Na haathi hain, Na ghoda hain.. wahan paidal hi jaana hain...

Sab kehte hain ki I live in fairytales... in a world that is an illusion.. *shrugs*

Frankly, I don't bother. I think any which ways, everyone is living an illusion. In my opinion, your life that is so filled with materialistic goals and all that jazz is such an illusion :)

I think my life is REAL. I am still in touch with the humane side of me...I still love people, I still smile for things as small as watching it rain..I cry at things as small as someone teasing me...I throw a fit when things don't go my way and then I take a 360 degree turn, and forget it all.

Do you do that? No? YOU MUST!!

I spent last night wide awake thinking about a million things.. with respect to my future.. my present and my past.. so much of hard-work.. that I forgot to SLEEP.. can you beat that? That was my warning bell!! I have been so engrossed in making things perfect for past one month that I forgot to LIVE for a while.. so.. this is it.

God made us all humans...coz he thought we would be one...but somewhere in this whole illusive race we are running, some of us are not as human as we should be, anymore.

I know all this preachy shit has been said 100 times at 100 hundred places before... but our memory span is really short, so someone needs to yell it out to us time and again. Today, I am doing it for me and you.

DO hell with work stress, how-to-make-more-money shit,when to get married, who to get married to and diets etc.. Go take a walk! Grab an ice-cream! Munch on bhuttas and chanaa.. and do stupid stuff.. like smiling at a cute stranger.. or just watching the serene ocean. Kyunki ek hi life hain, and I don't think ki if I make a couple of thousands more, mere ko koi special jagah milne waali hain marne ke baad..  Special yahan hain!! ABHI.. iss right now mein :P 

Isliye.. Mast raho, Dilchasp raho!! coz marne ke baad photo ke baaju mein apni salary nahi chapegi betey laal.. :D

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An ode to the Educated Illiterates (EIs) - Zara hat ke!

Off late my experiences with the so-called 'educated' section of our society have been so disappointing that I am sure that instead of working towards starting a NGO to help the under-privileged, I should start one to educate the EDUCATED or the privileged ones.

I am writing my MBA papers and this weekend while I was waiting in a queue at my examination center for my turn, a gal in her early-20s came from somewhere behind and stood next to me in the queue. I usually ignore such stupid tactics by the so called EIs (Educated Illiterates), but Delhi summers get to you, can't help. As soon as my turn came, she forwarded her hall-ticket to the Exam head, I casually picked up that piece of paper, smiled at her and said,"Can you please tell me one good reason why you forwarded your hall-ticket when it is my turn?". She looked at me in disbelief, with that titli-types attitude. Kids!! 

The point of narrating this whole incident is that she was just one of those EIs. We have so many around us all the time, who don't care about what they have been taught all their lives in the posh schools they studied at. Education is supposed to be a powerful tool to be a responsible citizen and a human being, but it is sad that people take it for granted. 

So I hereby, I give a tribute to all those EIs I have encountered recently :

1. The Mobile Phone leechs : I understand your life sucks and all, and you wanna die...but please spare the other people who are walking or driving on the roads. If you can't let go of your cellphone while you are driving, stay at home or hire someone to drive you around as you yap yap on the phone.

2. The "Yeh sadak tere baap ki hain kya?" spitters : They don't need a reason or a season. Be it a BMW or a Nano, Be it a corporate honcho or a sarkari daftar ka clerk, everyone competes on the road, for the longest range of spitting. If you ever look at them with disgust or tell them it's wrong, they will set you right.

3. The "Tujhey pata hain main kaun hoon?" rulebreakers : So the netas, the middle class and the upper class, everyone wants their kids to study in the best of international schools...but the end result is always the same. This category suffers from an identity crisis despite all the education and facilities in life. They live "questionable" lives...coz inhe pata nahi ki yeh kaun hain ;)

4. The "Yeh ladizz ki line hain" aunties and kudis : Just for record, there is no ladizz ki line anywhere anymore. The last I heard Indian Railways reservation counters also abolished them in most of the places. These kudis/aunties form a ladizz ki line everywhere, coz 1. they are educated 2. they KNOW the rules.

5. The "Budhdhe marega kya?"yo-yo generation : When I was in school, we were taught that one should respect elders, and trust their judgement in life. What we see on the roads, in public places, in homes is completely opposite these days. This category of EIs, need a "Buddha hoga tera baap" dose from our awesome grandpas and uncles. They donno that desi ghee ke paranthe still have an edge over Burgers :P

6. The Over-smart queue breakers : No matter how long the queue is, these people always have the audacity to walk up to the front and pretend like they belong their for the past 4 hours. Jai ho!

The whole point is... There are many kids who crave for books and studies, but they have to work at the age of 7 itself to earn for their family and here, we have kids who travel in AC cars and udaaofy maa-baap ka paisa but don't realize the importance of what they have. 

If this is what our kids are doing after education, it is better to give a chance to the people who really value education, the kids who want, but can't get.

I am sure all of you have met some or the other kind of EIs in your lives. Feel free to add your experiences and categories in comments. 

Note : AD gave me this idea of starting an NGO when I was rambling about this wonderful queue-breaker Chikita!

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Flush of Thoughts - 19.05.2012

Quiet easy to sit back and count what I have done for you, what all you have done for me. Quite difficult to realize, the moment we started counting, we lost what we had.

Quiet easy to blame people for all the bad that happens to me, Quite difficult to accept that it was all coz I made certain choices.

Quiet easy to stand in a corner and criticize those who are making an effort for a change, Quite difficult to be the change.

Quiet easy to dream, Quiet difficult to live most of them.

Quiet easy to imagine, if I were you or You were me.. Quite difficult to be YOU, to be ME.


Note : Apparently, some chikita has become such a fan of the nonsense I blog here, that she has copied the content of some of my recent posts and posted it as hers. Thank you, wonderful woman. Much love.

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Let's diss Aamir and Satyameva Jayate!!

So Aamir's Satyameva Jayate touched many hearts, and not to forget resulted in too many heart-burns. 

Sometimes I feel sad for all of us, what have we become? Such cynics, such pessimistic souls...that when someone tries to persuade us to THINK, we slam the person. Why are we so insecure that we always NEED to find a motive behind someone's deeds always?

We are insecure people.. with a thought process "If I could not, how can he?"..

I don't have too much time to go and pull ears of the people who are dissing SJ or Aamir, for that matter. I have a simple thing to say, this guy Aamir, he had a choice...to take up a KBC or Dus ka Dum if it was ONLY about money, but he made THIS choice. He chose to bring forward the same old issues that many in the country are fighting about, because he knew that in a country where no-one bothers even about the problems of their neighbors, STAR-POWER helps!!

I appreciate his choice and I would like to tell a certain Taslima Nasreen that instead of spending her time and energy on questioning why people did not react when so-called common people/activists talked about such issues on televsion?, she should acknowledge that a person who could have easily earned his money from a game show, decided to put in his effort and time into something meaningful...even if let's assume for a second, his MOTIVE was fame.. but does Aamir really need any more fame?

He has not promised a change, He has not promised that he is going to make this country a better place to live in. All he has done is taken a step forward to make people AWARE. He is trying to reach out to people. 

So instead of throwing shit at him, Look inwards for once. Did you ever pay attention to any other Zindagi Live or Salaam Zindagi before? Nope. You hardly did. This man has enough money and fame to enjoy as much as he can..so if he has started something as significant as this. Let us sit back and contribute in our way, just by watching and acknowledging the issues so we can accept that "YES! This is my country and atleast I won't let it rot more".

We live almost all our lives with such thoughts when someone tries to shake or wake us up "Saala bakwaas karra hain, nautanki, chal beer uthatey hain, Sunday manaatey hain"... "Picture kon si lagi hain yaar?"

Baaki, as I said once, UNLESS IT HAPPENS TO YOU, IT'S ALL NEWS!! So nobody bothers about female feticide or dowry deaths or rapes or whistle-blowers being killed, unless it happens to them or someone close to them.

So, Mast raho, Dilchasp raho.. bas thoda Satark aur Jaagruk bhi :)

Thanks Sakshi and AD for posting on this :)

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30, Single and Not-sorry :)

In a world where being a 30-yr old single woman raises eyebrows, I am more than looking forward to turning 30 at the end of this year.

There are various floating perceptions about women who stay unmarried till the age of 30 or beyond. I recall how my male colleagues whispered to themselves a couple of years back, while talking about my then-female boss "frustrated hain, shaadi nahi huyi na uski"... I was amazed as to how people get all judgmental over a woman's age. She might actually be getting better sex than all of them. Frustrated!! :P

Ironically, these are the guys who would wait for a glimpse of the short-skirted women at work even after being happily married with kids. Where lies the frustration, then? :O ;)

Anyways, all of us have such set of guys at our workplaces. So let it be.

In India, we have more of women deciding to wait for love or wait for their careers to shape up before getting married. I believe this is justified to an extent, coz it really does not matter who marries first, what matters is how long the marriage lasts...

The world is agitated. Why? Coz they expect a woman nearing 30, huddled in a corner, depressed and lonely.. with all the melodrama attached, but what they see now is a 30-something woman, single and happy in her own world. HOW CAN THAT BE? Aren't unmarried OLDER set of women suppose to be sad, lonely souls? Eh!

I don't intend to ruffle any feathers here or challenge opinions. I think, it is time, we accept '30 and single' is not old, sad and lonely anymore. 30 is not even the new 20. 30 is just awesome 30.. with a thumbs up!

So, instead of worrying about age and all that jazz...best is to indulge in 30s.. coz science says, this is when women are at their sexiest best...let us kick some heels.

Mast raho! Dilchasp raho!

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