Long Weekend !!!

Back after a long weekend at home in Pune. Funny how this term "long weekend" has become a norm after being in the US … it gives the word “Weekend” a whole new meaning, what with the one extra day added ;-). So this was a special weekend at that … My parents 31st wedding anniversary :-) (Though this fact also brings to the fore some ominous truths, i am more than happy to go into ignore mode with no retry in picture .. :D)And also my sis was coming home since diwali so it was a reunion of sorts … with all of us together … first one in 2009. Moms health issues apart, it was a good 3 days spent eating, shopping (for gifts ofcourse) watching T.V. and sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeping A LOT. One would think I don’t get to sleep in Bombay but the eating and sleeping combine make for a lethally inviting proposition – one which ain’t possible here :-)
One more thing I realized while I was TV surfing was that there are a lot of good movies – read movies worth watching even if I’ve already watched em a zillion times before – coming on HBO & Star. It hit me even more coz I have no access at all here. Took my ol’ LT along to download some movies only to find that it’s monitor had conked off, going into its relapse blanking illness. And to think that was the only reason I did not discover my way to pune and chose to Volvo instead.

This thing with Harry Potter seems to run in the family I guess. My sister and I are both HP aficionados - actually she has overtaken me – quizzing me on HP facts coz I surely did not remember who Amelia Bones was even though I had done a marathon book 1 to book 7 over the New Year. Well point is we got mom n dad to watch chamber of secrets on cartoon network (yea they also show real people on CN these days…. What ever happened to Johnny Quest and Swat Cats and GI Joe I wonder!

Well all in all a good long weekend. But now back to the grind … suddenly have a lot of work … stuff which would even give cheap manual labour a run for money but then what da heck… I aint one to complain am I.

Oh I forgot… I also shocked my folks with the story of how my kholi caught fire .. well actually how it almost caught fire. ;-) Will update on this later-gator (3 guesses on what my next post would be!)
Au Revoir…
~KK