Rosy picture!

Last week I was at a friend's place, I'd been there many times before but for the first time I noticed that they had a rose plant placed on their window.
I've obviously seen roses but never before had I seen a living rose blooming out of a plant.
Rose was never one of my favorites but for the first time I was in love with that flower! I was so glad and delighted to see a rose full of life! I couldn't resist clicking a few pictures from my BB!
Its charm was such that I totally overlooked the thorns until I got pricked... The plant was actually full of thorns so I couldn't really touch the flower although I tried hard to reach it...
It looked so perfect! The color, the shape, even the thorns, everything about it was flawless!

(The clicks may not be as beautiful but that's all my BB could do. But, I still love them)

to-dos & not to-dos

Today, I turned on the TV and what I see, they'd played on London Paris New York but it had reached climax till then... :(
I'm dying to watch that movie... Post exams I'm getting an original DVD of this movie. :)
Listening to its soundtrack... Bah... even the songs are adorable!
Sweet rom-coms are always fun! I love them! :)


Just today I read in a newspaper that stress makes you fat. Like there were already lesser things to make you fat!! I mean, it's so damn easy to put on weight... the couch, food, chocolates (I know it's included in food but I still wanted to write it separately!) and now stress too! That sucks!
So now, stress not only leads to hair-fall but it also makes you fat... hmmm...
Mr stupid silly mind... helloooo.. are you listening??? Stop making me fat and bald! I beg you!

I love the song 'Ahista Ahista' from Bachna ae hasino! I like the movie too! :)

I loathe when people don't return back my msgs, for stupid and invalid reasons!
Soon then, I take the pleasure of reminding myself of the times when I didn't reply to other peoples msgs for, stupid and invalid reasons!
At least my rage mellows down by doing so!

Two undeniable quotes that I stumbled on today and loved them instantaneously:
"The wise are those who try to avoid explosive situations, thus saving themselves from the trammels of confrontation." - Maulana Wahiduddin Khan.
"Peace is wrapped up in willingness to compromise" -Anonymous.

Should study now.
Toodles bloggy-doggy :*

Keeping quiet...

When the music volume on the headphones is so high that your ear drums start jumping and pumping, you feel you should turn it down a little but reducing it will open doors to those thoughts that you don't want to be thinking...

When blankness takes over.
When suddenly for no good reason, you get the blues, though you didn't do or think any such thing that would invite them... You just go quiet in your head and by quietness I don't mean peace or calmness... it's sheer silence.
Eh, that's nothing new!

Sometimes everything means so much... while sometimes everything means nothing.
It's strange, how our wantings, feelings, thoughts, reactions and behavior are completely dependent on our mood!

Amul butter- Heavenly!
Listening to 'Someday' by 'We the people'.... It used to be an inspiring number back then... but I kept listening to it a little too much and then it lost its magic. The law of diminishing marginal utility, you see. It's a great song though!

Better study!

Rightly wrong!

I feel, everyone around me is either getting married or hitched or committed. I guess, this is the age as per the Indian norms, where the girl is like a ripe mango, ready to be plucked!
(Do not read it with a perverted mind because I'm pretty serious!)


Whenever my parents come back from a social gathering, they bring up this topic of marriage. Just like we have our own peer pressure, they too have this societal peer pressure on them. Since ages, this has been prevalent in India, girls have to be put in a wedlock at an early age. This is how the system works here.


When my folks see other peoples daughters getting married at 21/22... they also feel like getting their daughter married ASAP and almost all parents are like that! They are not wrong on their part. 
It's like a marketing strategy. If one company reduces the price of their product, their competitors will also have to slash down the prices in order to maintain the competition and sustain their customers. Similarly, if there are a set of people ready to give their girls out for marriage at 21. why will any guys family go for a girl who's 25 or above?! So others to will have to get their daughters married at 21 or 22! You know, our society believes, 'younger the better'!!


I fail to understand why the society reckons marriage to be the solution for girls...
(Haha... Ipso facto, this was the topic of my first ever internet article!)


No matter how much I debate with my parents, my family or anyone... there are some rules, in the society, that we'll never be able to break completely. We can be amongst the exception but we cannot expect the society to transform its beliefs! They call it Indian culture but I beg to differ!


I can comprehend the rudiment on which "arranged marriages" ever came into being. I mean, it's good that parents and families, here in India, want their children (boy or girl) to have a partner, a family, a home! 
But, the times have changed... It is not about imitating the western culture, it is about bringing certain necessary mutations in the primitive and orthodox school of norms and beliefs! We, the human beings are evolving with every new generation coming to life... so isn't it important for the society also to evolve and move along, with us?!
I don't mean to degrade or sabotage our great Indian culture, I do value it... but here, culture is not the subject of matter... It's the societal norms and beliefs that I am speaking of!
Arranged marriages are our culture and I respect that but the age bar for the girls is not our culture! The age criterion is an obstinate and dogmatic societal creation! 
It is unjust to the girls, in a way... Maybe not all girls but to the ones like me, they are! 


The funny thing is.... some portion of our generation also believes that marriage is the solution to all their problems and it's not only the girls that I mean here, even the guys believe so!
It's like... 
Relationship troubles- I guess, I should get married!
Career failures- I think, marriage is the only thing left for me.
Family fights- I better get married! 
*gasp*
And, I kid you not, I really do know few such people! 
(Also, girls I can fathom for once, if they think like that because we've been made believe so... BUT the guys?? Now see, such guys are the official 'girl-guys'!! Haha... I am sorry, I'm not being sexist! Really!)


Well,
THEY may be right and I may be wrong here.... But then, I'm known to do things wrongly... so why should I do it right here!!! ;)

The demented duo!

It's been circa 10 years, since we've been best friends... We know each other better than we know ourselves. There are many arguments and disagreements that happen between us frequently (& most of them are prodigal) ... And that's because we are so emotionally dependent on each other... But, still we stand strong and together and we always will. Our never-ending craziness... Sanity no where exists around us! The way we discuss our most important, serious and earnest problems and decisions also with sheer sarcasm and humor..(We can never be serious!!). How we never fall short of things to talk about...Yes, you are the only person with whom I ALWAYS have things to talk... I can't remember a single time when both us had nothing to talk about! Seriously! Hahaha.. maybe because we always talk crap and the world can never go out of crap!! We might have changed in all these years but when we are together, we are always those two silly school girls, who make fun of everything and anything that comes on their way... and I cannot be more sure of the fact that this, what we have, is never gonna change!!

Waise bhi mere alava koi aur tujhe jhel nahi sakta... All thanks to my bad karma!!

A befitting quote that comes to my mind, for us:
"It's the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected"

Only if...

Dil Chahta Hai- :) :)


I like Palaash Sen. He has a great voice, an amazing sense of music, a cool personality, appears to be sensible (at least in his interviews) and he's also a doc!


Le jaa tu mujhe - a song that speaks to me.


"It's never too late to be what you might have been" - George Eliot
I had cold-creeps when I first read this quote... I don't know why?!
Maybe because I know I lack the gumption...


When you are craving for a heart-to-heart conversation and you also try to have it with your bunch but somehow you are unable to click. Then the annoyance that follows thereafter...


Just now, while having a conversation with a friend... I (rather we) discerned how people don't give out all the information. I mean, I kinda reveal out excess unnecessary things, about myself, when interacting with people. This has to be slashed down! But then, I've tried it before and it has never worked with me...So perhaps, now or in future...
You should do what you have to do..... Now only if I followed it!!!



"The more you take responsibility of your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek"  - Celestine chua 


Ugh... In a bizarre state of mind... feeling too antsy!! 


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INHUMANE

She was a free will

Living her imperfect life in her own little ways

With a face that never failed to sport a smile

Her expressive eyes always filled with umpteen dreams to chase

An optimist who never hoped of anything ugly

She could've never guessed what the fate had conjured up for her

But there came a day which couldn't have been more murky

Her life took a turn which no man could ever decipher

She was lost in her own little world, ambling her way home

Two demons with humanly masks and attire

Appeared out of nowhere and caught her when she was alone

And her innocence was shredded in fire

Their grip was rigidly firm to her dismay  

Their touch was sharper than the incisiveness of hundred knives

She was trying so hard to fight them, to push them away

But all her efforts weren’t enough to match the strength of those two evil lives

They thrashed her, slapped her and ripped off her guise

She tried to shove them off but there was no way she could’ve escaped

She cried, yelled and howled in disgrace, dolor and despise

Yet there came not a single soul to her help… she was raped

Destiny took away all her colors and her smile, left her with darkness to accompany

There she was abandoned in the middle of nowhere with a naked body and a nude heart

All she could feel was a sharp twinge of abashment, woe and melancholy

With a twinge that would last all her life; she fell prey to the devil’s dart

[Rape is an Incorrigible offence. My heart goes out to every such girl, every such woman, who has been a victim to this ghastly human act.] 

It's all very subjective

When randomly an old conversation with someone pops up in your head and you suddenly start thinking that you must've used the wrong words or that someone must've perceived your part of the conversation in some wrong way due to which that someone can form certain false and erroneous opinions about you... And, just then it strikes you.... How does that opinion matter?
If that someone is not someone important then even if he/she has fathomed you in an erring manner, it shouldn't matter.
I always want to be taken in the right way. I always want everyone, whom I interact with, to be perfectly perceptive to whatever I utter. And this 'want' of mine has always been a subject of botheration. But. gradually as the time has passed I've learnt how to desist this habit... Though I still get those pangs but then as I just mentioned, they are only short-lived pangs!

Judgment free and non-dogmatic world has never existed and will never exist! I too do it, at times. I guess, that's how we are wired. So, I may often whine as to why to people have to be so opinionated... but I know, there's no prevention for it; although there is a cure, which is IGNORANCE!

Also,
Once I was having a conversation with a friend, where I argued that beauty and outward appearance are excessively over-rated. My friend said that it of course cannot be ignored and everyone whether knowingly or unknowingly is biased, in a way, towards beauty.
I had to agree. When we first meet a person, it's his/her outward appearance that we can first see. So, the first ever nano-thought that comes to our mind about him/her will be based on how that person looks. It has always been that way.
But, I reminded my friend that I never said it should be ignored, I said it is over-rated. Which is true.
Beauty is always appreciated. And, why shouldn't it be so? It's always good to be appreciative, especially, towards something that truly is praise-worthy. But, when it is given unnecessary excessive importance, it becomes ugly!
Anyway, it's all very subjective.

*Sigh* 
Still struggling with things. Ohh God....Please help me help myself!! Jeez.. I am such a hard nut to crack, when it comes to certain things!!

A month and a half left!

Happily imperfect!

Belated Happy Holi Bloggy-doggy!! :*
Dil toh pagal hai- the movie, the songs - :) :) :)


Finally, catching up. A little relieved. Though I still have a long long way to go but at least I've begun. :)


Perfection. What is that?! Does it really exist? Well, who cares... I am happily imperfect!!


Trekking: Fun...
Trek-tan: Annoying!
Friends: Necessity


The joy of buying a new skirt can be actually felt only when you have someone who'll be as excited as you about it!
To the two of you: We'll always be the 'awesome threesome' we are. Love you both! The best thing about the three of us is we all truly enjoy and value the bond we share. Who says two is company, three is crowd?!
I don't hope, I know this bond is gonna stay unbiased and intact forever!!


I've been having too much of cocoa these days! It's yumm!
Missing someone you never had in your life but still is a part of your life.
When you listen to someone talking about themself and you realize how their little habits and way of thinking are similar to yours. You know, all of us are so similar in some way or the other.


When you feel like going back in time, taking up the opportunity that you'd turned down then, just so that you know what it would be like if you had chosen things to be otherwise.
Times when you willingly allow certain people to walk out of your life... and when you finally quit doubting your decision about it or rather you just learn to accept it. Because there'll always be what-if's, whether whatever you choose... because there'll be this other thing that you did not select. And, you always have to choose, in fact your destiny is based on what you choose. At least I believe so. You invariably have two ways to go about it, be it anything, Mr God has his book of fate well-written for both your ways, if you choose the first way, your destiny is based on that and if you choose the other way, you destiny will be based on that! So basically, most of the times it's OUR choice and the rest is up to the destiny!


Love: Utterly Beautiful
But, Love at first sight : BS!!


Expectations can be scary at times.


The entire world has become a victim to the atrocious mosquitoes!! Every person I talk to, whines about being mosquito-stricken! I am finding it eminently arduous to find a cure for this! I mean... my house is clean, windows are shut, Ac's on, mosquito coil and liquid mosquito destroyer together working in this room and still they are eating me up!! We actually have those mosquito killing electric rackets at my place! I feel like I am living in some amazon forest! Sick! Mr God please, please, don't make us pay for our bad karma like this!


Love aaj kal- One Bolly movie that portrayed true love, I believe! I like it!
I simply love Maroon 5. Listening to 'Won't go home without you'...


Thoughtless.
Wasted a lot of time. Have to study!!
Ciao!