Time to Relocate to wordpress

Finally after not blogging for a long time due to reasons mentioned in my prev post I have decided to relocate to Wordpress from Blogger...

A kind request to all my lovely readers.. Plz dont forget me I hv just moved... I am just a click away.,

Do visit me and pour in ur comments at the following link

http://lostinmylilworld.wordpress.com/ 

Did anyone miss me here??

I m so not happy that I m unable to blog these days

Am I bored of blogging- oh no not at all
Am I lazy to blog- not really
Am I loaded @ work that I don't get enuf time - not really I hv time to read others blog n comment too
Am I out of topic to blog- not at all. I m just back from a wonderful trip and am dying to blog(inspired by travellouge by seema)

Then wats stopping me???

I hv 2 enemies

Did u say hubby?? Oh no he is a darling.. then who??

1. Blogger itself- since it has just upgraded my version of ie in offc doesn't support to post new blogs..
2. Broadband connection @ home is a disaster n hv to literally beg n plead the line man this weekend to get it repaired..

Oh BTW I hv my usual unending to-do-list lined up for my weekend, added to which my home is literally stinking n my face tanned..so can imagine a list of activities/chores I hv to clean up the mess.. crossing my fingers that my lazy hubby will help me through....

So wat plans for ur weekend??? Hv a lovely weekend, hv fun..

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Surya Kanthi Tales- III - The one where SK is Promoted!!

Appraisal time in all the companies and the same here too!!

Our own SK has had a jackpot Luck with double Benefit

1. Change in Location -  She has moved to Onsite..  She has shifted to another building which is connected to the main Campus by a Sky Walk and it is called as Onsite :) and people who come to have lunch @ the main cafe take Local Flights (Sky walk) and land @ the Cafe.. So our own SK is now officially located @ Onsite and Lands @ the Cafe using daily plying flights.. :P

2. She has been Promoted to a new Role- Designation is UTA- Stand for 
"Unload Tracking Agent"

Now lemme explain what is UTA all about..

@ Onsite she has been allotted a place which is very special in its own way... A cubicle where only 2 ppl can occupy than the classic 4 to 5 ppl cubicle, there is a Coffee m/c and a Water cooler at a stones throw away and most importantly the last and the most significant point is that there are washrooms just next to her cubicle.. Most important point to remember is the "Gents Toilet" just next to her cubicle..

From the time she has known her place she is been crying and cribbing about it and added to it she has a very annoying neighbour whom she is not willing to tolerate.. So to cheer up own SK darling here was our little conversation/suggestion..

SK- All are waste people around.... Grrr
Me and G- Why da wat happened?
SK- That stupid Guy XYZ tells me that my place is nice and teases me..
G- Why wat so special about ur place according to him?
SK- He says- "SK ur place is so good yaar, if we are feeling v urgent it is very easy to go to washroom and come and we hv to come from soooooo Long"
Me and G- Open mouthed ... Did he really tell you this? shamelessly **All confused**
SK- Yes he did tell me this.. wait I ll make him only sit there..

We were still confused and shocked how can someone talk like this.. even for a Joke...Me trying to make things cool

Me- Good na SK you can go whenever you want na
SK- No Da I cannot, today I hv just gone only once, you see when things are very near, easily available you dont value it much you see...

Abbbba Hats off to SK's humour and comparison... Wah Wah Wah wah..

Some more discussions on how appraisals are nearing and the hike will be less and peanuts.. suddenly my weird imagination bulb flickered and there came and Idea..

Me- Hey SK I have a better investment plan for you da..
SK (Still sulking) - What tell me?
Me- Why don't you start collecting Toll for all the Guys who come to use the Washroom
G- Wah very good Idea Deeps.. Yes SK why don't you keep a registry and enter the details of a person and collect Toll fees..
SK- Haan good idea, waste people keep coming all the time..
G- See our idea works collect 2 Rs each time they use it.
SK- Hey this is IT industry why Rs 2/- let them pay me Rs 50/-
G- Ooooh no way why would they pay Rs 50/- each time instead I can go back to BTM layout for that..
Me (Like a judge in between these 2 arguing clients) Ok Ok lets settle for Rs 5/- much reasonable..
G and SK agreed in Unison..
So from now on SK's place is a Toll booth where the guys using the washroom needs to give Rs 5/- BEFORE he goes inside..


**My next weird Idea Strikes again **

Me- SK make sure you collect them before they go inside..
G- Yeah they may refuse to give it later on after the use it
SK- Yeah yeah they may run away
Me- No da even if they give they will give it in the same hand after using it.. Hope you understood
SK(Now with a loud shriek) Oh Noooo I will make sure I will collect it before hand!!

Continuing on this topic we were counting what will be her collection for the day etc and stuff like that when SK suddenly says "Yes yes people use it multiple times, I have noticed it so the collection will be good"
"That stupid fellow ABC today already have used it 4 times, I wonder wat he does there"

G- Why do you keep a watch on all that? You don't hv better work
Me- hey wait she needs that data to create a report at the EOD
SK- Wat report?
Me- Daily reports containing the list of users and the "Topmost Unloading Client"
G- Haan correct, I guess for today it is going to be that ABC guy..
SK- Till now it is, lemme check who is the topmost Guy for the day..
Me- Go back soon SK the toll is unattended for a long time, go and resume to your duties..

Are we mad or is it that everyone have such funny/crazy/weird conversations/imaginations/built up stories??

Do you also have a similar one?? Why not share it here??

One more weekend that flew

Days are just rolling by and we do not have any control over it!!

Wanted to have a very peaceful weekend, hence hadn't made any plans, until my mom became all emotional and started blackmailing me to visit home... Bro was in Mumbai for a training from office and mom started saying dialogues like. "We both will be very bored" " You come over, we shall feel good" "I will be bored and if only your bro was here" she also blackmailed me saying that I do not visit her frequently and that I dont stay there much and blah blah blah....

When hubby was informed abt his MIL's tactics he melted and agreed to his MIL over the phone and we made plans to visit our Mom's house (yet again based on my Mom's demand)

Friday-

Instead of travelling a whole lot on Saturday we went directly to Mom's house on Friday after our Office...Mom's house visit with hunny = Lots of Khaana. This time as usual it was hubbys Faaaav - Idli Vada and Saambhar for dinner.. After dinner we chatted for sometime and guess what we watched "Bommarillu" I wanted hubby to watch this movie so badly from a long long time and finally got a chance to watch it.. Thanks to Mom who had recorded it for her SIL :p Saw half the movie and went to Sleep..

Shopping Saturday

Grrrrrrrrrr all coz of my hubby's running nose and cough cough I got up early.. early means 8:30 otherwise I would I slept to glory till 10:00 :'(.. Had hot hot ginger tea and soon breakfast was ready.. Thanks to Mommy this time it was my fav dosa and avarekai gojju (Yes I was fortunate enough to eat it again...) it has now become hubby's fav too.. Had breakfast and instead of hurring for our pending shopping me n hubby started watching the rest of the movie "Bommarillu" as expecting hubby loved it too..

At around 1:00 me, hubby, mom n dad left to J.P.Nagar central as we had to shop for hubby's clothes.. I was fed up of seeing him int he same checked shirts that I put my foot down and demanded him to shop... Again he ended up buying some more checked shirts.. :( this time different colours.. Dad and his SIL in one side and me n Mom in the other side we shopped and had light Lunch @ Mc D.. Again resumed some more shopping and had nice coffee @ Ragigudda SLV while on the way back to mom's house... Mom insisted we had dinner and hence had Dosa and avarekai gojju + Akki Roti and Averekai gojju (different type made especially on Bhogi habba on 14th Jan). after such a eating marathon we left to our home..
Instead of hitting the bed directly we ended up watching a movie "I am Kalam" it was a nice short movie and then we slept off @ 1:00

Sunday - Shankaranti

For some or the other reason I was in no festive mood this time, Mom had prepared chutney for Idlis for breakfast and instantly I decided to prepare sambhar.. Called up mom n took the recipe and prepared it and served breakfast when I asked hubby how was it tasting.. he replied - "Its good but you cant match ur Mom's prepared sambhar" I was like :'( then he consoled me by saying "See she has a lot of experience in this area and u are pretty naive.. I said urs is good but cannot match your mom's dats it!! you will soon learn"
Hammmm I ask him to be frank with me in opinions and then I crib on why he is so frank... I considered it as a compliment and moved on....... :) Yes I secretly know that I cant beat my mom's cooking she is the bestest!!

After cleaning and washing, I had bath and performed pooja to the god, we had offered pongal (sweet and khara) to god, and had a nice Delicious Lunch... After a heavy lunch we took some nap.. I forced myself and woke up @ 5:30 pm.. Prepared nice tea and 2 8:00 pm we went out to finish some sundry activities and returned home for dinner.. The weekend was over... I couldn't believe it!! another dreadful Monday was peeking soon... I ironed 10% of the truck full of clothes and finally we retired to bed!!

How was you weekend?? Don't you thing time Files???

Random Updates from the Week that was!

Shopping Saturday -

After 1 year 4 months of marriage hubby wanted me to buy Gold.. Yes you hear me right.. Me and Gold were like not so close to each other, I always claimed that I am not a Gold types u know.. but Mom used to always tell me, lets see how you will be after marriage... Yes I have started to Like gold ornaments.. .. BUT wait....STILL not the BIG, BOLD, GOLD types I still like the simple, cute types..:)  Me n hubby would miserably fight and fail to Zero down one one thing coz I go for the simple, cute, not so heavy types, where he goes by the weightage (grams of gold) types..  so invited my parents to accompany and help us make a purchase... My sweet parents immedietely agreed to accompany us while bro cudnt as he had some offc work..

I got down @ the LIC office @ JP Nagar to pay our Policy due and make some enquiry while I sent hubby to pick up my Partents... Cleaver fellow calls me up and tells me to take an auto to the jewellery shop as there is too much traffic there to pick me up.. :'( The fellow ditched his wife over her parents... :'( I was secretly happy about this choice (no-choice) and happily took an auto and reached our first J shop..

One after the other we ran around many J shops and meantime had an awesome Lunch @ "Subz" Jayanagar...Our Hungry tummies Gulped down the Yummm Soup, Starters and Main course within minutes.. :) Then continued our jewellery hunt, finally we bought wat we were looking for.. My parents claim that "Its not that easy to please me  and  were so glad that they did not have to choose a boy for me "  Yes I do not agree upon anything so easily :p

Reached home by 11:00 after Delicious dinner @ Mom's house.. When Hubby comes to our Mom's house he doesn't bother to look at the clock, I am the one who keeps saying.. Shall we go, its late.. So I am branded the bad one by my parents n Bro... This time bro and hubby were happily looking @ some snaps in FB not realising that it was late for us to leave... Each and every time I leave to my home form Mom's house the feeling is so -------------- Any amount of time spent there with hubby is JUST not enough,,, Basically no words to describe... (**Anti Jinx**) **Touchwood**

Sunday - Guests @ home

My cleaning which was not done on Saturday was shifted to Sunday + the preparations for Guests @ home..

Guests were actually my BIL's future In-laws.. One highlight of the visit was the number of languages used to communicate.. They do not know Kannada and we do not know Tamil.. Uncle knows Hindi well and Aunty English... my FIL was speaking in English n Hindi (Business language) and MIL was talking to Aunty in Hindi but she was talking in English... I was able to understand their Tamil and trying to answer back in Telgu-mix-Tamil-mix-English-mix-Hindi... Abbbba total Choas...

At one point of time hubby's little nephew Mintoo asks me- "How many languages are being talked here??"

One such Funny Incident was when our FIL was saying that "Hum yeah dhaalenge, wow Daalenge" (referring to jewels)
Uncle was like - "Daalenge means denga?? He meant to say will u put it(jewellery) on her or will u give here?" To which my younger SIL was verifying saying "Daalenge matlab dhenge with all actions" it was very Hilarious to watch...

On a serious note I truly felt that how important it is to have a Common language between 2 individuals or a family for the better flow of communication...Do you agree with me??? I agree that there are so many cased where there are marriages between a North Indian and a South Indian.. I just wonder how they manage to communicate?? don't they face issues like how I have just Quoted below??  

My future SIL knows only Tamil and English, its ok for everyone but my MIL doesn't understand either English (fully) nor Tamil.. God save us from translating between the two... :P

After all this I managed to have so called Lunch @ 4:30 pm and was feeling very exhausted.. :( Was also feeling bad that the weekend was over :'(

Instead of watching TV I slept off soon..

Whatta Wednesday- 8

Are you a Member of Club 99?

Once upon a time, there lived a King who, despite of his luxurious lifestyle, was neither happy nor content.

One day, the King came upon a servant who was singing happily while he worked. This fascinated the King; why was he, the Supreme Ruler of the  Land, unhappy and gloomy, while a lowly servant had so much joy. The  King asked the servant, 'Why are you so happy?'

The man replied, 'Your Majesty, I am nothing but a servant, but my  family and I don't need too much - just a roof over our heads and warm  food to fill our tummies.'

The King was not satisfied with that reply. Later in the day, he sought  the advice of his most trusted advisor. After hearing the King's woes  and the servant's story, the advisor said, 'Your Majesty, I believe that  the servant has not been made part of The  Club 99.'

'The Club 99? And what exactly is that?' the King inquired.

The advisor replied, 'Your Majesty, to truly know what The Club 99 is,  place 99 Gold coins in a bag and leave it at this servant's doorstep.'  The King did as advised by his advisor.

When the servant saw the bag, he took it into his house. When he opened  the bag, he let out a great shout of joy. So many gold coins! He began  to count them. After several counts, he was at last convinced that  there were 99 coins. He wondered, 'What could've  happened to that last gold coin? Surely, no one would leave 99 coins!'  He looked everywhere he could, but that final coin was elusive. Finally,  exhausted he decided that he was going to have to work harder than ever  to earn that gold coin and complete his  collection. From that day, the servant's life was changed. He was  overworked, horribly grumpy, and castigated his family for not helping  him make that 100th gold coin. He even stopped singing while he worked.

Witnessing this drastic transformation, the King was puzzled. When he  sought his advisor's help, the advisor said, 'Your Majesty, the servant  has now officially joined The Club 99.'

He continued, 'The Club 99 is a name given to those people who have  enough to be happy but are never contented, because they're always  yearning and striving for that extra 1, saying to themselves: 'Let me  get that one final thing and then I will be happy for life.'

Moral: We can be happy, even with very little in our lives. But the minute  we're given something bigger and better, we want even more! We lose our  sleep, our happiness, we hurt the people around us; all these as a price  for our growing needs and desires. And we stop living life then. Let us live simple and be simple.

New Year Weekend!!

Hectic Thursday- 


Stayed late till 9:45 in office as I had some pending reviews and fortunately hubby also ad some meetings.. Instead of heading home and reaching by 10:30 we decided to hv dinner @ Radha Hometel (near my office) had a nice dinner... Since I had just posted my prev blog abt my 7 random n weird things, I started asking hubby to list and see if he could nail all the 7, Found out that he listed many more weird things about me.. :'( and could hit only few listed by me.. 


There I got a chance to accuse him that he doesn't know me well etc.... later I asked him to list his weird things and see if I knew him well....I was already aware of all the things he mentioned.. The I started boasting that I know him well and he doesn't.... Something striked him and he started recalling his childhood days and came up with stuff I was not aware at all abt him... Wow with all this new info dinner seemed to be very romantic..


Preparation Friday - Turned out to be another hectic day @ office, wanted to go out shopping with friend G (who was free for a change) but work stuck me here too.. but managed to sneak out by 5:10 PM with hubby, As we had reached late yesterday cancelled all our shopping plans and instead reached home and had nice lovely Tea.... We had decided to go to SIL's house for a family party for New year!! Potluck was decided and the items for me was "Paani Pori" and "Gaajar ka Halwa" ..


I started all preparations for the halwa in the night,.. Thanks to hubby he grated all the 1.5 kg of gaajar, and I took around 2 hrs to prepare the halwa... And turned out to be really yummy...


Saturday New Year's Eve - Got up @ 8:30, prepared Tea and had pongal for breakfast, realised that Maid is on Leave hence washed a truck load of vessels and started preparing for Paani pori.. Washed vessels, prepared for pani poori, packed all the eatables, came down and packed all our stuff as we were to stay that night and had bath to get ready to attend a Friend's son's 1st B'day party... Hubby had been out to purchase gift to the little one..
Managed to reach the party hall on a decent time, while another friend was waiting for us... Hubby completely got busy with the B'day boy and like all kids he also was glued to hubby... Exchanged hello's with my friend and her family who were our neighbours and then had little lunch.... went to a nearest gift shop to buy the gifts for all the games we had planned and organised...


Reached SIL's home by 4:00 and had lovely Tea... Hubby wanted to rest a while but I completely stopped him and hence our Year end activities/games started..... We started palying some "Kalla, police" games in chits, In laws also reached by then and we were all looking frwd for a lovely evening/night together...Everyone were informed that we had some gifts for the winners and all were excited...


The Men in the family suddenly decided that something was missing and then went out for around 2 hrs to buy Tequila... As the men in the family came.. the Party started.. we had arranged all the items in the First floor balcony and the cool breeze outside made it more kool.... We served Pani poori and halwa and also had Teqila Shorts... Played for a while.. Another SIL had organised a quiz game where we lost :( some more games continued... It became very chill and we went to the living room and continued our games while the SIL started preparing some onion bajji's and Bisi bele Baath.... At 11:20 we started playing Housie Housie.. there were last few numbers to be picked and each one was eager to win!! tension had built up and so we were close to 12:00... my elder SIL won the full house and ppl still wanted to play till the last coin was picked... At the stroke of 12:00 we all wished each other "Happy New Year"  and together we cut the Cake!! Had yummy cake and Bisi bele baath and by then hubby had gulped around 6 to 7 shots of Tequila.. Can you imagine!! He never drinks and wanted to try this time... I stopped after 2 shots but he was all excited and had few more...Since we all were tired we slept off at 1:30 AM.. 


New Year's Day- Sunday 


Got up late.. New place so we cudnt really sleep well, had dosa's for breakfast.. we all decided we should visit a temple on the First day of the year, hence decided to go to "Ranganatha swami temple: near Magadi.. The biggest challenge was to have bath and get ready... everyone were having bath one after the other, while hubby having hangover wanted to sleep, when all were ready, I woke him up, he reluctantly got up and got ready.. I asked him not to drive and hence my BIL was driving our car.. Halfway hubby who was sleeping suddenly asked to stop the car and puked... Looked like all the hangover had gone, coz he returned back to his usual... Had a good dharshaman of the god and our tummy's started making noises, cudnt find a decent restaurant hence drove back to BloreSIL.. not ending anywhere I again woke up sleeping hubby.. Poor guy was not spared.. we decided to leave after a much public demand of one more game of Housie Housie... After reaching home, my cook called up to say she cudnt come.. so I cooked yummy Dal and rice.. Had a yummy simple dinner and retired to bed...


Resting Monday- 


We were very tired after a hectic celebration/travel so called off from work and stayed back.. to my bad luck the maid again did not show up... I had to wash all the vessels and ur half day was already over.. I was all fuming, angry, shouting... Hubby asked me just one thing - "When is ur periods due" I replied him it is soon to come, and he said "Now I know why you are shouting..." he took me out and bought me a nice lovely "Raaga watch" I forced him to buy one, he completely refused and instead bought a small cute aquarium with one blue fighter fish which he wanted very badly from a long long time... I started feeling feverish and my head started aching baaaaaaaaaadly... Hubby went to get his car cleaned while I went to pamper my disturbed soul with a much needed parlour session... we returned back by 7:00 had lovely Tea... I cudnt do much of anything and was just sulking with pain, anger...blah blah blha.... Had dinner and decided to sleep..


Relaxing Tuesday 


Got my periods, thankful coz no more sulking and getting irritated, but bad coz my stomach started to ache added with some more back pain... surprisingly I announced that I shall take leave from office and hubby agreed that I should... bid him good bye to his office at 9:15 and from then on I was reluctant to sleep... read some blogs and had an urge to blog too..abt the lovely Week I had.. Just now that friend who had hosted the B'day party had called up to see how we enjoyed the party.. My tummy is making noises.. grumbling that it needs food.. I am here blogging and letting my Blog friends know how my week went by...


Looking forward for a eventful, happy year 2012 ahead...


Wishing all my blog friends a Very Happy New year...

Yippie my First award and my First Tag..

Wow on 2 things...
1. For Pixie tagging me for this (Me being the first name in the blogger list, makes me feel special)

2. For Pixie inspired by my weekend post and restarting her weekend posts :) I am honoured!!

Well coming on to the Tag Lemme copy paste it from Pixie

The Rules for the Versatile Blogger Award says:
Nominate 15 fellow Bloggers -
Inform the Bloggers of their nomination
Share 7 Random things about yourself -
Thank the Blogger who nominated you
Add the Versatile Blogger Award picture to your Blog Post

Ufff, Nominate 15 bloggers? Isn't it too big a number for a naive blogger like me :(, Lemme still give it a try.

Only 7 Random things abt me?? Ok lemme list down 7 random as well as weird things about me which not
many might know.

OK Here I go.........

Nominations-

RS

Seema

Garima
SS
Bubblegum
Sugar and Spice
AHK
SUJ
Rev
Deepak Karthik

Sorry for breaking the rule I could manage only 10 nominations..


Now comes the Random, (and alsowierd) things about me-

• I love to watch the cloud formations and Imagine various shapes, animals, people, scenery's and love to create my own story out of it..
• When I am alone in Auto, I sit on the extreme left end, never relaxed,The first thing I look for is the Driver's License board, If it is not there I imagine that the driver is a Terrorist... Basically I will be sitting as if I am ready to Jump any moment.
•  I love watching a Plane pass by especially in the night, which sometimes looks like a moving star.. When I see a plane from a small distance, I have this crazy feeling that it will explode now and I shall be able to witness the explosion..
•  The First time I got to know about how babies were made, I felt Yuckzz about my Mom and Dad and every time I see a recently married couple, I have this strange imagination that they are soon going to have sex and that makes me feel more Yucks!!!
•  I am a crazy BIG Fan of F.R.I.E.N.D.S and watch it repeatedly, When I watch it I will be so involved that I will be their 7th F.R.I.E.N.D. when I realise that I am not a part in reality I feel bad.
•  I feel so uncomfortable when I am in a office bus returning back home and when I have something to eat, I am confused.. should I eat or not? What will people think? Should I offer my unknown neighbour or not? what will he/she think.. Finally my craving to eat increases so much that I don't care and just eat what I had bought..He he he
•  I have 1000+ reasons to make up when I get up late.....My most commonly used reason is "Ayyyo I couldn't sleep entire Night" No matter how much ever I sleep I am just not Satisfied...
•  My fav dialogue as a Kid if someone beats me was - "Ayyyo it was already paining there and you beat me there...:'( "  In Kannada it was precisely "Ayyyo nange alli modle novtha ithu, neev nange alle hoddri" he eh eh eh

 Ooooops I violated one more rule, its 8 not seven ...

Another Long Weekend!!

Holiday mood everywhere so here my weekend starts on Thursday this time...


Games Thursday
The entire first half went by planning for the Christmas games on the Floor, Unlike last time, this year I planned out for different games- Treasure hunt, Queen of Sheeba etc.. Read further to know more..


@ Sharp 3:00 PM I being the Master of Ceremony announced about the games on the floor.. Pulled out even the Managers/SPMs/GPMs and everyone was eager to Play...


Queen of Sheeba - Made one of my Co-worker Sheeba and made teams and started Announcing her demands.. People ran like mad cows to fetch the desired items and it was all fun.. At one point of time our Miss Sheeba was almost pushed and pulled... :) The manager's team qualified 2nd place... Not bad isnt it?


Dumb Charades- Second game was Miming Game where a Personality was to be Mimed (Dum Charades), I had relatively relatively easy clues to all and so the fun ended pretty soon too!


Pictionary - Third one was a game where in each team was given 1 sheet of paper 3 pens, and an English Alphabet, in 2 mins they have to draw objects starting from that Alphabet and the team with Max object wins!!
People went back to their childhood.. just like the scene in "Taare Zameen Par"


Clap Game- While a colleague R evaluated the results of Pictionary the enthu was built up and everyone wanted to play hence played a Clap game, where in the ppl stand in a Big Circle and start counting from 1. A clap instead of 3 and multiples of 3, a double clap instead of 5 and multiples of 5... Oooh it was fun watching people confused, I guess they could see stars over their heads... It was major fun and @ one time the group was unbeatable so I introduced a twist.. 4 and multiples of 4 has to be a Chitki...there ppl got more confused and we got our winner soon...


Treasure Hunt- The last one was a Grand success.. Treasure hunt was very skillfully planned and executed too, thanks to my 2 colleagues R and S (Sheeba) it was well played and enjoyed.. Soon after the games many whom I met told me that it was very well organised and appreciated me :) :p


We all had great fun, enjoyed thoroughly and were happy,... It was already 5:00 and I rushed to catch my bus... Saw some colleagues smoking, I joined them and had a cup of Tea.. My throat was aching from anchoring all the games and needed something badly.. They all appreciated me and I felt nice... Just as I was having Tea there came a clan of Managers (the SPMs and GPM) They all praised me for the effort,plan and execution and was very happy about how it turned up...


On the way back home I flet contended to be have hosted the Christmas games twice in a row..I suddenly felt "Monica" inside me.. If u know what I mean, the Manica of F.R.I.E.N.D.S where in she is the "Host" always, prepares food and invites her friends etc.... Though not in all her characters this was a striking character I felt as I LOVE hosting games be it in my cousins, Office or at parties.. I just love doing it!!


Silent Friday - Friday was a silent day... Many friends left soon to go to their natives for the upcoming Long weekends so not much happening on that day..Hubby's nephews were home for their Christmas Holidays and it was another running around with them day @ home..
I was mentally prepared for a hectic Saturday and a Kool relaxing Monday (Holiday) at Mom's house


Buzzing Saturday-


Clothes washed, Curtains washed and dried, House cleaning, making a shopping list, couriered hubbys PF form which was filled months ago and was not posted, bought many carpets for Mom, Had a simple Lunch and had bath and got ready to go to "Sai Baba Temple" at malleshwaram.. I had a Mannat that I would come and prepare some dish for Sai baba and distribute it to the.. Planned and planned and finally executed this Saturday.. We were told to be @ the temple @ 5:45.. With all the getting ready etc, buying some sweets we parked our car at 6:00 (The Aarti was @ 6:00) Me and hubby typically ran, I ran faster than him... I should say... My aim was to keep the Usli that I prepared in front of the god b4 arti...


Guess wat the Arti was in progress and I ran and on time my preparation was placed in front of the god!! I dont know how it means to others but it meant a lot to me...:) It was nice serving to all the people out there... I now really wanna do it one more time.. :) Guess wat we did, we headed straight to Sankey Tank park... It had been years since I had visited that place, as kids we used to go there as it is near to peddamma's house.. 
Took a stroll in the cool evening breeze and had Masala Puri, Churmuri, Boti Masala, Corn masala, Tomato masala etc.. Wat a foodie am I isn't it..


Later visited a skin specialist for hubby and went back home for dinner.


Fun Sunday 


Sunday after spending half day @ home, Washed heap full of vessels as the maid wasn't well... In the afternoon had some lunch @ the Fast food centre and headed to visit my Grandpa (Daada


Picked up my parents n bro to the Cinepolis @ Meenakshi mall to watch Don2, I had least expectations from the movie but for a change liked it... Yeah yeah I liked a SRK movie.. :P 
After movie went to Adigas and had dinner... Ooooh I loved the pani poori Yummm and returned back to Mom's house.. Stayed late till 1:00 AM in the night chatting... 


Foodie Monday


Can you believe, hubby also took a leave as it was my holiday... So we both stayed back @ mom's house and oh god.. How much did I eat.... OMG.... My Fav dosa and Hitikiro Avrekai poppu for breakfast Wow my fav... Hubby also liked it... Went to Metro cash and Carry and shopped a lot.. Dad was also astonished on how much we shopped.. he he he he...
Later went home for Lunch... Oh I n hubby again had 2 dosas each followed by Lemon saaru (My mom's recipe... Then slept off for an hour and then got ready and had Tea with French fries... he he yes we did have truck load of food @ Mom's house.. 


Left from mom's house and reached our home @ 8:00 pm.. The entire house was a disaster!! clothes spread out (thrown out everywhere) Oh god no energy to clean now... so Dozzzzzzed off after a Light dinner..


Hubby was teasing me that I had almost a truck load of food over the weekend and that I should not have food till next year... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr to him on that..

How has 2011 been??

Well good would hv been better, but def not the BEST

Lemme make a list to see how has it been -

Hubby became comfortable with my paternal as well as maternal cousins/relatives... Touchwood

Got a great chance to go to Canada along with hubby too... wow

We organised and executed first of a kind family outing to golden temple n had fun... pat on the back

Lost my pinnaya(dad's brother) in a accident..shocking

  Lost my ajji(Daadi)..unexpected

Expected that my bro would be married in 2011.. unfortunate

Heath was not that great..(was recommended bed rest for 3 days due to acute low back pain)... needs improvement

Travelled (Visited places).. not as much as planned

Was pathetic in meeting up friends over weekends etc.... grrr

Shopped- oh yeah...crossed budget.. did we even put up a budget.. no wayy ;)

Food- eat outs - yes

Romantic dinners... sorry did u say romance?? Searching dictionary...

Cooked variety @ home - satisfactory

Hubby cooked- can I count tea..

Hubby helped?? - I will go to hell if I say no.. he did he was there when I needed him..ummmah to that..*anti jinx*

Hobbies- yes we kept our art alive n kicking...3 cheers to it

Jagda's- no thrill in life without Jagda so... no comments

Felt bad - many times, mostly when not needed or not required to be... key improvement area

Laughed enough- oh yes with others n on us too.... good keep going

Fitness- is the spelling correct?? I don't find it in my dictionary... shut up dude its no JOKE u ass ;(

  

Editied to Add- This post was accidently posted from my Moblie.. I will leave it as is but amend it as and when needed as the 2011 is still nor over!! :) 

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Whatta Wednesday- 7

This time it is all about Boys- Gals,  Men-Women..Picked them up from FB.. Hope u like it!!

Eventful Weekend!!

Saturday was a very Eventful day as all the pending works were carried out..n equally tiresome too!!
Clothes Washed- Tick
Clothes Dried- Tick
Hubbys shoes Washed- Tick
Home Cleaning- Tick
Dusting-Tick
New dress- Salt wash- Tick
My dirty bag washed- Tick


Finally with the help of the Carpenter the Bathroom door can now be Locked and the much needed nails were put up on the walls wherever I needed
Check out how our walls look now...
Inspired by Seema's blog -  and after learning here sent hubby to get some materials to a stationary Shop. Guess wat??? Hubby bought me 2 gifts!! Yeah yes it was a surprise...(U see Nagging Helps sometimes)
He bought me a 2012 Diary and a cute pink purse to stuff my cosmetics!!


Instead of sleeping in the afternoon hubby took me to Art exhibition along on our Sweetu (Our Activa)
We bought Stole for me, a Handloom Cotton Bed sheet, a Painting and ordered for a much awaited Bean Bag(Hubby's fav)


Guess wat we ate Bun-Butter-Gulkhand, supposed to be hubbys fav not mine, but I ended up liking it too, it was yumicious!! In the night we watched Dirty Picture! I liked Vidya Balan's acting, very Bold and yet nice! I am sure she will sweep a award this time for sure!! She is proved to be a versatile actress!! 


Sunday- Relaaaaaaaxing Day


Literally did not do anything..After a hectic Saturday just decided to be laaazy, I was literally praying that the maid turns up as there was heap of vessels to wash n our home needed to be mopped too! On weekends you can see a satisfactory smile on my face when I spot the maid turn up!! I was so happy she came...
Got the house cleaned, moped.. The home now looked clean n nice!! Bean Bag made an entry to our home!! Yeah now we can simply retire on the beanbag n watch movies....


Everyone in the home left to a relatives house except me n hubby.. I wanted to cook something simple but hubby out-rightly refused and instead insisted we take complete rest and hence ordered Pizza... Had yummy Pizzaz and cudnt resist but slept off.. Zzzzzzzzzz


Evening after nice Ginger Tea me n hubby spent sometime with our ArtTime....came up with our twisted version of the flower n this is how it looks..


Later had simple dinner and struggled to sleep as we had a nice sleep in the evening...


Oh god, I shall never sleep in the afternoon during the weekends coz pushing my Bum out of the bed on Monday Mornings is a Paiiiiiin!!


How was ur weekend? Hope u had fun too!!


Here are some of the snaps of how our walls look now and our Art work! Do lemme know
how u like it!


A gift on our Marriage



Glowing Ganesh





 A Radha Krishna and a Ganesha Wall Hanging presented on our Marriage.


Another Marriage Gift from a Friend






Shoe Key Chain




Shoe Key Chain which I had bought from London..It has a Clock too..

A painting bought @ the Art Muesuem

 A Painting bought @ the Art exhibition on the weekend






Our Art- A Paper Flower

  

 

White Board for To-Do and to stick

A White Board to list down the To-do List and the side board to stick, pin stuff..
 


Our New Bean Bag!!



Customized Clock

Our Drawing Room Hall- Customized Clock, Our Flower Art and our New Painting.

Friday Fun- Surya Kanthi Tales - II

The one where SK Does once in 2 years...


SK was not keeping well and hence did not turn up on Monday, When she returned back on Tuesday she talked to G over the phone that she shall join us for Lunch. G informed me that SK was unwell and was sounding very low!! (A usually bright n chirpy gal feeling low) Hmmmmmmmm


We met for Lunch and this is how I can describe SK

Current state of our own SK

Face fullu Sadu Sadu....
Ears stuffed with Cotton..
Nose fullu water water....
She was sounding Dullu....


Kanthi Kanthi... Surya Kanthi... 
Show us some Kanthi...


When every Tom Dick and Harry has their own version of Kollavari D then my character SK shall also hv one!! Plz forgive this Naive poet/Lyricist :D :P :)




Me- Why SK what Happened to you?
SK- Ayyo I am not well da..
Me- Oh, but this is not a season to fall ill isnt it?
SK- Ayyo this happens to me once in 2 years..... and kind of was blushing...


G and Me are well known for Imagining what we shouldn't and our Jaw dropped when we both told in Unision "Ayyo you get this once in every 2 years?? Ayyo why do you Do ONLY once in 2 years then...


Me- You just do ONCE in 2 years dats it?? Ohhhhhh
G and Me were on same page by now... I hope you understood what I mean...


G- Is it enough JUST Once in 2 years, see what haalath you have made of yourselves..
SK was all confused and tired by now.. Understood what we meant and said.."Chi I dint say that...I did not do anything" 


G- You look as if you have really done THAT once in 2 years.... ha ha ha poor gal was first of all unwell and she had to hear our nonsense jokes...


Sorry, cudnt gather much of SK as she was unwell!! dont worry she will definitely come back with a BANG!!Until then keep watching this space for more of SK tales!!

Whatta Wednesday - 6

THE BUTTERFLY

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared on the cocoon. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further. So the man decided to help the butterfly.

 He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and the butterfly would be able to fly and also support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.
What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting  cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Moral: Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been and we could never fly!