when the music changes, so does the dance...

My dad was(is) a great fan of Vijayanti mala bali and Hema malini's dance and he had thought one day even his daughter would become a great dancer. So, even before I could think whether it interests me or not, I started my 'thaiya thai'(that is the first step in Bharatanatyam) when I was 6. But absolutely no complains, I thoroughly enjoyed it :). Be it a Farewell party for a teacher or the Annual day at school, I used to be on stage all the time :).

Even from our dance class, we used to give lots of performances, but more than that, we were all enjoying the practice sessions a lot. We had a famous ballet called 'Daiveche' (which was on atma linga of GOKARNA) which we had peformed 13 and a half times ;). I shall blog about this 'half ballet' again as its a long and interesting story in itself!. I cleared a couple of dance certifications and got scholarship for 3 years from Karnataka State :).

When I started my PU, there was lot of pressure as that was supposed to be the turning point in ones life as told by the whole world and I had to quit dance! May be I could have managed it together, but frankly speaking, I never felt anything then, May be I'd taken it for granted :-. After sometime, I started realizing that may be I should continue it again, but thanks to the college I studied, I had to go to tuitions whole day to get atleast a 35. Tell me something, how is studying Transducers and Instrumentation (a subject in 5sem) helping me in my life today? ah... all credits to the VTU syllabus! And after BE, I was more concentrating on a job, career et al...

Now, with a new job, I thought I shall start dance too, but this time I wanted to try something new, so I thought of joining ODISSI :D. I started my 'tha ithi thaka dhimi tha'(the first step I learnt in Odissi) now when I'm 26. Gosh! I'm sure my first step at 6, wasnt this difficult at all. An Unfit body, a bad stamina, abundant fat all over, but still there is something which is making me look forward to every weekend for my classes. I dont think I can be (rather I dont even plan to be) a great dancer as my dad had thought, for that matter, I dont even know how long I can continue it because of the nature of my work, but I guess I'll give my best to learn and I shall enjoy every bit of it until i'm doing it :-D.

On a lighter note, there goes a chinese proverb, 'We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance ;)' he he

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cant relate to the related...

They say...
height has to match...
the food we eat has to match...
the language we talk has to match...
the two should 'look' good together for the society...
rest all 'should' be compromised by 'you-know-who'... :-/

I feel...
wavelengths should be same...
interestes should match...
goals in life should be similar...
there needs to be something called 'chemistry'...
and rest all the things could be compromised by both...








hmmphhh!!!
I dont believe I cant relate to people i'm actually related to :-/

absurd...

XX? or XY???

All men are extremely busy.
Although they are so busy, they still have time for women.
Although they have time for women, they don't really care for them.
Although they don't really care for them, they always have one around.
Although they always have one around them, they always try their luck with others.
Although they try their luck with others, they get really pissed off if the women leaves them.
Although the women leave them they still don't learn from their mistakes and still try their luck with others.



The most important thing for a woman is financial security.
Although this is so important, they still go out and buy expensive clothes.
Although they always buy expensive clothes, they never have something to wear.
Although they never have something to wear, they always dress beautifully.
Although they always dress beautifully, their clothes are always just "an old rag".
Although their clothes are always "just an old rag", they still expect You to compliment them. Although they expect you to compliment them, when you do, they don't Believe you.

Men are from Mars, women are from venus.... oh... John gray, you were so right :D

er...

Gorgeous,
Intelligent,
kind,
sweet,
charming,
witty,
hilarious,
friendly
er...well enough about ME!
How are you?

Universe and humor!

After re iterating to myself some n number of times that round is not a shape and its high time I start working out, I decided(atlast) to join the gym in my office. Kept the kit ready, forgot it for 2 days, took it to office the third day and kept it in the desk for a week till I got mentally prepared (ahem), and then I started from last monday!
Tread mill 20 minutes... distance - 2kms... burn 160 calories
cycling 5 minutes... burn 40 calories... yayyyyyyy 200 calories gone :D :D :D
and i'm regularly doing it... (common, 4 days is not less).
thanks to google, I found out,
1 samosa adds 256 calories,
10 pieces of potato chips gives you 110 calories,
One chottta cup of halwa adds 570 calories,
One piece of jalebi is 200 calories,
One motichoor laddu adds 250 calories,
One plate bhel puri is 250 calories,
Two peices of murukku adds 580 calories,
Any veg pizza you touch will have a minimum of 250 calories,
One spooooon of mango pickle is sixty fiiiiive caloriesss,
gaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwdd, whatever I like to eat has so many calories, what is left now? some ghas puus???
Universe I tell ya, has a weirrrrrrrd sense of humor! :-

START.. STOP... or CONTINUE...

I joined a new organization 3 weeks back. CLAP CLAP CLAP!!!
Among the few things which I've noticed here, there is one particular practice which caught my attention. The Quality assurance team have formulated a practice called 'START, STOP or CONTINUE'. At a regular interval of time they consult each team and get the information on the New/Worst/Best practices of the organization and depending on the statistics obtained, they repair the processes.

hmm, it seemed pretty interesting and I thought I'll apply this on to ME, based on my learnings from the last year :)

I think I should,
START...
- being more sensible in my decisions than being just sensitive about my emotions.
- improving bigtime on money management.
- my gym regularly(damn this man!).
- redefining the rules of friendhip as the definition I have is totally outdated! May be the perception I have needs to be changed. I realized I should be less college-ish with my friends and understand that each of us have our priorities, our space, our life and I should not interfere in theirs and expect them to act as expected!

STOP...
- thinking ONLY about me and do some small compromises to show my care to the people who care for me.
- losing my self-respect in front of any (damn) emotion!!!
- breaking my head on small issues as life is actually too short to waste on silly things/people. I should realize Ignorance is bliss at times!
- being so careless about me and the people around me.

CONTINUE...
- to live life to the fullest!!!

phew! my list is done. I'm not sure if i'll follow all these religiously, but I shall definetely TRY!!!.
I might succeed or I may fail miserably, but so what, next year is always there to Start, Stop or Continue :)

Happy New year to all of you, May all good things come your way :)

konfusions...thy name!

Right??? or was I wrong?
do I have an option now?
how am I sure that i'm not getting into a wrong place again?
Can I change now?
Do I want to change?
Career?? or Marriage?? or both??
was I too much self centered?? or was I just being frank??
now what?
where to?
how?
I had always known Destiny as not a matter of chance but a matter o f choice. but its also true that only when you have a choice, your life gets difficult. If you dont have, you'll just accept things and move on...
konfusions konfusions konfusions.... uffffffff!

back with a....

tadan tadan tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan ;)

cambiamento...

Listening to birds chirping in the morning...
Searching for your favourite star in the night sky...

Chatting, laughing, loafing, having fun with friends...
Shedding tears when you give a goodbye hug...

Sharing the joy of your close ones when they accomplish something...
Stand as a shoulder when their life goes on a low key...

The Glory of getting the first job...
feeling bad when you need to leave and move on next...

Smiling at the small puppy jumping with joy on roadside...
Crying for your small kitten which was biten by a street dog...

Talking in rage about the terrorists and the dirty politicians...
Sympathizing the victims of the terrorist attack...

So many parameters influence our lives...
Seasons pass by, we move through different phases, from day to night, from light to darkness, guess the only thing which is constant throughout is CHANGE!
















we need to move on...after all.... the show must go on...

Sayonara...

We were just out of college, met here in office 2.6 years ago. Shared the same innocence (or the lack of it ;-)) from college, so, the gelling was not difficult at all...

One canteen table where all could meet... fought for idly drowning in one bucket of sambar, had one by-4 coffee, those loud laughter in chorus made people raise eyebrows (uh, who are these creatures kinda luks...duhh, who cares!!!), the long jail walks, THE ttbs to end the day(yeah, its called as tea time bitching sessions)... oh, its been an eventful journey...



4 different people,
4 plates of idly sambar (:P) [this is just to show the common looooooove for foooood :D]
4 attitudes towards life,
4 dreams,
4 hopes and
4 goals

Now, one is moving ahead to fulfill hers...

these 2 are the memorablia from v-3.
Good Luck poo...

Meeting and parting is the way of life,
Parting and meeting is the hope of life...

Vermissen du...... :(

Selfless??

who comes first?
you?? or your relationship???
hmm, to be politically correct, 'relationship' would sound as a good answer, but, can you truely love someone if you cant love yourself???

A nice tag...

I am thinking about LIFE and its humor...
I said I got drenched yesterday, :D (naaa na na naaaaaaa na :D)
I want a DBC (actually long time having it...hmph!), a world tour, to shop till I FEEL BUGGED, a black santro for myself, a labrador, a small house with a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig lawn, a swing, Rain, long ride, Mr Arjun Bharadwaj( ;-) ), pani puri... :-? ya, only so much for now...
I wish I could go all alone to a place of complete strangers for sometime...
I miss playing Ice-pice, laggori, fighting with my bro's friends, waiting for dad to return back home at night so that I get something nice to eat (now he waits for me :-), that 20Rs pocket money which I used to get every saturday when I was in school(it was actually more than enough for me, wow!), exchaning paper letters with few of my school friends, bunking classes and going for some crap movies, running out of the class from the backdoor after attendance is taken, some good times with my college friends, ohhh so many!
I hear 'Agar tum miljao, zamaana chod denge hum' currently playing in my comp...
I always wonder
'kitne ajeeb rishtey hein jahaan pe,
do pal milte hain,
saath saath chaltein hain,
jab modh ayetho bachke nikalthe hain'
I regret for nothing... whatever has happend, has happened for good :)
I am ME
I dance as if no one is watching
I sing very bad!
I cry often.... a bigtime cry baby!
I am not what people perceive at times...
I make with my hands delicious dishes :D
I write about what I feel...
I'm confused about the world I tell ya...sigh! (er... konfused I meant ;-) )
I need to be less carefree...
I should stop stp being this l....a....z....y
I started to go for my aerobics, phew!
I finished writing this tag :D

hmm, an interesting tag alright, It took so much time to write it. Anyone is free to take up this tag :)

Heard somewhere...

“Does familiarity actually breed contempt?
And staying far makes and strengthens relationships?”

hmm... :-?
How many times have we felt that its nice to stay far... atleast the relationship will be in a formal, 'hi-how are you-I'm fine-thank you' state and people will be happy?
But staying far from someone for long?
will that not dilute a relationship?

Jus wondering...

'Moti'vating 'fact'or...

You know how???
Here is my funda...

Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?
A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a lamb eat? Leaves and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a kabab is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system.
Need grain?
Eat chicken.

Q: Aren't fried foods bad for me?
A: YOU'RE NOT LISTENING!!! Foods are fried these days in vegetable oil. How could getting more vegetables be bad for you?

Q: Is chocolate bad for me?
A: Are you crazy? HELLO ...... Cocoa beans ... another vegetable ! It's the best feel-good food around!

Q: Is swimming good for your figure?
A: If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me.

Q: Is getting in shape important for my lifestyle?
A: Hey! 'Round' is a shape!

Well, I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had About food and diets...

So..... here you go.....

PS: But... sheeesh! Reality continues to ruin my life... I need to start my Aerobics atleast from monday...
I just hope
I get up at 5,
I get up and dont feel lazy and go back to sleep,
I get up, dont feel lazy, but feel I'm not overweight and I dont need any aerobics,
I get up, dont feel lazy, dont feel i'm not overweight, but feel its anyway 10th and let me start from next month,
I get up, dont feel any of these, but dad is sleeping and he dioest feel like getting up, (he is my escort)
I get up, get ready, and it shouldnt rain..
mannn, how many parameters control me... and you people tell I dont work out????
sighhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
okey okey, I'm going from monday... YES ... PAKKA!!!!!

Amrieeka???

These guys in US are damn busy I must say... Managing the clients on one hand, offshore folks on the other, a complete mechanical life, weekends go in partying and then wait for the next weekend... they just dont find time for anything you see.... nope nothing! not even time to choose a girl for them to spend the rest of their life with... so mostly they transfer this headache(!!!) to their momma's...
When I visited my native last week for prasad's wedding, I met one such momma...

Description:

She: A lean female aged around 50+, wearing a super jatang kancheevaram silk saree, with some 4-5 gold neck laces, some 10+ gold bangles on each hand, one big ear ring and a specs (Gold frame!)...

Me: A definetely-cant-be-termed-as-lean-in-any-angle female clanned in super jatang saree (as it was a gift from prasad for his wedding), wearing some minimal jewellery which all marriageable girls (ahem) must wear in mangalore, giving artificial smiles to all the known strangers and walking around...

Encounter:
She along with her daughter enter the Scene (read my granny's house, which is just next to the marriage hall) where me, padi(a cousin brother) and my mom are sitting.

She: Oh, this is the girl???
Me : ?!!!!?!!!!?!!!!! :-) (an artificial one at that!)

The obvious questions of age, weight, height, company, college, subject and what not were asked.... and like a goody goody girl I answered all of them... and then...

She: How fast did you get your job after enginerring?
Me : er.. a couple of months later (*oh funduuu eh???*)

She: hmm... what subject you studied you said?
Me : Electronics...

She: oh, you did not study computers, thats why... otherwise you'd have got the job soon..
Me: er... hmm :-) (???!!!!!!!???)

She: You are ready to leave your job right? the guy is in America...
Me: oh! (*phew, I got a reason...*) Er.... No, I've no plans of leaving my job or going to the US (*Mad or what?*)

She: Why???
Me : Er... I want to settle down in Bangalore... I'm not looking for any long term stay outside... (*WHY eh??? huh!!!*)

She: He is earning good, he has bought a car there recently, what is your problem, why do you need to work when he is well settled??
Me : Er.... I'm not interested in going there (*owwww Man, why the hell she was asking about my job, subject I studied blah blah blah if she wanted me to quit my career*)

She: Then how is it possible, after marriage you cant stay in bangalore and he in America right?
Me : hmm :-) (*lady, you are talking as if i'm already married to your son*)

She: My son has asked me to shortlist 4-5 girls and keep. he is coming in september for 20 days, coz he doesnt have much leave, he'll select one of these and get the VISA done and immediately he is planning to take the girl with him to America. You guys think and tell us if its fine with you. only then we shall proceed...
Me: hmm :-) (a super sarcastic one at that!)

My mom who was a silent spectator of the whole drama, breaks her silence now and tells out that we shall call back if we are interested (ofcourse, even she had decided by now that we would not be calling them) . The lady is about to leave, turns back and asks,
'what height did you say you were? '
I said '5.4'...
come stand next to my daughter... *Er....what???... hmph!!!!... grrrrrrrrr!!!!* [** some emotions just cant be expressed you see **] and she goes near the door and comes back again and,
'you do onething, you give her photo and horoscope, write her email address too, let them talk over internet and let them decide. who are we to talk after all. '
*arghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!*
and there ended the saga...

I really did not understand what kind of girl this lady was looking out for. how did things like my job, or how intelligent I was in getting a job, or my subject mattered if at all she wanted a goody goody sophisticated housewife to be settled in amreeka??? Is it that only the one who has studied electronics can cook well for her son? or what is it? pssst...

And these amreeka guys I tell ya... Marriage is definetely an essential step in your life boss... dont trust on those 4-5 candidates shortlisted by your momma and those 20 damn days... Know what you are looking for in your girl first and try spending some 'quality' time in searching the one for you. After all, you'll be spending a significant part of your life with her buddy!!!
duhh!!!!

Gloomy???

Sometimes these cold cloudy days are good...
they let you savor your bad mood...

KAPU calling.. trin trin trin...

Hello there, I'm coming ;-)

PS: For those who dont know, KAPU is a beach in UDUPI and I'm going to my native tonight and will be visiting this favorite beach of mine tomorrow :D
A view from that rock.... Ah.......