Come Fall in love!!

And i did....................I am writing this blog while watching one of my all time favourite movie DDLJ which completes 1000 weeks today . And todays blog is dedicated to the factors on what makes this movie a  special one….

·         First First !!!!!!! This was the first movie I watched in a theatre ever!!!

·         Senti-menti  moment!!!!!!This was the first movie I watched in a theatre with my Mommy , Papa and didi …so for obvious reasons I have super sentiments attached to this movie J

·         Raj THE SR The Khan!!!!!!!!!!!! Drooooooooool This was the first movie when I noticed Mr. SRK and his dimples(though I use to watch fauji and circus when I was little) and I went GAgagagagagagagaaaaaaaa over him ……and  then started the SRK hangover…traces of which are still predominant and can be reconfirmed by the fact that I have not only seen Happy new year in theatre but have enjoyed it to T . For me he is and will always remain the effervescent lover boy J . Yes I am true SRK fan no matter what I HAVE to watch all his movie…..i don’t think any other actor can be as charming….. witty as him and yes this guy should really write a book on how to market films!!!!! Something which the younger lot should learn from

·         London thumka !!!! Eurotrip , south hall these were the words I heard for the first time…….international trips with friends …alps and the swiss snow …..Thanks to the movie on trip to london I made it a point to visit swiss for snow and southhall for ..err…..just visit K

·         Mogamo Khush Hua !!!!! Amrish Puri !! well he could play and non-negative role…ummm almost…….and uff I noticed that he had a voice to die for …let me admit I have never liked him (because of the super negative roles he played) infact as a kid I use to hide behind my father or under pillow as I was too scared to see him on screen (yeah the Nagin effect)  but with this movie I started seeing him in a new light and understood that he is just an actor who does his bit on screen and there is nothing negative about him a s a person

·         Movie making!!!!! With this movie started the concept of showcasing the flim making which was subsequently borrowed by all johars of the world……but I loved watching the making of this movie

·         Tera Des bulye Re!!!!!  Oh the songs!!!!!! A movie that was packed with bestest of songs of our generation …..voice of lata Mangeshkar while still it sounded young !! and des bulye re was a kind of anthem for me in my London days…….Doli saja ke rehna will always remain pochu di and sonu bhaiya song for me

·         Dil-ogues!!!!!!

o   Senorita chote chote desjho mein esi baatien hoti rahti hai

o   And the ultimate “Jaa beta jee le apni zindagi”

o   AAoo AAoo AAoo

o   Tho kya hua

o   Palat!!

o   Vo aayegi!!

o   Uff the list is countless!!!

·         Johar the Dude was the Dud !!! This movie is truly reminder ke ….. Karan johar was once a silly Fat boy

·         Ka-joy-hai!!! She was wonderful!!! Inhibited in her acting ….emoting…….she is just Kajol …you know Some how for the most strange reason I always thought how her character is some much like my elder sister…may be because of the poem factor (Pinks don’t kill me for this)

·         Picture abhi baki hai mere dost!!! I really wish that Mr A chopra can tell us on what happened to Raj and Simran did they had their happily everafter…can some one please please make one moremovie on Duhan and her Dilwala  J

 Le Jayenge....Le Jayenge Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge!!

Domestic Dynamics Ruffl(ad)

The new Airtel ad has raised many brows ….ruffled few feathers of the so called intellectuals & array of feminist, who are now debating …“What nonsense …..How come this couple where both husband and wife are working cannot afford a maid”, “ what rubbish!!!  husband and wife work in the same company and wife is boss …haawww whats wrong with the husband” , “isn’t this ad an in appropriate representation of the domestic dynamics…sniff sniff”, “so the boss still remains a typical wife , why does she have to do the cooking” .

 Uffffff GROW UP people!! So what if there is no bai , so what if  she and husband are in the same company ,so what if the wife is boss, she still wants to cook …….why is it so difficult to digest that there is a women who works and also cooks !!

Many of my frens met their life partners while working together and post marriage also they are still working together in the same company and same team, they have learnt to keep their professional and personal lives separate and not let the issues one affect the other. So what is the big deal if in due course of time one becomes the manger of other? What I feel is that if a husband and wife cannot make a good team they won’t be able to make a good couple, because in professional and personal life one thing remains the same and that is the compatibility with each other. And it is that compatibility which will be their strength making their team click no matter what the circumstance is.

Look at the ad, women and husband both are comfortable in their skin just like how any metro couple is,  where women are earning more than men and men are comfortable with that. Running house is not one person’s responsibility (more importantly living in these inflated times its imperative that both husband and wife are working and sharing household responsibility equally). I know of a couple where the wife is much more senior than the husband and both of them are working together in a same company same team …and husband has absolutely no qualms about it infact he is extremely proud of his wife.

And yes now the big cooking question well…….i am a women ….that too working and who enjoys cooking. Cooking for me eases out entire day’s stress and yes, I love to cook for my husband especially when I know he has had a hard day in office. You see we women are very different from men , we by nature are givers who think about others first .  No matter how hard day a women has had in the evening she would forget about it and be ready for her family at keep the office at backseat for a while …this is how we are programmed. So chill people and relax…..there is nothing sexist about that ad :)

Ciaoz

After the trip comes the Slip

So both items on my checklist i.e meeting my college fren and our goa trip were well executed. I had awesome time with my fren and Goa trip well ....i am not able to find a better word for it....so in short it was one of the best trips in recent times.

Goa in monsoon is scenic...quite... peaceful...dont you believe it...see it for your self

I know.... ..this does not suit the regular image that people associate with goa which is of a very happening n crowded place...but thats how goa is during this time of the year.... Roads are empty so are the restaurants...food is awfully cheap and daru well its a paradise for people who enjoy a glass of whiskey or rum :)

So our adventure started while we were on our way to CST from goregaon , me and hubby were already running late and it was pouring heavily , and cherry on the cake was that we boarded the wrong train. I was busy talking to hubby when he realized that local we had boarded was till andheri only, so we had to get down at jogeshwari and wait for another train.  This all resulted in us reaching late as a result of which we had to forgo our plans for eating out ...nevermind i thought i could survive on train pantry food for that night when we realized that train had no pantry-car....so my journey started on a hungry note (which i very well compensated by eating my heart out when we reached goa).

After we reached goa...i went crazy with the sea and wanted to be near it all the time, thankfully i had hubby to control me else i would have surely gone with the wild waves. You know i have a history with my fascination for sea which i will blog some day. SO basically hubby had to actually pull me out from going to deep into the waves..

Though the trip was short and sweet, its aftermath was pretty much not so sweet ...me and hubby were down with viral for good one week post this trip so much so that we had to take leaves,which isnt good considering i have a lot of plans in coming months to travel and hence i shall be needing leaves.

Apart from this life's usual ..till something new comes ciao :)

PS:I have broken my phone(s) big time so much so that hubby has vowed not to buy me any expensive phone. My lumia has gone to repair shop and if it comes back alive i promise to put it in a cover treat it with respect and care :|

workless woes with birthday blues!!

I am still workless …something have never ever experienced before so its actually very frustrating … ….so much so that I have decided to blog to ‘kill’ time
During my tenure in M..... there were periods when I had less or no work but that stretch use to be for a day or two…mostly when my CCs or URs were in testing or review phase. But last two years have been very  hectic for me especially the last six months so I completely forgot  how it is to be workless . Nevertheless everyone around me is telling me to enjoy while it lasts but the trouble is that I don’t know how long its going to last.  The levels of my frustration can be understood from the fact that I was missing my old company.
Anyways me and hubby are planning to visit Goa this weekend…..hopefully we shall execute this plan and have gud time there but more importantly we return back on time as due to rains trains are getting pretty much delayed and before even going there I am worried about coming back (So what if I don’t  have work ….i can still worry about it right!!)
I am also planning to visit an old college friend tomorrow as she lives nearby and I shall be meeting her after almost 10 years  :O can’t believe that its been 10 yrs since we completed out graduation !!
That reminds me that finally I have turned thirty( Yeah I need reminders for that!!!!). I know majority of my gender is not so delighted to broadcast their age on a public platform but not me ;) (perks of being me). But let me admit it was hard for me tooo…Finally that dreaded number ……the final realization of that you are not just growing up but you are growing old too. But as wise women say……..age is just a number …which does not need any counting or reminder…..it’s all in mind….so going by my mental age…well I don’t have to worry :)

Recap and Re-wind

heylozzzzzz!!! yes, its a different start from my usual ..."Oh i know i am Being too Lazy ...and yes i promise to be more regular" etc etc. So coming back to my heylozzz ......well I basically have a very different (weird -if you may want to call it) way of saying this word for which my frens from IMT use to laugh and mimic me(behind my back off-course)

Now coming back to whats happening in life ....so well  my notice period is over and i have severed my last day in my Old organization (i still have a ajeeb feeling when i call it my previous /old/ X organization). So have joined a new office hence life's quite on a upheaval with a new job, new house (Yeah me and hubby are a proud home owners ), new people etc. All my previous jobs were through campus placements so i always had some i knew in office.....someone i could talk too....go for Coffey breaks...lunch breaks hence i never had this strange feeling of being alone and know having anyone known.....but in this new office its a bit different....for the initial some days i feel pretty lonely and Office-sick (yeah like homesick) but now things moving on track much because i have some work to vent my energies in and think about more constructive things to do!!!!!!!

Finally me and hubby have started to take evening walks .....TOGETHER( for the first time in-last 4 years) now the question is "kitne din tak chalega"  knowing him and knowing me zayad din tak nahi

Ma papa were recently in US to be with my sister so got a lot of time to chat with my laddu...few excerpts of our conversation

Conversation 1 (starts with Normal chit chat)

Me: Laddu everyone is so scared of you....you nana nani mausa and masi too
Laddu: (giving het most coy smile) Oh really are you all hypnotized y my cuteness

Conversation 2 (This also starts with normal chit chat and suddenly out of blue she says-:
Laddu : Masi you know what
Masi: What betoo
Laddu: I want to travel back in time
Masi: ( a bit surprised and trying tio suppress her laugh) and do what
Laddu: In her usual (super) serious tone Go back to the time i was born !!!!
Masi now cannot control her BEEEG laugh !!!!!

Its actually funny watching a 7 year old talk like a nani and being pretty vocal and straight about how she feels. I remember once my sister told me an incident when laddu was around 3-4 yrs old and was watching h some old video tapes on laptop. Suddenly she started crying ...baffled my sister asked her what the matter was and she pointed towards the video and said "mamma how could yooooooooou.....hooooooooow could you leave me alone and go for a holiday" puzzled my sister watches the video and realizes that those videos were long before laddu was born!!!!!
When my sister told me this i just could not stop laughing!!
So basically my laddu is my stress buster....whenever there is anything troubling me talking to her can distract me from any problem or anything that goes inside my head. She makes me feel young and old at the same time.....young because i talk to her about the things she likes and wants to talk about ....play with. And looking at her makes me feel sooo old.....because i was the youngest in my family till the time she was born .....and with a blink of eye something changes inside me ...so yes she is without any doubt "The apple of my eye". I will at-least from now chronicle all such incidents with my laddu so that when she grows up and i grow old i can still read them and have a good laugh .....With this shall bid adieu!! without any promise of coming back soon ;)

Its time to say Good-Bye!

So life is taking a turn again ……yes I am anxious …new house, new job but then its part and parcel of life …isn’t it.

As I am serving my notice period …neither have much work nor do I have the will to do anything as of now, All I want to do is write  ;)  yeah surprising it is considering that I have hardly written anything in last 2 years but nevertheless today is one of those days when I feel the need to write.

Often in difficult times I fall back and write because words I say are the best medium to clear the thought process and vent the anger within. As a child I was not much of a writer rather it was my elder sister who had(s) the flair for writing and story telling, something I immensely loved as a kid. She had her own story series which if I am not wrong she named ‘The 5 star gang’. In-fact I remember she had actually written some of her stories. Her poems were reflection of her mind and she had this big dairy of poems which I loved to sneak into (without her permission offcourse). So writing never came naturally to me because

• One, I hated to write (as write with paper pen)
• Two, I had horrible handwriting
• Three, and most importantly I am too bad with typos (which is quite evident in my blog)

So now since my typing speed is far better than that of writing (with pen) and all thanks to MS Word and its auto-correct I can write without having to bother much about the above three issues however these days thanks to my present job I hardly get any time to write. So now with everything changing in my life hopefully I shall have the energy and enthusiasm to get back to writing.

Coming back to my last days in this office …..Well nostalgic will not be the word to describe my feelings instead I should use the word relieve. Not because of anything else but because I will now get Saturdays off which is what I am looking forward to. This stint of two years has taught me a lot (though I shall never publicly acknowledge it). I have learned how to be tough, thick skinned, 100 ways to ignore what I don’t like, be sweet even when I feel shouting my lungs out etc etc . So in nutshell hopefully I shall be a more toughened up………. steeled up person in my coming years. Here I have known how to work hard, give ur best and then forget the rest (literally…all sarcasm intended). But the biggest contribution of working here, well….i have finally understood how accounting works…LOL …considering that accounts was one subject I never really got hang of…..well it’s a BEEEEG feat.

So lets see now what life has in offering.
Lets take the risk …Lets take the pain ….Lets gear up to start it all over again J

Adios my Friend!!!