there were these flowers… lots of them…
there were these wishes… again loads of them…
a part of Sony Headphones… ekdum direct from the US…
now what was missing was some gift baskets… these guys have this amazing collecion…and anyone could have just gone to the page, and bought me one… but NONE… even though i remember asking for them in one of previous posts.. but ppl just seem to forget…
never mind… dekh lunga !!!
i guess its just fair for life to be unfair at times !!!
there has to be a balance between
the smiles at the sadness !!!
the cheers and the tears !!!
the sounds of friends laughing with you and the ice cold silence that surrounds you when you are alone…
the success and the failure that makes you cherish each one of your milestones more then ever…
the feeling of achievement and the realization of a loss at the same time…
the feeling of winning that 10 km marathon… and the pain in your legs….
the cold air at the top of a mountain… and the bruises you earned while you were climbing up…
the need to cry out loud.. and the strength you give to the ppl around you at the same time…
that smile on ur face… and that small tear in your eye…
i guess life is just fair enough !!!
Good Morning God… Gimmie strength… because i need it… and you have no other choice but to give it to me !!!
Amen….
“i need to know something more than nothing to be able to do what i want to do”
😀
i wrote it.. and then i could not understand it when someone else said that she could not understand it.. hehehe…and then i read it again.. and understood it…and i guess it makes a perfect email signature !!!
and i also did not get home cooked food either on three out of four occasions this weekend ( two lunches and dinners )
i ate chinese… noodles and sweet and sour veg..
i ate south Indian…. rava masala dosa and idli…
And i cooked for myself some pasta… and this time i was not that good.. because i forgot to add Pepper and Red chilly Flakes 🙁 but it was good otherwise… the amount of the salsa sauce and mayonese was just right to make it taste fine… and i am inclined towards trying out something new next time… lets see… will move one step closer to making better pasta next time !!!
what else did i do.. 😛 i did a lot of nothing this weekend…
oh.. and yes.. i read those two mags that Ashi got me… Wow cameras in there… for some reasons firang lands have these online stores.. where you are get anything.. and that too at very decent prices… and India is still getting introduced to online shopping… we sure are a few years behind there… i saw exorcist too… it could have been scary if i was watching it in the night.. but Sunday afternoon it was.. so it was ok ..
Sunday evening i listened to some of the oldies that i have… HMV CDs with some classical songs… loved each one of them…
phoolon ke rang se… dil ki kalam se.. tujhko likhi roj paati ( one of the best songs ever)
jaaneman jaaneman.. tere ye do nayan.. chori chori leke gaye dekho mera man…( love singing this one)
and a few more….
the breaking news on the tv channels this weekend was Promod Mahajan’s episode.. its unfortunate that he was shot by his own brother… and whats more unfortunate that hundreds of ppl in this country die everyday because they cannot get blood on time, while Pramod mahajan was given over 30 bottles of blood because of a leak in his liver… This just make me feel that to survive in this country you either need money or power… if you have anything of the two.. you will be good.. if you do not have anything of the two.. just mind your own business and life your life… and hope that you do not get into situations where you will need any of the two !!! sad !!!
oh.. that reminds me… if anyone of you wants to organise a blood donation camp.. get in touch with me… i will help you out… you can arrange a camp in your college, your office, your locality anywhere… summers specially is a time when the blood banks are short of blood big time…
monday was just another monday.. but i got ready in less time then other days… i also manages to iron my shirt and trousers.. and also shave.. and went to the office like a perfect gentleman… white shirt… nice beige coloured troubers… polished black shoes.. and nicely styled hair !!! if you are looking good it shows on your face too… a certain level of confidence wraps you if you are dressed up smartly !!!
oops.. its already 0730 hrs… and i have been sitting in front of the PC for about 45 minutes now.. lemme go and get ready !!! have a wonderful day everyone 🙂
like i did today…
the habit of waking up early ensures that even if there is no alarm.. i still cannot sleep beyond 0800 hrs 🙁 so like it or not.. i have to get up… and i did today too…
and then just idled away to glory with both the laptop and the desktop switched on… while i kept transferring some data from the lappie to the home PC… the laptop has been acting up for a few days i am afraid i will loose some important data if it conks off…
a nice bath in the afternoon…. a good lunch and sleeeeeeep for 3 hours saw me wake up to a lazy evening…
and then got reminded of a few things that needed completion for work.. did them and done for the weekend ( i guess 😉
rohit just called.. he is in noida.. but i cannot meet him.. looks like mom has a few plans.. and i am in no mood to get into an argument about me not giving enough time at home right now… so i am home….
last evening was good… left from office around 2000 hrs.. after Ashi came in… so it was Me, Ashi and Munshi who went to GK this time for the Golgappa treat !!! a different shop this time.. but good stuff…
and a walk around the place.. and a discovery… the Sales House… wonderful shirts… i am going to buy at least 5 next week.. and a few trousers too… did not buy it yesterday because my billing cycle for the card is coming to an end… and delaying the shopping for 3 days means getting a interest free credit cycle for 50 days…
and then also ate the pan at the Prince Pan bhandar… i think that was the last time i am eating the pan there… its not value for money at all… not that it takes anything to spend those 15 bucks.. but they make the pan look a lot bigger then it really is by wrapping and re-wrapping it atleast 3 times with paper and stuff… and when you reach the actual pan.. u have nothing more then something of the size of a small toffee to eat !!! huh…
that reminds me of the Banarasi Pan wala in New Market, Bhopal.. i have never eaten better Pan then Bhopal !!! i am missing that shop 🙁
i called up tushar to find out what he was doing.. looks like he is busy too with his folks.. so the late evening ice tea does not look possible for today !!! anyway…
what else..
i want to watch IceAgeII tmrw… lets see… if i can manage to go there in the evening and get myself a ticket i will….
oh.. and yes.. Ashi got me two magazines from British Council… and its full of Camera reviews and related stuff… loved the mags… will read them too !!! ye ye !!!
am happy !!!
some examples…
i also do…
and what do i do to take care of this..
well
if i have problems getting up in the morning… i might think of doing something first thing in the morning that excites me… to start with listen to an alarm that is nice ( this might need a phone where you can change alarms as your favorite songs)
or go to the radio.. and listen to my favorite station…
or just get out of the house and take a walk around the neighbourhood…
or switch on my PC and run the cartoon that i love to love..
if i do not like the way i travel everyday…
then…
i can take a different bus.. maybe a bus 10 minutes earlier then usual…
i can take a different route if i am driving myself…
listen to the tapes that i bought 3 years ago.. and have not heard in a long while…
or spend time over the weekend recording my favorite numbers and then listen to them in my walkman or discman…
or give one of my old friends a quick 10 minute call… wonderful way to catch up…
ok..what was the next problem?
hmm… i do not like my work at office…
well there are times that this cannot be changed… too bad we cannot choose our own bosses and work profiles( at times)
so what can be done…
do the same work.. but Innovate !!! try new ways of reporting data… change the fonts that you use… think about naming conventions for your files… and so on and so forth…
try new things in doing the same activity…
shift your desk as well…
try facing the window if you have one.. and look outside when u do not feel like working…
walk upto the person you like talking to at times and go for a cuppa tea together.. .
about evenings now…
call up old friends.. those 10 minutes do wonders…
work out for 10-20 minites..
pick up an activity… like drawing.. sketching.. learning to play an instrument.. swim… go to the gym… that makes you spend time outside the house…
make sure you are the one who prepares salad for dinner ( thats all that i can do hence this idea)
read.. and then share it with someone who would listen to you…
i am sure there are a million other ways to improve our lives… but there ARE WAYS… we just need to look around.. and find them out for ourself…
treasure hunt…
isn’t life one?
while i was worrying very hard because sayan asked me to… why? because she was away on a trip.. and she did not want to worry about anything.. so like a good friend in need, i offered to worry in her absence.. and so i did..
and what else did i do…
hmm… i realized that for someone who is earning around 30000 bucks per month, it was not possible to buy a decent house in Greater Noida..
the real estate prices are sky rocketing… to the extent of 25K to 30K per sq. Meter.. which means that for a plot of about 60 sq.m. someone would need to shell out about 15lacs… add to it the cost of building the house and the rest of the charges, registration, tax etc etc… phew.. tough.. life is tough !!!
so that was saturday’s realization…
and Sunday… well.. thanks to DMRC… i was very very happy.. a metro ride from Barakhamba to Dwarka.. which took about 60 minutes made me happy.. met chacha and chachi after a long time.. chacha came to the station to pick us up and dropped us back too.. so it was kinda cool… i went from Noida to CP in the car… parked the car @ Birla Towers next to the Barakhamba Station and took the metro from there.. pretty neat eh !!!
and then came monday… the worst day of the week… enjoyed some of my favorite songs on my way to the office… and then the usual too much work at work days… started with a heated argument with one of the guys because he could not understand something that i was trying to make him understand for over a week now, and was continuously creating unnecessary noise about things… so he was taken care of… and then blah.. and some more blah.. which was followed by blah.. and more blah.. before i finally switched off the damn laptop and got out of the office leaving a few things for tmrw… had golgappe in the M block market… ummm… yummy !!! followed by the nimbu soda @ prince pan bhandar and then the thanda meetha paan…
and the icing on the cake.. a quick 3 minute dash to complete the toll bridge with bon jovi screaming his lungs out to Its my Life !!!
yo !!!
back home !!!
totally chilled !!!
where is the bed?
gotta sleep !!!
oops…
food..
gotta eat too..
ok..
lemme eat and sleep !!!
ta tu !!!
good night !!!
I am on this planet for 27 years, 11 hrs and 45 minutes as of NOW…
birthdays used to be one day when all my family members.. chacha chachi, mama mami, mausa mausi, bua fufa, all cousins came over to my place and we used to celebrate…
and then it stopped… everyone became busy in their own lives… and i moved on too… and then came the time when i started celebrating with friends.. dinner, lunch, tafri watever…
i remember having a party in Lodhi Garden as well… my college gang was with me.. and we had a picnic in the centre of the park !!! it was fun..
and then came the time when i had my girlfriend to celebrate the day with… nice romantic days… ugh !!! can’t think of repeating that as of now…
and for the last few years… the birthdays have been more of a silent affair… meeting a few friends… lots of calls yes !!! and the usual work !!!
today, i feel birthdays are milestones in my life… the time when i should be judging myself on what i have done in the last one year… i have grown older… but am i more mature with time as well.. have i learnt anything in the last 52 weeks…
well… the last year has been fairly fair to me…. have learnt a lot… but i still cannot sugar coat my words… i am still very blunt with words… maybe this coming year things would improve…
i have grown on my patience levels… i can not let go a li’il easily and i can listen for longer…
i still do not know how to handle stupidity…
i love driving more then i used to on 11-April-05…
i love fotography more then i used to on 11-Apr-05…
i love travelling more then ever…
i have met some wonderfully nice people in the last one year…
i have managed to be out of relationships and related worries for another year…
above all…
I have managed to be MYSELF !!!
i used to think it was only India which was full of festivals and reasons to celebrate and all the jazz… but with these firangi concepts of “day” coming in… we have
Valentine’s Day
Father’s Day
Women’s Day
Mother’s Day
Rose Day
Friendship Day
am i missing some of the popular days?
i guess not…
and to top it all, we have seperate gifts for seperate days… Rose day obviously calls for a Rose… on the Valentine’s Day anything red and heart shaped sells… Father’s day would see some special for-father gifts… not to mention some special mother’s day gifts for the day for Mom’s too…
if i had to make a wish list… this is what i would really like to celebrate…
what else… lots i guess…
tell me what all days would you like to celebrate in an year !!!
i am waiting…
while i can cook ideas and naughty acts in my brain… i can successfully manage to feed myself with a fresh nice “made with some help” chilled pasta salad as well…
it all started in eatopia… i wonder how many things would start from there…. one of my affairs about 3 years back… the ODM… and now the pasta salads… when i ate the pasta salad there… and really liked it… and wanted to make it myself…
sayantani was there to help with the list of things i needed before i could make it… and i managed to buy the capsicum… or the bell peppers as she calls it… green ones; some carrots… and hara dhaniya… on saturday itself…
now the hunt for the right kind of pasta started on sunday afternoon… and ended at store-18, which now is my favorite store for things i need… because 1. they take cards, and 2. i got all i needed there.. including the mayonese, the pasta, and some salsa sauce….
so back to my house ready to cook…
chopped the veggies, nicely… boiled the pasta for about 20 odd minutes with some salt and a few drops of oil… washed.. or rinsed with cold water…
took some mayonese… beat it… and then mixed it with the pasta… added some chilly flakes… some pepper… a li’il bit of salt… and the mexican salsa sauce… the veggies… i had “power boiled” the carrots as well before… and then some grapes too…
and chilled it for about 30 minutes… and then relished the treat… too bad mom could not share it… it was her fast yesterday.. and pa in any case eats only once.. so he could not comment either…
and because i really needed some comments so i took some to tushar… and i did not know that he does not really like pasta and all.. so it was a dull reaction from him too.. Preeti however told me that it tasted just fine… and i am happy that it was eatable !!!
so ladis and gentalmans… next time you really need to eat some nice pasta salad… please feel free to come over to my place… but… gimme a days’ notice so that i can get all the things i need to cook a good delicious salad for you 😉
ta tu…
and i have to go to gurgaon tmrw again… a drive of 50 kms one way !!! aargh !!!