Anniversary special

Yesterday was my parents 28th wedding anniversary! Cheers to them on completing 28 years of togetherness! As I wished them, they felt years have flown by so quickly!
They made the occasion special by having lunch at one of their most loved restaurants 'Bhairavi' followed by purchasing saplings and planting them before it starts pouring down heavily! They both are passionate about gardening and I am sure there wouldn't have been a better celebration and mutual gifting than this!!!

I too made the day special by buying a business purse considering it as a return gift form them!

In the shoes of.....

It happens a million times when we answer scenarios where we had to "put ourselves in the shoes of..." but rarely happens that it turns into a real-time experience!
Praveen is lucky enough to get such an opportunity. Due to his excellent academic track record, interpersonal skills and his glorious achievement of landing on a job in his field, his trainer at the professional year course allocated a batch of six students for him to interview.

It was altogether a different experience for him to do this task. He had to prepare well in advance for the questions, note the answers given by each, formulate a structured feedback based on their performance and most importantly correct/guide them where they went wrong or could have answered better. It made for a great learning curve for him to understand student tendencies, interests and at the same time be extremely attentive to what they answer. 

As expected, it was an exhausting day with lots of talking and feedback sessions! Though tiring for him, his effort and feedback helped them all know more on how to be job ready for the Australian market and the small tricks which instantly distinguish you from other candidates.

  

Rug up Melbourne

Melbourne weather, June 24 2016: Hail, rain and snow to descend on the city!

This headline is more than enough to get goosebumps! Two years back we had experienced a severe hailstorm and its effects! People were unable to believe that it nearly snowed in Melbourne making everyone excited and frostbitten!

1st August 2014

1st August 2014

Today we might get to witness the same wintry state as the outskirts of the city are all set to get blanketed in snow!

Rug up Melbourne, today is going to be very cold!

Utterly Butterly Delicious - Amul!

Amongst all the pictures that I saw to mark the International Yoga Day, I loved the one Amul put-forth!

They have got the trick to retain and get more fan following by coming up with creative ads with a sweet personal touch. I am sure they successfully would have casted their magic spell by this one too!

Simply Idlicious

Yesterday's dinner was perfect for this horribly cold weather. The dish was a combo of hot steaming idli's and wada's!

Shreyash had invited us for dinner as his parents are in town. His mom prepared idli, wada, dosa, chutney, sambar and sevaiya kheer. It was a feast to have them all home cooked and served hot on the plate. All items were very tasty and gave us a feel that we were in a restaurant enjoying a lovely dinner! 

Treating Ourselves

Over the past week, we have had many friends come over for dinner and both of us constantly engrossed in the preparations. In all the hurry while cooking, serving and cleaning we forgot to 'Treat Ourselves' with the yummy food and so decided to have the feast today afternoon!

Choole Bhature with a sweet dish of gulab jamun is our all time favorite. It felt heavenly to enjoy this treat and eat peacefully till we were full!

  

BOSE

Praveen booked online the BOSE audio system (Sounddock-3) which was paramount on our wishlist. He kept this booking in secrecy and wanted to surprise me directly by purchasing it! I was overjoyed to see it finally there rocking our house!

We kept listening to all sorts of music and soundtracks till late night and enjoyed all compositions with the explicit sound effects the system is well-known for!