Saturday… as boring and drooling it was… Aisha – the movie came to be my savior…
I felt as if I missed having a big fren circle, like college… getting up and landing anywhere…
Anyway… came back home.. downloaded songs from the movie and made Rishikesh’s instant plan:):)
So malli is gonna check the arrangements tomorrow and we are all set…
Loads of things to be taken care of … and lota things have already been taken care of..
Finished Dork , Inmmortals of Meluha recently.. I am on ‘a case of exploding mangoes’ now…
Mum dad too planning to come over.. hectic weeks coming up…
Had so many thoughts to write down… but cant really organize them..
Things to be done-
Get lappi fixed once n fr all.
Get moving to a new acc.
Get more BD happening..
And… yes… resuming morning walks + yoga…
Long live good Life :D
Song Dedication- Shaam by Amit Trivedi, Nueman Pinto (Aisha- 2010)
(playin in my ears right now)
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Remembering Dewnie....
Had a few thoughts about not posting this... but then i remembered what a rock star my dog was... n dewnie deserves her good life accounted for. She was a little tiny black thing which came into our lives in a csd carton.
As she grew up.... she turned a brown in colour.. thus becoming a.k.a 'bhoori lal'
Dewnie was a spoilt kid at home, as we considered doodle to be an elder to her..
Didi n i have shared so many hillarious times with her that i can totally go laughing remembering them...
Dewnie had a thing for umbrellas and wipers... didi drove her crazi n teased her all day with those things...
I also remember she being a prob kid since she was a puppy... once she ate so much garbage that she only puked big strips of cloth... leading kiddo to name her 'textile mill' :)
Most of the evenings in jaipur doodle's tail used to be in dewnie's mouth and they would be running all across the lawn.
She was so small... i still remember putting gargi's 'smoodles' frenship band as her collar..
She grew up to be a big dog,,, scaring most of the people away...
She traveled the most with mum dad... she lived with them at 5 stations... and finally took her final rest in our hometown...
Dewnie's life is an example of well lived life... we loved her and she gave it all back and more...
Will miss you ! My dear wet nose....
Friday, April 16, 2010
All in a day's work ....
One of the very new experiences for me…Never really thought I would sit in any office and right down a post for my blog…interesting:)
Office space is always a charged up environment, and even more so in my nature of work… Recruitment is such a people oriented –people dependent natured work that its insanely challenging. Your results never depend on your efforts but un fairly dependent on other people’s fancies and frills. Recruiters reading this would definitely understand what I mean…
The thought process juggling around in my mind right now is the choices we make in our professional lives. Here I m not talking about big choices in terms of job change, business choices, etc
What I am thinking of are the smaller choices, soft choices we make… may be our choice of how we speak.. our choice of what to speak where.. our choice of maintaining integrity, integrity towards ourselves and integrity towards others who work with us. All the concepts of team / team cohesiveness / co-ordination of work.. all these principles we learn about(rather just talk about) in management classes are mostly kept within the four walls of classroom or kept at the back of our heads.
What happens to our consciousness? What happens to the ‘moral science’ lessons that were taught in grade2 ? Or was it just me with a couple of handful of people who actually got these lessons? Is it all about education in the end? Or is it about REAL education.. Education- I don’t mean an IIT /IIM degree.. I don’t mean a fancy US/UK degree…. An Education that enables us to make the right choices… An education not from the mugging up formulae and reproducing them on examination paper, An education that comes from your introspection, your experiences, education from elders, from seniors, from your own experiences is the best education we can get…. It’s a free source rather in web lingo, an ‘open source’ we are exposed to… then why is there an alarming degradation in people’s professional behavior ? Was it always like this? Am I the one whose obviously learning it right now? Is this what is growing, being an adult?
Is being an professional /working adult equal to – losing your integrity, playing the blame game, shrugging your responsibilities – and just saving your *** all the time… keeping the top management happy and leaving behind your peers or juniors?
I thought Growing up was tough…. but today I think learning through experience is tougher and getting an education from within is the toughest !!!!
Office space is always a charged up environment, and even more so in my nature of work… Recruitment is such a people oriented –people dependent natured work that its insanely challenging. Your results never depend on your efforts but un fairly dependent on other people’s fancies and frills. Recruiters reading this would definitely understand what I mean…
The thought process juggling around in my mind right now is the choices we make in our professional lives. Here I m not talking about big choices in terms of job change, business choices, etc
What I am thinking of are the smaller choices, soft choices we make… may be our choice of how we speak.. our choice of what to speak where.. our choice of maintaining integrity, integrity towards ourselves and integrity towards others who work with us. All the concepts of team / team cohesiveness / co-ordination of work.. all these principles we learn about(rather just talk about) in management classes are mostly kept within the four walls of classroom or kept at the back of our heads.
What happens to our consciousness? What happens to the ‘moral science’ lessons that were taught in grade2 ? Or was it just me with a couple of handful of people who actually got these lessons? Is it all about education in the end? Or is it about REAL education.. Education- I don’t mean an IIT /IIM degree.. I don’t mean a fancy US/UK degree…. An Education that enables us to make the right choices… An education not from the mugging up formulae and reproducing them on examination paper, An education that comes from your introspection, your experiences, education from elders, from seniors, from your own experiences is the best education we can get…. It’s a free source rather in web lingo, an ‘open source’ we are exposed to… then why is there an alarming degradation in people’s professional behavior ? Was it always like this? Am I the one whose obviously learning it right now? Is this what is growing, being an adult?
Is being an professional /working adult equal to – losing your integrity, playing the blame game, shrugging your responsibilities – and just saving your *** all the time… keeping the top management happy and leaving behind your peers or juniors?
I thought Growing up was tough…. but today I think learning through experience is tougher and getting an education from within is the toughest !!!!
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Dedicated to Shruts !
So.. i was with Shruts after a long due time, n i told her i was doing this piece on 'gurl power', she wanted to contribute in her own cute way... n thus comes in the power puff girls pic, courtesy her.
Here is what i wrote(over the period of 2-3 weeks, the content might seem to be too dis oriented) about the over empowering gurl power i witness every day, one day at a time. Power puff gurls taking over the city, destroying all the evils !
“Music… it’s the most relished elixir of life, in my life.
It makes me smile, it makes me cry.
It makes me dance, it makes me shake.
It makes me think, it makes me crazy.
It makes me remember, it makes me memorize.
Sitting in dhar’s room, been thinking of writing a new post about something that’s been happening around, something real, something stirring.
But… Hey’ who am I kidding here?! Life s a bad sport and it keeps reminding us that how screwed up we can be and well.. rather are.
Most of my girlfriends are going through a lotta soul searching, they are in the so called “ideal” age to age hitched ;) [please read: married] how awful..
The ones who have boyfriends are scared and confused about how to break the news to their parents. The ones who don’t have a boyfriend are sick of looking for a suitable husband material, and constantly running outta guys, as they have rejected all available on match making websites.
(man.. its worst than running outta EDA RnD Engineers) :P
Right now I realize that such power houses surround me, you’ll often catch them smiling in the distant, or maybe lost in their thoughts. Sometimes they will pamper you like your own mother, sometimes they’ll give you a look that will kill you at least.
These power houses are the real women, very much part of my today’s life.. We are friends, we are colleagues, we are flat mates, we are fellow shoppers, we are fellow metro travelers, we are everyone that we want to be today !!! “
Hmm… the above piece was written about a week back and today I continue…
I am in constant contact with women, who are very different, who come from varied background, varied education backgrounds… but they all, rather we all have some things for sure in common:
1. Drive: Drive to make a mark and be successful in their own definitions.
2. Find Happiness: Find happiness in small things in life, like a tea chat or a cooking together session.
3. Need for Independence: Need for Independence, so that they live every day for themselves.
4. Hope: Hope they will better professionals, the best daughters, the ideal partners…
There is so much out there to be done.. but all we chose to do is : is to talk about it !
(to be very honest, I should re quote myself; “There is so much out there to be done.. but all I chose to do is - is to blog about it”
Song Recommended:
Carole King, Its too late, OST the Lake House
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Uff yeh nazara kisne banaya… chand ke saath chakor
Sitting in my mad rajai, sipping indigenously produced black coffee…
Oh damn… last nite, goddess of good times asked me a silly question
“Have u ever felt like an ***?”
And I very instantly responded.. Yeah.. a LOTAA times..
Hmm.. as if this insanity filled rather stupidity filled life doesn’t make you feel like an a** !!! Like all the time ….
So there we were… back to our crowded room, not crowded with people as much as crowded by clutter….
Thinking what went wrong or is it about the timings or something more meaningful.
What I have realized it, also re affirmed by a good friend of mine that as kids we had better laid plans in life and that gave it a direction all the time.
As it holds good for any well managed company to reinvent and re invest, in the same way it holds good for any human being that his life should be managed as an organization, where timely reinventing and re investing is required and is a must !
Have quarterly targets set out for oneself, have a review sitting/introspection, decide, improvise, proceed and achieve!!!
Song Recommended:
Uff yeh Nazara by Mohit Chauhan, Fitoor 2009
(though the song has no connection whatso ever with the gyan i jus gave away)
Oh damn… last nite, goddess of good times asked me a silly question
“Have u ever felt like an ***?”
And I very instantly responded.. Yeah.. a LOTAA times..
Hmm.. as if this insanity filled rather stupidity filled life doesn’t make you feel like an a** !!! Like all the time ….
So there we were… back to our crowded room, not crowded with people as much as crowded by clutter….
Thinking what went wrong or is it about the timings or something more meaningful.
What I have realized it, also re affirmed by a good friend of mine that as kids we had better laid plans in life and that gave it a direction all the time.
As it holds good for any well managed company to reinvent and re invest, in the same way it holds good for any human being that his life should be managed as an organization, where timely reinventing and re investing is required and is a must !
Have quarterly targets set out for oneself, have a review sitting/introspection, decide, improvise, proceed and achieve!!!
Song Recommended:
Uff yeh Nazara by Mohit Chauhan, Fitoor 2009
(though the song has no connection whatso ever with the gyan i jus gave away)
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Riders on the storm…
There is something about this song… it’s intense captivating power is so influencing that no one can miss its impact.
This song has a power to set a mood, strike a chord.. the song’s sounds took me back to essence of goa- its moist atmosphere… the entire feel and look for that place- I like to call the sandland.
It was all about water there… sometimes the sea and most of the times – the rains….
The time I was there this year, goa was flooded with major rainfalls!!!
But that couldn’t stop me from having a good time…
“there s a killer on the road …… riders on the storm”
“gurl u gotta luv ur man… tak him by the hand, make him understand, the world on u depends….”
Along with the tunes of this song… I can recall random snapshots from inside my head-
- the hill top view in vagator.
- The random guy tryin to sell some grass.
- A couple holding hands on green fields facing the sea.
- Relaxing Evenings at chill out
- Tiger watching “hbo”
- Jackie’s crazi lousy dog
- Palolem, very different stream beach
- Morjim’s high tides(scary fr a moment)
- The desired clear blue sky at chapora fort
- Tiny turtle meeting at velankini
- Running around on roads, lookin fr a lost fren without phone.
- Buying cheapest wine(only Rs45) for 750ml
- Finding better groceries at vegator than spencers
- White linen drying on the green fields
- Coconut trees standing tall along the roads.
- Warm smiles from strangers
- Having a lemonade on the only hot day I experienced in goa.
- Activa drives… truly the best rides I have ever had on 2wheelers
- Managing to break an Activa’s rare view mirror, 5 minutes before returning it.
- Finding a deadend on the road, taking a ferry to reach to the other side.
- Sizzler chicken n crispy noodles at palolem
- Seagulls fishing at Morjim.
- Humans fishing everywhere
- The amazing natured stray dogs at all beaches.
- Sea full of crazi people at calangote beach.
- The insane search for – bean up
- Bus travel from vegator to malegaon to colva
- Shitty food at 49’ers
- Finding a Tourist’s journal at Mangro Tree n proving how insane foreigners can be.
- Wondering who killed the smile of Spicejet’s air hostesses.
- Staring at Arabian Sea and big ships which looked really tiny from 2000 mtrs height.
- This reminded me of google maps.
- Getting wet and staying wet for 4 days continuously.
- Driving on NH-18 (pilot ride on real highway)
- The view on the highway was so outta the world, and seemed to be right outa a movie scene.
- Looking at all the churches, but stepped inside none.
- Finding petrol at all huts(Rs 50 per bottle)
- Finding a bakery in middle of nowhere.
- Finding orchards while managing to lose the directions.
And there are plenty more….. guess we all have memories to last.. . . n to be recalled once in a while.
Cheers !
Song Recommended- Has to be ‘Riders on the Storm” but The Doors !
This song has a power to set a mood, strike a chord.. the song’s sounds took me back to essence of goa- its moist atmosphere… the entire feel and look for that place- I like to call the sandland.
It was all about water there… sometimes the sea and most of the times – the rains….
The time I was there this year, goa was flooded with major rainfalls!!!
But that couldn’t stop me from having a good time…
“there s a killer on the road …… riders on the storm”
“gurl u gotta luv ur man… tak him by the hand, make him understand, the world on u depends….”
Along with the tunes of this song… I can recall random snapshots from inside my head-
- the hill top view in vagator.
- The random guy tryin to sell some grass.
- A couple holding hands on green fields facing the sea.
- Relaxing Evenings at chill out
- Tiger watching “hbo”
- Jackie’s crazi lousy dog
- Palolem, very different stream beach
- Morjim’s high tides(scary fr a moment)
- The desired clear blue sky at chapora fort
- Tiny turtle meeting at velankini
- Running around on roads, lookin fr a lost fren without phone.
- Buying cheapest wine(only Rs45) for 750ml
- Finding better groceries at vegator than spencers
- White linen drying on the green fields
- Coconut trees standing tall along the roads.
- Warm smiles from strangers
- Having a lemonade on the only hot day I experienced in goa.
- Activa drives… truly the best rides I have ever had on 2wheelers
- Managing to break an Activa’s rare view mirror, 5 minutes before returning it.
- Finding a deadend on the road, taking a ferry to reach to the other side.
- Sizzler chicken n crispy noodles at palolem
- Seagulls fishing at Morjim.
- Humans fishing everywhere
- The amazing natured stray dogs at all beaches.
- Sea full of crazi people at calangote beach.
- The insane search for – bean up
- Bus travel from vegator to malegaon to colva
- Shitty food at 49’ers
- Finding a Tourist’s journal at Mangro Tree n proving how insane foreigners can be.
- Wondering who killed the smile of Spicejet’s air hostesses.
- Staring at Arabian Sea and big ships which looked really tiny from 2000 mtrs height.
- This reminded me of google maps.
- Getting wet and staying wet for 4 days continuously.
- Driving on NH-18 (pilot ride on real highway)
- The view on the highway was so outta the world, and seemed to be right outa a movie scene.
- Looking at all the churches, but stepped inside none.
- Finding petrol at all huts(Rs 50 per bottle)
- Finding a bakery in middle of nowhere.
- Finding orchards while managing to lose the directions.
And there are plenty more….. guess we all have memories to last.. . . n to be recalled once in a while.
Cheers !
Song Recommended- Has to be ‘Riders on the Storm” but The Doors !
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Glooomyyyy Festival Season..... Makes me feel cold !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well..
i tried to do somethin with my blog appearance and apparently cudnt do much :(
i so used to out-sourcing everythin that i feel like a drag sometimes .. to actually do any WORK!!!
ironically my Facebook status msg rather says that i am hungry for work.. does that ring a bell to me ?! or to nybody for that matter.
sometimes.. rather currently .. i am stratin to get this feeling that we jus dont live for ourselves !!! there is this HUGE pile of other ppl's lives that we carry around n we have be with them n be good to them n live for them.. like them cud be nyone.. from ur friends to parents to spouses .. goddddd................
is this abt the 'social being' or wot..
i never get it... rather i know i wud get it.. its jus my head is tooooooo clogged to get to an answer.
most of the ppl around my life , my age ppl are goin thru crisis times like all the time.. we do actually live on everyday basis... hopin fr the weekend to come.. have a merry weekend.. n hey then comes the dreadful monday.. n comes along the wait fr another weekend ...
wats the point if all this ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i suppose there isnt ny point to all of this except for the fact that i need to get sloshed tonight.. oh i so DONT wana do dat.. or i jus need to go out.. into the cold winds that might jus get my brains outta the brain freeze allrightttttt
thank god.. goddess of good times.. is on her way from the office n she can tak me out ... hopefuuly for a goodtime or ny time...
Song Recommended-
Be my baby- The Ronettes
i tried to do somethin with my blog appearance and apparently cudnt do much :(
i so used to out-sourcing everythin that i feel like a drag sometimes .. to actually do any WORK!!!
ironically my Facebook status msg rather says that i am hungry for work.. does that ring a bell to me ?! or to nybody for that matter.
sometimes.. rather currently .. i am stratin to get this feeling that we jus dont live for ourselves !!! there is this HUGE pile of other ppl's lives that we carry around n we have be with them n be good to them n live for them.. like them cud be nyone.. from ur friends to parents to spouses .. goddddd................
is this abt the 'social being' or wot..
i never get it... rather i know i wud get it.. its jus my head is tooooooo clogged to get to an answer.
most of the ppl around my life , my age ppl are goin thru crisis times like all the time.. we do actually live on everyday basis... hopin fr the weekend to come.. have a merry weekend.. n hey then comes the dreadful monday.. n comes along the wait fr another weekend ...
wats the point if all this ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i suppose there isnt ny point to all of this except for the fact that i need to get sloshed tonight.. oh i so DONT wana do dat.. or i jus need to go out.. into the cold winds that might jus get my brains outta the brain freeze allrightttttt
thank god.. goddess of good times.. is on her way from the office n she can tak me out ... hopefuuly for a goodtime or ny time...
Song Recommended-
Be my baby- The Ronettes
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