Trip to Balaji temple, Pune

Had heard a lot of Balaji temple in Pune. Was wanting to visit it since a long time. It was told that it was a replica of the Revered Balaji temple of Tirupati.


Well we headed out in our car from Pune. It took us a little under an hour from our place to reach there. The road was good, the weather too was lovely - we had put in 2 new tyres to the vehicle too so that drive was pretty smooth.

Now about the temple, it was really serene there. I havent seen the Tirupati one but this was magnificient too. It was clean, all arrangements were good.

Appraisal Time

The time of the year has come wherein we sit and retrospect what went good and what went wrong through the year. We write it down and present to our seniors wishing that they see and understand the value we have created for the company.
Its all the more hard to face the people and tell them (not convince them since they will never be if they dont get the top rankings) that they are not in the top echelons of the grades. Its very difficult that we have to fit in the number of people that we have in the bell curve with some percentages. But then thats the irony of being a boss and having people to appraise.
I am not sure how people manage to convince their reportees otherwise. Suggestions are truly welcome.

The next steps

Then we went to a doctor who took all the tests. It was confirmed.
She told us all about what to eat, what to do what not to do (I wouldnt go into details of the same.)
Then came all the site visits - babycenter.com. We registered onto their site and began receiving regualar updates from them.

New member to the family

Well the day has arrived after so long a time. After much dilly dallying we had decided to go for the plunge. We decided that yes we want to expand our family. So here it is - we are expecting a baby. It just came all of a sudden. I don't how I should reach to this news - I am internally so happy to hear this but at the same time i am too much worried as to how i would be able to manage the baby and every responsibility that came with it. All kinds of thoughts started coming into my mind - how will I be able to sustain the baby, will I be able to provide all that it needs, will I be able to give him/her good education, good upbringing and so on and so forth......

I have always been a happy go lucky person, hardly caring about whats coming in next. But this time its really worrying me to no end. I know this is a very very common phenomenon but obviously this is a first time for me, you see :-) (at least legally hahahhaah )

Goa Trip

As is usual with me, i very very reluctantly gave a consent to go to Goa with wife and mom. It most often if not always happens that we end up fighting on where to go and how to stay. I always like things sorted out before start when going out for a holiday. Am not that adventurist type where people just land in there and then do all the plans. I like it that all plans are in place and we know what to expect when we land in there. My wife Pooja is exactly the opposite. Just land in there and we will see what happens.

Well we made all the arrangements and boarded the train to Goa. So far so good. We were enjoying the journey which traverses the beautiful western ghat and the journey i must say is picturesque.

We went to the designated hotel and checked in. Later on we went on to the Sequirim beach. It was a lovely beach with an old ship anchored very near to the sea shore.

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