My Expression!! My Life!!

I seem to be venting out my frustration on the shows on TV these past few days… but I am unable to hold it in as well because of the trash that they dish out these days in the form of news… Zillions of news channels these days… the count increasing by the day… regional, national, local, etc etc… and what do they show?? A famous actresses’ house warming function… (Like I am bothered!!! And plus the pujari who came to do the puja has to give an interview as well… of course it’s mandatory!! What r u talking??!?!) A mockery of a murder that took place recently…. (This one has more twists and turns and suspects than any other crime story I’ve come across in recent times… No substantial news.. The same hashed up version of parroting the old news over and again…) Which actor is currently seeing which actress?? How and where do they meet?? (Yeah… they have to try and evade the paparazzi just to ‘by chance’ fall in front of them… feeding the rumor mills so that the show ratings/publicity can...

When I was back in college doing my masters, we had a course called SAPG (Self Awareness and Personal Growth) … which basically dealt with the various ways to improve our personality and cope up with the stressful ways of the corporate world… whatever! But when we were doing that course we also had to do a presentation on something… some random topic… and my group’s chosen topic was Serial Killers… ‘coz that was the time the Noida killings were in the news and all that… anyways… the presentation went off well, was well appreciated and it was quite an entertaining topic if I say so myself… During the past few weeks, I have been subjected to another kind of “Serial Killers”…. An assortment of teary-eyed emotionally filled serials on television which have been running for as long as I can remember… These days in the PG once I am back from work, I plonk myself on the sofa and am a spectator to the various ways in which the mother-in-laws plot against daughters-in-laws, the kind uncles who ...

Hectic weekends for the past couple of weeks…! This apart from the normal schedule of the week… Last to last weekend was a trip to Hampi (Karnataka) and this last weekend was a trip to Chennai for a cousin’s get together … both write-ups are pending along with a couple of other things that I wanted to write about.. I am really too tired to put my thoughts together now and it’s hard to write when you are feeling so pooped!! Will take a short breather and be back again in a couple of days..!! Until then… Adios!! :-)

When you work in a corporate environment, you get to hear some common words and phrases used in meetings and in your normal conversations… And somewhere by chance, when you talk to people outside your workplace, those phrases involuntarily find a place in your exchanges… Like these days when I do not want to discuss something with my parents, I just say “Can we take this up later??”:P Or when someone calls up and you are unable to talk then – “I shall get back to you!!” Yesterday when we were in the midst of looking at the snaps of our recent trip to Hampi, my colleague asked me to put it into the share drive and I replied saying - ”Is it ok if we can consolidate it and send it to everyone at one go, instead of sharing it in bits and pieces??” … (The key word here is CONSOLIDATE in case you did not get it ;-) ) When you are not in a mood to talk and when you really do not want to discuss this at all at any point of time, most commonly what we use is - “Shall we take this offline??” ...

You know what... I was reading through my old posts and well I have just one word for it … CRASS! The language is so pitiable… the words used are so sad… I felt really ashamed of it… Well not really ashamed… but more or less felt a little embarrassed reading them!! Hmm.. Not that I am not proud of them but just that well.. whatever!! Lol..! its okie I guess… I guess the style matures as and when and more you write... ;-) I like my current style a lot better than the earlier one! :-) Style has definitely improved!! :P ( I say so myself!!.. Since no one else does!!) Cheers…

Ever tried booking a meeting that your boss wanted you to..?!?!! Chances are that you’d have exhausted all the swear words you knew… It always goes on these same lines… “Aishwarya, book a meeting with 6 ports for today evening at 7:00PM with US Dial in …” (Ten minutes later; after the meeting has been booked) “Aishu, there’s a slight change. The meeting is from 5:30PM. Make sure that it’s changed.” (After another five minutes) “Ma’am we need it to be 12 ports for the same meeting id. Just get it done ASAP.” (Yet another two minutes) “Aishwarya, The timing for today’s meeting is from 6:30 and extend it by 2 hrs please.” By this time you are mumbling under your breath and you vaguely have a feeling of smoke coming out of your ears and your head throbbing… This is apart from the rants and ravings of the Meetings management team … I mean you keep changing it, they are bound to snap back at you…. Right?!!!?! And at the end of all this… “Aishu, that meeting got cancelled. Just cancel the por...

Done…. Figured it out… Solved the issue… I feel so glad..!! So relieved..!! :D And I did it all by myself..!! :-) Hehehehe… hehehhe…. I can’t stop smiling… I love this..!! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) Remember that justifying and formatting problem I spoke about in my earlier blog… All you got to do is go to your Settings-->Formatting-->Post Template and paste the HTML code for Justifying and whatever else you want to do … Oooooooohhhhhhhh….. Have been breaking my head over this since yesterday… Now I can sleep peacefully…. PS: I hope this works :O

For all those men who believe there’s no reason to buy the cow when you can get the milk for free…Currently 80% of women are against marriage, too, as they have wised up to the fact that for 7 ounces of sausage it’s not worth buying the whole pig

I changed the template to layout in blogger… I was quite impressed and proud of myself with the changes until I wanted to do a bit of writing..!! And to my dismay found that the shortcuts for formatting are missing/not working… Shucks!!! And suddenly I don’t like this new blog layout… I want my old one back… and I tried to change it… Revert back to my classic template… it did change back… But without the formatting options… :-( Now what am I supposed to do… Tried figuring out how to get it back but…. :-( :-( :-( Someone please help me!!! Shucks! I am not even able to “Justify (Ctrl+J)” this…!!! … Help me……….

The green-eyed monster seems to be raking up its head quite often in my life these days…and it brings along with it its many relatives; like gloom, wrath, hopelessness, etc ... Very vague feeling of being deprived of something!!! And not being able to figure out what exactly it is!!!.... Hate it when I don’t get the attention I deserve especially from my loved ones… Of course I am sensible enough to understand that it is not their fault as such… but then I am not mature enough to control the feelings… and then I behave like how small kids do… sullen, quiet, moody, forlorn, throwing tantrums (the word used for adults here is ‘showing attitude’)… And sometimes those unwanted tears comes out unwillingly, involuntarily, grudgingly… as much as I try to hold them back in, it trickles out …. Is being possessive a bad thing? I do not think so… people don’t agree do they?!?!! Being possessive translates to them as restraining, curtailing…. Being possessive translates to me as to how much that ...

Some changes... A bit of tweaking here and there... Upgradation of Template to Layout (or something like that)... Some splashes of colors and modifying the fonts... And lo behold!!! A whole new look... A complete transformation... Revolutionizing the look and feel of my blog..!! :-) (I know its a little too much and over the top but what the heck.. that's the license of the owner... ;-) ) So there.. !!! Feedback and comments are welcome..!! :-) (Thank god for comment moderation!!)

Got this as a forward... and it's BRILLIANT...!! Hilarious! And keeps you in splits throughout... God knows how many times it has been forwarded thru' the net.. The author of this "riotous" piece is Sidin Sunny Vadukut ( http://www.whatay.com/ ). Enjoy..! :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The Travails of Single South Indian men of conservative upbringing” or “Why we don’t get any…” Yet another action packed weekend in Mumbai, full of fun, frolic and introspection. I have learnt many things. For example having money when none of your friends have any is as good as not having any. And after spending much time in movie theatres, cafes and restaurants I have gathered many insights into the endless monotony that is the love life of south Indian men. What I have unearthed is most disheartening. Disheartening because comprehension of these truths will not change our status anytime soon. However there is also cause for joy. We...

You know what I hate… people who snipe behind your back… the gutless spineless cowards who say one thing to you and another thing behind your back… the ones who don’t have the courage or the nerve to tell you what’s on their mind onto your face and then go on and say something totally twisted to someone else figuring that their image is good in the other person’s eyes… how cheap! Hypocrites all of them… Was betrayed by someone I thought was a good friend… this happened sometime back and I was so put off by it that I did not have any interest in writing it. Now that “good friend” is coming to Hyderabad for the weekend… and I sincerely thank god with all my heart that I am not here this weekend otherwise I am sure that I would have to meet up with him and then god forbid! I might just say something that I am sure will be something I don’t have any control over! But I sure as hell would not regret it… The incident or the thing he did might be a minor thing to someone who heard about it… b...

Had this discussion with my friend yesterday about what a perfect date should be like.… :-) Interesting topic of debate right!! Of course it varies from people to people… but for those who have been fed on a constant diet of M&B’s, Danielle Steele, and whole lot of other romantic authors, it always mostly has these few must-haves in them… A black gown which the lady will be wearing, the guy in a tuxedo, he draws to her doorstep in a limousine, with a bunch of flowers (red roses, white lilies, whatever!), and of course a box of expensive chocolates (Belgian if possible!),… he rings the doorbell… the girl comes down a long stairway, her gown billowing behind her… she looks breath-taking!... he hands over the flowers and chocolates, and whispers to her how good she is looking..., she blushes, he smiles… he takes her by her hand, leads her to the limo and seats her… taps the glass in between them and the driver and nods perceptibly… (It’s all pre-planned, you see ;-) )…. They drive to ...

There was this show on TV couple of days back about blogging. On NDTV if I am not mistaken. The topic of discussion was whether ‘Blogs should be regulated or not”. And one of the main concerns on why it should be was that it helps anonymity of the user… I can have a blog under a misleading name and thanks to the net which is quite the haven for the person who is not willing to disclose what or who he/she is, they are totally at their ease. I guess for some, blogs are a way for expressing their innermost feelings and yet the need to remain unidentified. There can be a zillion reasons for the same. I have felt the need a lot many times myself… especially when you want to say something but are unable to thinking of the consequences… times when you want to vent out about someone/something and are forced to write it in a third person view, figuring people might jeer/poke fun at you or worse still take you to task for writing like that… There are lots of times when I have held back thinking ...

Suddenly they seem to be never ending… And these woes are not just specific work woes or anything… it’s related to people and their attitudes… How does one tell someone that you have had enough of listening to them brag about what they did in school and how they came first in all classes right from school life till graduation…. How does one tell someone that you are not really interested in knowing about their family history…. How does one tell someone that no matter what opinion he has on someone/something, it differs from yours and that you are not actually keen on justifying to him that you are entitled to your opinion…. Childish man… people are actually silly… Fine you go on and on about something over and again in front of the same crowd irrespective of whether you have said it before to the same set of people… Dude… There’s a limit yaar… seriously… think about it… What difference is it going to make to my life how you fooled a specific person or made them accept your opinion or w...

Hehehe.... this one broke me up totally..!! Very very cute..! :)

It’s one of those days… Irritating. Disgusting. Frustrating. Grating. Nauseating. Exasperating. Morbid. Moody. I can go on and on and on… Is this what they call by “Monday Blues” …!!?!?!? Monday Morning Blues are extending to the whole day…. Hell man… this is so damn maddening! Everything everyone does is irritating me… and I dunno the reason for it… every single topic of discussion makes me feel like "what-the-fish-am-i-doing-here-listening-to-this-dumb-stuff???" Debate on how elections in Andhra will do to the economy… (Yeah right! How does it matter to me??) Who stays where and how long is that route compared to this one!!! (Oh this is GK... I should be interested in this… Yawn!!) Which all Indian products are patented and which are not..!!! ( This is topic for lunch ladies and gentlemen… for e.g.: yoga is patented by USA, and turmeric by someone else!!!... Huh…!) How the movie “Bujjigaadu” (what a name!!) has Tamil dialogues which the hero speaks well but still we-the-go...