Cute Conversations!

These days all my darling daughter talks about is having her own pink room with stuff inside. Will this pink fixation go away any time soon I ask!
Everyday for the past few days now, the conversation goeslike this....especially story time just before sleep.
Maa....I want pink walls and I am like hmm..ok but only 1 wall
In a few seconds again....maa, I need a big barbie picture on one wall
Then again, I need a big shelf to keep my toys
In a few heart beats, maa....where will my study table be? I want a lamp above it.
And then, maa in my bay window, there will be a bed no, I am like: yes! Then she says she wants lot of cushions to sit there and look at the stars and rain....
She also says she wants a overhead light in the bay window when she wants to sit and read...

I feel like I am going to have a jolly good time putting together her room alone and havent given a passing thought to how I want my room to look yet!!

Flash Back

My friend R has come down from Singapore. We met after 4 long years again....in this interval her baby has become a 6yr old and I saw the younger one for the first time after she was born. Last weekend we all met and stayed at S's house and we had loads of fun. We have all known each other for 25yrs now- you can imagine how we will have to catch up on. It is like watching a flash back of 25yrs of our life!! We are missing N- the last time the 4 of us met together was when my baby was just born and today she is 7yr old. There were the good old days when we had a ritual of meeting every evening- we had to do it come hell or high water....the evening meetings in our balcony, our walks around our area.....it has been 11 years now, since we stopped meeting regularly but we have to just meet for us to carry on from where we left off!! So, R showed me her wedding photos yesterday which set off a frenzied flashback I came back home and pulled out some old photos from the yesteryears and uploaded them on FB. Now, waiting for people to crawl out of their holes and say oh! U had this with u? Waiting for the fun to unravel!!!!!!n

December - Adieu to 2012

The last day of 2012 was truly memorable....

We had a BBQ party on the terrace of a good friend's place with very few close knit group of people.
The earlier plan was to go to a house party, which I was not very keen on. we ditched that plan last minute.
I could take my daughter as well here- why should she miss out on all the fun???

So, I prepared a few veggie starter for the BBQ - Paneer, potatoes & capsicum. M&S were getting the non-veg stuff.

It was just a few handful people- the same gang did a trip at the end of 2011 - we had had oodles of fun on that trip - it was most memorable trip in the recent times.

We went to their place at about 8.30pm - got the grill ready in a leisurely pace - fed the 2 hungry brats and let them play downstairs and we went up. We were about 13 of us. we started with the barbeque - had the yummy starters - chitchatted some more - like there was no tomorrow...

and then at about 11.30 -put on some dhinkchak music, started dancing - entertaining our cosy little gang :-D. Everyone were thoroughly entertained!!
We were up till 4am- almost dead on our feet - then crashed

S & me started the day really early - we were up by about 6am with just 2 hours of sleep - refreshed.
The 2 of us went for a long walk - then came back home @ 7am. Everyone else got up one by one by 10am - We all had a hearty breakfast at her place, came home by 12pm.

This was one of the best New years till date- after the coke-chips girlie new years parties we would have in front of the television eons ago....nothing can beat that!

I can new memories - but will not trade places with the old one!! Thanks you girls for the wonderful teenage we all had!!

Blogging

I am so happy right now that i want to scream from the rooftops.....
I am completing 2 years in my current company - which is the first ever in my career. This company has been really good to me in so many different ways...
so rightly like RN puts it - I have broken my own record of sorts - completed 2 years here (which is a first) and another sort of record thats off the records - which only a few chosen ones know all about!!! ;-) wink! wink!

but since I joined here - i havent had free access to the vast World Wide Web - hence have been really lagging behind on my writing. It is not like i can just open my page and start jotting down when i feel i want to...cos its just not possible... but there are these irresistable urges to do so...

I have so many things forming in my mind, so many incidents and events that have happened over the last few months that i wanted to put down in cyber memory - but simply have not been able to....

I am now trying to put them down here one by one - Happy Reading!!!!

From Conventional to Modern

It has been 3 eventful months and a lot has been going on - both in the professional as well as the personal front but i have not felt like putting my heart out in the open for people to read what's in it and jump to their own conclusions....

today i just felt like penning down something. I have been writing for a few years now...I always loved writing big, long letters to my friend. S is a childhood friend of mine. They stayed a few houses down our block- in fact her parents are still here. we have been friends for a long time now- for over 20 years.

Anyways, in between this time, her father got transferred to Coimbatore and the family shifted there. her grand-parents and uncle were here. Her father would come every once in a while to BLR. R & me would keep all kinds of innovative ways of communication channels open with her. We would record what we wanted to tell her in a cassette (anyone remember that any more??) and send it through her father to her. Where as I would also write her long letters - sometimes 6-long book sheets long. I loved writing even then :-)!

For someone who came from a Kannada medium (me) - it was not hard to write at all. All those letters are well preserved but she told me only recently - that she would get bored to read so much and just skim through the pages to know the important info :-) :-)

So, one fine day, I decided I will start blogging and HAPPY-GO-LUCKY came into being.

Along the way, i became a little dejected thinking no one was reading them, even if they were reading -there were no comments and I thought of stopping it but my daughter has been an inspiration.

I wrote about something concerning her - something that happened last year, she makes me tell the story to everyone & anyone who will listen - So, finally for her sake i have continued to write...

If nothing else, I am leaving her with a legacy on an electronic-medium, which will be here forever imprinted for her to read, remember and contemplate what her mothers thoughts were on her, or other subjects.
May be when she grows up she will learn something from it- if nothing, just to have fun!!

Hahahaha!!!!!

After a long and tiring day at work, I had to take it home and bed as well. I was working till about 12am and in a really stressed, frustrated & mean mood.

Then my hubby put a movie- Bol Bachan

And then the laughathon started. I think after judging 2 seasons of Laughter Challenge, Rohit Shetty has really gone above being bonkety-bonkers!! This is a complete no-brainer comedy.

It is 12.30am in the morning and I am sitting here and laughing like no man's business and not even bothered about what anybody will think...

The dialogues are -

pest-control yourself - just control yourself
this is not my cup of lassi- this is not my cup of tea
necessity is the mother of discovery chanel - necessity is the mother of invention
mein uski nazron se gir gaya - my eyes have fallen from my face
honesty is the best policy - honesty is the best mutual policy

huh?? dialogues?? what dialogues??

But whatever they are - I am laughing like my side seams are splitting and ending up with a stomach ache!!

Hahaha- loving it!!!

63rd Independence Day!

For some time now, I have been thinking about posting something-anything on my blog! It’s been really long. I have been here. There is a lot of stuff going on – on the professional as well as the personal front. There have been these sudden itches where I feel like putting my thoughts & feelings down but there is nothing near me – to record it. That’s been the case for a while now.


So, get ready to go on a roller-coaster ride with me soon…

For a starter, I can start with the 15th of August – our 63rd Independence Day. I did a lot that day.

But there was also a blast from the past which took me on a whirlwind ride down memory lane to the 50th Independence Day I celebrated.

That was the year I was in the 2nd year of college, some of us school friends were still in touch then. We used to go to School once in a while – for Independence day, school day etc,.

We came to know that our seniors had planned a get-together of sorts on the 50th Independence day in our school. What better way to celebrate it??

The theme was we would all meet there in all our glorious Indian wear – by flaunting the colors of the flag. We went there in our pristine white salwar kameezes with orange, green and blue dupattas.

We were all so happy to be back in school. I can’t really explain that feeling of belonging somewhere- Our School, where we spent the best part of our growing up years and adolescence. We had just left this sheltered place to pursue the next level of Academics and were really trying our best to get accepted wherever we went.

So, It was really a wonderful feeling to be back in school and we were the SENIORS!! That feeling it self was out of this world.