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My cutest creation.. as of now

Happy Bday Fellow Scorpion

This one goes out to a Cute young Stud

Who makes young girls' hearts go Thud Thud

He has a killer hairstyle

U can notice his charm away from 1000 mile

Yappa this loos poem is too much :P

But I want to tell u.. ur one special guy..and tats bilkul Sach :P

Here's Hugs n kisses a ton, my fellow scorpion

for ur da bday boy N Watch out, cuz this year's marked full of FUN

HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYYY

Story time-come come

I have grown up loving Grandma's stories. Today, I want you all to come sit with me while I narrate to you one of my favorites.

There was a king once.. with four wives.. he likes his second wife better than his first wife... and he liked the third one better than the second...n the fourth wife the youngest..he liked her the best. So, he used to neglect his first wife a lot.

So.. one day this king was struck by a very serious illness.. and he was told that he doesnt hav much time... and the King feels very restless..and sad...that he has to leave everyone..

So.. he called the wife he liked the most.. that is the fourth wife.. and said..
"listen, i am afraid of death.. and i dont want to go alone.. will u come with me...?"
The fourth wife..being the youngest.. straight away said..
"No, of course not!" and immediately went away.

The King then called the third wife... whom he liked the second best...after the fourth wife... and said.. l
"listen... i am afraid of death.. i would like you to come with me.. will you?"
The third wife.. didnt right away say no like the fourth wife.. Instead, she said..
"I cant come because after you die i will marry someone else."

So he was little upset and finally he called the second wife..and said
" See, the last two wives didnt want to come with me.. atleast you come with me.."
The second wife was nicer than the rest two. So, she said..
"ok, i will come with you.. but only till the graveyard"

By now, the King was feelin very sad, when his first wife.. who was very thin and not so beautiful anymore came to him.. and... she said..
" Dear King, U are my husband.. and i will always be with you no matter what.. im ready to come with you all the way..."

Now..what is the meaning of this story...?

The meaning is like this... every man comes across the four forms that are shown as the wives in this story.

This fourth wife.. whom the king loved the most.. is symbolizing our physical body.. we are attracted to our body the most.. we always want to perfect it... we do things to satisfy it.. but we shud know.. no matter what.. this body will not come with us after our life is gone. its straight no..

The third wife.. who said after the king will die will marry other.. is symbolizing.. our status, our money... after we die.. this status and our money that we have attained.. will go to someone else.. maybe our children.. or to some other person...who replaces us in the successful world.

The second wife.. who was willing to come ..till the graveyard.. symbolizes... our relatives and friends.. they are all there for us all the time. and are willing to come till the graveyard for support.. but not beyond that.

The first wife.. whom the King neglected the most.. is nothing but the soul inside us.. our aatma, our personality, our individuality. our conscience..
We dont really care so much about it.. nor do we give any attention to it. but, it is the only thing that will stay with us forever..that is always our own.. our soul stays with us forever.. learn to love yourself.. and you can embrace any trouble in this earth with no fear.. even death.

What does it say?

Every artist dips

his brush in his

own soul, and

paints his own

nature into

his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher





Drew this while trying to doodle in the paper with my ballpoint pen.

Children of the Sky

World, hear me. This is a cry of hope and dream from one of your children. A child who has been gifted with the best luxuries that she could visualize. One who was born in the better side of lifestyle, spoonfed all responsibilities. Today, I am going to stop saying NO to myself. This week my exams start. Although, they are not going to change anything big in my life at this moment. Yet, I have taken it a point to take them as a challenge for myself. Now, no more of "no, cant do", "no, dont know", "no, wont".

Negativity is completly eradicated from my life until I score brownie points achieving my goal. Ambition right now is to return to India. Let's hope that I pull this through. US was a horrible suprise that I certainly wasn't happy about. I lived till yesterday with this feeling. Now, I am ready to shed that load. Whatever has happenned, regretting is only putting me in this cyclonic mood-swing. NO more thinking more than tht's required.

Now its.. JUST DO IT.. Nike Way. Children of Sky don't stay on earth for long. They go to the place where they do belong..Sky! Lets make this ride as exciting as it can get! I bow down to myself and my thirst for thrill. Now, I start a life..for good or for bad...certainly more motivated than ever before! :)

LoL- Dun wanna be in either position!

Coca Cola Enjoy..

Aah Yes.. the old age myth has come true. Seriously, Is Diet Cola less harmful than Coca Cola??
I dont know.. and frankly I dont care. I am not a Coke addict. (Neither the drink nor the drug). But yeah.. I am a "Diet" Addict. Everyday I am approached by choices.. as small as.. eating the healthier yoghurt.. choosing 0.5% instead of 0.8 or 1%. I don't really know how much it matters in the long run.. but it really is a tiring to look for alternatives to each delicious thing that comes your way. :P

By the way, I came across this new Tamil Advertisement in SunTV about Cocacola by Radhika. She wears a typical saree and gives a speech on how much she cares about the healthy production of Cocacola as she also believed all those rumors about how bad it is. So, they show her wearing this showercap in some Cocacola type factory.. looking over the way the bottles are capped and produced and she explains that its a really healthy process and recommends that anyone who has a doubt should visit the factory. She then opens a cocacola bottle drinks it saying.. I can tell with guarantee that Cocacola is a very Healthy Drink and she takes a gulp of Cola.

What is this world coming to?

"what is this world coming to?"

Ok, maybe my thought process starting from one direction to another and ended in such a philosophical question. But, it all started with my last post. Yes, the one about my Teddy Bear. It went on to my Financial Markets Class yesterday. My proffessor addressed the class politely and gave us details about the course structure. Then, she went on to add that she hopes to finish most of the lectures before the mid-term exam. After that, she wants to sit back and relax while the students come up in front and do presentations. The reason which she explained after looking cautiously at her stomach. She is pregnant and is due to have a baby by January. She "hopes" to be here till the end of the semester.. but if that isnt the case, then a substitute teacher would be arranged. Me and my friends were amused. She looked so damn slim! Where is this baby?? Yes, just like boys stare at women.. we girls were staring at her weird! :P

I was playing with my pen wondering what this woman was doing in a university, when she should clearly be at home enjoying this. But, then she threw me off balance with another statement that her two year old son is at home and therefore she wont be available for consultation at all hours. I stared at her... well.. middle..again. Gosh, i haven't seen a woman go through all this.. this.. well baby process. Atleast, i havent seen the 'bloating' session before yet. Lol, pardon my ignorance. Yes, well.. I did see the bloated final version of my classmate who, from what information i could gather, had delivered her child one week before the final exam week. She still turned up for the final exams. Well, I must say Kudos for her.. because she carried herself well throughout the whole session without a flinch. Then again, this wasnt her first time. This is her second child and yes, she has been married for six years now.

While i was listening to Himesh's jhalak dikhlaaja in my w300i, a realization hit me in this cold afternoon of september 7th. The world is changing so quickly! The whole process of learning and observing has just become twice faster. Children.. are actually Brilliant nowadays! They achieve things that we cant even fathom to!

I mean.. what is the most well-known toy for a little boy? Guns! He loves guns and learns to use it when he can't even spell the word Gun yet!
Favorite game for a boy? Police-thief game or super-hero games. Why not declare peace? No wayzz.. tichikiyaonnnnn.. I am here to shoot everyone with my plastic gun! And we are sitting here gasping at the arrests of terrorists. Look at what your kids are exposed to!

Girls aren't better off either. Most well-known Toy for a little girl? Barbie! The perfect image of a new modern era girl who dresses slutty and looks bimboish. The first thing your little girl learns is how to undress and dress a Barbie. And we are dumbstruck by the emerging Bipasha's and Mallika's. What else do u expect??

Favorite game for a girl? Family-family game. A huge fight between the lil girls on who gets to be the 'mommy' for the dolly. "... I will stay at home and take care of the baby and cook, and you go to office ok?..." And these same girls grow up to become 'feminists'???

What is this world coming to...

My beloved Teddy :)

Ye mera India, I love my India

Yes, even one week after Independence Day, the patriotic spirit is high.. and is coming out in my special salad.. (which I made for 30 ppl ) Of course, some ingredients are not yet mixed... But, Hindustan ki kasam... Vegetables se pehli baar Vande Mataram!

self-explainatory

Natural Beauty

Jungle where snakes and lizards reside.


Photos taken with my Phone..

Venue: Farm House - 80 kms from City
Time: 7 pm approx.
PS: All the pictures have been taken with natural light.. :) (no artificial camera flash)

Small Step for ManKind..

In 1969, Neil Armstrong placed the first ever human foot on the Moon and uttered these words: "That's one small step for man but one giant leap for mankind." It was only one step taken by a normal man called Armstrong.. but where, how, and when he took that step; is the most important fact that has changed Human history today! The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA was established in 1958 under President Eisenhower. It was 'initially' put across as a fitting response to the Soviet Union's first artificial sattellite launch. From then on, thousands of specialists, astronauts, scientists,technicians and many more have been working in and around the world for about 45 years now to answer the simple basic question of "what is out there in space". As every mission of NASA is technically very complicated to comprehend, the facts tell us that what lies beneath the surface of complicated equations and calculations is far far more simple.

In September,1999 NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because of a simple mismatch of measurement units. "Lockheed Martin Engineering team used English units, while the agency's team used the conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation. The Units mismatch prevented navigation information from transferring between the Mars Climate Orbiter space team in at Lockheed Martin in Denver and the flight team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California." -- quotes CNN. Who would have thought that simple metric conversions that we learnt as kids in primary school would come handy in such a high-priced expensive complicated mission?

Coming to a recent historicaly tragic moment for many countries including US, Israel and even India.. for the loss of Seven priceless astronauts who perished aboard the space shuttle Columbia when it disintegrated nearly 40 miles above the Earth. The shuttle's remains and human remains were found in fields in Texas on Feb 1,2003. Such a great catastrophe could occur only due to some majorly huge technical mishap. But, when NASA sent an investigation team in search of something that is similar to 'black-box', although not with the efficient iron covering, the chances seemed quite grim for it to survive(even though it was a relatively small 40 mile fall). After a tiresome hunt, it was finally found intact(with the help of an estimation of the place where it most likely must have fallen with the help of the already recovered pieces around Texas region) in a small opening in one of the fields in Texas. Yet, NASA investigation team named it a pure "miracle" and a "boon" for the investigation to carry on as per plan. It was here that they circumfaced the actual cause of a gross failure of perfect entry into the Earth's orbit. They detected an intense heating in the left wing which intensified over the few minutes of entry into the orbit as gases entered a supposed "leak" in the surface of the shuttle.

By now, it had become evident that the supposed "leak" was caused prior to the entry into the Earth's orbit, which brought the focus back to the "launch" video. One of the videos placed detected a piece of foam falling over the wing edge during launch. This was a very common occurrence and was not considered to be great enough to create potential damage to the space shuttle. Still, followed by this clue, the investigation team set up a small demo of the actual 'left wing' parts and aimed at a likely 6th iron plate. The effect was only mild scratch. Not to be defeated, they further calculated and found the 'exact' location of the hit by the foam which was found to be in the 8th plate. A similar test was again done, with the foam piece (of about 1.7 pounds) hitting the 8th plate at the right angle..and lo behold! A huge 25 cms wide hole was created. It came as a huge shock...

Sometimes, I wonder.. if those seven astronauts' lives... including Kalpana Chawla...could have been saved. If it had been the sixth plate, the damage was only a scratch.. but as fate would have it.. it had to be the eight plate that caused death and huge loss. But who can argue with the Laws of Physics. Just like we can't argue with the probability of human err to be 0.1.. leaving 1% to chance. Reminds me of the time when an AeroPeru Boeing 757 crashed few minutes after take-off resulting in the death of sixty-one passengers and all nine crew members aboard on October 2, 1996. This Lima-Santiago flight took off and shortly enough was reported to be receiving contradictory emergency messages like overspeed, underspeed, flying too low etc. When the Pilot decided to descend, the plane hit the waters..and although there were survivors on board at that point, they invariably drowned. When investigation started, it was to everyone's suprise a simple err on the maintenance crew cleaner. While cleaning the aircraft, he is required to mask a tape on the the static ports and remove them after cleaning. Consequently, the removal bit was forgotten and even though 4 different people including the Captain did their routine-check up.. a simple usage of silvery duct tape resulted in an overlook so major.

Every person's life in today's world has become very competitive. We often look over simple matters like switching off the gas rightaway, or using a clean towel, eating healthier food, regular medicine intakes, condom usage, routine-check ups etc. These don't have direct effect perhaps.. but on the long run..it will hit upon you one day.. that ur small 1 second or 1 minute act changed ur future forever... Life's problems often seem like NASA missions to us.. and some of us fail to believe in the importance of simplest of things because of the huge burden of a bigger thing hovering over the head. Life's ambitions are big endeavors..but everything starts small. Everyone urges you to see the world from the hollistic view. Look at the world as a whole... look at the bigger perspective. Is bigger the better always? The bigger view encompases millions of smaller views. Every small view is unique and no matter how minute they are.. they "do matter". That is my conclusion for the day and I hope to tell you that even the biggest space institute in this world called NASA, which teaches man to look at this earth from the 'bigger perspective', needs the smaller things for its survival...

Hmmmm..

Music is playing in my new Sony Ericsson Walkman Series W300i to the glory of the night.. as the headphones are secured in my ears..listening to..jaadu hai nasha hai from movie Jism. I have put it in a loop...relaxing in the mood that has set in at 10:30 pm. I roll over and open the flap of my phone and quickly run through my message Inbox. After a quick glance, I stoop down to pick up ma AquaFina and take a few gulps. I fix the few strands of hair that has escaped my hair clasp. I ponder over the few conversations I had earlier with my friends online and on phone. Then I remembered one very vividly and I smiled at the thought of hearing my best friend's voice once again after a long break.. She sounded great..and pretty excited. Who wouldn't be..if you are getting married soon, right?

She got engaged a few months ago. She said she got news for me.. and she slowly admitted that she and her bf may tie the big knot real soon. Of course, we say 'tie-the-knot' in Indian style cause..it symbolizes the sacred thread. But, for her it was more of..exchanging vows..and then crossing the threshold. :) Then, I frowned. She had asked me enthusiasticaly..if I can be her maid-of-honor. Wow..! That was my first reaction. She went on to convince me about how she thinks no one would fit the bill as much as me.. and how she will bear the cost of me flying across the continent to America(!!).

But of course, Only If I get the permission from my Dear Parents. I rolled over..as the second stanza of Jaadu hai Nasha hai played soothingly in my ears and I closed my eyes and let out a deep sigh. Somethings are better left un-said..and one of them would be to accept the fact that we can't be, as Indians, as free as these foriegners. But, thats a dishevelled feeling which I don't myself agree with at times. I guess.. calling someone an ABCD(American Born..CONFUSED DESI) does make sense. COnfused, we are. We dont hide it either. I tossed the hairstrand fallin on my cheek and swiftly searched for my phone..opened it..and stopped the song. I scrolled down the list and selected "soniye" song.

Tu hi tu hi meri manzil..
tu hi chaahat mei hai shaamil..

I looked out the window at the darkness staring back at me..and a shimmering light that passes by..Im guessing it was a car. I suddenly looked up to see a faint Moon. A lil voice inside said..

"... wat a stupid girl u are.. someone is offering u to be her Maid-of-Honor..do u even know what that means??"

Little startled.. i realized i really wasnt so sure. I got up and logged online. Swiftly did a google search, and found one website. It started like this..."Maid of Honor should be your closest friend - many times, a bride will choose her sister." Oh yeah, I smiled so wide.. like I have never done before. She's my sister indeed. and I luv her to Pits..something that I did mention once in my blog.

I scrolled down..to see more about the Maid of Honor's responsibilities..which it lists out like the following.

The main role of the Maid of Honor is to help the bride with the wedding planning... this can include shopping for dresses, addressing invitations, putting together favors and just being there when the bride needs some extra help, support or someone to talk to.

Traditionally, there are some specific duties that the maid of honor is to perform:

Host the bridal shower. Today, this is usually done with the help of the other bridesmaids.

Helps the bride get dressed on her wedding day.

Adjusts the bride's veil and train before she walks down the aisle and during the ceremony as needed.

Holds the bride's bouquet during the wedding ceremony.

Holds the groom's ring wedding ring until the exchange of the rings, if there is no ring bearer.
Witnesses the signing of the marriage license.

Helps the bride bustle her gown prior to the beginning of the reception.

If you are a Maid of Honor, the most important thing is to continually offer your assistance and support to the bride throughout the entire wedding planning process. We all need our friends - but during those stressful times of wedding planning - you need your best friend even more!

I was soo touched by this website.. that I felt like kissing the screen. My eyes literaly glowed to think.. of what lies ahead. I switched off the PC and returned to my pillow.
Soniyeeee....Sonniyeee...

The frown returned..this time oddly with a more disturbed feeling. I realized.. how much this would mean to me.. and to her.. and to our friendship.. and how I may have to still miss this golden opportunity. I decided.. I will just have to somehow be convincing enough to get this permission. I really don't know if i can do it.. but I will just have to try. With that determined thought.. I stopped the playing song.. unplugged my headphones from the phone..and decided to go off to sleep with the pillow on my side.

Strong wind rattled the windows as I tossed around and blinked my eyes open and became conscious of the fact that a ray of strong mid-summer morning Sun blaring through the curtains. I turn around to find my phone zinging alerting me of a new message received. I didn't even start to think who it could be.. because I know its my Morning greeting message, sent dutifully without fail by my closest friend in India. I read the message with half eyes closed..yawned and started to roll over and sleep again. When I felt like my friend's voice was calling me. I snapped my eyes open and wondered..wat was that.. I turned back to my phone to check the time.. and it was 7:30 am. I snapped the phone close and rubbed my eyes..when I stopped halfway through..and quickly opened the phone again. I hadn't noticed that there was another message. I open it.. and its from my girl.. she says she luvs me loads and she wants to wish me best of luck for everything. It was like a Deja vu for few mins... :)

I sat up and quietly prayed.. that she find happiness in everyway. This is a new stepping stone in her life.. and i want her to have the strength and courage to find this new turn as a welcoming boon. I want to thank her for being there for me.. for being my friend.. and for honoring me..by asking me to be her maid-of-honor.. and i want to show her my gratitude.. in many many ways..But, when words fail.. actions speak.. and I want to solemnly hope that I can be there for her.. on her big day.....