Go Forward!!

These two words meant a full life to me, when I was doing the river rafting at the Great Ganga River…

The trip to the Rishikesh has unfolded so much of hidden talents in us…. The journey started on Friday October 13, 20006

I, siddharth and vivek along with one of my friend from US went in our red swift. …

We reached Har ki pauri (Ganga) in the night 1.00 clock, the water in the Ganga was chilled ….the scene was beautiful and good thing was there was no one so I could mange to do the photography…

After Ganga darshan we moved toward the Rishikesh… and a big reindeer came in front of the car, I was driving the car and it was too dark, could not do anything applied the brakes, the reindeer fell on the bonnet of the car, stood up and moved into the jungle…. The bonnet got damaged...

The road to Rishikesh from Haridwar passes through a Raja ji national park and the road is the passage to the animals, this sign board we could see in the light while on the way back from Rishikesh…

We reached to Rishikesh (Glass house) in the night … spend one day at the Ganga beach… amazing place, just go and relax….

Next day was the rafting day, river rafting in the Great Ganga River, It starts from a point eight km above the Glass house (marine point) and take you down to the Rishikesh….

We started from the Shiv puri, vivek did the first eight km and I drove the car down the hills first time in my life and that with siddharth sitting on the other seat.. Thanks to him he co-operated so well..

Siddharth was also wanted to do the river rafting…. It was my turn to sit in the raft, I was really scared …I was sitting on the front, the first rapid (a place where the stones are up in the river so makes the turbulence of water very high)

My raft was welcomed by a big wave of water, my heart was sinking, but then the two words from the trainer go forward brought my mind back and we crossed he rapid successfully …. I shouted with joy and feeling great to overcome the obstacles on the way….

Life is also the same, comes with the obstacles but the moment we choose to be Go forward , we can overcome the obstacles……………then we say it was nothing…..

Every experience you have is designed to make you stronger….

Siddharth's Space!!

This year on children day , i thought of gifting Siddharth a complete make over of his room. At the door, Siddharth is welcoming by a clap, this picture was taken when siddharth clapped for the first time....

On the door handle is the dolphin, be careful kat legee......


Teddy's corner and Pin board.....................Find a way or make a way!!



BookShelf and Flip Chart, new world to know and understand...Tweety on the right wall and his favourite puzzle corner....The room became so beautiful, it is now the favourite room of house....

Inspiration from the quote on 14th Nov.: Whatever you teach a child, whether it is through your words or through your actions, lives on forever in his or her heart....

Stay in the box & Think out of the box!!

Siddharth found one empty carton in the house, and tried to get in and enjoyed so much...
I was shooting him, somehow he did't like and stopped me from shooting... but i could manage to some shots:

Shopping at MG Road!!

Supreme court in delhi has given orders for the sealing of the shops at the MG road , Delhi…

My favourite shop Maya Toys of puzzles for siddharth is also sealed I was feeling very sad about the fact, they have sealed it because of unauthorized area.. who has made it autorised ? The poster hanged on the wall explains the situtaion….

When I came down the road , few memories came across my mind, five years back when we shifted to Gurgaon and wanted a dining table for our home , me and vivek has really serached a lot on this road… few days back my younger brother bought me the hidesign bag that shop was also sealed ….

A Sardarji was selling his painting by sitting on the road….. I thought of buying one from him, honestly none of the painting attracted me so much.. ...

I don’t know how long it take for the re open of the seal… we can go again and buy puzzle for siddharth…….

Siddharth aur uske batein!!

Life has taken another beautiful direction with Siddharth, he adds more colour to it by his little sweet talks:

Whenever you say yes by nodding your head or say haan siddharth will immediately say haan kya hota haanzi hota hai…

Papa aap jaldi aa gaye… when vivek came home by 7’O clock...

Hasne kee baat nahi hoti... siddharth will say if you just laugh on anything unusual!! Which he feels that you should not laugh…?

Me and Vivek were talking about one of our friends visit to our house, all of sudden siddharth started shouting with joy by calling the name of their daughter… (Though we had not mentioned the name of the daughter) amazing memory kids have!!

Smile

Be Determine!

Today morning, I read a forward e mail on “EXPECT GOD”S FAVOR” by Joel Osteen, Joel Osteen, pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, whose motto is "Discover the Champion in You."

The story goes like this, there is a couple who wanted to enroll their son in a particular private school, but his birthday fell four days after the cutoff date, necessitating a yearlong wait. They felt strongly that their child would do better by starting school with children his own age, so they called the school to see if they could make an exception.

“No way,” the registrar told them. “I’m sorry; that’s against the rules and we never make an exception. Your child will have to wait an­other year.”

The couple remained kind; they weren’t rude. They didn’t jump down the registrar’s throat or try to manipulate matters. They knew they had the favor of God, so they politely said, “That’s fine, but we would like to speak with your boss.”

And they reached from Vice principal to Principal, but they get the same reply, NO”

Determine that couple, said, “Fine. But we’d like to meet with your boss.”

The principal said, “I report directly to the superintendent. I’ll arrange a meeting for you.

The couple met with the superintendent of the private school and explained the situation. The man offered no comment. He didn’t say yes; he didn’t say no. He just listened.

When they finished presenting their case, he said. “I’m going to have to get back with you.” The cou­ple left that meeting still declaring God’s favor. They were expecting to get a good report, expecting things to turn around.

About a month after that conversation, they received a call from the school registrar, the first woman with whom they had spoken. She sounded perplexed as she said, “In the fifteen years I’ve been here, we have never done this before. We don’t even know why we’re doing it now, but we’re going to make an exception and allow your child to at­tend school this term.”

What happened with me was, “I wanted to go to Khadi Gram Udyog Bhavan with my friend to pick up some stuff;” I was aware of the fact , I won’t be able to try the card ,so went to the ATM for the money, by mistake I tried the wrong pin, and card got retained by the ATM machine.

I was without money, and my friend also didn’t have money as she forgotten to pick the wallet, I told her we will not go back, as now we are going to have a favor from GOD, the plan is we will convince the shopkeeper that we will shortlist the things and then we can send someone to pick up the stuff…

We both were visting the shop for the first time, we reached and started short listing the things, after short listing two things, I went to the shopkeeper and explained the situation. He agreed in the first shot... And I and my friend were looking at each other with a great smile….

This is the favor of God. The school administrators and the shopkeeper may not have known why they were doing it, but we do.

It’s because God’s favor surrounds us like a shield. It doesn’t matter what the circumstances look like in your life.

Regardless of how many people tell you that what you’re attempting can’t be done, if you’ll persevere, declaring the favor of God and staying in an attitude of faith, God will open doors for you and change circumstances on your behalf.

Helping Others!

In the hot month of August at NH 8; I was coming from a book shop with Siddharth in our lovely car swiftu… Those two eyes met with me for a second, I stopped the car… asked the lady DO you need any help? That was unusual of me stopping the car at the highway … She answered with the mixed expression of fear and happiness yes…. I asked can I drop you somewhere. She was so happy yes I want to go to IFFCO chowk it was not on my way but still I said, ok come and sit... I started the car, with a relief she said I am so happy to get the ride, I am not familiar with this area, I came for an interview and for the last one hour I am waiting to get an auto, no bus is stopping and the Rickshaw wala is charging me very high... Thanks so much... I said, “its fine, this route is different there are no autos and bus doesn’t stop, are you sure that you can reach home safely if I drop you to the Chowk.” The chowk came and she blessed Siddharth and she went her own way….

By mistake or by fortunate, I had received an e mail from a fresher student of Food technology who has sent the application for the job, thinking that I can get him a job… The cover letter was written so badly that whosoever will read ignore it… I took down his no and called him up and told him to give me a call at my cell in the evening…. Without knowing who he is I thought of helping him out… he wanted to meet me , came to my home, and gave him few tips for how to write the cover letter, refined his resume, how to approach people in the industry, which is the different companies he can give a try…. His family and he were wondering that how can someone help without knowing the person….. The same incident happened when a girl from karnal called at our office and our reception transferred the phone to me…

One mail of a supplier came to my desk, the moment I opened I realised it doesn’t belongs to my department, passed it to everyone all said no… I was in a fix how to find out the purpose of the letter… an idea came called up the supplier, he was not on the seat , left the message no reply, called again in the evening… he was in a off mood and tried to be in fighting mood with me, i said ne thing, Dear Sir, I don’t know anything about this letter, I have called to help you out if you think that by fighting with me you will solve the purpose then go ahead, but this is not going to help you rather you should listen patiently as I am going to give you the right person’s name… then he really calmed down…

Yesterday , me , siddharth and my younger brother were coming out of the lift, when I saw one old man struggling with the gas cylinder he was carrying , all of a sudden I approached to the cylinder from the other end and helped him to the car… A big smile was on his face…. J J

It reminded me of few words by Mother Teresa People may really need help but may attack you If you help them. Help people anyway.

I really don’t know why I am like this… May be I do all this to heal my heart, to give happiness or…………….??

Zindagi ek Safar hai……………….
Jisne samajah liya who mast hai…
Zisne paa liya who shaant hai….
Zise nahi mila who talaash mein hai….

Nov. 7 – Siddharth’s Birthday!

Birthday what is the meaning of birthday – I was telling siddharth … A day on which your life , only one life starts, we should make all the good efforts to make this life happy that’s why we call it as happy birthday …. And celebrate it by distributing sweets and to this siddharth said, by cutting cake and blowing candle…

The day started with as other normal day… siddharth was wished by both of us… for him it is another full day for doing things on his own.. he started with by making an aeroplane on the bed with the help of pillows… and requested me to sit on it..as he is going to meet his grand ma at PUNJAB..

Sidharth went to school, we gave some chocloates for the kids in his class, he was given a card from the school, a song was sung in the assembly for him….
I had picked siddharth early from school since i wanted him to enjoy the day on his own, when I asked him where do u want to go, he said pick up some chips and go home..I took him to the book shop(to gift him a book) , today he picked the book himself NODDY ( Do it Yourself) , I hope he will be able to read it word by word by his next birthday …

In the evening the room was decorated with ballons, and stripers… when me and vivek started to put the air in the ballon with the mouth it was difficult but then we could manage to fill alomost 30 ballons… I have invited only close friends of siddharth as he is too small to handle a big gathering…
Here was the time for cake cutting…. Sidaharth was too excited for this.. He handled the knife too softly and cut the cake with full enthu... WOW!!

He wanted to feed his friends!! and we appreciated that..

Time to feed friends Aditya, Malika and Tanu… with the cake…

First was of course Malika and then Tanu....

Photo session with the friends ( from left Aditya, Tanu, Siddharth and Malika):

After eating cake all his friends were sitting down and playing with the toys… Everyone was excited with the puzzle, cars, hammer, beads.... Good Siddharth was also sharing his toys with the friends....

Siddharth was back to his puzzle …. Overall it was a good day for siddharth and I am sure he has enjoyed it the most ..

I was just thinking ONE LIFE LIVE IT…………………………..

Different mood swings!!

Have You ever enjoyed Frooti like this!!

Isme kya hai!!
Mama ko pata chal gaya!! Caught you!!

Creative Puzzle and Siddharth!

Kids learn things very fast …. That siddharth has shown me in so many things..

Few days back I bought the another puzzle for him, thanks to one of my friends, she use to tell that you should expose the kids to different kinds of puzzle, they develop the brain layers to do solve the things in more than one way, I don’t know how much it is going to help.. But Siddharh can solve the puzzle from the age of one and half year and he enjoys doing it so I pick mostly the educational toys and puzzle for him…

This puzzle is about the play and spell, where you have to make the things like bag, car, fruits by joining the three or more pieces..

Intially I gave him all the pieces of one word, he joined.. within fifth attempt, now he can recognise the particular word pieces like Car, Cake, Dol, Mango and he can pick the pieces from the pool and join them…. and he made mango and frog.. the another good thing after making frog he will jump like frog....

And then he will say Mama clap karo... I will just look at siddharth and say WOW and then think what next puzzle for him...

A mother is a mother!

Sidharth is down with the fever for the last three days.. we were managing the baby sitting.. and siddharth was also feeling happy to be with us at home.

Today morning I thought of taking off from work and spend the day with siddharth.. I wanted to go to temple in the morning, honestly I was scared to see siddharth shivering day before yesterday night, I wanted to say thanks to Sai Baba for making him good today.. and today besuase of thrusday they do a special archana of Baba… wanted to attend it..

Siddharth also came with me to the temple, I was amazed to see his patience at the temple to be there for almost half an hour and attending the pooja…

When we were coming out of the temple, he wanted to have tikka and prasad, I requested the pujari for him.. he is such a loving kid, everyone loves him and the way he speaks Jai Sai Ram, I am sure Sai Baba will also feel happy…

We reached home and siddharth told me Mama I want to go to school, I was surprised to see his confidence and could not say No, though I was scared from inside, even when I was bathing him, checking his body temp. After giving the course of medicene and feeding siddharth we got ready for his school and my office.

When I left him at the school gate, he went quitely to his class, his class teacher screemed with joy, siddharth we are so happy to see you in the school.

I was giving some instruction to his class teacher and requesting them to monitor his body temperature …. Telling her that anytime she is more experinced than me as her kid is older… she said, we understand your feeling and after all a mother is a mother..

Her words brought the tears in my eyes which I was hiding from her … and came quicly to my car and started my journey towards my office with a tough heart, I was having the hard feeling of leaving siddharth in the unknown hands….

I know sometime you have to make some choices, which you feel that kash yeh decision mujhe na lena padta………….

People by Looks!

A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston.

Walked timidly without an appointment into the president's outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard.And probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge. She frowned.

"We want to see the president," the man said softly. "He'll be busy all day," the secretary snapped. "We'll wait," the lady replied.

For hours, the secretary ignored them. Hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away. But they didn't. The secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted to do."Maybe if they just see you for a few minutes, they'll leave," she told him. The president sighed in exasperation and nodded.

Someone of his importance obviously didn't have the time to spend with them. But he detested gingham dresses and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office. The president, stern-faced with dignity, strutted toward the couple.

The lady told him, "We had a son that attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed.

My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus". The president wasn't touched, he was shocked. "Madam," he said gruffly, "we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. He continued," if we did, this place would look like a cemetery."

"Oh, no, we don't want to erect a statue”, the lady explained quickly.

"We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard." The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, then exclaimed.

"A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical plant at Harvard."

For a moment the lady was silent.

The president was pleased. He could get rid of them now. The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, "Is that all it costs to start a University? Why don't we just start our own?"

Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment.Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California. Where they established the University that bears their name. A memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about!

Their story reminding all of us to never, ever JUDGE PEOPLE BY THE LOOKS!

What will you do if you don’t have to go on work tomorrow??

Have anyone of you asked this question to you or are we prepare for the day. I am preparing myself for the answer … Few options are , I can spend more time with siddharth, can work on few of my dreams i always wanted to do but could not get, can complete the reading of my books on my wish list, but all these things will not take much of the time…

I was discussing with my friend, then he said, “ Swatantra that’s fine, but I want you to think that whatever you choose for this time , keep one thing in mind that 15 years of your another career depend upon this decision only.”

I was stunned to hear this that there so much of truth in this… I am in deep thoughts now….

There are only few days has been left that I will come to office, they have asked me to move to a remote area (definition is far from the family) Nine months back when our MD was discussing with me the plans for the R&D, and now he is asking me to relocate… How will I manage this relocation with my three year old son...? Can I be so selfish that to save my career I should put my son into trouble? If I put these two things on the plate one is my salary cheque and other thing is Life with siddharth... I believe being emotional for my son is perfectly fine … That’s what I have told to my boss today morning I cannot move……

I am meeting all the big shot in the food industry… I go with the full enthusiasm and come back with a fuse bulb….. Yesterday Vivek and Siddharth came along with me to meet one of the people, when they both were waiting at the Barista and Siddharth was playing the guitar ... Again putting me into thoughts you can do so much to complete siddharth’s dreams…..

But that feeling of getting ready for the office, and a person like me who is managing both the fronts very well… what will I do now. Till the time I don’t get the new job……

In the morning prayers I ask him to show me the new direction, I never say why this to me?? because I know that I am his favourite candidate and my belief into this thought," CALM sea never makes a skillful sailor so GOD wants me to be come perfect sailor……………and the three words I have known in my life IT GOES ON…………… "