Ticked 28

Birthdays are never simple.. some are full of surprises, some people spend their day working, some miss someone special, some just count years, some party hard, some cook, some.... some ................ and some ..............

This time for me was full of surprises.. and innumerable wishes. 

Rigmarole!

Question: If given an option for an eight day week, which day, out of all in a week would you want to repeat?

The Friday morning is a happy morning, you wait for the day to end and facebook status reads TGIF.. No hard work today and all the tasks get dragged for the weekend... You stay up till late night, watch a movie or too.. chit chat with friends and make plans for the weekend.. the weekend celebrations begin from friday night.

Saturday morning is when you realize how messed-up your room is. Everything that you have used during the week is lying next to your bed, on the table and in your bags, the wardrobe is all in a state of dizzy...You realize that if you have managed things better, if you kept every stuff at a proper place, than life would be easier.

On a Sunday you find time out of busy shopping schedule, catching up with friends, meeting the grand mom, doing the weekend grooming and et al... Sunday evenings when you have a face-pack on, you start arranging the messed-up stuff in your room. You are tired, but you have decided that you will cut the clutter and clean it up.

The morning blues experienced on the Monday, take a backseat as you feel good about you clean and organised room. You get up and get ready for work. Since you had already decided what to wear, you don't messu the with wardrobe and the undecisiveness. For the day, you bid a good bye to your room, you tell it that you will miss it and you love it the most in this world. In the evening you open the door and see it all neat and clean.

The feeling is very similar to the feeling a day before is when Tuesday's sun knock from the window. During the day, you are told that have to get some documents, and you remember that you had seen it and kept it at a proper place. Although you are confused between a few places :-/. Evening is as neat as it was a day before. But the dried clothes have found their place in the wardrobe, and it looks a little messy.. But as long as its not visible to me, its okay! But what about the documents, especially with this friend's calling up, you delay taking out the documents for the next day's morning.

You get up a bit early on Wednesday as you have to get those document. You feel proud that your cleaning drive worked well and a hi-five for keeping the documents at the right place. As you check out all the places which could have been one of the proper places for the documents, but you dont find it anywhere. You find it at the most unlikly places, as you had put in a lot of effort to keep those important documents at the right place. Your wardrobe is messed up.. But that is ok, you promise that you will get it back in shape in the evening. In the evening, you realize that your nails are chapped, you try to recollect where did you keep the personal grooming kit. You end up messing the dressing table, throw everything on the table and start working on your nail. You wear a nice nail paint shade.. As the nail paint is wet, you cannot fix the mess tonight.

Thursday morning was tasked to fix a bit of the mess that has been created. But you are already running late for work and waiting for the weekend as you need to spend time with yourself. And since the weekend is blocked, you promise to yourself that this evening things would be cleared.. In the evening, no wonder you are tired, and then there is Friday too..

But but but, my dear friends, there is more to it, remember what the post started with....


The Friday morning is a happy morning, you wait for the day to end, and facebook status reads TGIF.. No hard work today and all the tasks get dragged for the weekend..................................................................................................................

Author's Note: Yes.. I am the you in this post!

I reckon that during those growing up times kids had certain set of beliefs, including the concept of oceans (with Shesha Chaturvedi), that breaking promises was a crime.. I wonder, if it were true should you be hanged till dead for not standing upto the mark. I made promise to my room everyday, but I stick to them only on a Sunday, which can anyday takle a backseat dependending on my schedule, however whatever state it is in, I love my room!

PS: Writing this post was a therapeutic and beautiful experience for me. At last one post for the month of March
PPS: Refereing to the question, I will choose the Saturday.. What about you?

Quit Smoking

In the morning when my mom came inside my room, she told me that an acquaintance has been diagnosed with lung cancer. Since she has seen her father suffer, she was visibly shaken and was recalling how terrible it is for the patient as well as the family when a person suffers from cancer.

Whenever I hear cancer, I picture in my maternal grandfather, my Daddyji, he suffered with lung cancer, fought like a soldier but succumbed to death. He had quit smoking long ago, but his lungs were damage with the tobacco tart that he had smoked before quitting... He had respiratory problems and every now and then he had to be rushed to ICU. With a survival rate of zero percent, Lung cancer or small cell carcinoma grows to third or fourth stage within 15 days.  By the time it is diagnosed, a patient is already in critical stage.

I recall how I wished that the doctors tell us that they diagnosed it wrong, and tried to convey to everyone that a medical professional can go wrong. Till the end, I did not feel that he will ever leave us, even when he was on ventilator. Even when we had to rush as the doctors said that he is left with 30 min of life. I am proud that he fought... Smiled through the oxygen mask whenever I met him in the ICU, he blinked whenever I spoke to him, holding his hand and telling him to get well soon.

I would confess that I was also about to give into the temptation of smoking, but I did not. And I thank god for that... I reiterate this today, I reiterate this as you read it, and I reiterate it every time someone Quits to smoke. Cancer knows no love, no boundary, no colour, no caste, no creed... Lets fight it, lets start with boycotting things that lead the cancer to grow.

Author's Note: Quit Smoking, nothing is worthy to take away a part of your life.. And its not cool, its doesn't make one a better artist, it cannot bring out the creativity in you, it doesn't take away your stress, and the list goes on....... whatever reason you have, it doesn't help at all..


PS: Daddyji, I love you...   I am glad I was always able to make up to convey this to you!
You are (I still believe that you are around us) the best, And I miss you..
Wherever you are, I wish lots of happiness, health and smiles for you... 

Happy New Year 2012

A very Happy New Year pals.. I don't subscribe to the thought that the world will end in 2012, go ahead and make as many plans as possible...

You all make me feel great... Life is just great and I need to tell a lot to you... So hopefully I will be in full spirits to jot down my thoughts and achievements!

This year's resolution falls in line with Oscar Wilde's quotation ..

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”

As this year has begun on a very special note, I need to talk something serious with you.. I need to talk to you about love, not just love, its about Self Love! 

When does one stop loving thyself? It might be a bad life, a situation where one ends up being a soft target of bullies, or may be a breakup..

One needs to realise that its a phase where people around are turning you down. And once you are over it, you will feel something like what your drawing teacher did to all those bullies, who made fun of your creative self, for not scoring well in the drawing classes. Well creativity is in-borne, no one can teach you that.. similarly..
..... ehemmm I seem to be drifting away from the topic...

 And still you need to know that there is someone who loves you unconditionally.. and that's you, yourself!

It's about Self Love.. Why do we need a lot of people around to celebrate? Why do we have to throw a lavish party post appraisals? And how much of our 'thyselves' is being pampered for that achievement?

As I sit today in the midst of something that is shaping up to be beautiful, I reckon that my life has been an experience.. It has enabled me to lift subtle hints that are thrown towards me.. Hints which indicate what will work and what needs to be kicked-off, what should be celebrated and what ought to be refrained from!

It tells me that something is going in the right direction, and I don't have any doubts about it. I am sure that it will work! Its like, one doesn't find self in the midst of introspection, something is saying that whatever happens will be for the best.

Let this year, be an year of newer achievements and more reasons to celebrate.. 

Just say what you feel is to be said

Just do what you feel is to be done

Because this is just a phase and it shall pass

And you need all the reasons to celebrate it

And you need all the reasons to know that you are being loved

And you need all the reasons to know that you are special

What matters in life is not the relationships we share with people around us, but the relationship we share with ourselves. How well one is treated completely depends upon how much of you is open to vulnerability. Those who test that waters by repeatedly hitting that spot should be kicked out of your life...

Author's Note: So next time you have a reason to celebrate, don't call over friends, just hop into for a Gol-Gappa treat at Bengali market!  I don't know what should I suggest to those who are not in Delhi!

P.S: I recently lost my wisdom tooth,

and the story of the misery, fights and rights will  soon come online  :)

Seems to be....

and it seems to be a river bed

and we two seem to be in love...

and we seem to be talking

and the talks seem to never end....

and the sun seems to have already went to sleep behind the endless green hallows

and the sun seems to have been listening to us all this while

and the birds seem to have gone to sleep in their dens quite a while ago...

and the river is still awake with the waters flowing peacefully

and each part of the water in the river is paying homage to words that live for a very brief moment

and the words leaving us seem to be giving way to the ones that are stocked inside us...

and a boat seem to be resting on the moving waters

and there seem to be a night rider sitting on the throttle

and the rider seems to wait for his prey unfazed with our presence

and it seems the rider knows that we are practicing the newly learnt language of love, the language, which needs no words

and the moon seem to be seeping through the dark

and it seems to be standing on our head asserting his presence

and the moon seems to be shining making it too hard for us not to notice him...

and he seems to tell us that he will be our accomplice through the night

and the stars seem to twinkle in consent....

and the vampires of the night seem to be out for hunt

and I seem to be fearless as I am with you...

and we seem to still have a long way to go

and we still have long endless talks ....

Author's Note: This is what all it seems, do not know how much of this will be true

Facebook Stalkers and Me

I never entertain facebook friend requests by strangers.. But there is no dearth of facebook stalkers and those people who repeatedly send you friend requests despite your declining it... On that note, I just realized that I have some fodder for my blog, leaving you here to read the messages that reach on "Facebook - Message - Other" link (these messages are sent by people who are out of your network, i.e. you don't have any mutual friend)..

I respect everyone's individuality so don't ask for their identity.. But you will get to read my reactions to these messages....

Message: Hey hi, I just gone through ur pics and profile and liked it very much, its nice. Can v b frends, if u dnt mind? Pls reply.

Reaction: Shine wonders if this is a marriage proposal? Even if it had been one, Shine would have declined it  :-/... AND YES I DO MIND

Message: nice profile..can i knw u and be ur frnd..myself a CA by proff and like making frnds

Reaction: Whoaaaa I just learnt that making friends is a trait that is comparable to being a CA by profession

Message: hello shine nice pic.. well i am neeraj working with MNC as analyst at gurgaon...like travelling, listening to music so can v b frnd

Reaction: What is he trying to tell me? Is he saying that since he likes travelling and listening to music, I should be his friend.... 

Message: hi, ur very gorgeous,, cn v b frnz ? 97118*****79.. plz reply karna

Reaction: I wish I could bring to your notice that all buggers who call on my mobile get their number circulated amongst gangsters of Ramjas College.. These gangsters have many sim cards, and they has a passion for competing with these buggers, as to who bugs the best.... Anyways I am yet to decide on what to do with those who leave their numbers in my facebook inbox... 

Message: do looks nice. a natural tinge of subtle beauty in there..

Reaction: Nice... This is a compliment, though I see grammatical error

Message: How r u doing mate ? amazing smile u have got ... sum1 will be really lucky to see it for rest of his life .... keep it up.. You must b the cutest frnd suggestion FB ever gave me are you working with google 2 ?

Reaction: Blush Blush....

Message: hi , pl add me as ur frnd. i saw ur pic, very beautiful u r. can we be good frnds. i m B.Tech.+M.Tech. working as engineer in ghaziabad. u can contact me at 081***14355. if u dont mind. waiting 4 sweet reply. bye.

Reaction: This one seems to be stalking me on facebook 

Author's Note: Readers are welcome to post their reactions...

PS: I have written a few incomplete posts, shall post them soon.. Love you all, but my blog the most :)

Atheist!

I don't believe in thee almighty
They pray and claim to be his followers
I believe in more than thee


They see power in an idol
I see power in me
I don't say I am supreme
Its just I don't believe in the almighty


They feel they follow five times a day ritual 
And they have done their duty
I feel they did some twisting and turning
And just got up in the wee


I see they taking processions
Decorate their deity
I see it as a fest
A colourful spree


I don't believe in god! 
I am wrong, I don't care  if you tell me
I do not subscribe your silent ways to party
I find it baseless and a reason worth to flee!


P.S.: No offense to the larger non-atheists' community! Hate mails and comments can make way for my inbox :)