It’s monsoon time again and what can be more frightening for mumbai city than that. 400 mm in just a day and the rumour is that there’s no respite from it for the next 24 hours too. It’s my prediction that there are atleast 2-3 days in the month of July when rains have total command over this city and it brings it to a complete standstill and it has come true almost all the time.
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OK Day
I seem to have gone mad after I was introduced to Corel Painter and WACOM Intous by Shyam. Infact I was ruing about the fact that I could not get the tabby on saturday itself :-( But anyways, I am trying to pick the basics right now although doing the same with a mouse seems very difficult but I will manage till this weekend when the tabby will be there for me :-)
I went to Jayant’s place for a luncheon and a get-together today. I liked the place a lot which is located at Prabhadevi, right next to the Arabian Sea & the view from his 9th floor apartment is fantastic. I found a few books on art at his house and it caught my fancy immediately. I did mention earlier that I now want to diversify into fine arts with the aim of digitalising and the book on the Louvre Art Gallery put more oil in the already raging fire inside me. Anyways, the food was good and both Jayant and Ranjana were excellent hosts for the day. Thanks a million:-)
Since I and Aadesh are spiritually inclined we decided to drop by the Prabhadevi Siddhivinayak temple to pay our respects to Ganesh. If there was anything that caught our attention instantly, it was the high security presence there after the Ayodhya incident. It seemed more like coming to some airport or a defence facility rather than a temple. Sadly, it seems like Lord Ganpati will have to live with this for sometime now.
Thanks Manish!!
Manish Sharma, my dear colleague at TCS would be leaving for the US on July 8th. He’s been around for quite some time now but we only got to know each other through our passion for games. He’s a die hard PS2 fan while I keep hopping between PS and XBOX :) He’d arranged a small get-together at his house at Belapur (Navi Mumbai) today. Rains lashed that part of the city but the 6 of us had a great time there. He’s got a small girl Ishika who’s a bundle of joy :) Although the rest of the gang had decided to stay back for the night, I became home sick and decided to come back, alongwith Sukanya & Vikrant. I enjoyed myself thoroughly there. Au revoir Manish!! I am sure we will meet someday at some place into the future :) All the best to you.
The other good news is that Amrita and I were back to speaking terms today. We were not speaking with each other for over a month now due to some reasons :( Today was her birthday and she had invited all of us for a luncheon at 5Spices near Ballard Pier.
And yes…there some more good news because of which I am not able to sleep tonight and that is not to be shared online. In short I am very happy today for the way the day went. :)