Diamonds are not always girls best friends!

Just so that my clothes fit me when Im back from a 2 month vacation to India, I decided firmly to forgo the most important element of my meal......BREAD.
A huge (understatement) fan/devout/consumer of this simple thing, a fetish of mine for ages, and I stopped having bread for about a month just to help my so called diet go full swing.
The results, yes it did help but that is not the point!
Today, on his way back from work, Balu stopped by the bank for some official work and my fav Great harvest bakery is right beside. He got a whiff of freshly baked bread and without thinking twice, paid a prompt visit that was due for so long!
He surprised me with 2 loaves of bread!!!!
To me its like getting home a hand crafted Birkin bag or a pair of red hot Jimmy Choos.....well, Id like the latter too, but this gesture gave me such joy that I had to be extra sweet to him.

ps;People who find this silly have NO idea how much I like bread........and I'll finally get to see my niece come Wednesday!

Of snakecharmers & magicians!

Today morning, I was watching the local news and there was a bizarre report of babies being dropped down from a rooftop and caught on a bedspread! For me it didnt take much time to realise it can only be from our extremely colourful country that we can get such reports, but why on earth, rather HOW ON EARTH could these guys get this report? why cant they get this thing........6 Indians in Forbes list of 500 highest-paid CEOs, which is headlines in an Indian news site.

As for good times, the last interesting bit of India I got to see on our local news was when TATA took over Jaguar!that was something to celebrate, especially when shown on local news...I managed to get Balu out of the shower in 10 mins (a record) when I told him TATA was next on line in news!

I sometimes wonder what image do people have of India? people find it surprising when I say my medium of education was English, and that is the case for majority of my peers.
Is it odd that 2+ centuries of British rule brought such a drastic change in our culture and moreover, has it benefited us?
What are the odds that India would have reached the same level of sucess w/o the Queen's influence? It has been recorded historically that we invented the '0', and we've had many scholars in diverse fields ; technology to medicine.
So maybe we would have been sucessful afterall, minus this language.
May be we would have fought over the choice of language that would have to be the common medium then!
Maybe I stop thinking aloud now and end this crap.
Maybe no one reads my blog so it really doesnt matter!
Maybe I can manipulate Balu to get me an icecream again tonight!