The Year 2009

Even though its end of jan now,& I know, its a bit late to write about 2009,

but then there's so much to tell, so much to share...can't even decide where to begin...

don't worry, I won't bore you all with a description of my sometimes mundane, & sometimes exciting life :p

but this blog will feel incomplete to me if I don't write something about my past year,so here goes...

so much happened last year...

I hated some part of it & loved other parts...

made some new friends & broke some close friendships...

met someone I like & others I don't like...

shared some good moments with people I love & shared some bad one's too...

had loads of  "good" days & many "bad" ones...

learned to trust my dear ones with my secrets, feelings, happiness & my problems...

& also learned not to trust anyone blindly, however nice they appear to you...

went through some rough patches...

made some tough decisions...

went through a few turning points...

made more than a few mistakes( with those decisions :p)...

but I don't regret making any of those decisions or having experienced any of those moments...

each one of them was a new experience for me,

if nothing it made me a bit wiser than I was before :)

most important of all, I found two of my best friends this year! :) 

(according to one of them its not possible to have "best friends", since its grammatically incorrect" & I told him to shut up :p)...

I learned to open myself up to them...

where I was guarded, reticent & mistrustful of people before, now i trust myself to be wise in trusting others...

academically this year wasn't too good, neither was it too bad...

personally it rocked!!...literally & figuratively!! ;)

all in all, last year was damn fun, I have some pretty good memories of it :)

I don't know anything about the future, but am sure of one thing though... 

& that is..I am NEVER going to forget the memories I have of 2009..even the bad ones..& I don't regret it! :D

in a way I am glad I lived through it in the way I did, & even though I wish something's had turned out differently..but never mind that, am still hopeful ;)

& so I am looking forward to 2010 with some hope, some fear, some new resolutions(which btw am not promising that I'll try to keep :p) & some expectations...

hope this year rocks too,& turns out better than 2009! ;)

Love actually..!!♥♥

Love is not what you see,not what you think,

not what you hear,not what you achieve,
Its all that you feel in yourself..

You touch your heart,& feel the touch of that person,
You close your eyes,& have the picture of that person,
You take a deep breath,& feel the closeness of that person..

You are not in love when you think you are in love,
You are not in love when you think you want to be in love,
You are not in love just cos you are attracted to the person,
In fact you are in love when you keep telling yourself
that you want to be away from love..

Love is when you die for a glance of that person,
Love is when you are ready to do anything
just for a smile from that person,
Love is when you have tears in your eyes for that person,
Love is when you start praying to god
for the wellbeing of that person,
even if that person's not your future..

Love is not invented,not created,not produced,
But its felt by your heart...
and then you have a reason,
a reason to laugh, cry, smile,
a reason to live life and make it precious.

I don't say fall in love,
But just want to say...
Feel the love if it's there,don't miss on it! :) ♥♥

My Vampire Obsession

Yesterday one of my friends asked me "why are u all gals obsessed with vampires?". I immediately took the defensive ,"I don't know about others, but of course am not! kuch bhi!".…then he said, "but well, then why are you always reading  vampire books ?!" I didn’t have any reply to that so I just said," I ain't, but anyways they are more interesting.." that made him drop the subjct…cos not being an avid reader, he didn’t have any idea whether they were interesting or not..:p

But his question got me thinking .."Am I really obsessed with vampires? No am not..am I??"

well it wasn't the first time someone had said that to me..a fellow book lover Akhileshwari, had accused me about the same several times..& not just about being obsessed with vampires in general, but with being obsessed with Edward Cullen in particular…& maybe there's some truth to it…one of my friend, a "Edward hater" even asked me, what do you actually see in him? He looks so washed out & bloodless in comparison 2 Jacob! (I guess by "him" she actually meant  "Robert Pattinson" & not Edward Cullen, but I kinda love both, so sometimes its difficult to differentiate them :p) she had a point though..in new moon Rob does look washed out & pale in comparison to Jacob..but my mind countered "he's supposed to look like that duh! oh but I do love Jacob in new moon totally, so forget that"..that's how I made her shut her mouth..

But coming back to the point, I guess I am vampire obsessed..& it all started with Stephanie Meyer's  "twilight series"..the way she's portrayed Edward, made me fall in love with him! & how can any gal not fall in love with him? He is every girls dream man & am pretty sure that those who say that they hate him, are only pretending to be different from the  "majority"..of course am not saying I hate Jacob, I love him too, but he's kinda best friend material,& maybe if someone like Edward wouldn’t have been in the story, then he'd be the one I'd have fallen for..but then truth of the matter is Edwards present in the story,& with him there, there's no way I can fall for anyone else!..but then that's just Edward...

so why actually am I obsessed with vampire's in general? …to be truthful, there's no real answer for that..maybe the answer I gave the guy is the truth, or at least a  part of it..vampire books ARE more interesting then majority of the others..I started off with the "twilight series" ,followed by Richelle Mead's "vampire academy series", Cassandra Claire's "mortal instruments series ", Rachel Caine's "Morganville vampires series" & P.C.Cast's "The house of night series" ..& I loved most of them!.. 

I generally love fantasy fiction,& even in that I find vampire fiction more interesting..while searching for new books to read & reading  up book reviews, the 1st thing I look out for is whether there's a vampire in it, so maybe that is a reason..or maybe it's just that I am still searching for an Edward type character in all the books I read,& I instinctively think that there's more chance of finding him in vampire books..or maybe there's no reason at all..:)

But yeah I AM "obsessed" with vampires,& I ain't ashamed of it!! :)

A fun day with friends..

Dated:26 January, 2010


A description of yesterday's happenings..

My day started with getting up late at 10 am(pretty early by my holiday standards), since I'd been awake till 2 am the night before, chatting with friends & watching American pie 7 (might put up my reviews later on). Thing is I was supposed to wake up much earlier, since I had to go to the police commissioners office to renew my passport,& it wouldn't have mattered to me much either, if I hadn't made plans with my friend 2 accompany me there..& it so happened, being the late comer that I always am, he reached  the meeting point well before me!! So I was well prepared to being abused & reprimanded for my ill habit , but like a good friend he didn't even mention anything..:)

So my work at the passport office got done within  15 mins thanks to my moms earlier efforts of bribing the officer with "Idli's" (I know, astounding isn't she? :D)

So then what to do next? The plan was to go bowling at phoenix co's, but a friend phoned with the bad news  that bowling's closed there..so seeing the golden chance that I usually don't get, I put forward the plan to do bowling in fun republic ,Andheri (it being 10 mins from my place :p) but as always, my plans got washed in the drain..:( never mind that.. so finally we decided to meet up in Vashi,& do bowling over there..a very cost effective plan I must say..

(P.S. Vashi is like 1:30 mins from my place..yeah I know am outa my mind..)

We friends then met up at Vashi station, six of us..Hisam ,Nivedita, Safdar,Shabaz & Ayesha..& the others who cancelled out on us, must be regretting their decisions now :p

& What an awesome day it turned out to be!! We started with bowling, & being outa practice, all of us were getting gutters in the first few chances, but then we came back in form(though I must say, I took a very long time :|) but never mind, we didn’t play that bad after all, shabaz won..My score was pretty ok in the end..but the highlight of the day was the doubles air hockey!! Had the best time there..our natural aggressive nature came out in the open..& we even ended up injuring each other's hands!:p  Having won 3 of the 4 games, I was extra happy & energetic :p later we gals, did some shopping there that too within one hour (I see this as a feat worth mentioning :p)

The day ended with us eating junk food..pani puri & sev puri!! :D

By the end we were damn tired, but the day was simply awesome..total paisa Wasool! :)

Yeah..it took me 2 hours to reach back home, but what the heck, doesn't even matter! :)

& I hope such days keep happening again & again..love my friends!:)

P.S. : Today we woke up feeling like crap, with all the over exertion that happened yesterday..

Personally am feeling like a truck went over my body & my hands are like lead anchors..!!

To quote a friend "its like having a hangover without doing any drinking!" :p

Why am I starting this blog?

This is my first blog post, so here goes..

Why am I asking this question to myself? Well actually, I have been meaning to start blogging since more than a year. But being the serial procrastinator that I am, its well obvious why I have been putting it off..

since months I have been meaning to start my own blog, god knows, my friends are witness to it.. Some encouraged me,& I kept brushing them off, giving the usual excuses of "no time" & "no topic to start with". In fact till this morning, I was still giving the same excuse..!:p

& some others blatantly discouraged me saying its hard work, you need to have a good vocab..(I wont name these guys' but hell, I have a better vocab than u for sure! The outcome of reading more than 300 books! & I ain't bragging here :P)

So what's made me to change my mind now?..am I finally gonna stop being lazy,& start working hard? HELL NO!!:p I am not sure, any one on earth can make me do that..:p

& actually there's no specific reason as such, I am just blogging, cause I need to vent out my emotions, ideas & boredom sometimes..oh & not to mention, I love writing & voicing my opinions(even where they aren't needed ;) )

So my blogs just gonna be dealing with the random stuff that goes on in my life, book & movie reviews, opinions on the current & not so current affairs & funny, crazy incidents that happen in my day to day life :) hope you enjoy reading it..feel free to comment..am always up for a debate ;)

Happy blogging!:)