Missed the Sunshine!

I can finally wake up to the glorious morning sunshine streaming upon us.. with a sense of purpose and achievement everyday for the next three months! :) After doing the night-shift for the past 3 months, I'm back to the day-shift once again, with Saturday-Sunday off too! :D

Night shift never agreed with me - I was constantly feeling guilty that I wasted my days by sleeping, my health went for a toss, I missed the sunshine so badly etc etc.. but now, I am happy happy again! :)

Not only that.. my favourite months of the year - starting from February to May are here! :) I just love these four months, with the beautiful autumn transcending into green spring, and then gradually the sun increasing its temperature.. and finally my birthday falling on a fine scorching day! :D

I am going to be having more time to do a lot of stuff that I have been wanting to do! And tomorrow, I am making Gaajar ka halwa to celebrate this! :D

Oh, and did I say that I am currently crazily addicted to F.R.I.E.N.D.S as I am watching DVDs of the entire 10 seasons all over again? :) Also, I am going to get a good amount of reading done.. (once I am done with all the 10 seasons, that is. I have only got started on the 5th season right now.) :D

That's about it for now.. will keep you guys posted on what else I'm going to be doing these three months! :)

Toodles!

Huge Writer's Block!

I simply have no idea what to write here anymore!

Firstly, there are way too many things happening in and around my life that even if I were to take the trouble of clicking "New Post" in Blogger and then sit with my hands poised over the keyboard, I wouldn't know where to begin, or what to pen down! Secondly, there is Twitter to reflect thoughts within 140 characters (much easier and lesser pain, I say!), and Facebook to reflect my moods, nice pictures and any and all fun!

So, why would I want to come here and go to the trouble of thinking something witty (I tried to think of an attractive title for this post for a full 5 mins and came up with nothing better than Kaleidoscopes - which by the way, doesn't actually have anything to do with this post!) and then posting it, re-reading it and deleting it so many times as all my posts sound exactly the same to me (I honestly don't even have any idea as to what I wrote about previously anymore!)

You would think a Journalism and International Studies major like me will have something knowledgeable and intellectual and opinionated to tell the world.. But Nope! Zilch! Nada! Nothing!

I still haven't got a hang of how this blogging this works, obviously! Sometimes I feel that I have so much to say that I am almost bursting at the seams if I don't give a detailed account or opinion to somebody! (Mostly my husband bears this pain :P). But when I sit down to write something on at least a few of those things... where the hell are the memories? the details?

So maybe I will continue writing about my boring, fun-less, routine life? Yes.. tat ought to be a good idea!

Someday, I want to write a book...

I know you are saying Ha! Fat Chance! :(

Linear tangents!

My life has this strange way of going in a linear path (actually I'm not sure what "Linear" means, just assuming it might mean something like straight :P), and then suddenly going off in a tangent, or taking a diversion! Which is why I seem to have almost nothing to blog about for quite sometime, and then suddenly there are so many things happening that if I don't pen them down immediately, I may just forget them all...

Not that anything much is happening right now... however, it seems that two whole months without a blog post is too much even for me! So here I am.. taking that vow to blog more frequently for about the nine hundred and fifty sixth time! :P

Nowadays I feel like I am in a time warp (again, I am not exactly sure what this means either). My minutes and days are counted by how many emails I've resolved at work, and how many precious moments I'm getting to spend with my husband.

Since I'm working weekends now, I can barely counts days. Life seems like an endless cycle of waking up, going to work, getting work done, coming back home and sleeping, going back to work the next day morning, and so on and so forth... The weeks.. well.. they are counted as per the week specified at work, i.e. this is Week 40 of the current year, so this is week 40 for me too. :D

Any Work-Life balance left in my life is fast slipping into oblivion, and I sincerely hope this is temporary. There are a lot of interesting things happening in and around my life right now, and I don't want to miss them! Like I want to read the entire "Pretty Little Liars" series, but I just don't have the time anymore!

Precisely because of that reason, I don't really have much else to blog about at the moment. However, let's hope that I wouldn't have to take the vow for a nine hundred and fifty seventh time! :P

Oh I completely forgot! I published a book :P Nothing great really, just published a Kindle edition of our very own Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram, so that Indians living abroad can.. ahem.. benefit!

Ciao!

My busy busy life! :)

A mere 3 months back, this is exactly what I longed for! A fabulous married life with my husband, a comfortable but at the same time challenging job, a schedule which doesn't give me too much free time, lest I start brooding and over-thinking and over-analysing... Now I've got all of it.. except, I don't seem to have the time to blog!

I assumed that once I finished studies and started working, I'll be online throughout the day, and that I'd be able to blog anytime I want to. I was wrong. I barely find time to check my email anymore! Just popped in here to see if there have been any new comments.. ahem.. but of course! As there are few posts and even fewer visitors to my blog, chances of new comments are zilch!

I was about to sign out.. when I decided on the spur of the moment that I am taking the time to blog today! (Even though it's 11:30 P.M in the night!) That wouldn't sound at all unusal to most of you.. but I'm a "early to bed, early to rise" type of girl, and coming from me, this is really surprising! :) Alright.. I'm ranting!

So anyway, a friend asked me today - "Whats happening with your life?" and I replied - "Nothing much". But almost immediately I realised that there are actually loads of things to say about my life - but I barely make sense of it all, because I am just too busy waking up, going to office, coming back and jumping on the bed. Halfway through the week I realise that I really need to spend more time for myself - indulge my interests.. but by the time the weekend rolls in, I am just too tired to care about those interests! Which is why blogging got left out!

Right now I'm in that phase where I love my husband and my awesome married life (really smug, I am)... but am wondering whether marriage has changed me.. hmmm.. not Me so much, but my roles and responsibilities in life. And since I am spent in fulfilling said roles and responsibilities, I barely have time left to do things that I like.. such as learning languages, or an extra course, just pampering myself, blogging, expanding myself as a person! There are soooo many things to do in life out there... Zindagi Toh na Milegi Dobara! :D

Which is why I am braving the night and blogging now.. even though I know fully well that I am required to wake up at 5:30 A.M tomorrow to sweep the portico and draw kolams! Which reminds me that I am supposed to look up and learn new kolams, since I myself am bored of drawing the same 3 or 4 kolams again and again.. let alone worry about what others who see my kolam think!

So my To-Do list keeps increasing day-by-day, but I seem no closer to crossing off anything in it! Oh well, maybe I can tick Blogging today! :) I am trying to organise, but it seems difficult to find time even for that!

Right - Somewhere inside me an alarm bell is ringing, saying that it is Me who needs to use and manage my time more effectively, and ranting isn't solving the problem! I think it might be time now to listen to that voice! I'll see you all soon.. maybe with a list of how many things I've accomplished :P

Oh, and that reminds me - I need to draw up a list of things to do before I die! :D

Cheers! :)

Zindagi na Milegi Dobara!!

When I had plenty of free time, I had nothing to blog about! Now, when I have plenty of things to write about, I seem to have absolutely no time to log in to blogger and actually pen them down! And now that I'm here... I cant figure out where to start! Well... I watched a couple of movies, so maybe reviewing them is a good place to start! :)

So I watched Zindagi na Milegi Dobara today.. and I fell in love with the movie! :) Zoya Akthar has portrayed a  really good and poignant concept that many of us forget to remember in our day to day lives. Accompanied by lively dialogues, peppy songs, brilliant cinematography of the beautiful España, plus my favourite language Spanish, and the movie just bowled me over! :D 

Not to mention Hrithik, Farhan and Abhay, all of whom were brilliant in the movie! :) I loved the Señorita song.. it's still ringing in my ears! And all those adventure parts where they deep-sea dive, paraglide, and run from bulls just make me wanna experience those too! :) This movie somehow really made me realise the value of each and every moment.. Zindagi sach mein na milegi dobara! All in all, this is definitely a must-watch movie, even worth a second watch! :D


And then last week I watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part-2! :D I had been waiting for this movie to come for a long time... especially as I had re-read the entire series this year :) And it was an awesome feeling to watch it in the first weekend of its release! :) The movie did live up to its expectations... especially with all the 3D jazz :) Strangely though, the moment I left the theatre, I forgot everything about the movie!!!

So yeah.. I dont seem to have much to say about this one... but I did enjoy it all the same! :) And I don't even remotely feel that "it all ends". For me, Harry Potter will always be alive - if not through the movies, definitely through the books. I will re-read them at least a gazillion more times, and enjoy it like the first time every time! :D


I want to watch Deiva Thirumagal next.. if I do, maybe I'll write a detailed review here :) If not, I have a million other things to write about! :) 


Cheers! :)