I haven’t had much time to get down to blogging what I have been upto in the past month. Having celebrated my birthday in Mumbai, I headed back to Pune to get on with life.

Had originally planned to come back to Mumbai on Thursday itself for Placements work. However, a thought improvement workshop interrupted these plans.

The workshop was conducted by CGN. The workshop is actually a program by The Pacific Institute. I had originally planned on going into details for the same, but I guess most of the same is copyrighted and it would not be correct. In brief, the workshop covers topics like scotomas, Reticular Activating System, Gestalt psychology. In all it was an entertaining three days. We did miss a finance test in the middle, which I would have liked to attend.

Left for Mumbai early Sunday morning and reached there by afternoon. It’s been starting to take too much time traveling to and fro between Mumbai and Pune!

My first job was to clean up the house. Took out the vacuum cleaner that I purchased oh so long back and cleaned up lots of dust from my computer primarily, and then the rest of the house.

Aditya was to stay with me for the entire week while we roamed the city visiting companies. Well, that’s exactly what we did, “roamed the city”.

The next five days were extremely exhausting, with us traveling in all directions, in buses, rickshaws, taxis and more importantly, the local trains of Mumbai. The five day first class tourist pass did not provide that much relief!

Left for Pune last Monday and took well over five hours to get back to college. The journey was extremely frustrating. Caught a volvo at about 9am, which reached Wakad around 1.30pm! I made the mistake of getting down at the Police Chowky, only to find no rickshaws. Had to climb mounds of construction work and walk a good deal to find the tumtums. Would have taken photos but I had my hands full with three heavy bags!

Walked another kilometer or so from the Hinjewadi chowk to college, wondering at every step of the way if I would make it back alive.

Reached my room only to find out that I had a class, which had already begun. Had a quick bath (it was a necessity) and rushed for the class, which was immediately followed by a test.

The rest of this week has been extremely lazy, with a good deal of electricity problems. And, it is the weekend yet again and yet again we are without power for full 48 hours!

Did I mention that in times like these I really really miss Mumbai?

Had two masses today viz. in the morning was the regular 9.30am mass. Picked up bread on the way home to have bread and eggs.
Well it turned out to be brunch and I had to skip lunch as a result.

Spent the rest of the day working on my WordPress Theme after which I got ready for the wedding mass we were singing for at Atma Darshan.

The mass started really late and got over even later. Was backed with a very powerful homily by the lead Celebrant, a Fr. Angelus Anthony. He preached on making the C.R.O.S.S. the center of your marriage. I can’t remember the O part of the acronymn but the rest is below…
C – Christ
R – Respect, responsibility
O – ???
S – Service
S – Sacrifice

After mass we went off to McDonalds at The Hub in Jogeshwari.

Well the place was really crowded and I guess it really needs to get better organized, especially the parking!

Anyway, Anjali wanted to come with me on the return journey (Amita has insisted on coming with me on our trip there). I decided to go take a look at the Hub to see how much it has developed since the last time I was here.
Well, it’s improved quite a bit, though it still has a long way to go.

Walked into Vijay Sales for the heck of it and walked out with a LG HealthGuard vacuum cleaner :O
Got quite a great deal and a Reebok bag (if it is original )

Got back home, assembled it and got down to cleaning the sofas, chairs and my computer. Will work on the rest this week before my folks get back.

It’s back to work tomorrow. This time no holidays during the week