The day that went by.

By the way, this post was supposed to come on 26th July or if it would have been posted on 27th July then also it was acceptable because one can understand that the guy must have been busy in his bday celebration but posting it after two weeks is something weird but as I promised in my last post that I will write an post on how my day was so here it is. (And, if I say my apologies then is it fine with you?)

So, it was my 29th birthday with full of surprises and I still have 1 year to turn 30, I don't know how I am gonna feel on turning 30 but lets forget about it. Tab ki tab sochenge :) ... back to the topic again.. 

So, it was my birthday and it was a working day so I had to go to the office but the day started with some breakfast surprises, my wife made my favorite things in breakfast and there were the things which I am not allowed to eat very often. When I saw cheese balls and Moong ki daal ka halwa served for me my eyes were gleaming like a 5 year old child who gets happy to have candies and chocolates.

This year my birthday was different as compared to past birthdays, it was my first birthday on a foreign soil with my wife. Earlier, all day used to went in taking bday wishes on phone calls from family and friends but this year it was replaced by few messages on Whatsapp and few calls on Viber (Hum foreign me rehne waale desiyon ke liye Whatsapp, Viber, MobileVoip/Rynga jaisi applications hi sahara hein apni country waalo se touch me rehne ka.) Also, some of my friends and relatives gave me birthday wishes at 00:00 hrs according to Indian time which actually was 8:30 pm here in Sweden so it was a strange feeling to get your birthday wishes on the day before it. Ab ye to hota hi he, hum videsh me chale gaye to kya, apne log to apne deshi time se hi kaam karenge. :D

Oh!! I get carried away in emotions, bbrrrrrrrrr!!! Haan, to kahan the hum....

Yes, after taking that delicious breakfast (with out any suggestions only with appreciations...[what was that?? Well, you will come to know about it in my next post]) I went to my office and it was a usual day with meetings, client conference and daily official work but guys at my office have arranged a little gift for me. They surprised me with a bottle of nice Red wine and it was a first experience to receive my birthday gift in such a nice manner, kyun? India me to toot jaati thi yaar bumps kha kha kar but I was kind of missing my those  kamine friends jo pehle room pe maarte the and phir office waale alag maarte the :)

When I came back to my home in evening my lovely wife has decorated our living area for me for my little bday celebration and she has invited few of our Indian friends as well. Bas, fir kya tha...wohi sab.. cake cutting, bday jingles, exchange of cake and cake facial.

Although it was little but it was nice celebration, 
at least we had some friends here to come over otherwise we two would have celebrated it by ourselves.

The best thing of the day was cake, it was so yummy!! That's why I love Europe, you will get many varieties of breads, cakes, pastries, bun etc and if you are a sweet lover then you will always crave to have those fancy looking items.




Lastly, we went to an only Indian restaurant here for dinner and my special day got finished with the cup of ice-cream. 

So, this was the day that went by and it is always nice to get surprises.... only the good ones :D (Come on who loves to receive bad surprises?)

Life in four suitcases.

Hello!

I am back here after a long time and this is first time I am writing in this New year 2013.
Well, where was I? I was not very far from Internet but did not felt to write here among lots of things going between December 2012 and March 2013.

Its been two months since we came to Linkoping, Sweden from India, from our home in Noida to a new home here.

From the time we took decision to move out of India suddenly life became very busy, busy in planning various things or I should say it got busy in planning to take our married life in four suitcases that to with the weight limit put by International airlines.

Its strange to realise that life can be moved around in any corner of the world with just four suitcases and yes we moved from one part of world to an another part of world. Its just not moving, its a change of culture, change of language, change of weather, change of environment, change of lifestyle but fortunately no change in food in big manner.

So, we are now kind of settle here but still in planning mode i.e. when we were in India we were planning on how to rearrange or sell our house hold stuff and now we are here so we are planning which household stuff to buy and when. So, this planning mode is going on right from the day we got our Visa to Sweden.

One of the strange thing is that when you are in same country with your family then you don’t interact very frequently but when you go out of country then interaction becomes quite frequent. Till the time I was in Noida My father never did interaction with Whatsapp or Skype  but now these applications are boon to us. Yahan aakar ghar waalon se itni baat hoti he jitni kabhi India me nahin hoti thi. Mom and Dad have become now Skype and Whatsapp experts.

So, things will go on like this till the time we are here, the day we will decide to go back to India I know we will again end up in just four suitcases.

Wo ek dialogue he na kisi film me “Ghar kya he? Jahan aapki family or parivaar ek jagah rehna shuru kar de wohi Ghar he chahe wo kahin bhi ho…. makaan ghar ban hi jaata he”