Happy Birthday To Me! :)

Life is so beautiful and mysterious and what better way to celebrate life than to celebrate your own b'day.

I Love Birthdays. They are so festive and joyous, especially my own :P I love surprises and hoping for a few this year too ;) I love the buzz of my phone when the messages pour in, calls from loved one's at midnight,gifts from frenz and wishes from all :) Therez so much positivity to all of it ;) I don't understand when people say that 'It's no big deal' when it comes to their birthdays..Of course it's a big deal! This is the day YOU were born.. This is the day your friends and parents were blessed with a special person who would change their life :) I always argue wid my frenz saying : "I am a Kid" ;) (That's coz am born a year later than most of them ;)) Now that another year has passed the "Kid" has grown a year older :P And like any Birthday Baby I have my Birthday wish too ;)

In my next life I want to live backwards,You start out dead and get that out of the way.
Then you wake up in an old person's home feeling better everyday.
You get kicked out for being too healthy,

Go collect your pension,and then when you start work,

You get a gold watch and a party on your first day..
You work for 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement
You party,have fun and are generally promiscuous,then you are ready for high school.
You then go to primary school,you become a kid,you play.You have no responsibilities,

You become a baby until you are born.And then you spend your last nine months floating in luxurious spa like conditions with central heating and room service on tap,larger quarters everyday and then, Voila!

You finish off as an orgasm!!

(Courtesy : Woody Allen )

Happy Birthday To Me !! :)

List of First's ;)

How many of you have a First-List - The First Job, The First Bike, The First House, The First Kiss...You get the drift? ;) I have a mental "To-Do" list, which I like to "Mark as Done" with a punch in the air, as and when I reach there ;)
Some of my firsts have been highly fulfilling..like my laptop, which left me on cloud nineteen, or my first big splurge - 10k of hard-earned money on a cellphone..I still remember the feeling when I gingerly gave my card for swiping, wondering whether it was worth it :)Some of them were long overdue, like my bike. Though bought by my dad it was still my first :P

Nevertheless, I celebrate every small acquisition in my long list of "must-haves" which I have been listing since college days. Some items on the list have been re-prioritised, some new items have gatecrashed and some items have been obfuscated.

And I remember each of these Firsts - The Offer Letter - which was like a million prayers answered..The first big splurge - with the fear of repayment.. The first salary (which was joyfully spent on roadside chat for a whole month ;))..The ride from the bike showroom to campus..The wide-eyed stare into the shining blackness of the laptop screen..The awe at the digital camera, which is mostly hanging around my neck when am out ;)..The first of those innumerable whoops of joy at something finally working out and now to add to this list is -"My first trip to my dream destination : Australia :D "

Hope this list goes to grow and I get to strike entries off my list :P

Materialistic Prayers ;)

Some of the weird things I have prayed for ;)

Oh God,
Please make sure we get the movie tickets today
(I am very passionate about my movies)

Oh God,
Please let her not get more marks than me in hindi
(It was my weakest subject in middle school, and used to always lose top position because of this subject)

Oh God,
Please let me find jeans which fit me good
(I had a tough time moving up to waist my waist size, where all pairs of standard jeans began)

Oh God,
Let there be a power cut today
(An excuse from studying)

Oh God,
Please get me the joker, in the next time I pick a card.
(Card games can be fun, and am never less competitive)

Oh God,
Let India win today, don’t want them to lose this one..
(Cricket is an important game of most of us)

Oh God,
Please do make the SoftwareEngineering paper go easy
(The only subject which I thought I would have tough time. No surprises I juss scraped through)

Oh God.
I want to ask something, but having nothing on mind now, so just surprise me this time
(Hehe believe me I did this once/twice)

And the list continues…To add to it a prayer whispered everyday ;)

"Oh My God..I believe you..I trust you..I love you..I thank you..I worship you.. You guide me and make me a good child...." :)

Life Of A Refuge...

April 5th 2008 : A day which is of primary significance in my life.. I landed in Singapore on this very same day after 22 yrs of sheltered existence.Just 2 more days and I will complete a year which marked many a milestones in my life and changed me in ways that I wouldn’t have dreamt of! When I look back at them : Some make me smile,while some make me shudder...

April 5 : ***zzzzz zzzzzz zzzzzzz FLASH BACK zzzzzzz zzzzzz zzzzz***

6:30AM >> Reaching Airport with my luggage along with my parents and friends accompanied. (Just half n hour before was done with all the shedding of tears!)
7:00AM >> Joined the looong queue to enter the departure hall (It was then the HAL Airport) Was hard to make eye-contact with all those moist eyes looking at me :(
8:00AM >> Still waiting for my turn to collect my boarding pass (Praying that my luggage does not exceed the limit!Passport and other docs tightly gripped!)
9:00AM >> Boarding pass in hand (Yelled out saying "My luggage is way below limit,can still carry loadz")
9:50AM >> Stunned by the luxury of Singapore Airlines :)
Later in the evening >> A girl gets out from the plane,looks around and tries to resolve in her heart that she wud not cave in,come what may!!
She gets to spend that nite alone in a hotel room constantly looking at the walls measuring the length and breadth of the room...

Before flying to Singapore, I had my accomodation available..Having done that, I now regret!
On my exodus, in a year's time..Thanks to gubes, I always had some bed to rest my head on..
*Gasp* I should not have taken suggestions so seriously!

Consider I had not booked the footpath space :

~~ Dream ~~

I think first I should make acquaintance with my neighbours and assure that I am just a guest for 2 months. (Hopefully,a new all furnished flat with peanuts for rent and a charming guy for a neighbour is waiting for me to discover it.I strongly believe in miracles ;))

For tonight,I may be invited by one of those big hearted neighbours for dinner.Even if they don’t I’ll manage with some noodles readily available plus a coke and its bed time. I am taking some newspapers from office. I have enough to make a two inch thick bed.And one of my duppattas can serve as a sheet.Wow Wow.. Life is so adventurous!

In the morning I’ll start a little early to office. May be reach there early by 30 mins.Take a luxurious bath,a filling breakfast and be the first in office.

Tomorrow I’ll buy two aluminum dishes, one vim bar, one scrubber and one knife.
I think 2 kg of rice will do for 1 week. One kg daal, 250 gms each of tomato, onion and one vegetable.Oops.. salt, coriander powder and chilli powder… :)

Mehnaath ki kamaayi, ghar ka khana aur apne ghar ka aaram … I am getting goosebumps… I will live the life of a true Indian, among those true Singaporeans. May be one of those Discovery Channel program will show an interview with me – "A Thriving Indian!"

Man, I never thought it can be such a blessed life.

~~ Dream Ends ~~

~~ Reality ~~

Getting accustomed to the new office, new people, new found solitary confinement. But a lease of life never leaves her. Helps her sail through...
Tasting office politics, trying not to grit her teeth at a tyrant’s whims and fancies..The lease of life still there strongly by her side...

I think god has intentionally made me so tiny a creature so that I fit into every small place. I guess I can hide in one of these office shelves tonight.
And after everyone leaves I may come out (provided I am not choked to death in which case tomorrow they will find me in my scariest dead self). That is a less expensive proposition. ;)

All that I have to weigh now is if I want the comfort of my office Air Conditioning or I want the Discovery Interview fame...Such baffling alternatives..... *Sigh again*

Extends her hand to start a new journey. Bliss follows...

A year stares back with the hope of getting a good or a bad certificate.Well she will honour this year with more than a good or a bad comment! She would declare it as a year which changed her life and her way of being..It etched things in stone where sand wud have been preferred...
And she will live to bear its repercussions!!

~~ Reality Bites ~~