Belief

This happened yesterday.

Angel said something which I am not able to recall now and I responded by saying, “Okay, I believe you”

After some time when she was ready for her dinner,

Me: Did you wash your hands?

Angel: Yes, I did

Me: with soap?

Angel: Yes

Me: Are you sure?

Angel: Yes Mama, you said you believe me

This was said in a very good humored way but that little statement from my little one forced me to think. Sometimes, its not enough to say good things, you really have to mean what you say, especially to your children. They might not judge you, but are observing you and your actions nonetheless and in turn, shaping their personalities! Incidents like this makes me realize that parents have such a huge responsibility of molding the future generations.

Tid-Bits

**Me and Angel are suffering from cold since quite some days now. Mine is better though, for Angel its fluctuating. She feels better, then the temprature drops and the phlegm increases or she might be catching it from her day care. The doctor says, it's bound to happen as it's our first winter here and we will be better next year onwards. I hope so.

 

** Here there is a government rule that unless the temperature is not below -15 degrees Celsius, they have to take the children outdoor and so she goes outdoor twice, for an hour each. Apparently, it helps in building the immunity. I am skeptical of this rule!

 

**The doctors don’t prefer to give any medicines, not even cough syrups as according to them, it has a lot of side effects. In India, we survive on cough syrups! Not sure about the side effects, it does give a psychological effect that I will feel better as I had the medicine. They give antibiotics here if the situation is too bad. Nothing otherwise. In a way, its good, the body will produce antibodies to fight the infection.

**We are trying ice-skating on weekends and are getting better each week.

That’s our skating rink, and no, we are not there

 

**The lowest temperature we have experienced here is -16 and the feels like temperature was -26 degrees Celsius. There is a forecast of -22 degrees for the coming Saturday *Shudder*

**I like the snow, while it’s snowing. It's beautiful. Angel says its crunchy. Later it turns into hard and slippery ice which melts gradually, making everything wet which I dislike.

**I like the ecosystem they have created to tackle and face the adverse weather. Every building, car, bus, train, train station, bus station is insulated. You get some amazing winter gear which makes you feel heavy but warm, so the life goes on, no matter what the temperature is.

 

 

**I am desperately waiting for summers now, tired of winter and flu already.

**While they say that this year the winter is very mild and they don’t get to see the brown patches on the earth and this year it has hardly snowed. I hope the delay of snow doesn’t delay the onset of summer.

**We visited the Gurudwara and missed the langar as we somehow reached the hall which was serving the snacks and sweets first and thought this was it and ate it. Later saw the hall which was serving the actual langar and we were full. Got a reason to visit again!

 

 

 

Not great clicks, as it was raining

 

 

**We visited the Swaminarayan Temple here. The temple is beautiful, I was disappointed that it doesn’t have the food court like we have in Gandhinagar. Acharya Khichdi was sorely missed! No pictures of the temple on my phone, as you might have guessed, I am in office.

 

**I finally met my friend from college, K who had a baby boy last month. He is adorable and Angel was fascinated with him. She has not seen any baby that small in recent times and has no memory of seeing one when she was young. It felt good to meet K and her family.


** We also tried a Gujarati Thali restaurant suggested by K and found it amazing. We are not foodies as such, however we do like to try new stuff (and revisit the old stuff) once in a while and that once in a while happens when I am too tired of cooking and just cannot cook anymore.

** We found a Patanjali store here. People who know me will know that I am a huge fan of Patanjali products. We don't get everything here we get in India and its expensive too, however something is better than nothing!

**  I took Angel to Ripley’s Aquarium when J* was working. She was spell bound with the upside down jelly fishes and stingray fishes amongst the other water bodies.

Stingray Fishes

The Sharks & Stingrays Co-Existed

                                                                      

Up and Close with Jelly Fishes

 

Upside Down Jelly Fishes

 

Clown Fish a.k.a. Nemo

 

 

**This was the fun part we did in last couple of months. Having said and done that, life here is exhausting. Everything is to be done ourselves. The weekend is gone in a split second doing laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping and Angel’s ballet and swimming lessons which she started going to recently.

 

**There are no maids and as I have said before, I now appreciate them and their work much more. After the whole day in office/day care and the commute, going back and cooking (me), doing the dishes (J*) and doing n other things (us) is back breaking.
 

**I don’t know how to end this post, so I will leave it at this and go back to my work.

 

**Edited to Add (ETA) - The said weekend had a temprature of -27 and the feels like temprature was -39 degree, thus making it the coldest day of my life!

 

This was not taken on the said day, I just like this picture with the glint of sunshine

Different

Last week, while aisle hopping in the supermarket I came across this 

It immediately caught my fancy and this goes in the “Weird Different Exotic Foods I have Tasted” list. We tried it together – J*, me and Angel and we found the chili content in it quite okay – even by Angel's standard who I think was happy to just eat the chocolate without going into the nitty-gritties of it :P We could taste some spice towards the end of the bite.

Will I try it again? Maybe, I am not too eager for that because I like only milk chocolate and to some extent dark chocolate. However, I will let some time (and some chocolates) pass before I decide on that. Who knows, I might get addicted to differently flavored chocolates.

Talking about different food, I loved the paan ice cream and gulkand ice cream which I first tasted in Pune. I am not a very big fan of paan, so just tried it on a whim. I am not, for the life of me, able to recall the name of the ice cream parlor. It was located near my training center. I asked some friends too, but sadly, none of us remember the name. I have had these two versions of ice creams at some other places too, but none could match the Pune ones.

I come from Ahmedabad, a place where alcohol is prohibited and most of the people follow vegetarianism, so it’s not uncommon to find “Pure Vegetarian” restaurants, however when we found something like below, that was different in Toronto :)

It was owned and managed by a Gujarati. They just serve some pre-prepared snacks like samosa, kachori, aaloo tikki, pizza, khaman, jalebi, fafda and some other sweets. We tried everything other than the sweets which did not appeal much to our eyes. The food was strictly okay, but to get something like that here gave us a high :) Apart from that, the place had a lot of Guajarati farsan, Indian spices and condiments, needless to say we bought a lot of stuff. The other items had been devoured before I remembered to click the pics.

They even had multiple copies of Gujariati newspapers like Divya Bhaskar and Swadesh kept at their entrance for people to read and take along. I then got to know that they are the weekly editions that are printed for Gujarati readers abroad

So what's up different with you all ?

Parlour Woes

I HATE going to the parlours. No, I am not talking about the ice cream or the Internet parlours, I am talking about the beauty parlours. I think this is one of the things that makes me unfit for the typical gender stereotypes. I always procrastinate my parlour visits until I can procrastinate it no more.

When I was young, parlour visits meant only the haircuts.  Did I ever mention that I had blunt cut , i.e. very short hair until I was in 9^th standard. Ah, the good old days! Mom used to take me to the friendly-neighbourhood-parlour-didi.

After a few years, the number of visits increased and so did the questions accusations from the no-longer-friendly-parlour-didi. Sample this: Your hair is so unruly. Which shampoo do you apply? Why don’t you use the shampoo which I gave you? Look at your skin. Why don’t you use the products which I give you and the list goes on while I looked sheepishly as she was right. I never applied the shampoo/creams which she gave me.  

I went to a different city for my graduation, but still I continued going to her whenever I could, as a known devil is better than an unknown one. I again relocated to another city for work after my graduation which forced me to look beyond the neighbourhood-parlour-didi. After marriage I moved to Bangalore and in last 3 years, I have changed 3 houses and hence 3 areas, thus I am yet to find a consistent parlour to visit. So these parlours offer a number of different things. Top few being:

1.  Waxing: This is sheer torture. What else will you call the pouring to hot wax over your skin and hair is removed from the roots?

2. Getting your eyebrows shaped: I am yet to meet a girl who does not visit the parlour for this. They pluck your eyebrows using a thread (and hence the name threading) to shape the eyebrows. Although the after-effect is great and instant,  I wish there was a less painful option for this.

3. Facial/Clean up: There are a number of these available in the market like Shehnaz, Fruit, Gold, Bridal and the list goes on. The more exotic the name, the more money they charge. It includes a number of steps :

a.       They apply a number of sweet smelling lotions and massage your face as if kneading the dough. Sometimes it also includes a neck and back massages which is very relaxing though.

b.      Your face is subjected to hot steam for about a minute or two and which seems like ages

c.       A needle is plucked repeatedly on the pretext of removing black heads. I always tell them to skip this part. I love myself to the extent of not minding a few black heads. And I don’t even want to start on the sterilization of those needles

d.      A cooling pack is applied on your face and eyes are covered with wet cotton or cucumber slices and you lie down and ponder on the meaning of life or people like me think about their next blog post and no points for guessing where did the idea of this blog post came from.

e.      After this, the pack is removed, some more fragrant lotions are applied and you are released.

         

             4. Pedicure: I love it. This is my favourite. They massage and rub your feet and put your feet in warm water in the vibrator thingy which feels heavenly and you are treated like a princess.  You are then presented with a number of nail colours and they apply your chosen colour on your toe nails with utmost concentration

I have  also ventured into hair rebonding. Well it’s just a fancy name for permanent hair straightening.  Since the time I can remember, I always loved straight hair and hence the decision and I don’t regret it as it resulted into the kind of hair I always wanted – straight and silky which lasted for a full 1.5 years. Mine are unruly and rough.  Although the process is long and time consuming, I loved the outcome.

One of my friends says that, the parlour visits relax her. Well, to each her own. The idea of getting my eyebrows plucked or the application of burning wax over my tender skin does NOT relax me. Well, not unless I am going for a pedicure. The last time it happened was during my pregnancy. Haven’t got a chance after that. Sigh.

So I have accepted these visits as necessary evils. Although after going through this ordeal, when I go back home expecting some compliments, J* greets me saying “What happened? Was the parlour closed?” :/

29th February

After months of silence, I feel like posting something on my blog on one of my busiest days. It’s a strange fact that the thought of restarting my blog never occurs to me when I am totally idle, and when it strikes me on days like these, I always taalofy it thinking that I will write something when I have some time to spare but that never happens. So today, when I have a looott of work from office, I have to cook and what not, I still decided to write.

I have always been fascinated by 29th February. We always celebrate our birthdays, anniversaries and festivals like Holi, Diwali, etc, so shouldn't we celebrate a day which comes just once in four years, well, since my childhood, I have always believed that we should. After all, it’s an extra day in the year when we can live, love, laugh and follow our dreams. I still remember that my class teacher of Std 4 had her birthday on this day. She was actually 40 years old, but I had calculated that she is my age (at that time) :)

So a very happy birthday to you Ma’am!!

And yes, let’s celebrate this day to keep it in our memory till it comes again after four long years...

RIP

Another legend passes away within a week :(

I am not a huge fan of Jagjit Singhji, but I know people who were and they must be devastated today.

I just love a few of his gazhals, my favorite one being - 

RIP Sir!!

Tid Bits

***I read somewhere that "Mausam continues to sink..." (Sheesh), well it refers to the movie "Mausam" :)
No matter what  the box office reviews say, personally I liked the concept of the movie, I liked the acting of Shahid Kapoor, he has put a lot of hard work in this movie and it shows. Sonam Kapoor also looked good and does not have many dialogues which is another plus point :P It may be a bit stretched but I still liked it!

***I am nostalgic again. I recently read a blog of my classmate (my ex-classmate). How strange it is that the people and things we take for granted, the people whom we used to see everyday, become blurred with time, but one note about one person brings back all the memories as if ye kal hi ki baat hai..


***We recently had an amazing trip to Wayanad in Kerela with friends. Details/Pics in another post soon.

***RIP Steve Jobs. You continue to be an inspiration to many...

***"God made man and then He said 'I can do better than that' and made women."
This is what I received as an SMS. I got carried away and forwarded it to a few of my gal pals.
Then it struck me Is it true?
I who never believed this. I who believed in the equality of genders. How can I do this??
I dont think either man or woman is superior. They are just different.
Then I thought that it can be taken in fun, but that is just my escape route. When someone cracks a generalized joke on women, I don't appreciate it, so maybe I shouldn't have made/enjoyed/forwarded this statement.!

Feeling Good..

I went to Freedom Park yesterday. Its where the protests are going on and people are supporting Mr. Anna Hazare in Bangalore. Its such a nice feeling to be a part of a revolution!!!

I really hope this fast and protests bring some fruits!

Jai Hind!!!

Double Standards? Not Really!!

Recently, I was talking to someone who commented that “Women are too easily impressed by chivalry”

He further accused us for double standards and went on to say that on one hand we talk about gender equality and on the other hand we expect the little favours to come our way due to our genders.

Now I would beg to differ. I don’t want to get into the debate on gender equality, because women are superior anyways! :) I will save the proofs probably for some another post.

Anyways, I will be able to prove my point better with some examples. Just ponder over the below scenarios:

Situation 1 – When I am a little late for a meeting/training and all the chairs are occupied, I don’t expect anyone to get up and offer me their seat, but when I am struggling to bring a chair through a self closing door, I just want someone to help me do this and not just sit there like statues watching me struggle!

Situation 2 – When I get into an over crowded bus, I don’t expect someone to get up and offer me their seat, but I do want them to leave their seats when they see an elderly person or a pregnant lady who is finding it difficult to manage!

Situation 3 – I don’t expect someone to hold the door for me every time, I have hands, I can do it myself,  but when I am right behind someone who just passed by the self closing door, I expect him to pause and hold the door a few seconds longer so that it won’t bang right into my face! I do the same for men/women behind me.

Now its basic courtesy and etiquettes that everyone should follow regardless of their genders without a second thought, but sadly, very few practice it.

So in today’s world which is so intolerant, these little signs of kindness always feel good and we are drawn towards that thoughtful person, and if this is what you call double standards, its time for a vocabulary check! 

Random Things..

About the world at large…

DISCLAIMER : The views mentioned in this post are solely my own and are not intended to hurt anyone’s sentiments

*** Around 98 Kg gold, 306 kg silver and Rs 12 crore cash found in the personal chamber of the God(as he claimed himself to be) or spiritual guru Sathya Sai Baba. Gosh!! What wealth!!! Now if he was God, why had he kept these materialistic things in his personal chamber? And the sad part is people still believe him to be God. Sigh. In fact, my best friend and her family are staunch devotees of Baba and now as I am writing this, they are at Putuparthi doing “seva” there!

I mean, I don’t say doing seva is wrong, in fact it’s a great thing that even in today’s times people take time from their busy schedules for it, and maybe he did and taught and preached some great things, but his death proved that ultimately he was human. God cant die, right?

*** On the other hand, there is Swami Ramdev ji, who for the benefit of people was on fast until death and had a great support of masses, but we all know what happened to him. I strongly CONDEMN what happened with Swami Ramdev ji.

***Government agreed to Anna Hazareji’s demand for a Lokpal Bill, but we still have to see how much of it is in place.

***M F Hussain expired outside India. A pity again! I don’t really support his paintings that raised furore amongst the Hindus, but a person who is awarded Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan, at least had a right to stay in this country.

*** Journalist J Dey was shot bt 4 men on bikes in broad daylight. He was alive when he was taken to the hospital. The irony is, the hospital refused to admit him as it was a police case. By the time he was taken to another hospital, he was declared brought dead!!! I mean, if the hospital authorities had taken their jobs a little more seriously, probably, J Dey would have been alive today..

***Its coming from an optimist like me that if the things continue to be the way they are, there is little hope for our country! L

Otherwise…

***Facebook has become boring these days! Still I login to it 2 to 3 times a day :P

***These days, a lot of facebook statuses say that rains have arrived. Now, since I live in Bangalore, rains were never away J Still every time it pours, Bangalore rain is a treat to eyes! Everything becomes so fresh and pure.

***I LOVE RAINS! J

*** I lost in Scrabble against J* for the first time. Generally its J* who makes 3 lettered words, this time it was the opposite :-/

***MN (my neice) has started going to play school since the 1^st of this month and hasn’t settled there yet L

***Since my sister-in-law, her husband and their kid were here, we made a trip to Ooty, Conoor and Mysore. The places were overcrowded due to summers and vacation time, we had a nice family outing with only FIL missing and we missed him.

*** I attended the first wedding after mine and since it was in J* family, got to know a lot of people. I was seeing many of them for the first time after my wedding. I remembered most of them and they were really happy as I seemed to recognize them by their names and relations J

***The marriage was in Pune and I was visiting Pune after a gap of around 1.5 years and I so loved it. I didn’t visit the places I used to frequent, nor did I meet any of my friends (because we were there only for 20 hours), still it felt so nice, just to be there

***I have a soft corner for Pune J

***I am missing home!

*** Me and J* made a trip to Goa for few days. This was my 2^nd trip there, the first time I went there, I was in 9^th standard. My memories about Goa did not match with this time, maybe because we went there in off season this time, and it had just started raining there. It was beautiful. The water sports were closed due to rains and I had went there with the sole intention of parasailing L So looking forward to the next trip there J

***Maybe, the world is not that bad after all!!

Reading

I am an avid reader. I can read anytime, anywhere. I read anything and everything which is readable, be it the hoardings on the road or the piece of paper in which the thelewala gives moongfalli :P. Sometimes, I so wish that I could read Kannada, as in Bangalore, there is so much Kannada everywhere. There has never been a time in my life when I have not read anything (except when I didn't know how to read :P) Exam time, holiday time, night, day. I was never a night person. I prefer getting up early in the morning, but I remember, once I stayed up till very late in the night, just because I HAD TO finish a novel. In fact, apart from sleeping, I must have spent more hours of my life in reading rather than any other activity.

I have never read a self help or a non-fiction book. I tried but I couldn’t. It’s just that I don’t enjoy them. And for me, reading is my happy thing to do. I look forward to reading everyday. So I just can’t read anything, which might be good for me, but do not interest me. So I end up reading fiction. And reading fiction has changed my life in so many ways. I have come to know about people whom I may never meet, the places I may never visit, the emotions I may never experience­­ and just tiny, tiny things which I would never even know about. If I had all the money and all the time in the world, I would do nothing but READ. I can forget anything when I am reading.

The credit for my love of reading goes to my parents, who are ardent readers themselves. When we were kids, Papa had subscribed to a number of weekly, fortnightly and monthly magazines for us which we looked forward to. We used to finish them in one and wait for more.. Some of them included Champak, Chandamama, Children’s Digest, Children’s Magazine, India Today, Outlook, Traveller, even Filmfare (this explains my love for Bollywood J ) and a lot more. My mother being a school teacher would get a number of books and magazines for us from her school library. I was lucky that I got such teachers in my formative years in school who always encouraged me to read.

And reading is what differentiates me from the rest. I don’t have any talent to speak of – can’t dance, sing, draw, paint or write. Nor do I have any particular interest in any kind of sports. What I can do is – read. And honestly speaking, personally, I don’t know anyone who reads more than me. There are people who read a wider variety of books and are more knowledgeable, but when you talk about quantity or the number of books, you can’t beat me J Also, there is the speed at which I read. Again, I don’t know anyone who reads faster than me. Reading faster has many advantages and disadvantages for me. Advantage is I can read so much more in a limited period of time. Disadvantage being often I am left with nothing to read. Also, I don’t completely enjoy the book as I am in so much of a rush to know what happened next, that I many a times miss the subtleties which makes a book a classic. One bright thing of this is that I can re-read the book multiple times. Also, in the subsequent reads I am more relaxed and pay more attention to the minute details which I missed earlier because I already know what is coming up.

 I have been reading a lot lately. The reason being, my office has shifted and it’s a good one hour ride from my place, so I have ample time to read. In fact, I have finished five novels in the month of May alone J  So don’t be surprised, if you get a series of book reviews from me :P

If there is one thing that I seriously and truly want to pass on to my future generation, it would be books.

Here’s to a lifetime of reading, learning and enjoying!

Rant

Now there is a guy at my workplace and I have a BIG problem with him.

The problem is – he talks on phone.

I know, you would be telling me that what’s the problem in that. We all talk on phone. Yeah, even I do, but not on your face, even after you tell me that you are getting disturbed by my phone calls! And not just that, all this while he romances with his girlfriend. I know his girlfriend’s name, what time she sleeps and even her roommate’s name. Mind you, I am not sneaking into this conversation but my ears are compelled to listen to all this.

Why are people so keen to publicise their private lives is just beyond my understanding!

I mean, how difficult it is for him to tell her that he would call later or if you are so keen to chat with her, just lock your system and go to the corridor and talk all you want without disturbing me?!

Does he think he is cool since he has a girlfriend to flirt with? Someone please tell him to GROW UP

Haa.. NOW I am feeling better as I have poured it all out!

My God

It was a bad day. Work was monotonous in office. There were awful traffic jams and I had to walk for a good distance and was getting really irritated with the whole thing. I had an urge to get home ASAP. That’s when I thought that I might start thinking about my next blog post and it occurred to me that I can blog about the traffic of Bangalore(which, by the way, is awful) and also prepared a draft of it mentally. That’s when I stumbled and almost fell. I sent a silent complaint to heaven “O God, why such a terrible day ?!”

It then striked that hey, I can write about my God!

My belief in God is rather strange (others say so, while I find it quite logical). I am always reminded of the words of my moral science teacher in school. She had once said that “Life is too short to understand God, so try to be closer to Him every moment. God is omnipresent and limitless.”

This is the crux of my belief in God.

I am not a temple freak, I can connect with Him better in my own room. And as luck (or rather God) would have it, I am married in a family who belongs to Arya Samaj, which does not believe in idol worship and it helps me to understand God in a better way. However, even before my marriage, my conversations with Him have been very casual. When I was in Pune, on my way to office, there was a small temple on the corner of a road, and India being a land of temples was occupied for a good part of the day.  And I made it a point to greet Him. But some days, the journey to office was very frustrating with traffic jams and buses running late. One such day, I was not feeling too well, I shot a prayer to Him “Give me a comfortable ride to office” and I traveled like a queen that day! I then made a point to say this to Him every day. Not that everyday I got a seat or the bus was never delayed. But then when I couldn't get a seat, the weather would be so nice that I would forget all about it. A few days later, one of my roommates shifted to my project and I got a company to travel to office everyday. So each day, He answered my prayer in His own sweet way.

Some days, He answers my prayers in the nick of time. I can see “His involvement” when the electricity is back when I ask. Or He sends a bus within 10 minutes that I have waited as He knows that my patience level is a bit low. Or He stops the rains when we had to go for a movie. Or I suddenly recall the exact location of a particular thing, which I had kept and forgot all about it and was getting mad searching for it everywhere. I can think of a zillion things where He had done the right thing at a right time.

I don’t believe in fasting and performing pujas to please Gods. When my friends tell me keep some money when I take the arti. I do it, because I don’t want to get into debates there, but in the bottom of my heart, I know that God does not need these change coins. I feel that its like we give money in return of His blessings.

I believe in Him in my own way, and for some, it borders on being irreligious.

But one of my friends says that my belief in God makes her believe in Him J

Howzzat!!

‎So, today is the D-Day!

For the first time ever India and Pakistan are facing each other in the world cup semi-final

For the first time ever, it will be an Asian final

For the first time ever, there are brightest chances of India getting the cup home

For the first time ever, the prime ministers of two countries will watch a cricket match together

For the first time ever, there are official mailers going on in corporate that the timings for today are from 7am to 2pm so that they can go and cheer team India

Never ever have I seen madness for cricket to this extent and the enthusiasm is truly infectious

The newspapers, television and even facebook are overflowing with the slightest details concerning this match.

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Sample a few of them:

Afridi (prays to God) : God, please let us win this match

God : Sorry cant grant you this wish, I am opening Indian batting J

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What are the three things that the Pakistan cricketers be afraid of the most?

3. YuV and Dhoni

2. The batting legend

1. 1 billion screaming Indians

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Afridi (to Shoaib) : Hum kisi bhi haal me Sachin ko century ki century nai banana denge

(Come what may, we will not allow Sachin to make his 100^th century)

Shoaib : Magar hum use rokenge kaise? Wo to gazab k form me hai? (But how will we stop him, he is in a tremendous form)

Afridi  : Hum 100 ke andar hi all out ho jaenge (We will be all out within 100 runs )

(Sheesh)

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Advice for girls : If a man spends the whole day with you today, MARRY him!!

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But the best is a status message of one of my best friends and I am posting it here (with due permission :P)

1 lakh for a 10k ticket, 17 lakhs for a 10 second advertisement, 22000 for a one way ticket to Chandigarh on Wednesday morning flights, Richest men in Asia fighting for jet parking space at Chandigarh airport, 1 billion hearts synchronized at the same level, productivity hits a new low on the final day of the financial year..No, this... is not just a cricket match it’s a way of life!
Go INDIA..! Bleed Blue...!

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But if you ask me, I don’t care who’s a better team, I just want India to win this match..

Go INDIA!!!

Things I want Google to Do

Google(do go through the link) has become a necessity these days (for me at least!). I rely so heavily on Google that apart from it being my most visited website, it has even made me lazy. For the information, I would have needed days to collect, its all just a click away. I wonder how people used to manage before the advent of Google, or Internet, or even a computer, or.. ok ok I can go back to wheel so better I move on! J

Although Google is of such prime importance and imagining life without it is difficult, there are certain things that Google can’t do.. not yet..

1.       There is one line from a song I am humming since morning and I don’t know what are the next lines or the movie or rather anything about it and I am unable to get it out of my mind. I want that when I record that song in my voice and upload that wave file in Google and hit Enter, I should get the audio/video, lyrics, movie, starcast and the like.

2.        There are times when I see a beautiful picture and I wonder its origin or what the place is or who the photographer is. Or there are some creepy creatures I can see in the garden from my balcony.  I can’t, for my life, make out what they are. I fancy that when I click and upload that picture in the search engine I should get my answers.

3.       I sometimes recall a poem from my school textbook, I don’t remember its poet or the lines but I remember the gist of it. I wish that when I write the meaning of the poem, Google should be able to produce the poem with the name of the poet at one go.

I know that even now its not impossible. There are poetry forums and nature lover sites available. And with some effort I can find out. But that’s exactly my point, I want to do all this with no effort or little effort I may say, for uploading and hitting Enter.

I am pretty sure that a day will come when the above would be possible and I will laugh reading this post. But till that time, am I asking too much? Naah.. J

Why don't they get it?

Scene 1

I was having a conversation with a colleague when he said that “Sneha, you are so lucky, you always leave on time from office. I am so jealous if you.” I could not say anything to him, I just gave a sympathetic smile. I wish I would have said that “You waste upto 4 hours a day on tea/coffee , lunch and usual gupshup and gossips, it can easily be done under  1 hour and that’s why you have to stay till late. It has nothing to do with luck.” I mean isn’t it so obvious? If you spend more time roaming around, your work will suffer and you will HAVE to spend extra hours in office.

##Don’t you get it?

Scene 2

One of my colleague once told me “You are so fit and I have never seen you dieting *blush*. Look at me, no matter how much I diet and starve myself, I am not able to lose my weight. It must be the metabolism.” We separate at the foyer, I took the stairs and she took the elevator for her floor.

##Don’t you get it?

These are the examples from our day to day life wherein people just can’t see the apparent.  I guess its time for them to wake up and smell the coffee!

BTW, I would like to know if it happens with all or I am an alien. Do drop a line!