03/01/10

Completed morning program.Venita told that it was Gita's birthday.Wished her. I was told by Gita that it was on 04/01/10.She however said that I could wish her on any day and even one day earlier.Gita is my niece and daughter of my elder sister. Right from her early childhood, she has lived with my father and had education upto post graduate level.Her marriage also took place when she was living in our house. She had continued to live in our house along with her mother, my elder sister, even after the death of my father in April 1991. Her marriage took place in 1996, when I was posted as Director General of Police at Shillong,Meghalaya.My father took care of her, so did she take care of my father, who died at the ripe age of about 87. After his death I took care of her, along with her elder sister who continued to live in our house after father's death. So I have a great affection for her, as a father would have had for his daughter.Venita,however,was angry with me for talking to Gita affectionately and wishing on her birthday.I ignored her and went to 'Cafe' for a couple of hours keeping complete silence.Read newspapers there, sent replies to a number of smss for the Happy New Year greetings,wrote cheques for pending bills against credit card etc.On way back home,dropped them in the sky box, took out Rs.10,000 for payment of Rs.5,000 as loan to maid and Rs.5,000 to the driver as his pay.

I scanned through my diary of 2009 and noted the following visits for holiday and other purposes.The list given below doesn't include visits to various places for appearance in cases before the high courts of India :

1) FEB 13TH TO 16TH - Goa.

2) March 4th to 15th - Sohana(Vipassana course)
March 20th to 29th - Fatehpur(sold of 10 acres of ancestral land)

3) April 24th to 26th - Ujjain (only Venita went and did pooja in Mahakaleshwar temple)

4) June/July 26th to 1st july - Leh

5) July/Aug 25th to 1st Aug - Goa (with the family of my eldest son)

6) Sept. 2nd to 12th - Sohana (Vipassana course by venita)

7) Oct/Nov 29th Oct to 6th Nov- Fatehpur(to undertake repairs of the ancestral house so that we could start either an old age home or a school for handicapped children etc.)
Nov 25th to 29th - Nashik (to attend marriage of Akshay)

Retired to sleep at 11 p.m.