Sounds...what exactly?
Great actually!
After years of never going out without children, A and I managed to sneak in an hour away after the babies had slept of course, to go and have a couple of drinks at the club. It was fabulous! And I think we can do it again. Of course it's a far cry from the days we used to be there when the bar opened and stayed much after it closed. Those were the days of pure adult fun- of going to bars, getting sloshed and passing out once we were back at home.
And these are the days, extremely fatiguing albeit, of pure unadulterated fun- of being with our children, and never having a moment to ourselves. It still remains fun. Of course they are going to grow up, go out with their friends- girls and boys, and wouldn't want to be around us at all. But its fun till it lasts- may it last forever!
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
New design for my blog
It's pretty cool...the older template that I was using- Travel, was making navigation really heavy. This one- awesome' it's called; is pretty fast!
Fighting for nothing!
Don't we all do that? But A and I seem to be doing it all the time..we don't have the time to unwind decently...we don't have the time to eat or sleep properly; but we do have hours to waste over trivial shit that doens't matter at all...
How inelligent we really are!
How inelligent we really are!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Devdutt Patnaik- Myth=Mithya
Fabulously written.
I haven't finished it yet and that's also because I've taken the author's sugestion to just pick it up and read it randomly. It's a great read. We have all read or heard about the myths which populate the hindu religion. The author makes very interesting differences between the two words to start with: myth and mithya.
Read it..it's great!
I haven't finished it yet and that's also because I've taken the author's sugestion to just pick it up and read it randomly. It's a great read. We have all read or heard about the myths which populate the hindu religion. The author makes very interesting differences between the two words to start with: myth and mithya.
Read it..it's great!
20 NORTH
Another great find like flipkart- for me and for many others like me. IT's a website for people who want stuff from the U.S. etc...the website has it all and it promises to get it for you if they don't already stock it...all you have to do is to send the internatinal link. It is a bit expensive, but their prices include shipping and handling: so a bath and bodyworks body splash(my absolute fav )will cost you three times the price...but at least you get what you want without having to beg family or friends going abroad.
Friday, October 15, 2010
I lost my job :-(
Well yes, I guess it's still true of me- can't massage people's egos! Atleast that's what I think went wrong with this one, and here's the story in all its glory:-
A friend recommends me to her boss- I meet him- I like the work- he likes my background- we decide to work together. Except I have to work with this who appeared to be a sweet woman from Hyderabad! So I am new to the fashion/export industry and yet I put in days and night to achieve a herculean task- of writing a whole section without any help that was promised me t start with. To top it all, the woman in question doesn't want to talk or have any kind of verbal communication.
I go to Kerala, having accomplished a big chunk of the ebook I am writing, with the promise that she would go through it and give me specific corrections. So what happens when I get back? A note saying twenty things are wrong. But do I get a specific areas where those twnety things might be lacking? No. I just have to rewrite the whole document and send it? No reply to this either!
So I call her and try and find out what's happening. Just bunk all the separate documents into one and it should be fine comes the reply. So I wait , starting work on the following documents and believe my surprise when I get a mail so caustic, I havent ever laid eyes upon. Some supercillious bitch casting aspersions on my competence. Well, that's one thing she shouldn't have done- because the place where I start working from is not a state of super confidence but actually quite the opposite. I do not believe I know anything on the subject which makes me put all that I have in just getting my fact straight- the one thing I never want is to get caught on the wrong foot.
So of course the time I should've spent working, I waste in drafting a reply as for a communications person, I am totally lost for words. And all the time I know, it will be over in the morning. Having worked in the radio industry for just over 16 years, I have dealt with people with ginormous egos, the worst cases of bitching- it is quite terrible. But frankly, this was my first time to find someone, who I had done no harm to or even interacted with much, harbour such malice towards me. Because that's what it came across as- malice. But why would she be malicious towards me? Not because she thought I wasn't genuinely performing- which after a 3 weeks, I would seriously doubt. So far I had delieverd on time,I wanted feedback, I had the rest of the sections ready.
Well, I'm out of a job in a month- sad :-(
Thank God, I didn't have to work with such an egotistical person.
A friend recommends me to her boss- I meet him- I like the work- he likes my background- we decide to work together. Except I have to work with this who appeared to be a sweet woman from Hyderabad! So I am new to the fashion/export industry and yet I put in days and night to achieve a herculean task- of writing a whole section without any help that was promised me t start with. To top it all, the woman in question doesn't want to talk or have any kind of verbal communication.
I go to Kerala, having accomplished a big chunk of the ebook I am writing, with the promise that she would go through it and give me specific corrections. So what happens when I get back? A note saying twenty things are wrong. But do I get a specific areas where those twnety things might be lacking? No. I just have to rewrite the whole document and send it? No reply to this either!
So I call her and try and find out what's happening. Just bunk all the separate documents into one and it should be fine comes the reply. So I wait , starting work on the following documents and believe my surprise when I get a mail so caustic, I havent ever laid eyes upon. Some supercillious bitch casting aspersions on my competence. Well, that's one thing she shouldn't have done- because the place where I start working from is not a state of super confidence but actually quite the opposite. I do not believe I know anything on the subject which makes me put all that I have in just getting my fact straight- the one thing I never want is to get caught on the wrong foot.
So of course the time I should've spent working, I waste in drafting a reply as for a communications person, I am totally lost for words. And all the time I know, it will be over in the morning. Having worked in the radio industry for just over 16 years, I have dealt with people with ginormous egos, the worst cases of bitching- it is quite terrible. But frankly, this was my first time to find someone, who I had done no harm to or even interacted with much, harbour such malice towards me. Because that's what it came across as- malice. But why would she be malicious towards me? Not because she thought I wasn't genuinely performing- which after a 3 weeks, I would seriously doubt. So far I had delieverd on time,I wanted feedback, I had the rest of the sections ready.
Well, I'm out of a job in a month- sad :-(
Thank God, I didn't have to work with such an egotistical person.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Trip Advisor is not biased :-)
Well my review got published...and the website regained my trust!
We have trusted this website for a long time now and were completely disappointed to think it was somehow being made not to publish a bad review of a place -Tea Bungalow, for which I haven't seen a single bad remark. How could it be that it went so bad for us...and we are pretty accomodating when it comes to things? Well, I guess it's always a case of the 'head' ruling the body...with the attitude and arrogance of the manager, what the hell else can you expect?
But I can go back to reviewing places and stuff on the trip advisor...and go back to travelling as soon as possible!
We have trusted this website for a long time now and were completely disappointed to think it was somehow being made not to publish a bad review of a place -Tea Bungalow, for which I haven't seen a single bad remark. How could it be that it went so bad for us...and we are pretty accomodating when it comes to things? Well, I guess it's always a case of the 'head' ruling the body...with the attitude and arrogance of the manager, what the hell else can you expect?
But I can go back to reviewing places and stuff on the trip advisor...and go back to travelling as soon as possible!
Monday, October 11, 2010
Trip Advisor is biased!!!
Well...Well...Well!!
Was that a break or what! As all the millions who follow me know already, I have been away to what is popularly known as 'God's Own Country'- Kerala.
After planning this trip, sometimes with great anticipation and some others with trepidation, sometimes with confidence and other times taking a pure gamble; after thinking a million times that perhaps it will all go to naught, after booking the tickets and the hotels and paying up for them- it could've been all a waste.I am going to thank God that it all went as planned- mostly better, sometimes a little disappointing; but great in all its entirety.
We started our vacation with a brief stay at the Trident on the Willingdon Island close to Kochi, went on to Kumarakom at the Taj- wow, stayed in the middle of thousands of acres of tea plantations at Munnar and finished our 10 day long journey at Tea Bungalow- the only thorn in our backside. In fact I have reviewed all the properties in Trip Advisor and found out that 'THEY ARE BIASED'...they did not let a bad review of the place go through.
But let me not get into this- just revel in the beauty of the state that is Kerala!!!
Was that a break or what! As all the millions who follow me know already, I have been away to what is popularly known as 'God's Own Country'- Kerala.
After planning this trip, sometimes with great anticipation and some others with trepidation, sometimes with confidence and other times taking a pure gamble; after thinking a million times that perhaps it will all go to naught, after booking the tickets and the hotels and paying up for them- it could've been all a waste.I am going to thank God that it all went as planned- mostly better, sometimes a little disappointing; but great in all its entirety.
We started our vacation with a brief stay at the Trident on the Willingdon Island close to Kochi, went on to Kumarakom at the Taj- wow, stayed in the middle of thousands of acres of tea plantations at Munnar and finished our 10 day long journey at Tea Bungalow- the only thorn in our backside. In fact I have reviewed all the properties in Trip Advisor and found out that 'THEY ARE BIASED'...they did not let a bad review of the place go through.
But let me not get into this- just revel in the beauty of the state that is Kerala!!!
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Kerala holiday!
So we arrived in Kochi yesterday..and the jetlite flight wasn't bad at all! But it took most part of the day to just get here and get to the hotel. We are staying at the Trident on the Willingon Island or is it the Wellington Island. The hotel is nice, although yesterday they just weren't in it...and that for hospitality is just not good enough. We were deciding waht to do this morning and spent the best part at the pool- this is not Kerala, it could be anywhere in the world. And that doesn't mean that it's not a change from the routine and relaxing at that!
Anuj and friends went looking for a restaurant specialising in seafood- turns out it was closed and would open only for dinner. Will write about how that goes later- we are going out for a walk to the docks now...
Anuj and friends went looking for a restaurant specialising in seafood- turns out it was closed and would open only for dinner. Will write about how that goes later- we are going out for a walk to the docks now...
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Eat Pray Love
Hey, last sunday the two sunday old ritual was broken...Eat Pray Love- the new Julia Roberts movie (downloaded of course) didn't work! So, we battled with children who didn't want to eat breakfast, frustration at an unexpected problem in sunday morning film show etc etc.
This week I don't really think we will be following the ritual...off to Kerala! Hope the trip goes well..will give a nice account when I get back...am just so bone tired right now..worked late in to the night yeaterday and have been on my feet all day today!
This week I don't really think we will be following the ritual...off to Kerala! Hope the trip goes well..will give a nice account when I get back...am just so bone tired right now..worked late in to the night yeaterday and have been on my feet all day today!
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Too convenient!
It darn well is...too conveneient to just log into blogspot and vent your frustration...but then it is too personal and you think...what the hell! in any case, it's not as if my dearest husband, who claims he "loves" all that I write- is just waiting to see if there's a new post(in fact even after my telling him to read my posts, he hasn't bothered to). By now it must be apparent to anyone who's landed up here, that I must've had a tiff with hubby dearest. Well don't we all?
The Zoya Factor
Reads just like a Mills & Boon...the hero with his "boost-brown eyes", biteable abs etc etc...the plot of the human charm is light and breezy...of course the end is predictable with the lucky charm holding back...but we like predictable, don't we?
Anuja Chauhan should def write another one, but this time an out and out M&B...I shall certainly buy it!
Anuja Chauhan should def write another one, but this time an out and out M&B...I shall certainly buy it!
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The Immigrant
Just finfished reading this book by Manju Kapur. It was a decent read. A bit predictable, but a decent read still. Though I must say, I had to speed read in a lot of places.
An indian dentist in Canada, having found his feet after some struggle, gets an indian wife. It's also because of his failure to perform sexually with white women, much as he wants to. The wife is an educated girl trying to come to terms with her new country, new husband and the new lack of sexuality in their relation. Then a process of both finding what they really want:
the husband- a white woman in bed and a docile indian wife for companionship
the wife- to work, to try and make this country her own on her own conditions and of course,sexual and mental liberation!
Read it - when u finish you favorite book and there's nothing else to read.
An indian dentist in Canada, having found his feet after some struggle, gets an indian wife. It's also because of his failure to perform sexually with white women, much as he wants to. The wife is an educated girl trying to come to terms with her new country, new husband and the new lack of sexuality in their relation. Then a process of both finding what they really want:
the husband- a white woman in bed and a docile indian wife for companionship
the wife- to work, to try and make this country her own on her own conditions and of course,sexual and mental liberation!
Read it - when u finish you favorite book and there's nothing else to read.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Still no fan following!
Sob! Sob!
I have nobody who reads me...even my own husband hasn't read any of my posts!! And this inspite of my telling him every single day, "baby, did you read my post today?"
Actually in a way, it's a bit of a relief. I didn't realise what a personal space I'd made my blog to be, and though I want to delete some of my posts (they are way too personal); I won't really. Because this is my personal diary!
And if anyone thought that personal diaries were not meant to be read are just kidding themselves. Maybe not during their lifetimes, but later they are found and much is made of their secrets if not of their writing skillS.
I am hoping someone will stumble upon my blog, find my writing absolutely irresistible and make me a fabulous offer of either writing a film or a book.
Who knows!!!
I have nobody who reads me...even my own husband hasn't read any of my posts!! And this inspite of my telling him every single day, "baby, did you read my post today?"
Actually in a way, it's a bit of a relief. I didn't realise what a personal space I'd made my blog to be, and though I want to delete some of my posts (they are way too personal); I won't really. Because this is my personal diary!
And if anyone thought that personal diaries were not meant to be read are just kidding themselves. Maybe not during their lifetimes, but later they are found and much is made of their secrets if not of their writing skillS.
I am hoping someone will stumble upon my blog, find my writing absolutely irresistible and make me a fabulous offer of either writing a film or a book.
Who knows!!!
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