A Hectic Sunday
Today was a hectic day for me. Had some pending work since last few days and wanted to finish them all today. Yesterday also, though it was weekend, my day was fully packed. We went to Urjit’s school to attend his students led conference. There was a long to-do list in Urjit’s plan for his mom and dad. He wanted us to see his activity book, the IB book, his best dance, he wanted to draw something for us, wanted to show us his singing talent and at the same time, he was eager to show us his skills on computer as well. And I had already a meeting scheduled at 11.45 am and the guy was waiting for us. Finally I had to convince my son that we will make it next time and then after leaving him at my sister-in-laws place we headed for the meeting to meet a logistics guy who was interested in getting an application done for Logistics.
Later in day, Ajay visited us from Delhi to discuss about his website. After dropping him at station, we headed to my mom’s place for dinner. I had planned to work on the database for this new site called Gigabo. But it was quiet late so thought of doing it today. There are more than 2 million records which needs to be properly imported in respective tables with their constraints properly in place, so this morning after a quick b’fast of one mango milkshake, I started my work. I was uisng the Import Export wizard but the task was taking ages to complete… I just kept on waiting to let it finish, but it never finished. In the meantime, I was trying to entertain my son as well… as he gets very upset if I don’t spend time with him and don’t pay attention to him. So we logged onto youtube and he wanted to see his favorite song for TZP, bam bam bole and while the song was playing, he was doing lip-sync and was busy dancing and enacting. See the cute video here.
While the query was running on the remote computer, I also finished transferring one of the blogs we worked on earlier. It was a long pending task. The client had requested me to do it in Feb and I was so busy, but he kept waiting for me. So finally I had to agree and accepted the work. Sometimes you have to accept some work just because of your relationship with the client and the trust they show to you.
I am also happy that I was able to go though all the emails for the KidsandBibs.com photo contest entries, resize the images, upload them and update the contest blog. There were more than 80 entries this month. The site and the free contest is becoming more popular day by day. How all of us love FREE stuffs 
Though I feel, close up shots are more appropriate for contest, today while resizing the images, I loved this photo of Veronica. I was thinking if I was sitting in her place. The place looked so nice and calm. See the photo.
If you love looking at cute baby photos, like me, then do check out this lovely baby photo gallery.
That’s all for now. Have a great week ahead!
Manipur - a beautiful state in India
I have not been regular on my blog since last few months. Though I wish to do regular posting, sometimes you just don’t find time. With projects to deliver, sites to manage and above all my cute little son, (who is always complaining that I spend more time in front of computer), finding time for my own blog or myself takes a backseat. And on top of it.. I am having severe backaches since last so many days. Finsihed the X-Ray and the blood test etc.. but all report says normal.. maybe I just need some rest!!
I was also busy travelling right from the month of Feb. In feb we visited Chandigarh to meet hubby’s cousin and his wife and son whom we did not meet after our marriage. He had come for our marriage though And now we were meeting him after six long years that too with our kids so it was a good bonding time for everyone. We had been to Delhi after that for Urjit’s Canada visa as they wanted to have a personal interview and the interview went smoothly, and while coming back from Delhi, we nearly missed our flight. We were in Noida staying with a friend and while coming back to Delhi, to goto the airport, we missed the exit on the Noida expressway going to Greater Noida and we ended up driving till Greater Noida. All thanks to my dear brother Ajay(now a hero in Tamil movies),who managed to drive us to the airport just before the flight was to take off.I will do a post on this as well 
In March, we travelled to Manipur for Urjit’s churakaran ceremony. Check out my cute son in his new cool look here. In April we had been to Mumbai for Urjit’s US visa. When the visa officer asked Urjit, what he would like to see in US, pat came the reply SNOW!! And the lady gave a smile. And then we travelled to Belgaum for my sister’s engagement. I enjoyed the drive from Pune to Belgaum.I think Karnataka is more green compared to Maharashtra. I miss the Bengaluru weather especially these days,when Pune’s temperature is going above 40 degree celcius.
On April 13th, we celebrated Manipuri New Year called cheiraoba.
So here’s wishing a very happy new year to all the friends and visitors whose new year starts in the month of April. I think many communities in India have their new year celebration in April month.
Mistaken Identity
In our school, we used to have Sanskrit as a subject and I was really good in that. Infact I remember, most of the Sanskrit teachers used to praise me and they used to say “Asha belongs to far north east then also her diction and pronunciation is so good”.
This famous incident happened when I was in 9th grade,when we had a new Sanskrit teacher. I still remember Mam S. She was very different from other Sanskrit teachers we had in the school. Most of the teachers used to translate Sanskrit into Hindi and teach, whereas Mam S, always used to use English for translation and she was quite good looking too.
So the first day when she came to class, there was no formal introduction with the students and somehow she just started calling me Ms. Thapa. In our class there was one girl, whose name was Ms. V Thapa and she was a mix of Mahastrian mother and a Nepali father, and though she got the surname from her father, she had more of her mother’s genes so she looked more like a Maharashtrian girl. And this sanskrit mam, assuming that there was one girl from Nepal, assumed that it must be me.. because of our asian looks and from day one she started calling me Ms. Thapa.. she used to point towards me and say.. yes Ms. thapa, read that sholoka or translate that sentence, and days passed with her calling me Ms. Thapa all the time.
Let me also add to the fact that this Ms. Thapa was actually our senior who had failed in her class and got demoted and came in our class, whereas I was the bright student in the class, always used to come 1st in my section. So a few days after we had our first unit test and that day I remember, Mam S, came to the class and she was very very upset. As soon as she entered the class, she said.. “Ms. Thapa, I thought you were a very good student and you used to do so nicely in the class and in the written test, you have done so badly, you scored so less.. and she kept looking at me and saying that” and then she added.. ” Well there is one more girl, Asha, she has done really well in the test and she got the highest marks” and she was then distibuting the test paper and was calling out the names of the students, for the first time. So when she called Asha, I went to collect my paper and Mam S was shocked.. she was like.. why are you coming… I replied, Mam’ I am only Asha. And she was like.. then who is this Thapa and that time the actual Ms. Thapa came and Mam S.. got very angry.. she was saying, why you people did not tell me earlier.. she said, I was always calling you Thapa, and you never said that it’s not you.. and I replied, M’am you never gave a chance. From day one, you just came in and assumed it was me.. and so I also kept quiet… and from that day she started calling me ‘ASHA’ !!
