TEJ........

After all this years , I still miss you. I will miss you when i go to India. It will not be the same without you being there.

Diwali Function

So we had our diwali function last weekend on Nov 1st and it was a great fun. Me and wifey dear were gearing up for it for a while now and now that it is ended there is nothing to look for.

The function itself was fun fancy dress competition, rangoli competition , mehndi and dessert competition. It was fun since me and a friend of mine actually took part in the dessert competition to everyone's shock and to add more shock to that we actually came in second. HAHAH that was really funny. They actually had to announce it in such a way that they could not believe that was happening. IT was great. There was also another person who was tied with us. So that made it even more special in respect to all participants that we never made desserts and now we were in second place. WIFEY dear came in the first place.


At the end me and a friend of mine did some stand up comedy or in gujarati "HASYA NO DAIYRO". It was great we both did good and all the people had great time laughing their asses off. Sorry wifey i made fun of you but all in good intention ;-)

Well now that is over it is back to store today. Gonna be a long day.

Happy Diwali and A Happy New Year

To

All My Dear Family and Friends.

11:523pm

So i am writing this post at about 11:52 pm at night after i went to sleep and then could not sleep. Don't ask why or what but just wanted to write something. Don't know what is bothering , but something is and i don't know what and am not wanting to find out either. Lots of sleepless nights have recently taken over with lots of nightmares and weird dreams

The nightmares or weird dreams have been taking over and it looks like i cant seem to let them go even when i get on with my daily work. seems like i cannot forget them like you normally would when you wake up. Could it be sending out any messages or just too much thinking over too much stuff. Its has been quite a couple months starting from July and it is still going on with something or another thing happening almost every weekend. Be it fun it is still getting tiring now.

sometimes feel like RIP VAN RINKLE or something like that , that i studied in grade 3 or 4 about how is went to sleep and woke up after like 20 yrs. It was a good story.

Or it could that summer is coming to an end and that winter is not so much to look forward too. But then it could also be loosing that jackpot of $37900.00 football survivor game that i am playing. It could also be that Tom Brady is out for the season (HECK THAT GIVES NIGHTMARE TO ANYONE IN NE).

Could also be Dec , 24 2012 when supposedly all of earth is going to get destroyed according to many countries like India, Mexico etc. Yeah most people probably dont know about it but i would suggest according to some people that i heard talking about is that google the date DEC 24 , 12012 and there are articles on it. In such case i need to enjoy more but what if that is not true ;-)

but anyways it is 12:03 am and i am still writing means that i should trying sleeping again and see what happens.

CONGRATULATIONS

ANYA is hereCongratulations to Parina and Guatam

Hope this brings lots of joy and happiness in your life.

Also lots of unsleepful nights and diaper changing sessions

Congratulations to Laxmi Masi and masa too.

Once again with lots of warm wishes

CONGRATULATIONS

Updates

So yeah it s been a while since i wrote anything. I dont think anyone is even checking it but then again i wanted to write something since it has been a while. Lots of things happened since then

Right after the Niagara trip we were off to NY city for 4 days. It was a great great time. Specially with all the different and great tasting food we ate while we there was just something unforgettable. food like Kati rolls, Chicken and rice on the street carts, frozen yogurt, Dosas and Falafel with its nice spicy hot sauce were just some of the delicious dishes we ate. Also saw many attraction throughout the city like Statue of liberty, WTC site, Fifth ave, Central park, Chapta town and times square and many other stuff. We stayed at a great hotel at the best location since everything was nearby.
Taxi experiences were really good. almost got killed couple times. Also had my first hangover ever in my life. Did not feel good. But KATI ROLLS hit the spot and everything was good after that.Als0 saw Batman -The Dark Knight at IMAX and i seriously think that is the only way to see it. It was awesome movie. Also saw some indian movies nothing really to talk about but just abou everyone of them were really sucky to decent.

Other than that i finally went to my ben's house and saw Diya and had a blast playing with her. It was really fun specially when she foooo''eedd all the food in her mouth at my face. HAHAHA that was funny. It was great time to spend some time with her alone from all the crowd
Also we finally had our picnic last weekend and it was great. Played lots and lots of volleyball all days long not to mention the legs were giving way for the next two days. it was fun there too. All the kids we re there and had fun with them too.
Store had an audit and got 96% so we were in the top 5% bracket as being the best audited store. So that was good.
Rakshabandhan is tomm. Happy Rakshabandhan to Ameba, Yoshi , nina, shiela, sonuben, sweta , Deepa, sanam, tinki, kinal and piyu. Since i wont be able to see you all as usual like everyone Take my blessings as gifts ;-).

Well noting else is happening this days. Six flags is on the plans as for this sunday. let see what we do. Sali is going back to college next weekend too so it is going to be quite here for a while until she comes back.
Well nothing else to report. It was a great time and busy time since last post so hoping to get some rest once August is over and football season kicks in.

Niagara Trip!!!!

So we are finally back from the niagara trip and it was one hell of a trip that words cannot describe but i am still going to try to put it into words and see if it reads that funny as we experienced it.

so we leave thursday late night around 3 am. The drive it self was really good without any traffic and me and nirav shared the driving for the last 3 hrs. we also stopped at the rest year and opened our two big bags of nasta - pani and had a great lunch with other group of 20 indians doing the same thing. we were really cracking up seeing that.

so we reach our HYATT around 1 pm ish. checked in and parked the car in the parking garage across the street which was going to cost is $15.00 a day. well i followed the bell boys instruction and parked my car through entrance shown by him.

We reached niagara with great difficulty. We were almost out of gas with no gas station in sight. finally we found a gas station and filled the tank costing me $65.00 bucks for CRV which averaged around 7 dollars per gallon since they method is in litres in cannada. so got ripped up there.

Now we park the car right in front smack of the falls. Went to niagara' s fury that just opened in june. It was an alright show. Then we went outside to the falls and were shocked to see that there were about 85% indians 10% chinese and their neighbours and 5% other people. Out of 85 % indians there were almost more than &0% gujarati and the rest were Maggie noodle type.

so the falls were great too. went into THE MAID OF THE MIST which was the best part of the trip. Went to cliffton hill and saw sights there and the three amigos that my wife, her sister nad my friend went and sat in that ride that goes up and down like bungee jump. Then went to eat at Boston pizza. Great place with good food and rates. Saw fire works and then went back to the parking lot. This is where the whole crazy shit started to happen

So we were parked way at the end of the parking lot right in front of the falls and the exit was like on other side and only one lane to get ther from the parking lot. So we finally got into the line from the parking space sinc ethat was a challenge too since everyone was coming from all direction cutting people off

So now we are waiting in the line with the car turned off and suddenly a big white kid comes to me with cannadia change that mounted to a buck or so and was like please please can u let us back from the parking space and let us get in the line n i was like sure n no need of the money and he is still like thank you thank you keep it keep it for the tolls and gives me the money and runs away. so nowno moment for a while so he comes backs to me and starts talking how is from chicago n was here to meet his friend and he drank a gallon of some cannadian beer n is all crazy feeling right now. so i tell him well dont just stand there tell ur frined to atleast start backing up. So he stand in the middle of the road waving his friend to back up while his ass is backed up on a car's front end coming from the other side parking space. That was the funniest scene and it was so funny someone called and i could not talk since we were laughting so loud that the person was like i will call back later.

So finally after 1 or so in the parking lot and the road we reach the american checkpoint across the bridge.by this time wifey dear is all sleep like she won a billion bucks. so now when we first came to the falls we had to go through 30 miles of scenic route called Niagara parkway which had the lake on one side and houses on other side and not houses this were freaking 1- 3 million dollar mansions and wifey was so in love with them. so now when we were heading back to hotel at night it was another route we had to take and she did not knew about. so once we reached the american checkpoint and passed it . i swear we were so badly stuck in traffic that we spent almost 10 to 11 green lights at one traffic signal and there were about 4 or 5 of them before the highway. so now wifey wakes up after hour or so not realizing that were not even half mile from the point where she felt asleep and she goes "did we pass the houses, huh did we pass i wanted to see it"" ok now that would sound normal to most people reading this but ifu were in the car with us u would have cracked up carzy like us.

so we were stuck in trafiic from 10:30 to like 3 in the morning for just like 4 miles. So now we reach the hotel and we are taking a different exit n i am so tired and blanked out that my friend is like " ok park here in the garage there is outr hotel " and i was like "BUT THAT IS HYATT" totally dumbfound by this was everyone in the car for a second thinking that we did checked in at the HYATT and als had a npt before we headed out to the falls. And then everyone is like TULAN WE ARE STAYING AT HYATT AND I AM LIKE OH YEAH YEAH .

so park in the same garage with the same entrance. Now were so tired of the traffic that we did not want to stay there sat night and leave on sunday as planned since we thought getting out on sunday would be hell. so we decided we will leave sat itself n cancel the booking for sat night. so the booking was in such a way that we were paying for the friday night and the sat night was free since wifey won it from her workplance. And i did not knew that so we go checking out and they explained this is how it is since sat night was expensive that was free n friday was paid but they were nice and said we did not have pay anything except for 5 bucks that sali sahiba cost us by opening a bottle Aqua fina water :-). Now u must be wonder what about parking for 2 days friday and sat.

Well the system was that any time i got out i had to give the attendant at the garage a pass that the hotel gave us and that would count as cash and in return hotel will charge us 15 bucks a day. well the entrance and the exit that was shown to us by the bell boy were apprently closed with a med sized sign hardly findable and the shutters open. so parking was free too since we entered and exited from the closed entrance and exit.

visited WATERLOO PREMIUM OUTLETS on the way and nothing like wrentham here in mass. this was huge with really low prices and we did quite a few shopping and also picked a huge fight with the subway people in food court who were about to call security on us cause they were at fault. yeah long story but we told them yeah call them and they walked away > WUSSYYYYY....

so that ended the trip n it was great. more to come after we come back from NY