Life is going on ok....

If there is any reader still sticking around my blog, hello to you. I know it feels like eons ago that I last updated my blog.  Infact, for the record, I forgot the login credentials, retrieved the inactive email and managed to bring this blog back to life. At this odd hour of the day - 3.00am. But it feels so good to be back in this space, which I am using for 2 decades now.  Well, on and off, to be precise!

Knock Knock...anybody there?

Knock Knock! Hello, anybody there! 

It seems like ages since I logged into this blog space.  I even forgot how to login into blogger, and what my password is! That's what 2 years of absence in this space has taught me.  Lots of changes, and loads of experiences to share, but very little time.  I know I always seem to whine about not having enough time, but I now have a genuine reason!

Scottish referendum- from the eye of an altruistic expat

Only few more hours away from the historic #indyref moment in Scotland, and I can already feel butterflies fluttering in my stomach.  I have kept my polling card along with other Id documents ready to be able to vote for the Scottish Independence Reference tomorrow.  It's a history in the making, and we are very glad to be part of this.

Shoo away Cancer!

There's not a single soul who's not apprehensive about cancer.  The very word has such a power that it brings jitters to your whole body. I am no different here. It isn't actually the fear of What-If-I-Get-It syndrome, but it is some kind of a strange feeling that baffles my mind.  One that is daunting, and leaves me with heavy heart invariably when I hear someone say "Do you know, X is diagnosed with cancer"!! 

As I fly

The flight journey and experience is always different and depends on where you sit.  Agree or not?  I am talking about short duration flights (1-3 hours) and travelling in low cost local/ international airlines.  Not the long journey international flights on Boeing or Airbus.

Anne Frank's Birthday

Today is Anne Frank's birthday.  This day marks as what would have been her 83rd birthday.

The antagonistic mother!

I was on a long bus journey today.  While I busily settled down with my ear phones on, peeping into the lovely sun lit sky, there were bunch of tourists who came into the bus.  The journey started, and the bus halted in the next stop.  I saw a women in late 30s pulling off the buggy and got into the bus.  

Stress busting Six!

It was a nail biting match to watch today's IPL mtach - CSK Vs KKR.  We both came back home a bit early from office.  At one point when the main batsmen started to fall apart, I was so not in confidence, until the captain lifted the bat with his turn.  I have this softest corner for MSD - a crush, love, infatuation, respect, trust, confidence - Whatsoever!  He is the best captain in Indian Cricket history - ofcourse after DADA. 

When the CSK fans were so much under pressure, the cool captain played his game, but could not finish it.  The last over was when adrenaline was in its peak, BP shooting up, and I lay there at the edge of the sofa, biting my nails.  And a big sigh after seeing Bravo hitting a six in last ball!  I love that pressure in cricket!    my heart thumped so fast for about that 15 minutes - even after we won the match.  I wouldn't mind getting that shot of high BP to see the team win with a six on their last ball!  Just like how we won World cup on April 2nd last year! It was as though I was re-living that moment!!!

10 on Tuesday - 10 favorite career

It's been long long ago since I wrote 10 on tuesday topics. Today is my 10th post of ToT, what better reason to write on this..Decided to write one but was pondering over a good topic when I saw an add popping out of my laptop asking me if I want to change my career.  Viola...thought about my dreams and aspirations. I am very greedy when it comes to choices.  I don't have just one dream career, but countless of them.  What I've done here is attempted to list down top 10 of my dream career(not in any order though). 

Angst of a wannabe writer

That's a total of 13 days I skipped off till date in my Project 366 and I did not even make an effort to login blogger for the last 3 days.  What a progress am I making!  

Bit of everything

Now that I've missed writing for 2 consecutive days, I couldn't give myself any more excuses.  I wanted to write, have so many things to post but there's just so little time for me these days.  I don't know, something is just keeping me really busy. Yesterday I was occupied with work till 1.00pm, and I just could not bother to post anything.  

Unnamed post!

For the last few days the weather has been amazing- it's like 22 degrees. I started to walk back home from office to enjoy the sunshine and to secretly reduce few gms :)

Apps in iphone!

I was hooked with this damn thing 2 years back when S gifted it to me for my Birthday - iphone!  I am still addicted to the apps in this.  Whenever I am free, or when I'm travelling I would open the apps and browse through them.  It has become a fond hobby!

One cent more, please?

On continuation of what I had written about the street painters, I have also seen interesting (though sad) street artists performing on the street to attract people. As said that's their only earning.  It is very entertaining for us to see them, but how much will they earn considering the hard work they put in?  

Have you even seen a Statue of liberty in Rome?  Confused??? Here's one, but this statue does not represent Freedom :(  it represents poverty? Unemployment? Hardways of earning? Surving? 

Here's one human sitting decorated for hours and hours together just to earn that attention from people who pass him and earn those tiny cents for his living! 

People get amused seeing them, take pictures, videos and just leave without even leaving some cents for them.  

They even stand near these lovely human beings statues and take pictures. 

  

I will be glad if they are making a good earning out of it, but it is heartwrenching to see someone just standing there not being able to eat anything when they want, or even pee on time!!

I've seen these people in every busy shopping streets of the tiny European towns.   And they change their costumes according to the season!

Disguising oneself to entertain kids is different from this.  Earlier I used to see cartoon characters dressed in the theme parks and beaches.  I enjoyed them THEN.   Even during Christmas when I see 100s of Santas around everywhere I see only fun. 

But when I realize that's the hard work of a sole breadwinner of a family I just feel dreadful.  

Behind this mask there is a man or a woman who wishes to survive for his/her family and wanted to bring a few cents to give his children soup and bread!  

Tit for tat!!

When a bad ass tries to bitch around us, we always wanted to do similar stupid stuff to them thinking tit for tat! That behaviour particularly happens during school or early college. No complains. I've done that!

I still do that, but diplomatically. We need to reciprocate right? Otherwise there's no fun!!

I found this quote somewhere and realised how true that is!

Husband Rules

I am away on a short vacation but there's not any posts scheduled for next 3 days. Lucky for me there's free wifi in the cottage where i am staying.. But S ordered that I shouldn't WASTE my time on the blog. So the nicest wife that I am had to follow them isn't it? Atleast on our wedding anniversary day! So writing from mobile trying to get done with blogging within 10 minutes- the generous time given to me.

Today we drove past the beautiful mountains and valleys for good 4 hours while the Varuna Bhagvan mercilessly showered rain. I really hope the weather gets some better for next 2 days.

That apart I am hating wordpress because it doesn't allow me to post any comments :(

Have a great weekend folks until I write next post!!!

Aura of Spring

Welcoming Spring is like welcoming a friend whom you haven't seen for ages! After all the hungama and cruelty Winter shows on us, and while we are just longing for the real sunshines, these tiny little flowers just show up their faces along with green watered grass.

Cherry blossoms just realises she needs to pop out of nowhere. I just saw a couple of buds 4 days back and now it's full of tiny flowers.  
 

People start to work on their gardens now trying to sort out the mess,mowe lawns, clear the weed and unwanted stuff, trip their bushes, seed the plants.   

What can I say! The aura of spring is enchanting to see, hear and smell.    Just yesterday I was out of sleep and went to the restroom at around 2.30am, I heard a nice sound. I came back from loo and quickly opened the window.  The fresh chill air blew on my face, but what I heard just dumb-folded me.  The kuhu's, or nightingale or  whichever bird(s) it was, they were having a great time playing these melody .  I recorded the sound, but din't know how to upload it in blog..will work it out tomorrow.  Beautiful Spring!  Not too long for Sunny days :)

Daily Sitcoms

Now, how many of you are glued to the TV everyday to watch a saas-bahu serial or anything similar to that?  I know it is very compelling when everyone at home sees the mega serials where woman is always showed as a villain trying to ruin another woman's life.  That has become a trend for what 20 years now?  Gone are the days when we used to enjoy the Circus and Seahawks and Tu Tu Mein Mein.  

Example of a "Meaningless" post

A hectic day at work - skipped my lunch and ended up crawling into the kitchen after work just to find nothing.  Too busy and too tired today, but managed some simple dinner.  And then I realised "Dammit today is not a Wednesday".  Had it been a Wednesday, I would lousily posted a picture and attempted to write no word on them.  Why there's no Wordless Tuesdays! 

Value of life!

We hardly realise the importance of a person when they are with us.  We neglect to show them the love, affection and care amidst the busy life.  And one unfortunate day, when we realize that the person is no more, we regret and talk about how much we miss them and love them.  I'm not scourging over and say this is wrong. But had we told this when the person is with us, they would have felt really happy isn't' it?