I am launching a new hospitality project in Panchkula. I need a local F&B specialist.
You must know the Tricity commercial market inside out. I need someone with a strong grasp of local operations and premium food retail spaces.
If you have a proven track record in the area, drop a comment or send me a DM. We will discuss the details privately.
Drop your go-to spots. Doesn’t matter if it’s a fancy restaurant or a random hidden gem with insane sambhar.
So, I decided to order a cake which isn’t the standardized ‘Happy Birthday’ cakes you normally get in bakeries. I stumbled upon this IG page and after consulting Jasmine (from Own Bakery) for my Mum’s 60th birthday, I ended up ordering 2 bento cakes. For designs, I used AI and sent to her which she matched pretty accurately.
Both flavours are her best selling: Blueberry + Fruits and Chocolate Truffle Nutella
My Review: Hassle free service, superb taste and excellent customer service by Jasmine. She used to literally reply within 30 mins of each of my WA text.
My mom didn’t want to cut her cake because of how pretty it looked and that tells about the craftsmanship of the cakes.
I’ll always order from their bakery and incase you haven’t tried yet, you should too.
(Non sponsored/ genuine recommendation, haha)
Their Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ownbakery_._?igsh=MXFhaGNvdmJrdzJkOQ==
Google: https://g.co/kgs/mYSvsy9
What’s going on? How are you spending your weekend? SFW please
What’s going on? How are you spending your weekend? SFW please
Wondering if it’s possible in an ‘Indian’ context.
Context:
We are married for 4.5 years now.
My MIL is a piece of work. She didn’t say anything for 4 years that we were married but suddenly during last year when my husband and I were visiting my in laws for Diwali, she caught me unawares and in 10 mins lectured me saying I should force my husband to wake up, walk, and fix his daily habits even if it leads to fights. ‘Husband wife fight all the time and it is never permanent’.
Alongside this, she pushed a specific expectation of what a “wife” should be, mainly cooking, managing the household, and adjusting her life around family duties. Especially how gujrati women should take only 3 days off in a year ONLY when their husband takes them for a vacation to a resort. Only then can she rest.
Worst is, she commented on our IVF decision and said, I should loose weight first. She said, ‘people who eat foods like oats and say they are trying to lose weight do not lose weight without active effort’. I am not a gujrati so I can’t adapt to their food (nashta and sweet food) and so used to eat a bowl of oats for breakfast.
Worst is, she said, ‘I am able to say all this because my son is upstairs and he won’t let me say all this.’
I kept mum all throughout BUT really want to go NC after all this. I’ve never spoken to her since.
Looking back all of this felt like something she was keeping within herself all these years.
Interestingly, before our marriage, my FIL called me promiscuous (he texted me) and questioned my intentions to marry their son. He implied that women who are on Reddit and twitter have loose morals. (All unfounded and baseless.) Character assassination, basically. They even revoked all the investments made in my husband’s name calling me a gold digger. They wanted to see if I would call off the wedding if they revoked the investments. The mother especially flew down to Mumbai to do this. (When we got married, I and my husband made equal money and in 2 years, I made 4x than him.)
We got married without them around. My parents were there but my husband’s wasn’t. Post this, my MIL made several trips alone to our place for the next 3 years. However, I never spoke to the FIL. I agreed to the MIL because I know my husband is close to his mother. I USED to think the FIL messed up, what’s the MIL’s fault? (I was wrong as i mentioned above).
3 years ago, when my husband and I started discussing about kids, I felt it would be unfair for the kids to see all the crap that happened and so I decided to let it all go and went to my in-laws for the first time. I also felt my husband was caught in the middle even though he didn’t say so. The first time visit was non problematic. But when we took a second trip just after 3 months, that is when my MIL said all of that above ^. Funnily, my FIL was sitting nearby and hearing everything but never intervened.
Needless to say, I don’t regret my marriage. My husband is my rock (and vice versa) and he supports everything I do. He gets that his parents are regressive so he has taken a stand for me ALL the time. Now, he just says, “I’m stuck in the middle, first you didn’t want to go, then you did, now you don’t. So I’ve been supporting you throughout, do what you want.” I get stuck between ‘fixing things’ and stay out of bullshit.
Ps. My husband’s twin brother knows all this and supports my husband and I.
So now, I am thinking about my future kids, if NC, should my kids visit their paternal grandparents? While my MIL once said, ‘you can’t stop us’, my husband recently said, ‘I can’t deny them but I know they’re toxic so we will limit those visits.’ I asked him, how will it be possible if I won’t visit their house? Will you take them alone without me? He replied, yes. I said, okay, we will cross the bridge when we come to it.
I’m confused about how to handle this as my future kids didn’t ask for this. I don’t want to deny my husband his wishes.
Help.