Family Outings

I know that a month's mind mass is not exactly cause for celebration, but I will admit that it gave me a chance to catch up with one half of my family, and that turned out to be fun. I met many of my mum's relatives who I don't see often because they are scattered around the city - mostly Thane, or in Chembur, Andheri and the likes. Although one of my cousins Romel will put it down to the fact that "Bandra people" (pronounced: Bandruh) never move their butts out of their beloved suburb, and I have to admit that he's partially right.

After smiling benignly through the usual "my how you've grown!", "she looks just like you, Katy" and "you young people are so busy nowadays, we never see you around", it was quite cool to catch up with the aunts/uncles and my own extended cousins. I've found out my mum, Rhea's mum and I share really similar features with a large number of women in the extended family (yeah I know, 'genetics, DUH' but still). After spinning around and thinking "Hey! She looks alot like me!" about God knows how many people, I just gave up.

It was also pretty easy getting to know my second/third cousins because many of them are my age and doing pretty interesting things with their lives, so catching up with them wasn't so awkward. Hell, come to think of it, up to now, I've only gotten to really know my dad's side of the family, since most of them stay in and around Bandra. My mum's side of the family/friends was reserved for major functions like weddings. Plus, they have children with interesting pursuits like photography (which gave me the first photos of my self that I really liked!), drumming, short film making etc.

Picture-taker Romel's work

Now that I know them better, it hopefully won't be so hard to keep in touch. I feel a warm fuzzy feeling of content spreading through me.... or was that the cheese cake?

Not exactly "mum's side" but what the hell!!