Back!

Quite obvious huh?! Yeah I'm back after a lovely vacation at home, in India.  Where I live right now, is home.  India, to me, is somewhere I need to go to be with family.  Power-cuts, roads dug up with mounds of dirt lined along, tailors that argue, delays due to traffic, construction site dwellers crawling into half the road space, water clogged streets after a spell of rain, vehicles parked on either side of a single lane road, road signs that assume you know better - none of these bother me.  They simply exist as I go about my stuff and move on.  I did observe however, that this time, I had no temptation for street food.  Even restaurant food for that matter.  Concern for hygiene reined above desires of the palate.

 During my shopping spree, I did observe that Bata - the brand I grew up wearing on my feet for many years didn't really live up to the image of quality I had of it.  

The other let down was Thumbs Up - the only soda I'll ever break my no-sodas-ever rule for; being tampered with.  It tasted weirdly sweet once, but another time, it had all of its original spunky Taste-The-Thunder punch from the very first sip to the last gulp. Burp! So Satisfying.