Quaint

Loved these quaint pavements in Portugal

You've probably figured out that I love armchair travelling. I've travelled to many places in the world and my trusty camera has captured weird and wonderful scenes.

A few day ago I was watching a show on the Living channel and came across Portugal. What a beautiful place. 

But the thing that caught my eye was these quaint pavements.

    

And now some quick fragments from my week

I finally backed up my computer. Thank goodness that was long overdue. I came across so many posts on facebook of computer crashes and I wasn't going to tempt fate.

Celebrated Diwali with friends today. We had some interesting conversations on Spirituality and the Universe. Some fascinating stories were exchanged.

But overall it was a pretty quiet week.

Hope you've had an interesting one.


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Priceless and Precious

Priceless, Precious - Watching the ABs win

ABs = All Blacks, New Zealand's Rugby team

Once again it is party time for Kiwis. What a moment when Richie McCaw held the Rugby World Cup for the 2nd time back to back. First team to win back to back and first to win the Rugby World Cup three times.  What a sweet, precious and priceless moment. What an awesome game.

Unfortunately wasn't able to watch this at Twickenham, England so the next best thing is watching it live on TV.

So here are some pics, taken from the TV. I do a lot of armchair travelling, watching sports etc. Thank goodness for TV.

Twickenham stadium

National Anthems

All Blacks do the Haka 

Ma'a Nonu's try - my favourite moment in the game - it was sensational

Final Score

Richie McCaw holds the Rugby World Cup for the 2nd time in a row 

Priceless and Precious 

Richie McCaw and Dan Carter 

The Web Ellis Cup

And some other fragments of my week

Little sleep with my son staying up all night to around 4am all week. But the last assignment is in and a good night's sleep can resume,

My routine yearly blood test results arrived and relieved that all is normal. Thank goodness,

On the other hand, my car needed some repairs and now my credit card weeps. I think it's time for a new car. I've had this one for a long long time. A little sad as I love this car. 

Met up with some friends again for coffee, F and I love watching the planes at the airport so we spent a few fun hours there. And my Indian friend and I had lunch together and chatted about our childhood in India. 

And six little kids came trick or treating yesterday and they got some freddo frog milk chocolates from me. 

Hope you had a great week. Do share your highlights.

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An Opportunity To Send Some #Love - #LettersOfLove

An Opportunity to send some love

October is birthday month in my family. Seven birthdays in the family including my daughter, my mom and me.  I wanted to do something special for my birthday. Nothing came to mind until I read about the Letters of Love initiative on Roshan Radhakrishnan's blog. 

The Letters of Love initiative is the brainchild of Pooja Pradeep who decided she wanted to do something after watching the haunting images of the children from Syria whose lives had been ruined for a reason they could not even understand. Rather than become lost in the avalanche of initiatives to raise funds, this 23 year old decided she wanted to give the children something that would last - emotional support.

With this idea in mind was born the concept of Letters of Love.

The concept is this - all those who are willing are requested to send in 'happy' pictures of themselves along with a short 3-4 line message of encouragement for these children from Syria who now live in refugee camps and feel they have lost everything in their lives. The pictures will be converted into post cards and your words translated into Arabic (the native language of the children) and handwritten on to the back of the card.

Pooja has had an overwhelming response to her initiative and many have offered to donate. If you would like to donate, please also visit http://www.ketto.org/Lettersoflove. 

And for more information please check  Roshan Radhakrishnan's post and the Letters of Love facebook page.

Letters of Love is now in collaboration with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Gaziantep, Turkey. All letters will be sent to them and they will facilitate the cause at the receiving end. Upon receiving the cartons of love, they will be distributing our letters to the refugee children at the community centres in South West Turkey.

If you do participate please send your letter soon as by mid December all letters will be collated and sent.   

Pooja with this week's postcards 

Today I sent my letter and picture with a little bit of love.  Here's the picture I sent.

I hope you will join in this heart warming initiative. It costs nothing but if it makes a difference in one young life, then that will be priceless

And the other things during the week ...

I had an awesome birthday spent with my kids and my mom. My daughter stayed overnight so that was nice.

Met up with my a friend for a coffee and had a lovely time. I am really enjoying catching up with friends.  

Yesterday as I was flicking the TV channels I stumbled upon  Portugal. What a beautiful place. It is definitely on my places to see list.  

This morning my friend called from the US and we had a nice long chat. It was the highlight of my day. We've been friends since I was 10 years old. She's my soul sister, one of the few who knows the real me. Love you lots my dear friend. 

Rugby World Cup fever is on. The semi final with South Africa this morning was a nail biter. The All Blacks, New Zealand's Rugby team, is into the finals. Woohoo.  Go the ABs. 

Having told you about my week, it hit home even more that we are so blessed to have so many good things in our life. 

The Letters of Love initiative takes on even more meaning for me. Please do join. This is such a wonderful opportunity to send a little love to a young child who has lost so much.  

Spread love everywhere you go. 

Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

~ Mother Teresa

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