Feline Artist!

No pics or video to buttress this claim, but for now, just trust me!

So the other day, my daughter had been doing some pencil sketching, and went to bed with her sketch lying on the floor.

I was watching TV, when my cat along, and sat near the sketch, intently looking at it. Then, she did something that stunned me. She came to the corner of the sofa, and started putting her hand between the sofa and seatee, trying to pull out something.. guess what it was? A pencil! And then, if that wasn't enough, she attempted to desperately pull out an eraser, which was a little too far beyond the reach of her tiny paws.

Unbelievable! Believe it!

Too Sleepy To Finish My Bath!

Driving To Miramar

Bowwow

Don't you mess with by bike!

Wroom Wrooommm

Got my hands on my nephew's Bajaj Avenger the other day in Goa - with a light rain falling, the ride along Panaji's Marine Drive was absolutely exhilarating! Aaah, I miss biking in Pune...

Movie Review: The Call

A seasoned 911 operator, Jordan (Halle Berry), takes a distress call from a young girl (a pretty Abigail Breslin) who has just been abducted, and spends the next few hours desperately trying every trick in the book to help trace her before it is too late. When all her efforts prove futile, she also realizes with horror that the abductor is a killer she's come across before - a life-shattering incident in which she had heard her caller die while on the phone with her.

Will she be able to save this girl, or will the killer triumph in his evil design yet again?

Not an edge of the seat thriller, but it does have its moments - and isn't bad as a week night DVD.

Movie Review: Welcome To The Punch

When hardened criminal Jacob Sternwood returns to London to rescue his son, involved in a gang incident, his old nemesis, detective Max Lewinsky, has one last chance to catch the man he's always been after.

WTTP is a decent action thriller, but nothing that truly stands out. 

Mushrooms And Crabs...

Can it get better than this? Amazing natural-growing seasonal and very rare mushrooms, with some delicious crabs for lunch... both from Goa, needless to say!

When The Rains Come In!

 

Just a beautiful experience - watching and hearing and feeling the rains come in the aangan!

The well fills up, providing for the needs of not just our home, but all the neighbours around too!

Green Fields

 

If you haven't seen Goa in the rains, you haven't seen anything!

Enter The Gates Of Heaven...

 

The driveway leading to the gates of our lovely abode in Nerul

Nano Interceptor!

Speedsters, law-breakers, reckless drivers beware.. the Nano Interceptor of the Goa Police is gonna come and get you!

Shoelace Untying Service

 

Cute? Innocent? Homeless? Naughty?

 

Midnight Raid

Woke up the other night to a rumbling noise outside to see this surreal sight... a huge prefab cabin floating through the air, in the narrow lane between two buildings of the society!

Suspended precariously between two cranes, the cabin swung gently in the rain... but the cranes managed to safely carry them to the other side and deposit it on the construction site right behind.

Knock Knock, Are You Even Listening???

 

Bountiful Rivers and Lucky Drivers...

A scene repeated year after year in Pune.. (although it took a break last year!)

Once the dams fill up and water is released into the city's rivers, some car owners are invariably
caught napping.. and endure the horror of seeing their pretty wheels float away...

This is one lucky owner...

Kaatakirr

Kaatakirr is this amazing misal pav place off Karve Road that sees an absolutely crazy rush, mostly from college kids, but also the occasional family out for brunch. I was there yesterday, and had to wait for 15 mins to get a seat - with the table shared by other patrons, of course.

The menu includes only misal and mattha (lightly spiced butter milk). Not even tea or coffee. You are tempted to ask, can you really run a hotel like that? Is it even healthy?

You are even greeted by a notice board that says a misal cannot be shared by two people, else it will attract an additional charge of Rs 20. It also asks you to get your own tiffins if you need a parcel.

But look at the rush of patrons dying to get in, and you know, this is one business that needs no further tweaking!

Lavasa In The Rains

Absolute stunning drive to Lavasa and back yesterday.. while, Pune, just 30 km away has this pitter patter rain, Lavasa was shrouded in thick fog, and heavy rains, with gusty winds. Samara absolutely loved the drive, and I thoroughly enjoyed too! Here are some pics...

The huge dam suddenly appears on your right, without warning... forcing you to take a break and admire it. And then you wonder, how's that water flowing out from the middle of the dam wall? Is it by design, is it a leak? Is it even safe to be standing on this side of the dam, or am I just going to see, for real, what happens when the dam gives in and bursts open?

Rain and fog combine to make it surreal

The steep climbs challenge even the most powerful of engines... add the hair pin bends to it, and it's just one of the most amazing, enjoyable drives, that too, so close to the bustling city!

Dozens of waterfalls along the way. There is one with crystal white water on the left, and muddy brown on the right... couldn't capture it though, because it was dangerous to stop on the bend, and raining too hard for me to venture out

Just a beautiful view of the lake, the quaint buildings and the majestic hills in the background, capped by fog. Sadly, the beauty hides the tragedy - almost all buildings are unoccupied, and the whole "city" is under danger of remaining a ghost town for ever.

What Do You See? - 2

Ok, now that you have got the hang of this, let's try once more!

OK, so did you try hard enough to look? Here, try again..

Isn't this simply stunning? There were these hundreds of pigeons, all sitting on the half a dozen cables strung across the eight lane road, sitting at an exact one feet distance from each other! Absolutely amazing...