Bangalore Diaries : Sab achche ke liye hota hain

They say life is all about uncertainty..... Well yeah!! probably it is...
You may never know what is coming your way while you are busy planning on a million other things... Many people might have told you the same thing too many times in your life.
I experience it yet again this time.
A surprise-call on a Sunday night brought me to Bangalore from Mumbai. Trust me I did not even want to be here. I complained way too much to my boss asking him why he always chooses me to rescue projects as if I am the only one. He smiled over the call and said " You are THE TROUBLE MAGNET and you have to live with it".

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Mumbai Diaries : Secrets that were never shared

The reason I have not been writing here is that I am not a dishonest writer and if I practice honesty, I will be opening my heart to a whole set of people who judge me and my life on the basis of what they read. Some of them are MY people and that's why it matters. I don't care, no more ;)
So I met a prospective groom in Mumbai... There is a back-story to it. Apparently, I NEVER wanted to see him and there was this huge hoo-haa about me declining to meet him at home, so I went ahead and met him. Also, a dear friend suggested that if I am contemplating marriage with him, I should shun the thought and meet the prospective groom.

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Mumbai Diaries : Past Relationships, Baggage and Trusting again.

Isn't it easy to blame someone for all the hurt that comes to you?? Do you ever look inside, do you even indulge in some level of soul-searching to find out what caused you pain??
I do that all the time... Not to analyze the reason for my pain or to find someone to blame it onto... but to understand why things went the way I never wanted them to.
For some people, it is easy to become a sorry figure, to sit in a corner and point fingers at the other person. But, do we even realize that there is always two in a relationship and when things go wrong, both suffer.

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Mumbai Diaries - Paagalpanti ke side-effects

Last night while coming back from office I had such a solid craving for Paani-puri that for a couple of minutes I felt utterly pregnant. Oh! but, wait a minute, how does it feel to be pregnant? shuh! I donno... but as they say it was a solid craving.
I asked the driver to stop the car on ANY roadside thelaa... haan! yaar, jo mazaa raastey ki chaat khaaney mein hain.. woh kahin nahi....

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Mumbai Diaries : There is always a story behind a smile

We all live in the illusion that God has all the time in the world to give us problems.. I mean .. Gimme a break.. Don't we?? When we chat up with friends, we expect them to listen and sympathize or atleast try and understand the pain inside us. We don't realize that the person on the other end of the phone-line also has a story they never shared.
 In these 27 yrs of my life, I have met different people and they all had some or the other influence in my life. But on THIS trip, I met people who had a smile that can make you go weak in our knees but a story that can make your heart cry...

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Mumbai Diaries - The Cab Ride

Some of you said that my last post was more like "New girl in the city" from Wake up Sid... So, I went ahead and read it again... Itz kinda similar.. :)
So it's been like a month in Mumbai... and life has been different. Sometimes I feel like just spreading my arms and grabbing it all in one go... Life is moving...it is moving really fast.
I am doing things I have not done in past 3 years. I partied till my legs cried in pain... I went out... got soaked in the rain...watched movies... travelled in a Kaali-peeli taxi :D

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Breaking Away, Finding Myself and Losing myself again :)

I know the title is like too ahem! serious.. but as always what I will be writing about will be a lil bit nice n a lil bit naughty :D
If I again start the sob-story of why I don't comment, post or look at my blog, I am going to get a big kick from some of you here. So I shut my mouth right here on that. ;) ;)
I have always hated Mumbai. Right from the time, I knew of Bombay, I hated it. I donno why... Really. So when my boss asked me to take up this assignment in Mumbai, I got cold feet. I never (read NEVER) wanted to visit Mumbai in this life. But for the first time in my life, I let life take it's own course. Actually, life always takes it's own course, we just keep fooling ourselves with this illusion of having control over everything.

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Dallas Diaries : Day 2-9 : Dance, Romance and Take a Chance :D

Sunny mentioned how I did not complete this diary series and I am slowly killing my blog. Hmmmph!!!!!!!!!!
Here is the rest of the story from the Dallas trip :
Day 2 : My first day in office and Marriott was gracious enough to drop me at office. I saw a billboard on my way to office that shooed away all my nervousness of meeting a hi-fi client -- "Your wife is HOT, Time to repair your AC". The fonts were different and it was so funny when you read it the first time. Khair! I met my two colleagues, Danny (D) and Anthony (A) as I entered the conference room. Both of them turned out to be complete gems.

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Falling in love with the wrong ones - ( Gal Talk)

Why do I always fall for the wrong guy?
I know many of us ask our friends about it, some seek advice from relationship experts...ahem!. Nobody knows why it keeps happening to them again n again n again.
Frankly, I won't pretend that I have found the reason behind it but I do realize that it is a pattern. Life is indeed nothing but a pattern.
Sometimes things keep happening to you in a repeated or a cyclic fashion because somewhere, there is something that you are doing and it is NOT right.

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Dallas Diaries : Day 1 - Hush, Rush, Lost and finally, found ;)

Here I am, back with the Diary-series.
For a change, this time my flight to US was not scheduled too late at nite or too early in the morning. It was at something around 8 am. Even then I did not sleep the whole nite due to the stress of travelling.
I chose British Airways instead of Lufthansa this time... coz *shrugs* it takes lesser flying time as compared to Lufthansa... but frankly, people gave me such bad reviews about BA, that I went there without any expectations at all and I was so pleasantly surprised. As always, I took an aisle seat (it's recommended if u have a long flight) and did what I do the best : Sleep with my mouth open :D :D

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Remember Me...

Work has brought me to US again... This time I am in Dallas, Texas. It is a beautiful place except for the heat... I mean I love greens, nature n all that... so it is kinda cool for me... but this post is not about Dallas. It is about a wonderful movie, I saw today.
'Remember Me', as I mentioned on my Twitter status is a beautiful movie...and You 'live' through this movie if you have ever experienced the pain, separation, love, longing, misunderstandings, effort to heal, a special touch in your life... I know, I can go on about this.

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Dekho kaun aaya hain... ;)

All thanks to Sunny, who pulled me back from the world of 'Twitter' and asked me to write again... Ofcourse, he does not want me to write about him ;) He is like -- Are you done writing? haha... :D
Oh! my...I never say blog eh? Writing! *shrugs* That's just me.
I know we have been out of touch for so long but I will make sure, I am here more. This place helps me connect with ME more.

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Nasty Post

So many things happening at the same time. My head,  my heart and my body just cannot take it right now.
I am stressed... naah! over-stressed... :| 
Things are just not falling into place all of a sudden... I feel over-burdened...pressed for time.. .weird...cranky..
The people I thought will understand me are acting so weird... I really can't recognize this...
Another thing is : I hate it when someone tries to be all mahaan with me and make me feel that I crib to them subah shaam and they are sweet souls who just listen to me coz they are forced to.

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I am going to cheat on you, darling.

It is about cheating, adultery or watever they call it, this time.
I wonder at times, why do people decide to marry someone out of their own will and then, boom! they cheat on the very same partners. What triggers it?
Frankly, I think every cheater has an excuse and here are some examples : (things I have heard from the horse's mouth)

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Dad's Mixer Love-Affair :D :D

How many of us have this fascination with the old stuff lying around in the house?
Like I had this pair of shorts that I never gave up on...I loved them...Mom nagged me so much to give up on them...but I never did...and finally, while I was away on a business trip, mom cut it all into pieces :P :P and it was gone. I was so upset about it :|
The current special old-stuff association I know of around me is : Dad and THAT mixer...the 20+ yrs old mixer-grinder :D 

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10 somethings about me...

Yeah! I talk a lot about me on my blog... but then.. *shrugs* it's MY blog :D
So in usual circumstances, I do that without being asked.But this time around, Ramit has asked me to do the same in his tag ;) Thank you, Ramit. You are still my hero! :D
I have to mention 7 random things about me...eh? 7 is too less Ramit, can I make it 10?? *sheepishly smiles*

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Doesn't matter if you are black or white....

I am a lil worried about one of our blogger frenz, it seems her parents took her cellphone away and she is not able to keep in touch with all of us. I saw tweets from her where she is contemplating coming out to her folks about her being gay. I donno how they will take it but I really pray that they accept her as who she is and not try to force her to change herself coz frankly she can't.

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You gotta problem with me?? haha

Life che! Infact, I must say, MERI life che.. toh masala toh hoga hi ;)
My close friend is leaving,to pursue his dreams and I know I will miss him loads but then, like all friends, we will also try to keep in touch. I have a message for him - "You know what?I am not good at saying what I want to say when I should say it...but I wish you luck and success in all that you do and remember that, I will miss you almost roz... :P but that DOES NOT make you my boyfriend" :D :D LOL!! So stop flattering yourself and get a hot gal for a gf as soon as you reach where your dreams and life is waiting for you. I really will miss you yaar" *sigh*

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Are you ahem!... virgin?

This question looms over all relationships and even the prospective marriages. Thankfully, no prospective groom asked me something like this ever, else those who know me, would know uska kya hota ;) But yes, My friends have been asked such questions by their prospective grooms :D
So, everyone has opinions about it. I also have one... which is that I don't have any prerequisites as such. It depends on an individual how they want to look at it. I have no such expectations from my partner that they should not have done 'IT' before with someone. I mean *shrugs* , I take this to be just usual stuff.

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A little something you should know about me...

 
I curse such days...why do we even have them...when everything goes just wrong...but then I tell myself, be it.
This year too I have not been promoted as I see it and I am still slogging like anything. People around me are worried about me and concerned, and I do see that.
Some think that I should stop my career bullshit right here and live like NORMAL gals do. Frankly, I donno what sets apart a normal gal and a gal who thinks she also deserves appreciation n has the right to dream.

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Marrying the rapist...

 Fine. Blame me for it. But this does not get into my head.
The Chief Justice of India, made a statement today about how a victim should be allowed to marry her rapists if she wants to. Ahem! I wonder who would want to marry a person who damaged their soul beyond repair?
I mean, may be, I am not the right person to comment here, but all I understand is that I still have so much anger for the man who groped me when I took my first bus to college, the man who back-slapped me while I was out for a walk, the man who attempted rape on my co-traveler in front of my eyes, the man who forcefully dragged me to a train and tried to molest me when I was 6 yrs old and the list goes on...

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