Navjeevan Express...

They met...
They spoke...
and............................

He : If there is something called as 'soulmate', you are the one for me.
She : YES, even I want to be :)

The first page of a new book I'm reading... hmm, seems really interesting!

Sapne…

A day full of masti... supposed to be window shopping, but landed up buying a typical my-kinda tshirt. A blue tshirt with collar, it was too irresistable :P. Went to BDA, had panipuri and jalebi :D Er.. how can an evening end without a coffee, so, a caffein kick to mark the end of the day.
Went back home and was so damn tired, just wanted to sleep.. and I did too, but got this weirder than the weird-most weirdest dreamzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
I’m sitting alone with my orange/yellow stripes calvin t-shirt…
where??…donnno…
Here comes a guy….bent on his knees….with a mug of Tea in his hand and says ‘khushi, You always say tea is your life, can I be the tea for your life??’’
‘Haaan???’…. and I believe from that day on, I would stop drinking tea…
This is all the dream was.... ;;)
Huhuhuhuhahahahaahahahahahahahaha
And I was sharing this with a friend of mine and he happened to ask me how the guy was looking like, and my reply was, ‘oh I don’t remember, but that guy had a sexy black colour mug in his hand and I was concentrating more on that :D'
and he was like, with full difficulty atleast in your dreams someone proposed you and you just remember the mug which he was holding.... pssst...
ha ha ha.... do you think people call me foodie with no reason ;-)

I just remember a pickup line
Coffee?
Tea???
Me???????

ha ha ha!

PS: NO, this post is nowhere related to Valentines day, it was just there in my drafts since long, which I chose to publish it now. Btw, Happy Valentines day, Love and be Loved! :)

LIFE.... so simple :)

Mom says death is as natural as birth, and its all part of life cycle...







She also says we dont really understand it, but there are many things we dont understand and we just have to do the BEST with the knowledge we have before going...
I guess it makes sense...





but i dont want to go anywhere :(







Ah..... dont you worry :)

Rishtey…

We meet so many people in a day. We hit off well with certain people instantaneously, Certain people manage to settle just in the acquaintance list, but most of the times it takes time to connect to a person, to form a bond, to develop a relationship (No, I’m not talking about the so called ‘relatives’ who are forced upon us).
This bond keeps getting strengthened or weekend as the time goes and the situations we face. Sometimes I wonder what is the essence of a relationship.













What is that something with which we form a strong bond? And
What is that something which acts as a last thread between two people and if its broken the relationship is nowhere?

Is it Compatibility?, i.e., how well you connect to the other person? Ya, mebbe when you feel comfortable with a person, when you can be yourself with a person, there is nothing like it. Or, No, there are so many people in the world who are so different, who really can’t connect to each other, yet they are together?

Is it Trust?, hmm? Mebbe or Mebbe not. We all live in a hope. We trust somebody, and when its broken, we feel bad, but yet live with a hope that things will get well. It will definitely take some ample amount of time to build the trust again, but maybe it depends on the genuineness of the other individual.

Mutual Respect? Hmm, maybe. Maybe if we loose respect on somebody we won’t feel comfortable with them. We might not be able to continue with the relationship.

Personal space? If someone is intruding too much into our space, then probably its very difficult to take it. But the other way round is also not acceptable, that is when the other one is too much aloof about our life. teri-life-teri-marzi kinds...naaah!.. hmm personal space could also be a reason.

Care about the other person? Hmm, there are so many relationships where we don’t see the two having the same wavelength, they don’t share anything in common, but just the basic care/concern/affection about the other person holds the bond.

Physical attraction? But for how many days? we all grow old, we all wont look the same way we do now. Maybe it can act like a catalyst in the chemistry between the two, but anything beyond that? Er....... I dont think so.

Commitment? Ya, lots of relations stand on this last thread I guess. Though both are not happy with anything happening with them, they are together just coz they are committed to each other and can’t face the reality and the society.

Or is it the combination of all of these?
hmph! seems like a jigsaw puzzle indeed!

I just remember a song from page-3 whenever I think of relationships...
Kitney ajeeb rishtey hein jahaan pe,
Do pal milte hein, saath saath chalthein hein,
Jab modh aye tho, bachke nikalthe hein,
Kitney ajeeb rishtey hein jahaan pe...

Sigh!

A Generation Awakens...

This is the tagline of the movie Rang De Basanti. I can most definetly say it is one of the BEST movies I've seen oflate. The screenplay, the storyline, the starcast(its amazing to see how each of them go into the character so well), songs, so much and more.
I really liked the way they have connected the freedom fight to today's corruption. Our freedom fighters were fighting against the Britishers whereas today we have come to a stage where we need to fight against our own corrupt politicians.
The gradual change of fun loving brats into a bunch of responsible individuals is shown very neatly.



The dialogue of Atul kulkarni on sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil mein hein can really leave you with goosebumps.

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre will make your eyes go wet :(.

The way maddy proposes.. er.... (okey, go find out)... is damn cute :P

The smile of Maddy, the look of Sidharth and the chiseled face of Kunal kapoor can just leave you with just one word 'WOW'!

The Phirang female Sue is a real eye Candy ;-)

The dialogues of last scene where...er....okey, Let me not reveal the story of the movie and spoil the fun for people who are planning to watch it. But DO WATCH IT, its really a good one :)

I really donno if the movie can awaken a generation, but it'll definetely make people THINK.

Kodagina Bedagi's...

This new year really brought new surprises to me. First was the parasailing experience, then was the Prize what we got for winning a quiz in office. We won a second place and the prize was a KSTDC package tour for coorg :D
Three musketeers...
Two days...
One Mission... "Fun"...









The Tibetian Monastry...










View From Talakaveri...













We showed some mercy on the elephants in Dubare Forest by deciding not to go in elephant-safari and stayed back to play in water for almost 2 hours \:d/ ...













If I complete my post without mentioning about TWO important things, then my soul will definetly not rest in peace.

- All three of us are bigtime foooooooooooooodies :D. We had packed enough and more chakli, kodbale, Haldiram-samosa, Lays (some 4 flavours), Kurkure for 2 days. We just had them when we got bored in between our Biryani's, Fried rice, Idly-vada's and Poori's you see ;-). In Sanskrit they say Sarva Roga Nivarini which means curer of all ailments, and we used FOOD for that purpose. Headache? 'eat something, everything will be fine', Stomach ache? Mebbe you dint have food properly... And as Newton's third law goes, every action has equal and opposite reaction, so, this had to happen....at the end of the 2nd day, one of my frns badly needed a BREAK (;-)) from this. and that was when our theory of Sarva-Roga-Nivarini proved wrong :( (Ha Ha Ha, all 3 of us couldnt stop stop laughing after that :)))

- Second one is something about our interesting(!!!) tour GUIDE. He just took us back in time when we were in school where our Class teacher is standing and giving us instructions. Guys, see that place- 5 min time, go for susu-10 min time, have lunch-20 min time, Look to your right, Look to your left... sigh!
Sheesh, what a nerd he was :-B
Some of his QUOTES (:-O)

Welcome to Khey-Yes-Thi-Dhi-See...
KSTDC!!!
*giggles*
(that was the first statement we heard from him and we got to know his Ishtyle ;-)

phasht phasht breakphasht
(he gave only 31 seconds for that, can you believe?? huh!)

Welcome to coorg, the main community in coorg is Coorgies
(grrrrrrrrrrrr, wt the........arggggggggggghhhhh)

look to your right, there is a beautiful view
(*grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*)
(after another 10 mins, )
look (*man!!!!!!!!!!!!, dont tell me*) to your left, there is a beautiful view
(ROTFL, Literally)

Look at the beautiful ladies... they've worn special sarees... that is the traditional way of Coorgi females
(*saleko zaroor maar padega*)

Lets have a break for 5 minutes and its only for ladies.... we are not going to stop anywhere else, its specially for ladies to go to toilets... No coffee/Tea, only Toilets...
=)) =)) =)) =))
(man, wt was he upto!!!)

Atlast when we reached back to bangalore, our dude takes the mike again and starts...

Thank you for choosing Khey-Yes-Thi-Dhi-See... Happy Journey (*haaaaaaaaaaaan?????*)... er.... Happy Journey for all your future journys...
=))
=))
=))

PS: Kodagina Bedagis translate to "Coorg Beauties"
Kodagu was the old name of Coorg and Bedagi in kannada means Beauty :)

Dreams... hopes... possessiveness...

Beach...
WOW! It brings so many sweet thoughts in mind... long beach walks, playing in water, running in the sand, sitting on the shore talking to the nature, making sand castles.... ya...... Making sand castles is one of my favourite things to do...

You make the castle with utmost care...

It builds up into something which you wanted it to be...

It may not be looking good/making sense for people around you, but how should it matter?
Its your Masterpiece :)
and when someone tries to destroy it, why does it hurt so much?

It was from nowhere, If it gets destroyed, I can always create a new one... I have an ocean full of sand... I can always start afresh... Is it just that i'm Scared? Scared of what? Half an hour back there was nothing there..., Why do I get possessive about something which was never mine and feel bad when I get a sense of loosing it??? After I walk out from here, I know my castle is gonna break either by someone stamping on it or by a rattling wave...
Is it the dream which is getting shattered? Is it the hope that my castle will prevail for long? or is it just the possessiveness?
Sigh!

hmmph!!!...

Calvin Uvacha...

At night, My mind does not much care...
If what it thinks is here or there...
It tells me stories it invents and makes up things that don't make sense...
I don't know why it does this stuff...
The real world seems quite weird enough...

The Last Leaf…

RANGA SHANKARA is holding a theatre festival called Ranga-Shankrathi as a part of their New Year and Pongal celebrations. I’d heard a lot about this theatre but this is the first time I went there. Myself and a friend of mine somehow managed to creep into the theatre by 7.20 as we knew they’d close the doors by 7.30 and won’t let anyone in after that. I’d never seen a theatre so well organized, the strict timings, the neat seating arrangements, making people switch off their cell phones and all that.
I went there for a play called Last Leaf, a story by O’ Henry.

The Story revolves around 3 main characters, Johnsy, Sue and Berman. Johnsy and Sue were friends and were living in the same house. They had similar interests in art and had a studio for themselves. Mr Berman is an old painter who used to live in the ground floor of the same building. He is a big boozard and always talks about some masterpiece which he is intending to do.

In the cold winter of November, Johnsy is attacked with Pneumonia and it gets so severe that the doctor tells Sue about the chances of Johnsy’s survival are one in ten and that one chance is her want-to-live. When Sue gets back to the room, she finds Johnsy counting something looking at the window. When Sue asks her as to what she was doing, Johnsy replies telling she is counting the leaves in the Ivy vine on the brick wall outside the window and she is sure she’d die by the time the last leaf falls from the vine. Sue gets very irritated to hear this but feels very helpless at the state of her dear friend on whom even the doctors had lost hope.

Sue comes to Mr Berman's house to ask him to pose for some of her painting which she was supposed to do for an advertising agency. She finds Berman stinking strongly with his gin, and one corner lay his white canvas which is waiting since years to receive his masterpiece. Berman learns from Sue about Johnsy’s pneumonia and the story of her last leaf of the Ivy vine and laughs at it. That night, Sue makes Berman pose like a hermit for her painting but finds the gusting wind and a fierceful rain which makes Berman head back home.

The next day Johnsy wakes up with a sure thought that the last leaf in the vine would have fallen coz of the rain which had poured all night, but for her surprise finds it clinging to its vine strongly. The same story repeats for another two days and Johnsy starts sensing that something has made the last leaf stay strong at its stem, which may be giving her a message that she was wrong looking forward to die. And this sudden realization, the want to live, makes her overcome her fears and she starts recovering from her disease.

The next day, they learn that Mr Berman died out of Pneumonia. He was found with a lantern, a ladder, some scattered brushes, and a palette with green and yellow colors mixed on it. The reason for the last leaf seen from the window, which was unshaken by the winds and was never fluttered by the rain was coz, it was a painting of Berman, his Masterpiece, which he painted the night when the last leaf fell…

The story was so very touching… I was almost into tears when I heard the last dialogue telling it’s the masterpiece of Berman… through out the play there was a song telling ‘Life is to Love, Life is to Live…’
How very true it is, Most of the times we are trying to be Johnsys just fearing about the last leafs, we often forget to LOVE the LIFE, being bermans is quite not possible for everyone, but atleast we can LIVE our life by not just waiting for that Last Leaf…

O Henry….^:)^

Ek choti si love story.... Errrrr... okey...can say so ;-)

I’ve done my complete schooling in Namma Bangalore :D…. And there are lots of lovely memories attached to my childhood…. Go to school in the morning, fight with few guys, boss around with a few of them, go home, play Lagori, Ice spice (I SPY/Hide and Seek), go back home after some nth warning from amma, and do the homework for the heck of it…and have a sound sleep…one whole day is over…
Such a simple life it was….
And I was one dumbo of nth order when it came to all the mushy mushy things… when I was in 7th standard, there was one guy in my class…and when I remember him now, he actually looked so cute, but that time, I probably dint know the meaning of the word cute, or rather dint know I could associate it to people around me…:-… and this guy comes one day out of the blue and…
He: Hi khushi,
Me: Hi,
He: actually…. Er….. I love you…
Me: haaan? *eye brows raised, mouth making an O, whole body shivering*
He: ya....... please say YES… *with a tensed look*,
Me: haan? I’ll go complain saroja mam :(( *starts weeping*….
He: ...Er……… its ok……. Leave it……. Sorry…… Sorry... dont tell mam.....
and he ran away...
he dint even lift his head in front of me after that... and I was feeling really great for doing something like that :->

Huhahahahahha….. that guy would have got a real shock of his life…. what to do, that was the first time someone had come and spoken to me like that and mebbe it was the first time he was proposing someone, but the response he got, he he, I don’t think he could have ever imagined that…. And definitely I think he’ll be remembering this and cursing me all through his life… his first proposal.... sigh!!!
=))

New..........

2005…..A year that was…
Few bitter experiences... A little more-than-few sweet moments…
Meeting new people… Strengthening the bond with the old ones…
Feeling lonely at times…. Jumping around with friends most of the times…
Practicality winning over emotions…
Hmm… quite an eventful year… :)

Here comes the New year……
A clean slate to draw what ever I wish…
New dreams...
New Hopes...
New Goals...

Happy New year to all :)

How does it feel?

You are listening to the Radiocity…. They say about some new contest they are hosting for Christmas…. Its something called “Gift a wish” contest… you can nominate anyone whom you feel deserves a special gift for Christmas… and justify the reason…If your mail impresses the radiocity people, they would gift your someone a special gift… and the special gift list includes pick and drop for a week in BMW, small gifts for a week, a dinner for a couple and so on…

And the next day you go home after a tiring day of the same old boring work in office, finish dinner and just about to go to bed, but your friend insists you to listen to Radiocity 91FM… oho… ok….switch on the radio, some phirang songs are making lots of noise where as you are in a mood of listening to kishore kumar’s or Mohd. Rafi’s Rona Dhona…But you bear the brunt for your friend… and after completion of one or two songs, Rohit Barker, who is the host of the show, starts chattering with somebody on air and you realize its your friend… and your friend is talking about you and why you are so special… and Rohit barker announces that your friend has won the contest of “Gift your Wish” and guess what the gift your friend has got…..
a Parasailing trip………
WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is exactly what happened to me yesterday!!!
December 22nd 2005 :D
How should I feel about the whole thing????????????????
Firstly the whole concept is so cute (thanks to Radiocity :D)…. My friend writes to Radiocity and tells them why I deserve a special gift for Christmas… Just that gesture itself is shooooooooooo very shwweeeeeeeeeeet… I’d won a big gift here itself :D... Just this much was more than enough for me...It becomes really trivial whether I get to win a gift or not...but then what happened, I got the gift too, and what was it, a Parasailing, voila!!!!……
I’m just flying since yesterday!!!…. (ya… literally in the near future too ;-)).. and I’m so very excited about this whole thing, I’m just speechless…
It was a very very sweet gesture of my friend and oye, tussi great ho ji ;-)

fooooooooooood :D

This weekend I happend to visit a restaurant in my native.... The restaurant looked pretty much sophisticated and very neat for that place..... But what was very interesting was its menu card... here it goes...

Anyone interested in having
CHOCALET,
GULB JAMON,
GAJAR HALAW,
TOMOTO (Soup),
PAROTA,
SEZWON FRIED RICE,
MUSHROOM PERRERSOLT,
VEG HANDY BIRYANI
Mann, it was not just one or two mistakes, but the whole menu card had such things... I wonder if it was really deliberate..., but why would anyone do that... and the best part was, food was just toooooooooooooooooooo good :D
aha, Menu Datha sukhi Bhava!!!

Bheed mein tanhayee...

Bheed mein tanhaayi si hai
Dil pooch rahaa hai aisa kyun?
Bas, yeh aansoon tapak pade hain aaj
Najaane yeh dil iss uljhann mein kyun...

Sabh kuchh hai yahaan
Lekin phir bhi ek kammi si hai
Sabh apne apne paas hain
Phir bhi ajeeb nammi si hai...

Shaayad yehi hai uljhann meri
Ke joh apne hain, woh hain bhi par nahin
Jab chaahti hoon woh hon paas apne
Dekhne mein woh hain kahin nahin

Mehsoos karna chaahti hoon unko
Par phir bhi, woh ehsaas na aaye
Dil bohut akelaa hai aaj
Aur bas, doobta doobta chalaa jaaye.

Koi sambhaalo issey
Bheed mein bhi hone lagi tanhaayi
Kaash paas aakar koi duur karta issey
Varna iss tanhaayi se na jaaoon maari.

Had got this as a forward some times back... could relate to it very much today... hats off the author of this poem...

Neal n Nikki....err.... shall I say Crap and Creepy

thhpppppppppbbbbbbpppppppppttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
Yes, this was just the reaction while I watched the movie...

Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh, what a pathetic movie it was…
Our hero is planning to get married in 21 days and plans to spend the last few days of his kuvarapan(?) in an interesting(!!!) way... So, he is on a desperate hunt for some ‘hot chicks’ as he puts it... and here comes our errrrrr heroine... I wonder how many days this lady has starved to get the right (?) curves… She’ll convince him that she’d help him in his ‘mission’, if he acts as her BF for few days just to make her Ex-BF feel jealous and get back to her… and the same thing happens and this lady dumps his Ex-BF who is now back just to satisfy her EGO….. Now it’s the pay back time for her to do something for our Hero... but by now our Mr Hero has realized that if he ever wants to spend some quality time, that should be with our heroine. And ya, they spend a night together and that is it… they realize they are in ‘looooooooooooove’ and eventually they get married after some more funny scenes…

arghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you call this a story, here is the acting bit. Tanisha yells all the time at the top of her voice, and you need some time to realize if shez crying or laughing. Those skimpy dresses she wears no where look sensuous, but just look damn cheap. Uday tries to imitate sharukh at times, and his lipstick looks damn irritating.

I wonder what message our Mr.Director was trying to give. I mean did he intend to say there is nothing wrong in having Physical relation before marriage? Or if you have a physical relation, then you’ll have to marry that person alone? Or only after you have some physical intimacy, you can love someone?

Duh!!!!
Today’s youth are as it is confused souls when it comes to putting their own feelings under the heading of whether Crush/Infatuation/Love/Lust. And such crappy movies give another dimension to the whole thing. what values are we spreading across, DAMN!!!!

Not afraid to die......

No, I'm not afraid to die.......

but I just dont want to be there when it happens...

to all my sweetie pies....

Whenever I feel down, I have this song which has a gr8 capacity to pep me up and bring me back to my 'self'.... here it goes...

You're my Honeybunch,
SugarplumPumpy-umpy-umpkin,
You're my Sweetie Pie
You're my Cuppycake,
Gumdrop Snoogums-Boogums,
You're the Apple of my Eye
And I love you so and I want you to know,
That I'll always be right here,
And I love to sing sweet songs to you
Because you... are.... so.... dear

Smile…… & the world smiles with you… :)

Last week when I’d gone to Udupi, I was traveling in Konkan railway to Murudeshwar beach. I’d not got window seat, so couldn’t stare outside the window much. Ish, how much I love sitting next to the window in journeys and go into my own lala land, but there was this sadu looking creature sitting next to me, and i dint even feel like asking her for that seat. The only way to kill time was to read the boring magazines which we’d bought just before boarding the train. The same old gossip, glamour, humour was damn bugging, so I closed the book.

Diagonally opposite to me, there was a lady holding a very small baby in her hand. The baby was not falling under any of these shoooooo shweeeeeeet, chooooo cute category. It was little dark and they’d put black dots all over its face. (They put these black dots on their face so that people don’t cast their eyes…poor babies, they are so cute otherwise :-). This baby was starring at me from quite some time. I gave a smile and nodded my head at it, and it gave smile back. It had only 2 teeth and was looking damn cute with that smile.

I was just wondering at certain things…When we were small, has anybody taught us how to smile?? has anyone told us that if u widen your lips, it’s a gesture to show you are happy? NO? In that case we all must have come to this earth knowing how to SMILE...then why do we hesitate so much?... I myself realize so many times I come to office, wish people around me a 'good morning' with a I-can-smile-only-so-much face (sheesh, such an artificial smile).... its different that i keep giggling throught the day when with my friends... but just to become 'formal' or 'professional' why do we restrict ourselves so much...

we all know its just a small curve which can set things straight and yet we keep it within....

"If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give. ."

"Smile, its the second best thing you can do with your lips ;-).. says a profound friend of mine...

"The best way to dress up is to put on a smile.." (should i add with your dress?? ;-)

"Smile.. it improves your face value..."

"Life is a camera, face it with a smile :)"

"Smile.... and the world smiles with you... :D "

Fi(a)tness!!!!

lucky garfield...

but i'll have to start aerobics from tomorrow...

the whole world around me is giving me 'looks'...

sigh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when we look back the path we've traversed....

We are filled with regrets…
For things not done…
For words not said…
For love not shown…
For dreams not accomplished...

but…………………
Can the unsaid words do as much damage as the words that were out…
don’t we wish we hadn’t spoken few words at times????
don’t we all regret for the love that we’ve shown??
don’t we wish for if some dreams were left as dreams alone???