My Musings

Happy Valentine Day to all my friends! The traditional day where lovers express their love – as Wiki puts it. I love this ‘love’ly day. As Usha puts it , anything that adds happiness to our joy is always a Welcome. This is also how I feel about this day! That one special day etched on the calendar, where you take off time to tell every loved one just how much you love them. I feel that it is not necessary that you should wish only that one special person in your life this day, but just anybody that you ‘love’ – your parents, friends, siblings, neighbour (???). But to be spending the day with your ‘special person’ is indeed the biggest ‘special’ of this day! As a kid, Val’s day did not mean anything at all. My parents were not of the romantic sort to wish each other on these ‘days’ – or probably they were even not aware of it. It all started as I stepped into my late teens – with stores like Halmark and Archies coming into prominence and putting up big posters around the city. Those w...

We added a new little member to our family two weeks ago – Meet Mr. Bertie (named by the Mr. after his all time favorite character Bertram Wooster from the PGW Series) – our goldfish. After about three to four visits to three to four pet shops, I gave into the Mr.’s insistence and we bought Bertie home on 3rd February. And I must say, I am really happy that we made that decision. When we started the topic of having pets at home, the Mr. is one great animal love and I am very inclined to think quite the opposite, I was not so very fine – until I saw the little parakeets in Meijer (the local grocery store – which somehow seems to have everything under the sun inside it – just like most grocery stores in the US do – food, household items, pharmacy, beauty products, clothes, furniture … whew! I am exhausted even naming them). I was lured into the trap that the Mr. so cleverly laid. But after talks to 2-3 pet shop folks, we were discouraged – as keeping birds takes quite a lot of effort and...