Joyful January !!

2011 - A Year started with new hopes...It's all started with new year visit to Greenwich...Followed by Fabulous India trip....Rocking Birth Day...Uttarayan...Picnic to Pavagadh ....and many more mindblowing memories...
I got the vacation for full one month ever since I started my professional career.  I have enjoyed a lot during this India trip...First & Foremost I met Anand after almost 6 years @ Mumbai Airport....I met Montu after 2 years...and many school friends after long time at one of my friends wedding...It'll take time to describe my whole trip to India...which I will do late...but for time being this is all I wanted to say that...I'm enjoying few more days in India...

See you later...

Pritesh

2010 - The Year in Review

Day after day, month after month & Finally “2010- A Year of many First Times” is about to end…This year has passed with many challenges, rough patches & also some new things which I did for the first time. It’s time to review the whole year, time to check what went wrong & what went right, time to look forward and making new wishes for new year which brings new hopes & happiness..

Let’s start 2010 - The Year in Review,

            Year started with my birth day away from home, thought it was fantastic one over here in UK, I missed my family & friends in India. I still remember my college days where my friends used to force me to stay there in Ahmedabad for birth day/Uttarayan but I never stayed there. I wish to be there with them but I could not.

     In March I went to India & there I had good time, as always…During that vacation first time I did drive a car.   That was great experience. 

     In May, it was an election here in UK & First time ever I vote. I have not got chance to vote India which I wanted to do but fortunately I did get that chance here. 

     In June, I completed 4 years with Mastek & 2 years in UK..Then in next month, July was full of football action, enjoyed football wc. I still remember my prize - “Wooden Spoon” for the WC winner prediction contest, in which I did stand consistently last :)..

     Few months later in September we had fantastic Ganesh Visarjan followed by movies & late night party..That was the best ever party !!

            In October, I had very tough time…but fortunately it passed & back to normal life..Then in November, I had fantastic time at one of my friends place in Diwali. That Diwali was awesome of all Diwalis in UK..I enjoyed the most…

          And then finally here comes December, a festive time…lot of fun..

We had 4 days of X’mas vacation & I celebrated this X’mas at one of my friend’s place. We played games, watched many movies, delicious dishes…all together those four days were full of fun, masti & mazza...

We feel it like we are in big-boss house & doing various activities..(of course by our choice, not by BB’s).. :):)…

        31^st early morning was fabulous..had conference call with few friends lives in various countries in the world, Aus,US,India…That was fantastic one…That conversation lasts for more than 3 hours. It was 4:00 am in the morning at here in UK & finally we ended that call… :)…

We enjoyed lot…That was the start of last day of 2010…Let’s see how remaining day goes…Excited to go to London today, for New Year Celebration… Ready for Party…

10 First Times of 2010 (A Year of many First Times):

First Birth Day away from home

First Time followed Football WC

First Time Vote in Election

First Blog in Gujarati

First UK & Indian Learning Driving Licences

First Time Car Drive

First Novel Read

First Novel Ordered

First Bid won

First Time Disco

Good bye to 2010 & See you in New Year-2011…

Pritesh

Won Bid !!

Today, I won my first ever bid in one of the item listed on e-bay...Though I'm a member of e-bay since November 2008 but I never tried to place a bid or purchase any item by myself. But today first time I tried to bid on one of the item and I won it...I know this item is not very much in demand and hardly 2-3 bidders were there. But what ever may be the case, I'm happy that I won that bid & that's the first time try :) :)...Cool...
That saved my few bucks if I would have purchased from market or some other place. Actually that item is not available in India & my uncle want that so I told him I will bring it from here & I did it ! :)..

Bye for now,
Pritesh

Happy Diwali & Prosperous New Year !!

Well....whole month was full of fun...outing..gathering...Diwali & New year started with new hopes etc. Visited many new places..First & foremost is Wembley, Harrow which I have been waiting to see since 2.5 years.         
     Let's start with Diwali N New Year Celebration, I celebrated it at one of my dear friend's place with his family...I was there over that festive  week end. Had fantastic dinner after arriving there.  Then we had some gossips, remembering old days etc..Next day we went to Wembley & Harrow, had fantastic lunch at one of good restaurant there in harrow, there we had some get together, met some old friends. 
Then we headed for Neasden temple - a very good "BAPS - Shri Swaminarayan" 

Temple. The most exciting thing was that I met one of my training days friend with his wife after around 4-5 year, So I was really excited to meet him & finally met him at temple. The other thing was, on that day we got a chance for Aarti at temple as well, very lucky me :)..First time ever I got a chance to see "Annakut", there were 1456 different dishes, beautifully placed. 

Annakut

 It was amazing scene there. Have a look of that fabulous decoration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pke5VgElL9s&feature=player_embedded. New year started with new year wishes to every dear n near ones...Over all this time diwali was fantastic..i enjoyed a lot but missed india very little.
           Few days later, again I planned for week end to visit one of my dear friend's place, we were total eight of us with family to have small post Diwali get together. We also had late night gossip. Next day we went for movie Golmaal 3, we enjoyed that. We arrived very early for the movie, apx about 2.5 hours, so we decided to have a coffee & then would go for bowling. At Cost Coffee bar we started talking about marriage, love n all that and eventually it turned in to a very long & hot discussion on "Arrange Marriage", actually it was started from my marriage thing, we were talking about how difficult it is to have an arrange marriage, the process n etc. Everyone was sharing their experience & giving some thoughts on this. It became so interesting & everybody were so engrossed into that discussion that no body had any idea about the time.  We could not believe it did last for more than 2 hr & now it's show time. Finally we had to stop our hot discussion & taking few points as an action on me we entered into cinema hall. As usual, we occupied last row and enjoyed a movie, of course with pop corn & coke.. :)
     Finally at the end of month I have booked tickets to india...So now counting days for that...Also it's time to revisit all New Year Resolutions which were made last year, what has done & what has not....


Bye for now,
Pritesh

October - A month of Changes !!

         October passed through many changes...some tough time...some decision making time...etc. First & fore most I lost my roomie, with whom I have been sharing the apartment for more than a year, a good dear friend,roomie has went back to India for good reasons !! As this was known before few months, we already had given the notice to landlord to vacant the apartment. As days passes...it was the last day with my roomie, was very sad.....at the time of his farewell every one in our group was feeling the same...but I did most...Because I knew that I'll gonna miss him very much for our usual gossip, watching together favourite programs, cooking experiments, tea @4pm, BODs etc..
Last words I said to him was Dost, "Life wont be same with out you...Miss you !! "..
I wish that he will achieve it for what he has gone back...
         After he left I was alone in the apartment..for the full one week I was like Home Alone..I have started feeling loneliness...dying to pass time at home....during that week, I hardly cooked food for twice...usually I managed to get food from take ways or hotel. During everyday's take way food, two of my friends have invited me for dinner...So enjoyed food at their place & felt well...But this one week was really scary...Only I knew how did I pass through it. Hope such period never come again !! :(
        Some good news is, I got two new roomies and retained the current Velocity apartment..For me it's not about retaining the apartment only...but to retain yaadein,memories,masti that belongs to this apartment... :):)...I'm so happy now....
New beginning with new roomies...Till now enjoying with them...So far so good...started playing Counter Strike game...having loads of fun...Hope such good days continues..
      Yesterday, we celebrated one of my friend's daughter's 4th birth day. It was fun..we really enjoyed that. Most exciting part was her birthday gift which her parent gave to her. It was a kitchen set, she was so much enjoying while playing with it. She prepared tea, break fast etc for all of us. So cute of her. Till late night she was playing with the kitchen & preparing various dishes for us. She was pretending to be a hotel owner & also managing customers (ie us)...Her cuteness was at best while she was serving the food,tea to us.
     Another change is time, yes, now we are back to GMT from (GMT+1), means now day light saving is off & clock set 1 hr. backward. Today morning I realise this change when I woke up, I woke up an hour earlier than usual. I though it's 11 o'clock in morning but actually it was 10 o'clock. I got confused because my mobile was still showing the GMT+1 time...When I opened my laptop I realised that, ohh..now we on GMT..then restarted mobile & set the correct time. Now we are 5.30 hrs behind from IST..so have to be bit early to call to India in the evening...
     Now finally this months ends, normal life is on track and for next week excited to celebrate Diwali at my friends place... :)


Bye for now...


Stay Tunned,
Pritesh

A Rainy Sunday....

                It's Sunday morning...as usual another week end. But today its not like sunny sunday, it's heavily raining Since morning dark clouds around and raining, like a perfect monsoon season.... Though I like this kind of mausam, would like to enjoy with garma garam bhajji, samosa etc. but unfortunately I could not have any one of them right now...But yes had fantastic morning tea and enjoying some old romantic, dancing songs..So It's bit cool environment...Of Course I wont like to go out in such atmosphere..and will try to be at home for the whole day.......hope some of my friends will meet online so I can have a voice/video chat to them...or else ..planning to watch some movie.. :)......
                     But it reminds me the monsoon of India, where I used to roam around with friends (provided it's holiday :)), long drive on bike, some times we used to go Mahakali for tasty,spicy Sev Usal...I remember those days....In fact we all love to go there...to have spicy Sev Usal...Some times we used to for garma garam Daal Vada...that was mindblowing...It's raining and I'm missing those fun with my buddies...But that's life...You have to enjoy in every possible ways, whether in India or here in UK....

Till than enjoying rain, kuch mindblowing songs with garma garam nasta...(Mostly would go for Maggie !!)...Lets see how day goes....

It's raining....Stay wet :)
Pritesh

~ Superb September ~

September, a month with fun, festival, and friends; some tough Decision making time…It went all good till end; except some rough patches at the end…
        Here we go, this month we have celebrated Ganesh Visarjan here in leeds. It was nice celebration; many devotee were gathered and were chanting "Ganpati Bappa Morya,Phudchya Varshi Lavkaar Ya"….the whole atmosphere was feeling the touch of india.
       On that week end…some old buddies came here to meet us…Weekend full of fun....Yes, we had fantastic lunch at Tulsi restaurant and then we went for “Dabangg”. Though movie was not exceptionally well but yes was full of Sallu styles…so enjoyed.. In evening we had dinner at our place and then at night..we all were on fire…we had a dance party…we all enjoyed a lot…after long time I got the touch of good old days…We were so much enjoying the dance that we hadn’t done before….It was fabulous…The super hit song of Dabangg    “Munni badnaam hui” was rocking at that night, we danced so gracefully on that song…that I can’t express in words…everyone was like mad on that night…Nobody wants to stop that fire but everyone’s energy was not helping …so we had to stop dancing…but that’s not the end of night, after that we were started gossiping…it was like more than 2 hours of it, at the last we called it enough is enough because it’s morning 4.30 am…..:)…So that was and end of fabulous weekend….I guess that was the first & last of such great weekend… :)..
     On one of Sunday I had a trip to Blackpool …It was very bright and sunny Sunday so enjoyed a lot…Fantastic part of that trip is Sunset..Yes I love that…That was perfect scene of sun set that anyone would ever expected. It was around 6 pm and sun was about to set. I was sitting at sea shore and enjoying sun set – a beautiful, most romantic, most charismatic thing of nature. It was picture perfect scene… As the sun goes down and twilight arrives, Sky with Dark and orange colour, sun and sky shadow on sea water, dark orange sunny rays spreaded all over the water…and Ship going through on the edge of sea..Which creates a scene like ship is travelling all the way around the sun…
It was “Superb Sun Set”!!
     Any way life moves on, and something about rough Decision making time.. Because my roomie is going back to India for good reasons, I have to decide whether or not I have to continue with this Velocity apartment or not…and we decided to move out from this house and we are serving notice period now..
(Though it was bit tough decision but have to make it…:):)). However some negotiation is still going on this…let see what happen in future…

Bye For now !!

Ganpati Bappa Moriya,
Pritesh