Best Bits

I am so excited that I am going back home. Looking back this one year, here are some best experiences, might call it miniscule milestones as well :).


Know A-B-C of Backpacking.

Cook decent meals.

Pick good movies online.

Visit to my dream city of venice.

Understand Scottish accent.

Hattrick Europe Yatras.

Hiked 13 miles in 4.5 hrs.

Learnt Advanced Embroidery.

Posed for 100 odd single snaps in Amsterdam flower garden.

Going Green-Using Cycle to commute to Office.

Gallop Double Chocolate Muffins in no time.

Make snowman-Never seen snow before this:).

Caught by railway Police in Italy for having lost the ticket when there was less than an hour to catch flight to UK.

Seen Mini &Mickey in Disneyland.

Enjoyed Awesome View of Paris from Eiffel Tower.

Hated taking Support calls during Fun Trip.

Google Chat whole day in office - most of the days:)

List goes on.....On the whole it was an exciting leg of a journey called life:)

Revelation

Fact: I am true.
Gossip: I am the famous.

Fact: I am useful.
Gossip: I am Interesting.

F: I am good.
G: I am not always bad.

F: I make Journals and Publications.
G: I make Headlines and sell Magazines.

F:I am based on Science.
G: I am based on Character.

F:I am believed and Respected.
G:I am most sought after.

F:I am authenticated.
G:I need no Proof.

F: I am being learnt.
G: I am being talked about.

F:I note the speed of light.
G:I travel more than speed of light.

F:I make statistics
G:I make stories

F:I am never denied .
G:I am always welcomed .

F:I rule the mind.
G:I rule the tongue.

F:I am always remembered.
G: oops....I vanish with time.

Slow Poison

I am getting increasingly annoyed at the reality shows broadcasted and the controversies they raise.

Either a set of people are held in a house for three weeks without any communication to outside world or sent to live in remote Island and filmed.There is a whirlpool of controversies surrounding each of this programme and morning newspapers craving for the headlines.

I dont understand what fun people get in watching such shows.Neither it is informative nor interesting.Its sheer bullying,biting the back, unneccesary arguments and raising the row of sensitive topics like racism,ethinicity and cultures.

Its very obvious that when 15 -20 people from different situations and different backgrounds meet there will be difference of opinions, likes and dislikes, grouping and clashes.Some funny people truly follow all the episodes and there is a awful lot of other programmes associated with it like psycologial ananlyzes of minds inside the house, best of the bits and other junks.

I used to feel the same for soaps back home, hour after hour of continous glycerine glory aimed at kindling emotions as though they were intended to empower women,but it was all crap and you can predict the plot of the story well before uptp 3-6months or somtimes the entire serial.

To my horror I find here some daily soaps have been there for more than 8-10 years , one of the few things that unite two generations who have otherwise grown a lot apart.

I feel movies are much better coz, even if its worse you just waste maximum of three hours.

Are we running short of ideas here or the media want us to become dumb heads rather than eggheads???

A Matter of Perspective

Few people carve a niche in what they do not because of just talent or ability many a times due to their character too.
I happened to read abt Thomas Edison recently, and this incident made a mark in my mind.

He was 67 yrs old and his youthful days of experiments and findings have passed by.His laboratorywas virtually destroyed in a big blaze and not much could be secured.His son franctically searched for him in the fire, but much to his suprise saw his father rather calmly admiring the fire.

Next morning when his workers were disgusted about the event,he consoled them saying, there is a great value in the disaster.'All our mistakes have been burnt up.We can start afresh now:)'.
A month or so later he delivered his first phonograph, the best of his achievements.

Well, it was another news to me that he was the first person to have a patent of about 1000 inventions, Not just electric bulb.When he was asked abt his experinece of inventing bulb he told, I' learnt 101 ways of how not to make a bulb'!!

Truth or Dare!!

I love caricatures and I feel they depict the 'real funny side' of you..atleast thats what caricaturist claim...

When I had been to Italy I tried my hand out at gettin myself caricatured!!!..I was so excited and since I paid a hefty 20 euros, I righteoulsy expected it to be quite like me!!

When I have too much expectations about a stuff, it always end in a great mishap and so did this!!!......after a gruelling 10 min 'statue pose',least i expected was to see the pic and not to have the slightest inkling that it was me....

adding fuel to the fire, the caricaturist next to him was charging only 10 euros for the same job...grrrrrrrrr!!!

If I take this home, I have to undergo the ignominy of explaining it to everyone that its 'me'...I am thinking of framing it labeled with my name....to avoid anyone speculating coz someone with great creativity might say it looks like step sister of cindrella!!

well its ok ..coz once before when i went to windsor castle(official residence of queen elizabeth II) I dressed like a princess and took a pic and gave my mom.....she proudly giggled that I had a aristrocratic look..so two sides of same coin!!!

'Objects in the mirror are very different from what you want them to appear'...

Whoz the Owner?

Commercial I recently enjoyed on T.V :

When We buy a car,

we buy the obligation to choose the best to make us proud,

we buy the quest to fit the best of accesssories,

we buy the neccessity to feed it with petrol whatever the price is,

we buy the compulsion to clean it regularly,

we buy the fondness to travel more miles than required,

we buy the impulse to compare it with other's car

So, Who's Incharge in this relationship??

Food for Thought!!

When you are single and 4500 miles from home, parents, friends and relatives you really need a a big hook to pull you away from monster of boredom, esp during weekends.

Atleast I needed:)

After three trips around europe and not missing a tourist attraction in UK ,I was not able to save my soul cribbing from solitude. Oh! Did I forget to tell that I had already tried the regular experiments of being glued to T.V , watching movies on internet ,trying out receipes of disaster.

Suprsingly One day couple of weeks bfr Christmas, when I was busy scanning through the best christmas offers for electronic and clothing items on the High street, I was handed out a leaflet of mass prayer in a catholic church in town center.

I went to chruch the next day out of curiosity to know what happens in a mass to and also to make my sunday morning more meaningful.

First time in this sleepy small town, mostly consisting of senior citizens I could see people in some decent numbers. Otherwise my usual site would be broad roads with trees and greenary everywhere, just one or two humans walking their dogs.

Now being a regular chruch goer,I have got a different perception of life, seeing world as my extended family and praying for someone whom I havent met .I have made some real good freinds too, just that they are 40 or 45 years elder to me:):)...well its a diffrent kinda experience and I seem to enjoy it.

After a year here, when I told my friends that I might be leaving this place for good ,everyone felt bad and One was quick to give me some grandmotherly advice.

She told me that the only one thing which will come along with me wherever I go is 'Whatever I grow inside myself' .

She was more quicker to ask ' what I grow in me'??I was smart enough to evade answering telling 'that seems to be a million dollar question' to me ,but the truth is I didnt know the answer.

Then she told me 'whatever it is, never grow bitterness or sorrow'.

I felt that sometimes its the most easiet questions that we dont know the answer for!!

Atleast I wish these words keep ringing in my mind forever!!!