Paper Planes

  I really want to write about my experience on getting a permanent tattoo J I wanted a tattoo since long because of many reasons. But the main reason was that I saw a tattoo on the actress’s ankle in the song from the movie Namesake, which is called “ye mera deewanapan hai”.! I was so fascinated by seeing that… It looked so stylish, so marvelous! Since then I wanted to have it… But then few of my friends said that a tattoo is not worth the pain you take while putting that… some said it spoils your skin and start looking ugly after sometime! So after listening to all these things, I dropped the idea but then somewhere inside me I really wanted to have one! Then last week, out of the blue this weird feeling of having a tattoo again emerged in my head… I spoke to few of my friends and they all were really negative about it. All of them told me about the pain. One even said that the pain is like as if lacs of injections are being injected in your ...

Wrote the below post on 10th of this month but just dint get time to post it!! Bad on my part:( Posting it today with a promise that will post all the blogs on time going forward because delays really make me feel so guilty!! There have been so much going around in our country at this moment majorly in the 2 most important or rather talked about fields i.e. politics, entertainment! In Entertainment, Vidya Balan had sizzled everyone by her sizzling performance in Dirty Picture. She received a hell lot of praise from top bollywood people. And I guess, she also deserves it.. I mean guess she is the most versatile actor in our film industry and I don’t think or see anything wrong in the way she exposed. Guess, that was the demand of the script! and also, she just dint only expose, she even gave an applauding performance! We all would have witnessed many bollywood movies in which there is only and only exposure and no performance! I have seen people criticizing her… I really don’t know w...

I heard a very humorous and amusing definition of a ‘leader’ which I really can’t stop myself from sharing with everyone!!!… And yeah, before going ahead let me give you a brief about the person who quoted the definition… He is somebody who himself is a leader and in fact, is at a very good position with an esteemed firm! And which means he should be somebody who should be an idol for everyone. Anyways, lets get back to the definition :D…Well, according to him “A true leader is the one who comes early and leaves late from office”… Feel like laughing at this conventional thinking? Everybody in that meeting, where this was declared felt the same but obviously, had to control themselves for the sake of their jobs!! And had to clap and applause to show the great speaker that how great he and his thoughts actually are! But I really don’t know when are Indian firms going to change this old and stupid philosophy and thinking which have completely rotted off and has become so decayed that...

Its mid of Nov’ 2011… Feel like just few days back, I celebrated the New Year and welcomed 2011! Just few days back, 2011 was an adolescent and suddenly, I realized that it had already become old and is on the verge of succumbing! And I started mulling over my head in thinking when did it passed through all the phases? Where was I when the transformation of this year was happening from a baby to a teenager, then a youth, then an adult and now, when its old, I suddenly realized! Where was I???   What was I doing??? Arghhh!!!!…. Can’t get a detailed answer… all I could remember is I was too busy with my work, with my career, with my life! But that time, little did I realized, I was losing a precious year from my life which can never ever be compensated or reimbursed whatever I do! Gone are the school days when years never used to pass so rapidly! Forget Years, days never used to pass so easily! We used to think, crib every day why the academic year is not moving quickly… We al...

Sometimes I wonder how we humans actually live! I mean   isn’t it that we all live as if we are never going to die and then, we just die having never really lived! While alive, we do not understand the value of breaths which we take every second which keeps us in motion!!   Strange? Isn’t it? Only that person who is on the verge of dying counts his breaths, he is the one who actually knows the real worth of life, who only and only wishes for thing and that is: one more breath, one more and one more…   But its really weird and sad that we do not even have time these days to think about how are we spending this precious gift from God! We all are too busy in collecting money, luxuries and other materialistic things! Little do we realize that all the materialistic things are not going to be there forever, and also, how true is that ripened adage which almost every saffron clothes wearing sadhu repeat in almost all his satsangs, which is too boring to repeat but still I wi...

There were few of my friends who were lucky enough to have a lifetime experience of F1 Race. Frankly speaking, I just had a fair idea of what actually F1 is and nothing more than that… <bad on my part!!!> Anyways, so they described the whole scene there and believe me, they all went gaga over it. The way they described it, even I could imagine that it would have been an astounding and marvelous thing to watch. They and off course all the people going there would have never imagined that it will be so fantastic and incredible. According to them, the Budh International Circuit was something which can easily pass any International standards. Everybody who went to see this race would have gone there with a doubt, would have been little skeptic and actually, would have been expecting some flaws: little or big! But it all went so well that people came out happy and praising! But whatever you do: there are always few people who are always there to criticize. They are capable of f...

Was reading an article on NDTV site few minutes back and was disturbed like anything after finishing it! A man was set on fire by some goons over property dispute! But the worst part of the whole incident was that the crowd there simply stood and watched the whole episode mutely! The man kept on screaming and scrambling around, at the centre of a ring of people!!! But the people there, dint do anything to save his life! Horrible! This is 2 nd case in just a week where some atrocity, some brutality happened to a person in front of a crowd and instead of helping the victim, people stood and looked at the whole incident happening! I am surprised and even shocked that the citizens of our country have become so selfish that they do not want to get into something which is not related to them or which is not affecting them in any way! But the question here is that is there a guarantee that this cannot happen to them or their dear ones? No there is no guarantee in this gunda raaj. It can...

Today morning was like a mess as usual. I was running here and there to finish all the household things and then to get ready for work on time!   Then suddenly my maid came in the room and called me… Since I was in a hurry, I looked at her and gestured to say fast. She just said one sentence which made me stood where I was and made me forgot everything else. She said “Amma, do you have a pair of spare chappals!” I was little stunned at the question. Before I could say anything, she just explained that she went to a temple yesterday and lost her slippers there. Actually I was not looking out for this answer because the question in my mind was not that how come she lost her slippers. The thing I wanted to know was “Did she come bare feet to work today?” and “doesn't she have one more pair of slippers?” I was worried because I know her house was as far as around 9-10 kms from ours…from where she has to cross a railway line as well which is offcourse full of stones and all. ...

I am sure everyone would have read about the horrifying incident of the death of 2 young boys who had to pay the huge price of their lives for saving the dignity of the girls in their group! I am sure everybody would have felt a sort of rage against the monsters who so mercilessly took life of 2 people! But the worst were those shameless spectators who stood there and dared to see the whole thing happening in front of their eyes and dint do anything. SAD! Still nothing has changed… We are still the same timid and apprehensive society! But these spectators, why do they forget that the same can happen to their children as well! RIP Keenan Santos and Reuben Fernandez! You guys are the real heroes!! Below is an article about Keenan’s Girlfriend describing the whole incident! After reading it, I had tears in my eyes, anger in my mind and enormous pain in my heart! Wish we could change our society, wish those monsters get a lifetime sentence and not come out of jail on bail as in most o...

I was reading an interview of Priyanka Chopra in one of the magazines the other day and there was one thing which she said and which captivated my mind immediately and frankly, I do not remember anything from that interview apart from that one thing! To some ques, she replied “Wear your success and confidence like a T-Shirt and not like a tuxedo!!!” Wowww… what a saying and how true… If you can carry your success in a subtle and a causal way, nothing like it… But that’s an art! Believe me! Carrying your success in a positive and a natural way is really not easy! I mean its like being flamboyant but in a natural way! But the problem here is presenting this flamboyancy into a natural way sans attitude which most of the people, unfortunately are incapable of doing! Ahhhh…. And great are the people who sometimes cross limits of showing off! They just love to show off and cant live without it: They show off their wealth, their status, their success and some people are even much horrib...

Read an amazing piece today, sent by one of my friend! Copying it: A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a 500 Rs note. In the room of 200, he asked “Who would like this Rs 500 note?” Hand started going up. He said : I am going to give this note to one of you but first let me do this” He proceeded to crumple the note up. He then asked, “Who still wants it?” Still the hands were up in the air. “Well,” he replied,” What if I do this?” And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty. “Now who stills wants it?” He asked Still the hands went into the air. “My friends, you all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth Rs 500/-. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that came our way. We feel as t...

Ahhhh… writing after almost a month! Feeling little bad, little guilty and little stupid for not doing something I love doing! But I certainly have logical reasons to defend myself. Anyways, that’s a different story. The story for which I am back to writing today is that I am home alone! Yeah, my family had gone to Jaipur and I am left here at home all alone by myself. Today is the 3 rd day and I feel miserable! I know it will be so hard for anybody to believe if I tell I haven’t eaten anything in last 2 days. I have just been feeding my stomach with tea and biscuits occasionally. I have been sleeping at 5 am in the morning and that too not because I feel sleepy because my body demands that! I am somebody who loves to talk, and I feel miserable because there is nobody with me to talk! It feels terrible! Believe me! I guess, being lonely is the worst thing that can happen to a person. Its so so hard to eat, sleep, smile, and do anything alone! I hateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it!!!! Just h...

Yesterday me and my husband were watching news and guess what was coming: the same old politics, the fight between Nation and corruption! Not me, guess everybody is fed up… and suddenly my husband commented that “Doesn’t it all looks like Mahabharata!” I was like yeahhh, actually! And then as usual, my mind started working on how and who in different politicians fit in what role of Mahabharata. It was little tough but I somehow managed to draw a reasonable diagonal between the two! Ok, lets start the comparison. So we will discuss the first and the most important character of this great Epic: Dharatrastra! Now guess who amongst all our capable politicians matches the character of this this blind king? Ahhhhh….. According to me, its none other than Sonia Gandhi! Yes, just think about it for 2 mins and you will definitely be able to create a strong bridge between the two! Well, here I will just say that Dharatrashtra was blinded by birth and Sonia Gandhi has been blinded due to p...

Had an awesome experience while driving today… Generally while driving, I become very impatient. I just hate it when people drive their vehicles in the middle of the road and that too at a speed that you feel like they are almost carrying their vehicles (and not vice versa!) And the worst is when you honk them, they just do not move, they just do not want to move. Similar incident happened with me today morning which is nothing unusual actually. But the way I dealt with it was unusual. I was already late for office and was driving as fast as the traffic allowed me and then, suddenly I had to almost pause! My speed went to 20 from 60 because of an uncle who was driving his scooter just in the middle of the road. And there was no chance for me to overtake him. After getting tired of following him, I honked at him twice but he did not move… then I honked hard again, he looked behind and gave me a very bad glance… Normally, at such moments I just lose my temper but then...

One day I was just pondering my head in deciding whether I am a perfect person or an imperfect one! I don’t know why I was getting into it but yes, I really wanted to know. There were many parameters which could help me to reach the conclusion! I mean like the way I handle my house, the way I handle my office, the way I manage to create a balance between both! But before I start giving scores in different depts, shouldn’t I try to understand the meaning of being perfect. Though there is no ‘perfect’ definition of being perfect but still thinking in a layman’s term, it can be depicted as “somebody who never did, never does and will never do anything wrong!” which means perfection should be there all through from past, to present and also, should be there in future. Ok, so if I take in terms of ‘never did’, I am ruled out completely in first occurrence itself! I am not perfect! I mean everyone, I assume would have done mistakes at one or the other point of time. I have committed al...

I went to a town called Kurnool few days back for some office work… The plan made was so sudden that I just dint get time to book a ticket for train so I thought why not to go via bus! Because it has also been ages since I had travelled by this fantastic mode of conveyance (yes, it is fantastic if you know how to enjoy it!). So I took a bus at around 4.30 am and started my journey. I thought I would sleep on the way but I couldn’t because the beauty on the way dint let me sleep even for a single second. I was awake for the whole way and was appreciating the greenery and beauty around! This is one of best things about south India. It’s Green. Once you are out of the premises of a city, all you will see is different versions of green colors. You don’t get to see it in Northern part as may be its too crowded or should I say too commercialized! Whatever… I reached Kurnool at around 10 am. I liked everything about the place. I mean yeah it’s a small town but...

I am sure the weirdness of the title would have astonished you… I got it from one of my friend. He never wishes anybody with a hi or a hello. His wishing style is unlike the usual style of wishing somebody when you meet him/her.   When he meets somebody, he greets that person saying: Happy Monday, Happy Tuesday and so on J and this chain only gets broken on the first of every month. On 1 st , he greets people saying: Happy January, Happy February and so on… Isn’t it so different and so nice! I mean in just 2 words, he actually conveys so many things to a person: a hi, a wish for having a nice day, it surely makes a person smile, it surely gives a person happiness maybe just for 2 mins J But isn’t those 2 mins far better than 2 mins of “no emotions”… What do you think? Also, why not to celebrate each and every day of life! Why just to wish a Happy New Year, A Happy Diwali, A Happy Holi, A Happy Eid, A Merry Christmas?? Why not to change everyday into a festival by wishing ev...

I was reading an article the other day. It spoke remarkably abo ut passion and talent… I am sure almost all of us would have come across such people who are very passionate about something but even then they don’t seem to do so well in that particular field. They are just unable to get much success in that domain despite of having an unquenchable passion for it. In fact in some cases passion even changes to obsession. Today is the world of realty TV shows. Everyone is going gaga over them! I guess every channel has one or the other reality show going on at one point of time so each one of us would have surely come across them. They can be competitions of dancing, singing, cooking and even of being the SUPERSTUD (remember???I know strange!) Anyways, don’t you think each and every contestants in these shows seems to be equally passionate for their domain (except superstud! because they niether look passionate nor talented), they all have such an insatiable urge to w...

This piece is about a friend of mine in school. We studied together for 5 years from high school till graduation. She is somebody who is a perfect example of how marriage (or may be your in laws!) can change your whole life, whole personality! How it can construct or ruin you… When one sees such incidents happening around, the belief that a girl’s life completely depends on her next family becomes stronger! Anyways, let me first give a snapshot of her personality before she got married. Adjectives like bold, brave and audacious are the ones which could define her perfectly! She was a tigress! Nobody in College ever dared to even look straight in her eyes. She was a persona of courage who had the power to stand against the gundas of our college. And the most important characteristic of her: she never used to crib or cry! But now, now she is completely a different person or rather I should say she is completely contrary to what she was! She got married 2 years back! I called her up on...

They used to say that I was a very ambitious person.   Somebody who was always behind something and just could not breathe till it was achieved! True! I WAS like that. Yes I was… not anymore! In the initial phase of my career, I was one of those who used to work tremendously hard. I used to hate going home early as it was something equal to wasting time for me. I used to feel that the same time could be actually consumed productively if devoted to work. I used to work till late nights, used to take up assignments blindly without even thinking about the pressure, there were no weekends for me! Actually this word ‘Work Pressure’ never existed in my dictionary. People at work, who know me well and who doesn’t know me at all, used to define me as a very energetic, over enthusiastic person, somebody with crazy vigor… But in all this, I never realized that I was missing something so precious, something so valuable and that was my family! The success and all, no doubt gave me an ampl...

I  still remember the first time I heard about a mobile! I was in 8 th or 9 th std and got so much fascinated by the idea of carrying a phone wherever you go!   I used to ask my dad to buy one. But then spending 14 Rs /min for just talking to somebody was something which was out of reach for any middle class person! I used to think that if ever I possess a mobile, will be like a dream come true. Then just after 4-5 years, in my graduation, I was an owner of a mobile and it was no big deal for me or for anybody else for that matter.   Same was the case with desktop. People who used to have desktops used to be considered rich and weathly and knowledgeable too as they used to use computers! But then, after few years, everybody had them and infact, now they are in the dying phase. Likewise happened with laptops! Initially, when they were introduced in the market, everybody went crazy for them. Everywhere there was news about laptops and everyone w...

I have always shared a peculiar relationship with God. I mean I do not visit temples much, I do not fast, I do not light a lamp every morning at home, I don’t chant bhajans sitting in front of God, I do not offer him food before I eat, I don’t offer money to temples, I don’t do any of the defined things which can prove my faith in God. But is doing these defined things the only way which can identify my faith in God and label me as a believer in him. Despite of not doing any of these things, I can say very strongly that I do believe in him. I don’t do any of the defined things but I do things which I feel God would be happy to see me doing! And that is my way of showing love and faith in my diety! I think rather than visiting temples, people should visit orphanages and just have a word with the orphans who will be immensely happy to see people caring about them!   Rather than fasting, just thank God once everyday to give you the food of the day! Rat...