Good bye...

Its another time of the year to say ur good byes... good bye to the entire year gone by... good bye to the events of year... now they would be just remembered as memories... good bye to your last year's new year resolutions... new ones are to be made now... good bye to the old movies... good bye to the goals for the year...
There were quite some good byes for me this year... good byes to friends who moved to another time zones... good bye to my office colleagues... good bye to singlehood...
I ll be having a few more good byes soon... good bye to my home... moving into another now... good bye to my life as a singleton, living just for me...
For some its hard to say good bye... I say its the beginning of a new chapter...

New Beginnings...

Reality bites... but its never been better than this... and it aint biting this time.... 

Its short sweet nibbles ...

Its a wonderful phase... a wonderful feeling... a warm happy atmosphere... suddenly you are like isnt this what you always wanted... its a lil scary too, to get what you wanted.. keep feeling is it for real... such is my wandering mind... 

they say this phase lasts till the "d" day or around it... i want it to last forever... and i ll make sure it will :D

My bed-side tree..

I had a very preety tree right outside my window. It was a tall, sturdy drumsticks tree... if thats what you call it...

It was a perching harbour for many birds... a hangar for all the unwanted rags... cool shade for some... but for me it was something more special... apart from giving me the privacy from the outside world... it was the one who was always there whenever i was there.... 

all those happy moments.. all those sad ones... the ones where i saw d moon through it... the rains... 

They cut it down a few months ago... it was old and weak... it felt bad... 

Awwwwwwwwww

Lately I have been going awwwwww a lot. The reason being that many of my friends and acquaintances are getting engaged.
I have always admitted that I am the sloppy romantic kinds. I am witnessing it a bit too much of that me nowadays. So hearing all these stories of how these people got hooked... the first time they met... the initial awkwardness... the meetings thereafter... and finally the decision.... it just makes me tilt my head and go awwwwwwwwwwwwww. The hours after that are magical... I am all charged up and happy and there’s this serene feeling that it really happens...
Is it silly... may be but it just comes out of me... like the way you have this motherly instinct... I have this love heady instinct... May be it’s in the hope that it will happen for me too... and also that love triumphs... I am totally the happy ending kinda movie gal... the typical And they lived happily ever after kind...

The essential "F's" in life

Without "F's" life would be very lonely
Without "F's" life would be dull
Without "F's" life would be no life at all
As you must have guessed... I am talking about one of the most essential part of everyones life..."Friends"
It is indeed very strange that a stranger with whom you have no blood relations, you strike up such a great bond... a bond just like the way you have with your family...infact they do become your family...
I have had the pleasure of having many such Precious "not strangers anymore" in my life... some date back from the time we were in school and used to attend each others bday parties (in which I used to dress up like someone from a " no fashion planet") and have trips to the markets and fashion shows (with accessories such as our moms dupattas), some date back to the college days where we shared all notes, secrets, crushes, fashion tips, canteen food money, assignments, bus/train/bike/truck seats. Some have come up as surprises... d good old crush from the yester years, an old friend who you lost touch with, a person with whom i struck up a conversation online, a junior in school, a family friend, a sister, a colleague, the list goes on...
And I plan to keep d list growing... they form a part of my treasure... worth no money in d whole wide world...

Colours of Cities

The title of this blog came to my mind when I visited Bangalore last week....still cant manage to remember the spelling and pronunciation of its new name of the city . The city is amazingly green (it rains very often) and it aint humid and the weather is cool and pleasant. I absolutely loved the trees and the weather part of it but when it came to the structures placed on the road... I wouldnt exactly give it a thumbs up. Lets admit it, Bangaloreans love the colour green and not the nice shades of green... all the wrong ones... some of the houses horrendously painted with the shades of green ( was wondering... are the most unpopular shades of green are sent to this city and sold dirt cheap... anyone to back me up?) There is also yellow, purple amongst the popular ones... but green rules... aaaha may be they dont want the trees to merge in with their house so a different green... now i got it...So its Bangalore the "green" city.
Lets move on to Mumbai... I would give it a colour grey... that is what you see from the aircraft... since we dont have much greens or many vibrant colors... just glass buildings and the dirty nullas... it has to be grey... the smoke is grey too! Smoke from chimneys/vehicles/smokers... we have lots of each of them... I feel bad for my dear city... (grey is not my fav colour)
Then we have Delhi... I would like to call it the white city... White represents clean, pure, fresh,etc Delhi is reallly clean with the majestic parliament and other such buildings which are lined with white cars with laal batti... they have the maximum "white collared people" (though the clean pure adjectives wouldnt particularly suit them)
There are more cities too... like Calcutta, Chennai which I would have liked to add to this list but I havent visited them yet so cant tell...
Mind you these views are just based on what is seen to a naked eye... the colour of the spirit of the people living in each of the cities would vary BIG time (Mumbai would be most colourful... no prize for guessing why)

Khuda ke liye...

India is divided into many number of states on the basis of languages. Each state has their own divisions. Like in Maharashtra, you have maharashtrians, but there are bramhins, saraswats, deshastra, etc. Why is everything so divided? Why can't we have a "One" funda... things would be so much easier. Just "One" God... (thats what I believe in) and not hundreds and thousand devtas/devis, allah, jesus christ (no I am not swearing) Just "One" Nation...
I saw this movie the other day "Khuda ke liye" A very good one if you into reality and not karan johar kind of movies. It showed how a pakistani girl born and brought up in Britain is duped into marrying her cousin in Pakistan (who has turned into a religious fanatic due to some maulvi influence) and how she fights for all of it in the end. It shows that people try to do things in Gods name when HE himself never laid down any rules.
What is the reason we are born? I believe that we all come into the world to enjoy life, learn different things, pursue our passion, live in harmony with others, be truthful, respect elders, help the needy and try to make some contribution to this world to make it a little better place . If we go by my theory, then why should we be ever involved in these religious rackets. Just live and let live. Come on people, life is too short to live it worrying about issues like these. We already have live examples of how such issues blow up to sizes unimaginable.
So just fight for your rights but don't tread on someone elses... Khuda ke liye