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Covid-19 as it is called and Havoc it has created

 By now( Apr 2021), Corona would be over, we would be back to normal, Our school would  open and Trauma of 2020 would be almost over.   Wasnt this the the Dream of every indian especially small businessman in mid of 2020.  Sad it to say it has shattered and with even more intensity than 2020. Its hard to believe that after more than 1 year confined to home , situation has worsened instead of any improvement. BTW This blog is not about why it happened and whom to blame ( though i can written hell of article on Govt failures and their lack of intent to avoid so called second wave). This blog is about my self and family. If you would have asked me at the start of pandemic if I would be staying at home for 1 year, I would say are you kidding? but exceptional event require exceptional response. Just when craziness had started dying and courage was coming back to go to coffee shop, playing badminton , going to Mall , there was loud Boom and in one month time for being close to normal to anot
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Unthinkable has happened Part 2

Apr- May   Kismat itni bhi buri nahi hai.  After initial struggle and things have settled down in office, realizing that without lockdown woudnt have got such a lovely time with family. feels scary wife, parents at home  24*7 .. you would want to be in same situation ;) but the reality was different and lucky that parents are here . Without them it would have been so difficult to go through this crazy time. Ridit is happy and he has all the time Dadu/Dadi to play, talk. Pratichi and me can focus on work during day time. Never talked to Mom/Dad every day since left college in 1999. SO after 21 years , having wonderful time with family. Weekend /friday are amazing . Pratichi planning parties in balcony and Ridit and Dadu/Dadi enjoying like anything.  I think with all jobs, and option to go out , we loose the meaning of family.  Covid has impacted badly on everything except making us understand what is important in life and that is family and friends whom you can talk :)  
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Unthinkable has happened Part 1

 Apr - May 2020 So unthinkable has happened , Its  been months since school got closed. Working from home since March 12. The dry run which was supposed to be for 3 days have become permanent since then. In Dec last year , used to hear stories of China lockdown and how bodies are lying on roads and no one touching. Then Italy stories where ppl were staying in their balconies during lockdown. Never thought we would be in same mess in months time. SO here we are in lockdown. Lot of challenges WFH. Network issues , every morning meeting at 10 and 10:30 with team just to ensure team started handling issues. Took weeks  of effort to streamline how to interact with team on daily basis when all are working from home. Taking additional responsibility of discussing personal issues with team in addition to professional onces. Calling on weekend to each and everyone to understand how they are coping up with this new reality of being at home all the time. Good thing most of the team members have r
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Another life changing event

Thursday, August 29, 2019 2:25 AM I am back with another life changing event in my life. Not sure why when  such thing happens I come back to blog. May be this  is the only way to express yourself openly and without worry about what others might think of. Sitting outside ICU at 2:29 am so many thoughts and future plans going on in mind and I don't know how to put them in order. If you would ask me the same question last week on 22nd and 23rd Aug, there was just one thought and just one wish. "GOD pls save him" . Nothing else matters !!  And Ridit  is little better again mind starts wandering what all things we need to do to make him better. Its not surprising that things are so clear in such situations. You know whats your priority in life is and how many useless things you can simply ignore without having any side effect. I believe these are the only times in life, when you are not worried about office, job, small differences in relations, money, savings, loans, g
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Best promotion in life comes with its own set of challenges( in our case lots and lots of it..)- Ridit's first two months

If I would have been writing on the same day things were happening, emotions and words would have been different. whatever be the situation time is big healer and you always forget small details with time. Was thinking of writing this for long but when things were happening you don't get even time to think leave aside writing something. here I am going into past and remembering Ridit first few months at home. Lot of doubts were in mind when we brought Ridit home for first time. How we would manage things, would we be able to avoid infection, what precautions to take, how we tell Mom, Dad not to touch him, how we are going to avoid friends at home, how to take him to doctors visit as hospital is very far.. we had heard with great power comes great responsibility, I guess opposite is also true with greater responsibility you get power to fulfill it .. Daily routine wake up in the morning, prepare milk for Ridit, write down feed quantity in diary, measure temp, write down in d
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Best promotion in life comes with its own set of challenges( in our case lots and lots of it..)- NICU

Here comes the day which I feel is the most happiest day of someone'e life .. and you guessed right. But in my our case, I had gone through the same emotions 2 weeks back so I thought the feeling would be same. But this time it was  worrying and tensed than the last time (when doctor didn't operate  and wife came out of  OT without being operated)  and had some unusual unrest.. May be I  was worried more about the coming days than to live in present and believe me in that situation you cant live in present. After waiting for more than hour finally doctor called and passed  the NEWS. not sure I am like that or not but I was still processing it and there was a surprise also.. First it was BOY and second Birth weight was way less than expected.   Here onwards I could understand why physicists are  doing so much research on Nano technologies even if we have bigger units to measure Here onwards ,, I was not sure that life would take such a route that ml and grams can be so im
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Best promotion in life comes with its own set of challenges( in our case lots and lots of it..)- ICU

Its amazing feeling when you go back and read your blogs. You could feel the rush of emotions you were going through when it was written. So how come I haven't  written about the best thing happened in our life.  Well to answer this question is simple .. You dont get time for urself when God showers you the best gift. Its been almost 4 more months and its crazy how things went and still going on ... Well it started with sudden development of hospitalization of wife and suddenly you realize you have just one  night to make  up your mind for the beautiful moment you waited for years.. But instead of excitement, Tension and uncertainty is what you are occupied with. You dont know what is waiting for you tomorrow and you start filling with all negative emotions.. not sure how to support wife or to urself..  Night seems too long and never ending waiting outside ICU. You just dont want to talk to anyone.. You are not ready to accept that it can happen to you again and espe
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Cant beat luck( or bad luck ) with planning and care

Sometime things happen which makes you realize that you can not control the things how hard you try.I know these are strong words and you may feel I am not that old to talk to such things ;)  or am I ???  dont know but small incident made  you realize this. On our( Me and Wifey )  way to Mall , I suddenly realized there are no brakes in Car.. Luckily speed was not more than 10 and  we were just about to stop the car for inspection by security at entrance. Front car was 20 meters away...Some how managed to drive few more meters in that condition and parked in the Mall. I was very calm but suddenly my mind was occupied with so many negative thoughts like what would happen if we were driving in speed . Or instead of coming directly to Season's mall which is just 100 meters form home we would have planned to go outside ( which we were discussing  when started).. During all those  thoughts i shouted on Toyota on call person ,asked him to leave his relative's marriage and come
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