Jack of all trades is the Master of fun

n I like.

Deepti says it’s not good to give so much attention to negativity in life. Fair enough! This one’s for u Deepti!

I love the rain.
I love winters.
I like babies.
I like cooking.
I like art.
I love dark chocolates.
I like the colour Green.
I love photography.
I like coffee, I love tea.
I love walking on a beach.
I secretly like to draw.
I like dogs, want one at my home too!
I love Pink Floyd and U2, I love music.
I enjoy watching meaningful movies.
I love my family.
I love to buy stationery.
I love to travel.
I like the idea of world peace.
I like the idea of ‘togetherness forever’.
I love witty people.
I like to clean.
I like doing the different.
I like to write.
I love old people.
I love chocolate mousse at Cafe Y.
I love Navneet.
I love my friends.
I love Diwali and New Years.
I love random conversations.
I like perfumes.
I love the smell of books.
I love lamp shades.
I like genuineness.
I like big houses.
I like bicycles.
I love old photographs.
I like mush.
I love ethnic wear.
I love kolhapuri chappals.
I love cotton saarees.
Ooh, I love Fab India stuff
I like the idea of running my own business, someday.
I like family get-togethers.
I love paper bags.
I love black boards.

And now that I am listing this down, there are so many things I loveeeeeeee!!

Really busy month!!! Shifting homes, finishing work, getting back on track… gonna write soon!!!!

100ft.

Pretty Gulmohars

Bangalore is a city very close to my heart. If tomorrow I leave this place, I will carry with me many memories- good and bad. Places, people… the city has given me a 360 degree exposure to life and I have somehow managed to crawl out of situations, sometimes victorious, sometimes not…

One of my favourite places in Bangalore is the 100ft Road in Indiranagar. The 100-mt-long stretch connects the Old Airport Road to Old Madras Road, endowed with trees and wide lanes. From old churches to fancy showrooms, the stretch has almost all kinds of stores. Home furnishing, brands, electronics, household goods, eateries, pubs, departmental stores, services apartments, PG accomodations, schools, offices etc., to name a few. Catering to all basic as well as expensive needs of a person, 100 ft road is a fulfilling experience in itself.

I personally find the road the best because of the lovely trees- yes Gulmohars as well- all around the stretch. Huge, massive trees form an embrace of sorts, or are guard you in a way as you ramble on the road, looking around. The road threads through HAL 1st and 2nd stage, Defence Colony, Double Road, CMH Road as well.

The road especially looks nice during Winter and Spring time…

Losing track. Later.

Homesick

I am homesick. I have been missing home and my parents and my brother a LOT. Cold Delhi winters and warm sunny afternoons, roadside kulchas and bus rides, warm clothes and cute socks, home-made soups and sarso-da-saag! Constantly feeling of being really alone in a distant city plus the whole festive season!!! NOT FAIR!

It is not the best feeling to wake up to a cold Bangalore morning with almost no trace of sunlight or its warmth. You start an early day from cooking and packing lunch to putting things in place… I am getting irritated with daily chores because honestly, nothing and no other place in the world can be my home. Noone can ever replace my parents and I now believe that they are indeed the best. Noone would selflessly love me the way they do, noone would selflessly pamper me the way they do!

My home in Bangalore which is now just a house is devoid of any communication and warmth. Me and my roomie have vaguely drifted apart…and that leaves me with no interest to stay there anymore. I am tired of shocks and ugly surprises and I don’t think I want to deal with anything or anyone, anymore. 

I feel old, like I am married and 30 and my life is running in circles that are so dull but still so hectic. At an age when I should look young and my skin should glow, I look jaded and pale and dead all the time. Sometimes I wonder what exactly is it that I want… As much as I enjoy running a household, I have begun to get irritated with everything coz somewhere deep down I feel I do not deserve to live like this.

Must stop ranting. Got work. Later.

The Missing November

November went away in bidding goodbyes, enjoying a wedding and getting introduced at the new workplace. A month went by and all my routines went for a toss. An entire month when SO much happened, but nothing got recorded. Like your baby’s best smile and the camera doesn’t work. Like you see the face of the damn terrorist, and again your camera doesn’t work. I did not get time to post even a single blog. That’s rather shameful… I don’t understand how can we get so busy that we don’t even get time to do what we LOVE doing.

What I also don’t understand is the fact that people are so complex. They are complicated and weird and weird and complicated. Ugh! I mean, no one is in control of their emotions, they are vain, they are self centered, they don’t have a goal in life and then they crib and complain etc.

It is Anu’s birthday. I don’t even know what to write or say. It is strange, with streams of moments just flowing past so quickly, it has become like a sidelined activity to think about people who are special. In this case, she was special. I just wish I could actually wish her with a huge hug but because she is far away with God, I don’t think it’s really that possible. Why, why? I wonder how A feels… they were best friends… hmmm… Miss you Anu. I hope you’re doing fine, wherever you are…

Anyway, must get back to work. Will write more, soon!

I want a laptop!!!

something thoughful

Read this in a forward. As simple and conventional as it sounds, it carries a lot of depth:

“The happiest people in this world are not those who have no problems, but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect.”

True, ain’t it?

“White Flag”

This song makes a lot of sense. Subjective that life is, someone I know so totally fits in this frame. I hope things work out for him.

I know you think that I shouldn’t still love you,
Or tell you that.
But if I didn’t say it, well I’d still have felt it
where’s the sense in that?

I promise I’m not trying to make your life harder
Or return to where we were

I will go down with this ship
And I won’t put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I’m in love and always will be

I know I left too much mess and
destruction to come back again
And I caused nothing but trouble
I understand if you can’t talk to me again
And if you live by the rules of “it’s over”
then I’m sure that that makes sense

I will go down with this ship
And I won’t put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I’m in love and always will be

And when we meet
Which I’m sure we will
All that was there
Will be there still
I’ll let it pass
And hold my tongue
And you will think
That I’ve moved on….

I will go down with this ship
And I won’t put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I’m in love and always will be 

3/12/07

Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone.
It’s not warm when she’s away.
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And she’s always gone too long anytime she goes away.

Wonder this time where she’s gone,
Wonder if she’s gone to stay
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And this house just ain’t no home anytime she goes away.

Hey, I ought to leave the young thing alone,
But ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, only darkness everyday.
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone,
And this house just ain’t no home anytime she goes away.

Anytime she goes away…

Happy Birthday Anu.

serenity