Jan 31 2011.....

Promises to be a bigggg day :( Sigh!!!!  Well I jus hope that by end of day I have a curve in my mouth that sets everything straight !! :-)

Yo yo ofcourse u r supposed to send me best wishes n prayers!

The Bloggers Truth!

Aint this so true :-D LOL



(Pic Courtesy: TOI - Blore Edition)

The Bangalore Flea Market!

How many times have u aawed when u hv read abt a flea market somewhere abroad n the people ooh-aahing abt finding a 'thrift' find... well I hv! N guess wht I found this weekend ~~ Bangaloorus own thrift market :). N if u thinking am talking of some ;Theme' party happening in a swanky store or mall u couldnt be more mistaken! This place is a small lane tucked into one of the by lanes in Jayanagar :-D

I will let the below pics do rest of the talking




A plethora of Items!




A closer look :)



Trinket Boxes ~~ Lamps ~~ Candle Stands!





My Thrift Find :-D

Now Now I know 'Flea Market' aint the word for it! 'Pooja Items' lane is how this by lane is termed ....... N u'll find everything from the obvious pooja items to trinkets to veggies to ghee-butter to shoes!

Ofcourse a find like this is to be tagged onto the colors Deckor weekend wrapup :)

A long time ago

Ok I agree... its fri eve... Am jobless... all am doing is waiting up for grr of ma hubbs to pick me up(who is been saying 5 mins for last 1 hour)!! N this is a post tht I hv been seeing on-n-off on diff blogs I hop on to... so using "jobless" as the only plausible excuse, read on....

20 years ago I . . .

1. Was in what??? Standard 4, 5(Ha! Seems light years away now!)
2. Dint know a thing about Birds-N-Bees(Now now where did this line of thot pop in??)
3.Thot ma working-mom(was a rarity then) is a super-woman! (Something I unlearned in years to come - Only to learn it again post marriage)

10 years ago I . . .

1. Was Itching to get away from ma engineering school
2. Was a hopeless Nerd! (U gonna give it to me - I am bluntly honest!)
3. Just discovered the WWW n on verge of some online-romance(Hopeless! I say)

5 years ago I . . .

1. Was discovering the luxuries of Financial Freedom n of a working-Lady!
2. Was waiting for ma prince-in-armour to whisk me off(yea yea thts pathetic I was!)
3. Was still a much-pampered daddy's girl(Ha! How I miss that now)

3 years ago I . . .

1. Yosh! Am married :)
2. Was hopelessly trying(not really!) to mix-n-match home-work n the roles of wife-daughter-DIL-Sis!
3. Was blissfully ignorant of the games of life n thots its one bigggg party(No! shhh u... I don think so anymore!)

1 year ago I . . .

Now this is getting boring, Hop on here to find out what twenty-ten was!

So far this year I . . .

1. Have fallen head-over-heels in love with ma hubbs(ANTI JINX)
2. Have learnt what it means to cry for a loved one!
3. Waiting-n-waiting for the much-awaited good news(Ho no! I continue to be pathetic)


Yesterday I . . .

1. Well had ma heart broken.... I Hope thats a prospect which never comes tru! Other side of coin.... Heard a news that I hope turns to reality soon
2. Hosted a most-awaited-guest at ma home :)
3. Had idli-sambar for breakfast(Whts tht u said! C'mon how many unique things do I do in a day!).

Today I . . .

1.Am waiting-n-waiting for ma hubbs to pick me up!
2. Took the effort to dress-up after ages... Wrap-around skirt n all :)
3. Need not cook :). Thnx to ma visiting MIL N Grand-Mom!

Tomorrow I will . . .

1. Eat yum yum food (reason in point 3 in the above section)
2. Click some pics of yum yum food for the weekend-wrapup (No no that doesnt classify as pathetic)
3. Ha I dono!!! In surprise lies the spice of life :)

In the next (coming) year I will ..... Hmmmm ......... Plz feel free to fill this up now :).

This is fun... Go ahead n try it!

Whats Right - Whats Wrong?

Ever been in a situation where u dono whats right - whats wrong? Sadly, the weight of the decision is gona be a big deciding factor on not urs but a dearest persons life! N well too many factors tilting the decision towards the not-so-rosy option... Not an situation I ever waana be in :(

I keep ma fingers crossed as I take this decision... I hope things fall in place for them! I hope the accusations I heard prove tpo be false... I hope despite all the misgivings the person continues to lead a happy-blissful Life! I hope this doesnt remain just another wishful thinking!

Plz wish me n the person lotta luck! Somebody needs loads-n-loads of it!

The Greatest Equalizer!

Go ahead, take a guess as to what could be the greatest equalizer esp in our country where u hv the richest of the richest n well the poorest of poorest too!!

Ok how about this? Pani-Puri Waala :-D. C'mon come to think of it..... How many times hv u seen a prim-n-proper aunty-uncle-boy-girl types jostle for a space with your milk waala- sabji waala all for a plate of paani-puri :) Nee nee not the mineral water kinds - I tell ya - U waana taste the best pani-puri\Puchkaas hop onto the push-cart - cycle waalas! Ha nothing like a plate of them to spice up ur day.... LOL!

Pic Courtesy - Google!

200th :-D

Ha!! Here comes the magical no. of 200 .... A quick one I should say (100 posts in 8 months is quick.... aint it). So celebration time it is... N wat betta way to celebrate than announcing the new entrant to ma home(Nooo not the goods news entrant)... Its our new Car "The Indido E-CS"....:-D

U Like it??

But naaa... jus something materialistic marking a imp milestone in ma blog space... Now now that seems to make it incomplete! So heres to more warm - personal updates which makes life-is-all-good!  Just a random msg from a cousin who seeing there sno FB Update or blog post wonders if all is welll... Enuf to get a smile back on ur face huh :)

Now  Now with the new car comes the hunt for accessories.... N if this bought images of some fancy fog light, sun -shades or all those crappy things ... u couldnt hv been more wronger! I was talking of those statues of God that usually adorn the dashboard n such (Go ahead - roll ur eyes). Now now how many of u would be happier with these being gifted by a dearie person as compared to a diamond studded collectible(Ok tht had an amount of exaggeration involved)! Now I had ma eyes on a particular 'dearie'..... But getting the msg across subtly(I know I suck at tht) without hurting hubbs sentiments(Who belives Gifts should be 'Gifted' n not 'asked'!)  seemed a task in itself! So think of ma reaction whn the person surprises me with the very accessories I had in mind without me even asking for it..... :-D. Here take a glimpse of one of it (The pic does no justice to it! Its a beauty I swear)

I LOVE IT!

Linking this up to the Weekend-wrap up thou strictly speaking the car made its  appearance on Thursday :).

The Bloger Meet!

So so I attended a blog meet tooo...... Courtesy Akshaya Patra n IndiBlog!

So how did I like it?? "Interesting" is the word I will use....

It was fun to meet the fellow bloggers..... somebody who is travelled 11 countries in 11 states to a restaurant owner(somebody who lets out his space for any of ur non-religious meets free of cost! N free Food tooooo) to a physically challenged blogger to a few techies(For whom blogging is abt ad-sense, Money-making n hit ratio... Boring!) to a ex-colleague to a few soon-to-be-authors to a wow designer (he cant speak a word of english... But man his work speaks or what) ! Haa so people it is tht as usual spices up everything ... Jus sitting back n watching them from a distance can be fun(It was LOL to see some of those men hitting on PYTs! Men never learn do they)!!!

Ha did I tell ya tht ma blog was picked among the top 20 blogs of the bloggers gathered there(Thou I guess it was a random pick). But it was picked... thts the point isnt it :-D ... got a lovely Photo-book too for tht :-D N then they were distributing a few of Iskcon's prize winning photos... Whats the criteria u asked? Well some silly contest... which I ofcourse didnt win but couldnt stop drooling over the pretty-innocent faces in the pics n so shamelessly put up ma hand n came home with one!!! Howwzaaat!!!!

The Innocence ~~ Thnx AkshayaPatra for preserving this!

This post wouldnt be complete until I write abt AkshayaPatra... Do hop on Here..... But 4 Now I will let these pics do the talking!

Thts exactly what Akshaya Patra Does!

N all they asking for is a little more publicity online! So do hop on n do ur bit if u can!

The aaaw! Location where the meet happened - The ISKCON Temple!

An Engaging Affair - IV

:-P

Now now no snickering...... This is ma space... So if u think its silly plzz shoo off from here!

Yeah ladies-n-gentleman ... so it was 4 years since we got bethroned...... N surprise surprise (no no its no surprise tht hubbs springed on me)... this time there was NO CELEBRATION ... Hmpf! Part of settling down?? I dono... I Hope not.... N funnily enuf the absence of 'Gift excahnge - Eating Out' didnt make it seem as if anything was amiss(Man! Didnt I tell ya growing is boring... No No No No!!!)

Ha ha but did I tell ya that at times so many things fall in place that a day like this continues to remain special! End of day saw me loaded with gifts(No no - the credit aint for hubbs; Its to ma dearest frnds) ~~ from A new pair of jeans to wine to cake to jewellery box  to new top to to a artificial-plant(cause well somebody believes I cant for life of me grow a plant... Now isnt tht supposed to be a insult) .....All the things in list except the jeans is thnx to  ma dearest sabs who came back from her vacation loaded with all these goodies for me :-D

So thts the gifting part taken care! Dinner u said?? Tossing up aloo parthas as clock ticks midnight watching a mindless crime thriller(Grrr Mr. Hubbs).... Does tht by any stretch of imagination count as "Romantic" :-D

N how could I not mention this ~~ YoooHooooo!!! I went to the first bloggers meet ~~ courtesy IndiBlog n came back with more goodies! But more abt it later!!!

Ha don I love the way the things fall in place over the weekend as if jus so that I make ma entry in the weekend wrapup :-D

:(

If u hv read this space on-n-off u obviously know abt this special somebody - the stabilizing factor in ma life... The person I owe this year to.....

Hmm now u know how imp she is in ma life! Now now what do I do when I see her life going from bad to worst... N all I can do is step back n look on helplessly! How is that fair ~~ A person who pulls me out from every crisis(real or imagined; big or small) n when she is in trouble all I can do is be helpless! Thts some screwed up law of life :( or thts the screwed up me... I dono! N esp when the events happening over last few days is disturbing n scary n something tht cant be forgiven!!! ?(N thts the under-statement of the year)

Bupossibly in the worst lies a light at the end of the tunnel... Man! I cant wait to see her getting pout of this damn tunnel n embracing well deserved happiness!!!!