I mean when will human evolution reach desired efficiency levels..? When will the human body start understanding the simple logic ke boss, we are not living in an agricultural dependent society, one sookha will not starve me to death.. So... So I don't need to store excess fat.. Till a reasonable level its ok, after that its only a waste.. I mean can't believe that we (as a field science) really have not figured out a way to control that.. Or Human evolution has not yet adapted our bodies for this concept..
So for now.. Unfortunately dieting karna padega.. Ok world, here I diet for this habit of my body..
Shonu... Deitng kariss mei.. No oily etc etc, sweets limited.. and we walk.. like celmi says "walking", so here we go walking &b stretching..
Assad
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Tiger Chilli Crab Festival
Last weekend we headed out to a chilli crab festival..It was put up in Madinat Jumeira souq. It had handful of stalls selling overpriced food items, which was average tasting...When we arrived we got Celmira face painted which was her first time!...she looked cute little butterfly.. Then we splurged on shrimps dimsums... It was a very small portion for the price tag and I was disappointed... the other choices noodles, Singaporian rice were also average in taste..We found a place to sit on the big stairs and listened to the band play some great tunes, the weather was lovely once the sandstorm died down) and company was awesome....It was a great evening and laughed and smiled alot.......I also got many compliments on my new gladiator shoes that I wore ...Here are a couple of photos from last night....
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
celmi
Celmi has her own sense of logic & spatial visualisation. I mean things we probably cannot comprehend, or don't think of that way, somethings only a child can think of/ imagine.
For celmi, the hairband is C (holding it sideways) then she will close it and make it an O. The handle of the hanger is 2. She will pick her hair band and call it O.
She sees STAR, where we do not see/ notice it at all. On my T-shirt, where I ha dnever noticed it, or in the logo of some restaurant, she will notice a star. Star and Circle are her favorite shapes.
For home she says "igya", for when we reach home we say "ghar agaya".. Now whenevr we are out, and she sees a UNB branch or an Al Rostamani logo, she will say "igya"
Assad
For celmi, the hairband is C (holding it sideways) then she will close it and make it an O. The handle of the hanger is 2. She will pick her hair band and call it O.
She sees STAR, where we do not see/ notice it at all. On my T-shirt, where I ha dnever noticed it, or in the logo of some restaurant, she will notice a star. Star and Circle are her favorite shapes.
For home she says "igya", for when we reach home we say "ghar agaya".. Now whenevr we are out, and she sees a UNB branch or an Al Rostamani logo, she will say "igya"
Assad
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Since Assad was on a official tour to Turkey last week..me and Celmi had our day spent with my friend Madhura..Super cheerful, super happy loud and so cool!..Madhura and Pankaj are the most sincere and happy couple i have met...They are full of positive energy committed to each other and most of all the joy and understanding between each other..i truly believe they are soul mates ...may your love a devotion to each other may last forever...
Atlantis Aquaventure
we celebrated celmira's birthday in Aquaventure, Atlantis..Assad had taken leave from office...We arrived there on tuesday morning, which was a good timing since there weren't too many people so we didn't have to queue too long for the first few rides...The first ride was a lazy river, river with several tides here and there. We took water baloon to sit... The hole in the baloon was a bit too big for me so my back bumped onto the bottom of the slides all the time.Assad convinced me up to take the slide called leap of faith - 27.5-m straight line slide. I felt shiver just thinking about that, so I wasn't sure at first.. but when we came to the queuing line, there were bunch of kids, just half of my height and they seemed enjoying and having fun! One of them told me "after 10 times, you will feel nothing"..so I decide that I can't be humiliated by kids and I will take the slide! Actually it wasn't so bad as it went so fast, but the feeling when your turn came, you have to sit with the position told by the guard and wait for his green light to go... it was so scary, now I can feel the feeling of chicken in a slaughtering line:( You know what will happen there, but nothing you can do. I felt that I fell down freely, nothing under my feet, for a few seconds before the slides turn flatter and splashed water everywhere and I went through a slide underneath fish tank and came out in a pool.Then I continued to take another ride, it called Shark Attack.... went to a fast and curvy slides before I entered a tunnel inside the big tank, so we can flow slowly and watch fish swim around us...Around mid day - the people started coming and this place became very crowded.Most of the park's rides are located in the Ziggurat, a Mesopotamian-styled structure that towers 30 meters into the sky. It boasts seven slides, including the now renowned Leap of Faith, a 27.5 meter slide roughly 9 storeys high....it is the tallest, fastest freefall slide in the Middle East.We took Celmi to Splashers, a water playground featuring elaborate water games, slides and structures for toddlers...but she didnot enjoyit...she was enjoying the lazy river with us..Overall we had a good day...
Friday, March 26, 2010
Istanbul, Day 2..
Had a small breakfast in hotel. Picked up some street food. Hazelnuts and kismis. Quite good (btw the guy I met in the morning is also the GM of a large hazelnut exporter, ferror rocher, cadbury and all his clients..)
Ok.. so.. me and my cabbie shared the packet, quite yummy, infact I like hazelnuts.. Which actually reminds me they didn't give me hazelnut packet on Turkish airlines (cost cutting maybe), and I was looking forward to it. You don't get good hazelnuts in Dubai (atleest I haven't had any).. Ha these were very good ones..
For my afternoon meeting, had to travel all the way to Asia. I mean I am staying in Europe, my meeting was in Asia, went by road ofcourse. Ok, to explain better, Istanbul is part in Europe, and part in Asia. I am staying in Europe side, and had 2 meetings in Asia side today..
Ok now you gotta hear this, the guard who was helping me get a taxi, did not know about 'India'. He says "Indonesia?" I say "no India", he looks confused.. He asks again "not Indonesia?", I tried my best to convince him that there actually exists another country on the very same planet, which has a very similar name to country he knows, and yes it does exist.. Though he did not seem 100% convionced though.. He must be thinking I just made the name (the name India) up..
Hmm.. Some brand building needed here, I guess.. And turkey would be a good place to advertise India, as it is a tourist destination, and the same guys can then visit India as well.. go where your target customers are.. he he..
You know, how we keep our houses cold in Dubai.. Even when the outside temp is ok, we will switch on the AC, and then sleep with quilts.. I think people here like to keep it hot/warm.. The taxi drivers heat up thier cars, and they feel cold when I leave the windows open.. whereas I quite enjoy it..
Which reminds me 11 pm night walk on the roads in a 8 degree city without a headcap is a bad idea... Shonu.. next time please woh monkey cap (jisme mei actually bahut stupid dikhta hu), please pack kar dena..
I was stuck in a traffic jam returning from Asia, the bridge is in itself a tourist attraction.. And you know what.. People were selling in the traffic.. Like in india at traffic signals.. A guy was selling water, another mobile chargers, another flowers (flower dekh ke mere shonu ki yaad aais) another one selling bread.. (very interesting looking bread, like a donut with 6 inch dia, but only 1 inch thickness and he was carrying a huge pile on a stick.. Wanted to buy it, but we went past him.. Being a Muslim country, I can pickup eatables w/o too much of a worry.. I Picked up something from another vendor, had no idea what it was when I bought it.. It was called wafer halva, quite good, infact pata hota accha hoga toh do leta, one for home..
Another good street food I had during my post dinner walk was freshly roasted chestnut, this was kept on a hot plate on the street.. 10,000 better than the so called 'roasted chestnut' we get in packets in Dubai in most of corn carts.. what was very interesting here is that this guys bakda was on the street outside a MacDonalds.. and he was sitting inside MacDonalds reading newspaper.. uska dhyan tha baahar, so if you went near his wares, he would come out proactively, but also interesting was that MacDonalds not only allows him to sell wares on the street right outside their door, but also give him shelter in the cold weather.. maybe extreme harmony or maybe he pays them, like it happens in India.. but we people always think "it happens only in India".. but guess the people, and thus situations and reactions to the situations is probably quote similar across geographies..
Arrey one more interesting thing.. Most keyboards here are ofcourse dual language keyboards (like we have in UAE also).. So the keyboard here did not have i,instead it had in place of i, i without a superscript dot.. and didnt notiuce it first, and my mail login attempts kept failing.. then found the actual i was sitting somewhere else.. interesting..
Ok.. so.. me and my cabbie shared the packet, quite yummy, infact I like hazelnuts.. Which actually reminds me they didn't give me hazelnut packet on Turkish airlines (cost cutting maybe), and I was looking forward to it. You don't get good hazelnuts in Dubai (atleest I haven't had any).. Ha these were very good ones..
For my afternoon meeting, had to travel all the way to Asia. I mean I am staying in Europe, my meeting was in Asia, went by road ofcourse. Ok, to explain better, Istanbul is part in Europe, and part in Asia. I am staying in Europe side, and had 2 meetings in Asia side today..
Ok now you gotta hear this, the guard who was helping me get a taxi, did not know about 'India'. He says "Indonesia?" I say "no India", he looks confused.. He asks again "not Indonesia?", I tried my best to convince him that there actually exists another country on the very same planet, which has a very similar name to country he knows, and yes it does exist.. Though he did not seem 100% convionced though.. He must be thinking I just made the name (the name India) up..
Hmm.. Some brand building needed here, I guess.. And turkey would be a good place to advertise India, as it is a tourist destination, and the same guys can then visit India as well.. go where your target customers are.. he he..
You know, how we keep our houses cold in Dubai.. Even when the outside temp is ok, we will switch on the AC, and then sleep with quilts.. I think people here like to keep it hot/warm.. The taxi drivers heat up thier cars, and they feel cold when I leave the windows open.. whereas I quite enjoy it..
Which reminds me 11 pm night walk on the roads in a 8 degree city without a headcap is a bad idea... Shonu.. next time please woh monkey cap (jisme mei actually bahut stupid dikhta hu), please pack kar dena..
I was stuck in a traffic jam returning from Asia, the bridge is in itself a tourist attraction.. And you know what.. People were selling in the traffic.. Like in india at traffic signals.. A guy was selling water, another mobile chargers, another flowers (flower dekh ke mere shonu ki yaad aais) another one selling bread.. (very interesting looking bread, like a donut with 6 inch dia, but only 1 inch thickness and he was carrying a huge pile on a stick.. Wanted to buy it, but we went past him.. Being a Muslim country, I can pickup eatables w/o too much of a worry.. I Picked up something from another vendor, had no idea what it was when I bought it.. It was called wafer halva, quite good, infact pata hota accha hoga toh do leta, one for home..
Another good street food I had during my post dinner walk was freshly roasted chestnut, this was kept on a hot plate on the street.. 10,000 better than the so called 'roasted chestnut' we get in packets in Dubai in most of corn carts.. what was very interesting here is that this guys bakda was on the street outside a MacDonalds.. and he was sitting inside MacDonalds reading newspaper.. uska dhyan tha baahar, so if you went near his wares, he would come out proactively, but also interesting was that MacDonalds not only allows him to sell wares on the street right outside their door, but also give him shelter in the cold weather.. maybe extreme harmony or maybe he pays them, like it happens in India.. but we people always think "it happens only in India".. but guess the people, and thus situations and reactions to the situations is probably quote similar across geographies..
Arrey one more interesting thing.. Most keyboards here are ofcourse dual language keyboards (like we have in UAE also).. So the keyboard here did not have i,instead it had in place of i, i without a superscript dot.. and didnt notiuce it first, and my mail login attempts kept failing.. then found the actual i was sitting somewhere else.. interesting..
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Happy 2 nd Birthday..
23 March 2010,
Dearest Celmi,
You, our first child our baby forever,.... I could end this post right here.... Wipe my hands clean of what I want to say and call it a day, "Happy 2nd birthday." But I have so much on my mind today and we want to say it all to you.... we can never live without you.. I still, to this day, have not forgotten about the week we spent together sleeping side-by-side when u were born 2 years back.. You... My love,are the one that made us realize that life is so precious.... we can never thank you enough for comming in our lives and for that we are forever thankful.... You are so special....Perhaps that is why you are so incredibly spoiled with love. I have no patience in disciplining you correctly as i thought of doing... When you SCREAM "no" when its ur eating time..and we giggle out loud together in defeat.... I have thought about it for awhile and realized that you, my baby, have years to understand the word NO and in the meantime I will continue attacking you with kisses every time you have a tantrum..... as a new parents we made sure you were taken care off, well fed, and well mannered...me and daddy would read lotz of books to do that!... With you it's all so fun.. all I have is time... Time to appreciate. YOU are my baby,our first.. the child that we always dreamed of having.... You complete us as a family.We are so in love with you... Happy Birthday ..Forever yours, Mama and daddy...may allah bless you with good health..and everything!
Dearest Celmi,
You, our first child our baby forever,.... I could end this post right here.... Wipe my hands clean of what I want to say and call it a day, "Happy 2nd birthday." But I have so much on my mind today and we want to say it all to you.... we can never live without you.. I still, to this day, have not forgotten about the week we spent together sleeping side-by-side when u were born 2 years back.. You... My love,are the one that made us realize that life is so precious.... we can never thank you enough for comming in our lives and for that we are forever thankful.... You are so special....Perhaps that is why you are so incredibly spoiled with love. I have no patience in disciplining you correctly as i thought of doing... When you SCREAM "no" when its ur eating time..and we giggle out loud together in defeat.... I have thought about it for awhile and realized that you, my baby, have years to understand the word NO and in the meantime I will continue attacking you with kisses every time you have a tantrum..... as a new parents we made sure you were taken care off, well fed, and well mannered...me and daddy would read lotz of books to do that!... With you it's all so fun.. all I have is time... Time to appreciate. YOU are my baby,our first.. the child that we always dreamed of having.... You complete us as a family.We are so in love with you... Happy Birthday ..Forever yours, Mama and daddy...may allah bless you with good health..and everything!
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