Hello... And yes... I have started another blog...

Yes... I have started another blog...

http://oddsandends-bitsandpieces.blogspot.com/

This one is on random facts, trivia, snippets, things that I find interesting and amusing... basically odds and ends.. bits and pieces of information that I come across while browsing or reading or what I have heard from anywhere...

Back when I was working with Satyam, I had this habit of collecting information on a whole lotta things in word documents... and then I used to use it in conversations or when I was chatting with my friends etc (yeah go on.. call me a show off..! :P) all sorts of stuff for that matter... regarding remples, gods, goddesses, english as a language, origins of phrases, random facts, quotes, wines, logos, animal facts, whatever caught my fancy...

Then it started proving to be quite difficult... I had a whole lot of stuff and it was becoming cumbersome to lug it around in pen drives and hard disks... So the blog!!

And now that I have told you the history and geography of this blog.... please feel free to send across anything that you find interesting and that which catches your fancy... It will be put on the blog... and please feel free to leave your comments :)

Here's to an interactive blogging session....

PS: Obviously, whatever I am going to be posting here will be available on the net somewhere... I promise I will give due credit where its available ... so that no copyright / infringement acts are violated.

Is this who I am? Well I think so... and if that makes me a bitch so be it!! :)

I got this as a forward from a very dear and close person in my life... :-) It was so apt and enriching to read this that with every word I read I had a smile drawing up on my face...

Atleast it was apt for me! I wonder what you feel like when you read this! :-)

Do go ahead and read it and let me know what you think!

FINALLY - Someone is bitchy enough to say it like it REALLY is!

With the Gender Behavioural Lines (coined that myself, don’t try to read too much between the lines) thinning down, even men are being accused of “Being a Bitch” – believe they shouldn’t mind it anymore!

BITCHOLOGY

When I stand up for myself and my beliefs, they call me a bitch.

When I stand up for those I love, they call me a bitch.

When I speak my mind, think my own thoughts or do things my own way, they call me a bitch. Being a bitch means I won't compromise what's in my heart.

It means I live my life MY way.It means I won't allow anyone to step on me.

When I refuse to tolerate injustice and speak against it, I am defined as a bitch.

The same thing happens when I take time for myself instead of being everyone's maid, or when I act a little selfish.

It means I have the courage and strength to allow myself to be who I truly am and won't become anyone else's idea of what they think I 'should' be.
I am outspoken, opinionated and determined.

I want what I want and there is nothing wrong with that!

So try to stomp on me, just try to douse my inner flame, try to squash every ounce of beauty I hold within me.

You won't succeed.

And if that makes me a bitch ,so be it. I embrace the title and am proud to bear it.

B - Babe I - In T - Total C - Control of H - Herself

B = Beautiful I = Intelligent T = Talented C = Charming H = Hell of a Woman

B = Beautiful I = Individual T = That C = Can H = Handle 'anything'

A small Social Experiment :-)

Social experiment:
If you read this, even if we don't speak often, post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want. When you're finished, post this paragraph on your own blog and you will be surprised with what people remember about you.

PS: Okie I tried doing this in Facebook (courtesy a friend)… and also in Twitter but the latter one did not work because of the word limit.. :D

So here it is in Blogger… just to see whether it works.. :-)

One and a half month of MOVIES.

So its been a month since I landed in Singapore… actually a month and a half almost…

And what have I been doing these last 45 days apart from neglecting my blog, applying for jobs and roaming around Singapore??

I have been watching movies…

So how many have I watched after coming here ?

7.

That’s right SEVEN.

This is not counting the ones I watch at home… :D

Anyways…

So here’s my short and some certainly not sweet verdict of the movies are…

#^# Angels and Demons

Pretty good.. I mean it! I am not a huge fan of those movies that are based on books but this one I liked… of course the director has made major changes to the storyline in the book but that has worked for the movie in the bigger sense. I liked the acting of the villain and for most part it’s been portrayed authentically. I have read that book atleast 3-4 times and still I was hooked to the movie! So this one is a must-watch.

#^# The taking of Pelham 123

It was ok. Decent effort. And the dialogue exchange between Denzel Washington and John Travolta is very good. And John Travolta kicks ass with his role. I personally liked the movie. One-time watch.

#^# The ghost of the girlfriend’s past

Funny. Witty. Hilarious. Timepass. Good fun to watch when you have nothing to do and you want to while away your time.

#^# New York

Yes! The Hindi movie New York! Hmm.. the first one and half hours is nice to watch. Suspense and romance and songs and all that. But the ending was miserable. Clichéd. Dumb. And stupid. Really! I liked it purely because of Neil Nitin Mukesh and John Abraham. And also liked the way Irfan Khan acted. He was good. Not upto his usual standards but quite good.

#^# Ice Age 3

Good. Worth your money. Excellent animation and thoroughly enjoyable whatever age group you belong to.

#^# Duplicity

Waste of time. Though the ending kicked ass. But that’s just couple of scenes and that’s not worth your while to sit through the entire movie to watch that ending. You have better movies.

#^# Transformers – Revenge of the Fallen

Yes I am saving the best for the last. This one takes the cake. Of all time comedies. I swear! It was so funny that I got a stitch in my side watching it. After one point in the midst of all the dust and screws and nuts and bolts flying about you lose track of which machine is good and which one’s bad. The only thing you hear is clanging! Clang! Bam! Whoosh! And the sentiments… don’t even get me started. Put together the worst hindi movie you have seen with really senti Malayalam dialogues and some scences from classic tragic Tamil movies with all the gasping for life, and eyes fluttering open… you have transformers … I rest my case!

I also watched a couple of them on laptop but those were old and not quite new. But do watch Arundhati (telugu), Pokkiri (tamil or telugu), P.S. I love you, and My Sassy girl. The latter 2 are good watches.

Comeback...!!! :D

And finally a blog after a long hiatus…

Yeah… I know.. my last blog was on May 3 which was a month and half back…

So in these past 2-3 months of “very less blogging”… update on things that transpired in my life… :D

I quit my job.

I moved back to Kerala, bag and baggage from Hyderabad (that was painful to say the least!)

I spent a month at home doing nothing… whiling away my time… watching endless episodes of FRIENDS, How I Met Your Mother, and Heroes…

I became a Mrs. from a Ms.

I moved to Singapore.

And then here in Singapore…

I tasted my first ever Starbucks Coffee (yes.. before you ask, it lived up to its name and fame!

And yes it is important to me! Will explain in a later blog ;-) )

I am still in awe of the organized system that this country is…

I am finding my way about here and in life…

I am still sitting at home here whiling away my time, experimenting with cooking, using my poor husband as the guinea pig, watching endless back to back episodes of various shows, and reading!

So why haven’t I been blogging if I could do so much to while away my time…???!!!?

Ah… Er.. Well.. Hmmm.. Bloggers Block?? :D

Hehe… Well anyways… I promise to be more punctual in blogging from now on…

And in the meantime… please please pray that I get a JOB sooooooonnnn…..

Happy Birthday to me!!!

Ah well... what do you know!!

Another year passes by! Another figure bites the dust!! :-)

Not too bad I guess.. Quarter century age wise.. ;-)

Here's to me!! :-)

Why God Why.... Why me...!!?!??

You know what I hate!

Plans getting made and then getting dropped for some reason or the other…

I get disappointed man!
Really… you look forward to something so whole heartedly and then CRASH!!! BOOM!!!
KAPUT!!!

There it goes… down the drain… all down like a mud-castle that you built on the sea shore… you know like when the sea goddess decides that she’ll just wash it off because it is standing out like a sore thumb in the wonderful beach…. Of course you know! What am I saying!!!

This year has gotten off a bad start… what with the Chairman of my company suddenly having a conscience attack and putting the future of an odd 45000 people at crossroads in their lives!

No one knows their future…. Yeah right! I am not trying to make predictions here. But then I have a broad idea about my future though am still not too sure of the finer details… but I know where I’ll be 3 months from now and that is a good thing what with the current state of affairs here…

No one knows where they’ll be in a month from now… But it is going to be my last few weeks in Hyderabad and before the ‘so-called-conscience-attack’ I had some great things planned for the rest of the time I had left here… and now they are all down like a pack of cards… and how many ever times I try to build them up again in various combination using different things it still collapses… weird!

Nothing is working out! Literally!

Each time I get into one of these moods I tell myself… “Stop cribbing! And start cheering up! Enjoy the left over days that you have here! And then you can go back to your haven in nice good ol’ Kerala.” Yeah right! A fat lot of good that did to me! It is like a vicious cycle… I get depressed thinking about the fact that I am going to be leaving and I will miss some special people over here and then I perk myself up saying ‘Cheer up! Nothing ever came out of looking like a sorry chicken caught in the rain’ and then I become all bubbly and nice and cheerful and talkative… everyone around me is happy that I am normal (yeah me being off my rocker means I am normal) and then we make plans…. To go somewhere, to eat something at some nice place and something even as trivial as watching a movie or taking a drive… Bam! There… someone up there or down in the nether world heard my wishful thinking and Bang! They say, “I am sorry we have to put a spoke in that wheel of thought that you have, so here goes! Oh 1 spoke is not quite enough… here take 2 or better still keep 3 for safe measures!” and there it collapses! And I am left picking the pieces trying to make sense of what just happened! God knows seriously!

All I ask for is that my last few weeks here are good, nice, peaceful, without any changes or disruptions, happy and memorable so that I have a happy image about the place! This was the notion that I carried over or rather kinda-sorta New Year wish! Hell! I think someone somewhere has a warped sense of humor.

And now I have given up!

You up there or down in the netherworld… you heard me?? I have given up! I now know for sure that whatever plans I make are not going to be fulfilled or they will not take place! So why bother to make any plans in the first place!!! So true! Yeah yeah I heard you back then!

So now motto is to take each day as it comes and leave the rest to the forces of nature who think they know best!

Funnily enough before I started complicating things that was my motto… yeah well… whatever!

Story of my life!!!