Tea & Dark Chocolate

  Permanently! Yes! :-D And as my friend A puts it, I am now The Girl with the Music Tattoo! :-) I finally mustered the guts, got over the initial cold feet (little did I know what real cold feet mean! More on that later!) and went to the next most famous tattoo studio in Hyderabad (Hakim’s Aalim) and spoke to the artist there about getting this tattoo. I spoke to him about the design, location, the price he’d charge, and the safety measures he would take, and thought about it for 5 full minutes, standing right there, in his studio. I figured out I was confused about the location, and did not want to do this in a hurry. I told him I’d get back to in exactly two days, and came back home, thinking all the while if I can do it at all. I SMSed/Mailed all my girl-friends asking them what they thought of a tattoo. Some said they hated it, some said they have always wanted to get one done, and some said its not worth the pain. I then threw the option of me getting it done, and like tr...

They say registering for a run is half the job done. I sincerely hope so! Coz, I’ve decided to train for the Bangalore Ultra Marathon , and to the 25KM run in it! Partly because I badly need to lose those few (or not really few!) extra kilos off myself, and partly to self-discipline myself. Training for a 25K would mean that I have to wake up early in the morning, sleep early at night and in general be watchful of what I eat, and how I run. Another major reason is to self-justify those extra-expensive running Sketchers I got for myself last month! :) Assuming that the race would be in mid-Nov, I still have ~18 weeks for the 25K run. And going by what majority of the fitness websites tell me, a sincere 10 weeks should be enough to do a half-marathon. But since I have never run before, I will mostly certainly need atleast 16 weeks. Let us see how I sustain, I certainly intend to blog about my weekly routine. And please pray that I don’t drop off this in the middle and thus disgust m...

  As far as friends are concerned, this has to be the best period in my life. Actually, I'll reword this sentence. This feels like the best period of my life, contrary to what I always thought - about life coming to a standstill once you are 30. No, trust me, it doesn't. I know I sound like one of those zillion women who tell you that age is just a number, and they feel no different before and after 30. Well, it is, and it isn't. It still pinches when I have to check a different box in application forms, or read articles like 'Life gets better after 30' or when I spot a new grey hair or two. But its a different feeling now. I feel much more liberated, much more at ease with everything around, so much more at peace with myself. May be it all comes from accepting things as they are, or atleast the trial to do so. Back to the friends topic, the last time I met anyone new or had great friends was in college. And that was a long time ago. Barring for one or two peop...

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Yes. And hence the blog. But still with a pseudonym! ;-)

  Oh yes, if Murphy had to pick one day in my life that is his favourite, he would pick today! Totally! I would even go a step further and say he planned it so he can have a good laugh :) Nothing else can explain today’s events… As the guys were changing the flat tyre of a colleague’s car this afternoon when we returned from lunch, I stood there wondering what I would do if I were to have a flat tyre. I knew all the stuff about changing the tyre and putting a new one , but only in theory. But then if I were to have a flat tyre this very day, I would literally be stranded, because I had forgotten my phone at home, and the husband is not in town too. Oh, I did not even know how to recognize a flat tyre or how it feels if you drive with one for a while. Oops,  I did not even have the backup tyre in the car. To assure myself that I can still do good if I were to be in a situation like that, I asked the colleague how I would identify a flat tyre, and he explained how different...

  So that’s one item off the bucket list! Yeah, putting an item as silly as this on The List is downright silly, I agree. But it still means a lot, for someone who grew up in a small town and could not step out of the house without male company. (Most times it was my brother and we thoroughly enjoyed that short time off from studies, but then Dad once sent his watchman along with me and my friends to the movie, he was plain scared that some harm would befall his precious daughter, you see!) And the item was – Watching a movie alone. And yes, I did it today! :D Well, I watched a movie all by myself quite a while before , during my stay in Hong Kong, but then, that was HK, and I literally went every place by myself (blame the ever-busy-not-today-I-have-a-call-why-don’t-you-go-by-yourself-here-take-a-100-HKD husband!). So one afternoon I get out of the apartment to walk two blocks to the nearest movie hall showing, guess which movie – Twilight New Moon (Twilight is my only literar...

Hehehhee… How I love this one! My ever-fave! Image Source – XKCD

  Recycling an old post – I wrote this back in 2008 when I was going through a phase, and words just flowed. I’ve written quite some stuff after this , but this somehow still remains close to my heart… Sometimes I sit & wonder what's with the grass on the yonder! Does my heart just crave Or is it just another wave! Great my life looks from a different eye But whats wrong with my rye! What do I want, will I ever realize? Till then, will I let the boredom capsize? Filled with the never-ending apprehension Will I let my life taken over by depression! Thoughts like this make me feel strange Never ever had I seen in this range! What’s wrong in my life is the question? Bored, Depressed, Blues have crept into my diction Thoughts like this make me feel sad! Not knowing what it is makes me feel bad! Love makes me feel great But even that doesn’t let the down-feeling abate Life is not just about love Without you knowing, it throws you into a stove Do I need satisfaction at the job? ...

Its going to be 6 years that I started blogging. Mostly casual blogging, I have had my ups and downs, bloggers blocks, and many many blogs. Each of the blog urls and blogger nicknames would be based on what the flavour in my life was, at that point. So I have had blogs as juvenile as having the word ‘Smiling’ in them, to as weird as ‘Chocolate’ and also some related to Ayn Rand! All of them were personal blogs, I’ve written about various aspects of my life, about various stages I was going through then and about all the people I’ve come across during those phases. And they were not for public consumption :) After all these years, I’ve felt the need to have an open blog, where I could/would write about what I love that day , the song of the season, the crushes I am having and in general the different moods. Like a expanded version of my FaceBook wall :) And here it is…