My Punto's Maiden Drive on the Mumbai Pune Expressway...

You know the feeling when your baby first starts school, or is selected monitor in class or represents his/her house in the Annual sports? That feeling of exhilaration, the moment of pride? Well thats exactly how I felt when the "pati" and I decided to drive down to Lonavla/Khandala at night from Pune. The subject here is my Fiat Punto, which is my baby in every sense of the word :) When I bought it two years back, it was a huge purchase off my salary (though my parents chipped in a bit :P) and well purchasing my car marked the beginning of my adulthood :)

Can you even imagine how must I have felt? :) Well after two years the feeling came back last Sunday when we had to go to meet a relative in Lonavla and we decided to drive down :) It was my little baby's maiden drive on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway! :D Of course the Punto had delivered itself well on various National and State highways but people this is the expressway I am talking about! Now for those who don't belong to this part of the country might not understand the implication of driving on the Expressway... Let me explain... The Mumbai-Pune Expressway was an ambitious project taken up by the government of Maharashtra that on completion has reduced the 5 hours drive (without a traffic jam) and 8 hours drive (with a traffic jam) between Mumbai and Pune to 2 hours flat! #JaiHoTechnology.

The recommended speed for cars on the Expressway is 90km/hr, though everyone averages around 100-110 km/hr. Thus if you are not on the right lane or are not driving at the average speed then you are destined to doom with a huge boom! The Expressway is like this sacred way to your destination and is looked on with pride by both Mumbai-kars and Pune-ites alike, with of course the residents of Lonavla and Khandala pitching in as well :) Thus the maiden drive on this highway was special for my baby girl :)

My makeup for the journey ;)

We finished the 50 kms drive in about 40 mins without any halts. We started from Pune at around 8:00 pm, reaching Lonavla at about 8:42pm... Met up with relatives, bought Lonavla special "Maganlal" Chikki and choco fudge, started for Pune at about 12:30 am and reached home by 1:15 am.

It was a wow experience and my Punto fared really well :) Proud of you baby girl :)

Late lunches on Sunday Afternoons...

Everyone of us have a special specific routine of spending a Sunday afternoon. Ok even if you dont have a routine, but you do routinely not have a routine on a Sunday right? Do I even make any sense here? :P The "pati" and I have a specific routine for every Sunday we spend together, I say that cause I am in Mumbai on many a Sundays ;) Coming back to the routine, its mostly waking up really late mid-morning and then "grazing" on some fruits and maybe a glass of cold coffee... And by the time hunger really kicks in its almost 3:00 pm... So what do we do? We end up going to one of our numerous fav eating joints that are generally around our place #storyofmylife

This Sunday though was a bit different... We both ended up craving for some veg food, South Indian especially and well decided to head to Fergusson College Road to a very popular Udipi restaurant called Vaishali. Now Vaishali is a very famous joint in Pune and has been on the scene since eternity. Literally! Stop anyone on the road and they'll tell you they went to Vaishali when they were in college and yes I mean stop an uncle and he'll tell you that, stop a retired aunty and she'll tell you the same. Vaishali is full at 7:00 am, it is full at 1:00 pm, it is full at 4:30 pm and it is full at 10:00 pm... So basically going to Vaishali is like trying your luck for a table :) Pune-ites reading this do corroborate :)





So anyways, we leave home for Vaishali and this time I ask the "pati" to drive cause I wanted to soak in the afternoon sun, feel the 10kms short journey and just enjoy the city deep in its afternoon siesta :) Yes you can sure feel my love for Pune can't you? :) Haha feel my love reminds me of that Telugu movie Arya, which has this super melodious song called feel my love :) Totally #loveit...














While "feeling" the city, I took some pics of it and I am sharing them with you here :)

So anyways once we are about to reach Vaishali, I turn to the "pati" and tell him "KFC Vaishali ke peechhe hi hai, KFC chale" (KFC is just behind Vaishali, should we go to KFC?) and he looks at me with this expression that says "Babe I chose right when I married you" #1pointforthepati and well needless to say we spent the Sunday afternoon munching on some crunchy Fried Chicken ;)

Vaishali? you ask... Maybe next time ;)

I got bitten by the Masaba Bug...

I have always thought of myself to have a regal, docile-feminine and almost a vintagey sense of style #selfobsessedthatIam but I recently surprised myself when I felt that I was drawing towards the quirky and fun creations by Masaba. For those who don't know Masaba, she is Neena Gupta's daughter (yes we have all heard about it) and well she is this super talented budding designer. With her exotic looks that is a mixture of her Indian and West Indian genes, she stands out because she not only looks different but also cause her designs are spunky and funky (and I thought I would never use these two words side by side) :P

I always thought that I was more of a AbuJani-SandeepKhosla kind of a girl with a pinch of Sabyasachi and well may be a hint of Ranna Gill but I was pleasantly surprised when I realised that I was tending more towards SatyaPaul and his abstract prints and Masaba with her tinge of craziness and the fun that her creations have with colors :) Its quite a #icouldbeagemini moment for me :P

My latest favorites from Masaba's creations would be these...

Fun Facts: Masaba is a Bantu language spoken by about 1,500,000 people in eastern Uganda

Its ok at times to not be perfect...

My parents, mom especially has always been drilling in us the importance of being perfect always, in everything we do, with whoever we meet and whenever possible. We that's my sister and I have always tried our best to follow her this rule but gradually over time I have come to realise that slipping occasionally is ok. Its ok at times to not be perfect.

Its ok if once in a while I do not call home, its ok if once in a while I come back home from office and do not cook dinner, its ok if I sometimes go out with my friends for some drinks and come home sloshed and its ok if I once in a while dig into my savings and splurge on some insanely expensive Makeup, ok that happens to me pretty often :P #storyofmylife. But seriously isn't it ok to not be a super woman just once in a while?

Of course I dished it out with my mom and she carefully listened to me, then she ruminated over it for a while and then almost whispered to me that I had said something that made her proud of her upbringing of me :) Yay to that! :D

We discussed out a bit more at length and came up with a list that could never be compromised while we could slip at other times occasionally ;) Points that topped the list of no compromises included being a good human being, no cheating and not being hurtful to others. But I guess these were quite expected ;)

So is it ok to slip occasionally and not be perfect?

You know you talk a lot when...

You know you talk a lot when you tend to run out of people to talk to and you need to resort to blogging about all your rants and ramblings. The latest victim of such a phenomenon is moi and well the less I talk about this the better. But then isn't that the whole point of blogging about your rants at random hours of the day especially when there is an IndoPak match going on and you can hear loads of swearing and cheering from the room adjacent to where you are sitting and ranting pouring your heart out to random strangers (no offense really). Now the question arises that if I already have a blog then why would I want to start another one? Well the thing is my other blog (ISimplyLoveMakeup) is purely a makeup blog and I want to stick to my principles aka Amitabh Bachchan in Mohabbatein and do not want the winds of change to touch my makeup blog even though convenience and practicality say the opposite :P Yup I am like that at times! No wonder people refuse to listen to my ramblings and I need to resort to rant blogging #storyofmylife sighhhhh...

So people in short, welcome to my blog where you will be bombarded with my shit (figuratively of course) and well of course you get to see a totally different side of me #icouldbeagemini.