About Choices

At some point of life,you would be asked to make a choice and there will be two windows to choose from.one will offer you more money than the other window.the 
other window will not give you more money option but will have a relatively better 
life.Don't know about your choice.I am always tempted to choose the former one but end up choosing the latter. pointless to say, life has been good.


Talking about some more choices in life.. 
if at some point of life, you are asked to make a choice, between your job and your family, Always choose your family. they are the ones for whom you do job. jobs come and go, family always stays.


Also, at every moment of life, you have two options. to crib with what you have or be happy with what you have. stay happy because if you see people around you,many of them won't be at the stage where you have reached. so be happy about it. also,you are part of competitive world, so stay in the competition and march ahead.you will cover more distance in less time this way. 


On choice between your friends and your girl friend..choose your girl friend.because friends will be your friends no matter what..so you don't have to worry about them and if your girl friend asks you to choose out of two. choose your friends because they will be the ones who will tell you that its time to make a new girl friend ;) 


you have read this post.now to make a choice.to close window after leaving a comment or without leaving a comment.choice is yours. ;) 

Seven Wants - 10 Day You Challenge

Ahem..look who is back to his own blog.staring at edit window for almost two hours and then finally deciding to break the block to complete the you challenge.time to talk about seven wants.my first expression is only seven? but then when i think about it, i am not able to pen down seven things i would WANT.


1. World Tour - It would be nice great awesome to visit all the places which are on your 'places to go' list and it would be equally awesome for Thomas cook or cox & kings to sponsor one.i promise i will blog about my trip and do shameless promotion about them. :) 


2. Time travel - yes, i want an ability to time travel.many a times watching a movie, you see a place.and you wish you were there.exactly at this time i want my superpower to activate and take me there.


3. One week exile every year - I want one week long vacation/exile every year somewhere where there is no signal and there is no internet. it would be great to live stress-free life. no tension. just be with people you like/love. for one week. :) 


4. Credit card free life - I want to live life without any tension of credit. nuff said.good enough money in debit card to buy anything i like so i can spend till last penny and by the time that happens, god brings back the second last day of month so salary is credited and debit card is recharged. ;) 


5. Revamp Wardrobe - I want to revamp my wardrobe every six months.


6. Chitranghda Singh -  but then she is married..so may be in some other life..


7. finish the challenge - you bet. i want to finish this 10 day you challenge.


then there are regulars like world peace, loads of gadgets , happy life, etc etc..

Nine Loves : 10 Day You Challenge

9 Loves

1. Family : There is no debate on this point and everyone loves their family. same goes for me too.and they come on top of my 'love' list.


2. Golden Temple : I totally LOVE it.For those who have been to the golden temple, they would totally agree to this. and for those who haven't been, PLAN and visit this abode of god. the experience is amazing..

4. Home : Home Sweet Home. :) 

5. Maggi : Maggi should be declared national food of India.most of indian population is young/unmarried and survives on what? Right. Maggi.  and this 2-minute noodles actually takes more than 2 minutes to make.Maggi Zindabad thi.maggi zindabad hai. maggi zindabad rahegi. 

6. Madhuri Dixit,Shireen Bhan, Steffi Graf and Chitranghda Singh : Give me one reason to not love these lovelies.i haven't found any. :) 

7. Ipod : Not much of Apple fan but totally love my ipod.I had ipod shuffle 512 mb when this love affair started.now I have an ipod nano 8gb.and am more than happy with it.

8. Tea : I am tea addict.and I can drink tea anytime and everytime of the day.or night.

9. Few Friends: and there are few people in life who I don't have blood relation with but still are part of my life.I don't think they know or will ever know  but for me,they are special.will always be. :) 


I made this wordmaze.you will find all my 9 loves in below pic.especially the 9th love.few of my friends have their names hidden in it. :) how many could you find? 

dan dana dan done... next up is eight fears. :)

The Mind Factory

You wish for something.
You don't get it.
So you fight.
By the time you end your fight, you no longer want it.
and then you get it.
long after you wished for it.
Excitement comes and leaves.
In few moments.
Life moves on.weird weird way how the mind and emotions work.

The Curious Case of Marriage Invitations

Am I the only one who gets marriage invitations by Email or Facebook event invitations? I know your answer. but i have something to say. 

Clearly I am not able to understand this new fashion of marriage invitations the electronic way. During my school and college times, I never received marriage invites e-way. we used to get a card and mithai ka dabba with it to share the happiness and getting a proper invite for the wedding. Then trend changed. Those sweets got replaced by chocolates and dry fruits. But still one would get a wedding card with it.

What is my problem with invite?

No problem certainly. BUT, where is the personal touch? Where is the feel of getting an invite? How will I get into the mood that it’s your wedding and I have to alter my plans and make it to your BIG day? I get the point that now we both are in different cities and you can come and give me the invite but a phone-call? One two-three minute call inviting for a marriage or sharing the plans would add so much value to your email or even face book invite. If I am available as helping hand, trust me, I will ask you for that as well.

Another thing, in last one month, except for checking on mobile, I have hardly been to face book and commented on your status messages or pictures. There if you send me your wedding invite, chances are that I see that invite even after I comment on your honeymoon album pictures. Yes. Quite Possible.

Same goes for email. I check my mail mostly on mobile and all the attachments don’t open. And at times, if you send me the invite on one email address I hardly check, there goes my chance of attending the wedding too.

For the record, I have attended only ONE wedding out of family this year. That of my friend’s sister. And I would have gone to that wedding even without a mail or face book invite. :D

So In short invitation is not compulsory, personal affection is. And if you think its acting pricey and ego issues and all. Aisa hi hoon main !! :P

P.S – Don’t take this post to your heart especially if you sent me an invite and I could not make it to your wedding. You know about corporate life. It’s a bitch. Call me when you have new entry in your family and we will celebrate it then. Lohri. Diwali. Birthdays. Anniversary. :)

BTW What do you feel about such e-invitations ?? :P

CoNgRaTuLaTiOnS !!

Last Week was full of News.. Good ones.. 

Congratulations to Faded Glory for her promotion. 
Congratualations to VR and AD on their engagement.
Congratulations to Simar for getting his degree 
Congratulations to JK for opening new venture.
Congratulations to RS for ROKA.
Congratulations to JK for engagement.
Congratulations to PG for parent's silver wedding anniversary. 

God Bless them all. 

to my friends -> if you did something great and did not share, you missed mention in this congratulatory post. 

p.s - waiting for all of them to invite me and give treat. :P 

p.p.p.s - wait for my self promotion post which will be up next :D 

Reservations? I also want.

Are you from any reserved category? Sadly I am not. I belong to 'general' category and even I aspire to become a government office if ever get a chance. A respectable position, serving the country and securing the future, I don't have a chance.

While I was looking at all the options and ways to serve my country, I just thought to see if I meet all those basic eligibility criteria’s.

 

About me:

Nationality: Indian

Category: General

Aahh... General... should be little difficult but I’ll try to see if I still make it.

If 100 Seats are on offer, as per current constitutional acts, there is a 23 percent reservation for SC/ST, 27 percent to OBC, 20 percent to MBC, 1 percent to scheduled tribes. Total 71 percent which is applicable to all depts. If women reservation bill of 33 percent is passed, total goes to 104. And seats are 100. Therefore centre has to create 4 additional vacancies to consider all quotas and give EQUAL opportunity to everyone. Yeah, general category is waiting if they can compete for any post. The answer is NO. If it’s not a central govt. vacancy, then add to that some additional reservations to families of freedom fighters, families of ex-servicemen, region based quotas, religion based quotas and management quotas.

Even if I studied well and completed my graduation with good marks, I am not eligible to serve my country, why? Because I belong to General Category and unfortunately, we don't have any quota right. I remember losing out on seat in good college to someone whose rank was way below then mine but he got the seat because of some 'quota'.

My take on Women Reservation Bill: I don’t understand why the reservation is required? If at all reservation is required, it should be only at the building block level. For anyone under -privileged right to education is must, so if anything to be considered, reserve some seats for all the castes so that everyone gets education. Post matriculation, everyone should be counted on merit. Everyone’s hard work should pay. Why should someone deserving lose out to reservations? I have seen people having big cars and coming from rich families take need-based scholarships while in college. NOT FAIR..!! But you can't do anything. Why? Coz you are general category and they are certified quota people. It is disturbing and demotivating as well. I might not be aware if there is but any link to proper justification on why the bill is required and how it will help India grow will be appreciated. Please share. All I know is that, if the bill is passed, all the leaders get their wives, daughters, nieces, aunties into the parliament and one big family drama will be shot in parliament every 5 years.

P. S - When I make friends, I don't follow the quota system. :)

2009 - Free Flowing Year

Looking back at year gone,some of moments which made this year , a year to remember because

- SO MANY Friends got committed..engaged..married..OMG feel.yes yes i am still single and now you don't make that funny face :D

- I spent the first half of 2009 in Mumbai, then moved to Gurgaon for three months.. and last three months in Bangalore.

- I lived the year with very low expectations. helped me lot in dealing with people and stupid things.

- Twitter continued to be one of the awesomest things .met lot of new people. gave face to so many internet friends.and so many of them became good friends.La Cafe APTW, Leopold Cafe Meet,TGIF Meet, Dhaba Meet, City Walk meet..i remember them. :)

- I stayed in one company for whole year. being in IT ,this can be considered as WOW thing :)

- I went to Elephanta Caves, Matheran, Pune, Panchgani, Mahabaleshwar,Sirsa,Jalandhar and Ludhiana in 2009 and all the trips are a great memory.. good times to remember.

- Some beautiful people came in my life.. some beautiful people went away.

- I read some books..some good reads.. some average.. and two states was strictly an OK read. Going to read more books in 2010.i think reading habit is must.

- I learnt good things in terms of my work.by year end i gained good knowledge and increased proficiency in my skill :)

- I got an Ipod Nano and Sennheiser headphones LX80.

- My blog 'Zindagi Live' survived another year.

- Amritsarovar Blog continued with random posts on sikhism.one of the must 'to do' in 2010 is to revive the site back and maintain its blog :)

- special mention to PG for being totally jawdroppingawesomelyfantabulouslysuper girl i know. she inspires me at times.. but i am smart..i dnt get inspired from her which is not good i know. :)

- oh yes.. its a year to remember coz PG gifted me a 'Rockstar' tee.

- this year has been good mix of offline and online world.

- I got my caricature done too. i look super cool in it doing bhangra :P

Cheers to all those who i want to say thank you to,for your presence in life in my 23rd and running 24th chapter of life.if i put down names, i will miss some,so avoiding.but you know who you are.some of you will never read this blog even.. but still.

I dont have many blog friends but FadedGlory and Deranged Insanity, you have been there for whole year. thank you. good to have you as friend in real world as well :)

Thank you everyone who has made me smile..kept me happy..i had good times coz of you, i have this year in my good memories.

Thank you everyone who tried to screw my life, play games with me and my emotions because of you, i have become more strong to face random situations in my life

Thank you to all friends who invited me to your marriages but please now next year hold on with your family plans.. i have to attend some more weddings.. after that..i can visit you guys again to congratulate and meet your juniors :P

Adios 2009

Happy New Year 2010. Hope the next year brings more happiness and prosperity in our lives and make this world a good place to live in,

GOD BLESS ME, YOU, EVERYONE :)

As I Move On..

As I move forward in life..Ithink of the gains and losses i went through while passing different phases of life...be it the super exciting phase of achieving something different, or sharing the wonderful moments with friends or be it staying out of touch with everyone or be it the feeling of loneliness or dejection during recent few months..and this time i come to the conclusion and gains are all mine and losses are all theirs who lost me :)

when i look back at my life many people came [read girls] n life and went but i certainly believe that each one of them was a pleasure to be friends with and you won't find better teacher than them who would give you something to learn after practically experiencing it.

Some of them which i think definitely added to my learnings tab would include the following..!!

1. Not all that glitters is gold.A beautiful look might give you an illusion of beautiful heart inside but its not always true.. and same hold true for the opposite..a beautiful heart or a beautiful mind may not always be portrayed by a beautiful face..so you should be smart enough to understand the person..i guess my mistakes in understanding this phrase has made me a better human.

2. Friendship is not love - Thats one thing that i dont think i learnt but definitely learnt that you should be friends and should care for each other but not turn so good friends that the other person starts thinking that you are in love wid him/her..it brings in very difficult situation and the position where making a choice b/w frenship n relationship comes up....understand ur limits.. or be very clear about these things at every step.

3. I may be wrong here but i always feel while moving away from anyone, you are answerable to some of basic questions one wud have while you are going.. and you should nice enough to atleast clear all those doubts . I've some questions to ask to some of my 'Friends' [atleast from my side]and they still are unanswered..!!

4. Believe in God - A complete rockstar he is.I dont understand how he manages my life atleast.. he ll bring all the people in my life one by one.. and second one wud only enter once first one is taking time to leave....! awesome.. i feel who so ever comes in my life gives me some of the wonderful moments to cherish and some of not so good moments.. which make me more stronger for the next time..!!


having true friends on whom you can rely on anytime/everytime is sitting in a comfort zone and that feeling is awesome..!! i can count my comfort zone on one finger.. and i am not naming anyone here.. but i guess having that circle of 2-3 friends is more than enough for me in today's state. a post dedicated to my real life friends and my twitter aka online circle coming soon on that note :D

Long times this post rested in my drafts but finally i post it.. :)

happy reading..

A New Chapter Starts

As i enter 24th chapter in life, i am just wondering how one day can totally change the way you look at life... from 23 year to 24 in one day and suddenly parents start thinking the kid is now more mature..more sensible.. more responsible.. am still the same.. irresponsible.. careless..mature..umm dnt really know.. some say i am, some disapprove this fact. but one thing i definitely know,this is one of the crucial years in life.
some of the things i think, i might implement in my life and sharing it here to keep reminding it to myself
1.Learn to Say NO.. There have been times, i have disturbed my own life just by saying yes to some people which i could have clearly avoided..so more frequent 'NO' in times to come.
2.people call me internet addict and i agree to them for some reasons but i have had some amazing times in my life just coz of this social media and have made some fantastic people as my friends.going forward, i have decided to use my social media addiction for more good and use it as knowledge bank than just a social media usage.
3.Not to take people for granted.i trust people very easily. be good to me and get me going anywhere.going forward this rule doesn't applies :-)
4.Be expressive. if i like something, i am saying it.if i dislike anything,i am saying that too.i think i have missed some amazing opportunities in life again by not expressing interest but just waiting for best to happen and things to come to me themselves.
5.Those who missed my birthday.i need to forget theirs :) ofcourse this is lame.. but some times it is good exercise

I wish

I wish

1. i was able to express myself freely over here. i stop myself many a times expressing things here for a simple reason that even if i write.. hardly anyone is goin to bother abt it.. so let it be inside and fade away..!! 

2. i was able to ignore some people in my life. some people simply have too much of my thinking space covered, not actually required.

3. i could take credit of others work which i think is not right thing to do. i ve seen people around me taking credit of all the work done and get aappreciation. 

4. i was able to maintain my daily balance of food and sleep.

5. i was able to say to some of my frenz.. where were you when i really wanted to talk to you? where were you when it was time for me to say something? where were you when i had loads to say and was looking for someone to just listen....

6. i was able to update this blog daily.. but now i am thinking to just shut up and close this post....

still have loads in mind.. but just dont want to spill it over here.. peace..!!  

Dil aur Dimaag

Dil keh raha hai shaam ko 7 baje se kuch to likh.. Dimag keh raha hai.. kahe ko pakayega.. chod na..! 

This is exactly what has been goin on almost every time i logon to blogger to express my views..i think to write on something but then taking into account the impact it might have on anyone.. leaves me nowhere. this month has been quite a mixed one for me so far.. nothing exceptional coming my way but then again.. there isnt anything i am sorry about.

one thing i have to believe and accept is the fact that am living in complete feminist world and people around me have the first preference for other gender. no offences to anyone but i hardly find anyone who doesn't falls for other sex and maintains the balance of life in tough and easy situations..

Dil ka thought::

in last few days, i have become fan of Gujjus.. be it people or food.. i love both of em.. and the Dhokla they make.. out of this world.. punjabi add ghee or butter in everything they make and gujju's make everything sweet.. 

Dimag ka thought::

being in mumbai i have experienced the 'fast' mode of life..i mean life is so fast here that you actually dont get time to stop and think about it at any moment..for me, it has been little hard to adjust coz of few reasons.. one m toooo busy with work..two, i dnt really have a great friend circle and three those who are here, we ve nt been able to catch up coz of BUSY and FAST life of mumbai...!!  hope to catch some friends in coming week.. *if i dnt go back home*

DIL and DIMAG ka thought:

"People value you as per their own convenience" 

I dont think i need to write anything else in it.. says all..!! :) 

Dil ka thought :

Jitne bhi dosto se dostana toot gya hai.. sab ko ek ek sms karke unka haal chaal pucha jaaye..aur pta kare ki unhe hum yaad bhi hain ya bhool gye... *bt i guess this would take me back to all those times which i think i dont want to remember again.* 

Dimag ka thought :

See the time and chup kar ke so jao.. its close to 0000 hours and have to get up at 5 in the morning.. 

ciao..!!