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Lesson on saving

Dewy and I are out for walking!!!  I call it a Double Trouble!! Wondering why.... It a big neighborhood mall. There is a beautiful book shop in that mall. That is one among the reasons I love that mall. And there is a obscenely big toy shop which is ONLY reason why Dewy loves that mall. We had a deal. We go to toy shop, buy anything she wants but the cost should be within 500 Rs. I started doing this recently so that my daughter understands and appreciates the luxury she is having. We go on a mission. She walks around that toy shop twice and she is disappointed. She couldn't find any toy within the price I had set. The mother in me is now little worried. In a big toy shop , my daughter couldn't still find a toy which she was eagerly waiting for. She comes to me with a dejected face and get 2 toys for which she couldn't find a price. I see one was Rs 700 (a unicorn from "my little pony") and another one Rs 450, though I could see she really loved the p...

Indian Railways at it's best

Ahaa.... Another complaint post. If that is what is running in your mind, then you are going on a different ride. In a country this big, this wide it is always a engineering wonder to have train connectivity to all the places and;  to run it almost to near perfection is humongous task. I think we should be proud of it It was just another day to me until this happened. We had a CII audit in the company for which I was supposed to talk on Gender diversity in our company. And that was in Chennai. Spent some time on getting a deck done Packed the bags Convinced Dewy that it is just a day's seminar Handled all client calls on Friday night juggling with the OLA driver. (that's a separate story to be told) I get to the station. Sit there to watch people ( it is a nice past time to see different facets of people and watch reactions) If any of you had experience of sitting in Indian Railway platforms and the number of announcements, you would when I say that I didn'...