Good to be back...

Feels to good to be back after a long while... You see my last post was in the month of May 2009. Well now I am back and back for good. I had almost given up on blogging. I just didn't find the time and when I found the time I just couldn't write (or rather type). It was super hectic on work front with a lot of matters coming up one after the other. And I was doing this balancing act trying to give priority to my work, home, life all at the same time.. I even contemplated quitting job.. Well that was how hard it was. But I am glad I didn't and I am glad I still have a job , a place to come to every morning and do what I always loved doing...Not to forget the pay check that comes in at the end of every month that makes life a better and more comfortable journey...

We are juggling so many things at the same time and sometimes you wonder how good a juggler you are...

Anyways I am glad I am back and hope 2010 will be a good blogging year for me...

US Talks

often refuse to understand why people come back to India if they love another country and its lifestyle…in this case US. A close relative of mine is back from the US..yes you could term it as aftermaths of recession… it certainly amounts to aftermath for me. I have been constantly exposed to US talks..thats what I call it… Anything you say or talk these days is simply compared to or associated with its US counterparts… For the last two weeks I have been tortured with how things are in US and why one should be living in US and not anywhere else. So my question is why aren’t you in US right now… yeah right, cause nobody wants you there. Therefore you just shut up and start liking the place you live in or atleast stop cribbing about it constantly. I don’t hate US nor do I harbor a particular dislike for any country. But then if you love a place so much as to compare anything and everything with it, you belong there and not anywhere else.

Going Home

Here I am...after a long break..Work has been hectic..very hectic. It has sapped away all my energy and left me exhausted...So I managed to convince myself to take a break and went on a little vacation... to my hometown in Kerala (India).

I went to all these beaches and just whiled away my time doing nothing... gorged on the food prepared by mom...celebrated our new year (called Vishu) with my family. Had an amazing time in all. But the difficult part was letting it all go and come back to a city thats overcrowded knowing that you will be very soon lost in this crowd... but one has to, we are all part of the rat race called life.....

It was so amazing...home is a wonderful place to be. All the wonderful and luxurious amenities of a five star hotel cannot replace the warmth of a home. Someone said it well when he/she said "house is made of bricks and stones, home is made of love alone".

All that one has is memories...Right now I am holding to them tight...very tight

"Missing"

I want to do my bit to help this family and sincerely hope the family is reunited.....hence this post....and thanks to my fellow blogger who has urged everyone to post this information on their blogs and from whose blog I am copying and pasting this article.

A desperate plea by a father whose daughter (Apurva) went missing during the Tsunami disaster and even after more than four years, the family has not been able to locate the missing girl. Here's a copy of the forwarded message:
Mr. Ravi Shankar was was posted in CAR-NICOBAR in the year 2004 as a sergeant in the INDIAN AIR-FORCE. On 26th December that year his family fell victim to the unfortunateTsunami that struck the eastern coast. He along with his family was washed in the deadly waters. Reaching out, his wife managed to cling onto a tree but his small son had swallowed too much water and passed away in her arms. Ravi too lost grip of his daughter's hand and she was washed away. Sometime later, the parents were informed of her presence at a relief camp. On contacting the authorities they came to know that this little girl was abducted from the relief camp and was missing again. Since then Mr. Ravi Shankar has been traveling to Chennai every year with a hope to see his daughter. He has been publishing MISSING columns in major dailies in Chennai, and these newspapers charge him heavily for those ads. One of the major newspapers charged him a whopping amount of 12000 rupees for a 4 X 4 cm ad (that too on the fourth page).
The distraught father urged his friends and colleagues to pass on the message through the electronic media and a number of people posted the picture and the story on their blogs. The story can be read online at the following URL :
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/4_yrs_after_tsunami_hunt_on_for_two_kids/rssarticleshow/3882143.cms
Mr. Shankar's contact address is as following:
Mr. RAVI SHANKARSMQ – 17/2AF
VAYUSENABAD, TUGLAKABAD,
NEW DELHI-110062
Phone no - 09868763263
P.S. - Let's use the potent medium of the Internet to spread awareness and boost the chances of locating the missing girl.

Here I am....

Ha... so Here I am ....and this is me.........(I know what u r thinking).... Well I know its been a long long time since I last blogged and believe me I really missed it.....I was so caught up with work.. We are one of the lucky few people who are flodded with work even in these difficult times. So I am not complaining...But last few weeks have certainly been very stressful and blogging is certainly one of the ways to release my stress..oooh

So lot of things have been happening in and around Bangalore in the past few weeks...Most importantly lot of innocent women are being attacked by crazy men apparently for dressing in western clothes. Now who the hell gives them the right to judge what is appropriate and inappropriate dressing? But I am sure none of those hooligans were hoping for any confirmation from anyone...They like to do their own thing and expect to get away with it because they have money or belong to some influential family.....Its a shame on us that we are tolerant of such people and actually do nothing about it....Its nothing but Talibanisation

Now coming to Talibanisation it was totally disturbing to see those maniacs go on a rampage in Pakistan and attack all those innocent cricket players...This gives India and the world more than enough reasons to worry about our own security...after all Pakistan is our neighbour and any disturbance in their ploitical, social set up will have a direct impact on us...........

Feels like heaven

I have been expecting some comments on my blog since the day I posted my first blog...But i havent received any as of yet. This could mean several things.... Firstly that no one particularly out here shares my experiences or thoughts....Secondly..readers find me silly (which I may be to an extent)...Third I don't know to market myself.. fourth....readers are not intellectually stimulated enough to identify with my blogs (which is by the way an excuse all bad writers give)...So let me stick to the last one and feel good about myself.

I feel one of the reasons bloggers blog on a public forum such as this is that they like to share their experiences and thoughts with public in general. They love to hear what people have to say about their experiences. Some unfortunate ones like me get no response. But I am happy that I am expressing myself, that I am writing after a long break..When I read all that i have written on earlier ocassions I feel good...Its like maintaining a diary (that can be read by the entire world)...but still its good...cool...'Feels like heaven' as the punchline of a famous ad goes. So whether somebody like it or not, whether fellow bloggers respond or not...I am going to continue blogging.

The Hair Cut!!!

Oh this weekend was good! The highlight of it being the hair cut.. Yes! after a long long time (precisely after 9 months), after a lot of contemplation, after a lot of ‘should’ or ‘should not’ thinking I managed to go cut my hair.. There is something about cutting hair.. Every time I cut my hair I feel so good about it….It makes me feel so liberated, so confident, so full of energy…I feel like I am in total control of my life. After standing upto the resistance from my in laws (they believe that the daughter in laws ought to have long hair since it confirms to their idea of our culture) and convincing my husband (who felt that I look good with long hair) I finally went for it. It was so very awesome to see my hair dancing with joy….I don’t remember feeling so good ever before after having an hair cut and all the credit goes to my hair stylist….The layer cut that my hair stylist gave me looks awesome, although I must accept, initially I was a little skeptical about it.

My husband simply loved it. In fact he couldn’t stop praising me…I felt good too. I simply can’t stop looking at myself in the mirror. A hair cut is not just cutting your hair, its also about cleansing your mind, just letting yourself be, taking a leap that you know you deserve, defying rules and having your own way

I think every woman must go for a hair cut……just to be in control of her life