We had a visit from our friend Sophie from Germany. She was over for a holiday in Kerela and came over to recover from the experiences. Turns out the brochures were glossy but the reality was not.


At Kasbah for Dinner.

Weekend break on 26th Jan

The Indian republic day on the 26th Jan afforded us a weekend break, which we took in Chandigarh to attend a wedding in my wife's sisters family and had opportunity to woo her beautiful daughter, all of 3 yrs. Some pics from our fun moments :

coffee @ costa!

its been a busy past week with some visitors & lotsa work. We had a small ceremony to celebrate the arrival of Ranak Rustam Madan - as he is now officially named. You can see lots more of his pics & news at his own blog : www.ranakmadan.blogspot.com

Yesterday met up with my school friends and one of them after a very long time - Parikshit or Pari as we affectionately call him. Also there were Ravi & Parul Priya Srivastava (PPS), Jatin & Ashwinder, Sue n me and ofcourse Sweekriti (with Pari). Here's a pic :

Size !

Ranak 'Rusty' Madan - really active kid, with eyes roving about all around. He is still a handful but what fantastic pair of lungs , wow. you can hear him across rooms & all over the house when he lets one out!

A few of our friends and us got together for a bar-b-q. Some fun pics emerged as inhibitions were left behind. Sharing here a few of them !

Aman & Shruti - The Dharmendar of the group !


The magnetic duo !


The fun hat & hatters of the evening (if we might say so as we had a lot of fun!)


The Trio !



Some strange happening with Santa were seen that night, maybe he was rejuvenating himself after the busy Christmas schedule !

This is Ranak 'Rusty' Madan ! This was when he was just a few hours old.







Rusty 2 days old - sleeping with a tummy full!








Since then there have been umpteen shits, pisses, a couple of baths. He has come home now and both Sheetal n rusty are well. Here's some more pics with the family!

Dad(u) with Rusty


sheets n Bro with ranak rustam pestonjee rusty madan


with chachu n chachi madan




more abt the new year eve party later!!

Baby in the family

Exteremely good news !! Sheets, my S-I-L, My bros wife has just delivered a healthy baby boy today morning ! Yippee - I am now a chacha. Everybody is so excited and happy with the news. Something that has been long awaited and desired.

Its so amazing that one can share one body with another human being and bring the brand new baby out into the same old world. The world will change definitely. It has to. It's the ripple effect, you know. every movement, breath, incident makes a hange in the world splitting into very many parallel universe with the options of what could have happened if something else had happened. That is where the word infinite will fit the apt description.


I shall report in the name of the baby when he gets it. Till then he is Rusty.