BOOKS

Books, books, books......Well what can I say about his most enchanting thing I've ever come across in my life. My acquaintance with books dates back to times when I was a toddler I guess..Yeah that's right, TODDLER....My mum actually is the one source appreciation for getting me into this habit of reading...All thanks to MUM, there has been no looking back....

I was a kid when I first got the hang about books.. I started my tiny venture with books which had more of pictures and less of words.. The animals looked so real to me, that I used to look at those books for long hours.. Then started off with small books containing small strories.. I was just too excited for words.. Being the only child, I did not have brothers & sisters to disturb me too.. Started devouring books on a regular basis.. From tiny books to a little bigger books, I got my promotion.

I came to junior school, the addiction was only stronger. I started with ENID BLYTON. Fell in love with MALORY TOWERS. It is my all time favourite till today. Then came FAMOUS FIVE, FATTY SERIES, SECRET SEVEN. I used to be so lost reading books. It just continued. The urge to finish books was so strong that I used to polish them off in a day. Man, what a delight they

used to be.

Than came the High School days. Like all the reading gurls, I also entered the world of NANCY DREW. Started loving her Prosche cars too. I practically finished all her books. Never had a keen passion for HARDY BOYS... Then swayed into the enigmatic world of SWEET VALLEYS. You see in my school, SWEET VALLEY was a huge rage. All the girls, who read, wanted to read SWEET VALLEYS. You would actually find an Elizabeth (or LIZ in short) , or a JESSICA everywhere. I'm sure most of you who read will know them. But for those, who are alien to the Paper world, these 2 girls are the twin sisters of SWEET VALLEY books. Then from SWEET VALLEY HIGH, I moved up the ladder too SWEET VALLEY UNIVERSITY. I still fondly remember, in my Bio classes, I used to keep a novel in between my text book & read. Then moved to THREE INVESTIGATORS.....(What an impression right!!!!) My maa'm never found out.

Alas!! the end of good ole school days.. Time to move on...

I landed up in college now.. Yup, college.. Started off with ROBIN COOK. A whole new wrold of science fiction unmasked. My favourite was INVASION. Then started off with AGATHA CHRISTIE.. Loved all her books to the core. Then it was SYDNEY SHELDON. I still used to read ENID BLYTON at times. Time for JEFFREY ARCHER.

Then I got into Enginnering. Well, I never ever gave up reading. I was just far too addicted to quit reading. I continued. Back home mum is an avid reader. We used to dicuss a lot on books. she used to tell her favourites, & I used to tell her mine.

I started with VICTORIA HOLT, Gothic romance you see. Then moved on to MARY STEWART.

GEORGETTE HEYER. Though not one of my favourites. Of course how could I miss, POTTER MANIA!!!.

I was also a maniac. Just loved the books... I have the collection from U.S.A ( Courtesy: Ma' bro)

I was lost on Hogwarts... Actually forgot B.M.S.C.E for sometime.....LOL....

Then came the era of ASSORTED AUTHORS, as I call it. Paulo Coelho, Men R from Mars, Women r from Venus types.

Then I moved up the level. Joined Masters program.

The most unbelievable thing started happening. I was entrapped in Management & Non- Fiction books for a solid 2 years. Fiction seemed to be losing its essence. I started off with JACK WELSCH. Loved his book STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT. A whole new world opened up in front of me. I was kinda elated with the change. Built to last followed. A whole lot of other books.

Now after college, I have started loving Fiction as well as Non - Fiction.

But somewhere down the line my heart still voted for Fiction. ( Childhood days - Old habits die hard).

Books have always been my favourite. Jut to name a fw authors that I read,

1. Agatha Christie

2. Sydney Sheldon

3. Jeffrey Archer

3. Paulo Coelho

4. Victoria Holt

5. James Hadley Chase

6. Barbara Cartland

7. Mary Stewart

8. Randy Pausch & Jeffrey Zaslow

9. Sudha Murthy

10. Jack Welsch

11. Enid Blyton

12. J.K Rowling

And many more to name.

Books will be books. The Constant Factor in my Life.

Thanks MUMMY. All the credit for widening my data base goes to you. Hats off MOM!!!!

Imitation at its PEAK

This one is....Read on to know which category it falls into....
After college, my first job.... or to put it more precisely ma first job after MASTERS.....Here, in that very place I came across lots of people, actually all types & kinds....Some really sweet, some haughty, some boring, some wierd etc. etc., you know the set that takes to float a REAL company & so called ASSESTS....Anyways I came across a house keeping lady who had this wierd way of calling people AMMA.....Her tone, pitch , intonation & whatever nitty-gritties goes into callin AMMA was peculiar...She used to use the very word in every sentence. Actually, her sentence used to start & end with AMMA...Here was ME trying to HONE my imitating skills (For those newbies, I'm pretty good at it...LOL....).. I started to imitate her way of callin AMMA jus the way it was....I got really good at it....Can you guess where I tried it & what the implication was...READ ON....
I had just mastered the word to its utmost perfection....Usage wrong place....
At home, at times my MUM is addressed in different ways, MUM, MOM, MUMMY, MUMMA & AMMA ( Yup, that very word)....Can you guess what could have happened...Well..Well.....Well...
Here i was one morning, trying to call my mum & Heaven knows why i called out AMMA... AMMA....Twice, not once ...and here was my mum telling, MUNDE HOGUMA....(Yup, the very thing you tell beggars....) My mum tellin me....
THAT was the end of me ever trying to call in that particular tone, pitch etc....
I'm sure i wouldn't wanna call that...Right... to get that wonderful a reaction from ma MUM......

CIVIL in Me

Well, well, well hope the very title doesn't beat ma pals......CIVIL, well thz what my ENGINEERING Degree is in....Took it up because I wanted to be in B.M.S.C.E...Course never mattered to Me...Strange i guess......Ok, here I was with the course, but never ever ever actually got into depths of appreciating it...Actually kept appreciating the college more than poor course...Neverthless....Something is better than nothing, if it holds good here.....Four years of college life, went by and i was more than happy to be out of CIVIL....True in every sense...

I was never keen on applying for a job and working in the same line....So, me bein me took up Masters and was more than happy to forget the very four years of acquired knowledge....I'm sure you will understand the level of happiness in moving away from something you jus don wanna be in....That was how I felt truly & modestly.....

Two years of ma Masters Life flew by and there I landed myself in a job...Job right, the very word makes you traverse all those long years of yearing to EARN....U bet!!!! Money..... Yes, I was on top of the world to earn. TO EARN N SHOP mind you....For those of you who don't know, I'm the BIGGEST spendthrift one could come across..(You'll agree, if you know me really well)....

Anyways crap apart....The job was awesome....I was happy...At the end of the month, pay packet in my hand or the urban way, CHEQUE/CHECK in my hand....What a feeling!!!!

After sometime my bubble burst soon...Yup you got it right....bubble burst...Here i was stuck in a PMC and given a CIVIL project to do apart from my Masters skills.....

Got nothin more to say now....Somethings best left unsaid...What say????

P.S: CIVIL never seems to be getting away from ME......ME...Poor ME.......

JEWELRY CRAZE

Jewelries are somethin that drive me crazy. My love for them knows no bounds. Those colorful rings, bangles, bracelets, chains and all those wonderful & mesmerizing trinkets seem a paradise to me. The colors, red, blue, violet, pink, orange, yellow, floroscent etc. are such pretty sight. They come in different shapes and each shape is a beauty in itself. The sight is so beautiful that I can't help getting attracted to it. It keeps beckoning each time i pass by and each time I think ONLY THIS TIME....But its a trap i keep wanting to fall in....

Each time I buy a beauty, I show it off with great pride. They are all my prised possessions. I admire each one to the core be it a bangle, a bracelet, a chain anythin. The designs on it are so breath taking that I just get lost in them.

The more I buy, the more I wanna buy.. Its a never ending visious circle...Each one hanging in the store tempts me big time. I try hard but alas......I do not succeed....They are a fancy that I love to possess..

This is a craze to stay for the rest of my life and for nothing in this world would I want to give it up!!!!!

CHILLY CHATAAK!!!

RED HOT CHILLIES... or those GREEN SLENDER BEAUTIES......The more you eat, the more u wanna eat....Well RED HOT TEMPER is also something like that for me....It just awaits at the tip of ma nose and lo behold!!! before i can even realise SNAP i;d had gone at someone.....Hard to control and irrestible to hold back.....Ma temper is super hot....Erupts like a volcano...A blazzing volcanic eruption.....Nothin' can let that cool come what may...If its meant to explode, it'll....Well!!!! that is ME.....Me though trying hard to control it, very unsuccessfully....The urge inside me to snap back is so strong that i at times fail to see the impact it leaves on the poor creature absorbing it......People just need to touch that raw nerve, thatz it.....There i go again.....PLONK.....PLONK........PLONK.......My words uttered in fury are so spicy that nothing can quench the same......Be it my pal, my best freind, in front of ma rising temper i fail to see it all....They become ceramic moulds in front of me ready for a blast furnace ride.....

I try hard to hold back it back...NO..No...No....but ...................in vain...Apparently i do manage it at times but it all comes out at some wierd point of time when not required.....Just about a week back, i experienced something like this again....All my friend did was to tell me that she would meet me late, and there that was it........I fumed aaway to glory.....The decibel in my voice was at its zenith.......Poor she!!!!! But ME being ME.......Went on and on and on...........................................I'm sure you guys can figure it out ya self...........

I ponder over my temper seldom and wonder........Will it ever come down or not......Or its going to last till eternity......

Tell me how hard is it lose or control one's temper........Until my next downpour, keep pondering!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DREAM COME TRUE!!

Well, well, well... This is by far the best blog of ma life...Read to know y....INFOSYS..Does it ring a bell...Well for me, it makes me skip a beat, gongs are besten in ma ears!!! GONGS mind you...I get all dreamy and lost..This 7 letter word creates wonders within my internal system and disrupts ma normal finctioning..This is the very word that im in love with for the past 13 years.. Yes you got it right.. 13 years.. too long a time to stay loyal right..I know but kya kare, Yeh dil manta nahi....I hanker to get into this dream comapny of mine, but things have gone the other way around...U know what I mean.. Yeah not in ma favor so far..But nervethless will make it their one day..This is ma DREAM COMPANY....Ma love, ma life..Jus imagine ma plight when i get a chance to visit infy..Man...I for sure must have been dead right!!!! Phew...Thankfully alive...Didnt die out of a cardiac arrest...U bet i didnt....U can imagine the feeling..It was 19th..D DAY of ma LIFE.....I get a chance to visit ma dream company..Man it was like i'm transported to a different planet..Felt as if I was flying...CLOUD NINE feeling....I had butterflies ma stomach...I guess even people meeting their to be's wouldnt feel all this..But me being Me....N knowing ma luv for it, i had it all in me.....Gosh i was on the verge of faintin when i entered the building...Oh MA GOD!!!!! I was totally mesmerized....I didnt know wat was happening...The feelin was so good that I had no words...Speechless....Flabberghasted....Zapped...Bedazzled....i mean everything in short....This one for sure is a memory etched right on...for life....it cannot be erased....U know it...Permanent mark....But an awesome one.....

SHOPPIN MANIA

The very word shoppin.. Wat does it bring??? Joy, happiness, temptation, lure..Watever.. Come to think of it, i cant stop shoppin.. im a shoppin addict.. All the time on a shoppin spree...Money n me are born rivals.. It neva stays n i don hold it too... Wat to do?? We share a great long distance relationship you know....

The more i try to hold it, the more i yield into temptation. To do or not to do????? Well no idea on the same...Clothes, bags, jewelry, watches etc.. You name it and the more you wanna name,... all the more tough if you are a brand freak.. Gosh!!! Just check out the rates....They are sky rocketing... Arent they????Then i guess it should stop me from buying right.. No no no...not at all...Hopeless case aint i????

But guess thz ME.....God knows when the money comes in and where the money goes out....I m so lost in pondering about its whereabouts........But guess it gives a gurl immense pleasure to SHOP...East or West, shoppin is the Best... Correct....

AND THEN…..THE END!!!

The ‘D’ day had arrived. The most feared day of my life. Well, this happens to me all the time. The most usual question I ask myself is, “Why ME”? Nevertheless I never find an answer to it and I probably would never. I try shifting my thought process but then I am stuck with the same old question “Why ME”? It rings like a gong in my head all the time.


I lie on my back helpless, grief – stricken and silently sulking. Trembling with terror and fear gripping me thoroughly, I know not what to do. This has been happening for years to my fellow beings but I guess I am the only bold one to express my self. Ain’t it a matter of appreciation…..I guess it is!!! I have always heard ghoulish stories from my folks about my fellow community and their heart wrenching sufferings. But can you beat this!! Well you can’t because I am in that very situation and I am experiencing the same trash.
Who can understand my pain, my agony, and my sufferings???? Nobody can and I am extremely sure about it.


At this very moment all I can do is dwell in self pity to the core. Poor I am is all I can think of. None, I say none will even develop a mercy feeling towards me. Strange world and strange beings live in this world I feel… Tension is grapping at high velocity like there is no tomorrow…


Strange silence encircled around me and for a change it seemed a true bliss to my ears. It seemed like silence was prevailing before a huge explosion.. I was just pondering in silence as to what my pals would be thinking at the moment because I wasn’t the only one going through all this... Are they also in the same pitiful plight as of mine or are they in a better position…At this very point I wished I could read their mind’s so as to make me feel a little at peace if not completely. But alas!!! As the saying goes, “If wishes were horses then beggars would be riding them”. And all of a sudden it seemed perfectly made for me.


This thought process of mine was traumatic. How could I withstand without yielding into???.... That was like a million dollar question posed in front of me…My head was bursting with a zillion questions……I knew I had answers to them all but one…..That one question was a true torture within!!!! Who really wants to go through all this and more…Life just ain’t easy for our community. Someone or the other keeps going through this state of mind….


How long could I lay on my back???? Time seemed to have come to a stand still. The clock stopped ticking ….Gosh!!!! My heart beat was pacing away to glory. I absolutely had no control over anything at this point of time. My back started hurting too…I was on the way to losing my senses…and who knows what more was in store for me…I was totally baffled at my plight. Me of all…No ways…Pleaseeeeeeeeeeee…..Help me…..Somebody help me…But the words never came out of my throat, for they were stuck in my thoughts only………


Ouchhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! Now what the hell was this???? A chill ran through my spine…Oh my God!!! Oh my god!!!! Panic was setting in to settle in a big way..Now what is this!!!! Was I catching a chill…no...no.. no…. And then it dawned on me. H2o commonly called water was being poured on my tiny already cold body to make it colder. I was damn sure my body would shrink in minutes and wrinkle up completely…..Then I could sense a rib- poking pierce and there I was tossed over like an omelet on the pan…Man!!! I also get hurt…Phew…what the hell???? I thought silently…I also sense pain in a big way …but how would others know it…Silently I cursed under my breath…...heartless creatures….!


Was I seeing it right or wrong??? A couple of shiny, silvery kind of tools….What is the damned purpose of it.. I wanted to stand up and scream aloud.. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH….. I couldn’t take it any more… this was excruciating agony I was in…then the enlightment stuck… I was a damn scapegoat lying flat on the table ….now I was trying to rack my brains to recall…. I had heard my folks talk about it….times immemorial… It flashed…Did it??/ Oh yes!!! It did…..I was going to be DISSECTED and that crazy process I would be going through was DISSECTION…and it was like a passport to hell for me…one way ticket without looking back…. Oh hell….no not me….panicky…numbness…vertigo….nausea….limited knowledge bank of mine I could only think of all these…..the very thought of what would happen to me was nerve racking…Man…. It had to be stopped or eradicated……STOP…..STOP……..STOP That was all my poor brain could think of right now….Well!!! that was also great as of now…I mean my thinking ability….never mind…Then I opened my EYES and was on cloud nine….I murmured aloud “ Dude!! Better luck next time”……. Yippee…..Yippee…Yeah…..Yeah……ho hoooooooooooooo………This is awesome…..Damn my dream……God it was not in reality…..Pulled back and slept again happily thinking that this treachery has at last come to an End!!!!!.........or should I say THE END……………..

BLUNDER

A new day. What is so special?? Well this new day was truly different because she was shifting to her new office... New office which was miles away from the city... Something memorable needs to happen right at the first day at work..... Read on to know what it was....

Their first day at work. No excitement, no remorse....a very neutral feelin you know....She and her collegues chatting away like always... For her good or bad luck i don know, but her colleague would shoot her mouth off like the way she did... So you see the linking... There was no controlling factor at all.

These two great ladies had gone around the entire premises, explored it well and knew it all... Great right... at the first day mind you!!! Somehow they didn't have much work to do either.
What can you expect on DAY 1....nothing much right......They walked into the restroom. Specimen 1 asked the other one if she liked the other chik at work.....Loud and instantaneously came the answer.............NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO............Okie......Got the message....conveyed right and straight....what say?????
Then went the gossip session .......You know how it is with GURLS right?????........Yeah it was the same here too.....
Came back into the cubicle and sat.....And then what happens......This gurl whom they were gossiping about in the restrron so confidently was RIGHT THERE......And they realized it after all the damage was done....neverthless.......not much soothin remedy......Bubble burst right.....So watch on next time people before the gossip train starts off.........

JOBS OR FLOPS

Whatz the current scenario.....Lots of people......no jobs.....Pink slip time......everyone is insecure.... You may never know what will happen TOMORROW.....it's a big question.....with no answer...today you are at work...like you are the best...but tomorrow GOd knows whom you will be asking for help looking out for a job.....UNCERTAINITY sinking within oneself.....

All the effforts put in.....all in VAIN....Money to Men what is common ....RECESSION factor.....Don you agree....And BIG TIME problem....All in anticipation.. of what.....PINK SLIP... its like an IN THING now in town.....Ain't it.....all in commontalk to be sharing......PINK is the talk of the talk of the day.....As the saying goes, "WHAT GOES UP, HAS TO COME DOWN"....which is very true in the current market .....MARKET CRUNCH, FINANCIAL CRUNCH.....Crunch all the way....But nothin to MUNCH along.....Except the SLIP...PINK SLIP...

Well this is not here to stay long....MARKET will rise with a big bounce....A BIG BOUNCE.....Nothing to get disheartened about....ATTITUDE TO Win the world,....SO letz all hope for the best!!!!!