Birthday woes and wows :)

18th May dawned bright and early, and the usual excitement on a birthday morning was sadly lacking in me. I was generally grumpy about people not being in a mood to celebrate my bday, thanks to the grand celebrations we'd had for other functions (being my bro and sis in law's first anniversary and a tiffin-dinner arranged for some relatives) which had tired out my family. Although they had a perfectly acceptable reason to be tired, I persisted in my juvenile claim of a bday morning lacking zest. My general spoilt attitude hit home and my darling family decided that something needs to be done to pep up my day. 

So aside from umpteen calls and messages (thank you to everyone who remembered), my brother got me 2 books on his trip back from the US, my sister spent 3 hours at crossword with my dad (who took a break in between work!) and ended up buying me three books, my other sisters, with the brothers' help sat up making a presentation of my pictures with funny captions and put it up, ordered a cake, and the mothers cooked a yum Italian dinner.. In short, my unusually dull day had just gotten transformed into a classic birthday, thanks to the efforts and the love put in by each member. 

I shall forever remain grateful for the lovely family I've been born in and blessed with, to have the BEST siblings in the whole world, and the most amazing set of parents any child could ask for. 

This post comes as a tribute to all of them, who have, repeatedly, and in various ways, been there for me, making my journey of life, exceedingly pleasant! 

Thanks and hugs to each one of them! :)

Thinking up a topic to write..

I seem to belong to that category of people who think of the title of the piece they're going to write about and then start thinking along the lines of the topic. Since I have spent considerable amount of time 'thinking' about what i want to write, I labelled this post as 'thinking up.. etc etc'

Anyway, since I've mentioned thinking, I was thinking (!) about the various ways one could make their blog useful. Going through mine, I found it has zero utility value other than boring others with my relentless rambling, especially my exam woes. Unfortunately for me, very little else is going on in my life. And right now, my parents say, the focus should be studies. Of course, thats all very good, but the mind is a fickle creature and it craves to unleash its creatiwitty on a forum like this. 

Having said absolutely nothing in the preceeding paragraph, I think (!) that I should write a travelogue. Since I seem to have the compulsive desire to 'get out' of the city and visit new places, it'd probably interesting to write about my experiences.

Of course, those experiences would come under the aforementioned class of 'relentless rambling' and hence, this would be a travellogue with a twist, I shall state how one can manage to visit fatte places (ignore the lapse into colloquialism) with a minimum budget. Yes, my dear readers, it is possible to see the world with a fixed budget and I shall share my secrets with you (drums playing... for effect) More on that, after the papers.. And since Mumbai University deemed it fit to subject us to this ultimate form of unwanted stress, my posts will necessarily be deferred to sometime after 25 may! :(