TAN

Just run, run for your life? Just run to get yourself exhausted? Just to sweat hard. Run like you never had.Run to dissolve all your emotions and to make your heart lighter?

Dance. Dance means not that Ganapati dance. Any disciplined form of dance? Without any barrier? Without any audience or the teacher.Just throwing all 7 Raasas out of your body.Express everything you can.Dance all your heart. In my case it used to be Bharatnatyam and the therapy still works,if I try,I guess.

Do you feel like playing badminton matches one after another and winning them all? You just don't want to stop. You just want to keep on playing.You just want to get tired.

Is it the same situation when you just want to scream out loud, to burst out any emotions in you. Happiness or frustration?You just want to breathe hard, you just want to throw that feeling of freaking out or the excitement.

If you think I have gone mad, I tell you these acts are healthy way of channelizing emotions.To feel the soul and balance the inner substance in you. Just like you neutralize the acid with base, to not to effect that red/blue litmus paper. So, I call these activities, 'The Acts of Neutralizing' aka TAN.

TAN can put your dil and dimag at the right place. TAN can make you feel light and relaxed after that adrenaline rush.TAN is running,dancing,badminton or any thing you love to do, it can be your passion. TAN is that spark which can actually cool the inner fire instead of igniting that disturbing fire. TAN can soothe you. TAN can revitalize you, TAN will make 'You', visit 'You'.

Do you feel like having your TAN?? I do.

Whats your TAN?

Of Sunrays and Sunshine!

I was in my world, sleeping. In fact I was so much tired last night that I was not ready to wake myself up.

Suddenly, some sun rays decided to take the plunge and softly caressed my eyes.I opened my eyes. The calmness and warmth of those rays went inside my soul.The beautiful feeling is still there alive in me,if I recall that moment. I can feel it.The sunshine makes me shine.It gave me a spark to get ready for the day and seize my life.

While waking up, a thought came to mind. Just like those sun rays, we have some 'sunshine' people.

These are the bunch of people, who give us that shine when we are dull, they give us the support when we are trembling, they give us the reason to laugh when we are just crying hard. I call them 'Sunshine' people.They can be strangers passing by or childhood buddies, your family or friends. They can be you seniors or your colleagues. They don't  feel sympathy, they are the bunch of buddies who are confident about you to win the race or handle the situation.They are just fountains of positive energy. They know you can fight against all odds, what do they do is just, give you that 'Sunshine' and makes you warm.They are just like those compliments given to you, when you feel you are good for nothing.  Just a meet, a call, an sms or a mail to the very own 'sunshine'!

Everyone out here have a bunch of these 'Sunshine' people, I believe. If one doesn't have, he/she is yet to find them or haven't realized who are the 'Sunshine' people of his or her life.

Have you experience those Sun rays and Do you have the 'Sunshine' people in your life?

Cook cook cook cook!

Well, No I am not going to recall the amazing Madhuri Dixit Song and go cook cookoing... :D

I was getting bored at home, doing nothing. My hyper active atama which is absolutely shares no passion for cooking was giving me tough times.

So, today My homesickness drove me to make 'Pooda' as we call in Gujarat, On my own. Period.

Mein cook to nahi.. Magar ee hasin, jabse tanha bethe the, mujhko cooking aa gai :D

*Avoiding sade hue tamatar (thrown by veggies) and eggs (by non-vegies)*

I represent my delicious art work,then I relish my food,

Ah, I just sent this artwork to Shana, and the reply " Nice but is it edible?!!"
Well to you Shane, "It is enjoyable, edible and bloggable!"

First time!

I read somewhere,this awesome line,

"When was the last time when you did something for the first time?!"

Such a thoughtful and kicking punch line. Isn't it? 

The life is short, the life is to enjoy. We get mind blocks and we are scared of somethings, we know we should face them. We also know some of them are fun for other people. Why don't we face them?

Mostly because, we haven't tried it for the first time. If we don't do it for the first time, we wont ever come to know what fun is hidden. How many of us just face it and discover the actual fun?

A very few of us. Frankly there are hundred of things , I am scared to do, I know its fun but I don't try. The fear part takes over the fun part. Yeah there are things, I have faced and found out what fun I was missing. So, when I read the line, I decided to make a list of things, I would do in the next 2 years, I will start 'The first time'. 

• I will learn to drive a car. Yeah I am working in an OEM. If the situation like the movie 'Speed' comes up I can and I will drive a car/a bus/a truck for sure.This is about driving the car like a pro and for that I will start driving a car, on the road, for the first time. Amen. I wont remember, the time when I started learning a car and my tutor started playing 'Mahamrutyunjay' jaap in the CD player, don't know why! :D
• I will go for a fish pedicure. It has nothing to do with my being veggie. Yeah it has something to do with my favorite movies like 'The Mummy' and 'The Jaw'.
• I will buy a touch pad mobile. Amen :D
• I will go Scuba diving and bungee Jumping for sure and face the adrenalin rush!! :) This is the only task in which I know its fun and given an opportunity I wont miss them both.
• I will learn Swimming and enjoy Water-kingdom ride. I am dead scared of tanned skin with rashes and ah, water too. I know, I may swim like a dog under water, but this challenge will need more will power than the above one :D

And, the last but not the least,

I will watch the Himesh Reshmiya's "Karzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz", for the first time :D

So, I have decided,

What was the last time when YOU did something for the first time????

Yeah That's me!

We are all blessed with some odd beautiful facts-The wired personality traits and believes. At least I am. My small facts and activities, which can appear silly stupid to some people, I found them interesting. I am proud that they are included in my personality and I can be proud and loudly say, Yeeah..That's me!!

• I have a habit of collecting greeting cards and birthday card given by family members and friends. I have a folder and an album in which I have pasted all of them. They are so special to me.I feel very sad about e-cards, I feel attached to the physical cards with the hand writings and messages on them.Every card has a human touch, and that's what makes it special.I love these cards a lot.
• I am a curd-mad person just like my Papa. We both can survive on curd for the whole life. I think I am sure, Frock buddy N is going to smell the curd and make a face while reading this!:D
• I have a habit of 'Not' walking straight , I cant follow a straight virtual line on the road. My 2 buddies had tried to draw a line and make me walk on the same. Ah, they kept on trying to crack jokes on each moment, how will I not laugh and walk on the line?!:D One of my best buddy says I push him on the road-side or near the gutter intentionally :D 
• I may not be able to run or jog for more than half and hour, but I certainly can dance for hours together without any break!! Thanks to My bharatnatyma practises and Navratri celebrations.
• I had a weired liking towards 'Shoes', I deliberately wear jeans and skirts and not kurtis in which I appear a bit in shape, for just one reason- I can wear shoes on jeans and not on kurtis and salwars.
• I have been named weirdly all my life.Yeah it includes names given by my parents too. "Don","Bhai","Mech queen","Cutting tool","Jhansi ki raani","Nar bhakshi", these are the names I can disclose, others are..They can make a puncture in my prestige!:D
• I am so so so attached to my collection of accessories, that if I loose one pair of earings, may be bought from a galli market, it appears in my dreams and it becomes a nightmare :D
• I love to wear socks with cartoons on it, at the age of 24. Yes, I successfully hide my habit inside the shoes :D
• I can not handle duppata for more than 3 hours. I had started facing this dupatta fear some months ago by wearing salwars with dupatta in the office. I got a comment from a sir sitting opposite to me, "It suits you, but tumse hoga nahi, if you will observe, the one end of your duppatta in inside the Castor case of the revolving chair." and I answered " I will learn sir, I will learn!" :D
• In contradiction with the above trait, I love flaunting scarfs. Specially Pashmina ones.
• I found it so cheesy when a person calls his or her loved ones by names like "Baby"
   or "Shona",both sucks. :D
• I am so so bollywoody and filmy that I can find songs and dialogues (that too cheesy ones!) on almost 90% situations! I used to given a word during my induction at Pune, and was asked to sing a song on the word, Most of the times I could win the bet.
• I am proud to announce that, I am a great planner if we bunch of people want to throw a surprise (big or small)on an occasion, I am the  best one to plan and execute. When it comes to my birthday , I have cried on the point that no one can surprise me, the greatest surprise party organizer of the decade!
• I have to have to and have to blog everyday, almost. It completes me, The Bubblegum. :)

There are a lot many personality traits which are not usual, and still when you observe yourself, you can proudly say , " Yeah That's me!!!

I respect and you inspire!

Before some days, In the office, we all (The huge-floor-buddies) received a mail, mentioning the last day of the service of a sir who was getting retired.The management was arranging a farewell for him.

Now I know this sir since I joined the job in Mumbai, He greets me everyday with a warm smile. He asks my whereabouts sometimes. I haven't worked with him even once, but I feel the attachment and I am sure every one on the floor feels the same. His smile can  make your day, I bet. The fatherly affection I receive is just something I cant express. Just a 'Hi hello' attachment also has a value, in such cases one can not say, what value. I have never seen him shouting, never angry on anyone, never interfering in any one's business and no office politics around him. His all these virtues make you respect him, I respect him a lot.The small structure with the smile, walking slowly with his bad knee I guess, inspires me, every day.

The respect got multiplied on the day of Gudi-padwa, when he did the pooja.

As usual, the pooja was arranged like any other 'new years' of the country.Mumbai makes you feel the original Gudipadwa atmosphere.This Sir was called for the pooja, I think he wanted to do pooja this time, it was his last Gudipadwa pooja in the office after all.

He removed his shoes, I was busy with some other team-mates of mine, as usual commenting on something or the other thing of the celebration. He slowly, went towards the pooja-sthan, balancing his legs. I have always seen him like that with 'a knee problem'. Every one started  singing the stuti.

My eyes were observing people and the place. It was my first Gudipadwa in the office, I wanted to know all rit-rasams.I went blank when I saw his shoes. One of his shoes was having a dummy plastic leg- a leg starting from the sole to the knee. My heart skipped a bit.

I stared at the shoe and the dummy leg  for some two minutes, I stared at his leg. I was shocked. I realized he dint had the foot below the ankle and that's why he was taking time to remove the shoes and walked a bit unusually.

This person, who did his job smiling all the time, never ever cribbed, made me cry in my heart. He is leading his life. He is in the spirit, all time high. Do we have a bigger problem than this???

Do I  need to say how much I respect him now?

I will take it this way, thank God, his knees are perfectly fine. May be he also thinks the same and so he lives the life with that lovely, warm smile. Sir, if at all you get to read this, I respect and you inspire me, a lot!

I feel Kashmir.

Today its the new year-Gudi Padwa and Navreh. Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra,Karnataka & Andhrapradesh, Navreh in Kashmir. So, today when I started wishing all my friends from Andhrapradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kashmir, I missed Kashmir.

It was 2007, I had a chance to be in Kashmir for some 10 days. I was with all my maternal relatives.

It was a pleasure and I was proud. I have seen Europe which includes the famous Switzerland and I must say, it is nothing in front of Kashmir.May be I have a soft corner in blood for Kashmir, but hey, If you haven't seen Kashmir, You have not seen the beauty.

The pleasant atmosphere, pink winter, snow and colourful flowers. Not to forget rivers with crystal clear water and the stone base,Lovely flower valleys.The pink, dry lovely faces of people, colourful dresses and the holy feel around mosques and temples. It was touchy and that's why for the first time I felt, what 2 countries are loosing by making Kashmir so full of blood.

I recall Roza, Yahan, Machis.Kashmir ki kalee and all those movies which actually failed to show the true Kashmir. What we see in these movies is just 10% of the real beauty.

I remember my friend Jhelam, from Kashmir, who met me in a summer workshop when I was almost 12.Hey girl, wherever you are I just love you and your name! Ah, I miss all those lovely talks we had about Kashmir and those badams you used to give in the workshop!I remember all very clearly.

Today, sitting in the air conditioned office, feeling as if I am in a jail, I vouch for the feel of Kashmir.

And thanks, Mom and Dad, for the Kashmir trip!! For making me realize what it feels to be in Kashmir.

I pray, the land may flourish with smell of flowers rather than the smell of Barood.