My Expression!! My Life!!

And before you can say anything... I am doing another TAG... i again picked this one up... but there was an open invitation on the blog that i found this on to do this tag... so since I am a good obedient girl... I listened to him! :-) I am: who I am… [Yeah I know it sounds like one of those sports shoes’ ads… but well... can’t help it ;-)] I think: very less … [it’s kinda unfamiliar territory… :P] I know: what I want from life I want: to live life on my terms… I have: a very short-temper… I wish: I could undo the mistakes that I have done.. I hate: hypocrisy I miss: people very rarely… I fear: being a burden to anyone and losing the person that I am… I feel: ridiculously happy sometimes for no reason at all… [Yeah... it’s spooky even for myself..] I hear: whatever is required to be heard ... [yeah... it’s almost like I have filters in my ears!!] I smell: coffee… [Yup.. there’s a cup next to me right now!] I crave: actually for nothing right now!!! I search: for the perso...

This wish is a day belated :-) But i guess that's okie..! :) Hope you had a happy and safe diwali.. I sure had a blast... Loved it... Lit a 10000-wala and had a blast literally and figuratively... By far the best Diwali ever... Happy diwali...

Okie… That turned out to be quite a long post… (the previous one!) I am drained out..! :-) But happy! I am not sure if I captured all my thoughts on it though… It is quite cold in office today… I mean normally in office, inside this classroom like room that we sit in (proudly called the NOC room) it is colder than normal… the AC is either high or too high… that’s probably the only two settings our office knows! Today it’s too high… I am very sensitive to the cold… extremely… and that’s just the AC I am talking about… the fan is ok... However fast it is its fine… but the AC… Brrr.. Brr… Chatter Chatter… I cannot stand the cold… my fingers go numb, my teeth start shivering and I become as pale as a creature which has no blood… then it’s a sight… I mean I look a sight… (There go my trips to the colder countries!!) Even on the normal sunny days outside, our office is as cold as the North Pole (and no, before you ask, I have not been to the North Pole people... I would probably become like ...

There have been a whole lot of discussion on male chauvinism and feminism over the past few months in my life that i thought a post was required to put an end to it... for myself at least...!! i have been called a FEMINIST at least a few hundred times by a lot of people... I have been known to raise voice against any sort of chauvinism that has the misfortune of happening in front of me... I have been called 'too forward for a girl', 'tomboyish', 'frank, blunt, out-spoken, rash, and a whole lot of other adjectives'... I have been subjected to lectures and taunts on how a girl should be or should behave in a society... Now i think it's high time i write about it... For me feminism is something that gives me a belief in myself that as a woman, I am capable of doing whatever I set my mind to without letting the fact that ‘being a woman’ affect it… This of course is a topic that has found its way into lots of debates, forums and discussions that it has been done...

I was watching an episode of Big Boss -2 yesterday hosted by Shilpa Shetty. I normally am not a huge fan of this reality show… somehow the antics of various celebrities living together does not appeal to me. I can’t for the life of me fathom why they would make fools of themselves like this… but I’m digressing from the topic… yesterday I had nothing better to do and one of PG-mates is a regular viewer of this show. Yesterday was the eviction episode and Shilpa was about to announce the person who was being evicted out of the house… So she started … 10 PM – Dear viewers, welcome to the special episode of big boss 2 … this one is to reveal the name of the person who is going to be evicted from the house today… he/she will join the bandwagon of the evicted members who will share with us their experiences here on the HOT SEAT… and the nominees for the eviction today are X, Y, Z ….. But before we go any further let us take a small break…. 10:15 PM – welcome back viewers, we are here to watc...

You know what’s sad… That awkward gap that follows your conversation when you are talking to someone who was your buddy at one point of time… but you lost contact for some reason or the other… and normally you never used to have such a problem as to searching for topics to talk… in fact it used to be like you never ran out of topics… now suddenly… it’s like you guys are meeting up for the first time and then you have exhausted your initial rounds of talk and waiting for the other person to speak up… Happened with me very recently… I was talking to this friend of mine from college and it was quite a long time since we chatted up or even called up to enquire each others’ whereabouts… fair enough.. life had taken different turns in the span of a year or so and stuff had happened in our lives which changed priorities… keeping in touch did take a backseat but it was not as though the step was taken backward by just one of us… it was a two-way street and well we both did not keep in touch… w...

A girl journalist was shot dead in the city of Delhi very recently in the wee hours of the morning when she was returning from work. The case is still unsolved and people are speculating all sorts of things from personal enmity to random murder. One of the senior leaders of the state commented that the girl was probably ‘too adventurous’ in returning home at that time of the morning and that too in an unsafe city like Delhi. I mean, on one hand you have a city that’s potentially unsafe at any given time of the day for girls especially and on the other hand you have a poor girl shot dead. So basically, if the girl had not come home at that time, the accident could probably have been averted. Maybe, Maybe not!! Scores of incidents, hundreds of violations of girls like this happen every day. And girls are blamed most of the time, saying she must’ve done something to antagonize the perpetrator, like maybe answer something rudely back to his disgusting comment, or probably put in a complain...

There was this article in yesterday’s newspaper (in one of the supplements). The highlight of the article was on the below mentioned point; › The preferential treatment that is given to politicians these days People are being made to wait at various places – on the roads, in malls, pulled to the side of the road, near the signals – when one of these ‘high-level people’ pass by. One of them going on a jaunt to someplace within the city means discomfort and irritation to hundreds of others. For all you know, there might be someone within that crowd that’s being made to wait who has some important issue to attend to. And the way they pull people off the roads to make a clear way for these ‘people’ are just inhuman. Why do these people deserve preferential treatment? Because they are the high-level people who govern the state or the country for us? Or because they have to get to someplace in a hurry to have a drink or attend some party or something that’s more important than the h...

What do you do when you are caught in a situation where you want to be honest to yourself and tell someone what exactly you feel but you know that if you do that you would be hurting that person real bad? Would you end up compromising on your honesty and self or would you stand up for what you feel irrespective of how the other person feels??

Yup, it’s another tag and this time it is about BOOKS. Picked this up from Sayesha’s blog. The book that changed my life – No book that actually changed my life… I love reading purely for the fact that it takes my mind off things and transports me to a world where I don’t belong and I am just a bystander. And yup.. Also for those tidbits of knowledge that it gives me ;-) The books I've read more than once – Almost all the books that I have ever read! :-) Yeah I am a nut case that way… I tend to keep reading the books over and again… I believe that each time you re-read a book; you find something new in it, some new nuance, some fact about some character, etc… Book I would take to a deserted island – Hmmm… that’s a difficult one..! Most probably ‘Godfather – Mario Puzo’ Book that made me laugh – Lots of them – most of the M&B series for the corny way in which it is written, Comics, some of the chick-lits. Book that made me cry – None. Though some have I love reading over and aga...

Brilliant! Mind-blowing! Superbe! I started watching the movie with a lot of apprehensions because I did not want it to turn out to be another ‘Aamir’ (I did not like the movie!). But this one had me in its grip right from the start. It’s a wonderful movie portrayed wonderfully by wonderful people. Yeah I know that’s too many ‘wonderfuls’ but I cannot help but gush about this movie. I loved it! Simply loved it! Was glued to my seat all through the movie, clapped at some great scenes, echoed my approval at other scenes, and simply enjoyed the movie! Gripping! The man who stole the show – Naseerudin Shah. Incredible acting! Subtle portrayal of an angry commoner. His acting is par excellence and his English is out of this world. Flawless! That’s one thing I look for in the movies, whenever some actor is delivering a dialogue in English I tend to listen hard for that one slight mistake or in some cases many mistakes that actors make in their diction, inflections etc. Yeah, I am a fan of th...

Scene 1 Time: around 8:45 PM – a normal day. Z is sitting and working on her laptop when D comes in. D: Hey is that your new laptop? Z: Umm.. Yeah I got it a couple of weeks back. D: That’s nice… I got mine last week when I went home too.. (Beams) Z: Oh good.. What’s your laptop configuration? D: Uh.. I don’t know about that but it has face detection software and all that. I love it when my face gets captured on the screen. (Beams again) Z: Oh.. Ok..! (Smiles in a constricted way) D: By the way do you have any songs? Z: Yeah sure.. I got some, give me your pendrive. Do you have a flash drive? D: I don’t have a flash drive but I have a pendrive.. Is that ok? Z: Umm… Actually D, well yeah sure, that would be fine. (Rolling eyes!) D gives Z her pendrive, and then asks Z; D: Are you sure you know how to use this? Z: (weird look!) Yeah of course I do.. Everyone knows how to… Z transfers the songs to the pendrive and gives it back to D D: I am unable to plug this in. it’s not going in. W...

I am getting irritated… and that seems to be my constant disposition these days… There’s this new tool that has been developed in office for tracking Action Items and Escalations and it is literally taking my life out… I am supposed to be monitoring this tool and the entries in it for my boss and to say that it is painful would be an understatement… it is fraught with complications on who to raise it on, who has to raise it, issue status, description, resolution plan, date of expected closure, date of actual closure and etc etc…. and once I save it an auto-mailer goes… and then my boss gets bombarded with mails from people asking why, what, when, where, and how this damn thing was raised… Fantastic!And that’s not all… it also throws pop-ups like RP word limit minimum length is some 50 characters or something… the RP date and the date of expected closure should be more than the date of actual closure or whatever! Phew..!! I wonder who had the bright idea of the tool to track this stuff…...

How would you feel if you were sitting in front of the TV having lunch but the channel is tuned to GREEK or LATIN or for some people a language that you do not know at all!!! Better than having and knowing a language only to the extent where you understand some and the rest just fly over your head like clouds..!! At least if you don't know the language at all then it is easier to zone out I say..!! The nothing that you know, the better! It is when you understand some bits of it floating around that you have a problem... Any suggestions on how to handle a losing battle against fighting the boredom when people around you are talking in a language that's half-familiar and half-strange!!??! I swear... The best punishment for these ' -----------' people would be to make them sit in a gathering that talks a language that they barely hardly know and see how they cope through it..!! I swear..!! It irritates me so.... Please help me! I think I am on the verge of losing my temper...

Yup.. Yup… before you ask, I flicked (again! And yet again!) this tag when browsing through blogs…!! Well.. what can I say?? I am just jobless.. Anyways… This is from this link where you have to enter 10 of your friends’ names and then answer the questions.. :-) And yeah... It’s fun! :P here goes… Describe Sanup in five words. Cute, Smart, Sweet, Witty and Interesting! (Sanup, you owe me one for this!) If Murali were to be mistaken for a celebrity, who would it be? Definitely JOEY TRIBBIANI from F.R.I.E.N.D.S. (I am sorry Joey!!!) How did you meet Kalyan? He’s my colleague and one of the best things that ever came into my life! (Thank you GOD!) Shruti suddenly knows all your secrets. What do you have to say about that? Duh.. She already does! I mean almost all my secrets …(Right Shru?? :P) If Shruti and Srinidhi teamed up, what would they most likely accomplish? Something related to Finance I bet ;-) (I dunno what else is common between them!) What would Jaejo not be caught dead in? ...