Recently, we had been to Himachal and the trip was no doubt greeeaaat....wish I had the time to write about it. During our visit to Dharamshala, while strolling on the streets and shops around this hilly market, we came across a shop which had cards & wall hangings with words of wisdom and kindness from H.H. The Dalai Lama.. good insights on the ways to look at human emotions & various aspects of life...putting just one of them here.
We can certainly relate to the following thoughts , just apt to describe the kind of life we're living now..
The Paradox of our age -
"We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense;
more knowledge but less judgement;
more medicines but less healthiness.
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back,but have trouble in crossing the street to meet the new neighbours.
We have built more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever,but we have less communication;
We have become long on quantity,but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods but slow digestion;
Tall man but short character;
Steep profits but shallow relationships.
It is a time when there is much in the window, but nothing in the room."
- H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama
- Snow
About Us
- Unleashing Random Thoughts...
- As the name says it, this blog is to unleash those 'sometimes unique' & 'sometimes obvious' random thoughts that come to our minds. And these thougths seem too creative to just let them pass without capturing them coz they may not come to our minds in the same wonderful way again... - Snow and Mermaid
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Happy Women's Day!!
Happy Women's Day to all the Phenomenally Phenomenal Women in the world - tall, short, fat, thin, plump, slim, pretty, smart, beautiful, cheerful, gloomy, ambitious, content, happy, sad, gay, tough, powerful, vulnerable, confident, strong, soft, proud, humble, funny, serious, sassy, naughty , caring, loving and much more!!
"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met." - Farrah Fawcett
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
thought cloud
This is a thought cloud of our blog. Thanks to Navoch for coming out with this thing, but it's still not working as expected I guess... it hasn't scanned the whole blog n hasn't really picked all the words obviously...
It is supposed to pick all the words from the blog and then put them in the form of cloud ...so the words that appear bigger are the words used most number of times and in that order to the smallest ones being the least mentioned...
:( how unfair it has been to me.... It shows Mermy's name sooo big and mine is not seen...So i thought it was being unfair to me coz i'm the one who has written more so far...
then I realized that since i'm the one who writes more I always mention mention mermy here n there and myself as me or I..thats why it doesn't show snow as big!
So next time i'll just write Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow Snow :) so that it's visible and big..
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Unsolicited Advice, Uninvited Comments
One unique thing about India, or probably Asia, is that you get a lot of unsolicited advice and uninvited comments- from people u know, u don't know or haven't seen/met ever before in your life. Snow and I get a lot of them these days. So many that we thought we should dedicate a post to all those advisors.
Mermaid: Some of the advices/ comments that I got to hear in the past month:
From a concerned colleague - "Use this special pink cream - very effective. My wife used it and her skin infection disappeared in a week... No, no, no, no.... Those r not pimples on ur face. That's skin infection."
From a girl in the apartment building - "Apply tulsi everyday - will surely help. Don't mind me saying this ok??"
From a lady at a shop - "Use this Malaysian cream that my sister sells. Its EXCLUSIVE - and will surely work. Your pimples will go away in 3 months. Look at me. I am using it for the past 3 years!! Here, take my number and my sister's too. U can call us anytime, OK?"
From another colleague - "Oh, you've got clear skin". Mermaid - "Clear skin? Where can u see clear skin on my face?" C - "No, except for the pimples yaaa" OKAY!!!
The funny thing is, it's not just my skin that bothers me but also my weight. And although I always think people notice that I've put on so much weight in the past 2-3 years, it seems as if the whole world is conspiring to make me fatter! Nobody gives me any advice - useful or useless - about losing weight. I feel they're all strategizing to make me fatter so they can all look thin...
Snow: My turn to share how the whole world seems to be concerned about me, my weight, my wedding. Since the level of concern has been showing a steep rise over past few months....it's been fun listening to all of them. Following their advices is secondary but listening to them has been fun..so I welcome all the comments n advices.
On weight:
Some people who have seen me straight after 2.5 yrs react real bad. their comments are hard hitting n come out real quick in surprise.
A shocked n highly concerned guest:A relative whom I met before but spoke for the first time immediately saw me n said "what happened to you? U were so good earlier???" a statement like tht from a new person was surprising. What he meant was "Oh u've become so fat" and then when I was going to have tea, he immediately suggested me to go and exercise and told me to play badminton and he was so concerned that he said he'd come with me to play if I need. lol
From Eye Doc: I went for my eye check up and the doc who otherwise talks only business and doesn't talk of anything except for 'eye' said "U've put on lil weight ....i mean not much but lil bit"
From a shopkeeper: Even after gaining weight, I thought I'd find something of my size at this place I'd shop frequently before (when I was thin). The man politely said "These tops are for lil bit thin people". In other words, he was politely saying "fat girl, get out of this place! there's nothing for u here"..hahaha
On marriage:
Some people think that I MUST get married now, some people with their conventional mindset might think i'm even crossing my marriageable age now. So am bombarded with a lot of gyan on the benefits of getting married , why one should marry...what kind of life partner to look for etc etc.. and sometimes i think what irritates few of them is that i just keep listening and i don't reciprocate at all. Atleast am being a good listener :)
A friend at office: Everyday while travelling to n from office, she starts off trying to explain to me about the benefits of marriage, its the right time now etc, and finally ends her gyaan session something like this - " u r pathetic, Can't u make a bf, u don't want to get married, u r not interested in the guys around u...what's wrong with u". she looks out for guys for me, finds out details about them, and even rejects them on my behalf without even bringing me in the picture. she suddenly announces that she rejected somebody for me!! the reason for rejection would be even that the guy's name isn't good enough!! hahahaha. she spots guys at traffic signals or on the road and tries to show me that they're good candidates for me. at the traffic signal???
A very sweet colleague: We never discuss our personal lives with each other, but this sweet guy tells me one day "if u r ever interested in South Indian guys, please let me know. I'll find someone for u" :-D N then he says "but why don't u keep a bindi on ur forehead?" lol
Another colleague: She's in the HR team and so has easy access to people's information. She too tries looking for potential candidates at office..how much they ear, designation n whenever i bump into her..she says 'Hey i saw somebody good for u' ...oh c'mon!
I think people outside keep pestering more than my family... but sometimes when family advices come out, they are quite serious, so don't want to discuss them. This is like a never ending discussion - constant advices from elder bro, suggestions and offers from friends will continue until i decide to get married. Mermy doesn't have to go thru these advices because she's already made the announcement ;)
Apart from people pointing out our "Scope for Improvement", both of us still manage to get some compliments but we are too humble to write about them ;) heeeeeeee
Isn't it wonderful being in this part of the world where people are so genuine in their comments...good or bad ..they just tell us things and continue giving those unsolicited advices and uninvited comments about our lives...
Thanks to all for being kind enough to spare their precious time to discuss our problems and for their kind/ serious/ nasty/funny comments n advices.We dont guarantee we'll take all ur advices ..but we still welcome ur UNSOLICITED advices and comments..it's fun listening to others talking about our life...
Mermaid: Some of the advices/ comments that I got to hear in the past month:
From a concerned colleague - "Use this special pink cream - very effective. My wife used it and her skin infection disappeared in a week... No, no, no, no.... Those r not pimples on ur face. That's skin infection."
From a girl in the apartment building - "Apply tulsi everyday - will surely help. Don't mind me saying this ok??"
From a lady at a shop - "Use this Malaysian cream that my sister sells. Its EXCLUSIVE - and will surely work. Your pimples will go away in 3 months. Look at me. I am using it for the past 3 years!! Here, take my number and my sister's too. U can call us anytime, OK?"
From another colleague - "Oh, you've got clear skin". Mermaid - "Clear skin? Where can u see clear skin on my face?" C - "No, except for the pimples yaaa" OKAY!!!
The funny thing is, it's not just my skin that bothers me but also my weight. And although I always think people notice that I've put on so much weight in the past 2-3 years, it seems as if the whole world is conspiring to make me fatter! Nobody gives me any advice - useful or useless - about losing weight. I feel they're all strategizing to make me fatter so they can all look thin...
Snow: My turn to share how the whole world seems to be concerned about me, my weight, my wedding. Since the level of concern has been showing a steep rise over past few months....it's been fun listening to all of them. Following their advices is secondary but listening to them has been fun..so I welcome all the comments n advices.
On weight:
Some people who have seen me straight after 2.5 yrs react real bad. their comments are hard hitting n come out real quick in surprise.
A shocked n highly concerned guest:A relative whom I met before but spoke for the first time immediately saw me n said "what happened to you? U were so good earlier???" a statement like tht from a new person was surprising. What he meant was "Oh u've become so fat" and then when I was going to have tea, he immediately suggested me to go and exercise and told me to play badminton and he was so concerned that he said he'd come with me to play if I need. lol
From Eye Doc: I went for my eye check up and the doc who otherwise talks only business and doesn't talk of anything except for 'eye' said "U've put on lil weight ....i mean not much but lil bit"
From a shopkeeper: Even after gaining weight, I thought I'd find something of my size at this place I'd shop frequently before (when I was thin). The man politely said "These tops are for lil bit thin people". In other words, he was politely saying "fat girl, get out of this place! there's nothing for u here"..hahaha
On marriage:
Some people think that I MUST get married now, some people with their conventional mindset might think i'm even crossing my marriageable age now. So am bombarded with a lot of gyan on the benefits of getting married , why one should marry...what kind of life partner to look for etc etc.. and sometimes i think what irritates few of them is that i just keep listening and i don't reciprocate at all. Atleast am being a good listener :)
A friend at office: Everyday while travelling to n from office, she starts off trying to explain to me about the benefits of marriage, its the right time now etc, and finally ends her gyaan session something like this - " u r pathetic, Can't u make a bf, u don't want to get married, u r not interested in the guys around u...what's wrong with u". she looks out for guys for me, finds out details about them, and even rejects them on my behalf without even bringing me in the picture. she suddenly announces that she rejected somebody for me!! the reason for rejection would be even that the guy's name isn't good enough!! hahahaha. she spots guys at traffic signals or on the road and tries to show me that they're good candidates for me. at the traffic signal???
A very sweet colleague: We never discuss our personal lives with each other, but this sweet guy tells me one day "if u r ever interested in South Indian guys, please let me know. I'll find someone for u" :-D N then he says "but why don't u keep a bindi on ur forehead?" lol
Another colleague: She's in the HR team and so has easy access to people's information. She too tries looking for potential candidates at office..how much they ear, designation n whenever i bump into her..she says 'Hey i saw somebody good for u' ...oh c'mon!
I think people outside keep pestering more than my family... but sometimes when family advices come out, they are quite serious, so don't want to discuss them. This is like a never ending discussion - constant advices from elder bro, suggestions and offers from friends will continue until i decide to get married. Mermy doesn't have to go thru these advices because she's already made the announcement ;)
Apart from people pointing out our "Scope for Improvement", both of us still manage to get some compliments but we are too humble to write about them ;) heeeeeeee
Isn't it wonderful being in this part of the world where people are so genuine in their comments...good or bad ..they just tell us things and continue giving those unsolicited advices and uninvited comments about our lives...
Thanks to all for being kind enough to spare their precious time to discuss our problems and for their kind/ serious/ nasty/funny comments n advices.We dont guarantee we'll take all ur advices ..but we still welcome ur UNSOLICITED advices and comments..it's fun listening to others talking about our life...
Thursday, September 25, 2008
laugh till u can cry!!!!
god!!!! this was after centuries! i haven't laughed so hard in ages, n m pretty sure snow hasn't either. i was browsing through my system n found this really funny pic of ours - snow and mine - both of us have this wierdo expression... it so funny!!!! i sent it to snow as a stress buster and boy, did it work!! she called me and she's like "what is it exactly that u were trying to do that made u make such a face?" God! i wish i could post the pic here - no i don't actually, because if it were worth posting, it wouldn't have been so funny!!! snow said - "keep this pic for urself, when u want to have a laugh, but keep it confidential". i will, snow :-)
God, it's so refreshing to laugh until u have tears in ur eyes!!!!
- mermaid
God, it's so refreshing to laugh until u have tears in ur eyes!!!!
- mermaid
Lemme say my reaction when you sent this to me in office tday...
I was busy n bit confused n serious after my colleague came n told me we need to give an update to our boss ..so get this done for the review. Then i saw this mail from mermaid in my inbox, opened it and uff i laughed so loud ..it was out of control....btw I wasn't laughing at my pic, i was laughing at mermy's pic. finally I closed the pic..stopped laughing...got tempted again..opened it and then laaaaaughed...closed it...opened it and laaaaaughed...everytime I challenged myself I won't laugh this time...it didn't work. I finally called her n shouted at her why did she send this pic to me?...and both of us went on this Hahahahahah..hahahahha...hahahaha...we had to hang up the phone to stop laughing. Couple of ppl around me must have thought i've gone insane tday.
I remember both of us laughing endlessly uncontrollably just like today a year back. So am thinking we can keep this pic confidential [Confidential b'coz it's too funny to show anybody...and a master piece weird expression of mermaid] and probably look at it every year or later when we become old women ...every time we need a very high dose of laughter!!!!
- Snow
Monday, June 23, 2008
blue..
It's Monday morning..the day I'm least fond of and I don't look forward to it.
Travelled an hour in the office cab..
It's a cold morning, suffered a bit of winter as the cab door was open and I sat just near the door.
I liked the feeling of cold wind blowing on my face and running though my hair...
But it just feels like a wrong day... for no particular reason, i don't feel very good. today.
Many thoughts ran through my mind as usual..not very pleasant ones.
Also somewhere when the wind blew really hard on my face I felt it like the winds of change..hopefully good ones...that is signalling me that it's on my way...hmm just thoughts n wishes i guess!
Came to my office, I'm the first person on the floor, now that doesn't qualify me for any prize though..
And I see so many work assignments and updates in my mail now...mr. X saying "please send me this update", mr. y says "This covers everything but you could also bring in such n such perspective"..
And I feel like saying "won't give u the update mr.x and won't add any other perspective mr.y"..do what u like ppl.
Normally, at the site of some new work. a lot of them...i know how alert, nervous and restless I would get untill i finish them...but i don't feel that way today..
I just wanna be quiet and finish whatever work to be done. And wait for the day to pass...
- Karma
Travelled an hour in the office cab..
It's a cold morning, suffered a bit of winter as the cab door was open and I sat just near the door.
I liked the feeling of cold wind blowing on my face and running though my hair...
But it just feels like a wrong day... for no particular reason, i don't feel very good. today.
Many thoughts ran through my mind as usual..not very pleasant ones.
Also somewhere when the wind blew really hard on my face I felt it like the winds of change..hopefully good ones...that is signalling me that it's on my way...hmm just thoughts n wishes i guess!
Came to my office, I'm the first person on the floor, now that doesn't qualify me for any prize though..
And I see so many work assignments and updates in my mail now...mr. X saying "please send me this update", mr. y says "This covers everything but you could also bring in such n such perspective"..
And I feel like saying "won't give u the update mr.x and won't add any other perspective mr.y"..do what u like ppl.
Normally, at the site of some new work. a lot of them...i know how alert, nervous and restless I would get untill i finish them...but i don't feel that way today..
I just wanna be quiet and finish whatever work to be done. And wait for the day to pass...
- Karma
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Some thoughts crossing my mind right now
It's quite a lazy day, just feel like doing nothing today. There's quite some work to catch up with...i wish weekends were longer than usual days. Infact, weekends are equally busier with all the household chores left from the whole week to finish with..
People at home are all chilled out and quite excited about my little nephew's birthday. It's his birthday today, we have done a bit of decoration last night , put up things that will excite a two year old boy .. balloons, teddy bears n soft toys, baby books, lot of lil cars....everything is scattered around all over now. He showed some excitement in the morning and wore a birthday cap, wanted to hit the balloons on the wall with his bat(boys are destructive!!)...So in the evening we'll have a little "Happy birthday" time :)
I guess Shamla has gone to the church today, else she would be here probably writing or doing something else..
Am trying hard to motivate myself to finish little bit of office work, but unable to make up my mind for work..nothing around me motivates me to get to office work today..It's a Sunday, and thank god my mind feels a bit relaxed knowing that it's at home! but I'm also thinking of what will happen tomorrow at office, oh..Monday :(. Might have a sudden surprise of some presentation and end up being unprepared or some deliverable with a deadline of 'yesterday'... even if I think of the worst case scenarios at work...i just wanna let go things and will handle things when they happen....
Think I've learnt not to be overstressed..it's too early to call it the outcome of doing yoga...but yes, I can feel the difference these days..
hmm..wondering what my folks in Kathmandu must be doing, need to speak to them, i think dad should go trekking somewhere up in the high altitude where the mobile signal is the strongest & clear and he'd at least pick my phone..hope my sister's exam went on well...haven't asked her yet. In a way it's good to be student and worry about your tests, results and feel greeeeaaat when you get your marks card and u've cleared with flying colors...Oh, I miss that, but hope my sis comes out yealling in excitement to tell me she's through, fingers crossed!!..
What are my other siblings n cousins and relatives doing? where ever they are... some in the mountains may not be aware of the concept of lazing around b'coz it's a Sunday... we really expect Sunday to be like "Sunday" but it's just another day for them..
So many different people in this world living poles apart, extremely different lifestyle but apparently doing things ..driving similar pleasures in life , doing thousand different things right now!!...i just feel like belonging to the group of people doing nothing today!
So it's the lil ones b'day, and it's one of the most wonderful , adventurous thing to be with the kiddo, so this Sunday should be dedicated for the little one who brightens each day for me and for all of us at home..... may god bless him and make him a smart, very kind, stylish, singer, dancer, footballer and a great human being ... a basket of blessings & love from Anii to my baby!!
- Karma
People at home are all chilled out and quite excited about my little nephew's birthday. It's his birthday today, we have done a bit of decoration last night , put up things that will excite a two year old boy .. balloons, teddy bears n soft toys, baby books, lot of lil cars....everything is scattered around all over now. He showed some excitement in the morning and wore a birthday cap, wanted to hit the balloons on the wall with his bat(boys are destructive!!)...So in the evening we'll have a little "Happy birthday" time :)
I guess Shamla has gone to the church today, else she would be here probably writing or doing something else..
Am trying hard to motivate myself to finish little bit of office work, but unable to make up my mind for work..nothing around me motivates me to get to office work today..It's a Sunday, and thank god my mind feels a bit relaxed knowing that it's at home! but I'm also thinking of what will happen tomorrow at office, oh..Monday :(. Might have a sudden surprise of some presentation and end up being unprepared or some deliverable with a deadline of 'yesterday'... even if I think of the worst case scenarios at work...i just wanna let go things and will handle things when they happen....
Think I've learnt not to be overstressed..it's too early to call it the outcome of doing yoga...but yes, I can feel the difference these days..
hmm..wondering what my folks in Kathmandu must be doing, need to speak to them, i think dad should go trekking somewhere up in the high altitude where the mobile signal is the strongest & clear and he'd at least pick my phone..hope my sister's exam went on well...haven't asked her yet. In a way it's good to be student and worry about your tests, results and feel greeeeaaat when you get your marks card and u've cleared with flying colors...Oh, I miss that, but hope my sis comes out yealling in excitement to tell me she's through, fingers crossed!!..
What are my other siblings n cousins and relatives doing? where ever they are... some in the mountains may not be aware of the concept of lazing around b'coz it's a Sunday... we really expect Sunday to be like "Sunday" but it's just another day for them..
So many different people in this world living poles apart, extremely different lifestyle but apparently doing things ..driving similar pleasures in life , doing thousand different things right now!!...i just feel like belonging to the group of people doing nothing today!
So it's the lil ones b'day, and it's one of the most wonderful , adventurous thing to be with the kiddo, so this Sunday should be dedicated for the little one who brightens each day for me and for all of us at home..... may god bless him and make him a smart, very kind, stylish, singer, dancer, footballer and a great human being ... a basket of blessings & love from Anii to my baby!!
- Karma
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Real time random thoughts...
As we sit together to write something interesting, we realized that we just couldn't think of anything worth writing...
so then we thought we'll write about some of our favourite things ....we couldn't come up with anything..lol.
We may sound like pathetic bloggers, not serious about writing good stuff...but since we decided to write, we will write something.
So finally we decide to write on anything that comes to our mind..absolutely real time..right now (it could be very silly too)
Sham: I feel like eating the mixture and buiscuits thats kept on the table.
Karma: I want a bee to sting me ....b'coz these days such things don't happen at all, atleast to me..so the song from Sound of Music which goes like.... "when the bees sting, when the dogs bite, when i'm feeling sad...I simply remember my favourite things" won't be appropriate to sing
Sham: Can't think, started eating....
Karma: I wish we didn't have to eat everyday and each day for 3-4 times...wish we could eat one day and don't bother for a week like in the case of some animals.
Sham: It's tasteless but still eating. People who read this might think I just keep eating but thats not the case.
Karma: I wish I was a flower...short and beautiful life!
Sham: - that reminds me of a poem in English in school... I think it was called "The Oak Tree" - comparison between the life of a long living tree, and a flower with a short - life and it ends with a question asking readers to decide which is better....
Karma: Intersting, but I never knew that and i gave the answer before your story.
Karma: I think a lot about 'why did i put on weight' and I'm thinking of all the people I've seen in my office...everyone's round and shapless. If I spot anybody who's thin and slightly trendy...I'm sure he/she's a new comer...with time they also look like one of us...round!
Sham: I wish it was my laptop.... that apart I think of how we didn't have the resources earlier and didn't have these worries either. Now we have the money and we have a lot of weight to deal with. This reminds me of the kannada saying which mom keeps using " kadale iddaaga hallu illa, hallu iddaaga kadale illa"... find out the meaning urself...
Karma: First I need to be able to say it. I'l find out from aunty tomorrow. It sounds like the meaning of the above phrase is " When something is there, something else (which i'm not able to figure out) is not there, and when that something else is there, the first thing is not there.
Sham: U got it!!! The "something" is chana, and the "something else" is teeth... Now I feel i can blog about the sayings which mom keeps using everyday. they're all so meaningful...
Karma: So when we didn't have money, we have good body..now we have some money but fat body..kiddin!
Sham: Lets see if u get this one - Konkani- "Pot bharlel brahmanaka dhayyantu phattoru melle" (Clue - I've told u this before)
Karma: A brahmin whose tummy is full, can find a stone in curds... (Corrections made by Sham since I own the keyboard now!!!)
Karma: Nepali saying..Goo lai kottai bhane ganaucha mattrai...crack this line
Sham: "If u fiddle with goo (everyone knows this), it's only going to stink"
Karma: Many people don't know what 'goo' is..they might mistake it for some good sweet dish :P
Sham: That's their problem... Now try this one... very simple Kannada saying - "Aanege chaddi holisidante"..
Karma: My chaddi is full of principles and is holy....hahahha
Sham: Principles?? Holy?????? Hahahahaahaa.... I have tears in my eyes - khushi ke aansu... OK, u lost this. It literally means "As if u stich a chaddi to fit an elephant"
Karma: hahahahahhahaha...wow what an intelligent interpretation i made
Sham: Kannada - "Devaru kottaru poojari bida"
Karma: when god gives, pujari says no....is it?
Sham: Wow!!! It actually means, even if God is willing to give, the poojari isn't
Karma: Enough of this. Learnt enough kannada.. Next time, i'll come up with very difficult phrases in Yolmo.
- Nice timepass... We had a good laugh over the "principled" and "holy" chaddi... Considering karma had a lot of work pressure, and her eyes were red, this was a good session - reminds us of the good old days when we could laugh like silly girls... :-D
We should do this more often...
Next blog will be funnier...
so then we thought we'll write about some of our favourite things ....we couldn't come up with anything..lol.
We may sound like pathetic bloggers, not serious about writing good stuff...but since we decided to write, we will write something.
So finally we decide to write on anything that comes to our mind..absolutely real time..right now (it could be very silly too)
Sham: I feel like eating the mixture and buiscuits thats kept on the table.
Karma: I want a bee to sting me ....b'coz these days such things don't happen at all, atleast to me..so the song from Sound of Music which goes like.... "when the bees sting, when the dogs bite, when i'm feeling sad...I simply remember my favourite things" won't be appropriate to sing
Sham: Can't think, started eating....
Karma: I wish we didn't have to eat everyday and each day for 3-4 times...wish we could eat one day and don't bother for a week like in the case of some animals.
Sham: It's tasteless but still eating. People who read this might think I just keep eating but thats not the case.
Karma: I wish I was a flower...short and beautiful life!
Sham: - that reminds me of a poem in English in school... I think it was called "The Oak Tree" - comparison between the life of a long living tree, and a flower with a short - life and it ends with a question asking readers to decide which is better....
Karma: Intersting, but I never knew that and i gave the answer before your story.
Karma: I think a lot about 'why did i put on weight' and I'm thinking of all the people I've seen in my office...everyone's round and shapless. If I spot anybody who's thin and slightly trendy...I'm sure he/she's a new comer...with time they also look like one of us...round!
Sham: I wish it was my laptop.... that apart I think of how we didn't have the resources earlier and didn't have these worries either. Now we have the money and we have a lot of weight to deal with. This reminds me of the kannada saying which mom keeps using " kadale iddaaga hallu illa, hallu iddaaga kadale illa"... find out the meaning urself...
Karma: First I need to be able to say it. I'l find out from aunty tomorrow. It sounds like the meaning of the above phrase is " When something is there, something else (which i'm not able to figure out) is not there, and when that something else is there, the first thing is not there.
Sham: U got it!!! The "something" is chana, and the "something else" is teeth... Now I feel i can blog about the sayings which mom keeps using everyday. they're all so meaningful...
Karma: So when we didn't have money, we have good body..now we have some money but fat body..kiddin!
Sham: Lets see if u get this one - Konkani- "Pot bharlel brahmanaka dhayyantu phattoru melle" (Clue - I've told u this before)
Karma: A brahmin whose tummy is full, can find a stone in curds... (Corrections made by Sham since I own the keyboard now!!!)
Karma: Nepali saying..Goo lai kottai bhane ganaucha mattrai...crack this line
Sham: "If u fiddle with goo (everyone knows this), it's only going to stink"
Karma: Many people don't know what 'goo' is..they might mistake it for some good sweet dish :P
Sham: That's their problem... Now try this one... very simple Kannada saying - "Aanege chaddi holisidante"..
Karma: My chaddi is full of principles and is holy....hahahha
Sham: Principles?? Holy?????? Hahahahaahaa.... I have tears in my eyes - khushi ke aansu... OK, u lost this. It literally means "As if u stich a chaddi to fit an elephant"
Karma: hahahahahhahaha...wow what an intelligent interpretation i made
Sham: Kannada - "Devaru kottaru poojari bida"
Karma: when god gives, pujari says no....is it?
Sham: Wow!!! It actually means, even if God is willing to give, the poojari isn't
Karma: Enough of this. Learnt enough kannada.. Next time, i'll come up with very difficult phrases in Yolmo.
- Nice timepass... We had a good laugh over the "principled" and "holy" chaddi... Considering karma had a lot of work pressure, and her eyes were red, this was a good session - reminds us of the good old days when we could laugh like silly girls... :-D
We should do this more often...
Next blog will be funnier...
Thursday, April 10, 2008
No updates...
I thought this blog was created for collaborative thoughts from the two of us..
Well I do understand the time constraints and the "mind not working" situations during other times...and I don't wanna give reasons to prove that I'm busier than you are kinds...
But it looks like I've got 70% stake in this place now..and soon it might become 100%.
Yes, my dearest friend Shyamala...I'm talking to you. Lets not get into the disinterested mode again and leave things half way....remember we started this to get out of that 'disinterested in things' mode...so lets write stuff...even if they are silly, it's fine, this is our place we can speak out!! and besides you write well :)
Incase you wanna comment or defend yourself or fight back ;) ..you can start here....
Karma.
Well I do understand the time constraints and the "mind not working" situations during other times...and I don't wanna give reasons to prove that I'm busier than you are kinds...
But it looks like I've got 70% stake in this place now..and soon it might become 100%.
Yes, my dearest friend Shyamala...I'm talking to you. Lets not get into the disinterested mode again and leave things half way....remember we started this to get out of that 'disinterested in things' mode...so lets write stuff...even if they are silly, it's fine, this is our place we can speak out!! and besides you write well :)
Incase you wanna comment or defend yourself or fight back ;) ..you can start here....
Karma.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Colors of Life...
Really felt like writing something today. Some tugging feeling that I owe this... Not sure to whom, may be I owe this one to myself from a long time...
As I lay on my bed this morning - refusing to get up because I had the excuse of having worked late last night - my thoughts drifted to what I've seen/felt/experienced in the past 26 years. In the very long 26 years, I've seen a lot of ups and downs. More downs than ups may be? Most of these ups and downs came flashing in my mind... How happy and ecstatic I was sometimes, and how down and out completely on some other...
Suddenly a very different thought occured to me - If I were to paint my life according to my feelings, how would it look? There would be some very stark blacks and purples. Some - may be very few - bright and pure whites. Some very pleasant greens. Some very free sky-blues. Some very sad blues. Some very bright and cheerful oranges. Some very pretty pinks. Some very embarassing reds. Some very calm and serene very-very-light blues... That would from an interesting spectrum!! We always long and crave for better things - everytime we go through the "difficult" times, we think of some of the beautiful past memories and wish those times would come back. But if I got just one "happy" or "easy" life, would there be so many colors in my life? Definitely not. And it's beautiful to have so many colors! I know that the whites are pure because I've felt the stark blacks. I know the greens soothe because I've experienced the piercing purples....
It makes me thank God that I've so many colors in my life, and for this beautiful realization. May be this will make me crib lesser (now, that's a hopeful dawn-orange) or may be I'll come back to square one (a disappointing grey?). Whatever the case, I now know I have a very beautiful and interesting way of looking at life - the colors and the spectrum of life!! This will sure make a great game - will surely leave a smile on my face when I am lonely and free to think those random thoughts!! :-)
- Sham
As I lay on my bed this morning - refusing to get up because I had the excuse of having worked late last night - my thoughts drifted to what I've seen/felt/experienced in the past 26 years. In the very long 26 years, I've seen a lot of ups and downs. More downs than ups may be? Most of these ups and downs came flashing in my mind... How happy and ecstatic I was sometimes, and how down and out completely on some other...
Suddenly a very different thought occured to me - If I were to paint my life according to my feelings, how would it look? There would be some very stark blacks and purples. Some - may be very few - bright and pure whites. Some very pleasant greens. Some very free sky-blues. Some very sad blues. Some very bright and cheerful oranges. Some very pretty pinks. Some very embarassing reds. Some very calm and serene very-very-light blues... That would from an interesting spectrum!! We always long and crave for better things - everytime we go through the "difficult" times, we think of some of the beautiful past memories and wish those times would come back. But if I got just one "happy" or "easy" life, would there be so many colors in my life? Definitely not. And it's beautiful to have so many colors! I know that the whites are pure because I've felt the stark blacks. I know the greens soothe because I've experienced the piercing purples....
It makes me thank God that I've so many colors in my life, and for this beautiful realization. May be this will make me crib lesser (now, that's a hopeful dawn-orange) or may be I'll come back to square one (a disappointing grey?). Whatever the case, I now know I have a very beautiful and interesting way of looking at life - the colors and the spectrum of life!! This will sure make a great game - will surely leave a smile on my face when I am lonely and free to think those random thoughts!! :-)
- Sham
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