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Has mankind evolved, really?

September 20, 2011 / / 4 Comments

It seems that public display of affection is becoming more and more common in India. I am not sure whether the girls and guys of this age have gone crazy or is it that people have become more acceptable about the fact. In the recent past, I encountered 2 situations, out of which one, I experienced myself and the other, my friend.

I was travelling in a fully-packed Hyderabad bus on a Saturday evening. A girl came and sat beside me. Within 5 minutes or so, she called her boyfriend and asked him to sit beside her and started squeezing me towards the window. My first thought was “What the heck?”.  It was a 2 seater where there is no way you can adjust for a 3rd person. The bus had those small-chair-type seats. I just did not want to create a scene and so kept mum thinking that maybe the guy is not feeling well or whatever the heck it is. Then started the drama of cuddling, cajoling, twisting, turning, sleeping on the other and other things that could have made a 3 hours love film. All this, with everyone staring at our seat and me stuck there like a …… You get it right?

The incident my friend encountered topped mine. She was travelling by train in sleeper class and there were only boyfriend-girlfriend pairs in her bay. She had had a horrible experience trying to mind her own business and digest the fact that the world had come to this. I do not want to elaborate but 1 sentence will give you the picture. One of the pairs actually shared a berth in spite of having separate berths. When she told me this, I was reminded of the scene in the film “Nandha” “Mounam Pesiyadhe”, where actor Surya reprimands a couple for having their hands on each other’s shoulder on the road. Maybe, these people need rules like that to behave themselves in public.

 I am not taking the role of the older generation and saying all those stuff that makes you feel eons back in ages. I am just asking to give some respect for yourselves and your privacy. I don’t say that you should think about others’ opinions before you do each and everything. I am just saying that there a threshold for everything and people must have enough common sense to know it. At least, be discreet for crying out loud. You love your partner and all that is fine. But, there is a reason privacy is a concept and has a meaning.

P.S: I am not going to put a P.S for a disclaimer saying that this is my opinion and not intended to hurt anyone 😛

Until later 🙂

Murphy’s law ruling my life

August 29, 2011 / / 0 Comments

Mr.Murphy at his personal best in my life:

In the morning rush to office, when I find my headphones in at their tangled best, just when I want to call family. This happens every day without fail, how much ever carefully I fold them in neat circles, the previous night. It is like they conspire against me over the night.

I will get a call only when I am washing my tiffin box or washing clothes, to keep it short, only when my hands are busy and I cannot attend the call.

Whenever I want to dry out my clothes, the lines will be full of other peoples’ clothes.

When I am on sick leave for that 1 particular day thinking there is not much work. The mishap has to be planned and executed on that day. Yes, somehow there will be more work and people who are supposed to work as my back-up will screw up and call me once in ten minutes for some doubt or other that I will wish that I had gone to office instead of facing this.

When I get really frustrated about Hostel food and decide to make Maggi for myself. The kirana shop will have all types of noodles, foodles and what not, but except the simple Maggi masala, which is the one I want.

When I buy something and find something better than that. Why? Why me? 🙁 🙁

When I am on travel with my mobile dangling on the last point of charge and my compartment’s charging point does not work.

Whenever I am awarded something at office, I will not be able to be there to receive it. Someone has to receive it on my behalf.

Whenever some function comes up in my family, it invariably gets fixed on the date when everyone will be planning for a leave and hence I have to play deal or no deal with my colleagues to get them to be my back up.

When I am craving for Mom’s dosa, a friend sends a mail with zillions of photos of varieties in dosa and I start thinking about the option of murdering the sender and going to jail (secretly hoping the food there will be better than the hostel’s).

My room has 4 plug points apart from the TV slot. Still I cannot find a place for connecting my internet modem and find a comfortable place nearby to sit and use my laptop. After trying all the permutations and combinations, I officially gave up and strew all the wires across my room and set it up in the lousiest yet best possible arrangement in my room.

Our team will have the most number of huddles, meetings and discussions, when I am working without a minute to spare. God sir, how good it would be if you could lend some of your hands. (But, I am not sure if I will refrain from strangling the person arranging such pointless meetings, with one of your hands.)

Until later 🙂

P.S: Post is prone to be edited as Murphy decides to try me with newer tricks.

P.P.S: This blog will be on long leave since I am off to my home starting tomorrow and will not be back for some 10 days. Bro’s marriage it is. Yay!

Yours truly

August 26, 2011 / / 0 Comments

I have been recently doing a lot of blog-hopping and came across many wonderful blogs that made me feel so inspired and jealous at the same time. I spent a while on each of the newly added blogs to my blogroll and found them awesome. Actually, awesome is an understatement. I was inspired to try to write like that and at the same time my envy too peeped out a little. Anyway, the better person in me took over 🙂

This post is a letter from me to a person who was me, when I was almost 18, joining college. I got this idea from this post in this awesome blog.

Dear Past,

Do not heed to all those who are telling you what to study and where to study. Think for yourself and choose a path which you really want to.

College will seem fun and full of hopes. But, do not expect too much. It is better to face the good and bad as and when they come than to expect it and get disappointed.

Come out of your lazy shell and try something new, exciting. Find your passion. If you could not find any, create one.

Have a better stamina.

Do not worry way too much about what others think of you too much. Those who mind, won’t matter and those who matter, won’t mind.

Do not get too attached or too close to the wrong people. They end up hurting you anyway and present you with the greatest regrets of your life. To keep it simple, choose your circle carefully.

Give more respect to those who you know will always be there for you and never ever break the heart of your loved one. You will never forgive yourself even after your loved one did. That you did it unintentionally will never be an excuse.

Your close friend will misunderstand you. Just go up to the person and talk it out. Being quiet makes it just worse and will take a lot of time for the person to finally realize that you are actually not the person who did the mistake, or to get over it.

If you do not do the earlier 3 points properly, your life will be so messed up that you will have to entirely change yourself to heal all the wounds you caused within yourself and in others.

Enjoy your life at Coimbatore better. Go to places. Enjoy yourself to the best.

Get over your fear for Maths related subjects and just give Maths a chance.

Try harder to learn. Mind it. I am saying “to learn”, not “to study”.

Be strong. Wavering mentality never helps.

Use your training period at your company, well. You will wish that you had put those 3 months to better use.

You will be posted to Hyderabad. The city will not be as scary as you thought. It will be a good change in your life where you will mature a lot and learn a lot of life-lessons.

However, if you want to save yourself the pain of dragging a transfer out of your ever-evasive higher official, you might as well try to be stubborn at Chennai and get a posting at Bangalore at the first go. This choice, I leave it you. Because, either way will be good for you.

Learn cooking. Seriously. You will want to.

Always be positive. Don’t take everything as the be-all and end-all of life.

Life will be good, for whatever you lack, you definitely do not lack the ability to achieve anything if you put your mind to it.

With love,

Your Present.

Until later 🙂

Dearest Daddy

August 25, 2011 / / 2 Comments

To the man who lived, lives and will live spending more time for the family than for him.

To the man who has brought up 2 children in the best way he can.

To the man who never thinks of buying so much as a new suit for himself on his birthday.

To the man who fights with me just to make me understand that he wants the best for me.

To the man who fights with me when I am home and secretly misses me when I am not home.

To the man who watched me grow and start taking my own decisions, all the while torn between wanting to correct me and at the same time letting me learn life’s lessons as they were meant to be.

To the man who wants his daughter as bold and confident as he is.

To the man who was going through all the emotions when his children stepped out on their own, but still kept silent for their own good.

To the man who shouldered all the responsibilities for the big family, keeping it intact as his ancestors had done.

To the man who put behind his dream of owning a house until he is about to retire, for the sake of the family.

To the man who works 3 shifts circulating weekly, resulting in a messed up biological clock and yet never complained once.

To the man who gave me enough lifts and pushes when I needed them the most and is still doing the same.

To the man who has the dreams of his children in his eyes.

To the man who believes in me, even when I don’t.

To the man who keeps on making the world a better place for us to live, by each passing day.

Happy Birthday, Daddy. I know all that you did, do and will do will bring me nothing but the best. You are the best daddy in the world. I am so proud of you and hope that I could make you feel the same about me.

My first tag

August 15, 2011 / / 2 Comments

For so long,I have wanted to do this tag-writing. So, I just picked up this tag from a fellow-blogger. I am tagging anyone who wants to take it up.

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1. What is your current obsession?

My blog. I just open the web page and look at it, even though I don’t have a clue to write about anything.

2. What are you wearing today?

Casuals- A light orange t-shirt and tracks.

3. What’s for dinner?

Should ask the hostel cook. Oh! How I wish I could stay independently and eat as I wish. But I know the situations are not conducive at present.

4. What’s the last thing you bought?

The orange t-shirt I am wearing now.

5. What are you listening to right now?

The fan’s whirring sound in my room and the voice of the Prakash Raj in the movie Gilli.

6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?

No one tagged me. For so long, I have wanted to try the tag writing. So I just took this tag from the blogosphere of a fellow blogger.

7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?

Bangalore, of course.

8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?

Anything that feels light and that does not irritate me in the scorching heat.

9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?

Trichy. Would give anything to taste Mom’s Dosa and Drumstick Sambhar.

10. Which language do you want to learn?

Hindi. Actually It’s re-learning. Ever Since Telugu caught up, I neglected Hindi.

11. What’s your favourite quote?

It varies often. Right now, it is “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

12. Who do you want to meet right now?

Guruprasad aka Aditya.

13. What is your favourite colour?

Black. Also,Purple. Well ok, if it definitely has to be one colour, Purple wins the game.

14. What is your favourite piece of clothing in your own closet?

The blue jean that Ramya bought me and the black & white Kurti which we both have.

15. What is your dream job?

A stable, stress-free job in Bangalore that will enable me to be financially independent and spend more time with family. Of course, that’s the dream job of every woman.

16. What’s your favourite magazine?

Tinkle Digest. Yes, even after 20 more years, that will be my favourite.

17. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?

Shopping for Dresses. On second thought, I will give it to my Bro. Because I have bought too many dresses in the recent past. I want to get out of the obsession.

18. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?

Low-waist jeans and many more.

19. Who are your style icons?

None. Fashion is not my cup of tea.

20. Describe your personal style.

I just go out as what I am. No cosmetics. Seriously. I tried to use eye-liners, lip gloss etc but invariably ended up feeling too lazy to get ready with all that. So, I reverted back to being myself.

21. What are you going to do after this?

Probably will watch TV and have lunch.

22. What are your favourite movies?

The list is too long and varying. To quote the recent, Deivathirumagal.

24. What are three cosmetic/makeup/perfume products that you can’t live without?

As I said earlier, nothing. My laziness does not encourage me to use all these and hence I don’t.

23. What inspires you?

A breezy drizzle, A chat with some of my loved ones, A refreshing book.

24. Give us three styling tips that always work for you.

Too many questions on styling. For the nth time, I just make myself look-able and go out. While at home, I don’t even bother that much. If any more questions related to style or fashion come up, I am going to boycott them.

25. What do you do when you “have nothing to wear” (even though your closet’s packed)?

Just pick a dress that I have not worn for the longest time and go with it.

26. Coffee or tea?

Depends. As I do not drink both on a regular basis, I just take whichever comes first to my mind.

27. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?

I cry and then try to sleep.

28. What is the meaning of your name?

It is something in music (Sorry, I am not an expert in this area. But when I googled it, I got this- “A simpler form of musical composition. Words are given more importance than the musical content”). But that is true if my name is Keerthana. My name is Keirthana. My dad had this numerology thing to make my name spelled like that and also made me the sole person with 2 initials among my folks. Never mind. I am happy that my name spells unique.

29. Which other blogs do you love visiting?

All the blogs in my blogroll.

30. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?

Home made Gulab Jamun.Mind it. Home made. The shop ones are too sweet and have sugar deposits.

31. Favourite food?

Anything that Mom cooks is heavenly.

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I had fun doing this. Take it up if you like.

Until later 🙂

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