GONE BABY GONE

India - World Champs

So India's finally won something the 20 - 20 championship, and how we are going to town preaching about it! Well, am not a cynic but i would like to add here India's newest captain Dhoni's words in an interview, "Don't get carried away by success!"
Ever since India's won the 20-20 world cup everyone's comfortably forgotten the humiliation the cricket team caused us in the 2007 World Cup. Neither avid cricket watchers nor cricket critics seem to remember the pain and agony that India as a nation suffered when we were literally bashed up by Sri Lanka and thrown out of the world cup.
Maybe we want to look at the positive side and rejoice in the victory. Yes, we should celebrate and enjoy this win but we shouldn't let it go to our head. We must remember that these cricketers at the end are just another bunch of 20 year old's who need to be channelised or else it wouldnt take much for the success to go to their heads.
I wish the cricket crazy nation realises this and keeps a tight leash on them rather than going ga ga over it!

I WANNA BE A FREAK

We all have a secret dream.....
someone wanted to be a rockstar while someone wanted to be spiderman and save the world.....
I wanna be a freak and get away with everything.....

I hate being judged......I wanna colour my hair yellow and pink and dont want people to turn around and say what are disco lights doing on my head....

I wanna slap the young guy who stays downstairs.....the guy who makes fun of the fat old lady who mumbles to herself.....boy someday when your wife dies you'll also be old and lonely you'd die.....die for love, care and attention.....

I wanna strut in a golden swimsuit in daylight in mumbai.....singing and dancing to myself.....and i just wanna people to stare at me and say, "oh ignore her she's just a freak!!!!"


I wanna be a freak, with no cares in the world that's my secret dream

HEART OR BRAIN

We all go through this phase when we wonder whether we should use our brain or should we simply follow the diktats of our heart!!!! The argument on what's better is never gonna end.....for some people using their brain works better.....yes, they don't get emotionally involved with anything.....be it their work, people, relationships, the sofa in the living room, the wallet your boyfriend gifted you (at the end of the day its just a damn wallet and all you keep in it is money rite!!!!) the bed you sleep on everyday, the trees in the garden......i could go on.....and in a way its good because then its easier to move ahead in life. Its easy to give up when its tough to hold on and if at all you break them or they are taken away from you then its easy for you to move away from them.....
And what happens if you think from your heart???? you follow your heart, the brain keeps saying let it go but the heart wont just let it go......I don't know about others but i've always followed my heart but along with it i've also learnt to take responsibility for my actions! I hate thinking by my head when it comes to people i love.....my head says don't call my best friend because she hasn't called you in a week but my heart wants to speak to her, ask her why hasn't she called me?
I quit a huge corporate firm because my heart wasn't at peace there, everyone said that i was committing "professional hara kiri!" by joining a much lesser known but it's this lesser known firm that gave me name, fame and money......and moreover let me discover the writer in me......
So if you listen to your head and keep telling yourself that listening to your heart is impractical and won't help you in the long run then for a change try listening to your heart and you will realise that in the process of killing your heart's desires for a non-existent tomorrow you are ruining your today!!!!

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rains...................

The one thing i always hated about the rains in Mumbai were the muck that it bought along with it. kichad as i would call it, was the most irritating thing about rains but now in the US with everything around me so clean and organised i miss the messiness of my hometown.

And the dreadful monday mornings, when after a long weekend i'd have to force myself out of bed to get dressed for work. That dreadful feeling would worsen during the rains, when i'd have to ponder hours on what to wear for work.....i envy guys sometimes.....nobody bothers if you don't dress up. The worst thing about being a girl is to DRESS UP.....takes a lot of effort and worst still to comb one's hair. (having said that want to share a secret......strangely i like guys with long hair and find the crew cut quite boring)
Coming back to the topic.....monday morning's the only thing that made me a lil cheerful was my train gang...........only god and aunty knw how i would run for the 8:12 train. Supriya, Usha and Sujata the lovely trio as i refer to them were the only reason i caught this fast train. Got to learn so much from these guys...........
Thanks to these three, the otherwise worst monday appeared to be lovely and romantic.....walking through mucky roads whilst balancing your umbrella and trying not to get your salwar, trouser or jeans dirty is an art that i never perfected!!!! And i guess i never will be able to either.....

Heavy rains lashing at the train window, women squabbling in the train worried if they would reach office on time. Once at CST, try walking without getting pushed or hit by someone's umbrella. Women rushing off to office, while men rushing to work as well but admist all the chaos desperately trying to peek at mumbai's newly corporate public...........

HAPPY

Whatever, that's my favourite word,
I am what i am, if you don't like me, i can't help it. I've always believed that it isnt possible to make everyone in the world happy! No human being has the capacity to keep everyone around him happy. So what does one do? well, my answer is simple......do what makes you happy, after sometime people will learn to accept you the way you are.
all our lives we keep thinking if our actions would upset or hurt someone and in the process we end up living pseudo lives. We end up becoming someone or something that we aren't but what the society expects from us. We cheat ourselves, find happiness in other people's happiness and try to happy but there's a lot of difference in being happy and trying to be happy.
They say you are happy when people around you are happy, but then everyone around you is happy but you are trying to be happy wondering and hoping that things would change with time....but what if that never happens.....
My Gyaan for the day......life is too short to make adjustment's and compromises. I don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow, so i'd rather do what makes me happy today.......
I'll face tomorrow, tomorrow................

MY IDEAL MATCH

They say love ends at marriage.....well six months down the line i tend to disagree dont know if 6 years down the line i'll still feel the same. but what the heck....i don't even know if i will be living 6 years from now. So rather than thinking 10,000 reasons of not marrying Vijay, i thought of the opposite....I love him so i should marry him....rest i left it to my God.....

Everything you like about him, will irritate you later.....that's what they told me but i'm yet to find something about him that irritates me.
Well he's a little messy and clumsy; he never switches off the bathroom light, never clears his bag, hates folding clothes, his shows are all around the living room and well i can think of 10,000 other things but then he isnt moody like me, he's health consious unlike me, his ambitious unlike me, isnt lazy and most importantly is confident of himself! But most importantly loves me.....

All through the last 8 years; we may have fought 800000000000000, i guess even this less, times but each time you were the one who said sorry. I with my big ego, havent ever apologised even once.


You helped me fight my demons and were the first person to beleive in me and made me beleive in myself. You appreciate every little thing that i do be it cooking dal rice or be it watering plants......you respect my decision, opinions and views, though they are insipid sometimes but u still support me......

I just hope that i'm able to give you 0.5 per cent of the happiness that you've bought in my life!!!! Love you HUB!!!!! And will always Love you........

LOVE - it's an over-used term....well that's what a friend told me the other day. I went back and thought about it, some people may think that it's an over-used term but i think it's the one word that rules this world. It manages to bring a smile onto anybody's face. I bet there is any person in this world who doesn't want to be loved.

Everytime i see my friend telling love you to her daughter, before she leaves for work, i can see the two-year-old's face light up. She knows that mum's going away but that LOVE YOU makes the difference.

After my wedding ceremonies and receptions were done with and it was time to say good-bye to my family, a moment someone like me who cries at the drop of a hat dreaded, seemed to have no tears in my eyes. I just hugged my aunt and told her LOVE YOU LOTS! This statement came from my heart, something that i had never ever told her in the last 24-years that I stayed with her and the expression she gave me is something that i'd treasure all my life.....

Most of us feel either embarrassed, shy or just uncomfortable in expressing our true feelings to people. We are shy of telling our loved ones how much we love them, I was also one of them untill I met my colleague turned best friend Virginia. The thing about Virginia that really touched me was the joy and warmth that she bought along with her. Wherever she went she only spread smiles, laughter and warmth. She would even make the quietest and shyest person chatty. I soon realised why? She always expressed her true feelings for everyone, if she loved someone she showed it to them by hugging them, wishing them an letting her true feelings open. Well, that did make her prone to getting hurt by people but i genuinely beleive that someone who can't return love for love and who hurts loving people has to be someone who's really cruel and heartless.
After all this gyaan......the only point i want to make is that love ain't an overused term.....

Correct Writing

I dont know if you'll ever read this exceptional piece of write-up....well, i just hope that none of my english languge teachers, my editors or my journalism teachers ever come across tis blog.... where most of the stuff is written in my special english;)

Writing would be so simple if one leaves behind all inhibitions....every time i sit to write i wonder if my grammar is correct, if my syntax is proper and more importantly if i've finally got my punctuation marks correct....

I beleive one excels when he's left free....when he leaves behind all his inhibitions and is not shy or consious....but then it isnt so with writing, wonder why?

At loss for words

8:00 am or is it 8:00 pm, well no matter how hard i try to remember i won't be able to differentiate between am and pm, so i stick to 8 in the morning....well i love stacato....so u can understand my fascination with the innumerable dots....

i tried to write but i just couldn't....i remember Mr. Oommen!!! He said you can't write becoz your thoughts are muddled....but then that's how my thoughts have been rite from the time i began thinking!!!!