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1. Its already 8 minutes past 12, and i am still awake...waiting for husband dear to come back. His flight has just landed and he should be home anytime. I have been feeling really sleepy all this while, but last time when i resigned to sleep God waiting for husband ..poor chap had to come inside the house through an open accessible window as multiple phone rings and door bells failed to wake me up! So better stay awake than make him go through that circus once again...:D
2. Gurgaon weather is awesome since last 2 days, feels like i am back in Bangaluru..:)..:)..:)....
3. I am sitting at the window seat in office today..the view from here is awesome…:)

Google पे "English to Hindi Translation " छापा....तो कोई site खुल गयी, जिसमे इंग्लिश में अगर कुछ लिखो तो उसके कोर्रेस्पोंडिंग वही वाक्य हिंदी में आ जाएगा; हिंदी भाषा में फिर गूगल पे दोबारा ढूंडा और पाया की मुझे जो चाहिए वो "translation " नहीं "transliteration " है मैं जो भी इंग्लिश में लिखूं वो वैसा ही देवनागरी लिपि में आ जाए जैसे अगर " View of the town from my seat is good" translate किया जाए हिंदी में तो वो बनेगा (using the translation tool).." मेरी सीट से शहर का दृश्य बहुत अच्छा है" और अगर मैं इसी को transliterate करूँ Google transliteration की मदद से तो सीधा देवनागरी लिपि में आएगा " व्यू ऑफ़ द टाउन फ्रॉम माय सीट इस गुड"
Interesting finding...:)

This post was written some 20 days ago. Could not post it then. Its been long since this blog has been updated and what better way to get rid of blog hiatus than a tag..:)

Saw this tag on a blog today and will waste no time in taking it..:)

1. What curse word do you use the most?
Dableww Tee Eff!!!

2. Do you own an iPod?
No, Husband does so I guess Yes, I do..:D

3. What person do you talk to on the phone the most?
Hmm….dont have the statistics handy...…but I mostly talk to Shweta, Rachana and my parents.

4. Do you still remember the first person you kissed?
Yes of course….i would be suffering from amnesia not to remember that..:D

5. Do you remember where you were on 11/9/01?
Yess!!..Jhansi…..on the terrace of Yashodhara Bhavan-our hostel, sitting idle with friends….when a friend came from the common room and enlightened us..”America pe terrorist attack ho gaya hai…aur hum yahan faaltu time pass kar rahe hain”…
6. What was the last movie you watched?

A movie on Mozart…name I don’t remember.....

*remembered the name during editing..Amadeus*

7. Has anyone ever called you lazy?

Never….people don’t call me lazy..they simply shout at me for being LAZY…!!

8. Do you ever take medication to help you fall asleep?
Once..I could not sleep for some 2 hrs after going to bed….so thought that I would need some outside help…..dint realize that 2 hrs delay in sleeping was resulting in 4 hrs delay in getting up too..:D

9. Has anyone told you a secret this week?

hmm….lemme think…No

10. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?

Simplicity Quotient

11. What are you looking forward to?

A visit to parlor….

12. Do you own any band t-shirts?

Na ji

13. What will you be doing in one hour?

Cooking something

14. Is anyone in love with you?

Yes of course!

15. Last time you cried?

Don’t remember….

16. Are you on a desktop computer or a laptop?

Laptaap

17. Are you currently wanting any piercings or tattoos?

Ye..another piercing in ears..

18. Would you ever date anyone covered in tattoos?

Don’t know….but I have married one with a permanent tattoo..:D

19. What were you doing before this?

Reading the new thick Femina Edition

20. When is the last time you slept on the floor?

Last Friday!

21. How many hours of sleep do you need to function?

Embarrassed!!

22. Do you eat breakfast daily?
Why are there so many embarrassing questions???

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...:) ..

Yippie...Yidli!!

Maza aa gaya aaj....:)...idly banayi for the first time and they turned out so well...:)
Now that i would be leaving Bangalore in few days, me went to market to collect mementos ...:D...idly mould se achcha aur kya ho sakta tha...so picked up 2, one for moi and one for mum...
Used the mould for carving idlys for dinner and "maza aa gaya"..:D

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..:)

Blossoms!

Last week, after a boring day at office, i decided to take a stroll down MG Rd, one place i really like in Bangalore. Though, many people find it too crowded...but there is something about the whole set of streets in that areas which make me like it a lot, and that includes the fancy English names the streets there have..:). Many a times i go there alone in the evenings, buy some nice books from this book shop "Blossoms", buy some "seengdana" (salted nuts) to munch and just njoi the hustle bustlevof the market. So this fine wednesday also, i left office on time, dumped my lappy at homeon my way and reached MGR, i guess after some 3-4 mnths. After buying Mothers' day gift for my Mom (a pretty raw silk saree from Nalli), i straight away went to Blossoms, my fav place on Church Street.

Generally when i go to Blossoms, i already have a set ofbooksin my mind, which i have to buy. (or else its very difficult to explore that place). But this time i had nthing in mind. Just went inside and called P for some assistance, but poor chap was driving back home after a long days work i guess, hence noinputs from there.

So, i randomly started going through the stacks of books kept at the entrance itself, and picked up a good 7 books fromthe lot. All the books are from Indian writers, and i guess should not takemore than 20 days to finish. Its such a great feeling when you spend your hard earned money on books...:).

The books i bought were:

1. Hes just not that into you

2. Twilight in Delhi

3. Lahore- a sentimental journey

4. 1984

5. What would you do to save the world

6. Book of Humor by Ruskin Bond

7. Ofcourse I Love U, till i find someone better

Have already finished reading the first one and found it an amazingly apt read..:))

Would soon write a separate post on that. Have started two books simultaneously after that Lahore: the book has not been written in a great manner, but is interesting enough if you have even the slightest of taste in reading/knowing about the ancient cities of undivided India.

What would you do to save the world: I read some 25 pages of this book, in some book store in Mumbai some 3 years back. I always wanted to read the wholebook, as at that time i had foundit quite humorous. But alas! the book is no more captivating now....:(..seems my Sense of Humor has improved in these years....:)..