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Carpe diem is a phrase from a Latin poem. This poem was written by Horace. He must have had no idea that this phrase would create a revolution in the lives of people including me. This has been a theme of many songs and movies in Bollywood and also Hollywood. This phrase is popularly translated as "seize the day", which means live this moment without worrying much about the future. Future is uncertain and full of surprises, so why waste today, which is a present from god in thinking about what will happen tomorrow. Why am I explaining this to you all my friends? This is the after-effect of watching the movie "Zindagi na milegi dobara". This movie has been the talk of the town since its shooting started. Lovely backdrop of Spain, well-written story, seasoned actors like Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol and Farhan Akhtar and meaningful songs have left me in awe. 3 friends set out on a road trip to Spain for the bachelor party of one friend, who is soon ...

There is this girl and this boy. They stayed in a small town and studied together. He is a North Indian Oriya boy and she is a South Indian Kannadiga girl. But both are brought up in South India. They both started liking each other. They moved to a bigger city for job purposes and dreamt of spending their lives together. No, I am not narrating here the story of Chetan Bhagat’s “2 States”. But this story is more or less on the same lines. Except that the climax and ending of their story is still waiting to be crafted by their respectable elders. Cut to the story.. Boy tells his parents about the girl and his family is dead against this alliance. Reason? She is a Kannadiga, speaks a different language has a different culture, upbringing and life style. Moreover she does not belong to his caste and community. The daughters of boy’s family have a lot of liberty and freedom. They are highly educated, intelligent girls, working in reputed companies. They also have had love marr...

You all must be wondering by looking at the title what is one month old now ..? I celebrated the completion of 1 month of posting on my blog. Then I celebrated my 50 th post of the blog. I also celebrated my 5 th wedding anniversary here. Now it is whose turn…? Today, I completed 1 month in my resort-like home, my own dream house. Exactly one month ago, my parents, I and one helper came to this abode of mine with luggage and only luggage around and now when I look back, I wonder, how we arranged the things, which are quite in their place today. After waiting endlessly for a mover and packer on that day, who ditched us at the last moment, I had to call someone else, who arrived at 5 pm in the evening, this was exactly one month ago, i.e. on 26 th June. We were all dressed up, ready to leave the rented flat and have lunch at the new house. But do things always happen as we want them to happen? No. never. We couldn’t have lunch at the new house that day. We had lunch in the rente...

How should one feel when he/she is suddenly asked to hand over the work related responsibilities (which he/she has been carrying out quite well in past 3-4 months) to someone in the office who has just joined? Reason: This person leads the team remotely, which does not make sense to the management and the management needs someone who can handle team in that location itself. From the business point of view, it is justified. But from that individual's perspective? Isn't that detrimental to his/her self confidence and his/her ability to lead the team nicely? The person in question is me, who is working in the company since 4 yrs now and has a good command on whatever I do. Recently I was given the responsibility of leading the team and assigning work to my colleagues and keeping a track of all that is been done. There were no escalations in the time I looked after the assignment part. Translated documents were delivered on time, I managed all ...

I am always fascinated by anything that is related to love and companionship and sharing. The book "Love Story" by Erich Segal is one of my favorites and I also loved the movie very much, though it has a tragic end. "P.S. I love you" by Cecilia Ahern is another favorite of mine and it sits on my bookshelf in the first place. When Sai and Tejaswini, my friends from office were talking about this book, "I too had a love story", I thought here comes another heart-wrenching story, didn't have many expectations from the book. But I got hold of that book yesterday and I couldn't believe myself that I finished it in 1 day flat. The book is written by an IT professional and the book says that it is a true love story. The protaganist meets the love of his life through a matrimonial site and they hit off instantly. Though distance separates them, they get close to each other and fall in love, eventually meet and decide to get married. They believe ...

The headlines of a leading newspaper reads: YET AGAIN The hustling and bustling city of Mumbai is attacked again. Serial bomb blasts rock the city again killing and injuring many people. Mumbaikars are not new to these type of attacks. They have grown immune by now, I suppose. It is a part and parcel of their life and they go out of their house everyday by wearing their heart on their sleeve. They do not know what will happen in the evening and whether they will come back home and yet they do not fear facing the unknown tomorrow sitting in their houses. Immediately the government rushes it's task force, but what were the task forces doing all this while when the attacks were executed? Didn't the intelligence get any tip off from somewhere as it usually does? Is it not clear that the localites are involved in conducting these attacks? How do so-called terrorist group from an outside country carries out it's activities so very efficiently here in India? How ...

Where does this word, this concept "bhelpuri" take you? If you are in Mumbai or from Mumbai, then you have to be in love with this entire fraternity of chaat. I suddenly fly to the beach called as Chowpatty near to an area Girgaon, where my maternal grandmother stayed and where I always went as a child. I see the stalls of chaat vendors strewn all over the place. Mouth watering dishes like bhelpuri, paani puri, dahi puri, samosa chaat are churned out for innumerable people and everybody seems to be enjoying that feat. Families, friends, lovers all seem to gorge upon it as if they are famished since ages. Delicious stuff in damn cheap rates! And it tastes all the more great when it is topped with raw mango slices or coriander or pomegranate seeds. Even lemon put in appropriate portion works wonders. Day in and day out, the taste never changes.. How do the vendors manage to attract so many people for such a long time? Business tactics, I suppose! Reference from G...

As I have written in my earlier post, I enrolled for driving classes and also took my Learner's license from Dombivli, my home town. I returned to Bangalore, shifted to a new house and resumed my driving practise. I initially took the car in the huge campus where I stay now, but didn't exactly know how to slow down when their were speed breakers or when people or cars suddenly came in front while I was driving. So my dad suggested to take help of a professional driver, who would guide me and help me learn driving in the Bangalore traffic. My dad drives in Maharashtra, he can drive on any and every car. But here he was not sure if he could teach me. So, I also didn't think much and decided to engage a driver from an agency which provides drivers to people all around Bangalore. The driver came on Monday and we started the training. He didn't know Hindi or English and he shouted at me for almost every mistake I did on the first day. It was my first long drive experienc...

Up to the last 10 years Bangalore was a haven of greenery and wonderful climate. Due to the industrialization and the IT boom, this city has been a witness to massive migration from all parts of the country and the title of being the coolest city in almost all months during the year is slowing slipping away. When I came to Bangalore in 2005, I stayed in a 2 BHK which was on a ground floor and didn't realize the summer heat which gripped other people in the city. After I got married, we shifted to an independent house which was on the first floor and there was just the terrace above our flat. It was then we realized, how hot even Bangalore gets in the months of April, May and June. It became very unbearable especially in the evenings, when I came back from office and opened the door to a furnace which was my house. It got baked from all sides throughout the day and it became so hot inside that I had to open all the windows and doors and let the cool wind from outsid...

Remember this song from the movie Khamoshi?? Nice lyrics, sung by the versatile singer Kavita Krishnamoorthy and enacted by Manisha Koirala on the screen. It is a catchy number and full of life and happiness. Manisha Koirala has acted well and depicted her out of bounds happiness well in that song. I was exactly feeling the same when I received a huge surprise from my husband, who is away for work in Germany. Yesterday was our 5th wedding anniversary and we were not together this year. We did not have much control on it though. But then this special day of ours was made truly memorable by his sweetest gesture ever. He sent me a cake and a bouquet of red roses yesterday and wished me a very happy wedding anniversary. He is generally not into gifts and surprises, but this year, he swept me across my feet and impressed me a lot by keeping this a well-guarded secret. He wasn't there for my birthday either, in October last year and still he managed to gift me a beautiful...