The other day sonali's daycare teacher and I had this conversation, leaving me elated for a minute and back to questions the next.
She told me that she is expecting a niece and that she would like if that child was like sonali!!!!!!!!
I just stood in shock for a minute. then I smiled and said " Thank you that is sweet of you" and then grinned a whole lot and felt proud for another minute and then asked myself: " Really?? Is she sure?:)) "
Sonali is all of BRAT at home and is a cherub outside. There is a tamil saying: veetla Puli veliya Eli ( Tiger at home and rat outside). How do these kids distinguish between what is theirs and what is not at this age?! They do have more inside their little head than we attribute them to.
Well anyways, I have blogged her compliment so years later she can look at it and wow at herself:)
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Our crazy travels - Part 1
I used to work for an airline soon after I graduated after my Masters. I loved loved working in that group and you would not believe the perks of working for an airline.
Now before some of you uninformed presumptuous folks start to say : ": No wonder the airlines went bankrupt" get your information and facts right!.
So as an employee of the airline, you get travel benefits at free or discounted rates to any place!! YES!. but we never displace revenue passengers, so we are the last ones standing near the airline door at the terminal, waiting to see if we have exhausted all our revenue stream. Then if there is space, we are let in.
As a result, we end up vacationing in Europe in Cold winter and the hawaii in peak summer:)! But STILL its worth it I tell you.
Anyways we have done some crazy things and before my memory gets the better of me, i wanted to journal these.
1. Hawaii - we went there for our honeymoon and stayed for a week. LOVED IT. We tasted a very nice icecream baklava in a small pita place on Mauii. We liked it so much that we decided to go back to Hawaii for this.
So we hopped on a flight from ATL on Sat morning,, flew 9 hours. Reached that evening. Had our little treat. Stayed overnight, lounged at the beach that morning and took the afternoon flight back on Sunday to ATL- another 9 hours. CRAZY! but worth it:)
2. Suitcase delivery : My cousin landed in NJ for his Masters but had an extra suitcase that domestic asked him to pay for. So I told him to leave it with my friend and go on to Raleigh. During one of my innumerable trips to the east coast, I picked up the suitcase.
My husband I were talking one sat evening and he said he has to work on Sunday. so I decided to go to Raleigh and give the bag. So I took the morning flight on Sunday, flew in, met my cousin at the airport, handed the bag and left on the next flight bac to ATL!!.
3. Rome over a weekend : Friday evening, we decided to hop on the flight to Rome. We also coordinated with a friend in germany to meet us in Rome on saturday!. All set, we reached the airport a little late and missed the flight. So what did we do? We just took the flight to Paris and thought we would get on a local connectin the next day and get to Rome. As luck would have it, ALL local flight were quite full from paris to Rome that weekend and we waited an ENTIRE day in the Paris airport. Meanwhile my friend had arrived in Rome and the poor guy started looking around all byhimself:)! WE got the connection only late sat evening and reached Rome that night.
We had the whole of Sunday to look around and took the Sunday night flght back home!. So much for our Roman Holiday!
... more to come.
Now before some of you uninformed presumptuous folks start to say : ": No wonder the airlines went bankrupt" get your information and facts right!.
So as an employee of the airline, you get travel benefits at free or discounted rates to any place!! YES!. but we never displace revenue passengers, so we are the last ones standing near the airline door at the terminal, waiting to see if we have exhausted all our revenue stream. Then if there is space, we are let in.
As a result, we end up vacationing in Europe in Cold winter and the hawaii in peak summer:)! But STILL its worth it I tell you.
Anyways we have done some crazy things and before my memory gets the better of me, i wanted to journal these.
1. Hawaii - we went there for our honeymoon and stayed for a week. LOVED IT. We tasted a very nice icecream baklava in a small pita place on Mauii. We liked it so much that we decided to go back to Hawaii for this.
So we hopped on a flight from ATL on Sat morning,, flew 9 hours. Reached that evening. Had our little treat. Stayed overnight, lounged at the beach that morning and took the afternoon flight back on Sunday to ATL- another 9 hours. CRAZY! but worth it:)
2. Suitcase delivery : My cousin landed in NJ for his Masters but had an extra suitcase that domestic asked him to pay for. So I told him to leave it with my friend and go on to Raleigh. During one of my innumerable trips to the east coast, I picked up the suitcase.
My husband I were talking one sat evening and he said he has to work on Sunday. so I decided to go to Raleigh and give the bag. So I took the morning flight on Sunday, flew in, met my cousin at the airport, handed the bag and left on the next flight bac to ATL!!.
3. Rome over a weekend : Friday evening, we decided to hop on the flight to Rome. We also coordinated with a friend in germany to meet us in Rome on saturday!. All set, we reached the airport a little late and missed the flight. So what did we do? We just took the flight to Paris and thought we would get on a local connectin the next day and get to Rome. As luck would have it, ALL local flight were quite full from paris to Rome that weekend and we waited an ENTIRE day in the Paris airport. Meanwhile my friend had arrived in Rome and the poor guy started looking around all byhimself:)! WE got the connection only late sat evening and reached Rome that night.
We had the whole of Sunday to look around and took the Sunday night flght back home!. So much for our Roman Holiday!
... more to come.
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