Life In Singapore.....

It's been a long while any post come up from us. All we have posted for last few months is little bit happenings in life, or we are coming back kind of posts :P, although wanted to post a lot but first didn't had net access at home, then joined a job (A week ago) so couldn't get time for this. Have missed everyone's comments and of course missed reading all of your posts. But now am covering that by reading posts one by one of all you guys.
As all of you know we have shifted to Singapore some 3 months back. So facing lot of changes in life, job, daily routine. After coming to Singapore one biggest change of our life is "Me and Sachin have become active :D " Jokes apart, seriously we have to walk a lot be it for going to office, or for shopping or even going to local grocery shop. When we were in India both of us were dependent on our lovable car, wherever we had to go, we just took out our car and headed towards it. Be it our office or a shop located at 50 meters from our apartment :P I don't remember we ever used bus or auto's for traveling there, But now car is beyond our capacity to afford here, car's parking is much costlier than the fuel here :D
Thank goodness transport system here is worlds best, so traveling is much easier and now don't feel bad that we don't own a vehicle here. MRT systems and buses are really good here. Singapore is most people friendly nation, so they have taken care of every minute needs of people and made life easy. Now I feel our goal to reduce weight is not far away :D In India I remember only place I used to walk was from my apartment floor to lift gate, from ground floor lift till car, Get down at office gate, walk till lift and be seated at my place and same while coming back :D
I guess we'll be fitter while we'll come back to India.

Feels Good :D

Other major change in life, LIFE has become very BUSY. Hardly get time and now I understand the actual meaning of TGIF Where we eagerly wait for weekends so that we can get up at 10 am. My day starts here at 6:30 a.m. I never thought I will ever get up so early in my life, even for exams also I never got up so early :D
And then we cannot afford maids here so all work is done by us only.
Even we don't get dhobi's here so have to iron our clothes ourself. :D Life became hectic.

Unlike India don't have the lunch facility in office, so have to prepare lunch in morning, then rush for MRT, it takes 1 hour for me to reach office, Sachin is lucky his office is at
20 mins run. MRT system is amazing here. But one can see the same amount of rush during the office hours, but still I wonder how people manage to walk without knocking anyone :D, without pushing in trains, :D:D

Amazing thing is people don't honk horns on traffic lights, infact I don't remember if I had heard any horn voice in last 3 months here :D People are patient enough to wait for there turn. People are punctual for time, reach office sharp at 9 a.m. and leave dot at 6 p.m. :D They don't stretch like Indians, and in my office as 75% are Indians they still sit stretch till 6:30 p.m. or 7 p.m.

FOOD IS HORRIBLE HERE
This place is not at all meant for vegetarians. Veggi's cannot survive here until and unless they know cooking and cook for themselves.
People here eat weird food, that stinks also. And when our neighbors are on cooking spree, we have to close our windows and doors :D
(People usually do not cook here and therefore that explains huge chain of food courts here)
Although we do have some Indian restaurant here but they have limited things on veggie menu and yes VERY EXPENSIVE too And yes even when buying vegetables, one has to look again and again to find out what vegetable is this, hardly find good Indian vegetables

One thing we learnt here is FISH IS CONSIDERED AS VEGETARIAN FOOD
Howcome don't ask me ;)
We feel strange too

So make sure on your visit here, don't end up eating fish sandwich, if u ask or pay for vegetarian sandwich :P

Place is very neat and clean and to find dust here is almost impossible

While taking a home on rent here common trend is you get a fully furnished house with all the necessities you can think of. other thing I liked here is people are very generous and courteous. If you happen to look into eyes of other person (who is completely stranger to you) It is expected that both of you should greet each other with smile.
(If this practice you follow in India, and some guy do this to any good looking girl he will definitely end up with some chappals :D)
So people keep on greeting others in lift, trains or buses, malls, etc.
Coming to malls, huge is the word I got to say Amazing

Oh yes I forgot to mention about the number of escalators in MRT stations. The total number of escalators in one MRT interchange must be much more than total number of escalators in India.

As I told this place is people friendly and is most disabled friendly nation. You will find lifts, escalators, walk ways at every 50 mtr distance in the interchange. Then special phones are installed for disabled people who sit in wheelchair for their convenience. Everywhere you will find ramps for wheelchairs.

One thing you will definitely notice is number of mobile users here, be it a train or bus, mall or road, you will find people walking with earphone plugged in their ears, listening to songs and phone in their hands. If not listening to songs then definitely typing sms messages.
Here person gets his or her first hand phone at the age of 5 , isn't that strange, school kids taking mobiles in their prep class. If it is a family of 4, all four will be having individual phones :P
And yes all of them having trendy mobiles, kids having PDA too
:(
Another thing noticeable here is people like reading a lot. You will catch people reading novels and other books in MRT, even if they don't get seat to sit, still they will be reading while standing, walking also.
Height I have seen is a kids mom is shopping in a mall, kid is walking along with from one floor to another but reading a book while walking :D
now what shall I say about that kid :P

Eating a bubblegum is a criminal offence here, and you are not suppose to give tips to waiter or else you will land up in soup
There are very good places from tourist point of view, which I will mention in my next post, abhi ke liyey itna hi, I guess I wrote quite a long post this time :D

~preeti

Here I come

:) So am back with bang in blogworld......... to start with a fresh new template

Lot of our creativity put into place in this template

Sachin helped a lot with images and placing right picture at right place

Some Efforts from my side too
Love to have your comments

Coming up soon...........

Life in Singapore

Keep Logging in
:)
~preeti

Some Problem

Am having some problem with my template so haved changed to basic template, will soon come up with new post and new template
okie la
bbye
~preeti

We are back

Hi folks,
hope you guys have not forgotten us .. We are back ..on our space .. We have relocated and settled down in Singapore .. Anjan ( preeti) has got a job too and my job is going fine .. We had been missing our dear blogspace for long .. Preeti will take a while before actively updating it. but till then i will try my best to update it regularly now .

To Start with these are some of the pics from our new home , preeti has worked too hard to make it look good ..

So everybody .. please coming here ..

thanks from preeti and me ..

Love
Sachin

Added later by Me (preeti:))
Am so happy to come online after one month, have been missing u guys a lot, Hope to see u soon, with some stories abt singapore :)
preeti

Yahooooooooooooo

I have a news , Sachin cleared his first 2 sem of MBA exams, He scored well and got Grade A
Not bad :P
Hip Hip Hurray
Congrats Dear
Am Proud of you
Meri mehnat rang le hee aayeee :D
~Preeti

And my packing still going on. Am so excited
yahoo

We Are still Alive.....

:P am happy to see people still remember us and news from our part of world is Sachin has taken 2 bedroom apartment on rent there in Singapore, am still in jaipur, 2morow am leaving from delhi will stay one day there and then will go to jaipur and hopefully on 1 sep or 2 sep I will fly to Singapore
As far as sachin has updated me it is nice place, I will like the apartment although furniture is old fashioned rather unique as he says dressing table looks like as if it belongs to maharani gayatri devi
and he says it is lovely place and is waiting for me to come so that he can show me around, and yes he is missing me a lot
I don't think I need to say that am Missing you sachin


Small update my DP got approved so hopefully am flying on 1st sep
~preeti

Another update couldn't fly on 1st so now my 8th midnight tickets are confirmed

Sayonara

Hi Junta ,

The news from this part of the world is we are relocating to singapore !!!. I have taken a job offer there and I and Anjan would be moving to Singapore. I am leaving 27th July and Anjan would join me after a month ..

Till then she will have very little or almost no access to internet so our blog will be little dormant till then ..

so folks catch u al from singapore

till then ..

Chao

Quick Update :)

Okie am here just for one quick update and to my horror I come to know blogs are blocked :( This is so bad. I was trying to reach my own blog and couldn't anyhow thanks to Times of India who came up with the way to reach back your own blog.

Okie Coming back o updates, frieds Sachin is finally giving his exams and till date he has successfully given three papers and there are still 5 more to go including the one he has to give today :)

Will come back soon with further updates, btw me going to b'lore for 2 days :)

See you guys very soon...

~preeti

We will be back soon .... :)

Ahh this is what I hate saying but I have too that we are taking leave from blogdom for few months..........
Hope you guys won't forget us by the time we come back with bang, lots of new things to share, talk and show.....

I have somehow started loving this space so much that my day in office starts with all ur posts and the comments u leave on ours.... It has some how become a routine task to open up my blog then switch over to all you people blogs, see whats new, which one is updated, the one which is not updated, requesting them to update it soon, then other fever orkut and to chat with you guys.

I would be out as both of us would be in a transition state for next month and a half . I would have deffered access to net so won't be able to update it as frequently

Am oops rather we going to miss it a lot.

Hope you guys will miss us also :P

Okie guys won't say bbye, but will say we'll be back soon

It's A Hap Hap Hap Happy Birthday

Yeah a very quick post before I start day of mine here in office this post is dedicated to Neetie
Birthday Girl. Neetie you all must be knowing a sweet bubbly girl, always ready to help others, my first blog friend, whom I got to know 3 years back where in she was the first person to comment on my previous blog which I closed forever now :)
Neetie, girl who always never missed anyone's b'day's and anniversaires, and happen to write post for all of them,
Lets wish all of us a very happy birthday and a wonderful year ahead.
God Bless You Neetie (this is her tag line :P)

~Preeti and Sachin :)

Congratulations

Hi ppl ,
I am writing this post in too much of hurry . Too Occupied in work but just wanted to celebrate achievement of My Preeti . She has won a first prize in Pot decoration in her company , something she did for the first time with not much background in craft . I am proud of you my love . Keep it going .. We will celebrate it soon .. Contgratulations again

Sachin

ye yo ye yo

Yippiee I have changed our blogs template to welcome My Mother-In-Law (MIL) who is coming today at 6:30 p.m.

Okie fine kidding... :) I know she is never going to access this blog and infact she dowsn't even know the meaning of blog. We were thinking to change the skin of the blog from long time, so today I finally did it. #:-S

Okie it's just to update that my MIL and bro in law coming today, so this is going to be a fun filled month hurrayyyyy
mazza aayegaa

okie one more update I got first prize in pot decoration, got declared today :)

BTW title doesn't mean anything :P

Fun Filled Weekend

Yup wanted a break since long time and finally the time came of the same.
We went to Nagarajuna Dam this weekend and forgot completly our stressful life. We group of 9 ppl ( one being a 1 yr old kid :P) started at 9.30 a.m. from Hyderabad on Saturday 1st July, It is 180 km from our place and we took two cars. One being ours Santro and other being of Vaibhav dada. Hmm before I tell you about the trip let me tell you about all those who were part of this trip :D
yeah Yeah you know both of us so no need to give our intro ;)
Then their were Siddharth and Garima, I guess I mentioned abt them also in some of my posts, Sidds bhai is best friend of Sachin for last 27 years and then there were Vaibhav dada , garima's brother his wife pooja bhabhi and their cutie son Khushu (Vedant) and bhabhi's sisters Mona and Minni ( Minni do good mimicry of cartoon characters too while talking to Khushu )

So we reached there around 2:30 p.m. and stayed in AP tourisim resort Vijay Vihar, Wonderful place, good rooms but pathetic food, but never mind, on cost of the time, pleasure and fun we can sacrifice that and enjoyed like anything. All of us even forgot that we are employed people with jobs and there is anything called office on Monday. And great Entertainer was Khushu, who was center of attraction all the time. He is very smart kid and talked with all of us in some alien language and nodded to us as if he understood everything :D

Aah Amazing beauty it was, we felt so close to nature, water everywhere surrounded by rocks and hills with cool breeze blowing and greenry everywhere. We went to see a waterfall too, beautiful one, am putting up one group snap of ours while we were vacating hotel, rest of the snaps can be viewed in flickr, I'll upload them tonight.
Siddharth in lemon T-shirt Garima in Red and Blue (one doing ye ye :D) Vaibhav da with cutie kushu and pooja Bhabhi, Mona in lemon kurta and Minni in pink. Yes you guys know us :D

We had a wonderful view from our room, felt so fresh and relaxed, forgot everything and were just feeling the beauty, As you can see this view we had from our room. Pics taken from the balcony from three different angles. It was so wonderful to feel the morning breeze.
we even went down there to have a closer look. Oh it was fine while going downstairs but when we have to come back it was like never ending stairs with those small pebbles putting obstacles, anyhow managed girtey pardhtey, giving hand to each other, managed to come back :D
yeah here are few pics of ours downstairs, some 100 + stairs I guess ;)
I somehow managed to climb that small rock :D Lovely pic isn't it heeheheheheheheehe and here is Sidds trying to be in vishwanmitra's position but his meneka (Garima is not anywhere :D ).
Coz she is with me hehehehe And yes we also went to see Ettipotala water falls..... Its awesome Felt like we should go and enjoy in that chilled water but alas there was no way to reach there, we had to watch it from such a height that going down was really very difficult. And yes how can we forget our apple of eye Kushu the great his real name being vedant but we love calling him kushu and he responds so well to this name
See he is enjoying crawling here and there :D and making us run after him :) He too enjoyed pool water, see the smile on his face. Was little reluctant to enter pool first but once he got into pool, it was difficult to get kushu out of it :)
In nutshell we had a smashing weekend, which made us so relaxed that today I have no monday blues and am feeling soooooooooooooo fresh :)

Yeah on way back capture this pic ;) It happens only in India :D
Although hazzled as taken from moving car :) enough for today :D
~preeti

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GILC 2 Results..............Disappointment

Last Night was a great disappointment to us (Sachin & Me). I never thought of writing a post on any TV serial or soap or any idol shows but this made me write about it. Results were declared and along came the disappointment, and unexpected results. No wonder one who was crowned Laughter king was good but he wasn't the best. He do deserve to come in finals but his performance wasn’t the one which we can say he is laughter king. Results wasn't fair, Rauf Lala was crowned as king of comedy for sole purpose that he was Pakistani and to tie the friendship bonds between two countries, but was this fair enough to do on the sake of deserving ones???????

The one who came second, Rajeev was the one who used to write scripts for Shekar suman’s shows"Simply Shekhar" which was a plus point for him to get promoted and reach this level else, he was a big mimicry of "GILC 1 champ SUNIL PAL" he wasn't the original.

AND the one with original humors and original scripts were sidelined.

YES am talking about KHAYAALI and PRATAP FAUJDAAR. They were simply the best. And in the overall performance, (As I keenly observed each and every episode) they were consistent and made us laugh till we held our stomachs and led our eyes watered. Amazing performers were they, but they were awarded with third crown. This was not fair at all

Doctor's performance was also wonderful, his poems and stanza's were not only humorous but thought provoking too. But I think he had limited audience who can understand the depth of his humor so being a second last wasn't bad for him. The man with Rancho was also good that he reached finals, as he was lively and made his monkey come dummy to perform as real, and made it lively, but as he has got only one theme throughout the series, so he didn't has got any variance, so coming last was also fair for him, The duo performers from Pakistan were good too and made us laugh, but they landed in a controversy by making some comments on SC. Anyways whatever the thing may be, what we have to say here is the one who has been crowned as laughter king was good but not the BEST

Bihari Essay "Indian Cow"

You'll forget your English by the time you finish reading this. This is a true essay written by a Bihari candidate at the UPSC(IAS)Examinations. The candidate has written an essay on the Indian cow:

Indian Cow

HE IS THE COW. "The cow is a successful animal. Also he is 4 footed, And because he is female, he give milks, [ but will do so when he is got child.] He is same like-God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards. His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk. Milk comes from 4 taps attached to his basement. [ horses don't have any such attachment]

What can it do? Various ghee, butter, cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth. Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally. His motion is slow only because he is of lazy species, Also his other motion.. gober] is much useful to trees, plants as well as for making flat cakes[like Pizza] , in hand and drying in the sun.

Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding after eating. Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in the meadows in the grass. His only attacking and defending organ is the horns, specially so when he is got child. This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapons to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great velocity forwards. He has got tails also, situated in the backyard, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the other end of the other side. This is done to frighten away the flies which alight on his cohesive body hereupon he gives hit with it.

The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch. So the grasses head is not crushed. At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts . His eyes and nose are like his other relatives. This is the cow.......

We are informed that the candidate passed the exam, and is now an IAS, in bihar in somewhere..[sorry somewhere in Bihar]

And this marks my 75th post today

Farewell to Aarti....

Yup Aarti, whom I met just 6 months back, when I joined my new job. I was confused among new people out here as having a language difference and then I met her. Same team, same project and then started developing a bond with her. Being North Indian, and a gujrati girl we became good friends. Haven't thought that one can get so attached to a person in such a short span of time. Today she came to office last time as she will be leaving on 28th to mumbai for her marriage. Yes she is getting married on 3rd July, am so happy for her, although am feeling bad that she won't be here to share a cup of coffee with me during tea time :) and then will miss her sweet talks. But still its good that she is going to start her new life. Here I wish her all the success and life full of love, caring, and sweet moments which she will cherish for whole life.


God Bless the couple

Hearitest Congratulation's Aarti

~Preeti and Sachin

Maggi...... Is It.

Maggi.....Is It??

Last night I tried the new maggi product , Maggi, Dal+Atta noodles (Sambhar style)....ugghhh IT TASTED YUCK!!!!!!

I think only southie's will apreciate it's taste but for ppl like me, it was real bad thing to taste, MY first and Last packet of this flavour.

Being an ardent lover of maggi, I just could NOT insult it by throwing, so have to eat it whole as Sachin took only one bite and left for me to enjoy. Poor me :

I have tried maggi and all its flavors, being maggi aatta vegetable noodles my favorite one, Even there used to be one maggi soup noodles, they introduced long time back, I loved that too but then it was dissappeared from the scene, Maggi have been my favorite snack since school days, when mom used to refuse giving me food or something else to munch at odd hours, I loved sneaking in kitchen to cook maggi. I remember me and my sis, cooking maggi at 3 a.m. during exam days, and then hostel life, it's incomplete without Maggi :P

Then I even try lots of R&D with maggi and been successful all the times:P I loved it with dash of garlic tinge and little bit of tomato ketchup in it.
I love maggi in sandwich and yes eating it raw too :P
Loved the maggi spring rolls, and frankies:)

But this New Flavor disappointed me so much :(
Another flavor in my ignore list is Maggi tomato flavor.(Yuck!!!)

Even I always loved maggi adds, all new and innovative and always tempt me to go to kitchen to look for another pack :P

But still am not going to leave eating it :P
Only thing I stick to the basic and my favorite ones :P

Lyrics

Lyrics:
Bulla ki jaana main kaun, Bulla ki jaana main kaun, Bulla ki jaana main kaun, Bulla ki jaana main kaun.
Na main moman vich maseetan, Na main vich kufar dian reetan, Na main pakan vich paleetan.
Na main andar bed kitaban, Na main rehnda phaang sharaban, Na main rehnda mast kharaban.
Na main shadi na ghamnaki, Na main vich paleetan pakeen, Na main aaabi na main khaki.
Na main aatish na main paun, Bulla ki jana main kaun, Bulla ki jana main kaun, Bulla ki jana main kaun, Bulla ki jana main kaun.
Na main arabi na lahori, Na main hindi shehar Nagaori, Na hindu na turk pashauri.
Na main bhet mazhab de paya, Na main aadam hawwa jaya, Na koi apna naam dharaya.
Avval aakhar aap nu jana, Na koi dooja hor pacchana, Mai ton na koi hor syana.
Bulle shah kharha hai kaun, Bulla ki jaana main kaun, Bulla ki jaana main kaun, Bulla ki jaana main kaun, Bulla ki jaana main kaun
Na main moosa na pharoah, Na main jagan na vich saun, Na main aatish na main paun, Na main rahnda vich Nadaun, Na main baitthan na vich bhaun, Bulle shah kharha hai kaun
Bulla ki jaana main kaun...... Oooooo..... Bulla ki jaana main kaun

Weekend!!!!!

Yeah it's here..
but no excitement this time....
Know that have to relax, have to complete some pending works....
But the week wasn't good at all...
whew....
How I hated this rather say how We hated it.....
Come monday and lets see what has it got for us..

Feeling like .............pata nahin

Wish that you all have a good weekend and wonderful week ahead
~preeti