Think before you say, and think before you write?

Back to writing what I love and not what i am forced to. Oh yeah, i was busy writing my semester finals and now that they are over, its such a relief. But I guess those good times are gone when we could write whatever we want to openly allowed by our own constitution that gives us the freedom of speech but then again the Government of India doesn't seem to be happy with it. Just imagine yourself in the place of those two innocent girls, you update a status on facebook and then suddenly someone knocks at your door after an hour or so, and all you see after opening the door is a policeman with handcuffs to arrest you. ..creepy right? Burning down houses, hoardings, creating chaos, causing unwanted disturbance in the city's functioning is very ethically correct but if I update a status saying that I don't think a bandh is necessary then that's wrong and totally not justified...But then what we can do is again nothing. 

Anyway so this is what is going on in the country and some of them are busy discussing that Sachin Tendulkar should retire just because he didn't score in the last few matches regardless of the fact that he got those numerous trophies, victories, and fame to our country and the rest just are happy with their own life. 

As for me I just got done with exams and i missed writing. In my last post i conveyed my concern for books that are now a days sold in the market and i got quite a positive response for that because a lot of them actually take my side on it. Anyway so its December again, vacations, festivals, some spending and some partying and some are actually busy cutting cakes because they believe world is gonna come to an end and they never gonna meet each other...its hilarious but then some do find it cute. But do YOU believe that so easily the world is gonna come to an end? I am not challenging science here, but if i wanna believe everything is gonna get over in a matter of few days, I will regret of so much things i haven't yet done. Its funny how people actually are coming up with new stories everyday about why there is a possibility that the world is not gonna exist anymore... some say since all the famous men have been called by God, so its gonna be all of us now and some say the hurricane and cyclones and tsunami are the indication that world is coming to an end. And after reading and listening to all of these, I just say "What the Hell!!" Imagination going crazy huh. 

This post I am not writing on anything particular, I am just stressing on the fact that how we believe whatever we hear and see and not try to look into it whether it might be right or wrong...We all need to take a stand at every point of our life...it may vary from being bullied by your sibling or classroom scenes or trying to make a relationship work, or being a slave to your boss to unnecessary arrests, unjustified chaos in your city.. I know its easy to say than to do it but hey you never know, they might just read this and plot me down to where I am and arrest me...and the answer to that you already have it. There are this bunch of people who have decided to stand up for the right and fight against the wrong and because of these people those two Mumbai girls are safe and sound. But this bunch should turn and change into the entire population where we don't let circumstances come up where you have to fight for what you actually deserve. 

If you can't be active in the movement, make some passive contributions so that at the end of the day you are not just some ordinary person who is sitting in front of the television on the couch discussing how things are going wrong in the country, sipping a cup of coffee. You must be thinking what big i am achieving writing a blog post about it. Well they say, spread the word enough till it reaches where it should. 

Cheers!

Too many Chetan Bhagats in town!

When i write something every time, i try to write something new and interesting. And accept it, for how long will you people visit my blog to read tips on relationships, pros and cons of love, my theory of living life and my mantra of being happy. So today i am writing on this particular thought which is being a topic of discussion among a lot of people on a coffee table or maybe even during those morning and evening jogging sessions. There are A LOT of people out there who LOVE reading- starting from the ones who own a personal library at their houses to those who still issue books from the library to read to those who borrow from their friends to those who read a book when its in the news.

 I love reading and as i pick new ones every time when i have the urge to read, i visit online stores to buy books. For the past few weeks as I have been browsing through some books to order on flipkart,  I came across these list of books by Indian authors (specifically 'cause i didn't find any except the indians and no, don't judge me, its not that i am not being a good citizen and criticizing my own fellow citizens. Just telling what i noticed.)  and all had the same story line- love, relationship, sex, flings,college life and family issues. Its like suddenly everyone has started writing their autobiography on the basis of the little life that they have lived till date. No, there's nothing wrong in writing and in fact i encourage people to write 'cause its a very good habit. Just that if every college student starts writing about their college life and relationships, then its sad for us who love reading Paulo Coehlo, Sydney Sheldon, Robert Kiyosaki, Amitava Ghosh and so on!

Suddenly the publishing houses seem to care less about what are the ingredients and more about the dish. Like all they want is the green notes flowing into their bank accounts and their sales rising each day. But little do they realize that soon days will come when readers won't even bother looking at the cover, forget the summary. No offence to all those writers out there. I mean everyone has the same monotonous style and story line. I know its a very sensitive and controversial topic and i might be hated for this post but hey its a democratic country and freedom of speech is prevalent. 


Every other person is just trying to be Chetan Bhagat. One of him is good but too many of them is just too much! If you wanna talk about your life and love and relationships, keep a blog or write a journal. Its a bitter truth but we have our own lives to deal with rather than reading about yours. The media anyway makes sure we know about the celebrity life in and out and there's that to deal with. And if you love writing why not write something more adventurous or creative. I am not giving you some free piece of advice here, just letting out the word of how the whole trend of the section of so called 'romance' in the bookshelf is slowly fading away and how we readers go back to the authors who made us got committed to reading. We don't want a bacon collection here.

keep reading and keep writing!

cheers :)

music makes it easier!

wow! after a LONG time i am writing something and i won't be surprised if it turns out to be an ultimate disaster but then i have to write....'cause its been a while now. For some queer reason, i couldn't come up with anything to write on. Life is already something we know, why write about it more and make it complicated. When everything goes wrong, music is something we actually rely on to calm us down and live in some parallel universe which perhaps only exists for us in our minds. No, i am not trying to be Paulo Coehlo, telling you to strive for something and wait for it forever... no offence i meant. He is one of my favourite authors and his "The Alchemist" was an phenomenal experience for me. 

Returning to writing about music....When everything seems wrong, life is ruthlessly mean and you can't tolerate anything around, plugging those earphones on sometimes ( for me always), is an absolution.

I am not some kind of musician that i would criticize or suggest or discuss genres of music... My taste in music is nothing specific and i listen to anything that sets my mood right. Out there some of you love the soft, delicate and flowing music soothing you down, some love the deathly, loud, metal and some who just love tunes without words fascinating them always.... Its not about what we love, its about why we love! 

There is music in everything---whether it be those noisy traffic jams, or the serene opera shows, or the loud music concerts or maybe even the silence...if we want to hear it we will...Music is something that we create and we listen and we love. Hey, i am not going all about inspiring you all to learn music or its essence or blaahh.. I am just reminding you about those certain times when you want to cry your heart out, on the top of the mountain and shout the loudest ever...and trust me that's a GOOD feeling!! That iPod or mp3 player of yours serves you well in times of great need..to help you keep away from the crowd around and as i said take you into a parallel universe where its just about you!! After coming to college, one of the most precious possessions of mine are my earphones. I just can't walk out of my room for classes without them. And i know i am not the only one..many of you do it too...I am so particular about it that I avoid from sharing it :P

Everything is pretty much plain and boring without music if you ever noticed. Like, if you watch Game of Thrones, (which by the way is one hell of a show and it has got me way too much addicted to it), the background score that they have to every scene and also the title tune is just too good, so good that the music grabs a major attention...I know its weird how I brought in Game of Thrones when all i was blabbering about music above..sorry for that, watching it on a daily basis and completely hooked on it.

So how about some humming and singing or in worst cases bathroom singing, go ahead, put your playlist on shuffle and imagine yourself to Lady Gaga, Rihanna or maybe even Justin Timberlake and sing your heart out and please spare the neighbours by the way if your voice was not meant to be for singing :P keep yourself out of trouble, just saying :P and if by any chance you imagine yourself to be Justin Beiber, then you are gay....

Now I was definitely not planning that in my blog-post but can't help it, this is what the world talks about and  how could i shut up :P 

music forever!

Cheers :D

Be the kid again!

Was wondering what to write on and couldn’t think of it since days :/ okay I was obviously busy enjoying the perks of summer vacations :D after all, this is the only time I get mom’s food and all the pampering and you see all of us don’t reside at nearby cities to VIT(yeah, that’s where I am gonna rot the next 3 years). Some lucky chaps run off to their home at Chennai or Bangalore (I still prefer calling this rather than bengaluru) every chance they get. Anyway, we do somehow manage to have fun our own ways by not coming back to where we belong. Now as I thought of what to write, I almost covered a lot of things I usually go through or I think about or whatever…so this time I randomly came up with something to write , no nothing about the presidential elections or the Indian economy downfall…too boring for me to write and you to read and neither am I writing about Euro2012, you see I have football knowledge almost equal to zero(yes I agree) and those occasional times I watch them because of the hot players :P

It’s freaking hot in India and I am glad I am not there to suffer it all B) and for all of you there,I feel bad, survive the heat! I am sitting in Lagos(for all those of you reading this don’t know what lagos is, google it;)!) thank God! *phew* Summer vacations is one LONG,BIG break from your regular life. Now if you are thinking I am going to write some essay on summer vacations, I am not. For me summer vacations from childhood were always a trip to somewhere. I have travelled a lot since my childhood. Every summers was a chance for me to explore new places and I used to wait for the month of may because I knew my mom was going to pack bags and my dad was looking for places to go :D I have almost covered the entire 26 states of India, except for a few of them, fell short of school years L There was this one summer where I went to the north covering nainital, mussorie and further higher to Badrinath, snow in summer a bliss I tell youJ And every time I got to spend my birthday at different places :P explains my inconsistency. My 18^th I spent in Mauritius paragliding, now that’s more cool than to get drunk :D

yeah, that is some weird expression i am making there!

Though not my favourite season but it has still been a great one whenever I had plans for vacations. This summer I turned 19, no vacations and just looking through old albums where it was different me. Childhood is one of the best period of one’s life. How much ever you were beaten up for those naughtiness, how much ever you were scolded for your low marks(some of us are still screwed for it:P), how much ever you were told not to do this and that, but that was one hell of a freedom we had got. Freedom at its height I would say… College is no doubt fun but not more fun than running towards the swings and flying high with them, seemed as if we were on the top of the world, those times when friendship was just about being the best of friends, times when getting a chocolate for something was considered the greatest reward, times when the only relationships we knew about was with our family…those times are never going to come back. We find kids and their stupid activities annoying, but maybe you were one of those annoying kid. I miss being that free, I miss those times when all mistakes I did were forgotten saying , “ leave it, she is just a kid!” An anonymous saying, "today is the oldest you have ever been and the youngest you will ever be", true words!

But after all these years, there is still a small kid within us who just wants to run wild in the free without any boundaries. I know a friend of mine who is elder to me by few years in age but is such a kid and throws all kind of tantrums when it comes to fulfilling demands :P its said, youth is a state of mind. Be young at heart, and world will be much simpler than what it is. So unleash the child within you this summer and do something you last stopped when you were a child with no responsibilities.

Go ahead, open the fridge and grab some chocolates, eat as much ice-cream you want, go as wild as you can(now many of you, not going wild that way :P don't read between the lines XD) live life as you used to, and enjoy your summers like you never did before.

Cheers :D

Her endless journey

As dark as the storm clouds,

Blur like those foggy days,

Weak roots lie beneath the tree of life

Holding onto nothing would be precise.

Pulled by the evil forces behind,

As she tried taking a step in the journey unknown

Fell weak on her knees and looked up to faith.

She held in herself for ages, the agony and pain,

she mustered the courage to master the force,

For the justice she was never given,

For the revenge she never thought of taking.

She walked ahead without a direction,

But a destination clear as crystal.

She climbed upon life,

grabbing each branch as a hope,

rotten fruits all it gave but,

the seeds were her soul.

Never will she give up, till she found

The reason behind her misery.

Grabbing some bites of love and sips of joy,

Still searching and walking the endless journey.

mistakes: made any?

It's all about time and what is new one second, becomes old and forgotten the next second. We all have a journey to complete ahead in our life with uncountable milestones and numerous obstacles... out of the topic a bit, but this line reminds me of takeshi's castle :P damn i miss that show! anyway coming back on track, a journey on which we set upon to give our self a motive to live and define our ways. The morning everyday brings with it new surprises, a package of hopes and beliefs. I too wake up everyday thinking, what if today turns out to be that extra-ordinary day where i don't commit a single mistake and set ahead my footsteps for the rest of the day..but that never happens :P i have to make at least one mistake through out the day. But then flaws makes one awesome B)



Thinking of the past, there are huge blunders i have made and coming to think of it now, maybe I wasn't given a good set of choices or maybe i was too bad at the whole decision making process.

1. First mistake, I made few pathetic people my "so called friends". Oh yeah, they deserve the word pathetic and i would love to cross the line to define them with some of the most absurd adjectives in the dictionary but why waste time, energy and words :P all of them are precious :D Actually thanks to them that now i have such a great set of friends. What i learnt from this was that, do NOT trust one much unless you feel fully comfortable. Friends reminds me, how much i enjoyed that series so far, it's one of the most hilarious and fun show i have seen...any of you reading this who had not seen friends must see it ASAP..

2. Whoever said love is beautiful forgot its a joint account with something called  a "relationship" which has it's own terms and conditions and also some hidden issues. Wake up people, life is not a fairy tale and there is no one perfect for us. I have been in quite a few relationships and as per my personal experience, i would say it's a waste of time and emotions. Every time I decided not to let the seriousness factor get in between, it somehow did and i miserably failed. Soft hearts like me have to go through some tagged dialogues like "it was nothing great, move on!" or "oh! get over it, there are a lot of fish in the ocean." Saying is hell easy, come and do it bitches, you will feel it then. Lol! i can  actually do an entire thesis on relationships but too boring it would be. And so if you suck at the whole relationship stuff, how about trying something called "flirtationship", no term and conditions, not at all exclusive and you can have all the fish in the ocean. ;)

3. Ah! This mistake I am sure i have a lot of people with me :D Has there been times when you started with something with full enthusiasm and left it incomplete 'cause it was uninteresting and boring. I have done that a  millions of times and i am not proud of it at all. Quite regretful I would say. There comes times till date in my life where i go like "only if i had done that" :| Trust me it's a terrible feeling and something literally eats me up inside. So if possible, try completing the under construction work and start some men at work sites.





Spoke about mistakes enough eh, i know no one likes to hear about mistakes and regret about it. But this not any shitty piece of advice, its something where while reading you would find your own mistakes in mine and the rest who didn't can enjoy their ice-scream without a spill.

And when you tired of making mistakes, why not escape to a new place where no one cares and no one gives a damn about what you do. Where it's all about you and your dreams and how you chase it...

mumbai : the city of dreams!

Have an amazing summer, make it your own way, make some mistakes and rectify few of them. After its summer, a little controversial and interesting it has to be, otherwise the charm of summer gets lost  and you lose all the fun.





Go ahead make some new friends, do some new stuff, grab a beer and chill out \m/

cheers!

The drama, the gossip and the limelight..

Past five months have been the worst of my life so far. So much happened in so little time and the drama, yes that is more spicier than the ones running on television.... Here in my college I bet people never run out of topics to talk 'cause they get all the gossip they want to. Gossip reminds me, a very close of friend of mine who LOVES to gossip and for his this habit I call him gay :P Boys don't be surprised please. The favourite topic of discussion shifts from soccer and cricket to "what's the relationship status of that hot chick" and "what's the scene between the couple boss?" talks. And nothing surprising also and neither am I denying that we girls don't but we atleast accept the fact :P

 Recently in a regular conversation, some one mentioned how we all are no less than 90210...and later i thought about it and laughed and he was so damn right...No one likes being in the limelight for the bad, and no one likes to be stared at when walking around either but when you know what's the truth and how you are, walk with your head high plus ignorance is bliss. Not to forget more the people you know, more you will be talked about.




When the fire is ready to be lit, a lot of hands with the fuel come forward but none raise their hands to stop the fire. I don't  blame those individuals who love talking about people behind the back and gossip and bitch around about them because this place does not leave one with any option better than that. I am not saying that I don't gossip but yes i don't instigate a rumour nor do I give one a lift by confirming it. Some in this process do not realize that the other person might just lose all the respect he or she ever held around people. Whatever one might say, but i would always say do not just judge the book by it's cover, you never know what's the story inside. I know most of you who are reading this by now must have guessed the stories,situation and the characters. But then, me and all of us learnt a lesson and will never forget it. Whatever the circumstance is, some turn out to be the victim and some are guilty.

A mindset is something that doesn't take much time to change. If you were known for the good and now you are known for the bad then rectify your mistakes and make them realize that a few actions cannot change who you are and what will you always be. Obstacles a part of the game of life and all of them can be crossed with the help of some dedication and confidence. I have always been there for my friends and situations were such that i had to choose my friend over the right, but then i faced the storm with them and sailed with them on the rough sea knowing that it might take forever to witness the clear sky.

Every gossip and rumour fades away with time, and so does bad times of life. Ups and downs are an important ingredient in the recipe of "how to survive life"! So go ahead and live the world however you want to, because at the end of the day people who love you will be there to welcome you back with their open arms and walk with you the rest of the journey. And if that doesn't help  :p sometimes revenge is a dish best served cold for whatever disaster ever happened with you! ;) :P

cheers !