
7.Try to understand each other (Wife and Husband) in financial matter¢s andhelp eachother.
Tip: As soon as you get your monthly salary, set aside a fixed amount,usually 35 per cent, for insurance, savings and investments. You can thenspend the rest.
8. Not all loans are bad. Loans that are 'need based' (home loans,education loans) can always find a place in your finances against thosethat are largely 'want based' (Credit cards, personal loans, car loans).
9. Borrow only if repayment is financially comfortable.A thumb rule: Keep EMIs within 35 to 45 per cent of your monthly income
In that respect, there is one American who I really respect - WarrenBuffet. He has lived in the same ordinary house for over three decades,drives his own medium sized car and leads an extremely regular 'middleclass' life. If that's all it takes for the richest person on earth to behappy, why do all of us need to take extra stress just so that we can getthings which aren't even essential?

Happy Birthday to you....

Wow! Last night has to be tops on the list of one of life's greatest moments!...What a great party it was.... the guest of honor (Assad) was totally surprised. ...Everyone had a great time and there were so many fun moments....i was eager to keep the bash under wraps, and used fake plans to make it...
it was tough to fool assad, because he kept asking what we should do to celebrate the milestone birthday.... I told him "it was such a busy day, that I might not be able to do anything, (he kept asking) 'What are we gonna do for my birthday?"We had a surprise birthday party for assad this past weekend — He himself admitted that he was not expecting this....
Assad was shocked when he wokeup with a room full of friends yelling, "Happy Birthday!" He had no clue! We had a great time that night.We ate, joked around ...Assad and I agree that we have the greatest friends around here....Priya, chinu, teju, sachin, ishmeen, gurpreet....you guys totally rock!!! thanks again..."I can't believe we pulled it off. He was so blown away."