a Tag and another day in Goa!! :D

I promised to do part two pretty quickly after doing part uno of the Goa trip. But I need lot more pictures and all of them are in M's laptop and he is travelling. So I thought while I am sitting vella let me do a tag the incredibly smart and sassy Kiran has set me to do.

(I changed my mind and added some Goa tidbits at the end!)

All I apparently need to do is list out 5 of my addictions. I think if someone reads my blog which sometimes mentions my quirks, other times my fears and now my addiction, that person can easily foool me into believing I have known him/her forever! :p

Taste ki testing

I love trying new tastes at new restaurants and I hate going to same places over and over again when they are so many out there waiting to serve me some good, bad and ugly food! This tasting and testing thing is not restricted to restaurants, but is done at home too. NO! I don't take out Sanjeev Kapoor and Tarla Dalal books since I ain't no kitchen goddess! :( I prowl the supermarket aisles waiting to lay my hands on some new biscuit, a flavour of soup, some ready to cook khaana... anything! At times it's a complete waste of money and another times we eat it till we get sick of it and need a break. I remember buying a Chinese Barbecue Sauce called Woh-Hup Hoisin sauce. We added it to some noodles or something as per recipe on the bottle and it was just horrible. 300bucks flushed down the drain (in every sense of the term!).

SMSing and blogging

I dunno why I prefer smsing than calling. I sms for numbers, address, just to say hey and even make up after a fight. I have no idea why I don't just pick up the phone and call instead. But that's just me. I keep tapping away at my phone and much to everyone's horrors I cannot use T9! so I type every letter and don't let phone do the guessing! :p

Blogging is new, yet an addiction that runs deepest at this time. I just have to get a daily dose of blogs I love to read and rarely can I ever leave without leaving a comment! :) Yeah I am a comments junkie. I love getting them and leaving them on other blogs!

Coffee kick

I LOVE coffee. I don't drink endless cups of it. Sometimes it's just the morning cuppa. But i so need it. A bad cup of coffee gets me upset to no end. That's the reason I rarely make my own. Earlier it was mom who used to make a perfect one and now it's M who gives me my daily dose of caffeine.

Cubby and talking about him

I cannot have a conversation without bringing up what's latest with Cubby. I just love to sit and watch him grow up a l'il bit every single day. I love his non-smile and how he has learnt to shake his head vigorously to say no. Sometimes it could be just something regular he has done. But to his mother's eyes, he is the first one to do it! :p

Reading... in the loo!

Yeah yeah! Go and say ewwww! Till i got married, I never did it more because I guess, Indian loos don't allow you that luxury. But M got me hooked to this habit and now there is no kicking it. Our loo looks like a mini library at times and I wonder how soon Cubby will pick up this silly habit (see! Told you I keep talking about him!)

I tag Suma, BB's mom, Cuckoo, Swati and Dee. (am not linking you women! too tired to do it! Pls to bear with me!)

And here's a l'il update from Goa in any case! One day we got out without a plan and M said lets go and indulge a bit. So off we went to Park Hyatt for a leisurely lunch and chilling at their private beach which came as an unexpected surprise! I kicked myself for not carrying extra set of clothes or just a pair of shorts or something. This was the only time we were there on a pristine beach with cloudy sky and no way to dunk ourselves! :( Tragic, to say the least! But then we enjoyed just lying down on the comfy beach chairs and attempting to take Cubby in water yet again. This time he bawled a little less! But he isn't a water baby as of now at least. He was happiest between changes of clothes, just being naked! :p

Ofcos in his characteristic manner, he kept walking all over the restaurant and hotel and by end of it garnered a couple of fans, what with snooty, rich people who think kids are a nuisance! We had a yummylicious Pizza at their Italian resto and yours truly, otherwise a teetotaler indulged in a Cosmopolitan for the very first time only after M promised that he would share / finish the drink if i didn't like / enjoy it. Well, I quite enjoyed it and might just have it another time! :p

It's a beautiful property and I hope we can go and stay there sometime in future. I collected some sea shells just for nostalgia sake and have no idea what I would do with them.

Also was impressed with the staff uniform at this place! Crisp linen clothes with chinese collars and really cool ivory cut-offs with blue chinese collar kurtas for some of the staff. I felt terribly under-dressed! :p

Here's some pictures of that day.

I fell in love with how fresh and yummy the veggies looked!

Begging Cubby to just sit with us for sometime!!

Cubby would rather run around... barefoot!!

walking to the beach!!

It was a long walk!! See the position change in carrying Cubby!

See the happiness when naked?!

Trying to dress him up!

when will baby-bag days get over?! :p


a family picture to end it with!