Featured

Pan Card for Tisya

By
Pan Card for Tisya

Tisya got her Pan Card issued on  at the age of Four Month and Nine Days (09 June 210). By far this has has been the most wonderful experience of mine dealing with any government agency or should I say the only agency which offered a truly world class service experience. I applied pan card for my four month old daughter (Tisya Singhal) online through NSDL. The form seems to be very simple and self explanatory. As my daughter is minor Pan was applied on her behalf by representative (her mother) The fee for the pan card is Rs...

Read more »

Getting Birth certificate for our baby in Gurgaon

By
Getting Birth certificate for our baby in Gurgaon

The Cradle provided a birth certificate for my daughter. Little did I realized that it only has a emotional and ornamental value and no legal validity. So we got it framed it nicely (Thanks to Tushina) and it occupies a place of pride in our bedroom. I was told that as a procedure hospital has already send the notification to the municipal authorities about child birth. The birth certificate can be collected after 21 days from the MCD office, Gurgaon situated opposite civil hospital Gurgaon (See Map Below). View Larger Map I went there after  2 months to collect the certificate. I was...

Read more »

Plan trip to vaishno devi – online

By
Plan trip to vaishno devi – online

  My weekend trip to vaishno devi, so what is different from my last trip in december. This one was a completely arranged online for every step of journey.  I had the mix experience bad one with irctc (online booking for indian railways) and Indian railways but excellent experience with official site of vaishno devi shrine board.   I booked my rails tickets on JAT express tatkal basis. They charged me fare from originating station (ajmer) to the destination (jammu), almost double in my case and 150 rs tatkal charges extra + irctc charges. But they treated me as no show because we boarded the train from...

Read more »

Neemrana Fort palace, Rajasthan

By
Neemrana Fort palace, Rajasthan

Few months back, we picked up Neemrana Fort Palace for a weekend get away trip from Gurgaon. I have some kind of facinations for the Palaces & forts and Neemrana is the closed fort in Rajasthan from Gurgaon, some 80 km from IGI Airport. We booked a stay for a night there in Hari Vilas (Lord Vishnu’ adobe) , one of the rooms being offered from the heritage property. The deal – One night stay @ INR 5000 excluding the buffet lunch (INR 600) and dinner (INR 700). We opted for this room for three primary reasons a) This room is...

Read more »

Trip to Leh (Ladhakh) Part II

By

  Day 3. We came across snow for the first time On the way to this beautiful and frozen Pangong Tso (or Pangong Lake; Tso: Ladakhi for lake). It is 120 Km long lake with one third of the lake falling into Indian territory and rest in China. The temperature was freezing cold literally and wind were blowing hard. Our first stop was at the army post of Zingral @ 15500 ft. Few interesting things on the way (see images) a) White house b) Frozen drain c) J & K Bank (Just 38 Km away) By the time we...

Read more »

Adventurous trip to Leh (Ladhakh)

By

So finally I got a well deserved break from the daily routine with a long pending family vaccation. My Wify always wanted to see some snow clad mountains and I wanted to go on some adventure holiday. And we discovered a perfect mix in the Land of Lamas-Leh. I have done some goggling before packing our bags for the leh. Few useful tips based on suggestions and personal experiences: a) Leh is on high altitude and really high So you are bound to suffer from high altitude sickness. The degree of effect may vary from person to person. Common...

Read more »