Who Cares???

November 3, 2009 at 2:58 pm (My World!!!)
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Early morning, Wife wakes up without any alarm. Marches towards unlocking the gate, and picking up the newspaper and the milk packets lying next to the gate. When she comes back the rest of the house is still sound asleep. Kids are still sleeping in their rooms and granny is almost ready to wake up. Granny wakes up and first thing she asks the wife, “Can i get some tea?Do I get anything in this house?”

Wife bends her head and kick starts the work in the morning. Starts preparing tea on one side of the gas stove and the breakfast on the next. Washes the vegetables, cuts the vegetables. Husband wakes up. As soon as she hears him at the wash basin washing his face, she gets ready with the newspaper and the warm lime water he drinks before tea. Serves the tea to her husband. Chats with her about many things happening in the world including news and gossips about all their relatives.

Rushes to kitchen to stop the whistle of the pressure cooker. Forgets her tea. Starts breakfast preparation. Kids wake up. One of them gets ready to college. Starts yelling to the wife asking whereabouts of  the books, the dresses, matching duppatta etc. Wife comes to her room, starts searching them for her. By that time, husband asks for the hair-dye and mirror. runs to him gives hands him everything. Back to kitchen prepares the breakfast and serves it hot to the daughter and husband. She had been in the kitchen since morning and did not even breathe fresh air. She stinks garlic and onion now. And she’s all drenched in sweat inside the kitchen.

Once breakfast is served, she sits besides the husband and daughter to hear about the plans for the day, or if they need something. The husband screams at her breakfast. Says, ‘In my whole life time… I have not eaten anything whole heartedly.You spoil the dishes I like.I dont know what you have learnt in cooking.If you dont want to cook and take rest, then tell me, I will cook before leaving to office and serve you.These kids are also good for nothing.They dont have a life other than chatting and college.Tell them they arent doing any favour by studying degrees. And the Elder one, she thinks she is the boss of the house. Tell her I’m not living on her money. I work and eat. You have spoiled everybody in this House’.  Wife says ‘You dont get tensed, finish the breakfast, you have to take the medicines. Don’t stay hungry’. Husband leaves home. Daughter leaves home.

Wife back to kitchen, wiped her huge tear drop, thought nobody noticed. As it dropped, the elder daughter watched the whole episode, and finally out of her room looks at her mother. Prays God and leaves home without eating. Not because the food wasnt good, but because she can’t digest the bitterness put in.

How many houses does this happen everyday? Please make it a Home before its late.

In dedication to all the house wives who strive hard in putting the family together, their real individual existence is lost in the daily family chores.

PS: This post isn’t related to any particular individual, just a random thought which struck my heart.

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What I Have Been Doing??

October 8, 2009 at 1:25 pm (My Small World, My World!!!)

Its long since I have posted something on my blog.. But one good thing i did was, i dint forget to read the updated blogs on my blogroll. Good to know that they have something to write. After a busy two month, I have something to put down into my blog.

I myself wondered today, What was i doing for so long , that i didn’t find a time to post  a new blog??

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We Shifted:I Shifted my house within the same locality to another better house. The house we stayed almost drowned during the rains last year in Chennai. So we thought we can move to a new house on first floor. First floor since we cant move more than that, My grandma has problems climbing stairs and whichever ads we saw, we found houses/apts without lifts. Also, the dog and cat in the next house often visited home, and us being a pet fan, always had fun keeping them at home and feeding them something which wasn’t liked by our owner. It was a very big house and ha a big backyard with lot of trees. Trees which rarely fruited, but brought in home, lots of mosquitoes and dust and dry leaves. So finally when the owner wanted to increase the rent by another 2000Rs, we thought we had enough in that house and thought of finding a better change. I tell you, house shifting is the mammoth thing compared to any other thing in this world. Even wedding can happen within a day or two with a month preparation but house shifting, no matter how much prepared we are, we always land up missing something or the other. Its been 25 yrs of my life and i have lived in around 15 houses over India all rented. We had enough of staying in a rented house, so we planned to go in for building a new house with the latest interiors and design.

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We Sold:In the crowded city of chennai, we owned a small apartment, when i was doing my graduation. My dad had brought it as a part of the investment , but the house was really a warm one. One of the tenants got wedded, one of them fetched a better job, one of them got a job in his own hometown and so on..The house had turned lucky for each one of them. And we had never had any complaints so far(touch wood) And finally the day had come when we posted and ad to sell our house.Thanks to the web service of Sulekha Classifieds, our house found a very good buyer and they brought it as a gift for one of their sons.

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We Brought: We brought a new bike :-) I am now a proud owner of the new Honda-dio. The recent model with the graphics and the double shade is really too impressive.The scooter doesnt make any noise as that of other scooters. Its more kinda bike than a scooter and I love every bit riding it, except the fact, when i have to carry someone along with me, it turns more heavy :P So, I love my scooter and my scooter loves me :) Yay!

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We Never Slept: Its been more than a week, since my team here has gone for a sound sleep. We have been having calls early our morning and stay here till late nights. I know its a new project I’m working on, and it will still continue for sometime until the application is steady, but i dont have option but to accept whatever the manager here orders. I keep thinking in office , when would a day come when i get a managerial position, I would try to be little bit empathetic towards the team members too. Its easy for the manager here to ask to come early and go late(even if the work load is less, stay just for the sake of staying) but the team is the one who is facing the heat. The onsite has been given so much importance that, they think they give us the bread and butter and they always have a “No” to whatever we deliver. I mean, a little co-operation among the team will give fruitful results than, the blame-game and then making everybody follow rules, which one thinks is right. I got really pi**ed-off today when they has cancelled the meeting their noon time, meaning our late night, without any intimation. And when we reach, what we see in our mailbox is a cancelled invite. Why are the application support mobiles given? Just to hear fancy-ringtones?playing it all by ourselves. Gimme a Break.. All i need is a break. I’ve already planned for a day leave, and i want to make the best out of it. I have also planned lot of thing on that one-day leave. I cannot go for a trip :( I really miss going for one. I’m more of a trip loving person, but my parents aren’t. They think its a waste of time, and there are other things on earth to do :( Please let me have a trip this year.. i didnt have any.. :( other than the one to Bglr, all alone and returned alone.. :( I cant even call that as a trip.. *Sob

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We Drank: I cannot believe when i say this, but this is what I have been doing, Any restaurant or small snack stall i visit, I make sure I take a good coffee and complete my meal/ snack. I am hard-core “No” against Coffee/Tea. Not any particular reason, but i do believe that, one must not get addicted to any thing for one’s own pleasure(even if its coffee) :P No.. No.. am not getting philosophical here, but i hate seeing people or listening to people who say, “Got a sever headache without a tea/coffee”. And also, i have made everyone at home like the smell/ flavour of coffee too. I said.. I still cant believe when i say this.

 

This is all I have been doing.. without making a new post..

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Untitled….

August 29, 2009 at 8:03 pm (My World!!!)

For long I have been thinking what to pen down into my blog. So much isnt happening around that I’m not getting a perfect topic to write down. From the day I have joined the BiG company, the first impression I got was, BiG place, bade log (big people in hindi), badi baatein(big talks in hindi). I sometimes feel very small infront of all. I have turned slight introvert here, and i feel it is someway good for me to keep myself away from unnecessary problems. For eg., In my earlier company, we started a tradition of celebrating everybody’s birthday in the team. Some lighter moment to celebrate out of the tight schedules and boring office environment. It so turned ways, that I was the only one left who had to collect contri, arrange names and cakes and then pull everybody to the cafeteria.

It so happened once, that we were celebrating Mr.N’s birthday and his team member had brought a nice big music candle for him. We were all singing the song when we saw people running down the stairs from the glass door and everyone looking at us with the look..(What are they doing here??) And so it happened a group of security guards came parading towards us and said, fire alarrrrrrrmmmmmm… we couldnt hear the noise because of the huge noise we were making and the fumes. Finally we all had a hearty laugh over it and people staring back at us with the same look.

So it so happened that the tradition continued and i came to be known as the organiser… sick!! I mean… I like making people feel happy as its’ their birthday but for that reason the team started taking me for granted as an event coordinator and i started getting noticed as that. Finally at this place I have made this strong decision not to get noticed for wrong reasons , but for my work alone. ofcourse fun should always be there at work, but i have grown enough to leave the fun behind and some serious work!!

Wait.. am i getting.. older… Are these sings of my old age…. :-(

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Tag N Award

August 24, 2009 at 8:58 pm (My World!!!)

Got an Award from Chan!!! Yeay.. my first bloggy award…Thanks Chan!

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And here goes the tag…

1. What is your current obsession?

Nothing

2. What are you wearing today?
Salwar Kameej

3. What’s for dinner?
Maggi

4. What’s the last thing you bought?
Tablets and Medical Report

5. What are you listening to right now?
Ad Tunes on TV

6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?
He’s a very creative individual :-)

7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
Not yet thought about owning one. The home is where the heart is!!!

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

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

10. Which language do you want to learn?
Lot of indian languages to learn!

11. What’s your favourite quote?
When you think you’re almost there, You have not even started 

12. Who do you want to meet right now?
Sent ‘S’ back home. Really wanted to meet him :(

13. What is your favourite colour?
Shades of blue

14. What is your favourite piece of clothing in your own closet?
My pink Salwar Kameej

15. What is your dream job?
A better job than what I’m in. 

16. What’s your favourite magazine?
Frozen thoughts

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

18. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?
Loud colors

19. Who are your style icons?
None

20. What kind of haircut do you prefer?
no haircut, am growing these days!!

21. What are you going to do after this?
Sleep

22. What are your favourite movies?
Life is Beautiful, Beautiful Mind, Shrek, Ice Age

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

23. What inspires you?                                                    
Modesty and Purity of mind

24. Give us three styling tips that always work for you:
1. Be Yourself   2.Trust yourself  3.Love yourself :P too much huh!!


25. What do you do when you “have nothing to wear” (even though your closet’s packed)?
Stay inside house till someone comes to rescue.

26. Coffee or tea?
None…

27. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?
Narrate all of it over fone

28. What is the meaning of your name?
Wish of one’s Mind

29. Which other blogs you love visiting?
Many….

30. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?
Strawberries :-)

31. Favorite Season ?
Autumn

32. If I come to your house now, what would u cook for me?
Maggi :P

33. My question: What’s your favorite cartoon character?
Garfield, Tom n Jerry

People reading the tag.. please do the honours of filling the Tag!!

Edited to Add:

Sharing time… :-) Time to share my first awards..

Chan, Satish, Aparna!!!

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India’s Got Talent

August 23, 2009 at 6:33 pm (My World!!!)

-IGT-

India’s Got Talent and dhannn ta dhannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn…..

Ta Da… the show’s a real hit..!! :-) and so are the talents..!! :)

BTW, warning..!!! Do not leave this blog without watching the two spectacular , breathtaking, very talented and the best ever talent i have ever watched!!!

Ok, You all must be wondering why am i all praises for these, coz the show just had their grand finale…oh!! what a show it was!! :-)

I was down with fever for 2 days, and was lying down on the couch, head tilted to one source of ending boredom-T.V! Short description about the show, to some who might not be aware: the show auditions for individuals and groups for talents!! Talents of any sort, any kind! there are so many shows already on TV for singing and dancing, this show had a mix of everything.

From the auditions time, till the finale, i had my fingers crossed for my favourite troop. And that was the troop which made it to finals and took away the grand prize of 50lakhs and a Maruti Ritz Car!!!

No, it wasnt a dance they performed, nor even some singing, not any instruments, no rocking breaking, no burning fire on their head or eating grass. Well, all these might sound funny, but some of the people who turned up for the auditions did just that. One guy brought along grass to graze as a Talent!!! God!! What’s wrong with humans, leave some grass for donkeys too..

This one is the video, where the troop performed during the auditions! Oops!! did i forget to mention, this group is called the “Prince Dance Group”

Breathless, and truly international.. This group’s gonan go countries!! :) That’s what I was thinking when i saw the show.

And then, during the semi-finals, the troop came up with best creativity and talent and put that into their performance. Watch this!!

Have you ever watched something like this?? I had never watched this….

I couldnt get my hands on the finale video, coz it just happened yesterday. When it appears on youtube, I wil surely out it into this blog!!

This group is a group of , not students of some dance class, not students of some institute, but all are masons, and work in a town called Berhampur in Orissa( :-) My native)

Well, now you all might have guessed, that all this enthu was for , because the group belongs to my birth place. That’s the second reason, the first being, They are full of creativity and talent. Just watch them and you will come to know!! I have made it a point that, if this group comes here, I’m surely gonna take’ S’ along with me and watch the show!! :-)

Hip-Hip-Hurray Prince Group!!!

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