June

In every post I have been saying that I will come back to the blogging world…write more…read more but somehow it’s not happening. I am not able to find a reason convincing enough to write to you all! Anyways, I realized today that it’s the waiting phase for me right now. I am waiting for so many things in my life right now. Some of which are in my hand and I can do them even right away but am waiting for the right time to let those things happen to me. Other things are such that are not in my hand and am letting myself float with its thoughts, wander far away with those little clouds of imagination …waiting for the day they will become reality effortlessly.
Moving on, I love the month June. First of all it’s my birthday month…yippee! Second of all, it brings rain with it. There is no other month which does this gracious act of welcoming the wonderful showers and saves us from the scorching heat! Third of all I love the sound of ‘June’ …its kind of sweetly girlish about it, I can even go to an extent of naming my daughter by that name in the future!! Well sadly I don’t have a surname which would go well with it though!
Coming onto my birthday, this year I am going to be in my home town for my birthday. Last two years I was away in Chennai, so could celebrate it only with my husband. Now being in Mumbai I am going to celebrate it with friends and cousins! I am going to look forward to gifts , going to cut my fancy chocolate cake, wear my new pink dress I have recently stitched and look gorgeous!!! LOL
Also lined up is a monsoon picnic followed by my birthday celebration to shed out the boredom the summer has brought and borrow a little freshness from nature!!
Also this month has many functions lined up, an engagement of an oldest school friend, marriage of my best friend and naming ceremony of my nephew!
All said and done I am looking forward to having a ball this month and adding one might good year in my kitty!

Being truly alive is something we forget amidst in life..

How life changes. How we let it change us. How it wipes our identity slowly and gradually. How we let it take charge. How we become a different human being altogether. How we become someone we are not. How we keep wondering what happened? How we feel helpless that it’s not the same. How we cry inside our hearts and wish to god he brings back everything we lost. How we promise to him that we won’t let it slip away.

But time never comes back. Does it?

I am seven; I am traveling with my parents and my little brother in our sweet little Maruti 800. I am peeping outside the window, to feel the wind outside. My parents keep warning me. I listen to them for a while, but get tempted to feel the strong wind on my face, while it forcibly closes my eye lashes, makes it difficult to breathe… I still love it. I enjoy it, in its natural form, crude and true. I laugh and laugh more.

I am eight. I am running, playing chor police with my cousins in the courtyard. I never wear chappals. The stones in the yard never hurt my feet. They mud never spoils me. The sweat never bothers me. My mom calls my name, asks to buy some milk from the nearby store. I gladly agree. I wink at my best friend. We start running. It’s a race. Who reaches first and eats a mouthful of raw rice from the gunny bag of the little store with a broken roof is the question. Laughter never leaves our faces.

I am nine. My mom is asking what I am going to wear to the birthday party I am about to go. I announce happily, that I am going to wear the same dress I wore the previous day! My mom shouts back, informs me I could wear the new dress my aunt has brought for me. But I don’t budge. The dress I want to wear is the one I love the most. I don’t care if it’s not dry cleaned. I don’t wonder if anybody would notice me repeating it. I merrily wear it and join the party.

I am 13. I and my friends are returning from our classes. We are hungry. We enter a joint. Buy Wada pav, hog on it. Crack jokes on each other. Tease a few teachers with secret names. Discuss the current gossip in school. What we eat is not the question. We fill our stomach because we are hungry, never forgetting to enjoy every bit of the food and the gossip of course.

Today though I am mature enough to know how to live, I still can’t figure out why I cannot enjoy the wind on my face anymore, why I can never walk without chappals. The stones suddenly are too hurtful. Why I am so careful about what I wear, why I worry so much before eating anything! Do we all lose the true sense of living life to the fullest when we grow up? I guess so.

Five things!!

Scribbling again in my blog!
Five things you should always place on your office desk and your car.

Your office desk should have –

1.On the pin up board at least one photograph of anything that makes you happy, be it a picture you clicked when you met your good old friends, maybe one funny photo of your pet or of your favourite sitcom.

2. Smart visiting cards stand to place your cards on it, so that you don’t have to dig your messy purse to find one when you need to give!!

3. A clock, to make you realize, its lunch time while you are busy in work!

4. A pen stand, of a bright colour, a shocking red or a bright blue to make your desk a little colourful than the others!

5. Last but the least, something godly, anything you have faith in. Something that keeps you going when nothing seems right.


Your car should have –

1. A Mobile charger, most important guys!! Imagine you are talking to your boss, explaining him why you are late and your battery gives up on you!!

2. Good collection of songs to keep your cool, well in India you have to take efforts to keep your cool friends!!


3. Water bottle….in case you are stuck up in traffic, don’t have a clue of reaching anywhere, listening a nice song in your air conditioned car….instead of enjoying the song, you would keep thinking…”damn why dint I bring water with me!”

4. Tissue paper, imagine you eat something and you have nothing to wipe your hands to, all you have got is your pants!!

5. Air freshener or car perfume…. Picture this, you have to pick or drop someone….after they get out from your car and you cry out loud wishing you had a freshener!!

Will come up with more on FIVE THINGS!! Keep reading..

New Hair Cut....New Life!

I had a new haircut and that made me realize that being a woman is so simple at times. My stagnant life has acquired a new vibrancy. My boring dull days have changed into happy fun filled ones. My attitude has totally changed from “not sure about anything” to “Lets make it happen”. All this, only due to a new haircut……I know that this can only happen to a girl! LOL!
So here is a post which shouts out loud to every girl who is suffering from a typical syndrome (common with women: P) which makes you upset with yourself for no good reason, don’t worry just go to a nice salon and get a new haircut, experiment a little. I bet you will start loving wearing pink again, eating ice cream without wondering about the calorie count, relishing on chocolates when no one is watching you, shopping for the exact same shade of a dress you dreamt of last night!!
Generally our confidence level is directly proportional to how we look and feel about ourselves. Ones everything is perfect….we can paint the town red!

Life is an irony :)

I am saturated today. I will have to write, scribble, and mumble something with my blog today. Otherwise I won’t be able to think a thing! It’s been a roller coaster ride for me all these months. Initially when I shifted to Mumbai I was all excited, happy and eagerly waiting for the fun to begin, for the parties to rock, for the dance to start and for the music to never end….then I settled. I realized its not always fun! I had to look for a job, which I had thought was going to be as easy as waking up in the morning! Well I was proved wrong! That phase of my life was really bad. Family and friends told me to give it some time, enjoy my vacant time, relax and have some fun, but all I was thinking was, I will never find a job, I will end up sitting home all my life, that we should not have shifted, that our life was so perfect in Chennai, that everything had ruined, etc. then one day I found a job suitable to my experience and profile. I was happy, thought how stupid I was to think of such extremes earlier. I was excited that finally my routine will start; I will not waste my days doing nothing productive, watching TV, lazing around with no motive. My ambitious side popped its hood the highest; I was raring to go, to join office, to start working, to set my life on track again.
I have joined more than a month back. Now I am busy as hell, with household chores, office work, and my brother is getting married in 12 days from now, so totally busy with that too. Merely 3 days of leave I can manage to get as it’s a “new job”. I don’t have time to breathe and so I am wondering about life more than ever. How at one point it gives you all the time in the world to relax, rejoice and analyze yourself but you don’t want it at that time….when you want it really bad it growls back at you and says, “When I offered you the time you wanted, you didn’t utilize it. Now don’t sulk!! “ ! It’s such an irony. Isn’t’ it? :) :) :)

Dont forget to remember....

There are some things in life you should never forget to remember…..whatever your age is, how much ever busy you are, even when you believe that you don’t care much……am going to list them down …..I know each and every one of you will agree to me…

The unbelievable happiness experienced while meeting your oldest friends…

The fragrance of new clothes and old books…

The sheer joy of spending a day at home with family...

The refreshing cup of tea amidst an intensely busy day at work…

The fun in getting drenched in the cold rain drops…

The soothing warm water of the shower while you bath…

The merriment in dressing up and admiring yourself in mirror…

The amazement in driving to office on a holiday because there isn’t any traffic…

The delight in humming a song you love while you cook or dress up…

The fun in bursting the balloons after the party is over...

The momentary happiness is always missed……we yearn for a longer, unseen happiness which is far away…..and let go off the immediate moments of unfiltered joy……Dont worry about things that might happen or are bound to happen....realise today before it fades away...
Well, I have been away for a while now, from blogging and surfing….but today I felt like writing this post so I took out time for it…but I am sure I will be back with more…I have finally shifted to Mumbai and enjoying life in my home town….starting newly from where I had left off …..I wasn’t even able to follow any of your blogs….I will be back when I feel like from inside….soon…pretty soon…

Chennai Charm!!

Chennai is city with amazing infrastructure, lush green trees, beautiful temples and bunglows... not many sky rising towers. Its a magical blend of both worlds...modern and old. Now that I am going to leave this city, I fill my heart with all the things that I loved about it. Here are only some glimpses of the city's spirit...I promise there will be more photos coming up. Enjoy!


Nariyal Paani


Kasturbai Nagar Station, Adyar



Isnt he cute.... :)


Theosophical Society, Adyar


Theosophical Society, Adyar