Back with some random thoughts :)

I just opened my good old blog after a long long time and was really sad to see no posts at all in the year 2013! So what does it say? Has 2013 been uneventful for me or I have I been too lazy to sit and write something? Well I think its the latter :P

Actually it was not uneventful as such . I got back to work after taking a year long break . I had almost made up my mind that I would quit my job and spend my time with my daughter ;) . Mostly , I was also scared to get back to work since I assumed that I had forgotten everything about work and will be a disaster at work if I get back. Well , my parents and husband didn't let me take this decision and made me go back and yes , now I know that I couldn't have sat at home for any more time :D Lot's to say about this , but I'll stop here saying it's been a good balance between work and home so far and I am getting the good of both worlds :)

I have been away from my daughter for the first time .She is with my parents at their place for a week now.And I miss her like hell . House seems so empty without her and her constant baby talk. I am just waiting for tomorrow when I will go and get her back. 

Just finished reading a book by name "Princess : By Jean Sasson" . Just made me feel so much more lucky and grateful to so many people around me for where I am and what I am and how I am .Don't want to say much more about the book since it's all about full-of-pain true life incidents.Started with "Wings of fire" and looking forward to a good read and getting inspired :)

Life's been great as such and I hope I don't take it all for granted and give back much more to my family and friends than I  am getting from them. I tend to get into that mode often since it is really easy and need to remind myself to wake up and do something from my side as well :)

On that note I'm closing this post.Planning to post at least couple of posts more before this year ends.Hopefully will do that soon.

Books..books..books!! - Part 1

Yes , this has been an year of more books. Since I was mostly at home , enjoying the bliss of being a mother , I read more books than I usually do . So before the year ends , let me just review my reads :)

Re-reads

 Harry potter series - I might read them again after few years ;) . They never fail to bring a smile on my face,entertain and amaze me :) Watched couple of movies as well.

 Agatha Christie - Ordeal by innocence, One two buckle my shoe ,After the funeral,The man in the brown suit,nemesis,lord Edgware dies,passenger to Frankfurt death in the clouds,crooked house. Wow! That's quite many :D But I finish these real quick since I just love them :D

Sidney Sheldon - Nothing lasts forever,The sky is falling.I have lost interest in these , I used to read them a lot some years back :D Is this part of "growing up" ? :)

Jeffrey Archer - Kane & Abel , can read it many times and still love it :)

New Reads

Jeffrey Archer - The sins of the father , First among equals  , Good but not great as some of his other books.

The devotion of suspect , by Keigo Higashino - Too good a thriller . Story starts with a scene where the murder actually happens . So you already know the victim,murderer,and all details . So what is the suspense element here?Read to find out :) A page-turner.

The inscrutable Americans , by Anurag Mathur - Story of an Indian student in America. The Indian is made to look stupid with his "Indian English , oily hair,inability to get a girlfriend and the way he stares at everything American as if its from another world :P Didn't like it .Either the book was written decades ago or the writer is still living in the old world.

My feudal lord , by Tehmina Durrani - Real life story of the author who is physically and mentally abused by her husband.Too disturbing and after few pages I just felt like shouting at the author "Why don't you just leave him!" , which she does eventually but a little too late.

John Grisham ,A painted house - Very sweet story of young Luke and his innocent little world :) Kept me smiling throughout the read :)

Immortals of Meluha , by Amish - A book which makes you think more about , or maybe even change,some of your beliefs . Eagerly waiting to read "The Nagas" , the next part of the series.

Guess this is enough for part 1 ;) More to come in the next part of this post :)

Funny side of childhood :)

Recalling few funny incidents from childhood ;)

- This one was in Banur. We (me and few cousins) used to regularly go to farms and spend a lot of time there, playing . Once me and Ashwini (cousin) were walking back home .We had to walk through farms to get back.Just then we saw a snake passing beside us at some distance :O. We had seen in movies that snakes come after you once you see them and believed it :D We ran and ran and didn't look back till we reached home :D I was carrying some clothes which fell on the way , I didn't even pick them up fearing that the snake might be just behind us and bite us :D

- I don't remember how old I was when this happened.I was in udayagiri and some friend of doddappa and doddamma was staying with us for a day or two. D'mma was in the kitchen and called me to ask uncle (friend) to go take bath since hot water was ready and he had to leave that day. I went and said the same to uncle and came back and told d'mma - " Uncle said they have water at their place and he will take bath in his house itself ". D'mma was now totally confused . She asked me as to whom I called , and I reply - "Nagesh uncle" :D (son of the neighbours :D) .. I had gone all the way to the next house and called him to take bath :D

-This one was in Mysore . Usually after coming back from school , I used to stay in my aunt's house which was close to my house till mom came back from office.I don't remember why , but one fine day I went home directly.I was shocked to see that the house door was not locked , since at that time it ought to be. We used padlock at that time.I thought may be mom has come back soon and rang the bell many times.But no response. I decided that there are burglars inside the house. I started walking back towards aunt's house and met 2 of my friend's on the way. We decided that we have to fight the burglars and started collecting weapons :D I took a big stone , and they took a big stick and a knife. So armed we went to our house.We didn't have any plan in mind as such :D When we reached there , our neighbor saw us in this avatar and asked us what we were upto.When we told her , she laughed heartily and informed us that our parents have changed the padlock to door lock :D We were so disappointed :P

There might be many more and it always makes me laugh whenever I think of these incidents :D Hope I remember more of these so that I can add to the list ;)

Thoughts for the year - 2011

I finally bring back my blog to life , with this one last post for the year ;) Yes , I have done very little here this year , hope to do much more in 2012.

So this is about the year 2011 and my life in 2011 ;) Yes it has been a great year for me , and the days have passed so fast that I feel I have done nothing much in this year :D Just a few highlights of this year :

• Biggest for me : Well my first steps into the next phase of my life started this year . We are expecting our first child early next year :) So most of 2011 has been taking care of myself and the little life within me :)
• My sis finished her graduation and is a working professional now . That is why I say time flies fast :D For me she is still the little kiddo , but now she is grown up, self sufficient and smart lady , proud of you girl!
• Second year of our marriage this year , and while I am writing this we are almost close to third :D It's been a great journey with Sandeep so far and with an addition to our family in few days , I am sure it will just get better :)
• All my friends are still very much in touch and we are having a great time :) Though its true that , this year we are scattered in different places and couldn't meetup much , but still speaking to them often and just knowing that they are there as my great friends makes life much more beautiful :) Thank you friends :)
• Div's Ananya came into this world :) ,Prabha's wedding (couldn't attend) , Krish's engagement , Pavan moving to Singapore , Sneha also expecting almost at the same time as mine - just to note down few things happening with friends :D

Well , not much has happened since it was mostly filled with ups and downs of being pregnant ,visits to doctor , worrying about how the baby might be doing inside , and I know most of next year will be filled with "we and our baby" phase :D But I hope I will be able to do little more in the coming year ;)

Adios 2011 , and welcome 2012 :) Hope you bring lot of happiness and peace with you :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all who happen to stop by my blog :)

Come back yesterday

Why is that I always look back and hope that I could go back in time and live some of the days again?What makes the past so endearing,even when the present is going good?

Many a times I think about the times in Mysore and want to re-live my those days again.How nice it would be if I can get just one day of those times again..Few days back,when I was in Mysore and was staying at our house.It was around 7 in the evening and we (Myself and Deepu) were on the terrace of the house.I went and sat for sometime in the same spot where I used to when we were actually living there.I felt like I was back in time , and if I go down into the house now , there will be amma cooking in the kitchen , and will call me for dinner :) But then , my thoughts were stopped when Deepu said we will go down.

So , I come back to present , and think that my life has changed so much now.Even if I go down into the house now , I won't find my parents and Yashu there..It's a different aspect that they are there in Bangalore now , and I we keep meeting very often , but still it's not the same..

So , I just wonder , why is that , I always have this feeling that I would want things to be as they were in past , though I am happy and content with my present?The past always has its own charm which makes me re-visit those memories now and then.After some days , I might be yearning for one day of my today's life ;) 

First post for the year 2011

OK , I am back again , after being lazy for many days, to write anything at all. Though there has been many things to write on ,I  have just been too lazy to open the blog and write them all here. Have been convincing myself all these days that I am very busy and I don't have enough or any time for blogging.But that's an excuse as always :P

So what have I been doing all these days ? Well most important and memorable event has been my visit to Finland in peak winter. I say visit cos I was there for just a month , and what an experience it was! My first trip abroad,saw snow for the first time ,experienced temperatures of -25 and around , visited Dayanna in Sweden .. Wow! it all still seems like a dream.. :) . Hope I can visit Europe in summer sometime , and see the other face of it :)

And we celebrated our second wedding anniversary :) We had decided that we will plan a trip and were thinking about the place for the trip. Sandeep suggested that we spend time in Mysore and that was a wonderful idea .We stayed in our Mysore house , roamed in and around Mysore , went to JCE and spent some time there, had yummy churmuri near our house as we used to before.All this made so nostalgic .. I went back in time for 3 days :) On our anniversary , along with doddamma and doddappa , we went to Chamundi hills by climbing the stairs ,and then after climbing down had wonderful breakfast at Kamath :) .And then came back to Bangalore and had anniversary dinner at home with Parents and Yashu :) All in all , it has been wonderful 2 years of wedding bliss for us , and had a great anniversary as well :)

One more highlight to begin the year has been the Mangalore trip with friends.Last year Div shifted to Mangalore , and this Jan Ananya arrived :) So we all went there to introduce ourselves and welcome the new member of TFTs :D Had awesome time with Div , also had a great trip to Sringeri,Horandu,Kudremukha,Udupi and Surathkal beach.Hope to plan and execute more trips this year ;)

So this has been the story so far this year ;) . As of now , just busy with work and home work :D Hope the forthcoming days will be more eventful and full of fun and happiness :) Since I am out of my writing block now , hope I will come up with more posts here :) .

Tagged - Not so crappy Questionnaire :D

I have been tagged by Pavan.  I further tag these people : Yashu , Deepu , Sadhana ,Ashu and Raju :) . So here I go :

What, in your opinion, are the 5 most over-rated things in recent times?

1. Land/site value in Bangalore - literally over-rated :P
2. IT profession
3. common wealth games , IPL
4. Kareena and she being zero size :D (well , thought that I should add something about bollywood , which in itself is over-rated :P)
5. cosmetics(especially these fairness creams) : feel real irritated when I see these fairness cream ads :P

What 3 wishes would you ask if you stumble across a genie on the way to work? (You can only ask for material things. No unrealistic things like perfect wife/husband, world peace etc. No loopholes such as more wishes,more genies etc. No asking money :P)

1. A bath machine , just step in and step out of it (like the machines at security checks ;)) and you emerge clean  :D Yes , I feel very lazy to take bath (BUT I do , daily :D) .
2. easily foldable Pushpaka vimaana - would make daily life much easier in Bangalore :P :D
3. finance and leave approval for my world tour :D
   

What is the one singular deed would you like to do if you were given a chance to go back in time? (apart from Killing Hitler and (guys)one night with Helen of Troy,Cleopatra and all other hot chicks of the past)

1. I would like to see Hampi when it was in all its grandeur :)
2. I would also like to go back ,just a few years back , to see my mom holding, just born me ,in her hands for the first time :))

Tell us 3 things you wish you knew when you turned 18.

1. Having pimples is not at all a thing to be worried about and I wouldn't  be giving a damn about it now (when I am 26), I really wish I had known this then , wasted too much time and energy on this :P
2. I need not be nice to people all the time , even to those who were not being nice to me sometimes.
3. I wish I knew that ,i t doesn't matter too much as to what people think about me or my life.

What are the 3 geekiest things about you?

    1.I don't think too much about my appearance , or rather don't work on it much any time before stepping out. I feel really uncomfortable when I am dressed up with jewelery,any kind of cosmetics,etc  , when I do use all that during some rare occasions .
    2.Most of the times , I would prefer reading a book as a pastime rather than watching a movie /shopping.Of course , I don't deny that I enjoy shopping too , to some extent :D
    3.But all in all , I declare that I am not much of a geek , so no more points to add here :P :D
 
Tell us 3 things that make you go “Awwww”

    1.a baby smiling oh  so sweetly and cutely in its sleep :)
    2.photos of my childhood , photos of trips , any photos of my past :)
    3.Whenever I read calvin and hobbes :)

What are the kinds of people you are biased against,possibly unreasonably:

1. people who think that , what they think and how they live ,is  always right and everyone else should follow the same :P
2. Men who talk about girls as if they are some things for display in a exhibition :P I know the excuse that guys give - " That's how guys are " :P
3. people who are too emotional and sentimental in every aspect of life , and are never realistic .

What is that one lie that you absolutely intend to tell your kids?
I wouldn't risk writing it up here :P , of course my kids would be reading my blog :D

What 3 words would a wife say if she is all ready to blast her husband for not remembering their anniversary , and just in nick of time he wishes  (Those tagged can change this question. Answer will remain)
A.J.M (Akkan Just miss)

Which fictional characters do you identify most with?

1. Hobbes
2. Watson :D

The guy sitting on the other side of the bus is giving you the looks. What do you do?

Just ignore him.

Any FFFFUUUUUUU moment happened to you recently?

slippery roads in Finland , making me walk awkwardly all the time :P

What song is playing in your head RIGHT NOW?
Orey manva tu to bavra hai
Tu hi jaane tu kya sochta hai
Tu hi jaane tu kya sochta hai bavre
Kyun dikhaye sapne tu sote jaagte ...