time flies by

The title does give it away doesn't it ?

Don't know when June became November and another year has flown by,

Guess this is what happens when you are having fun, are a mom, slightly lazy and all of the above

This has been a great year for me my little baby became a little boy and I can't get over how his personality is emerging and is a mix of both me , my husband and his own quirky self

I finally achieved my fitness goals and could fit into all my 90% of my old clothes again and just when I had started job hunting here, Bam!!! something happened and I can't do it still again(more on that in a later post)

The Indian festive season just got over and we celebrated all the festivals this year mainly for my son so that he can know our culture

Or so that I can dress him up in cute Indian clothes :)

Here's the past few months in pictures

Karwachauth 

Diwali

Baby V 

Us 

Bye for now hope to write another post pretty soon

Hello there

Hello there

How have you been?
A very happy new year to everybody
Cant believe this year is half over, don't know where time is running by !!!
But happy times these are :) all thanks to my bundle of joy

Here's what I have been up to

Despite my little laddu keeping me super busy I did manage to work out a little bit and have lost almost all my pregnancy weight except the pooch which is a work in progress, a detailed post on this is in the works

My little one turned one in March and we had a fun party at a indoor playground

My mother is in town and that means a little bit of sleep for me something that I crave almost as much as pretty bags and shoes

Despite being a self confessed shopping addict suddenly I don't feel like it anymore !!!!
Yes I am very surprised myself

I started baking! who would've thought definitely not me, apparently motherhood does strange things to you but hubby is very happy about this

Here are some moments from my son's Birthday Party

Trends shrends

 I don't follow any fashion trends and just wear what I want but I do love this color blocking thing so when it came into vogue a couple of seasons back I was pretty happy.

I think the main reason why everyone starts following a trend is cause that's what's available in the market.
Even if you wanted to wear something else it would be pretty hard to find or you would have to get it made which is not possible for everyone.

Here's something I wore for an early morning movie and there is not a trace of makeup on my face.

 I was so sad when they closed down this store :(

Top: Iora(Singapore)

Shoes: Vanilla Moon

Skirt: Iora

Pretty happy to get my weekly treat of ice cream

And the week is over yipeee!!!

Feeling green and baby weight

My favorite colors are supposedly all in the red family - orange, oxblood, pink, magenta but when I look at my closet and the older pics the maximum clothes I own are blue or related to blue
How well do I know myself!!!

I wore blue and green in my last 4 posts

On a totally unrelated note I am trying to lose my baby weight(the weight I gained while being pregnant)
Since I can not go all Rocky and exercise like a mad woman as I have a baby to take care of
I am putting more focus on eating healthy

Here's what I have been doing

1. Exercising 6 days a week- something low impact like swimming or brisk walking
2. Walking as much as possible that means walking instead of taking a cab for small distances
3. Joined a walking group
4. No junk food, nothing fried, no sugar
5. No white foods like pasta, white rice
6. No dairy except a small cup of masala tea, no carbs at night and am looking into going gluten free

I have already lost a few kilos and hoping to lose some more in the coming months :)
Before and after pics coming soon

Meanwhile here's an OOTD featuring green color and a few of my favorite people on earth

Any other baby mamas trying to lose weight??

Travel Diaries Thailand and poetry

So here is another travel post with a side of cheesy poetry :)

Sometime back we went to a place called Thailand

It was peaceful, it was pretty, the people there were nice and witty

The food was yummy the weather was sunny, life in Thailand was sweet like honey

The sunsets were like a screensaver and of all this my friend, we are very much in favor.

So the moral of the poem is that we reallyyyyyyyyyyy love the place!!!

On to the pics

Dress: Gift

Sandals: Promod

Sunglasses: Zara

What did I say about sunsets!

Accessories do it

Prior to starting blogging I never wore accessories ever!!!!

Now its another story altogether, now I understand how a statement accessory can elevate a simple outfit and make it noteworthy

So I present to you my favorite necklace, its such a statementy piece but surprisingly versatile

I have worn it on numerous occasions and it always gets me compliments, a totally impulse buy from an exhibition

So here it is

Dress: Espirit

Juttis: Street Market

Necklace: Exhibition

Bracelets: Promod

The dress I am wearing is so simple but striking because of the color and it fits well(the most important factor for me) also its perfect for Mumbai weather as its cotton.

I don't like to wear matchy matchy stuff but usually try to keep maximum 3 different colors in a outfit
Please excuse the messy hair the pics were taken on sea face and it was very windy

The week is almost over yay for friday  :)

Maximizing

As you must have guessed by the title we have a maxi dress ootd today.

I love maxi dresses they are sooo comfortable almost like wearing pajamas and don't look sloppy either.
In the extremely hot and humid Singapore I find maxi dresses to be  my choice whenever I have to be outdoors for some time.

So without much ado here it is
There is just one pic cause I was having way too much fun on the trip to get outfit pics clicked.

Maxi Dress: Forever New

Sandals: Zara

Earrings: Very old

Pendant: Ogaan

Bracelet: Forever New

The second pic is there just cause I love it :)

Minty Blue

Continuing with the theme of naming posts after outfits
I have minty blue for you, again clicked last year
Promise I am going start doing current outfit posts very soon........ in fact any day now

So here it is

Top: Iora(Singapore)

Pants: H&M

Sunglasses: Husband's

Accessories: Random shops

Shoes: Clarks(they are sooooooooo comfortable)

Snippets from the week gone by

Went for a walking group meet up and loved the experience, planning to continue going 

Started watching Orange is the new black and the whole women's prison dynamics is such a novel and interesting concept

Little one started standing up this week and we are thrilled...........it might be trite but being a parent is so much fun!!! never knew what I was missing :)

Exercised every day of the week and proud of it.... still a long way off from losing all the baby weight :(

Managed to get a whole night's sleep last night and feel so refreshed, new mums would understand what I am talking about 

How was your week??

Love Shuchita 

  

Orangey Indian

This was clicked on the Mumbai sea face last year. For a Delhi girl shifting to Mumbai was difficult but shifting to a new country is a different ball game altogether.
The initial phase can be quite lonely especially when you are not working, for me it was doubly difficult as I had to forego even the joyful task of discovering the new city/country as I was pregnant and suffering from terrible morning sickness.

Nevertheless things are much better now that I have settled down completely and made some friends.

On to the outfit now

Tunic: Global Desi

Tights: FCUK

Bangle: lifestyle

Sandals: Bandra

Earrings: Gift from MIL

These are some of the faces I miss the most from my Mumbai life

On a totally unrelated note I have decided to make something new every week and this week I made guacamole and burritos at home which everyone loved :)

Jumpsutin it

So I wore this look last year for a lunch date with hubby

Being somewhat curvaceous I used to think I can not wear a jumpsuit but clearly I was wrong,
You just gotta find the one for your body type

Jumpsuit: forever new

Shoes: macy's

Lipstick: Ruby Woo by MAC

Earrings: Aquamarine

Hello All

So after a long long break I am back to blogging.
A lot has happened in the mean time, I mean 2 things that are quite momentous

I shifted to a new country
I had a baby

Now I plan to blog regularly and obviously some  a lot of mummy stuff would be there in it :)

So here's a pic or 2

Isn't he adorable!!
I am smitten


Have a nice weekend,
Shuchita

No more blogging here

Hey Friends,

My journey with this blog takes a long and extended break, thanks a lot for all the love and support.
I am sure I will be blogging again, as soon as I find enough time and energy to do it.
You will still see me in your comments section :) but right now I need to focus on some other things in my life.
Love you all and have a Happy New Year.

Good things in life

Hope everyone is having a good time

We are getting to the most anticipated part of year and festival season is already here in Mumbai
Usually I get a bit depressed at this time of the year don't ask me why??
And how do I combat it???
dress up for dinner at home and compile the list of things to look forward to in the coming months, here is it:

1. Upcoming visit from my family in the next week
2. Diwali when I  visit my parents and be in my beloved city of delhi(I love mumbai equally it's a case of "distance makes the heart grow fonder")
3. My birthday :) 
4. Best friends wedding
5. Vacation 
6. My first half marathon 
7. New year
8. Husband's birthday
9. More weddings
10.More vacation 

do you make such lists??? I make lists and excel sheets for almost everything,apply filters make pie charts and then analyse everything :)
Does that make me neurotic!!! Freud would agree I am sure but I like it
Now that I have cheered up considerably here is the outfit I wore today at home for a grand meal of chapati, daal and veggies

Dress: Bizarre

Cardi: Promod

Shoes: jessica simpson 

Belt: Vero Moda

I am planning to start tomorrow in the gym with an intensive workout and some home cooked south indian breakfast(the breakfast part is already making me happy)
Have a good night and good day for others :)

Monsoons in Goa

Last week husband had 2 days off so decided to head off to Goa for a mini vacation


What we did there was drink,eat,read,swim,sleep precisely in this order though we sometime made do with only drinking and no eating ;)


I was a bit skeptical about the trip initially but the skepticism was for naught,
Goa in monsoons is heavenly, my eyes hurt with seeing so much green and off season meant less people, which is always a bonus if you live in Mumbai 


When we go on a small vacation the stress is completely on relaxation and usually we don't venture out of the resort so all the pics have been clicked in the resort only, means don't expect to see pics of usual goa spots 

Resort grounds

   What did I say about less people, see the almost empty beach bliss!!!!

Here I did not mind the rains at all it, gave me an excuse to drink more tea :)

Top: Express

Pants: Zara

Never thought of myself as a tea drinker but apparently I am 

Featured here Assam Dikom tea 

This balcony was my fav. place in the resort because of the view and the solitude, we used to sit here every afternoon drinking tea, reading books

Here's the view from our tea drinking perch

Will share rest of the pics in subsequent posts now I am logging in to bloglovin and reading all the blogs 

Hope everybody had a good week 

Wearable and Simple

I am so deprived of blog titles and creativity just does not flow after a 1 hr commute in rush hour traffic
So the title today is very literal,what I am wearing is a very wearable and simple outfit that I wore to a class that I am taking. I did color blocking with a yellow top and purple bag the lighting is not very good in the pics as the sky is always overcast in the afternoon when I take my pics, I still haven't gathered the courage to go outside and take pics using tripod one of these days.......


Today in class I was talking to a friend of mine and told her that I was married and lived with my husband, the girl just did not believe me I actually had to show her my wedding pic, even after that she was like OMG how could it be you don't look like that!!! what is "that" actually??? do married women give a aura of being married
I don't know what it is but whenever I tell someone about my marital status usually this is the first reaction I get "YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE THAT" me being me I totally take it in my stride and believe that I look too young to be married and react happily 
May be the reason is my not wearing the usual signs of matrimony but whatever it is I believe my happy reason :)


So here's the simple and wearable outfit I am talking about

Top: Cotton World

Jeans: Levi's

Shoes: Bata

Bag: Rocky S

Run the world

Hey Everyone hope you all are having a great weekend!!


I am doing the usual reading,movies,window shopping(trying to shop less if you remember) and a visit to the lakme fashion week


Here's what I wore:

Top and Pants: Zara

Tank: Banana Republic

Shoes: Bata

ps: thanks for your suggestions in the last post 

pps: the title of the post has no connection to the post I just love this song 

Dilemma

So I have been MIA for a long long time now and even though I wanted to say the reason for that is the super important things I have been doing and how busy I have been but that would be too far from reality
I have not been busy just been super lazy getting a degree in couch potatodom and did not want to bore anyone with mundane details from my life 
even thought about quitting blogging for good but I love interacting with you people too much to do that hopefully this time I would stay motivated enough to blog regularly 


One thing I have been thinking about this couple of days is what do you do when your friend is in a relationship with a person you dislike and you have done all in your power to get along with that person but still things don't work out


Do you stop being friends with your friend
Limit interaction with them
Tell your friend about it and say that you don't want to go on double dates or spend time with their partner
Just keep suffering in silence 


Do tell me your views and have you ever been in such a situation??


Here's a pic of something I wore over the weekend, I tried my hand at mixing prints, what do you think?? hit or miss??
Also trying to limit my shopping by remixing my clothes 

Maxi: Forever 21

previously worn here

Necklace: Accessorize 

Shoes: Marie Claire(Bata)

Cardi: Zara

I blog again

I have been a bad blogger I know but I needed to sort out somethings and now that everything's settled I am back to blogging
Here are the rest of the pics from my now seeming long time ago trip,already I am itching to take a break and with the rain gods smiling on us here in Mumbai it might happen soon :)
I did visit all my regular reads but wasn't able to comment will be back to doing it now
And here is Venice and me of course

A random canal

Grand Canal the main street of Venice

You do remember who this is right!!!

Bridge of Sighs now with a toyota ad on the wall, the blue thing that you can see

On Rialto bridge

Recommend eating here amazing food and wine

Stylish traveler  

Unfortunately I did not take any pics in Milan so this is it