November a month of closures and new beginnings... of true change and rejuvenation... close encounter with tears and fears and the jubilation of knowingness.Life came full circle and smiled upon me this month... a long cherished dream of meeting Daddy came true on my surprise visit to Delhi on the 9th of November for the reunion dinner...
21st November to 26th November
What was even more wonderful is my father coming and spending a week in my home in Mumbai... with two even more precious people... Roopa and Veer. Nothing could've brought more joy than for all of us to have lived together and learnt much about our lives from each other.
What is fascinating is the how we three sisters just came a lot closer... we compacted a deal to always be with each other... earlier... an unspoken promise and now a bond sealed with the knowledge that no matter what, we'd always be there... loving, caring, simply being together.
The surprise package... Veer Andre Pathania... who came to Mumbai and got local about it!! Investigated my home... and settled down even before his mother could absorb being in Mumbai. His obsession with DoCoMo a real surprise... He simply took to all that is locally Mumbai... Pav, Bhajji and the newness of everything... He formed very important relationships here in Mumbai... Tiger Nanu, Lion Mama, Docomo Maasi and Evelyn maasi... it was wonderful to simply spend days just watching him at his brilliant best.
Daddy... well... adapted to my Indian toilet just as well as he could...love you Dad for making things so easy... loved our trips to ITC Grand Central for some coffee before potty...lol. I guess the most expensive potty on your trip to India.
Roopa... I cannot tell you how special it was to have you visit my home in Mumbai... more than that... you made my joy complete by absolutely loving it... can't tell you how much that meant to me. When you were here... I got to discover you all over again... the time we spent together in Mumbai is precious to me. Thank you for coming...
Pamoooo, you've been talking a lot of sense lately and both Roopa and I were quite fascinated with your point of view on a lot of things that seemed to bother us... One sentence from you and we were both speechless... You are so precious... so very precious... you have a heart of pure gold.
Ashok... you were on a time trial of 1000hrs to get to work for 2 whole days... loved punching the daylights out of you... took us all back to the wonderful days of being teenagers... really... only this time... we got the better of you... instead of getting tossed around like we used to :D
- Leopold Cafe and the buggy ride afterwards... 3 little girls with their Daddy
- Lucky Biryani got super lucky with lotsa food lovers in tow.
- Roopa and Prema at Juhu beach
- Ashokie and the 3 us in one of our... wrestle with Ashok and tickle him sessions... as Daddy looked on... he saw 3 little girls ONLY
- the "I am going to the tucky" video
- Cafe Coffee Day opposite Chowpatty picture perfect moments
- Daddy and Veer, special bond between Grandfather and grandson.
- Lion mama and Veer... if only you could see the video's running on the screen of my mind would you truly be able to enjoy the thrill of it!!
- Daddy and Veer at Chopatty... one shout later... Veer kept looking for Daddy to either carry him or hold his hand and walk
- Deepa Roopa and Prema together on a holiday
- Upma for breakfast
- Noorani Cafe ka khanaa for dinner
- Roopa cooked lunch for us one day
- Ali's Beef roast and pav... brilliant breakfast... we finished 2 kgs of beef roast in 3 days.
- Ali entertaining all of us with his jokes... it was wonderful to be able to introduce the family that adopted me in Mumbai to my family in Delhi
- feeling so lonely the moment I closed the door... when they left for the station on the 26th of November!!
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