2010 has passed and now its 2011. Its been a great year for me both in personal and professional front. I am gonna pen them down so that I cherish these moments always.
* Visited Tirupati temple for the first time after marriage. Kalyana utsav was a great sight to watch.
* Got a super duper incentive from my company Cognizant for my good consistant performance.
* Got my first ever job promotion. My happiness knew no bounds.
* Recieved the Star award for my contribution to my practise unit. I almost cried :)Felt good actually great to get this award :)
* I now have an external certification done for my skills.
* Visited 3 new countries; Singapore, Thailand & malaysia. Awesome amazing trip. I think I can be a great tour planner.
* Celebrated my first wedding anniversary. :)
* Met the new born babies of my friends :)
* I joined Accenture.
* We faced the first flood situation in our house. One of the worst nightmare.
* We finally made our minds to invest in some property in Bangalore. :) Wise decision.
* Was very happy for sis when she n her son went to US :)
* Spent loads of money in shopping :)
* Visited lot of new eatries joints and restaurants.
* I was done with my car loan :) Now I get a lil extra money for spending :)
Wasnt that an exciting list of things that happend? I hope the year 2011 brings in more n more great moments to cherish :)
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Monday, December 28, 2009
An evening not to be forgotten!
February 9th - An evening not to be forgotten.
Tring tring ... tring tring..
Pals: Hey Jo... how u doin?
Jo: M good.. U gals comin right??
Pals: Yes Jo, the tickets are booked.. We are coming by the KPN travels..9 o clock bus from madiwala..
Jo: ohh good good.. Come soon.. I am waiting.. BTW have u got the bouquets??
Pals: Yes Jo, Its all ordered and will be delivered by 4PM.. So apeksha will be getting it ..
Jo: Ok good.. So guys get down in Nagercoil.. Ask the driver to drop u there..Morning around 6 o clock u will across some village.. and then u will see mountains at one end and lot of windmills everywer... So from there its another 30mins journey... and u girls get ready to get down.. ok va?
Pals: Yes Jo.. Will call u for any info..
Jo: Ok girls.. cya soon.. happy journey... Takecare
Pals: cyaaaaaa
Wow.. I am so excited.. Coz its my best buddy Joe's wedding.. And I am goin all the way to Nagercoil to attend her wedding..I am jus waiting for the D day! Feb 11th :)
A week before her weddin.. We girls decided to be her bridesmaid.. We all went hunting for similar saris . So many showrooms we visited.. Finally in one of the showroom we liked one sari and we asked them to make 5 such saris and give us.. He said he would give in 3 days time and we all were very happy about it..
I was damn excited coz for the first time I am goin to be the bridesmaid :) Have seen them in movies, in real when I was abroad.. They look so nice and pretty.. All of them wearin the same clothes and holding a similar bouquet and always with the Bride.. And the best thing is, U get to click a lot of snaps :) Which I jus love sooo very much!
Since we 5 girls decided to be the bridesmaid.. we had decided upon the sari which all of us would be wearing.. the bouqets which we would be holding and also the bouqet which the Bride would be holding..We had placed orders for flowers and we got them all ready on the day of our travelling.. It was beautifully packed in a huge box, and care was taken such that flowers remain fresh :)
Feb 9th 7:30 PM
Apeksha, Pranati and Myself started off from home towards bommanahalli KPN travels office to board our bus scheduled at 8:45 PM. We reached the travels office at 7:45 PM itself.. which is one hour in advance. I went to the booking counter and enquired about the bus. He said the bus is yet to come.. Its expected arrival time is 8 : 30 or so.. We will inform u guys wen the bus is here.. Dont worry!
Since we were travelling by KPN for the first time, we were a lil more alert.. as we hadnt known anything about the tour and also we were travelling to nagercoil for the first time.. So we did everythin possible not to miss the bus and be on time at the venue and also we dint want anything to go wrong.. Coz we were the VIP guests for the wedding and also we were the ones who were carrying the bouqets and other things which our Bride Joe very much wanted :)
Sitting on the empty seats at the corner of the long waiting hall at the KPN office was so boring.. So we girls took out our cameras and clicked few pics.. We thought we could put all these photos togther and make a beautiful album of Joes wedding memories! The time was 8:15 Pm.. The secutity guard there announces the arrival of some bus.. Language unknown.. cudnt understand anything he was saying.. I know tamil.. but still I couldnt make out what he was shouting! We went to him and asked him,is this the bus for nagercoil? He said.. no.. u r bus is yet to come will inform u wen it is there.. We came back to our seats and started chit chatting.. time was passing by... Now it was 9:15 PM.. We were all worried as to why the bus has been delayed.. We went to the enquiry counter and asked him.. When will the bus to trivandrum arrive?
Office guy: The bus has already left !
Shocked, frustrated, irritated, tensed, angry.. I guess one could see varieties of expressions on our faces..
Me: What ??? What did u say?? The bus already left?? How is that posisble?? We are seated here frm the last 1 hour and wen we asked u.. U said the bus hadnt come.. now how can u say that the bus has already left? [With all gussa .. anger.. frustration ...
Office guy: I dont know anything.. Go and ask the security guy.. He was supposed to inform you right.. Go and ask him..
I in the meanwhile went to Apeksha and pranati and told them that the bus had already left .. All of us were shocked.. We dint know what to do ?? but we dint loose hopes..
All three of us attacked the office counter..
Me: When did the bus leave?
Office guy: It left at 8: 45 PM
All of us: how the hell did the bus leave without boarding us into it.. We have been waiting fro so long.. u guys never announced anything.. This is really bad..
Office guy: We have shouted thrice..may be u girls were in ur own world that u dint realize..
Apeksha: Oh yes!!! if you scream a name in some alien language how should we understand.. That old man.. the so called security guys .. we have gone to him and asked if our bus has arrived.. he always kept on saying its not come yet..So how do u expect us to board the bus.. We are travelling in KPN for the first time ?N we dint know that it wud be so horrifying if we dint dint know your language..
The arugument continues.... Each of us raising each's voice.. The office guys were horrible.. They were abusing us in alien languages.. and infact they stopped listening to us after a while and they got busy with their work.. It was as if we were atlking to wall.
Pallavi: Can u stop the bus? Therez no point arguing to find out whose mistake it is.. can u do somethin to stop the bus.. coz we have to board thebus and we have to be there in nagercoil 2,rw at any cost.. So tell me what can u do to stop the bus..
Office guy: No nothing.. We cant stop the bus...
Pallavi: Why ?? Why so?? The bus has left jus now right .. it might have reached electronic city only Coz therz too much traffic today.. U guys call the driver and stop the bus. We will take a taxi n reach there..
Office guy: No we cant do that.. I do not have drivers mobile number.. N we cant stop the bus... U girls book your ticket for 2mrw!
saying this, he turned towards his other customers and compleetly ignored us..
In the mean while, we asked pranati to stop some taxi.. some guy who could take us to some distance..
Pallavi [in her broken tamil + english]: Can you please do something to stop the bus.. If u dont have the drivers number somebdoy else should have.. why dont u call them and find out the drivers number ... U r jus wasting time by ignoring.. [ All loud and furious] The people there are looking at 3 crazy girls who are shouting at top of their voices.. and none of them speak tamil ...
Office guy: Ok wait.. Lemme call my boss..
He so hesitantly picks up the phone.. dials somebody else number and starts conversing in tamil. The first 2mins he talks all nonsense & then I remind him to come to the point.. Now he starts explaining the situation to that guy.. No idea what that guy told, but this fellow was in deep thought. For next 3- 4 mins there was no conversation at all.
Pallavi: Hello!!! dont waste time.. find the number and call back the driver n stop the bus..
Office guy: Mam... we do not have the number. The bus cannot be stopped. Why dont u guys take a bus to madurai and travel to nagercoil from there..
Pallavi: Madurai? why madurai.. I dont want to go there.. Our seats are booked in this bus.. so u stop this bus so that we go...
Office guy: No mam.. we cant stop the bus. If u want we can book u tickets to Madurai. Thats all! & again he ignored us..
Pallavi: Can u call some passenger from the bus.. I remember u guys take the mobile number of the passenger. so call one of the passenger and then we can speak to driver..
Office guy: No that cannot be done.. madam u go to madurai.. or u leave the place.. we cant help u .. its ur mistake that u missed the bus..Please allow us to work .. Do not disturb us..
All angry.. almost about to throw his computer.. Will u listen.. u dont have to call them.. give the number.. I will call to them n speak to them.. u dont have to waste ur money calling them.. I will make the call.. now please give the number..
Office guy: Ignoring..
Pallavi repeats the same thing 10 times.. now almost screaming.. and jus about to bang him..
Office guy: Ok wait .. lets see if I can give u the number..
He takes 5 mins to search.. Finally he said "ok mam take down this number.. 99 .800.. 92..."
Pallavi: Hello.. thats my number.. give me sombody else's number..
Office guy : ok.. so he gives me somebody else number.
In the mean while pranati had managed to stop a taxi.. n he is waiting for us.
tring tring tring..
Girl: Hello
Pallavi: Hey can u please give the mobile to the driver.... i want to talk to him..
Girl: Hello.. whose this.. why do u want to talk to the driver.. whats happening.. [All scared]
Pallavi: Hey we missed our bus.. n we want the driver to stop the bus smewer.. so can u please pass the phone to him..
Girl: Ok ok.. will do that
Sub driver: Hello... [ all in tamil]
Pallavi in her butler tamil : Sir, we are 3 girls.. missed our bus from bommanahalli.. can u please stop the bus?? we wil come by taxi n board the bus..
Sub driver: Where are u now??
Pallavi : Electronics city
Sub driver: ok we are almost reachin Hosur.. u guys can come quickly?? we will wait only for 10 mins.. u come quick..
Pallavi: Ok sir thank u sir.. we are on the way.. please wait sir.. dont go..
Sub driver: ok ok come soon..
Actually the driver hardly understood wat I was speaking.. So we were still in confusion if he would actually stop the bus..
But anyway we asked the taxi driver to take us till Hosur. He was another sample.. he demanded Rs 1000.. He started off tellin his own stories.. We said ok u start now.. lets reach hosur.. and in the mean while we can bargain.. finally he said Rs 800.. no penny less than that ...
we all boarded the car and we were travelling.. he was ok ok driver.. not driving too fast nor too slow.. some places here n there we did get stuck in trafiic....
In the mean while we tried calling the girl in the bus.. Her mobile was switched off... We were all worried.. Wat will happen now.. its more than 10 minutes.. the bus will not stop and we would be stranded in mid way.. neither here nor there...
we kept on trying her number so many times..
Suddenly, I started getting a call on my cell phone from some unknown number..
Pallavi: Hellooo
Unknown caller: Mam.. ************** [ tamil]
Pallavi [ Sigh] : Oh ok.. so its teh driver calling..
Sir, wer r u? We are jus appraching Hosur.. We will be there in 2 mins..
Driver: Wer have u reached so far?? We are waiting near the Hosur KPN office .. Come soon.. Will wait only for 5 more mins..
Pallavi: Yes sir, We are on our way and we will reach there soon sir.. Sir please wait sir.. Dont go leaving us behind.. We are coming fast ..
Driver : Ok ok..
After 5 mins we get a call again..
Driver: Hello madam.. wer are u?? Its more than 5 mins now... All passengers are waiting.. We will have to start the bus now.. come soon..
Pallavi: Sir, we reached Hosur.. jus near the fly over.. searching for the KPN office.. will be there sir 2 minutes..
Driver: Wat ma.. from that time u r tellin 2 mins 2 mins.. but u dont seem to be reachin..Wer r u now??
Pallavi: Sir jus 2 mins sir.. we will be there..
Driver : Ok ma.. come soon.. We are gonna start from here.. u better come by 2 mins. otherwise we will leave..
Almost at the end of 2 mins.. We spot our bus and we ask the Taxi driver to stop the bus and we start running towards our bus with the luggages..
We paid Rs500 bucks to the taxi driver. But he was not happy with it.. He tried to stop us and started an argument. We kinda told him for 25kms or so u r charging Rs800 which is way too much.. Rs 500 is more than enough.. Do not create a scene for no reason.. He still was fighting.. We gave him another Rs100 extra and jus ran towards the bus..
We faced the wrath of the fellow passengers in the bus.. But we apologised to them all.. We stood and we loudly said sorry to all of them for the delay.. and also narrated them the actual incident wat had happened..One of the passengers even supported us telling he had seen us all in the KPN office bommanahalli wen the bus had come there..
Finally we all felt a huge relief.. Yes we got the bus! and we are attending Joes wedding :)
That was one helluva journey.. A journey which I can never forget in my life :)
Tring tring ... tring tring..
Pals: Hey Jo... how u doin?
Jo: M good.. U gals comin right??
Pals: Yes Jo, the tickets are booked.. We are coming by the KPN travels..9 o clock bus from madiwala..
Jo: ohh good good.. Come soon.. I am waiting.. BTW have u got the bouquets??
Pals: Yes Jo, Its all ordered and will be delivered by 4PM.. So apeksha will be getting it ..
Jo: Ok good.. So guys get down in Nagercoil.. Ask the driver to drop u there..Morning around 6 o clock u will across some village.. and then u will see mountains at one end and lot of windmills everywer... So from there its another 30mins journey... and u girls get ready to get down.. ok va?
Pals: Yes Jo.. Will call u for any info..
Jo: Ok girls.. cya soon.. happy journey... Takecare
Pals: cyaaaaaa
Wow.. I am so excited.. Coz its my best buddy Joe's wedding.. And I am goin all the way to Nagercoil to attend her wedding..I am jus waiting for the D day! Feb 11th :)
A week before her weddin.. We girls decided to be her bridesmaid.. We all went hunting for similar saris . So many showrooms we visited.. Finally in one of the showroom we liked one sari and we asked them to make 5 such saris and give us.. He said he would give in 3 days time and we all were very happy about it..
I was damn excited coz for the first time I am goin to be the bridesmaid :) Have seen them in movies, in real when I was abroad.. They look so nice and pretty.. All of them wearin the same clothes and holding a similar bouquet and always with the Bride.. And the best thing is, U get to click a lot of snaps :) Which I jus love sooo very much!
Since we 5 girls decided to be the bridesmaid.. we had decided upon the sari which all of us would be wearing.. the bouqets which we would be holding and also the bouqet which the Bride would be holding..We had placed orders for flowers and we got them all ready on the day of our travelling.. It was beautifully packed in a huge box, and care was taken such that flowers remain fresh :)
Feb 9th 7:30 PM
Apeksha, Pranati and Myself started off from home towards bommanahalli KPN travels office to board our bus scheduled at 8:45 PM. We reached the travels office at 7:45 PM itself.. which is one hour in advance. I went to the booking counter and enquired about the bus. He said the bus is yet to come.. Its expected arrival time is 8 : 30 or so.. We will inform u guys wen the bus is here.. Dont worry!
Since we were travelling by KPN for the first time, we were a lil more alert.. as we hadnt known anything about the tour and also we were travelling to nagercoil for the first time.. So we did everythin possible not to miss the bus and be on time at the venue and also we dint want anything to go wrong.. Coz we were the VIP guests for the wedding and also we were the ones who were carrying the bouqets and other things which our Bride Joe very much wanted :)
Sitting on the empty seats at the corner of the long waiting hall at the KPN office was so boring.. So we girls took out our cameras and clicked few pics.. We thought we could put all these photos togther and make a beautiful album of Joes wedding memories! The time was 8:15 Pm.. The secutity guard there announces the arrival of some bus.. Language unknown.. cudnt understand anything he was saying.. I know tamil.. but still I couldnt make out what he was shouting! We went to him and asked him,is this the bus for nagercoil? He said.. no.. u r bus is yet to come will inform u wen it is there.. We came back to our seats and started chit chatting.. time was passing by... Now it was 9:15 PM.. We were all worried as to why the bus has been delayed.. We went to the enquiry counter and asked him.. When will the bus to trivandrum arrive?
Office guy: The bus has already left !
Shocked, frustrated, irritated, tensed, angry.. I guess one could see varieties of expressions on our faces..
Me: What ??? What did u say?? The bus already left?? How is that posisble?? We are seated here frm the last 1 hour and wen we asked u.. U said the bus hadnt come.. now how can u say that the bus has already left? [With all gussa .. anger.. frustration ...
Office guy: I dont know anything.. Go and ask the security guy.. He was supposed to inform you right.. Go and ask him..
I in the meanwhile went to Apeksha and pranati and told them that the bus had already left .. All of us were shocked.. We dint know what to do ?? but we dint loose hopes..
All three of us attacked the office counter..
Me: When did the bus leave?
Office guy: It left at 8: 45 PM
All of us: how the hell did the bus leave without boarding us into it.. We have been waiting fro so long.. u guys never announced anything.. This is really bad..
Office guy: We have shouted thrice..may be u girls were in ur own world that u dint realize..
Apeksha: Oh yes!!! if you scream a name in some alien language how should we understand.. That old man.. the so called security guys .. we have gone to him and asked if our bus has arrived.. he always kept on saying its not come yet..So how do u expect us to board the bus.. We are travelling in KPN for the first time ?N we dint know that it wud be so horrifying if we dint dint know your language..
The arugument continues.... Each of us raising each's voice.. The office guys were horrible.. They were abusing us in alien languages.. and infact they stopped listening to us after a while and they got busy with their work.. It was as if we were atlking to wall.
Pallavi: Can u stop the bus? Therez no point arguing to find out whose mistake it is.. can u do somethin to stop the bus.. coz we have to board thebus and we have to be there in nagercoil 2,rw at any cost.. So tell me what can u do to stop the bus..
Office guy: No nothing.. We cant stop the bus...
Pallavi: Why ?? Why so?? The bus has left jus now right .. it might have reached electronic city only Coz therz too much traffic today.. U guys call the driver and stop the bus. We will take a taxi n reach there..
Office guy: No we cant do that.. I do not have drivers mobile number.. N we cant stop the bus... U girls book your ticket for 2mrw!
saying this, he turned towards his other customers and compleetly ignored us..
In the mean while, we asked pranati to stop some taxi.. some guy who could take us to some distance..
Pallavi [in her broken tamil + english]: Can you please do something to stop the bus.. If u dont have the drivers number somebdoy else should have.. why dont u call them and find out the drivers number ... U r jus wasting time by ignoring.. [ All loud and furious] The people there are looking at 3 crazy girls who are shouting at top of their voices.. and none of them speak tamil ...
Office guy: Ok wait.. Lemme call my boss..
He so hesitantly picks up the phone.. dials somebody else number and starts conversing in tamil. The first 2mins he talks all nonsense & then I remind him to come to the point.. Now he starts explaining the situation to that guy.. No idea what that guy told, but this fellow was in deep thought. For next 3- 4 mins there was no conversation at all.
Pallavi: Hello!!! dont waste time.. find the number and call back the driver n stop the bus..
Office guy: Mam... we do not have the number. The bus cannot be stopped. Why dont u guys take a bus to madurai and travel to nagercoil from there..
Pallavi: Madurai? why madurai.. I dont want to go there.. Our seats are booked in this bus.. so u stop this bus so that we go...
Office guy: No mam.. we cant stop the bus. If u want we can book u tickets to Madurai. Thats all! & again he ignored us..
Pallavi: Can u call some passenger from the bus.. I remember u guys take the mobile number of the passenger. so call one of the passenger and then we can speak to driver..
Office guy: No that cannot be done.. madam u go to madurai.. or u leave the place.. we cant help u .. its ur mistake that u missed the bus..Please allow us to work .. Do not disturb us..
All angry.. almost about to throw his computer.. Will u listen.. u dont have to call them.. give the number.. I will call to them n speak to them.. u dont have to waste ur money calling them.. I will make the call.. now please give the number..
Office guy: Ignoring..
Pallavi repeats the same thing 10 times.. now almost screaming.. and jus about to bang him..
Office guy: Ok wait .. lets see if I can give u the number..
He takes 5 mins to search.. Finally he said "ok mam take down this number.. 99 .800.. 92..."
Pallavi: Hello.. thats my number.. give me sombody else's number..
Office guy : ok.. so he gives me somebody else number.
In the mean while pranati had managed to stop a taxi.. n he is waiting for us.
tring tring tring..
Girl: Hello
Pallavi: Hey can u please give the mobile to the driver.... i want to talk to him..
Girl: Hello.. whose this.. why do u want to talk to the driver.. whats happening.. [All scared]
Pallavi: Hey we missed our bus.. n we want the driver to stop the bus smewer.. so can u please pass the phone to him..
Girl: Ok ok.. will do that
Sub driver: Hello... [ all in tamil]
Pallavi in her butler tamil : Sir, we are 3 girls.. missed our bus from bommanahalli.. can u please stop the bus?? we wil come by taxi n board the bus..
Sub driver: Where are u now??
Pallavi : Electronics city
Sub driver: ok we are almost reachin Hosur.. u guys can come quickly?? we will wait only for 10 mins.. u come quick..
Pallavi: Ok sir thank u sir.. we are on the way.. please wait sir.. dont go..
Sub driver: ok ok come soon..
Actually the driver hardly understood wat I was speaking.. So we were still in confusion if he would actually stop the bus..
But anyway we asked the taxi driver to take us till Hosur. He was another sample.. he demanded Rs 1000.. He started off tellin his own stories.. We said ok u start now.. lets reach hosur.. and in the mean while we can bargain.. finally he said Rs 800.. no penny less than that ...
we all boarded the car and we were travelling.. he was ok ok driver.. not driving too fast nor too slow.. some places here n there we did get stuck in trafiic....
In the mean while we tried calling the girl in the bus.. Her mobile was switched off... We were all worried.. Wat will happen now.. its more than 10 minutes.. the bus will not stop and we would be stranded in mid way.. neither here nor there...
we kept on trying her number so many times..
Suddenly, I started getting a call on my cell phone from some unknown number..
Pallavi: Hellooo
Unknown caller: Mam.. ************** [ tamil]
Pallavi [ Sigh] : Oh ok.. so its teh driver calling..
Sir, wer r u? We are jus appraching Hosur.. We will be there in 2 mins..
Driver: Wer have u reached so far?? We are waiting near the Hosur KPN office .. Come soon.. Will wait only for 5 more mins..
Pallavi: Yes sir, We are on our way and we will reach there soon sir.. Sir please wait sir.. Dont go leaving us behind.. We are coming fast ..
Driver : Ok ok..
After 5 mins we get a call again..
Driver: Hello madam.. wer are u?? Its more than 5 mins now... All passengers are waiting.. We will have to start the bus now.. come soon..
Pallavi: Sir, we reached Hosur.. jus near the fly over.. searching for the KPN office.. will be there sir 2 minutes..
Driver: Wat ma.. from that time u r tellin 2 mins 2 mins.. but u dont seem to be reachin..Wer r u now??
Pallavi: Sir jus 2 mins sir.. we will be there..
Driver : Ok ma.. come soon.. We are gonna start from here.. u better come by 2 mins. otherwise we will leave..
Almost at the end of 2 mins.. We spot our bus and we ask the Taxi driver to stop the bus and we start running towards our bus with the luggages..
We paid Rs500 bucks to the taxi driver. But he was not happy with it.. He tried to stop us and started an argument. We kinda told him for 25kms or so u r charging Rs800 which is way too much.. Rs 500 is more than enough.. Do not create a scene for no reason.. He still was fighting.. We gave him another Rs100 extra and jus ran towards the bus..
We faced the wrath of the fellow passengers in the bus.. But we apologised to them all.. We stood and we loudly said sorry to all of them for the delay.. and also narrated them the actual incident wat had happened..One of the passengers even supported us telling he had seen us all in the KPN office bommanahalli wen the bus had come there..
Finally we all felt a huge relief.. Yes we got the bus! and we are attending Joes wedding :)
That was one helluva journey.. A journey which I can never forget in my life :)
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Lambi train chain ki kahaani!
Adventurous Wedding Part I : Lambi train chain ki kahaani
Marriages are made in heaven! :D :D :D
Well! as other people, even I had this thought in my mind.. Whether to go for a love marriage or an arranged marriage.. Love marriage would have been no problem coz my parents were all ready for it except for a condition that the guy should be a brahmin... N in my friends circle there were so many good candidates who were satisfying lot of points except that they werent brahmins.. :) N I was not the type of girl who can go against her parents.. If my parents arent happy then I very well wont commit such a crime :) So, I decided, I would go for an arranged marriage.. Parents khush.. family khush.. society khush.. everybody khush khush :) Happyyyz familyyyz :)
I agreed for an arranged marriage but with a condition that I should be allowed to meet the guy more than once.. I should feel he is right for me only then I will agree.. and nobody can force my decision.. With all these terms and conditions my parents finally started searching for a suitable proposal.. So many proposals came and went jus like the waves on the sea shore... Not any I was happy with.. It so happened that the one my parents liked...I never liked them.. n the one I liked.. the horoscopes never matched.. n so n so..Days were passing.. phone calls to parents were increasin.. my sisters and parents mail box was flooded with proposal mails.. At one point I thought looks like the brahmin community guys are becoming extinct.. No good guys at all.. Where have all they gone :)
Then finally one day on 27th March ,when I had been to Mlore for a vacation, this guy had come along with his uncles and relatives to see me... Typical arranged marriage types.. The guy comes to the girls house to see her.. they talk and then they decide .. somethin of that sort.. and they were ok with the proposal.. n next aftr two weeks I again go to Mlore.. and this time, the guy comes along with his parents. His parents were so very sweet and they were like all ok with the marriage etc. But till then I was still in a confusion if he is the one whom I have to marry? And then again aftr 2 weeks, my parents had decided to go to Hyderabad to visit the guys home and meet their family... And they insisted me as well to join them :)
so now,starts the fimly touch!
Friday the 24th April we had our train to hyd from yashwantpur station bangalore which is around 20kms or so from my sis's place of residence.. Coincidently Rakesh[ the groom presently my hubby]was also travellin in the same train.. The train was scheduled to depart at 8:50 PM. We left from home at 6 in the evening. We took a taxi to reach the station. Our bad luck it was raining cats and dogs. And as usual the blore traffic had come to a stand still.. Uptil 8 o clk we guys were near forum, koramangala area i.e we could hardly travel 6kms all this while :( Such was the situation. In the mean while we tried finding out the railway station number from jus dial. we tried calling the yashwantpur Rly stn and we requested them to delay the train by some time.. they said at max 10mins.. but not more than that.
We had a super cool taxi driver. He tried his best to drive fast n reach us to our destination.. Alas, at that time he showed his stupidity. Around 8 40 PM wen we were somewhere near palace grounds, this guy turns the car left and takes it to a pertrol bunk to fill Air.. N all of us become so furios n started shouting at him.. and the petrol bunk guy.. woh to kamaal ka tha! [ he was fantastic] He instead of fillin the air, removed all the air and later something happend n he wasnt able to fill the air properly :( It was 8 45 by then.. Later somehow he managed to fill some air.. He had to, otherwise he would have got a good punch from all of us. :D
Then once again we started our journey.. we reached some place from wer yashwantpur was jus 3kms.. but once again the traffic had come to a standstill n none of the vehicles were moving. Finally we managed to take a u turn and somehow reached the station at 9:10 PM. In the mean while Rakesh was calling up every now n then n askin our whereabouts? He had managed to talk to the engine driver and stop the train for sometime. But aftr 9 o clk , the engine driver said u need to go to the station master and get his permission incase u want me to stop for more time.To talk to the station master he had to go to platform 1 which is way too far from platfrm 5. Incase he does so, he too would have missed the train. The train started moving..Yes the train started moving and we were at the entrance of the railway station then. Rakesh could do nothing but pull the chain . Yes, he pulled the train chain. N the train stopped!!!!
In the mean while we were running towards platform 5. That was a long distance to cover.. N all of us managed to board the train. I dint know why the train had stopped. There were lot of people boarding the train. And wen we were moving from one coach to the other looking for our reserved seats, the police stopped us and asked Rakesh if he pulled the chain? He assumed it was jus to pay a fine and he said 'yes'.And then they illtreated him.. They pulled him with his collar and were dragging him to the station. All of us were shocked. I asked my parents to move ahead. I got down from the train and went along with him and tried persuading the police. They were jus not bothered to listen. Finally the train started moving! we pleaded the police to leave us and told them we wud pay the fine and then we went running to board the train. Jab we met style :d
There we were sitting in the train.. and me the great was laughin laughing n laughing endlessly at all that happened.. I am speechless to describe his bravery! I have thousands of reasons to say an Yes to this guy! He was the ultimate hero that day ! He said" Agar shuruaat hi aisa hai.. to pata nahin agey kya kya hoga" No idea What other things are stored in future in order to get married to u :)
Our wedding story started off in an adventurous way.. aage aage dekhte hain kya kya hoga.. :)
Marriages are made in heaven! :D :D :D
Well! as other people, even I had this thought in my mind.. Whether to go for a love marriage or an arranged marriage.. Love marriage would have been no problem coz my parents were all ready for it except for a condition that the guy should be a brahmin... N in my friends circle there were so many good candidates who were satisfying lot of points except that they werent brahmins.. :) N I was not the type of girl who can go against her parents.. If my parents arent happy then I very well wont commit such a crime :) So, I decided, I would go for an arranged marriage.. Parents khush.. family khush.. society khush.. everybody khush khush :) Happyyyz familyyyz :)
I agreed for an arranged marriage but with a condition that I should be allowed to meet the guy more than once.. I should feel he is right for me only then I will agree.. and nobody can force my decision.. With all these terms and conditions my parents finally started searching for a suitable proposal.. So many proposals came and went jus like the waves on the sea shore... Not any I was happy with.. It so happened that the one my parents liked...I never liked them.. n the one I liked.. the horoscopes never matched.. n so n so..Days were passing.. phone calls to parents were increasin.. my sisters and parents mail box was flooded with proposal mails.. At one point I thought looks like the brahmin community guys are becoming extinct.. No good guys at all.. Where have all they gone :)
Then finally one day on 27th March ,when I had been to Mlore for a vacation, this guy had come along with his uncles and relatives to see me... Typical arranged marriage types.. The guy comes to the girls house to see her.. they talk and then they decide .. somethin of that sort.. and they were ok with the proposal.. n next aftr two weeks I again go to Mlore.. and this time, the guy comes along with his parents. His parents were so very sweet and they were like all ok with the marriage etc. But till then I was still in a confusion if he is the one whom I have to marry? And then again aftr 2 weeks, my parents had decided to go to Hyderabad to visit the guys home and meet their family... And they insisted me as well to join them :)
so now,starts the fimly touch!
Friday the 24th April we had our train to hyd from yashwantpur station bangalore which is around 20kms or so from my sis's place of residence.. Coincidently Rakesh[ the groom presently my hubby]was also travellin in the same train.. The train was scheduled to depart at 8:50 PM. We left from home at 6 in the evening. We took a taxi to reach the station. Our bad luck it was raining cats and dogs. And as usual the blore traffic had come to a stand still.. Uptil 8 o clk we guys were near forum, koramangala area i.e we could hardly travel 6kms all this while :( Such was the situation. In the mean while we tried finding out the railway station number from jus dial. we tried calling the yashwantpur Rly stn and we requested them to delay the train by some time.. they said at max 10mins.. but not more than that.
We had a super cool taxi driver. He tried his best to drive fast n reach us to our destination.. Alas, at that time he showed his stupidity. Around 8 40 PM wen we were somewhere near palace grounds, this guy turns the car left and takes it to a pertrol bunk to fill Air.. N all of us become so furios n started shouting at him.. and the petrol bunk guy.. woh to kamaal ka tha! [ he was fantastic] He instead of fillin the air, removed all the air and later something happend n he wasnt able to fill the air properly :( It was 8 45 by then.. Later somehow he managed to fill some air.. He had to, otherwise he would have got a good punch from all of us. :D
Then once again we started our journey.. we reached some place from wer yashwantpur was jus 3kms.. but once again the traffic had come to a standstill n none of the vehicles were moving. Finally we managed to take a u turn and somehow reached the station at 9:10 PM. In the mean while Rakesh was calling up every now n then n askin our whereabouts? He had managed to talk to the engine driver and stop the train for sometime. But aftr 9 o clk , the engine driver said u need to go to the station master and get his permission incase u want me to stop for more time.To talk to the station master he had to go to platform 1 which is way too far from platfrm 5. Incase he does so, he too would have missed the train. The train started moving..Yes the train started moving and we were at the entrance of the railway station then. Rakesh could do nothing but pull the chain . Yes, he pulled the train chain. N the train stopped!!!!
In the mean while we were running towards platform 5. That was a long distance to cover.. N all of us managed to board the train. I dint know why the train had stopped. There were lot of people boarding the train. And wen we were moving from one coach to the other looking for our reserved seats, the police stopped us and asked Rakesh if he pulled the chain? He assumed it was jus to pay a fine and he said 'yes'.And then they illtreated him.. They pulled him with his collar and were dragging him to the station. All of us were shocked. I asked my parents to move ahead. I got down from the train and went along with him and tried persuading the police. They were jus not bothered to listen. Finally the train started moving! we pleaded the police to leave us and told them we wud pay the fine and then we went running to board the train. Jab we met style :d
There we were sitting in the train.. and me the great was laughin laughing n laughing endlessly at all that happened.. I am speechless to describe his bravery! I have thousands of reasons to say an Yes to this guy! He was the ultimate hero that day ! He said" Agar shuruaat hi aisa hai.. to pata nahin agey kya kya hoga" No idea What other things are stored in future in order to get married to u :)
Our wedding story started off in an adventurous way.. aage aage dekhte hain kya kya hoga.. :)
Friday, October 16, 2009
Mixed thoughts!
Its been quite a while since I have blogged.. Ever since I have started blogging I have always been thinking as to 'what to blog'? N this 'what to blog about?' question has made me go crazy! But the thing is, in my mind there are so many things which I want to pen down.. be it the movies.. serials.. traffic..food.. office .. etc.. but somehow I am not doin it.. Well I wont blame that I do not have the time! coz somehow I seriously dislike that statement..I do not agree with the statement. therez nothing that one doesnt have time.. Its jus that one is not interested in doin it.. If I have the interest then whatever wherever however I would do it.. Coz I want to do it..I have to do it.. I would somehow take the time out of my schedule.. But If do not have the interest, then I wont do it n tell' I was busy ' or vague excuses like 'I dint have the time'..
I was recently reading an article that the Police department is planning to introduce 'Know ur neighbour' programme.. Goin down the memory lane.. During my childhood days I was quite famous with my neighbours.. Not only me any kids for that matter.. I knew everybody who was living in our apartments as well as neighbouring apartments and the stores.. But now things have changed.. Once I go back home I dont have anybody to talk to.. I see the walls of other houses next to mine.. No people seen.. N everybody seems to be busy in their own world.. I do not know who my neighbours are.. where they are from.. what they do.. nothing at all..Its a concreate jungle around with no people to talk... M glad that the police have come up with such an initiative which is planned to get down the crime rate...I hope at least by this i shall get to know my neighbours.. :)
This thot has been running around in my mind since quite long.. I have travelled in so many Autos.. But not even once I have come across teh same auto I have travlled before.. Quite strange.. N that too if I had taken the Auto from the same place where I generally take. I still havnet come across the same auto driver... This is very strange and I really wonder why so ?
Talking about the traffic.. I always pray to God that,please provide some extra patience to the taxi drivers and auto wallahs in Bangalore... Where there is a traffic jam.. these guys add in and make the situation more worser that we jus dont know when will we be cleared out of the situation.They do not have the patience to stand n wait for the traffic to clear.. they jus over take all other vehicles on the left and move to the right side of the road thus creating a total Havoc!
At the same timeI admire the power of a traffic inspector has.. One raised hand and all vehicles be it BMW, Mercedes, Audi etc come to a standstill.. Now thats wat I call Super Power!
I am lately following the serial Uttaran which comes in Colours channel at 10PM.. Its the lead character's wedding day now[today].. N from the last one month this wedding day related episodes are being telecasted .. More than a month n still the wedding day goin on.. I am happy that after so many episodes finally baaraat has reached the girls home.. I am still in a hope that atleast by next week they will finish the weddin :) and move to the next day.. Never knew wedding could be so longggg.....
Thinking of writing a blog about my wedding and the things happend related to it... There have been many strange/funny things which has happened.... hope to write them all down someday!
Recently I have developed a likin towards cadburys ad.. They have come up with a new one.. whom do u want to see smiling this Diwali?? smethin like that... Is it ur teacher who is always serious in the class? is it the post man who brings u good news always.. Is it the pizza delievry guy, who, inspite of it being a festival is working hard and delivering ur needs.. etc. Though its a short Ad it is very inspiring.. I must say Indian Ads are very very creative and colourful.
See, i told na.. so many thoughts in mind, dint know what to pen down and now loook I have completed my blog :) Many more thougts yet to be penned down.. Will cya soon.. till then Cheerio:)
I was recently reading an article that the Police department is planning to introduce 'Know ur neighbour' programme.. Goin down the memory lane.. During my childhood days I was quite famous with my neighbours.. Not only me any kids for that matter.. I knew everybody who was living in our apartments as well as neighbouring apartments and the stores.. But now things have changed.. Once I go back home I dont have anybody to talk to.. I see the walls of other houses next to mine.. No people seen.. N everybody seems to be busy in their own world.. I do not know who my neighbours are.. where they are from.. what they do.. nothing at all..Its a concreate jungle around with no people to talk... M glad that the police have come up with such an initiative which is planned to get down the crime rate...I hope at least by this i shall get to know my neighbours.. :)
This thot has been running around in my mind since quite long.. I have travelled in so many Autos.. But not even once I have come across teh same auto I have travlled before.. Quite strange.. N that too if I had taken the Auto from the same place where I generally take. I still havnet come across the same auto driver... This is very strange and I really wonder why so ?
Talking about the traffic.. I always pray to God that,please provide some extra patience to the taxi drivers and auto wallahs in Bangalore... Where there is a traffic jam.. these guys add in and make the situation more worser that we jus dont know when will we be cleared out of the situation.They do not have the patience to stand n wait for the traffic to clear.. they jus over take all other vehicles on the left and move to the right side of the road thus creating a total Havoc!
At the same timeI admire the power of a traffic inspector has.. One raised hand and all vehicles be it BMW, Mercedes, Audi etc come to a standstill.. Now thats wat I call Super Power!
I am lately following the serial Uttaran which comes in Colours channel at 10PM.. Its the lead character's wedding day now[today].. N from the last one month this wedding day related episodes are being telecasted .. More than a month n still the wedding day goin on.. I am happy that after so many episodes finally baaraat has reached the girls home.. I am still in a hope that atleast by next week they will finish the weddin :) and move to the next day.. Never knew wedding could be so longggg.....
Thinking of writing a blog about my wedding and the things happend related to it... There have been many strange/funny things which has happened.... hope to write them all down someday!
Recently I have developed a likin towards cadburys ad.. They have come up with a new one.. whom do u want to see smiling this Diwali?? smethin like that... Is it ur teacher who is always serious in the class? is it the post man who brings u good news always.. Is it the pizza delievry guy, who, inspite of it being a festival is working hard and delivering ur needs.. etc. Though its a short Ad it is very inspiring.. I must say Indian Ads are very very creative and colourful.
See, i told na.. so many thoughts in mind, dint know what to pen down and now loook I have completed my blog :) Many more thougts yet to be penned down.. Will cya soon.. till then Cheerio:)
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
All about Chalaans :-(
It all started after me gifting a new car for myself!
I was new to driving then, but I quickly picked up the pace and I became a confident driver soon.
Some saturday year 2007:
Thank god its a weekend. We 4 friends decided to party and around 8:30PM we were ready to go to Fuga. I was driving the car then. We crossed the Richmond signal and came straight to take a right turn to castle street to reach Fuga. There was a small circle were in I had to take a right turn. the signal turned green and I took the right turn and entered Castle street. The traffic inspector came in front of my car and tried to stop my car. Only then I realized that it was a one way.. Until u take the turn the board is not visible but later u cud see the board. Since he had stopped my car right in the middle of the road and there was lot of traffic passin by I decided to park my car side and then get down and talk to them.. when i tried to park it aside I don't know what the Police thot of me.. he came right in front of my car again and it was as good as huggin my car and tryin to stop it. I was tellin him Sir, I shall park it aside.. he was like Stop the car.. I say u stop the car.. Well i stopped.. my friends got down and started the discussion with the traffic inspector.. The inspector put a fine of Rs400 for Rash driving and no entry violation. A rs100 fine was enuf.. but he assumed I was trying to elope and he risked his life comin in front of my car , he was scared to death that he filed one more case 'Rash driving'. We paid the fine of Rs400 and then took a U turn and reached Fuga.. Well that evening I was very disappointed .. Not coz I paid the fine but coz I paid the fine for Rash driving which I wasnt :(
July 2009
My wedding was fixed and I was in Mlore with my car for the wedding preparations.. I had to distribute invitations to my friend so I took the car and went all alone drivin .. Somewhere near Chilimbi in Mlore the police stopped my vehicle.. N this time I was like What the heck! I havnt broken any rule.. That's a city road no signal no one way .. then why am I stopped.. The traffic police handed over a printout to me and said mam u were over speeding! I was like over speeding??? I was jus in 50 km / hour speed.. He says mam there is a sign there and it says the speed limit is 30 km/hr. I was like I haven't seen any sign board.. He said mam u can go back n look it fr urself.. I dint have that patience to go n check.. I tried persuading him to leave me as i am new t o Mlore driving and I hadn't seen .. But the police was unshaken with my words.. At the end I paid Rs 300 as a fine.
Around 6 PM in the evening I went to a shoppin mall there and while I was comin out I happened to meet my friend there. N this guy is one helluva guy.. A true businessman with lot of contacts in the city. I casually told him that I was fined for over speeding. N i started laughing.. He asked me where was it.. I told him the location.. He quickly took his cell phone dialled a number and know what he was talkin to the Traffic police head.. He asked them to repay my fine back to me.. I was like shocked.. He said its ok Pallavi.. jus go to the police station aftr 7 PM and ask for this Inspector and tell him I sent u .. I was like its ok man i paid the fine thats ok.. now why simply goin to Police station n all..He said thats fine.. Its my order u go there meet the police and take ur money back n come.. I jus obeyed his orders.
As soon as I went the Constable was like madam.. why have u come here.. u have already paid the fine right? So its ok u can go home.. I was like No I need to talk to the Inspector.. He shyly showed me the way.. I went there wished the inspector took my friends name .. n he was like yes mam! take ur seat.. he asked the constable to get the fine book.. He told me.. 'Madam, in my entire service history I have never seen any police giving the fine money back, urs is a rare case.. Take the money mam.. I shall handle this case myself.. I took the money and quickly ran out...
Thats when I realized the power of influence..
August 2009:
I once again was caught by traffic police for jumping the signal.. This was one funny incident.. I had gone to south end circle to drop my grand parents at my uncles place and was on my way back to office which is at old airport road..Reached the trinity cirlce.. had to take a u turn there to hit the airport road.. But for my surprise the u turn was not allowed any more there.. May be coz of the metro work.. no idea.. N I tried to figure out wer was the next right turn available so that I cud take the right and reach this road.. to some far distance I cudnt see any right turn nor did I see any vehicles moving in that road.. The signal turned green and with all courage I took a U turn :) along with me there was one biker as well who took the U turn.. The road was completely deserted.. I was driving in a great speed.. N then came a left turn.. as in the road itself turns left.. n I happily took the left only to be stopped by a cop to tell I jumped the signal.. There were no vehicles behind me nor front.. n i hadn't seen any sign boards.The cop asked me to pay Rs 100 and I paid it quietly coz it was my fault. In the mean while the cop had stopped the biker as well.. But the biker was hesitant to pay the fine.. He was trying to persuade the Cop.. As a matter of fact he told the cop I dint know that therez no free left and I hadn't seen the signal turn red.. I followed the car blindly.. So the cop said.. ya u followed the car.. the lady in the car paid her fine.. now its ur turn to pay.. His face was worth watchin :)
So many fines n all for different reasons.. I jus hope I dnt have to pay any more fines :)
I was new to driving then, but I quickly picked up the pace and I became a confident driver soon.
Some saturday year 2007:
Thank god its a weekend. We 4 friends decided to party and around 8:30PM we were ready to go to Fuga. I was driving the car then. We crossed the Richmond signal and came straight to take a right turn to castle street to reach Fuga. There was a small circle were in I had to take a right turn. the signal turned green and I took the right turn and entered Castle street. The traffic inspector came in front of my car and tried to stop my car. Only then I realized that it was a one way.. Until u take the turn the board is not visible but later u cud see the board. Since he had stopped my car right in the middle of the road and there was lot of traffic passin by I decided to park my car side and then get down and talk to them.. when i tried to park it aside I don't know what the Police thot of me.. he came right in front of my car again and it was as good as huggin my car and tryin to stop it. I was tellin him Sir, I shall park it aside.. he was like Stop the car.. I say u stop the car.. Well i stopped.. my friends got down and started the discussion with the traffic inspector.. The inspector put a fine of Rs400 for Rash driving and no entry violation. A rs100 fine was enuf.. but he assumed I was trying to elope and he risked his life comin in front of my car , he was scared to death that he filed one more case 'Rash driving'. We paid the fine of Rs400 and then took a U turn and reached Fuga.. Well that evening I was very disappointed .. Not coz I paid the fine but coz I paid the fine for Rash driving which I wasnt :(
July 2009
My wedding was fixed and I was in Mlore with my car for the wedding preparations.. I had to distribute invitations to my friend so I took the car and went all alone drivin .. Somewhere near Chilimbi in Mlore the police stopped my vehicle.. N this time I was like What the heck! I havnt broken any rule.. That's a city road no signal no one way .. then why am I stopped.. The traffic police handed over a printout to me and said mam u were over speeding! I was like over speeding??? I was jus in 50 km / hour speed.. He says mam there is a sign there and it says the speed limit is 30 km/hr. I was like I haven't seen any sign board.. He said mam u can go back n look it fr urself.. I dint have that patience to go n check.. I tried persuading him to leave me as i am new t o Mlore driving and I hadn't seen .. But the police was unshaken with my words.. At the end I paid Rs 300 as a fine.
Around 6 PM in the evening I went to a shoppin mall there and while I was comin out I happened to meet my friend there. N this guy is one helluva guy.. A true businessman with lot of contacts in the city. I casually told him that I was fined for over speeding. N i started laughing.. He asked me where was it.. I told him the location.. He quickly took his cell phone dialled a number and know what he was talkin to the Traffic police head.. He asked them to repay my fine back to me.. I was like shocked.. He said its ok Pallavi.. jus go to the police station aftr 7 PM and ask for this Inspector and tell him I sent u .. I was like its ok man i paid the fine thats ok.. now why simply goin to Police station n all..He said thats fine.. Its my order u go there meet the police and take ur money back n come.. I jus obeyed his orders.
As soon as I went the Constable was like madam.. why have u come here.. u have already paid the fine right? So its ok u can go home.. I was like No I need to talk to the Inspector.. He shyly showed me the way.. I went there wished the inspector took my friends name .. n he was like yes mam! take ur seat.. he asked the constable to get the fine book.. He told me.. 'Madam, in my entire service history I have never seen any police giving the fine money back, urs is a rare case.. Take the money mam.. I shall handle this case myself.. I took the money and quickly ran out...
Thats when I realized the power of influence..
August 2009:
I once again was caught by traffic police for jumping the signal.. This was one funny incident.. I had gone to south end circle to drop my grand parents at my uncles place and was on my way back to office which is at old airport road..Reached the trinity cirlce.. had to take a u turn there to hit the airport road.. But for my surprise the u turn was not allowed any more there.. May be coz of the metro work.. no idea.. N I tried to figure out wer was the next right turn available so that I cud take the right and reach this road.. to some far distance I cudnt see any right turn nor did I see any vehicles moving in that road.. The signal turned green and with all courage I took a U turn :) along with me there was one biker as well who took the U turn.. The road was completely deserted.. I was driving in a great speed.. N then came a left turn.. as in the road itself turns left.. n I happily took the left only to be stopped by a cop to tell I jumped the signal.. There were no vehicles behind me nor front.. n i hadn't seen any sign boards.The cop asked me to pay Rs 100 and I paid it quietly coz it was my fault. In the mean while the cop had stopped the biker as well.. But the biker was hesitant to pay the fine.. He was trying to persuade the Cop.. As a matter of fact he told the cop I dint know that therez no free left and I hadn't seen the signal turn red.. I followed the car blindly.. So the cop said.. ya u followed the car.. the lady in the car paid her fine.. now its ur turn to pay.. His face was worth watchin :)
So many fines n all for different reasons.. I jus hope I dnt have to pay any more fines :)
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Wake up Media!
With the growth in the number of TV News channel and the fight for higher TRP's, Today's media is always striving for hot sensational news/ gossips.. They not only telecast news from around the world but are also good at creating sensational news/ gossips such that they have viewers glued to the TV sets.
Recently , there was this news channel which had the latest news on the reality show ' Iss jungle se mujhe bachao' . N the news was about the model Negar showing off her skin in a bikini wear.They wear showing the clippings of the show repeatedly every now n then. They had even managed to organise a panel of distinguished people to have a talk on this.
I was like 'God help the Media' Even Sony TV where this reality show is telecasted, would not have shown importance to Negar n her 2 piece costume as much as it was showed in the News channel. It was aired for more than 3 hrs continuously.. I dint even know who Negar was.. Now i get to know who she is.. whats her family background.. which movies / albums she has worked for and any other gossips related to her..
My hubby and I had never watched this show.. but on that day we actually kinda started following that show to know what is it all about.. Thanks to the Media! No idea if these are publicity stunts to increase the popularity of both the reality show and the News channel.. or was news channel really bothered about the Indian culture and was against such acts in televisions.. If they were really against it, then, I think.. shows like Splitsvilla, ForceIndia, model hunt etc should be banned from being telecasted. And also the news channel should be banned for telecasting such clippings repeatedly. Now where's the culture/tradition gone???
This is not just one incident.. I remember a year back I was all alone at home and was browsing all the TV channels. When my attention was caught by this news channel Aaj Tak which had some graphs about Aishwarya Rai.. I was curious enough to know what were these graph all about. one of the graph was.. Aishwarys Rai was weighing 60kgs when she started her career. Then in the next 5 years her body weight increased to 75kgs. This was the time she was in love with Salman khan. May be she was very happy in love and she has gained weight. Another 2 years later her weight has reduced by 3kgs.. This is when she had a break up with Salman.. Another year later she has again increased her weight by so many kgs.. Coz this time she has found the new love of her life Vivek oberai... N the news go on...
God! why don't these media people just leave them alone... Just becoz they are a model/actresses should they just stop eating?? Give them the freedom for having any food they want or doing anything they want.. Why bother them so much?? Just leave them alone yaar.. Wake up Media.. This is not the news we guys want to watch..
During my childhood the news was a 15minute show where in we get the latest news around the world. It was short and Crisp. But now I do not have to wait for morning 7o Clock or evening 9 o clock for the news... coz there are so many news channels telecasting world news 24x7. But the quality of news is all deteriorating.
All I can say is 'WAKE UP MEDIA'
Recently , there was this news channel which had the latest news on the reality show ' Iss jungle se mujhe bachao' . N the news was about the model Negar showing off her skin in a bikini wear.They wear showing the clippings of the show repeatedly every now n then. They had even managed to organise a panel of distinguished people to have a talk on this.
I was like 'God help the Media' Even Sony TV where this reality show is telecasted, would not have shown importance to Negar n her 2 piece costume as much as it was showed in the News channel. It was aired for more than 3 hrs continuously.. I dint even know who Negar was.. Now i get to know who she is.. whats her family background.. which movies / albums she has worked for and any other gossips related to her..
My hubby and I had never watched this show.. but on that day we actually kinda started following that show to know what is it all about.. Thanks to the Media! No idea if these are publicity stunts to increase the popularity of both the reality show and the News channel.. or was news channel really bothered about the Indian culture and was against such acts in televisions.. If they were really against it, then, I think.. shows like Splitsvilla, ForceIndia, model hunt etc should be banned from being telecasted. And also the news channel should be banned for telecasting such clippings repeatedly. Now where's the culture/tradition gone???
This is not just one incident.. I remember a year back I was all alone at home and was browsing all the TV channels. When my attention was caught by this news channel Aaj Tak which had some graphs about Aishwarya Rai.. I was curious enough to know what were these graph all about. one of the graph was.. Aishwarys Rai was weighing 60kgs when she started her career. Then in the next 5 years her body weight increased to 75kgs. This was the time she was in love with Salman khan. May be she was very happy in love and she has gained weight. Another 2 years later her weight has reduced by 3kgs.. This is when she had a break up with Salman.. Another year later she has again increased her weight by so many kgs.. Coz this time she has found the new love of her life Vivek oberai... N the news go on...
God! why don't these media people just leave them alone... Just becoz they are a model/actresses should they just stop eating?? Give them the freedom for having any food they want or doing anything they want.. Why bother them so much?? Just leave them alone yaar.. Wake up Media.. This is not the news we guys want to watch..
During my childhood the news was a 15minute show where in we get the latest news around the world. It was short and Crisp. But now I do not have to wait for morning 7o Clock or evening 9 o clock for the news... coz there are so many news channels telecasting world news 24x7. But the quality of news is all deteriorating.
All I can say is 'WAKE UP MEDIA'
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Happy 25th!
It was my 25th Birthday on 20th ... N it was one of the most memorable Bday I ever had. Thanks for all my lovely friends who made it so special.
4 cakes to cut, 25 plus gifts , 100's of wishes through calls, mails, sms's scraps...Man! wat a day it was! Wat else could i ask for! I wish everyday was my birthday.. Its such a special day when u get to hear from people whom u arent in touch with for so many days/months/years. I really had a fabulous day...
Thanks to charan,Virdi, Ankita, Priyanka, Pranati, Chandana for all their efforts in makin me feel special on my bday with their love and ofcourse the gifts :)
4 cakes to cut, 25 plus gifts , 100's of wishes through calls, mails, sms's scraps...Man! wat a day it was! Wat else could i ask for! I wish everyday was my birthday.. Its such a special day when u get to hear from people whom u arent in touch with for so many days/months/years. I really had a fabulous day...
Thanks to charan,Virdi, Ankita, Priyanka, Pranati, Chandana for all their efforts in makin me feel special on my bday with their love and ofcourse the gifts :)
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