I got an email as below forwarded by a friend of mine.

Very Important to Note

Isn't it true that we all carry our mobile phones with hundreds
of names/numbers stored in its memory but yet nobody, other than
ourselves, know which of these numbers belong to our near and dear ones?
Let us for a moment create a scenario wherein (God forbid) we are
involved in an accident or had a heart attack and the people attending
us get hold of our mobile phone but don't' know which number to call
to inform our family members. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored
but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency?

For this reason, we must have one or more telephone numbers
stored under the name ICE (in case of emergency) in our mobile phones.

Read below for more details......


Subject: Fwd: " ICE" Campaign
Recently, the concept of "ICE" is catching up quickly. It is
simply, an important method of contact during emergency situations.

As cell phones are carried by majority of the population, all you
need to do is store the number of a contact person or person who
should be contacted at during emergency as "ICE" (meaning In Case
of Emergency).

The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when they
went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones
with patients, but they didn't know which number to call.

He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a
nationally recognized name for this purpose.

Following a disaster in London, the East Anglican Ambulance Service
has launched a national "In case of Emergency (ICE)"
campaign.

In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital
staff would then be able to quickly contact your next of
kin, by simply dialing the number stored as "ICE".

Please forward this. It won't take too many "forwards" before every
body will know about this.

It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest.

For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3
etc. A great idea that will make a difference!

Let's spread the concept of ICE by storing an ICE number in our
mobile phones today!

I think it is a good idea and I am going to opt for it. I have already saved emergency contact names and nos. under "ICE" and "ICE1"... I hope more and more people opt for this. May be I will even go further and write up a card and put it in my wallet card and it will have details of all the people to contact in case of emergency.

Emergency • Safety

Emergency • Safety

Komal and I did it. Today we achieved Aussie dream of owning a HOME. Well it's not owning the home completely, as Banks still have a major portion of equity over it. But today Komal and I are a home owner in Australia.

It is a brand new house, 28 Kms from the city in a beautiful suburb called Taylors Hill ( If you are in Victoria, then you must have heard of Caroline Springs, it is just next to it). I got the handover over the property today.

My dad must have been the most happiest person on this news today. It was his idea of signing up the contract a year ago for the home. My wife and I thought that we were not ready for this big step, but he insisted and made us understand some calculations. His persitence paid off and we agreed. He even helped us to select the home design after understanding our requirements. He had an eye for details. All I can say is while sitting in India, he knew more about my house plan then I did.

Dad this house is yours.

What all plans we had, but ofcourse the destiny was something else. Back in India, we give houses names, just like we name our cats and dogs. The names are mostly something meaningful. Back in my head I was decided that I was going to name my new house "Tribhuvan" which is my dad's name and has a spiritual meaning. I was going to give him a surprise when he was going to visit us in Australia next year. Well that is not happening now, but I am still going to name the house in my Dad's honour and it would be "Tribhuvan". I truly wished that you were around Dad to see this day and see my dream come true!! I know for sure that my dad's blessings are with us wherever he is.

The moving happens this weekend and with help of my friends I will be getting it done.

What an irony in life! Komal being the creative soul of us both, was soo much keen to see this dream become into a frame, then into a house and then home. She wanted to place each and every thing in her own house and decorate it to her heart's content. But that's not happening. She is in India while I will get the most needed things done in the house. Sorry Komal, but you will just have to fulfill this dream of yours in our next new home.

So if you are in Victoria and in and around Taylors Hill or Caroline Springs area, give me a buzz. We shall catch up.

Congratulations to myself, Komal and my family on this addition to our list of possessions.

Home • House

Home • House

I hate to use buts....

It's been a long time since I blogged. Since September, time is running faster then I can. This year is full of events for me. Apart from many other things and loosing my father, I am also getting handover of my first house which soon I want to call "HOME SWEET HOME". My wife Komal is still in India looking after my mother and looking after the affairs there. Being alone here and having to work and handle all the things is taking a tool on me and part of this is me missing out on blogging.

At the moment I am planning for moving and getting things organised for it. But before I move on my blogging, I will have to get things out of my chest. I want to write about my Dad, things I experienced and learned back in India about death and about life. I think this would be a small tribute from me to my Dad on my blog. Apart from that while I am writing, I will get thoughts out of my chest and atleast will be able to cry with my heart open.

I want to write, but before that I have to write out what I got in my brain. I might not post everything on my blog, may be not even 50% of it here, but atleast by writing everything out, I think I would be unpressing my feelings which are tightly held in for more then 2 months now.

Sorry, if these posts become too much emotional..

IT was my birthday yesterday Ha ha, I am not forcing readers to wish me "Happy Birthday" though . So what's special about this day? I finished 28 years of my life yesterday. Ya, that's a long time.

What am I missing today? I miss my DAD. Apart from all the obvious reasons, I miss him more because last year he was with me in Australia and while having discussion with my dad, I told him that in coming year we will do something so that we can together celebrate all events together as a family. That never happened! I miss the yearly advice he used to give me. Overall I miss him a lot and no words of mine can express that truly. I want to write few things that comes to my mind from this incident, but in another post and when I get a chance.

But for today, thanks to all my friends, family, blogger friends, online friends, Orkut friends and everybody else who wished me over the phone, over email, who SMS'ed me and for those who never call me but still remember me on this day and pray for my best.

In the evening, all my good friends wanted to invite me over to their place. They did not want me to sit alone in my lonely house. I went to Mounil ( I wish they had a blog) and Radha's place where Mounil showed that he can prepare some great Indian street side dishes. I had lot of fun at their place and for couple of hours I was totally relaxed. Thanks to Nirav for the delicious cake too.

Overall, it was a good day with a good end.