IKEA

I love Ikea food, the vege pasta with alfredo sauce is a very basic pasta yet so tasty and the choclate cake - is to die for! And the food there is so cheap, I could never get tierd of Ikea food!

Athivrishti, Anavrishti!

Its really amazing that the level of commitment and awareness "to vote" has increased. Indian media is making me so nervous though. There is so much bragging and hype.

Bad economy and Swine flu:

Dear God,

Please kindly do not deprive people of both health and wealth at the same time!

Black Beauty

Our Black beauty finally arrived on Monday April 20th :)

BMW 3 series

Smile on DH's face - priceless!

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I think I am eating way too much since my parents are here with us. Rather eating my 2-3 meals a day properly and not neglecting. Eating way too much pickles. I am not a very pickles person considering I am from Hyderabad. But eating pickle everyday with Rice and ghee, is a big deal for me (in terms of the spice consumption).

Somebody has to stop the guys on CNN - have had enough about the Somalian pirates.

Parents watched EMI today and they liked the movie. I took them to our weekend getaway, last weekend - yes! the good old Natick mall. I got them to taste the most heavenly sweet cheese croissant at Au Bon Pain.

Yawnnn! lazy bones!

...this and that...

Ripples of the recession has hit in my neighborhood, and surprisingly I am not as nervous. It definitely sucks and I was shocked, but things have a way of working or not working out, right?

I have realized that I canot keep any secrets from my parents (especially my mother) and my husband. Sometimes I simply try to see if I can and I just cannot!

Took my folks to the Indian Grocery and Russo's for fruit-shopping today. Its been about 5 days since they are here. My mom still seems jetlagged and a bit tierd though. The other day I took them to Hannaford supermarket. Thats all, rest of the time just spending time at home. I wonder if jetlag is contagious I have become extra drowsy during the daytime past few days! We watched Mumbai Meri Jaan today it was a well made movie.

Finally!

After a lot of planning my parents are visiting me. Yes! it finally materialized. And it feels really good.

A lot of things going on in the background though. But my detached attitude is certainly helping me.

Here's hoping to write many more posts such as this with my milestones reached - titled "Finally!"

Washington DC

Another check on the to-do travel list. Last year I wanted to go check out the Cherry Blossom festival but some how didnt happen, with a new job and back and forth travel between Canada and Boston. This time we decided to make the weekend a long weekend and drove to Jersey city from Boston Thursday night. Our best record ever - reached Jersey city in 3 hours. It was nice to spend time with good friends. And the next day we raided Edison, Oaktree. And the previous night we had already had Paradise biryani. Friday evening we headed to DE and stayed over with another set of friends and had a good time. We had got biryani and kebabs for them from Ali Baba express, it was lousy and was already stale and we had to throw the entire food. Learnt our lesson never ever to buy stuff from there. Saturday morning we drove towards DC. And it was a pretty long drive due to the traffic. DC seemed like a nice city. We walked a lot all around the cherry blossomed trees, the White House, etc we started at about 3pm and got back to the hotel at about 7-8pm ish. Somehow I imagined the cherry blossom to be a bit more dense. It was certainly beautiful when its in full bloom and so many of them. But overall we found it just - okay! White house I knew will not have a Buckingham Palace effect even, so I was fine with that. It was just surprising to see that much crowd. It was really packed and with a lot of Indians :) I had forgotten to charge the camera. I am usually ready with such things but anyway Iphone was pretty handy that way.

We met some new people, who were our friend's friends. Ate Thai that night which was pretty medicore, except my husband's veggie fried rice which never seems to disappoint us. My eggplant curry was not that great. Half the group wanted to go clubbing so we parted ways. (I know me refusing to go out) But it was already 2 nights in a row I hadnt slept and I was in a real bad state Saturday night. I cannot get adjusted to new bed and new place easily and end up staying awake pretty much all night long. I slept like a baby once we got back to the hotel due to the backlog of sleep.

Sunday morning after we checked out from the hotel, had a very good breakfast at Ihop. and drove towards DE dropped at the same friend's place for tea. Then headed back to Jersey city. This time attacked the India street. Ate chaat at Rajbhog and P enjoyed the Butter masala dosa at the Dosa place. Ended with a great Masala chai.

Our drive back to Boston was not that bad either, we stopped over a friend's place in Stamford to see their new baby. He was such a beautiful child - very content and happy!

It was a nice weekend, we met so many of our friends after a long time. And not to mention the Indian food we hogged!