My Expression!! My Life!!

22 December 2012 Recharge [CREATE]: What did you do to recharge your batteries in 2012? I am waiting to recharge my batteries in 2013. My batteries are on hibernation mode for this last week of this wretched year. 23 December 2012 Communicate [LISTEN]: Describe a conversation that you had this year. Why was it memorable? Oh boy!! Where do I start? Which conversation do I take? Lots of them. With lots of people. Rethinking priorities. Reshuffling wants and needs. There are lots of conversations that are very very memorable to m and just from this last year. I will choose one at random here. The one from August 2012 where I caught up with one of my oldest buddies Vaishnavi. :) We have been the best of buddies since 1996-’97 and there have been phases where we have drifted apart and not been in touch for months together. But all it takes is one phone call to get us back in sync. You know it’s a friendship for life when you can just start off from where you left it, as ea...

Do you think I am talking about cricket? No I am not. “My girlfriend has boundary issues man – I don’t think this is going to work.” The voice came over the telephone – cell phone, if you will. It was a winter morning, and I was curled up in a blanket, a cat on my toes and a great book in hand. However, duty bound by the tenuous bonds of friendship, I was being forced to listen to the travails of one of my friends. What was the problem? Boundary issues- as I said. What exactly, were these boundaries that she was crossing, I ventured to ask. Now this couple live with each other – a recent decision, they had moved into a small flat, much to the consternation of their parents – but that is a different story all together. “She takes my towel man!” (Why does he call me man?) “She insists on wearing my tee-shirts, eats the eggs I have bought without replacing them and uses my towel. She insists on using my tawa. She shares my cigarettes. Not only that she insists on com...

12 December 2012 Toss [GROW]: 2012 was the last time for ________________ For a lot of things. For feeling sorry about myself. For feeling like a failure. For feeling guilty that I did not listen to my gut for a long time. For feeling pissed off at things that I cannot control. For being morose, moody and dispassionate about things that I used to feel passionate about. 13 December 2012 Associate [LISTEN]: What blog/book/article spoke to you the most in 2012? This might seem very trivial when you read it. I came across IHM’s blog sometime early this year. I don’t follow a lot of articles on her blog simply for lack of interest. However I found a link to this blog on hers. I liked the style of writing. I enjoyed reading that because it was very similar to how I would think. I found out that the blog belonged to her daughter – Tejaswee . And I came across a very very sweet pic of hers . One where the photographer had caught the sun glinting off her eyes and she ha...

There’s a guy walking towards me. Do I look straight and walk? Do I look down and walk? Is my dress too tight? Is my dress too loose? Am I revealing too much? Am I covered enough? If I look up at him and walk, will he take that to be an advance? Is my facial expression impassive enough? How does he see me as? What does he see me as? There’s a guy in the train who is standing next to me. Do I look at him? Do I look elsewhere and conspicuously not look at him? Am I standing properly? Am I sitting properly? Is there enough distance between us as demanded by “society”? There’s a guy I just got introduced to.   If I am friendly, will he think I am interested in him? If I am aloof will he think I am spurning him? Is he okay with my opinion on the topic that we are discussing? Is that a sore point if I don’t agree with him? If I do agree with him, will he think I am easy? If I am liberal with my opinions does that make him look at me as open-minded about everything? If I...

Continuing on the weverb prompts…  Here’s the next 5. 06 December 2012 Cook [LIVE]: What was your best recipe/dish of the year? Share it! If I had to choose a dish that I could never go wrong with, it’s got to be Arabbiatta Penne pasta. Boil a packet of Penne pasta in water with a bit of salt and some oil so that the pasta does not stick together. Drain it well and keep it aside. Chop some onions, mince some garlic, sauté them in oil for a bit until it roses the raw flavor, pour in the tomato puree, add some chili powder and some salt and mix it all up well. Add the pasta when it starts boiling and mix it up well without breaking the pasta. Top it up with some mozzarella cheese and serve it hot. YUM!!! 07 December 2012 ENLIVEN [GROW]: Was there a book or article that inspired you to make a change in your life this year? What was the source and what did you change? Honestly, I know it is going to sound like a cliché, but I am not the type of person to be ...

It’s time for a new beginning…!! :-) :-) Yes the fact that it’s December has me up in high spirits… nothing to do with the holiday season really... More to do with the year ending which I have been going on and on and on to all and sundry and most of them are as sick of the year as much as I keep drilling it into them!!! And I noticed that I have been ranting quite a bit about it, thankfully before someone else pointed it out… and so, here’s to the end of the rant and the beginning of the reflections. There’s this new thing going around the blogosphere – Weverb12 – which is basically a prompt for each day of December making you reflect on the year that’s passed by… or so I think!! I don’t know... Either ways it’s a prompt and it makes people shake that bloggers block (especially me!) and then go and make sure their blog’s alive and kicking!! And in a good way! Not in a ranting and raving sort of way!! I missed the first 4 days so I am putting it all up here. Also I don’t ...

“2012 !!! Seriously enough already !!! You have been pretty lousy so far and its only getting worse !! Kindly get the hell outta here !!!!” This was my FB status a while back!! And I mean it!! I also noticed that it’s not just me who feels this way considering the response to the same :-P 2012 has been one of the lousiest years I have ever seen. If I ever wanted to make a list saying “top lousiest years in my life” 2012 would be top of that list … Seriously! I am sick of this year. I am sick of counting the weeks, days, hours left to get this damn year out of my life!!! And it would precisely be the icing on the cake if this was the year the world was doomed to end! Think of it! 2012 – Out with a bang! Poof! And the World ENDS!!!! I wouldn’t put it past this year to do just that! Honestly! Oh yeah! You might ask me…. have there only been bad moments and not one single good one that you can think of... Well… I say, when the bad and the frustrating moments outweigh...

I like masala movies. Mindless movies where the hero sets everything right by the end of the movie and all’s well that ends well. Fine! It’s not reality as such. But I don’t always want reality in a movie when I have to deal with it every single day in life. A mindless masala movie is a great excuse for me to switch off my brain (or whatever is left of it!) and just watch the images moving on screen without having to think twice about the inner workings of the director’s mind on why he chose to portray a shot this way or that way. Creative liberty I say! :-) And in that context, I saw this movie ‘Thuppaki’ couple of weeks back. I generally am not a great fan of Vijay. I like some of his movies. I don’t like most of his movies. Yes! He does mostly mass movies. Mindless action. Unbelievable stunts, over-the-top drama, that’s how I always associate his movies. I mean the man has got to play up to his image. The only 2 movies that I really enjoyed of his were ‘Ghilli’ and ‘Pokiri’. I ...

2012 will henceforth be known as the YEAR of CHANGES in my life!! Of course, it doesn’t really matter what it’s known as if the world is going to end this year! You know that weird spot that you find yourself caught in, like there are things happening all around you, maybe because of you, like a ripple effect and you are right in the middle of it but even when your entire world is spinning topsy-turvy, you are caught in a limbo. Like a rut. You have nothing to do, or nothing that you can do at the minute. But yet, your life is undergoing sea changes. That’s how it is for me now. It definitely is a weird feeling – this waiting and not being able to do anything about it!! Oh well!! So yes! There’s chaos all around me while I am rooted to the spot, unable to move! Things are happening. And they are not things that I want to talk about right now. Close friends know what’s going on; so well, that’s all that matters for now! Oh and here’s a declaration – a sweeping declaration if you w...

Yes! Now that I have turned the grand age of 28 and with no wisdom teeth in sight... I bring unto u the words that will hold you in good stead…  Dear 28-year-old-me… It’s seriously high time you got this into your head… Eating / Binging a lot does not help you put on weight. Happiness does. If you are happy, you automatically put on weight. Period. FYI, what they taught you in the little bit of science that you learnt at school was wrong w.r.t people. Like this… “Like poles repel.” Nope. Nada. That’s not true. Similar people can be the best of friends. The trick lies in finding someone that similar to you! You should also know by now that you can never ever set your hair the way the stylist does. No matter how hard you try. It. Will. Not. Happen. Understand that when you get along very well with someone, it is more often than not because they are travelling in the same leaky boat as yours. Or in another boat. But leaky all the same. Remember this: Dancing perk...

It’s been quite a while since I penned something on my blog that cannot be termed as frivolous or even sorts of a gap filler. Yeah! gap-filler is the right word here considering that I have been writing about random stuff to the point that when I open my blog, all I want to do is to go back and read those old posts that I have written. They are the ones that I can relate to the most. They are the ones that I wrote for the sake of writing and not for the sake of letting the blog die … Writing is something that I enjoy, or rather enjoyed, seeing that I haven’t been doing much of it lately. If this is writer’s block then this is the worst that I have ever endured. And I fear that this post is going to be a lot monotonous as well. You’ve been forewarned! Now proceed! That is if you are still reading this! I turned 28 a few days back. It was not as earth-shattering as expected. I always thought that turning a year older especially when you cross your mid twenties is going to b...

My heart skipped a beat when I saw you.  Your very presence brought a smile.  I wondered how you had gotten here and who could have conspired to get you here to me.  I was curious and happy.  Curious to know how and happy to see who sent you!!  Boy, it was a Happy Birthday!!! :) :)

One month to this day since my last post. Something that I keep repeating every few posts, rather every last few posts… it’s very hard these days to muster up the energy to pen something down. Thoughts are aplenty but when I have the inclination to write, I don’t have the laptop / blogger at my disposal and typing a blog post from my phone is something that I cannot ever do. It’s just too much trouble.. And then when I have the time on my side, the inclination to do something else other than blogging is much more stronger! Talk about conflicts of interest!! Every single time I see a blog post from a friend, or from someone I really look forward to reading in my reader, I feel a twinge of guilt. Just a twinge! Nothing too heavy for then you would have seen this place inundated with posts. But that twinge still persists … Gotta do something about it!! Yep! And not just with tags!! Ok! See! I can guess what most of you who read this space think ;-) Yeah! I know I have been doing too m...