25 reasons why I love U

1.   For ur utmost honesty!

2.   For being my best friend

3.   For being my sounding board

4.   For loving me in your own special way

5.   For being imperfect

6.   For making those special gestures

7.   For being a jerk and admitting 'The sorry is rumbling in my tummy but is just not coming out'

8.   For treating me like a princess

9.   For being my reality check

10. For always being there (even an hour before an ill-prepared exam for a '2 min I promise' conversation)

11. For never judging me

12. For always pampering me

13. For sharing- ur life, ur thoughts, ur world

14. For valuing my opinions

15. For the way u hug me

16. For the comfort level we share

17. For caring

18. For understanding me- including my stupidities

19. For your stupidities

20. For knowing how to stop my tears

21. For making me smile (and even laugh out loud)

22. For listening to me ramble on (and for loving me for all that)

23. For being more mature yet admitting that u are on the learning curve!

24. For being a part of my life

25. For letting me be a part of urs

Of Crushes and Intezaars

For the past 6 months, it was my firm belief :

There is a serious dearth of good guys... good guys who are single, i mean... 

The really good ones are taken and the rest are just 'sooo not ur type' (translating.. lame!)

But then, a few weeks back, I got in touch with a guy... for convenience sake and to hide my embarrassment, let's call him Rolls Royce!

We used to stay in the same area but then he moved out long long time ago..... and there was no reason for interaction till very recently. We met up at common functions and since I had always had a crush on him (He's cute ya), I took his orkut/fb id etc... and I sent fraaannndddship request on orkut (Thankfully not like that) but couldnt find him on fb...

Then we got on touch thru gtalk and interacted for a few days after which he just vanished from the face of the earth!! 

No response to buzzes, no replies to scraps, no mails to even confirm that he was real..

The sudden disappearance was confusing but I didnt give it too much thought as I assumed he must have gone out of town....  

And then one fine day I did find him on fb (he changed his dp and it was easier to locate) and I added him there. He accepted my friend request... but then again there was no response from his side.. 

Beyond a point, frustrated, I was about to give up when I saw this post on his wall... It was from a girl and her dp was both of them together! such a cute couple they made!!! U can imagine my disappointment!! Another one taken!!! 

Consolations from J that they might just be 'good friends' didn't change my state of mind.. why would good friends put up a dp like that!! :( 

So anyways this whole episode just confirmed my already established theory : 

There is a serious dearth of good guys... good guys who are single, i mean... 

The really good ones are taken and the rest are just 'sooo not ur type' (translating.. lame!) :D

There is no hope of this belief being proved wrong!!! (Even though I secretly hope it will)

So all you prince charmings out there.. here's an open challenge ;) 

P.S. For the technologically challenged,

fb=Facebook, 

dp = Display pic 

Wall= the scrapbook of fb :D

Arrrrggggghhhhhh

Sunday, 6.41 pm, 15th March 2009

My last blog dated 7th march was the last time my mind was clear enough to plonk something on a blank page... After that it has been a whirlwind of emotions leading me to a semi-conscious state... 

First holi... with its after effects... which took two days to wear off...

Then talks, talks and more talks with A which have left me with either too much on my mind or none at all....

Now all I want is to get back to normalcy.... however boring or uninteresting it was! It seems so much more a blissful state.

I want to do my boring studies.. want to write my boring journal and I want to have some normal boring 'aur kya' conversations....

I dont want new information in life... not in small packages and not in bonanza offer!!

I need space... and I need my life back! 

Errrr... Techie ignorance?

7th March, 2009, Saturday, 1.51 Pm

I should rather be writing my journal than scribble here... but the temptation of writing my own thoughts rather than mindless bio rubbish is too much to ignore... (this coming from a person who has fought tooth and nail to convince that bio is not rubbish.... u can well imagine how much the journal writing has frustrated me)

Anyway, the past few days have made me aware of technology and how much I love it! I am the last person who can comment on advanced technology for I am far too ignorant... but it is the smallest of advancements that have made the biggest of difference in my life...

25th of Feb was two of my closest friends' birthday. Till last year all of us used to celebrate it together and it was always a bonanza celebration since we used to get a biig treat! But this year we couldnt since JRS was off in the States and Sandy was only here. Celebrations did take place but the feeling of double extravaganza was sorely missed. Also another one of our firends, O, is merrily freaking out in Ozzie land... And he is almost inaccessable..... So it was a very different celebration this year than the last one.

We all went out for dinner the previous night and the next day we reserved it for a chat thru skype with JRS... I didnt expect anything extraordinary as I thought it would be a normal chat, or at the most a voice chat... But then, I was unaware of the wonders of skype!

We started chatting very very late... poor birthday boy had to wait for almost 2 hours! But as soon as we logged on, we started video conference... and my god.. it felt amazing! To see JRS after almost 7 months was such an awesome feeling... and for him too to see all of us together and have rubbish conversations  just like we used to when he was here was exhilarating!

When the excitement was just going to die down, another surprise package came in the form of O calling up Sandy.. so we asked him to come online too and we had a group chat! JRS in the US, O, in Australia and all of us out here.... that was the best time we spent that day!

It really felt like we were all in the same place once again to pull each other's leg, to torture each other with bad jokes and to have general 'random ;)' masti!!!

Another really cool takkar with technology happened when I had to stick a picture of me on my hall ticket...I always did want to stick a 'new 2009' pic, and not an old 'burdened with memories' pic, but was afraid I wouldnt be able to do so as me being me, I didnt click one until the last minute.... But when I went to the photo shop, I was out with passport pictures of me in less than 3 minutes.... and there was a brand new me on my hall ticket! 

Sometimes the smallest of things makes the biggest of difference.. and this stupid photo clicking was one of those small things... 

And no matter how many ppl comment to this post saying these can't even remotely be called 'Tehnological advancements', it still did the job of bringing a smile to me face and thats enough for me to call whatever these are.... amazing!!! :D

Driving Mania

Feb 25th, Wednesday, 2009

Sometimes I just know it is not the right day to begin writing a new post.. and then sometimes I am just too adamant and I don't listen to myself!!! :D

I have been living up to my last post, albeit not completely. One very wise person said.. timetables are meant to be broken or tweaked... or was that promises??? 

Anyway, I have been getting up every morning (at 6/7 o'clock not at 12 o'clock and passing it off as morning). But I have gone for exercise only on 1 day. My desired company has been too lazy, you see! ;) After my jog, I have my driving practice which I haven't missed a single session of. And I have been awake on most of the days. On the others, the driver teaching me has gone into deep spirituality mode :D. I wouldn't be surprised if he gives up on me soon. He is too polite to be able to curse aloud!

But I was wondering while driving (thinking, not day dreaming) today as to how much driving instructions are different in India and elsewhere: 

In other places, the focus is on knowing the road rules and following them. Here, it is knowing the road rules and knowing that others don't follow them.

There it is honking when necessary. Here, honking is the necessity.

Elsewhere, people focus on driving the car; here we have to focus on driving our car and on others driving theirs to magically predict when they decide to make the turn.  

Also, in other places, driving lanes are followed; here, people devise new ways and means to try and break the pattern!

And this is the best one... in other places, we should have road sense, here we should have the road potholes sense!!!! (My driver today actually taught me how to avoid potholes by judging where my car tires are placed. I didn't know this was a part of learning how to drive!)

It has been a revelation as to how much manual labour one should do to drive an 'AUTOmobile'! But, the driving experience has been awesome fun (for me, I'm not too sure the driver will agree) :D

P.S. I still have almost 20 days of practice sessions left before I can even think of taking the car out on my own, even on an empty street! I just started only a few days ago but as the post suggests, the learning curve has been phenomenal ;) !

P.P.S : Call me sexist, but my mission of this re-learning (I already have a licence but I had lost touch due to lack of practice; hence re-learning) is to be able to NOT drive like a lady driver!!! :D

Running Running

19th Feb, 11.02 PM, 2009

I read in the paper today- 'How to get over mood swings'.... The apt article for me at this point!

I m suffering from a major case of mood swings! 

Sometimes the mood changes are so sudden and so unpredictable that before I can adjust to one mood, I end up in a completely different state of mind! And I am tired of it!

So from the article in the paper, I picked up some tips and I plan to start exercising tomorrow. Apparantly it increases endorphins (in lay man's terms, it is the happy hormone). So from 20th Feb, whether or not Sree plans to join me (which he promised but doesn't seem to keep up the promise :D), I am going for a nice jog on the beach everyday morning!

Another thing that I plan to begin from tomorrow is studies! I finally chalked out a complete timetable.. till the day of the exam and I so want to follow it to the T! I realised I am the kind of person who doesn't like to be idle. Actually, I am the kind of person who others don't like being idle. I become max irritable because of inactivity. I like being busy, doing something constructive always. But I usually need a push (no no.... a major shove) to start anything. The lack of this impetus, makes me sit around lazily through the day and by the end of the day, I am very very irritated with myself! And the irritation spills over to everything around me.

And I end up writing meaningless posts like this one!

But from tomorrow, mood swings will be controlled, mind will not be kept idle, my josh for exercise will be rekindled and you guys will not have to read random ramblings of a demented mind! I promise! :D

Happyness

10th Feb, but timeless!

Ahh the feeling of 'unreasonable' happiness is soo refreshing!!! 

Your jaws ache from all the smiling! Your freinds look at u weirdly since u are dancing about without a reason! There's a skip in your step, a jump in ur move! U throw around 'I love yous' and mean every one of them.  Hugs become a necessity- to both give and receive! There is so much excitement, u dont type properly!

But Happiness is best when you find it this way... unknowingly, without a reason!