Thursday, December 31, 2009

Life,weddings,food,friends,work,sister,home,movie..............

I have such a long title for this post of mine.I suppose its going to make up for my absence for like an years time.I MISSED THIS PLACE! missed this place more than anything.Now it was not 100,000 miles away from me or anything, but it was 100,000 miles away from me in terms of writing .I would keep getting these random shots of lines, which makes me long for this hub .You know,like being crazy about something, I was going crazy about writing.Just one difference was I have not written anything in terms of hard copy, I kept writing and writing and writing in my mind.I have lines that pop up for every thing i kept looking at.And, I felt so great about it.It would just cross and there comes another one.I've been having the time of life,right balance of it all!Weddings , funeral, birthdays, concerts, eating, roaming, fun, family, work, tension, illness, fights and basically all of it through the course of 2009.Suppose I'd even want to give my "BEST YEAR AWARD" too.It was warm and generous and nothing but "giving" in nature. I loved it!

I love Bangalore;and like what Tulu formulated it seriously is "King of good times!".Now, if you'd ask me if i like the pretentious-wannabe type of things that happen, no, i do not.But, i love the fact that there r no rules meant to be followed in the place.I get no weird stares,infact, i get to give them in plenty!And there r just places to go-go and still go!You have 2 friends,who would love going crazy ,then Bangalore gets to be Eden of bliss!Friends who love speaking about kings and cabbages,rocks to rubies,whine about work, about good and terrible movies and books, about gaining weight and losing weight, about the newest trend out in commercial, about the shocking "she-just-got-engaged-wth-howcudthathappen", or else, just sit in a park and contemplate nature. Is it not wonderful.I need to have to be seriously blessed for it all.And this is where i wanna send across my love to Tulu and Navs.I wouldnt have had one share of it all without the two of u!

Right,so the next thing in line.Weddings.Weddings and India are like married to one another.Weddings are-in through out the year.And its something which never does cease to be the hot-topic.There is always a poor guy/girl who keeps getting shot by the arrow.If there is nothing to do now,oh!lets just divert for a while,talking about nothing to do; here,you just cant be doing nothing.You need to be always/forever/until eternity doing something.And, that something is defined by, those who see it.You should not simply sit and watch/read/listen/walk/write/eat/drink aimlessly.Unless, you are watching something which will enlighten the Einstein in you,unless you are reading something which will increase your memory skills,unless you are writing something which will be another drop in the literary sense,unless you are walking for, lets say, for shedding something which came in excess baggage,unless you are eating as per a special menu which will help in the previous clause,unless you are drinking for promoting "white revolution".So it all needs to be formulated.Thought about in advance,planned out well for the coming years.Its more or less like dreaming about the perfect tomorrow,when today is in a marathon.So, yeah, lets get back to weddings.Like I said before,weddings are the most happening things around here.I had one grand wedding to attend.I mean, i dont think i should be saying "attend" when it was own brother's wedding, nor can i use the word "conduct", so imagine a word which comes in between the two.We shopped and shopped and shopped.And few things flopped.First it was clothes,jazzy ones and the next in line was tacky jewelery,and next in line was tackier shoes, and next in line was cosmetics, and last in line was money.The thousands spent for the hours of show-business.Everyone wants to be at their best.Look like prettiest of the lot.Nothing to blame.Thats how things work. So, it was one-big-Indian-wedding.Gifts were pouring in and out.And yeah,as such, fun.Fun with the fights and dressing up!
Now for my next thing,food.It was one year wherein my food-aholism saw all strata.It started with normal,to core diets, to food-aholic,and lastly to the normal.Happy realization darlin!Btw, I dont think i ever mentioned my love for Dosa Darling! I actually sang "Tujme Rab Dikhta Hai Yaara Mai Kya Karoon"There is just one place which Im so very reminded of at this time.Its this hotel in Bangalore,Dal Tadka.Its a place which fills in the northy palates! Tulu and I actually travelled about 20 kms to get there, just for the same cause.Worth it anyway.So a toast and love to fooood
Work.Work.Work.Work.It's been all but that word.I hardly had any work to do all through last year.Even in the project i got in,I was terrified of intially, but later got to know, its all to do with ctrl+c and ctrl+v and google.Wonder what was life like before google happened to mankind!And also,terrified of thinking what will happen to mankind in its absence!(GOD FORBID!)
Now the next,sister and home.Suja my darlin!She and I were supposed to have been twins, but it was God who wanted to be nice to the parents to be :P and hence we didnt get to be twins.Nevertheless,he blessed us in the same family!Seriously,am just so filled with joy to know she is around,the kinda person who just loves having fun and laughter 24/7.Its absolutely rare to have siblings of a kind.Like in a movie,3 brothers keep talking to each other and they ask,"would we even talk to each other if we were not siblings??"Its but rare to get siblings like that. But yeah,here,i'd say,man aint i lucky ;) So here's a toast and love to Sujkins!
Home sweet home :) Its those comfortable corners and beautiful bed sheets and mom and dad and of course with mom comes mom's expertise in the obvious!But coming to the reality, its the warmth and security and loev which binds and which make houses homes.And im one helluva home-aholic.So,here's a toast and all my love to amma and appa!

IIITTTTSSSSS showtime!Movies movies and more movie "bringgem on!".I belong to the genre called movie buff.Can go to 4-5 movies a day.Just that, i still havent developed the taste for action, other wise,yeah...it just has to be a movie!Ok, minus corny karan genre.Movies are what make me feel "go do it gurl!!".Ok, im not referring to acting here, am talking about things the leads do in those movies!They end up getting money to go half way across the world by just being a maid/book-store owner/journalist/kid in the block/dancer/chef!Why is it only in movies???

There was more that i wanted to say.More random ramblings,but well,yeah, I have drifted far from what i wanted.More so ever,i forced into writing towards the end!

Thus endeth,but end is only till the next post!!

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Saddening...

I bumped into something wonderful today.There was this article about single-father's day in the Times, about a dad and how he spent the day with his son, and something interesting was that his blog was hyper linked in the end and i got engrossed.

He maintains a wonderful blog.I was amazed,mesmerized and saddened by the blog.I was amazed and mesmerized for the way he writes. He has all his observations about life,his son and people around them.The posts sounded like from a hollywood movie or something.He sounded like those perfect never-lose-temper dad's!!I wondered after reading couple of posts, if this guy was for real!And, yes, saddened for the obvious reason.I liked the way he treated his son, like an adult.Like the boy knew about the loss and facts he has to put up with.

It's truly a dreadful situation to be at.Of having to put up with "my mom" this/that from the other kids.The kind of steel strength he found.I'm sadly getting way too touchy-feely about emotional losses. There's too much of tear's stored inside i suppose, that i end up wetting my eyes for trivial reasons!!
Hmm, i suppose this has ended like a ridiculous post, and its because am a little too moved by that blog.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Remorse...

I have couple of posts about my college. I have written about the glorious college life. But, yeah, sadly, i now realize I was just trying to fool around. I was trying to make my college life also something exciting or something. Trust me.. It wasn't. Not even close to. I didn't have half the crazy fun i had in my school. I was bloody shy about getting noticed by some hypocrites. I was scared if I'd get turned into a laughingstock with something idiotic.I still remember, I had such a disgusting sense of dressing! I even thought the "ashram" look might be cool. YUCK!!! I was bad! OK....I have fooled around a lot. I've done my best to portray myself like an idiot. Been pretty successful at that. what was in my mind? What was i thinking back then?I don't really remember at all.I don't remember what all happened.Its a daze right now.

BUTTTT, talking about my school.It ROCKED! I was someone totally different. I had the style statement WITH my uniform.We were one hell'o'a gang!We got ourselves named for the noise and pranks."HOOLIGANS".And am I proud of it? Yeah, i suppose YES!I did things I enjoyed. I played around like mad! I was never worried if i'll flunk! cuz, i knew i wudnt!! I was never ever scared to death for a test!!!It was a free atmosphere.I along with some friends were in-charge of getting other students evaluated for the final P.Ed practicals!!! And, considering that lever of dedication and interest in sports in school, what-the-heck happened to me in college???I didnt like the crowd that gathered! I didnt like the fact that i had to get up at the wee hours of the mornings to get to the gym and play.Before the BOYS turned up.There was so much line of difference.Like the 2 species are not supposed to exist together!There was always an unnecessary deadline,more often than not, for something terrifically ridiculous. I knew the right things to do in school.Ok, I dont mention anywhere that i aced in studies, but well, i didnt get bad either.I was known as someone's friend in college.Not for myself!

To think about all of it now.I suppose i just hated my college.I think i was way too scared to admit the fact!I thought i didnt want to be among those wannabee's who said it for the heck of it.I now think, they had a reason to dislike it.And if there is anything i want to cherish from my college life, its just the friends i made for life.It never had the crazy lunch breaks, where we stole and ate, its not the pranks we played, invariably every day, its not those decorations we messed up, i never had a day when i was caught bunking by my physics sir and led back to class,i never had prize winning environmental day,i never had one teacher who knew i had that inner fire in me to do something, no one thought i could do it!Be it anything.Even in shooting a ball right in the basket.So many people had that in school.I was so much more free. I had people who kept telling me, no ur not right.I kept having people who had it labeled in their heads that I was an air-head and i never did care about it.Why didnt i care about it??Why did it have to be a failure?

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Sad facts...

Im lazing around.The only best thing thats going on in my life.I had once wished for such a situation!It came true. Am glad, but well...I have complaints as too!Why do the best things in life have to be out of reach???Why should they : be in another area of the planet/sky-high expensive/just-not-allowed/convert a human to a fat cow????
WHY? WHY? WHY?
Why is there a negation for most of my desires??I want to be a pro-photographer,my family thinks the opposite.I'm studying things i know i wont ever understand!Why do i have a twisted brain? Why couldn't i see that wonder in coding a JAVA server page?? Why couldn't i see God's Divine intervention when i learnt about electrons moving at lightning speed????(And yes,get curious about it)Why don't i have that inner thirst to learn about an operating system??? Why????
Now,sadly i need to do this, to get rich ;)
Why do i need money...well i know why! I want to shop! I want to travel!I don't want to worry about tomorrow!I want to eat at good places!!!And an inverse again, am on a diet! I shouldn't be eating the fancy things anyway! I'm spending to starve myself! I buy clothes for the heck of it and later don't use them! I made an effort to travel and it ended in food-poisoning!! I wanted to write. I'm but well, nothing worth any mention. It does hurt my ego to say, "its bad".I wanted to be writer and now, am lazy to read.Am addicted to the Internet. Am reading things online anyways :P. At least a critic?? I cant even do that with grace!
Oh, i lack grace too.I wanted to become a magazine editor.Design pages!(Mind u, not java server pages :P).I wanted to write articles.I wanted to do jewellery designing. Yikes! I think am an outcast.
Why do i know lot of people who dream similarly?Why didnt i ever get inspired seeing the others who found joy in designing a servo motor?

Monday, May 18, 2009

Leopold....

Leopold.....They dont make them like him any more..Sigh!Sigh!Sigh!!! :( For the poor uninformed miserable beings who dont know about Leopold, a small "about him". :D

Leopold, the male lead in the movie 'Kate and Leopold'.He's a duke from the 19th century who lands up in modern day NewYork(why couldn't it have been Kodihalli??!! ).Kudos to Hollywood!They have crafted the best male ever !Perfect charmer!Perfect gentleman!!Perfect looks!!
Seriously, which man actually stands up when a lady leaves the table? huh!!?? huh??!!!! And, someone who knows when to apologize and how to do it with flair!! :)An actual handwritten note of apology..the best in the history of mankind!
He's always dressed immaculately-no jeans about to fall off his rear!! :PAnd i'm not talking about just formals..he looked like a million bucks in casuals too!!:) im talking about james bond debonair here..
Did i tell you he dances well too??ok,he doesn't just dance, he floooaaats........... ;)
This Kate female has to work hard all day,so when she falls asleep in the balcony at night-GUESS WHO carries her tenderly to her bed and tucks her in??Aaaannnddd SOMEBODY actually gets up in the morning and makes breakfast for her too....a yummy breakfast! :)
O and the way he speaks!!He talks like a perfect English aristocrat -no"gurrl"/"dooode" and other fake Americanisms in his vocabulary.PLUSSS he can ride a horse like a knight- he was trained in the Kings academy and he can scare scoundrels and robbers who steal my purse!!! urrmm...Kate's purse.
He oozes sincerity out of every pore in his body.He walks with an invisible crown on his head.Most importantly,He knows how to sweep a girl off her feet!I could go on and on and on...and on.Like I said before-SIGH! haaaaa...:)Thankoo hollywood!

Oookay why is it only in movies???


Now, why I am talking about this movie and him in particular is because of the extent of impression his signature left behind.I was going thro' a clumsy monday bench morning. Planned on a visit to office to know about the updates, but well, i really didnt need to go there to know the truth. There would'nt be anything! But well, we decided to leave late, possibly even squeeze a short nap before leaving, and then.... it happened!!!"Coming up next-Kate and Leopold" and i went AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!Thats it! I dont care if the office burns down,i am watching this!!But well, i had to go to office and...i was in a dilemma.to go or not to go??Thats when it struck me.RRRRUUUNNN!!!Tulasi and I did the fastest getting-ready-to-work session.A national record.I was even prepared to take the local BMTC for Leopold! We got a super quick glimpse of the person we are supposed to meet and caught the very next bus, but alas! we missed the first half an hour..aaah..its okie. They showed the repeat the next day,and needless to say,I didnt miss the first half or the rest half this time. (wink! wink!)

Leopolds's worth a research.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Numb...

Written in the month of January...

There are those days in life wherein I have no clue about my existence. It’s the vague feeling of nothingness that haunts. The mobile not vibrating or blinking, getting me excited about a call from someone who remembered. I’m left to myself. I have all the time to contemplate. But instead of doing all that, I prefer to keep myself busy to ward off the horrible feel of loneliness. Come on…there might be one person right?? Or….wouldn’t here be?
Today was one of those days. Right from the time I woke up, I knew it was not a fine sunny Sunday after all. I wasn’t hungry for long time. I forced myself to breakfast. I had pushed of washing clothes for quite some time. I did that chore. I even washed the sheets. Pretty much surprised myself. All the while the thread was getting pulled and I didn’t know why I was feeling horrible. To let go off it I did lot of cleaning and clearing and organizing in my room. What next. I was clueless. I read for a while and slept off midway. Clearly, I had disturbed sleep. But I managed to stay on my bed until half past five and got up for tea. Scanned channels for a while, obviously landed with the music channel. Didn’t feel like seeing anything of that sort. Scanned movie channels and luck found me. I saw that “Namesake” was being aired then. Initially I was just curious, because it was an Indian-English movie and anything that’s of the sort interests me. I kept watching till the end and I realized that there’s always a silver lining in every gray cloud.
Now let me tell you what the silver lining, I, experienced is. The movie was about an Indian family in the US, and how children grow up to be. It was going in a very expected way; kids not bothering to call parents, and rather spending time elsewhere. Midway dad passes away and lot of transformation happens in the children. They are more cautious about the roots. And a lot of instances come wherein the hero remembers his dad, of the numerous times he was callous. And there is the line in the movie that goes like this “When you feel lost, just find out when you were happy, not just thrilled, but deeply happy”. That was one line that I needed the most. HA! Wondrous! I wanted to hear something of the kind. And I contemplated on the line. I remembered when I truly felt happy. It’s always when am with my mother and father. When am at home. When I feel I’m back in the safe embryo. I kept thinking about the things they have done so far. I realized that I’ll never have a day when I will have to feel bad that I was not wished on an important day from them. Somehow isn’t it strange that parents are rarely appreciated. The way amma asks me what to cook the time I plan to visit home. How casually I laughed off when she told she hated to see my brother and I grow up, and that God is unfair when it comes to this. He gives children, and finally at a point of time He gets them separated from their parents. Somehow today, I really realize the pain she feels when I travel back to Bangalore or be it any place away from home. My cocoon. I remembered how bad it should be to have no one to keep talking to all day. Or should I say irritate. Hahaha….
Right now I miss the security. I want to get back home and feel that warmth. Relish the evenings we go for walking and hear her talk about the wonders of God and life He has bestowed. Of just lying down on her lap feel her stroking my hair and yes, feel like a baby again.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

A Genuine Doubt...





"Is it not easier for God to duplicate what he created rather than creating a new wonder..."This was my question to tochi. The question sprung after i ogled at a picture of Johnny Depp... She made a brilliant reply..


"It takes centuries of careful genetic breeding to produce some one like Johnny Depp.Its not that easy to duplicate even for God."

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

LG... Life's Good :)

LG... this is my all new mantra about my life and its happenings......in Bangalore :)
I've never felt so happy..and so much like a good for nothing. Probably once in your life ...u need to. And especially with company i feel like a queen. My company is Thochi...aka Tulasi,Chaitra and occasionally Naveen comes in as well :). Let me talk a little history about these three people.

Thochi......She was my collegemate..not really a great friend...lets just call it an acquaintance. The only thing i knew about her was, her "jaada"(trust me..i have no clue as to wat its translation could be).She then became my TCS-mate :P , and did the training together at Ahmedbad....and well thats when i realised..for all this while she was under-cover.Oh..she's as bad as the company i usually belong to. She's a queen of mokkai. She "enjoys" koothu and laughs for TR's terror jokes. And, i wonder what i'd have ended up doing here if it were'nt for her!!(blink blink). We always plan on studying, which eventually doesnt happen. So...thats pretty much about this multi-faceted personality Thochi.
As for Chaitra..i feel sad that she has to put up with the two of us. She's the mild and sobre person...Mamma's baby.
And...last about Naveen...he's a "live life king size" kinda guy.At times quite an arse. No bells or breaks. And ..most importantly a "suspected gay".Allegation's done by his mother for not having found a girl.So...that makes him a great comBany.
So, it sounds like a dork gang.
About life, we are creatures of the night. And bangalore is for such people. Oh btw...our night ends at ten thirty.All day, our arse's are stuck either to the TV or computer ....and well,depending on what Vaidehi's cooked the fourth option is the bathroom. :P
Oh, i need to go to our aappis only for 5 minutes and twice a week. YEYY...and get paid for that.
We go out only and simply because we want to dress up. Assure ourself that with proper effort "we look stunning".Kurachu vaayanokki thendi thirinju varum. And with the money that TATA Daddy's give us...we spend spend and spend. Oh i also remind myself before shopping that i should'nt spend :) But, comeon with places like Brigade and MG and Commercial street, i can dream about not spending.Commercial street is a shoppers paradise!Tulasi and i gaped walking along its streets! We even have a membership at a library. Nice place.. Lot of good books. Just that we took the worst lot last time! I cudnt get reading 3/4 books. And i attempted a Taslima Nasreen. The lead was a married educated bengali and ends up in the company of a lesbian. I stopped reading it and realised why Taslima Nasreen is on exile.
I forgot to mention...i recently turned to be an ardent fan of tamil music, so rich in lyrics. Esp the "koothu".
Today's another day of nothingness.We planned to visit the library. Lazy. We planned to walk around in a mall. Lazy. Finally tulasi slept, chaitra's stuck to the tv and am blogging.
So...hence prooved.. LG Life IS Good :)

Saturday, January 31, 2009

FRUSTRATED!!

Yes,am alive.
Just that i never did come here.
And am here today to get a little bit of my frustration out!
Its been 3 months that i joined work;2 months of which went with the training;and,now,for the past one month,i've been jobless with a job.I need to go just when am asked to,and thats like once a week or something.Trust me...am irritated.Not that am waiting to work or something...but i want something to occupy myself with!
One improvement is the library membership i took.Its a blessing.But,well...my rate of reading is increasing.I'm reading like one book a day.And,after finishing 4 books in a row...am getting a little tired reading.
For any commoner....am at an enviable position...job+salary+no-need-to-go-to-office+BAGALORE CITY!...T last being the focal point of attraction.But,well...thats for everybody else but me.I miss home,i miss my evening walk,i miss speaking to people...Here i see gazzilion faces..not stopping by to ask how the day was or anything..i have flatmates who r not interestedf to speak to "south-indians". Probably they have the mind-set that southies r un-touchables or something...okie..i really dont care about those phonies.But..well!! complaining about them doesnt vent my frustration anyway...Lot of friends are busy.Lot of friends have things to do..and ultimately.. there's no place to go.You might think am insane especially living in a place like this.

So what do i really want...i want to get something that would make me busy,and make me go to bed as soon as am back.I dont want hours and hours of void.
But well....how do i make that happen?
Even at the end of this ridiculous post...am still irritated!