Author: Swati Sani

Ah!!! bliss!!!

Life suddenly is so organised – it seems strange to sleep at sane hours and wake up early, to have a decent maid to take care of things that bogged me down earlier, to devote more time to work and to go for walks without worrying about another late night to complete pending work…
I hope the state of things last… most of all I hope that this time the maid lasts she better I am paying her a big packet.

Ah!! Rains!!!

Around 6 PM today I felt it wont rain anymore and decided to go for a walk – not exercising daily was proving harmful – threatening to show at wrong places – good day to feel motivated!!!

So I changed into my jogging overalls, caught hold of hubby dear and off we went power walking. 15 minutes away from home – it started pouring. We decided to enjoy the rains and continue our walk instead of turning back and that was a good decision indeed I haven’t felt so nice in ages. The feel of raindrops on my face water soaking through the clothes and the cool breeze was indeed very very refreshing. We were the only souls outdoors and people standing in “safe places” were giving us queer looks – wonder why? We were just enjoying ourselves!!

The only nag is Tarique had mobile in his pocket and it doesn’t work anymore after being soaked completely 🙁

Thankfully, he left the palm back as it needed charging.

AoTC

Just finished reading the complete script of the movie. Aasim has been asking us so many questions about the Episode II – now I will be able to answer him correctly ( he has seen several trailers of the movie on TV) I can not tell him anything that hasn’t been shown in the move – he will catch me later and question 🙁 His typical line “mom you don’t know star wars” Like hell I do – I sat and watched all the movies again with him. For him Star Wars and Lego are Dad things and not Mom things

Learning to lose

Yesterday Aasim participated in his first skating competition. Its been just about a month since he started learning. He did not secure a position but completed the race -fell a couple of times, but did not give up.
He cried and was very very upset on not winning the race but got over his disappointment very bravely when we explained that he has to work harder to excel and win – It startles us with the kind of maturity he shows up at times and the way he copes up with disappointments.

Bad Products, Advertisements and Children

Aasim got interested in “Liril Cool Mint” after seeing its TV commercial and made me buy the soap.Today morning he very excitedly took the soap for his bath and started screaming when I soaped him – the soap has so much mint that it burns on skin specially his soft baby skin. Not just that it burns on sensitive portions of adult skin too

The least manufacturers would have done is put a caution on the wrapper. One doesn’t expect such a thing from a reputed company like HLL.

Don’t buy this soap ever !!!

Another insipid entry

Tarique says my LJ entries are rather insipid. So be it, such is my life. And who should I blame for it?

Asthma is at its worst. Home has been taken over by the pest control guys, the carpernter and the painter. We have shifted bag and baggage to the two spare rooms in the office. Hopefully things will be back to normal in 10 days and we will get to eat decent home cooked meals…

In another news, Pressman is about to start full fledged operations in Nagpur again after 5 years of gap. Veena has really worked hard. She is getting a pay hike plus two more executives. Feels good to see the Nagpur branch of Pressman doing well – I started it eight years back.

Into My Own – A Poem by Robert Frost

One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom.

I should not be withheld but that some day
into their vastness I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.

I do not see why I should e’er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.

They would not find me changed from him they knew
Only more sure of all I though was true.

Aasim fighting sleep

Of-late I am finding that Aasim is fighting sleep a lot – his eyes are red and sleepy by 8 PM but he manages to stay awake till midnight. and sometime even past midnight Earlier I had attributed to his staying indoors in summer and not getting tired, but since his skating camp began, he does get tired.

I hate to scold him to go to bed – I feel a child should not go to bed crying. He already knows all the stories he should by heart still makes me read at-least 5 of them every night and still refuses to sleep. As I write this, he is roaming around the house sleepy eyed, refusing to go any where near his bed…