Realization:1

SHOPPING helps! SHOPPING heals!!

When you are feeling low, Shopping is the next best thing to do to lift your mood up..Whats the best thing, ofcourse talking to a close friend..:D

Being a GEM

My dear friend updated me of a new word and I thought it is apt to write a post about it right now before this phase eludes me and I am left with nothing but wordless memories..

Being a GEM, I realize there are certain aspects added to your personality and knowingly or unknowingly we all follow this pattern:


You keep falling in and out of love with the same person. With every good thing, your belief in the other strengthens further and with every fight, the clouds of doubts appear.

You start questioning yourself and assuring yourself and arguing and believing the sanctity of marriage.

The home where you lived your whole life now for you becomes your parents home. You innocuously start calling your home as your parent’s home.


The once-in-the-year calls of your cousins and aunt’s become frequent these times who wants to know all the updates on the preparations of the D-day.

You find yourself staring at the dummies with bridal-outfits. Not that you were never into window shopping but looking lustily at those designer embroidered/ kanjeevaram sarees is a total new experience.

Before every purchase, you begin contemplating if this thing/ dress could be used after your status change as well and if the answer is a guiltful no, you, with a heavy heart, leave it at the counter.


On seeing an old crush at the social networking site still brings a smile on your face while your mind repeats “You are a GEM now”.

You day-dream of what the future life would be.

You worry a lot of how the whole process of marriage going to happen and thus reduce weight and instead of that so-called glow what shines in your face are those new zits.

If you are working like me you also start wondering about what lies ahead professionally but believe me, career is the last thing on your mind right now.


You smile and cant wait to marry when you see some marriage function or a sweet couple roaming in the market but at the same time you heave a sigh after a day-out with your girl- friends thinking this might not be a regular custom afterwards.



P.S: For the uninitiated, GEM stands for “Getting engaged or married”.


Edited to add: Celestialrays handed me this fab award which I have proudly displayed in my blog. I would love to give this award to NEHA who I think not only has a fabulous blog but herself is a fabulous person. This one is for you, Neha!!

Two Awards, One tag and merry month-beginning :))

Yes Neha, along with the awards and tag, I even swept your post title as well ;)) . Thank you Neha!!

Now without wasting a second, here goes the tag:

1.What is your current obsession ?

Blogging. That included more reading, less writing. Whenever something note-worthy happens, my mind starts planning it to blog it out..

2. What are you wearing today?
Salwaar Suit

3. What’s for dinner?

It is gonna be chole and roti.

4. What’s the last thing you bought?

Maggie Vegetable Atta Noodles

5. What are you listening to right now?

Incessant noise the ceiling fan is making

6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?

A blogger with a heart of gold. She writes beautiful..

7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?

Somewhere in picturesque Europe..

8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?

Sun-screen

9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?

Kerela

10. Which language do you want to learn?

French. It sounds sophisticated.

11. What’s your favourite quote?

"Life goes on"

12. Who do you want to meet right now?

Someone whose mail I received yesterday.

13. What is your favourite colour?

Red. But the irony is I have only one tee in that colour.

14. What is your favourite piece of clothing in your own closet?

An embroidered silk salwaar-suit.

15. What is your dream job?
I used to think being an Engineer is my dream-job. don’t agree to it anymore.

16. What’s your favourite magazine?

Reader’s Digest and Femina

17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
A nice dress!

18. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?

Indians sporting Blonde hair.

19. Who according to you is the most over-rated style icon?
SRK

20. What kind of haircut do you prefer?

Anything that suits me and that is long enough to be tied in a pony-tail

21. What are you going to do after this?

look at the watch and exclaim "one more hour to go before I leave for home";))

22. What are your favourite movies?

A lot. You can visit this page to see which are they.

23. What are three cosmetic/makeup/perfume products that you can't live without?

Deo, lip balm, sun-screen

24. What inspires you ?

Anybody who does his work sincerely and with a smile on his/her face.

25. Give us three styling tips that always work for you:

Wear your best smile, never do make-up if you don’t know how to put it and keep it simple

26. What do you do when you “have nothing to wear” (even though your closet’s packed)?

Give a puzzled look at the closet and then unpack the packed closet in search of something to wear,lol

27. Coffee or tea?

It’s a tie.

28. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?

I flip magazines, talk to mummy or a close friend, take a walk, try to sleep

29. What is the meaning of your name?

the saddest part of my existence..My name has no exact meaning.:(

30. Which other blogs do you love visiting?

A lot..All of those that are appearing in “I read” list.

31. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?

Ice-cream, imarti

32. Favorite Season ?

Spring

33. If I come to your house now, what would u cook for me?

A cup of hot cuppa tea..Its tea-time:))

34. What is the right way to avoid people who purposefully hurt you?

Tell them what they have done to you and that you dont want to be in their contact.

35. What are you afraid of the most?

Dark!!

36.My Question: Is it possible to be in love with two persons simultaneously??:O

Rules for those who are tagged:Respond and rework – answer these questions on your blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own, and add one more question to the list.

I tag:

dewdropdreams

AS

prashant

Merlin

Dido

Aanya

Neha aka my lemonade chronicles

and all those who want to take it up!!

"I love your blog award" goes to

Arunima

"One lovely-Blog" Award goes to

Shruti aka My days, my thoughts

Cm-chap aka Dare to Acheive

I earlier received this "Blog-Buddies Award" too which goes too:

Neha aka my Lemonade Chronicles

celestialrays

Enjoy!!

Poor Me

I was reading “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” a couple of weeks ago. Inspired and motivated, I felt it is not late to start and sharpen your financial intelligence. The next valid step was to switch my newspaper from “The Times of India” to yes, you guessed it right, “Economic Times”.

As I don’t have any idiot box at my place, the newspaper and internet are my sole windows to the world outside.
I had started comtemplating about opening a DeMat account and buying-and-selling shares and growing rich and buying a bigger car, my own house and traveling the world. hmph.. All this needs knowledge about the ups and downs of market that would come with the newspaper I will be reading and the sites that I would be visiting on the internet.

I have this particular habit of glancing the head-lines in the first page, then moving to the back of the newspaper where Sports News, then global news and then local news and then the front page. Yes I read backwards.

To cut a long story short, for past couple of weeks-1 week, I have been setting my alarm at 6:00AM everyday unsuccessfully, so that I could wake up early and catch the newspaper hawker to ask him to bring my Sports, entertainment, and non-economical-global news back..

Yes, I am missing TOI and I want it back.

P.S: “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” is a remarkable book every person should read. And if you feel inspired, do drop me a note telling me the steps that one could follow to implement the lessons that the book shared.

Pehla-pehla .....

" First time is always special."so they say..

It was some day in September, I think. I was flying high when I found that I have been tagged.Total of 6 months in the blogging world and that was the first tag I received. I have done tags earlier too but those were stolen(taken) by me on-my-own. THANK YOU AS.

Day before yesterday I got my another feel-good moment coz I received my First Blog AWARD. The whole story behind that award is that I used my assertiveness;) and innocence;)) to let Neha hand me that award.. Ummm, Thanks a lot Neha.

Since Blogger is acting up, I am unable to post th pic here:(

So there goes my tag:

The rules are thus…

RULE 1 You can only say Guilty or Innocent

RULE 2 You are not allowed to explain anything unless someone messages you and asks!

RULE 3 Copy and paste this into your notes , delete my answers, type in your answers and tag your friends to answer this.



Asked someone to marry you? Innocent

Ever kissed someone of the same sex? Innocent

Danced on a table in a bar? Guilty (OH, this guilty charge comes with a twist. Actually I have danced on a table in a restaurent. The story goes that we, the First Years, were given the Freshers by our Seniors in the second Semester, yes, we the poosr souls*sob-sob*.So to commemorate our freedom, the First Year girls decided to party in the only restaurent in the campus and what followed was History)

Ever told a lie? Guilty

Had feelings for someone whom you can’t have back? Guilty

Kissed a picture? Guilty

Slept in until 5 PM? Guilty

Fallen asleep at work/school? Guilty

Held a snake? Innocent (eww.. has anyone?)

Been suspended from school? Innocent

Worked at a fast food restaurant? Innocent

Stolen from a store? Innocent

Been fired from a job? Innocent

Done something you regret? Guilty

Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? Guilty

Caught a snowflake on your tongue? Innocent

Kissed in the rain? Innocent

Sat on a roof top? Guilty

Kissed someone you shouldn’t? Innocent

Sang in the shower? Guilty. (Name ay soul who loves music/ singing and who isnt guilty of this charge)

Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on? Innocent

Shaved your head? Innocent

Had a boxing membership? Innocent.

Made a girlfriend/boyfriend cry? Guilty

Been in a band? Innocent

Shot a gun? Innocent

Donated Blood? Innocent

Eaten alligator meat? Innocent

Eaten cheesecake? Guilty

Still love someone you shouldn’t? Guilty

Have/had a tattoo? Innocent.

Liked someone, but will never tell who? Guilty

Been too honest? Guilty ( College days were bunk-days , right. So on a fateful day, out of the many people absent, I was also the one). Those absent included my friends as well and all of us didnt go to the class kyunki mood nahi tha. So our teacher, after taking the lecture, started asking one-by-one the reason for absence. A friend's parents had arrived to visit her(!! may be thats why she was sleeping all day!!), another had fever(ohh thats why the whole hostel was bursting with music from her computer) and another had headache. When my turn came ,I said "aise hi". My stars were with me as the teacher just casually stared me and the bell rang)

Ruined a surprise? Innocent

Ate in a restaurant and got really bloated that you couldn’t walk afterwards? Guilty.

Erased someone in your friends list? Guilty

Dressed in a woman’s clothes (if you’re a guy) or man’s clothes (if you’re a girl)? Guilty
(This requires an explanation. Actually I am tall(by Indian standards)..So in group dance I had to be the guy as there was no girl taller than me..But after some performances, my dance maam, started taking me me in girl's role because according to her, my gestures and actions and dance are elegant and womanly :))

Joined a pageant? Innocent

Been told that you’re handsome or beautiful by someone who totally meant what they said? Guilty

Had communication with your ex? Innocent

Got totally drunk on the night before exam? Innocent. (But I clearly remeber the night when I slept for 14 straight hours before the exam during my 2nd Year Engineering. Thank god, paper was not that tough and main pass ho gayi :D)

Got totally angry that you cried so hard? guilty

That was a great fun :D

ahh, yes"First time is always special"

Yes..Yes!!

Once upon a time, there was a boy and there was a girl. They both happened to be our immediate seniors. The boy was a nice guy and I respect him a lot. The girl was a sweet, short and I don’t-know-why-they-linked-him-to-her type, in other words they were no match. Anyways , that’s college life and no, they were not an item. Just that the friends of the girl used to tease her with his name. They both were a part of College Club of which I was also a part. It was a farewell party in that Club and all of its members were gathered and the party was in full flow. The game that was being played "Dumb Charade- “Only Hindi Movies..”"
The game was in full flow and then it comes the girl’s turn.
Girl picked up the chit and read the movie name, blushed a little and her request to change the movie name was stridently rejected.
She acted/ tried to act the name of the movie.
The boy was very sport and was quite enthused in the game. So there she was acting and the rest of 15-20 people trying to guess the name.
In the 3- letter movie after enacting the first word, she was explaining the second word through her actions. Random guesses were flying..
Out of a sudden,

Boy(exclaining): “Mujhse shaadi karogi!!!!???”.

Girl (jumping with joy) : “Yes!!!! Yes!!”

Boy clenching his fist and grinning wide "Yay, i made it" and girl smiling and sighing with relief "so i am done.."

Me(with a group of friends): **Laughing our hearts out**

She stepped down and then it was the turn of some other guy..
And the game went on happily thereafter.

[Random post.A couple of days back we were playing this same game in a office-party and it was sort of boring. It reminded me of this piece-de-irresistible of Dumb-Charade..]

Pic Courtesy: varchasva.sjbit.ac.in/2009/images/dc1.jpg

WAKE-UP TIME

I am rushing through life. Yes I am. I never thought that I would end up being someone who is just going through life without realizing the beauty around her.


My daily routine has become a loop of office-home-(sometimes)market. The time in home is spent in reading magazines and whizzing in front of laptop. The mornings are so rush that I don’t even get to open the windows to let the fresh air come in and the in evenings I feel so tired ( no tired is not the right term, ‘lazy’ will be better) to exercise or go out unless you have to rush to market for shopping/ knick-knacks and so the time is spent lying in the couch breezing through magazines and listening songs.


You don’t get such kind of insightful wake-up call on your own. There is always something small/ big that triggers it, right. Yes. It so happens that some time ago we planned of a little get-together of friends at my place in the evening. I live on the first floor. So after office my friends came to my place. I pulled the curtains aside to open the window and one of my friend gushed ‘Wow’. I was like what. What did you find attractive in opening a window? And she pointed to the big tree covered with bright red flowers that stood in the lawn of the ground-floor occupants and towers high into the air. “Never in my life I have seen tree laden with so many flowers.” I smiled but deep down I feel guilty. All through this time I had gone to my balcony umpteen times to hang clothes , I had opened and closed the windows every day but never did I care to see that tree laden with so many bright red flowers!! I looked again at that tree. It was indeed laden and bent with bulk of flowers.


Yes that was the wake-up call for me to look into the materialistic life I was leading.

I am in the good company of books, movies and music but it has been long since I took a stroll in the road just for the pleasure of walking and taking in the sereneness around me. All I have walked is for getting from one place to another with the aim to reach that place.

I am sitting in an ac office but it has been long since I sit on the railing of my terrace when it’s breezy outside to feel the air on my face. All I have done on such weather is ponder how will I commute to office if it rains tomorrow.

“What is this life if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?” This poem suddenly makes sense now and fits in the situation.



Whenever my alarm-bell rings , I have this habit of putting it on snooze. The bell has rung and still I haven’t wake up. I have been keeping it on snooze mode every time it tries to wake me up. I think the limit is over now and I have to wake up now else I would never know when the sun is over my head and the time is lost.

Pic courtsy:http://picture-book.com/files/userimages/800u/gift.jpg