लपूझन्ना और Bangalore की बारिश

Today is a special day. I am happy in a very different way, the way it use to be some 5-6 years back. rain God is showering blessings over Bangaluru, would soon be moving to Gurgaon, and it has finally struck me, that my abode for last three years is going to change soon. I am happy, excited and a bit apprehensive also.....all these days it was quite hot here, and the selfish me was in a way happy, that i would be moving from a not so pleasant Bangalore to Ggn and hence would not miss Bangalore weather too much...:D... But, all my wicked thoughts are being washed away every day with full showers in the evenings....so have changed my outlook, let me soak myself in the pleasant evenings of the city for a few more days....:)
Ok, so as i said today is special and hence should be marked with something very special...:)
Few days ago, N gave link of a new blog. lapoojhanna.blogspot.com. I have been a part of blogspace for past two years now. have read many interesting/ intelligent/ funny/ humorous blogs during this time. BUT, no blog like lappojhanna till now. Its unbelievably humorous and captivating. Or i would say addictive. I finished reading all the blog post series this weekend in two sittings.
मतलब कहना ऐसा रहेगा, की जिन अशोक पांडे नाम के सज्जन ने ये लिखा है, उन्होंने क्या तो पकड़ा है छोटे शहरों के middle क्लास एक्सपेरिएंस को. हर character को इतना clearly aur strongly define किया है पूरी सिरीस में, की आप दिमाग में १ पूरा नक्षा बना सकते हैं हर पात्र का, और शायद अगर असल जीवन में कभी मिल जाएँ तो पहचान भी सकते हैं..:) (ऐसा मुझे Shantaaram और Kite Runner पढ़के भी लगा था ) उत्तराँचल में रामनगर नाम के १ प्लेन्स के कसबे के कुछ पात्रों (mainly लफ्तू और पाण्डेय जी स्वयं) के बचपन के जीवन का कुछ ऐसा विवरण किया है लेखक ने, कि रामनगर की १ तस्वीर सी खिंच जाती है दिमाग में; और कुछ posts पढने के बाद, आप कहानी का हिस्सा ही बन जाते हैं। लेखक का ओब्सेर्वेशन अमेज़िंग है, इतना बारीकी से सन ७० के दशक में भारत के हज़ारों कस्बों में से किसी १ में रहने वाले बच्चों के मन, मस्तिष्क में उत्पन्न होने वाले विचारों और भावनाओं को कागज़ पे उतारा है, कि बस पढ़ने वाला वाह वाह ही कर उठे.... और सबसे खूबसूरत बात ये...कि सारी कहानी में हास्य का इतना गहरा और रोचक पुट है....कि हँसते हँसते आँखों से पानी आ जाए..पेट दर्द करने लगे...और आप सचमुच "रोलिंग ऑन the फ्लोर" हो जाएँ।

शब्दावाली के साथ ऐसा creative experiment कि हर पोस्ट में कम से कम १२-१५ हीरे तो आसानी से मिल जायेंगे...:)....परजोगसालासहायकार्धांगिनी (लैब assisstant की धरमपत्नी), सार्वजनिक मारपीटीकरण और अपमानीकरण.....उनमे से कुछ हीरे हैं...:)

तहे दिल से धन्यवाद लेखक का और N का, जिन्होंने इस ब्लोगाधिपति से परिचय करवाया...:)
बाकी आज शाम से कुछ मस्त गाने सुने जा रहे हैं, जो कि इस अच्छे मूड पे और चार चाँद लगा रहे हैं...:) ..

Awarded!

Just before when my dearie Blogu is about to turn an year old, dear friend P has awarded it "Cherry on the Top" award...:). This is my first award in blog world. I am heppy...very heppy..:)

So here are the rules to recieve this award:
1. Thank the person that gave this to you
Thank you so much Prats for this wonderful award, as i said above i am heppy...:)); I knew that if at all i get any of these blogowards; it would and can only come through you..:D.

2. Copy the award and put it on your blog-Aalready dones..:)
3. List 3 things you love about yourself -abhi likhte hain...
4. Post a picture you love (e.g a person you adore etc.)..wokies
5. Tag 5 people you wish to pass this award on to ...theek hai..

Now me need to put three things i love about myself..."he he he"..(animated..:D)...teen se mera kya hoga...:D, so here are three of the many things i love about myself...
1. I love the fact that i can get along with most people quite well, i generally start with a positive opinion about ppl, until proved otherwise.
2. I can easily put my opinions/ thoughts across in a very honest manner whenever needed, it helps me keep my head and heart light, and also helps in building bonds, mostly.
3. I can sleep for real long hours..:D. I love this thing about me, touch wood, but i have seen me loosing apetite, hair, and what not due to tensions and problems ...but never sleep. And i like it...:). Khuda meherbaan rahe!

Now i have to put a favourite pic of mine here. Ok, though there are many, but one which is coming to my mind right now is this one...

My mum dad, at a chai ki dukaan in Badrinath. We went there last year, and it was after a long time i went with my parents on a short but wonderful vacation. I simply love the smiles and happiness in this pic. It reflects the warmth, love and companionship from their long years of togetherness...:)...touchwood!

And i give this award to these five people...
1. Bangaloremom
2. Tushti (likho bhai..kuch to likho...)
3. Mayank the great..:) (ab to naukri ki tension bhi nahi, blog hi update kar le)

..aur aap log award accept karen, tag na bhi karen to chalega...:)
4. Neeraj Sir
5. Dr. Anurag
Aaj Bangalore mein baarish hui, badi raahat mili tapti dhoop se....achche mausam ke liye ek achcha gaana....:)
are wah...kya picturization hai..:)
Aur isse aur bhi achcha...ye gaana...:)

The Surf "Excel" Kid...

Ah..:)....was generally surfing thorugh youtube and found an uncut version of one of my favourite ads on air these days....:)

I simply adore this ad, i love the idea, the execution, the super cute kid, the setting, Rosy Miss..:)...everything about this one and a half minute video...:).

But what I like the most is the naughty kid...:) I love the way the kid has been shown as a super naughty, mischiveous, fun loving, carefree child when with friends, in class in a happy atmosphere. He is part of all the hubaloo....shouts in the class, immitates others ..basically is the carefree kinds, whos parents are the most worried ones in the parents' teachers' meeting....:)

In the very next setting, in a situation which demands seriousness, the kid has been shown as the more sensitive kinds, one who feels for others, who would not say it in so many words but would make it up by his actions...:) would act like a pet to make his teacher smile....:)

The kid has acted the whole situation out so well....i love the tone he shouts in..."Aaj Rosy Miss kyun naai aayi?"....and his jumping around while walking on the road...and then the cute, worried expression on reaching Rosy Miss' house...:)....
Would love to have a kid like that....;-)

10 tana tan...:)

Offlate i saw many bloggers mentoning the term.."writer's block"...when u cannot come up with anything to write..reason can be any...rather many....
I was going through my posts of the last few months and noticed that even i am suffering from this so called block....there are some vague ideas here and there but finding it difficult to come up with a post which I can read again after posting....:)
In such a situation, tags are something which act as a saviour...:); they at least provide a skeleton to fit your thoughts into....
I saw this tag on P's blog. Found it interesting; s to take it up this fine morning..:)
I have to assign something of importance from figure 1 to 10...lets see how much i can pull...

1-is the number of diamonds i have rite now..:)
2-is the number of siblings i have...and also my favorite number. In school, in coaching classes i always preferred sitting on the 2nd bench, standing 2nd in class somehow gave me more thrill than coming first..:D....Ok and it also happens to be the birth date of the guy i would be tying the knot with coming February..:) (again 2nd month of the year…a Piscean wedding ours would be..lol) ....(Yes, I have finally found the one to spend my rest of the life with...:). Am actually waiting for this so called “block” to get over to write a nice post on this important development in my life..:))
3-is the number of organizations i have worked for till now (including my current one)
4-is the number of people in the family i would be moving into...:)
5-is the number of months I have been to Salsa class…(isse behter kuch chamka nahi dimaag mein..)
6-is the number of Indian cities I have lived in so far
7-is the number associated with my family name. (Apparently our huge family on my father’s side is descendants of seven brothers who migrated from southern part of India to Garhwal long long time ago...)
8-It was in class 8th that i saw my first movie in theatre, hosh sambhalne ke baad that is (1942-A love Story and HAHK)..lol...
9-was the standard i was in when i got 100 marks in mathematics for the first time...(i was dead scared of maths till then..:D)
10-is the total number of years I have been staying away from my parents...

baaki everythings decent, apart from the fact that this client has made me sit in a room which is a glass box without blinds....:(...it gives me a feeling as if i am in some show case..:O

After a hiatus...

Moment of the Day.....

Was exchanging tweets with fellow tweeple today...and this kid who calls himslf Softykid..:)...said this in reply to ...hows life?

softykid 2 min ago
@deeptidhyani my life is exceptionally beautiful and having fun to the core :) howz day coming along and are u working in bangalore ?
from web in reply to deeptidhyani

I zimply loved the positivity his statement reflected....i mean what an awsum reply....my face lit up with a smile and for few seconds i was taken off all my worries. I cherished the moment and openend my blog to pen it down ...:))....
I guess this radiant pic which i captured sitting inside a beach side cafe at Kovalam Beach in Trivandrum would compliment this wonderful moment!!

Over lunch!

Just had lunch with few office friends…..a few :) and :( excerpts from todays lunch..:)

We recently got out passport size photos clicked in office; in a standard format. Today the department secy sent each one of us our individual pics. Did not get a chance to see many of them; but this is how a friend described hers: “Aiyyo, I look like a deranged fellow. The clients will say what a nice and charitable firm ours is; we give chance to mentally challenged people to be a part of our organization.” ..:D
That reminds me, another friend of mine has a collection of passport size pics of all her friends with her. The other day she was showing them to me and needless to say we were ROFLing for some good half an hr. She insisted that all her friends give her a passport size pic of theirs; a hilarious remembrance which can make her laugh every time she sees them..:)

Ok, on the downside, why do some people make noise while eating…:(, and do not hesitate taking food from your plate with their hands/ spoon without even considering that it may not be received very well on the other side…:( I mean I do not mind sharing food. I have shared lunch boxes/ thaalis/ glasses/ spoons all through my life with my pals in school and hostel (sharing stuff in hostel can make a complete post in itself…:)); but then I still feel that unless we are very good friends and are well aware of each other’s dining habits; we should consider someone’s food plate as a very personal territory and should only venture into it after seeking due permission.

Yun hi...

I have many things to write about, topics I can discuss for hours, topics which have been bothering me for quite sometime now and hence can fill pages with…but I guess I have thought through them so many times, that now I have no patience to jot them down to make a nice readable post. Nothing major is happening in life as such. Things are going pretty much at the same pace. It has been almost 20 days since I shifted to this new house. Things are faring decently till now..:). Few thoughts here and there.....

1.Bangalore Weather: What is wrong with it?? I mean we call it pleasant when its neither too hot nor too cold; we are not tweeting/ filling FB walls telling the whole world about the torturesum state we are in because of it; our phone conversations do not essentially revolve around it!!. But what do we call it when you don’t see sun for some 1 month all together, not a single drop of rain, breezy almost all the time with those filmy Saiyen Sayein sound!!, ....I can make my friends in HOTland Dilli hear those sounds on phone…:O. Its weird!!, irritating..and requires immediate attention by the Sun and Rain Gods. Ok, I agree I hate weather of India north of Tropic of Cancer, and I tell all placement consultants that “Anywhere in India” in my naukri.com profile actually means anywhere except NCR; but this pleasantness of Bangaluru weather is now making me crave for Dilli ki sardi and garmi…:(. I seriously want this weather to show some signs of change now!!

2.Twitter: I am active on this social super networking site since past two months now I guess. It was Orkut, then FB and now its Twitter. So these days I am addicted to it. Gmail has been replaced by Twitter as the first page which I open when I enter the virtual world. I tweet, RT (Re-Tweet), read others tweets, laugh many times a day courtesy some humorous/ hardworking fellows I am following who make it a point to search internet right, left and centre to post funny one liners every minute to keep the laughing ball rolling. (When do these guys work???..i mean I can count few who tweet like some five times every minute). I seriously want to learn this multitasking ability or be recruited by their organization. The addiction and sincerity towards tweeting is commendable!! Some of my friends have stopped chatting with me, tweet karo bas…:O kaise halchal/ wossup/ kahan ho..sirf tweets ke through poocho!!
Not that I am against tweeting but i seriously wonder how cun some people tweet ALL the time..!!
One interesting thing I discovered after entering this tweet world is that I am not very quick at gelling with unknown online junta. In twitter you follow people you know, you also follow many who you don’t….now these unknown fellas are mostly the ones recommended to you by your friends; then you start interacting and become a part of the numerous # ed topics…. It took me I guess a good one nd a half month to become familiar with few of those unknown handles I follow on twitter who are supposedly hyperactive on it. Anyways, all is good till it lasts, lets see for how long we all keep tweeting…!!

3.Moment of the Day: The other day, a good friend in office, rather my best friend in office came and sat next to me post lunch, he had to change his seat for some reason. I looked at him, and for a moment was thrilled (I grinned and said..”tu yahan baith raha hai”); just like the way I remember I use to feel super YaY when till class 8th, the teacher use to allow us to sit with our friends on rare occasions. (other wise we were made to sit with some random classmates; and people like me with specs had their fixed seats in the second row with some other chashmadharis; the rest of the junta use to follow a seat rotation, we were however spared from that since humen peeche vaali seats se dikhayi nahi deta tha..:D). I loved that 10 seconds excitement; when I told him this we had a good 2 minutes laugh…:D…it was the moment of the day!!

4.:) I also discovered a new thing about myself; my laughing threshold is very low. I mean I knew that I laugh more as compared to other souls around, but recently I noted that its very easy to make me laugh. Also, I can re-laugh on the same thing many a times. At times there have been incidents when I could not narrate a particular incident to junta, because I was laughing so much myself while telling it that we had to postponed the narration to some later point. I have often heard people around me saying “itni hanse vaali baat to nahi thi” and giving me confused looks, wondering if they have missed the humor; but don’t worry folks, it has nothing to do with your sense of humor….:). Ye, and on this smiley note, I want to mention here….last Friday night I discovered a nice blog. Here is the link. I was ROFL reading it. I am sure you too would like it.

PS: I have conviniently replaced "poor sense of humor" with "low laughing threhold" ..:) thora better sound karta hai..:D

5.We had a mehndi eve yesterday at a friend’s place…:). In N India there is a festival called Teej, women folk put mehndi, wear new clothes and bangles etc and celebrate. We all gathered at this friend’s place and had a girls’ eve out. Fun it was.

6.I won a card..:) Yahan jaake dekhiye..:)

Bas abhi itna hi yaad aa raha hai..:)

To all the Happy Souls around!!

Now this one is for all the happy souls around me....:). One thing i have realised in the past few years is that the one great quality i admire in people above all other things is their happiness quotient. (apart from their e-value..:P). Happiness, though a very relative term, can still be sensed with quite an ease in the very first few meetings with a person. During all these years i have come across very few people whom i can consider Happy!. We all have our own set of frustrations, insecurities and complexities; and all of us have some defined/not so very well defined "to be" state. But still, there are few of us, looking at whom the first thing which comes to mind is....peace..happiness...:). They may not be the most phodu/ successful or happening people around, but they reflect certain kind of goodness, simplicity and satisfaction with life, that there mere presence around makes you feel good. They may not be your bestest friends, but are surely the first few people you look for the moment you enter office/ class/ come online/ or may be reach home..:).

Luckily I am also blessed with certain such individuals, and hence am jotting down here, a line or two about each..:)

Chhavi: A coalleague of mine,one of the happiest people i see around, every sentence ends with Bindasssss...masssst.....ecstatic she becomes, if the cab we hire for office has its music system working. No suit materails are bought, only readymade..."Deepti ab silwaane ka patience kiske paas hai, mujhe to next day hi pehnna rehta hai har naya dress"..:). Some people just enlighten the surroundings, this babe is one of them....keep smiling sweety..:)

Aadi: One of the most peaceful souls i have met. Another office coalleague cum friend, life may not be perfect, but can be made simple....:).Unpurturbed/ nonchalant most of the times, has the genuinnest advices and views on things/ situations. A decent sense of humor coupled with a harmless nature,one of the most feel good factors around!!...

Raksha: Now she is the latest addition to the list of my friends.Met this female in Mumbai, and boy!!....ball we had for those three weeks we spent together. Some people exuberate laughter!!!..she is one of them. An amazing narration style, one can easily be seen rotfl most of the times in her company. The best part is that this fun factor is accompanied by a lot of gravity in terms of thought process. Again one of those people who glow with happiness and positivity. I dont remember to have met a female as radiant as her!!...way to go babe..:)

Rimpy: This female happens to be a flatmate, with whom my only interactions have been restricted to chitchats when we are watching TV together, or cooking together. But then, i cannot recall even a single incident when i had seen her low/down/ dull. Always smiling, happy, giggling, finding pleasure in the weekly get tgethers with other such happy souls from Punjab....:))..another one of those FGCs..:)

Shubhadeep: Funniest people in my friends list. There was a time when i use to be literally falling of my chair chattin wid him, but PwC has taken the better of him now..:). A super human, with an amazingly positive attitude twrds life....

Gaurav Shah: A dear friend, whos always high on life...:). Have rarely seen him worried/ down, mastam sense of humor and a zeal to live life to its fullest..:), keep rocking dude..:)

Then there are few other happy souls who need a mention here...

AB (a feel good friend;thanks for being nice), Manu (bro dear), Jdp, Sony Anthony, Namrata...

Cheers to all you guys..:))..i really look forward to meet you and talk to you...keep rocking and spreading joy...:))

PS: All my other friends,if your name does not figure above, that does not mean that your presence in life is undermined!!. I love you all, and you all know it..;-).

Happy Bday..:)

11th May, 2009, My bday....:) and from now on birthday of my blog as well. Last year the idea of starting a blog hit my mind around this time only, but life was going through such horrendous patches, that my draft posts all revolved around only one thing ...... However, yesterday was having a regular discussion with P, and suddenly the question popped up..why do I want to blog....becuz i want people to cum and read my posts and leave comments, because i want to share stuff with strangers....or simply because i want to speak with myself. I guess last one is the right reason why i am here.It happens to be my bday today, the most imp day of my life till now. Love this day for all the good wishes and warmth i recieve from all my friends around...:). Though the age number is growing now...and being on the wrong side of 25, doesnt feel that great at times...but then, sometimes ..rather most of the times i feel, that i kind of forgot to grow up..."badi hona bhool gayi main"....the way i am giggling today at every bday phone call, feeling like a princess as if its my 16th bday or sumthing...really makes me wonder!!!Friends and family are calling....though since bday falls on a Monday tdy....hence not many ppl called up at 12 in the night...but then came mrning..and everbdy who mattered started calling...happy happy!! Lunch was with nice office friends....and hopefully dinner plan would also succeeed....till now day has been good....Every now and then i realise the importance of having good people around. Thank You GOD, for showering me with the bestest of friends, i sumtimes wnder..is it that I am good in judging people..or just that God is kind..:)..i guess the latter is true.....ok..would soon write a separate post on friends!!cheers to all the good people around me!! and happy bday :))