a shocker from fazal

i received dreadful news from sheena yesterday that she had lost her baby on the 1st of june. she noticed some bleeding and set off to the doctors' rite away and there they observed no foetal heart beats. the perceptible cause was a urine infection which, her doctor insists, almost certainly came about from cat faeces and rain water collected from the inclined roof tops. maldives, being an atoll, must gather potable water from all practical sources, rain always a splendid option. as you probably know already, ground water is high in salinity in islands, atolls and such.

the news upset us and some of our ex-nokia colleagues since both sheena & fazal were looking forward to this baby very passionately. i hope they will be on the mend quite soon.

we had out first visit from the midwife today. she stayed with monica for an hour and gave more information than what we could have imagined. monica informed me that the midwife was au fait with ideas and went about patiently elucidating what monica needed to know. monica also couldn't resist taking a swipe at my inability to show patience when it mattered.

the woman has been watching a new series on the telly although i won't be able to tell you what the label of the show is. it is about a competition for "desis" in the UK who would like to make it big time in bollywood. you find mamas, aishwarya rai want-to-be, kamal hasans, paandu hawaldars and most significantly mamis who are bloody damn fat that they require the services of two cameras to caputure them into a single frame !! at least the background songs are nice. oh !! let us not utter a word about the over acting.

i have prepared my tax forms already. the tax man wanted me to do the tax forms for the last 2 years. in the UK, you need not do a tax return / assessment unless the taxation office specifically demands you to file for a particular year.