Tuesday, October 21, 2008

pregnancy and me



hmmm i know its been a terribly long time since i have updated my blog. i dont know why, but for reasons best known to me i just kept dilly dallying the writing(typing) part. how lazy of me!!!!!!!!! maybe it had something to do with all the things that were and are going on in my life.




for those who may read this blog..... well am now 9 months pregnant!!! and i cant just wait to hold my baby in my arms!!!! i had a terrible 3 months of nausea which continued right upto my 7 month!!!!! took some ayurvedic medicines which helped to keep some food down my gullet....and now i puke once in a while. what a relief !!!!


this foto that u can see is the one taken in my 8th month.

the main reason behind me writing this blog is coz i want my little one to know some of the great moments and mishaps that have taken place during his/her journey to this world!! so i am gonna address this post to my little devil who is kicing up a storm in dere......

1st month:
i had gone to japan to be with ur baba assuming that i would be dere for atleast 3 months. this was on 1st february. however, since ur aaji took ill seriously we had to come back on 14th february. ur aaji was not doing well, infact we knew these were her last days, so between making trips to the hospital and back u came into our lifes......we dint know when. me n baba came to know about ur existence on 9th of march 2008!!!! and were we excited???? we were jubiliant!! anyways u were a fighter from the start. me n baba were going through lot of emotional and physical stress and yet u were dere with us in everything. u were the only thing that gave us a reason to smile about in those days.

2nd month:
i was advised bed rest. and so ur poor baba was almost torn between working at home, office and going to the hospital to be with ur aaji. at the same time u gave me terrible nausea!!!! yup, i was going on vomitting like crazy. nothing would stay in my stomach. i was worried if u would get any food! we did a scan to see if u were alright. u were like a tiny seed then!! by this time it was almost end of march.

3rd month:
i had to start preparing for lectures and and ofcourse be careful for u!! i was still vomitting!!!! april changed a lot of things in our lives. ur aaji passed away. and the only solace we had was u. we would remain cheerful trying to think of u. u were the one who helped us overcome the difficult phase.

4th month:
i was still vomitting!!!!!!!!!! and i was exhuasted bcoz of the lectures too. i had decided to quit giving lectures coz it was becoming impossible for me to stand for so long and besides i was worried about ur health. i could give more time at home and be more relaxed now. it was in june only that we went to singapore for a week!!! we had loads of fun........so u were an international return baby even before u were born. i will show u all the pictures of the places that u visited when u were in my stomach!!! u r a bhatku baccha coz i vommited just once in our entire trip to singapore.
i wasnt putting on any weight and so would end up feeling weak. well, i even fainted once in the mall when i had gone for some shopping all alone. and after that i couldnt go out anywhere all alone!!
5th month:
we had to do a scan before baba went to japan for 2 months. we both were worried about ur health. thankfully all was right. and baba went to japan with a peaceful mind to japan. he terribly missed being with us, but wot to do? he had to this for his job. i came to stay at thane and got a lot of rest, but i was still vomitting. u were still very tiny and could float around everywhere. i could feel tiny kicks and hiccups that u gave.
6th month:
i was still vomitting!!! and each sunday had started taking lectures too. but all in all it provided me with some means to go out of the home and have a bit of exercise. baba wasnt here, and i missed him a lot. u had started moving around a bit more by now, and so every now and then i would feel giddy when u moved too much!! u were quite an athlete i must say!!!
7th month:
this is the month when i started shopping for u for the first time. me n ur aaji bght a lot of clothes for u. i even learnt knitting and made some shoes for u. ur kicks had started getting harder and my stomach would ache every night. but every time that u were quiet, i would feel something amiss. my nausea had gradually started declining and now i was feeling better and even gaining some weight. that means u were getting healthier by the day!!!
8th month:
at the end of 7th month baba came back!!! i started living between our home in mulund and thane. me n baba did a lot of cleaning at home and made lot space for u in the cupboard. we wanted to welcome u home with a lot of place for u to keep ur clothes!! baba had also done quite some shopping for u in japan. u were gonna be one pampered baby. all foreign ka maal!!! u had become heavier by now and i had started feeling difficult to walk around. ur kicks were more pronounced as u kept wriggling around. we did one scan to ascertain all was well with u. me n baba even decided a name for u. only thing was we dint know if it would be a little prince or princess!!
9th month:
well this is when am writing to u and each day i have my fingers crossed as to when i will be able to hold u in my arms...... even while am writing this i can feel ur tiny feet pushing against my ribs. and though it does ache a lot, i know am gonna miss all this once u r born. yup, we will be able to see u, which is an even more wonderful feeling, but still the special bond that only we both shared will now have to be shared with everyone else too!!!
i hope that when u grow up and read this, u will know in short about ur journey into this world. me n baba will nurture with our love, just the way we both were given a lot of love by our parents!!

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

gently falls the bakula

hmm this is a title of one of sudha murty's books.....i must say i was moved by this book..... and i dont know why somehow with all that is going on around me, it even brght a sense of calm to my mind. it made me more positive towards life. i have never been a pessimist kind of person.... however lately i thgt i was getting lost somewhere.... can marriage change somebody so much??? no it ws not marriage.... a loving and caring husband, parents to talk to and be dere to help u!! a good cushy job... wot else did i want in life?? maybe some happiness, sheer, pure happiness. but if i had all of the above why wasnt i still happy?? i really dint know and will never know the answer to dat. in all this while i read 2 books...
first one was by my favourite author... jeffrey archer... prisoner of birth. good one time read. story was almost predictible. but nontheless i was happy to catch up on some reading.
second was by another of my favourite author... sudha murty.... gently falls the bakula...... here too the ending was so predictible... but still, i was moved by this book.... its the journey of a woman who has sacrificed her aspirations and ambitions in life for her family's sake. but in return she is only taken for granted.
an amazing thing was that while i was reading it my husband called up to say he was scared something untoward was going to happen..... and thats when i realised that in his case he was the one who had been making sacrifices for everyone but ultimately nobody ever bothered to appreciate him or even thank him once for all that he been doing for soo long. he had always placed others ahead of himself. and now my bakula was drying up..... there was hardly any fragrance left to spread. my bakula was tired of giving shade to others and protecting others....
he wanted someone to give HIM some protection, pamper him, indulge him.
and that i know my bakula will make u strong and happy again!!!

Saturday, January 19, 2008

sisters

read shobha de's sisters.
absolute crap! and bullshit! i finished the book only coz i dont like to keep a book half read!!!
it started pretty ok..... then the racy scenes in between which were put in had no rhyme or reason to exist... by the end even those racy scenes were too fast!! it almost seemed like DE was too bored with her own novel!!!! it seemed she got a warning from her publisher to complete the book in so and so time and also in so and so pages! everything just looked so hurried up in the end!!!!
after reading her novel i felt even i shd write a novel!!! no research required nothing!!!!!


only one word for that book: YUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

that WTF moment!!

ya i know till now almost all of us hv gn through a moment like this atleast once in our life where we hv turned around and said "what the f**k?"
in recent times i hv been thorugh this twice!!!! yup twice!!
i had called up my mobile service provider to ask if they provided international roaming facilites to JAPAN....conversation went on like dis
operator: hi, this is richa. how may i assist u?
me: are u providing international roaming to japan?
ope: gv me a minute please.
then hold music is going on......suddenly she picks the call again
ope: where is dis japan state located??
me: (dumbfound) japan... state.... aaah no its a country
ope: hold on
again music... this time she is back after a minute
ope: where is this japan country located? means in africa, europe, near australia????
me:(too shocked to even answer) u dont know where japan is located??? (almost going to say WTF?)
ope: i know its location....(am shocked).......but where exactly does it come on world map??

by this time i hv lost all patience and really dont know wot to say!!! so i just banged the phone down!!!

my next WTF moment came after abt 2 days from this incident. i had booked a ticket with a travel agent and had to cancel it.
ope: hello xyz travels.... how may i help u?
me: can i talk to mr. rahul?
ope: he is not on his seat.....how can i help u?
me: hmmm well actually i hd booked a return ticket to tokyo on singapore airlines... i wanted to
cancel that ticket.
ope: ok madam it will be done.... but can u tell me if it is a rail ticket, bus ticket or air ticket??
(@ dis particular moment i feel WTF)
me: (patiently answering) madam if i hv to go tokyo i will hv to go by air!!! if u know any bus service from india to tokyo pls lemme know!

i was wondering if people really can be stupid or they r too preoccupied to actually listen properly to wot we ask or speak???

well i shdnt blame others... i too hv had this WTF moment........dat is someone must hv said this to me.....
one toh i clearly rmbr......hd been to wedding(sameer's friends marriage) we went up to congratulate the couple..... i knew the guy.... i went to talk to his wife who was the bride.....all shining on her special day!!! and this was my foot in mouth or WTF moment.....
me: oh u r looking so lovely and pretty!
bride: (blushing) thanx!!!
me: b.t.w wots ur name???
huh! WTF! b4 i knew it, i had brght upon me a great disaster!!!! my hubby and his friend were to shocked to say anything!!!!!
till date i regret that moment... sameer lost a good friend!! come to think of it... i had gn for the wedding and dint even know the brides name?????
hey but u know the funny thing is even now i dont remember her name!!! hehehe!

anyways will write some more WTF moents as and when they arise!!!

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Happy 2008!

hey....... new years here again!!!!! another year and some more resolutions!!! more resolutions means more promises meant to be broken!!!

wot hv i thght this year???? hmmmm
1) lose 10 kgs! (unimaginable)
2) take a chill pill about life
3) not to overeat at all
4) savings for sams MBA.

haa....sigh the list is long.... and the resolutions are really beginning like hard to keep!!! especially resoultion 1 and 3!
i guess we already hv breached those promises!!! ystdy we just hogged whole day!!!!!! frankie and chole bature, and later pizzas!!!!!!!! aaaaaaah! tooo much binging!!! man whens it gonna stop? is it ever gonna stop???

anyways.... i always wondered why people make resolutions when most of them are broken! though i rmbr one particular year hen i decided that i will do something to cool down my anger! count till 10 everytime get angry.......and was i successful???? u bet i was!!! really cooled me down a lot. but dats just been one year! i hope to stick to these years resolutions... i need to do dat!

amen to my new resolutions!