Though its a too early to say this, guess I would not be able to write anything in this space until 2nd Jan :-) In a while I would be leaving to my hometown(Vizag) to celebrate the New year with my family and frens there after 5 years. So hope it turns out to be a special one for me and brings in a change....!!
I have mixed feelings and lots to write about the year that 2007 had been in my life but probably would do that once I am back. As any other year end, I am in a nostalgic self this year too but undoubtedly this year has made me dwindle between two extremes - Tremendous highs and lows.
Yet in a mood filled with nostalgia, I bid farewell to 2007 for it had taught me lifes toughest lessons and yet survive. Guess thats an achievement in itself. I have always watched rather sneaked into my Dad's diary(the amazing writer that he is and he does till date), writing the ending note for an year and welcoming words for the coming one. Today I feel good doing the same thing.Since I am running out of time now, I would wind it up with one nice quote I read today...
May your battles be few, your pleasure many,
your wishes and dreams fulfilled.
At the sound of the tolling midnight bell a brand new year will begin.
Let's raise our hopes in a confidant toast, to the promise it ushers in.
Goodbye my dear 2007...!! Welcome 2008.....:-))
Those who have sneaked into my space now, A very happy New year to YOU!!! :-)
May you find all the choicest colors to fill your canvas of Life this year to make it one of the best pages...!!
~$,12/28/07,8:30pm
Friday, December 28, 2007
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Its all about Lac :)
No No....Thats not a spelling mistake for a Lakh but Lac that I am going to talk about:-) Sometimes weekends get really boring with friends not around and this weekend something very interesting came my way when I was thinking what to do after a really hecitc week at work. I have been looking to get into some kind of creative learning for sometime now and One of my very close fren told me about this 2 day "Lac jewellery making" workshop that was being held@ Dakshin chitra on ECR.
Without any second thoughts both of us enrolled and were all excited to know what did this Lac jewellery all about.
Saturday morning!! and I got ready by 8:30 and we set out to take the cab provided by the organizers. All thru the way, we were discussing and planning how wud it be if we would take this up as a Business line down the lane when we get fed up with our work:-) I was almost ready and quoting my success speech too...he he he
We reached and being there for the first time, I felt it was a great concept at Dakshin Chitra. It has a village like atmosphere of all south Indian states and lot of stalls and ofocurse mostly visited by foreigners though to learn about our culture and aesthetics. We were greeted by a Tutor( Rajasthani) who was going to be with us thru out the day.
We were all together 8 ladies, a very good blend of different ages and regions which added to the fun. The workshop was quite interesting and time flew never giving us even a moment to think about anything else. All of us made a pair of ear rings, pendant, bangle and a key chain out of our hand. Also the workshop was reduced to a day as only 8 of us were there and we finished our course too...;)))
By the end of the Lac jewellery making, all of us knew none of us would be able to actually try much at home as it required lot of equipment which is a little too expensive for a hobby :-((((:-) but then I was happy that atleast I dint sleep thru the day like any other saturday not knowing what to do....Made some new interesting frens and ofcourse my very own hand made jewellery to boast about...;)))) The day ended with us getting to the Besant nagar beach for an evening walk and sipping my favourite coffee from Barista and watching the waves from a distance:-)
~$,16/12/07,10:45pm
Friday, December 14, 2007
$%^&*(%^#$^^
There are so many things in life which are not so pleasing to us. All those feelings and actions that make us bad and nasty but still knowing all that is bad, the human mind tends to do the same. I feel the toughest thing in the world is to tone your mind and heart to the right tune. Hmmm....
There are so many Qs that I sometimes dont find answers for...How certain set of people change overnight? Why that one person in a crowd is so vulnerable and yet the other next is so apathetic?? Why does one get exploited to the core and the other just watches the show.
I really dono what i have been writing for past min but I guess the title says it all as to what mindset I am in for no reason or maybe one...
In all such moments, I reach out to that folder where I had preserved my personal fav songs. Ahhhh.......Thanks to Music that it has such a healing effect that it erases all these Qs and takes us to a state where you stop thinking of stupid Qs like this and makes you feel that life is meant to be light......
Had a very hectic week by all means and not so great end to the day today. Feeling loooot bettter to be living in these moments with Music ON and slowly slipping into sleep and ofcourse hoping to wake up for a bright day...;-))
~$,14/12/07,12:00pm
There are so many Qs that I sometimes dont find answers for...How certain set of people change overnight? Why that one person in a crowd is so vulnerable and yet the other next is so apathetic?? Why does one get exploited to the core and the other just watches the show.
I really dono what i have been writing for past min but I guess the title says it all as to what mindset I am in for no reason or maybe one...
In all such moments, I reach out to that folder where I had preserved my personal fav songs. Ahhhh.......Thanks to Music that it has such a healing effect that it erases all these Qs and takes us to a state where you stop thinking of stupid Qs like this and makes you feel that life is meant to be light......
Had a very hectic week by all means and not so great end to the day today. Feeling loooot bettter to be living in these moments with Music ON and slowly slipping into sleep and ofcourse hoping to wake up for a bright day...;-))
~$,14/12/07,12:00pm
Monday, December 10, 2007
Flutes....
This funda has been written and conceived by one of my "once upon atime" greatest buddies. You cannot stop appreciating his fertile brain with a tinge of humour once you go thru this. I found this from my mail mining and posting it.
Imagine the situation
Situation:
A loves B.
B doesn't love A.
ok. lets start.
Analysis:
When A loves B, A will try to convey it to B.
When A conveys, he uses language to do it...
so when A says "i love u" A is actually trying to convey his/her feeling. Language is so limited that you cannot convey whatever you feel through words..........
Now when B says "i don't love u" he/she is also trying to convey what he/she feels.....
When A hears this......he/she will understand it...but will be unable to capture the complete feeling...
so A will continue to love B though A knows that B doesn't love back. Here A's feeling is more real to A than what A understood from B's words.
similarly, B will continue not to love A though B knows that A loves. Here also B's feeling is more real to B than what B understood from A's words.....
Conclusion:
join flutes.....( FAILED LOVERS UNION TO ENLIVEN SOULS)
Thank you!
Do I need to say anything more????:-):-)
~$, 12/10/07, 11:30 PM
Imagine the situation
Situation:
A loves B.
B doesn't love A.
ok. lets start.
Analysis:
When A loves B, A will try to convey it to B.
When A conveys, he uses language to do it...
so when A says "i love u" A is actually trying to convey his/her feeling. Language is so limited that you cannot convey whatever you feel through words..........
Now when B says "i don't love u" he/she is also trying to convey what he/she feels.....
When A hears this......he/she will understand it...but will be unable to capture the complete feeling...
so A will continue to love B though A knows that B doesn't love back. Here A's feeling is more real to A than what A understood from B's words.
similarly, B will continue not to love A though B knows that A loves. Here also B's feeling is more real to B than what B understood from A's words.....
Conclusion:
join flutes.....( FAILED LOVERS UNION TO ENLIVEN SOULS)
Thank you!
Do I need to say anything more????:-):-)
~$, 12/10/07, 11:30 PM
Thursday, December 6, 2007
A Sober Day!!
Today has been a sober day yet quite busy@ work. Thursdays are usually my best days in the week cos its the day of my Guru - Shirdi Sai baba. On a Thursday, a rebellious brat within me, turns goody goody. I wake up early in the morning, be a good gal and usually perform Sai aarti (yessssss...:-) and goto work. If I miss out in the morning, I do it in the evening.
Weather these days @Chennai is quite chill and fantastic in the morning that its really so tough to get out of bed and start to work. Today also I got up early with a strong desire to perform Aarti as I decided to pray for one of my frens granny who is not v well. So with the flowers I got last night for God, switched my laptop on to play the aarti only to know that it has been attacked by virus :-(
So I cudnt play the aarti from my lappy but had to use my roomys one. That just doubled my task cos now I had to search the aarti from net. Guess this happens to everyone - when you want something desperately, surely you can never get there easily. It tests you and your patience thru and thru. I thought it was tough to take the 8 bus today and atleast ill try for 8:15 one. At any cost, my conscience wouldnt allow me to go without doing the aarti after I made up my mind. So after spending 15/20 mins (one wud know how crucial those few mins are early in the morning juggling between 10 things he he ), I cud atlast find the link and was so so so happy. It was a fast forward button then :-):-)
When I stepped out of the house, I was not v sure if I cud make it to the bus but thought when I did all this for a nice cause, surely things would fall in place. And undoubtedly showing the eternity of the Omnipresent, the bus was delayed by not 1/2 but 10 mins today and I could coolly catch the bus. Wudnt you agree that there is a bigger force above all of us gaurding us thru....:-))) I was sure that this force would surely make granny well too.....
Then it was a long long day at work with nothing to write or think about much.
Btw mommy had wished and told that its my "Lunar Bday" today....he he he I leave it for people to ponder what is this new type of Bday.....ha ha ha Those who are desperate to know can drop me a comment...;)))) he he ha ha
~$, 06/12/07,11:00PM
Weather these days @Chennai is quite chill and fantastic in the morning that its really so tough to get out of bed and start to work. Today also I got up early with a strong desire to perform Aarti as I decided to pray for one of my frens granny who is not v well. So with the flowers I got last night for God, switched my laptop on to play the aarti only to know that it has been attacked by virus :-(
So I cudnt play the aarti from my lappy but had to use my roomys one. That just doubled my task cos now I had to search the aarti from net. Guess this happens to everyone - when you want something desperately, surely you can never get there easily. It tests you and your patience thru and thru. I thought it was tough to take the 8 bus today and atleast ill try for 8:15 one. At any cost, my conscience wouldnt allow me to go without doing the aarti after I made up my mind. So after spending 15/20 mins (one wud know how crucial those few mins are early in the morning juggling between 10 things he he ), I cud atlast find the link and was so so so happy. It was a fast forward button then :-):-)
When I stepped out of the house, I was not v sure if I cud make it to the bus but thought when I did all this for a nice cause, surely things would fall in place. And undoubtedly showing the eternity of the Omnipresent, the bus was delayed by not 1/2 but 10 mins today and I could coolly catch the bus. Wudnt you agree that there is a bigger force above all of us gaurding us thru....:-))) I was sure that this force would surely make granny well too.....
Then it was a long long day at work with nothing to write or think about much.
Btw mommy had wished and told that its my "Lunar Bday" today....he he he I leave it for people to ponder what is this new type of Bday.....ha ha ha Those who are desperate to know can drop me a comment...;)))) he he ha ha
~$, 06/12/07,11:00PM
<<< Journey to Bliss - Back in time,May'07
Its been a taxing time at work for about 10 days with long hours and less sleep and I was longing for a break sub-consciously .....!!
Thankfully at the same time, my roommate like a godsent messenger had this fabulous idea of going to B'lore to catch up with some of our frens and booked the Tix...I never realised what an enchanting episode was going to unfold until I set my foot on that soil..
Its not that I had never been to B'lore before but going amidst a blazing Summer from an oven called "Chennai" made all the difference this time...Our train reached on Saturday around 7:30 in the morning and we boarded down at Krishna Raja puram.....
I really liked this name as it gave me a feeling that I was stepping my foot in an age old kingdom ....:-))) and the atmosphere was no less than a hill station which accentuated my feelings........;))))
Oooooohhh.......the early morning cool breeze blowing against my face took me to a different world altogether..!!
Hmmmm......Mornings are meant to be this way and I realised what I have been missing for quite sometiem now......
Anyways, we pushed ourselves into an auto and headed towards the PG where our fren was put up. A decent locality and all the more decent home welcomed us and we relaxed and refreshed there. Then a marvellous 7 course lunch(might not be an appropriate word..;)) was awaiting for us at another frens place which we relished thoroughly and ate.......!! After a food hogging afternoon, we headed towards the Commercial street where they say " Fashion Parades"...;))) I was a little tired by then and could not do full justice to the shopping list I had comeup with. So just had to console myself with a "Patiyala". I wonder how many of you would know that....;))))
Tired and Tarnished came back to the room after exactly 12 hours of ramoing.....So day one ended with lot of action and fun....:-))
Day two was all the more memorable as I met one of my school frens after 15 years.....can you believe??? Yess......15 years...!!
We parted when we were in 7th and I completely had no clue about her whereabouts and howabouts....Thanks to Orkut which did the trick and brought us together and I still cannot believe that we met...It was a great walk down the memory lane.
Keeping that apart, I saw how lovely a Sunday morning could be and that too on a drive on MG road and Brigade the "Crown locales" of B'lore....Guess Sunday mornings are the best times to be on the road as the whole city sleeps and wakes up late on Sunday for the very obvious reasons....;)))
Journey in Local Volvo bus(with AC he he )is a new edition..
The picturesque greenery around leaves you in a state of suspension....
Woww.....Superb...Coool......were the only words uttered out of appreciation...;))
You wouldnt deny that it was nothing short of an expedition;))
The Leela palace in pink was Awesome....
Lunch at TGIF was quite Wholesome...
Catching up with frens was so Truesome...
Leaving all that behind and be back is so hard to Fathom......;((((
And what can I say about the weather...It was simply superb as you can never feel the sun rays until post noon in contrast to Chennai where the harsh sun rays would never let you be in bed after 7 in the morning......:-((( I can go on appreciating like this forever and you can actually sense how much I enjoyed escaping the heat ......!! I surely do now know why people want to settle down at the Garden city irrespective of their Language, the region they belong , nor the Gender......:-)))
Ufffffffffffffffffff
Time to stop here........as I am back to reality and the Sun is right on my head and my mind has gone blank...;)))
Three Cheers to the ecstatic moments in B'lore......Thanks to all those who made it so by being a part of them.....:-)))
Smiles as ever
~Sree
Discalimer : The feelings described in the above blog are purely circumstantial and the reader should not misunderstand/infer bad about Chennai but should only think good about B"lore...;)))
Thankfully at the same time, my roommate like a godsent messenger had this fabulous idea of going to B'lore to catch up with some of our frens and booked the Tix...I never realised what an enchanting episode was going to unfold until I set my foot on that soil..
Its not that I had never been to B'lore before but going amidst a blazing Summer from an oven called "Chennai" made all the difference this time...Our train reached on Saturday around 7:30 in the morning and we boarded down at Krishna Raja puram.....
I really liked this name as it gave me a feeling that I was stepping my foot in an age old kingdom ....:-))) and the atmosphere was no less than a hill station which accentuated my feelings........;))))
Oooooohhh.......the early morning cool breeze blowing against my face took me to a different world altogether..!!
Hmmmm......Mornings are meant to be this way and I realised what I have been missing for quite sometiem now......
Anyways, we pushed ourselves into an auto and headed towards the PG where our fren was put up. A decent locality and all the more decent home welcomed us and we relaxed and refreshed there. Then a marvellous 7 course lunch(might not be an appropriate word..;)) was awaiting for us at another frens place which we relished thoroughly and ate.......!! After a food hogging afternoon, we headed towards the Commercial street where they say " Fashion Parades"...;))) I was a little tired by then and could not do full justice to the shopping list I had comeup with. So just had to console myself with a "Patiyala". I wonder how many of you would know that....;))))
Tired and Tarnished came back to the room after exactly 12 hours of ramoing.....So day one ended with lot of action and fun....:-))
Day two was all the more memorable as I met one of my school frens after 15 years.....can you believe??? Yess......15 years...!!
We parted when we were in 7th and I completely had no clue about her whereabouts and howabouts....Thanks to Orkut which did the trick and brought us together and I still cannot believe that we met...It was a great walk down the memory lane.
Keeping that apart, I saw how lovely a Sunday morning could be and that too on a drive on MG road and Brigade the "Crown locales" of B'lore....Guess Sunday mornings are the best times to be on the road as the whole city sleeps and wakes up late on Sunday for the very obvious reasons....;)))
Journey in Local Volvo bus(with AC he he )is a new edition..
The picturesque greenery around leaves you in a state of suspension....
Woww.....Superb...Coool.....
You wouldnt deny that it was nothing short of an expedition;))
The Leela palace in pink was Awesome....
Lunch at TGIF was quite Wholesome...
Catching up with frens was so Truesome...
Leaving all that behind and be back is so hard to Fathom......;((((
And what can I say about the weather...It was simply superb as you can never feel the sun rays until post noon in contrast to Chennai where the harsh sun rays would never let you be in bed after 7 in the morning......:-((( I can go on appreciating like this forever and you can actually sense how much I enjoyed escaping the heat ......!! I surely do now know why people want to settle down at the Garden city irrespective of their Language, the region they belong , nor the Gender......:-)))
Ufffffffffffffffffff
Time to stop here........as I am back to reality and the Sun is right on my head and my mind has gone blank...;)))
Three Cheers to the ecstatic moments in B'lore......Thanks to all those who made it so by being a part of them.....:-)))
Smiles as ever
~Sree
Discalimer : The feelings described in the above blog are purely circumstantial and the reader should not misunderstand/infer bad about Chennai but should only think good about B"lore...;)))
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
A Comedy of Errors!!:-)
I am writing a day late about the string of events that happened Yesterday . It was lazy and dull monday(as any other monday I would say) and I had least interest to get out of bed and start to work.
So I displayed heights of "Inertia" and reached work quite late. Adding to the misery, there was loads of work awaiting me and I cursed myself for not having fallen sick or finding a reason to bunk work.
Reaching my desk, I was hearing repeated announcements from the receptionist of my office that some CEO of some company is going to visit our center at some time and that he would be addressing all in the auditorium. I was wondering who had the time in the world to make time out of the busy schedules to go and listen to him. But fate had something funny in store for me.....
All of a suddenly, around 12:30 in the afternoon, the HR head of my center called me to his desk and gave a startling news that I would have to preare a welcome note for that some CEO of some company and I would have to meet our center head and few others in this regard.
That brought me right back to senses and thought how in the world was I targeted for this task but then there was no other go. I felt quite good and elated atleast for a while for having been chosen for this task. I dint know lot of fun was yet to unfold. I quickly gathered some facts about him from net and prepared a rough draft within half hour and I was all set for the speech.
When I reached the audi, I was surprised to see it in full capacity and knew there are quite a lot of people out there who are interested to listen to him :-)))) or rather.....;))))
Obviously the CEOs are supposed to reach late and so did he with his team....But meanwhile this delay screwed me as I was thumped with the mike to say few words, and out of confusion I goofed it up a bit and could see lot of smiles all around the audi:-) that was goof up No 1
They reached and I was all set with my words well rehearsed and delivered it well ( as per me) but only to know later that the mike was not fully functional :-):-):-) The only consolation was that my voice naturally being loud, it was atleast audible but that was fully eligible for a goof up No 2 ...wat say???:-)
Then the event was so very unplanned by the event team that the mikes dint work when guests wnated to speak, USB dint get connected to play a movie, lights went off when they were not supposed to and never went off when they were supposed to. The whole audi went in giggles looking at the wonderful co-ordination :-)
Keeping all this apart, even our guests were no less. They wanted to play a movie and theirs too never worked and it added more and more fun. After all this hungama, somehow the scheduled event ended with our guest delivering his set of words (which too was disappointing as the event was).
The event was closing and towards the end, I just had a thankyou line for all which I thought I would might as well skip it seeing people standing up. But guess the comedy of errors was not yet done. When people stood and were about to leave, the event team waved at me to say those words and I had to forcibly pick the mike yet again to thank all. This created a lil confusion and people stood where they were expecting me to say something but only to listen a "Thank you" note for me.
I couldnt resist the laughter myself at that point of time and thought I too would enjoy all these comedy of errors myself. So with a biiiiiiiiiggggie smile on fac, I thanked all :-)))
At the end of the day, Dont know if I can really laugh or cry at the disastrous turnout but surely I do bet people had lot of light moments to take back including me .
~$,03/12/07,10:05pm
So I displayed heights of "Inertia" and reached work quite late. Adding to the misery, there was loads of work awaiting me and I cursed myself for not having fallen sick or finding a reason to bunk work.
Reaching my desk, I was hearing repeated announcements from the receptionist of my office that some CEO of some company is going to visit our center at some time and that he would be addressing all in the auditorium. I was wondering who had the time in the world to make time out of the busy schedules to go and listen to him. But fate had something funny in store for me.....
All of a suddenly, around 12:30 in the afternoon, the HR head of my center called me to his desk and gave a startling news that I would have to preare a welcome note for that some CEO of some company and I would have to meet our center head and few others in this regard.
That brought me right back to senses and thought how in the world was I targeted for this task but then there was no other go. I felt quite good and elated atleast for a while for having been chosen for this task. I dint know lot of fun was yet to unfold. I quickly gathered some facts about him from net and prepared a rough draft within half hour and I was all set for the speech.
When I reached the audi, I was surprised to see it in full capacity and knew there are quite a lot of people out there who are interested to listen to him :-)))) or rather.....;))))
Obviously the CEOs are supposed to reach late and so did he with his team....But meanwhile this delay screwed me as I was thumped with the mike to say few words, and out of confusion I goofed it up a bit and could see lot of smiles all around the audi:-) that was goof up No 1
They reached and I was all set with my words well rehearsed and delivered it well ( as per me) but only to know later that the mike was not fully functional :-):-):-) The only consolation was that my voice naturally being loud, it was atleast audible but that was fully eligible for a goof up No 2 ...wat say???:-)
Then the event was so very unplanned by the event team that the mikes dint work when guests wnated to speak, USB dint get connected to play a movie, lights went off when they were not supposed to and never went off when they were supposed to. The whole audi went in giggles looking at the wonderful co-ordination :-)
Keeping all this apart, even our guests were no less. They wanted to play a movie and theirs too never worked and it added more and more fun. After all this hungama, somehow the scheduled event ended with our guest delivering his set of words (which too was disappointing as the event was).
The event was closing and towards the end, I just had a thankyou line for all which I thought I would might as well skip it seeing people standing up. But guess the comedy of errors was not yet done. When people stood and were about to leave, the event team waved at me to say those words and I had to forcibly pick the mike yet again to thank all. This created a lil confusion and people stood where they were expecting me to say something but only to listen a "Thank you" note for me.
I couldnt resist the laughter myself at that point of time and thought I too would enjoy all these comedy of errors myself. So with a biiiiiiiiiggggie smile on fac, I thanked all :-)))
At the end of the day, Dont know if I can really laugh or cry at the disastrous turnout but surely I do bet people had lot of light moments to take back including me .
~$,03/12/07,10:05pm
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Cozy Reunion
Guess Nov is a month of reunions. After an enchanting get together @hyd last weekend, this Weekend neverthless had been quite cozy and nice catching up with one my roomy's who relocated to Bangalore 6 months ago. Coincidentally it happened to be her Bday today, which added to the reunion fun. We 3 gals( Lavs,Kayal n me) have been room mates for quite sometime now (almost 3+ years). Times we have had @apt 230(720 building) in Minneapolis and ofcourse @B'nagar,Chennai would be long cherished.
The midnight Bday bash was celebrated with an excess choco cake (from Cake walk, Ppl in B'nagar would surely know this place and its one of my fav places to buy pastries and cakes :-)
We hanged around at all the places where we previously used to roam and shopped a bit. Gals i guess never get tired of this word called "shopping"...:-) The biggest perk of being in chennai and residing @ besant nagar is "The Beach". So our reunion wudnt have been complete if we wudn't enjoy the moments on sea shore. So had a fun filled evening with hot Chilli bajji, heavy dinner@Cascade and the sad bye byes .
At the EOd, I feel Life is all about living in those little merry moments and making most out of them to keep the spirit up. But what spirit am I talking about??? tomorrow is monday......Boo hooooo....I am already terrribly sick with monday syndrome and heavy cold......God pls help me....:-((( :-)))
~$, 02/12/07,10:45 PM
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