Aasim started it all!!

Usually we dont exchange gifts on Valentine’s day BUT this time Aasim wanted to give his mother a secret present on Valentine. He had seleted this wrist watch before we went to Delhi and had made me promise that we will buy it when we get back.

Yesterday when I asked him to come along to buy that watch he suggested that I go alone and get it on his behalf!! I did not.

Swati got the hint that we were up to something, went out and got me this!! Though not real antique it is well made and the carvings on handle and sheath are real nice.

The last picture in the set is something I stumbled upon rummaging thru old memories. There was this guy at the road side or some fair who for Rs10/- wrote our names on a grain of rice!!

  • That’s a pretty dagger!

    Talking about grain of rice, Alastair had one done for me a few years ago which says “I love you”. It’s amazing how steady their hands are! I saw a grain of rice with a lovely painting on it, at Ripley’s in the Gold Coast.

    • Thanks!

      Yes, I have also seen several Rice grains paintings at various places in India, but the most beautiful one that I recall was a painting of two lovers done in Rajasthani style in full color.

      BTW that “bottom heavy” remark got me looking at your pics – you and and Alastair indeed make a nice couple 🙂