Monday, July 26, 2010

Grrrr...

First I thought let me not post this piece.. Then i thought again.. It is my blog.. My space.. Meri aawaz... So i am going to post it..

This is for everyone who think

--->I am a kid
--->I talk like a kid
--->I act like a kid

Who come and pinch my cheeks because they feel I am a kid...

Who think i am not mature enough to sit for a group chat...

Who think I need help at everything..

Who call me kiddo/baby


Main bacchi nahi hu... :x

Friday, July 16, 2010

My Sins Against Gender Stereotypes

This tag is from Deepak.

I have been writing about myself in this blog. Here comes the time when i will have to reveal some facts about me.Now i have to list 10 things which i do or think and are considered 'manly'. Being a tomboy,it is not difficult for me to list out few points that i think i have in me which are not feminine. .

Here is the rule given to me:
 
If you are a woman,
Have you ever wanted something that is considered ‘manly’ ? Like a basketball, a cell phone, a dog, a camera or a new laptop? A new car or motor bike? Ever wanted to be a pilot? A doctor or not a nurse? And the manliest want of them all – The remote! ;)
As a kid did you enjoy playing with a bat and a ball?
There was a time when books were considered ‘manly’, women authors had to pretend to be men – would you say books are still rather manly – women should want to embroider and crochet?
If you are a man,
Have you ever wanted something that only women are supposed to want – like bags, shoes, clothes, creams, perfumes, babies, flowers? A peaceful home and a happy family? Have you ever been afraid of the dark or of insects?
As a kid did you ever want to play ‘teacher-teacher’, cooking or did you like playing with a doll? Have you ever enjoyed cooking? Bought something in pink? Loved chocolates?

My attempt to reveal some of my secrets:

1. Instead of sitting in a group and gossipping, i prefer to read books, do facebooking, google stuffs [not girlish ;)], solve puzzles, play sudoku.....

2. I like soft toys as gifts but more than that i am electronic gadgets freak; love my camera(10megapixcel), my computer, my phones(yes I own more than one cell phone), ipods, my 500Gb harddisk, and a new member in my house -An acer laptop

3.I love to  hang around with guys friends than a group of girls because i just cant digest talks like: how is my new sandle/lipstic/dress blah blah.....

4. Instead of wasting time on parties, i prefer to help my dad in his business and i love it when people say: Being a girl, u r so good at business terms.. hehe

5. I just dont understand the logic behind the sentence that girls do not and should not pay when they go out with guys. I prefer to pay my share of the bill.

6. I love driving, biking. I prefer to ride the bike rather than sitting at the back.

7. I am not afraid of dark, neither am i afraid of going out in the night or riding after midnight.

8. I like pink but i love black and blue.

9. You will find more pants, shirts, t shirts, capris, shorts in my cupboard than skirts,kurtas, dresses and salwars. I do not own a saree yet :P

10. As a kid, I never enjoyed games like Ghar-ghar, gudda-gudiya etc. I prefered playing kabaddi, gulli danda or sit in a corner and read some books or play video games.

11. I love gymming , not for weight loss but for staying fit.

12. I hate shopping. In fact i never go to buy anything till i feel i really need that stuff.

13. I hate loading myself with jeweleries, I prefer funky kinda lockets with black thread for my neck and a pair of small earing which i don't have to change for months together  :) I hate polishing my face with make up. I apply minimal make up only when i go to some family parties.

14. I do not mind admitting the fact in front of a guy that i like him; who says that girls should be asked first?? Not necessary always. I can not fall in love because i feel i fall out of anything very easily :D

15. I love to boss around at work and i ask question for everything that is technical. Even during my student life, i could never by heart anything. I always needed an explanation for everything and Maths was my favorite subject :)

16. I have traveled alone out of town couple of times and i was not scared even for a moment, even when i went outta country without my parents :)

Oops, did i exceed 10!!! Yes i did... Ok ok. I will stop here. I can still add few points but let me not do that now .. :P
Just because i have listed these points,  doesn't mean i am not feminine. I like teddys, i like chocolates, ice creams, wearing skirts and those girlish dresses sometimes. Not ashamed to admit that i do gossip sometimes.. hehe but that depends on the topic ;)

Now comes the most difficult part, i need to tag few people. Hmmm.. I am sure these people are gonna curse me for this tag.


'According to IHM, if you read this and you don’t take the tag up , you are, ‘cursed' to wear blue clothes/pants if you are a woman and pink shirts if you are a man – for the next twelve years’! I know weird, I do not mind wearing blue clothes :P


I am tagging:
Pari

Aman

Coconut Chutney

Prashanth

Varuog

Sorry can not take more than 5 curses, anyone who is not tagged and want to take it up , can do that. Please let me know ur name and blog's link so that i can add your name in the list. Friends u all are tagged, please take it up soon.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Wish




This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 12; the twelfth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.


Now and then we come across people/things/place which leave such impression that can never be erased. We visit a place and we wish we could stay there forever. We see things and wish we could own it. We see people and wish we could be like them.


Sometimes there are some wishes hidden inside our unconscious mind which we are not aware of. We come to know only when they are either fulfilled or we lose the chance of having them fulfilled. Why do we often take so long to realize something we may always be craving for..


We also dont know what we exactly want. We crave for something, we get it and then we end up saying: Hey!! This is not what i wanted... Weird, isn't it?? May be.. but a fact we always ignore.

I have learnt from life not to wish for anything. What we deserve, we will get.. Just work towards your goal.

For example:

"Here A's and B's age is more than two times of my age"


This conversation took place 2-3 years back....:

A:Guddu beta, u r not changed yet, grow up now. U should learn to handle things on your own, you should be serious in your life. You should not laugh at everything. You should not be so talkative.. blah blah blah


Oh! How much i wished that time I could speak less or be serious or not smile.

Now "A" meets me again recently and says:


A: Guddu Beta, How come u have become so serious. Itna serious nahi hona chahiye. Keep smiling, keep laughing blah blah blah.

Example2:

6 months back:

B: Hey u have put on so much of weight, thoda gym vym jaya karo.

Me: Hanji bas time nahi milta,jate to hai hi.

B: You should concentrate on how u look.. blah blah blah

Me: Sure i will..


Now when i meet B again:

B: Beta kitni patli ho gayi ho, khana nahi khati kya? Look at your face, bimar lagti ho. Khaya piya karo. blah blah blah


My "Chhota sa" mind is thinking: ??????

Right only question marks.. hehehe


Par kahte hai na: “Dil to Baccha hai ji” Aur bacche ko khwaishe bhi hoti hai.

So I decided to make a list of my wishes:

May not be in the order of priority: P

  1. I wanna have a power of being invisible when I want to. ;)
  2. I wish I could read people’s mind
  3. I wish I could forget the feeling of revenge completely... [Thats in Past]
  4. I wish I could forget/hate YOU
  5. I wish I could fly
  6. I wish I were taller :P
  7. I wish I had time machine ;)
  8. I wish I had more time to think about my wishes now ;)

The list goes on and on and on…. 
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Friday, July 9, 2010

Worth Reading....

Apparently this was written by  Dr Farrukh Saleem- A Pakistani Journalist and was published in Pakistani News paper Recently 



Here's what is happening in India :
Two Ambani brothers can buy 100 percent of every company listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and would still be left with $30 billion to spare. 
The four richest Indians can buy up all goods and services produced over a year by 169million Pakistanis and still be left with $60 billion to spare. 
The four richest Indians are now richer than the forty richest Chinese.
In November, Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex flirted with 20,000 points. As a consequence, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries became a $100 billion company (the entire KSE is capitalized at $65 billion). Mukesh owns 48 percent of Reliance.
In November, comes Neeta's birthday. Neeta turned forty-four three weeks ago. Look what she got from her husband as her birthday present:
A sixty-million dollar jet with a custom fitted master bedroom, bathroom with mood lighting, a sky bar, entertainment cabins, satellite television, wireless communication and a separate cabin with game consoles. Neeta is Mukesh Ambani's wife, and Mukesh is not India 's richest but the second richest.
Mukesh is now building his new home, Residence Antillia (after a mythical, phantom island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean ). At a cost of $1 billion this would be the most expensive home on the face of the planet. At 173 meters tall Mukesh's new family residence, for a family of six, will be the equivalent of a 60-storeyed building. The first six floors are reserved for parking. The seventh floor is for car servicing and maintenance. The eighth floor houses a mini-theatre. Then there's a health club, a gym and a swimming pool. Two floors are reserved for Ambani family's guests. Four floors above the guest floors are family floors all with a superb view of the Arabian Sea . On top of everything are three helipads. A staff of 600 is expected to care for the family
and their family home. 
In 2004, India became the 3rd most attractive foreign direct investment destination. Pakistan wasn't even in the top 25 countries.
In 2004, the United Nations, the representative body of 192 sovereign member states, had requested the Election Commission of India to assist the UN in the holding elections in Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah and Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanestan. Why the Election Commission of India and not the Election Commission of Pakistan? After all, Islamabad is closer to Kabul than is Delhi .
Imagine, 12 percent of all American scientists are of Indian origin; 38 percent of doctors in America are Indian; 36 percent of NASA scientists are Indians; 34 percent of Microsoft employees are Indians; and 28 percent of IBM employees are Indians.
For the record: Sabeer Bhatia created and founded Hotmail...
Sun Microsystems was founded by Vinod Khosla. 
The Intel Pentium processor, that runs 90 percent of all computers, was fathered by Vinod Dham.
Rajiv Gupta co-invented Hewlett Packard's E-speak project.
 Four out often Silicon Valley start-ups are run by Indians.
Bollywood produces 800 movies per year and six Indian ladies have won Miss Universe/Miss World
titles over the past 10 years.
For the record: Azim Premji, the richest Muslim entrepreneur on the face of the planet, was born in Bombay and now lives in Bangalore.
India now has more than three dozen billionaires; Pakistan has none (not a single dollar billionaire) .
The other amazing aspect is the rapid pace at which India is creating wealth. In 2002, Dhirubhai Ambani, Mukesh and Anil Ambani's father, left his two sons a fortune worth $2.8 billion. In 2007, their combined wealth stood at $94 billion. On 29 October 2007, as a result of the stock market rally and the appreciation of the Indian rupee, Mukesh became the richest person in the world, with net worth climbing to US$63.2 billion (Bill Gates, the richest American, stands at around $56 billion).
 Indians and Pakistanis have the same Y-chromosome haplogroup.
We have the same genetic sequence and the same genetic marker (namely: M124).
We have the same DNA molecule, the same DNA sequence. Our culture, our traditions, our cuisine  r all the same. We watch the same movies & sing the same songs. What is it that Indians have & we do not?

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Wanna Cry???

When it is hard to hide your tears, never mind...
Start Chopping onions
Let the heart cry,wear a smile and put the blame on onions :) :)

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Your performance speaks!!

People are here to question you. A question arises because of doubts… Doubt in you… Doubt in your performance… Doubts in ur perfection... Of course you can not be perfect. You do not have to be… All you have to do at that time is Be Calm.. Listen to everyone. That will give you ideas for your next step... Listen... Listen and listen till you can take it... If you can’t then smile, make an excuse, get up, and walk away from that place/person at that time. Don’t be angry. If you can’t control your anger, let your anger be like tossing a pebble in the clear mirror-smooth lake. Where some ripples may be created for sometime but the surface will be calm again. U can not prevent yourself from getting angry but then you can decide how you want to act when you are angry.

When you come back, make sure you have new ideas.

Remember,

The Best way to tell the world "SHUT UP" is to “SHOW RESULTS”

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Dilemma!!

It is a story of three human beings, lets name them as A, B and C.

A and B are best friends. When i use the word "best", i mean they think they are.

A hates C.
B does not hate C but doesn't like either.

A and B spend their free time together and you can say they are always together because they are always free.

B gets a job and becomes busy.

A starts complaining instead of understanding B's time management.

One fine day A meets C and finds out that C is not that bad.

A tells B about friendship with C.

B decides to stay away from C but never leaves A.

After few days A goes to B and says, "C was telling blah blah blah about u". 
Blah blah blah is too bad to be mentioned.

B loses temper and speaks to C. Now C says blah blah blah about A and also says that A says the same about B.


B tries to talk and clear all the misunderstanding but A and C refuse to speak again

B decides to stay away from both A and C.


B forgets, forgives and moves on.

Now C is least bothered but A is trying to contact B again.


B is disturbed.

What should B do??

Took some time off from my hectic routine!




The start was decent. Because of my bad health, I preferred to stay silent. Tried my best to enjoy the time between departure and arrival. After arrival we had to explore little to reach our destination. For some unknown reason, few fascinating things reminded me of Harry potter.. hehe.. I know strange!! I'm still obsessed with Harry Potter related stuffs :P

Alrite then we started for our next destination with rats and cats playing kabaddi in my stomach while butterflies were trying to fly too because of excitement. I was still silent. That’s the moment I figured out the fact that these days when I’m too excited for something, I run short of words. I was overwhelmed with embarrassment when I was asked again and again whether I was OK, come on, can’t I remain silent for sometime!! Nah, even I know that I can’t but I was :)
So the two hours drive was the beginning of an exciting journey.
After an hour, I decided to feed the rats and cats who were tired of playing kabbaddi , kho kho, gulli danda and all other games I can not recall :)
The so called small restaurant was bigger and better than all the restaurants I have visited in Bangalore. Oops no comparison. ;) The food was yummy. When we reached hotel, I could barely stand because of tiredness and sleeplessness. In past two days I had slept for hardly 5-6 hours. I somehow bribed my feet mentally and made it to work with friction offered by ground till we reached our room. Then a bang and I crashed on the bed and retired...
           
After a peaceful sleep of 2 hours 37 minutes, shower and delicious lunch, we proceeded for a theater show which is one of a kind. Have never experienced this kind of unique fun which did not allow us to think anything else that evening. I don't remember taking my eyes off of stage even for a moment. 

After dinner, we strolled down the road for sometime. The day was over but the excitement of this tour was not.



Next morning had loads in store for us.



The thought and experience of breathtaking and extraordinary under sea diving and Para-gliding is unforgettable. I touched few sea creatures while I was 20-30 feet inside the water but unfortunately could not catch a fish. ;). Under the water, air pressure was unbearable for 20 minutes, still when I was instructed to come out of water, how much I hated that person for a moment. Wish I could breathe in water and live there forever.


After we reached hotel, it took me more than an hour to free myself from the sand I carried with me as I walked away from the sea.


Lots of other stuffs impressed me there but what impressed me most was the People, their simplicity and the sweetness in their voice. 

After these two unforgettable days whose memory will always be cherished, we moved towards our next destination. Uff I am tired now. Will continue in my next post :)