Varied Emotions

Kuch pal hum bhi bitayein kisi ki raah dekhein...
Kuch pal voh bhi humein yaad karein ye tamanna hain... 

Zindagi ki raah par chalte chalte ruk se gaye hum...
Voh kya aaye iss zindagi mein pal tham se gaye ab....

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Ek mod pe mulakat hui thi...
Uss waqt ki jab baat hui thi...

Khwaab tha uss pal ka bhi apna... jazbaa tha..
Haqeeqat se mulakat karte hi... kho gaye saare pal...

Baithe hum jab saanson ka hisaab karte hue...
Ehsaas hua ki kuch beete palon mein hi zindagi ko ji liya humne...
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Walking on the edge of the sword...
Whether its a string or sting; it still kills the bird...

Devoid of pain isn't a great relationship...
Trust is the core to a friendship...

Pain is the true treasurer of love...
Express... Life is not about being in a cove...

Fly till your wings cover the earth...
For its you and your inner strength

Till the end of horizon we shall walk...
All I could hear is us and our talks...

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Love was a very sweet emotion...
Till it turned our lives into a commotion...

Everyone had an opinion about us...
The world was an open book but with limited access...

Rules and regulations created a void in our dreams...
Priceless were tiny joys in life...

Whether we succeeded in this journey or not
There is still time that will decide

We still have plenty of points to score...
Lets not loose these moments over frivilious things....

The silver lining is shining bright...
Am sure with you along; am devoid of any fright!

Food in MoDerN India!

What's right? What's wrong?
All is unknown...
Before we were taught...
We never fought...
Heaven or hell...
I am still bothered with what I sell...
It's all an effort in vain...
Life for each of us at sometime is gonna be a pain...
Long ago the sun used to glow on our faces...
Sheilded under airconditioner now, gone are those traces...
Medicines fill your stomach with relief...
Is that all that you believe?
Divine was the food we earlier used to get...
Now it seems each meal brings you closer to death!

Financial Security

Most of us are only concentrating on earning money and that too, we always feel we are earning less. But is this true? Well, on the hind side, we will always be earning less than our needs and wants. So what is all the fuss about financial security and how can we gain it without saving as much as our family did when we were young...

A life in today's age is worth lived only when you manage to enjoy as well as save so that in future including emergency, luxury, show-off all expenses are managed.

Say you earn an x amount. Save atleast 10% of it every month. Set two targets in one single year to be achieved.

* Gadget and gold
* Gold and investment in mutual fund
* Gold and investment in FD

excreta excreta... Anyways what does this count down to... Let's say you save Rs.5k per month and accumulate the amount for a year, it boils down to saving 60k per year. While you are getting a hike next year, your savings account should also get a hike. 60k from the normal salary + medical and other reimbursements if saved, you will definitely save about 75 grand in a year... This saving can immediately start after the first six months of your first day of joining work! I am sure whoever is reading this, has started earning since at least a year now or probably more than a year.

Why there is a combination of two targets every time?

As you might have noticed, gold remains stagnant. Gold, be it for guys or girls is a big time saving in the long run as while they are gonna commit the biggest mistake of their life, in terms of 'marriage', they would need this metal being shown off big time. Last few years have definitely raised the price of this metal, making it very difficult for the common man to buy the product. So when the girls may buy the metal in different shapes like bangles, rings, necklaces, etc at different intervals, the boys can buy the biscuit. Please note that the moment you have enough money to buy the smallest product, please buy it asap as the prices of this yellow metal are rising sky high day by day.

Now, we move to the new bracket of why gadgets, investments and life insurances stand. Each guy & girls these days are crazy about gadgets ranging from mobiles, ipad to iphone so while you buy these and ease your life, you definitely need to ease your future by first buying life insurance, mediclaim and then invest in mutual fund & FD, which is the safest. Life insurance here does not mean the normal high priced insurance wherein you pay certain amount yearly and then get a big chunk on dying. Don't buy it until you have a big liability left behind for your family if you die. Pester your advisor and yourself research on the new schemes including the ones wherein the pension scheme is combined making it profitable for your old age. Please remember, the younger you are while you buy your scheme, the less is the premium.

You will notice that these things might initially hamper your lavish expenses and make you skip 1 or 2 outings with your friend but will benefit when rest of your gang is struggling with basic amenities. Remember, the girl or the guy for whom you want to go into that outing will never pick you for a lifetime, if your analytical and financial management skills are of the 18th century.

Please research yourself as much as you can on each of the topics. As you move ahead in life, loans will keep you in debt for a lifetime, break the circle with your innovative skills. Refinance the loan once you are stable. Buy amenities that you need, coz you are born once and this time will also come only once!

This blog is an attempt to provide information to the new generation so that they do not commit the mistakes I and many others did. 

Being Together

You are in my heart,

But God is just too smart…

The more I wanna be closer,

You seem farther than the largest treasure…

Each passing day makes me wobble,

But when I think of you I tremble…

I miss you to an extent,

Which I can’t explain…

It’s worse than lifetime in vain,

Even a written page looks plain…

Every time I fight with you,

I still come close to you…

My mind is wavering in emotions,

I just want both of us to have the love potions…

Just by seeing you I find peace,

I don’t care about world, they may tease…

Your touch is my divine world,

Where I am left mesmerized…

A hug is all I want from you,

But God is not with me and you…

Your voice whenever I hear,

My body seems to shiver…

I know it’s just a stupid fear,

But every time I can’t stop that small tear…

The hope is still there,

The clouds will clear…

The silver lining is not seen yet,

But you love me the most, I can bet…

Serene love

Life is a smooth road,
When you are with me aboard...

True are the things that you say,
Lovely are the games we play...

Your love is at sunshine you said,
But I have become love blind I'm afraid..

We dont know, what lays ahead,
Without you, let me be behead...

Days have been serene since you came,
May god give you your awaited fame...

That every moment when I hear your voice,
Feels like rest everything is just noise...

Your hugs and kisses, I can only cherish,
But day by day, it will just flourish...

I don't wanna be an inch away from you,
Every such second makes me go blue...

The feelings that make me breathless,
And the mushy skin droplets...

The fathomless love creates the fire,
And the never ending evil called desire...

What can replace both you and me,
Or will it just make us both free...

A day will come when we are one,
There will be just love and our son... 

Beware of love!

Those days are gone when to see that guy everyday, you used to visit college and wherein you don't even know his name. You visited your friend's house everyday only to interact with the sweet chick living next door. Intercollegiate competitions meant just checking out new guys and girls and forget them once the festival is over.

This is new age. People fall in love in a day without seeing each other by just talking on phone. Facebook is the new portfolio for all the models out there who might scare you in person. Twitter means meeting new chicks in tweetups and breaking the relationship on the web portal itself in public.

Is this what Gen Next thinks love is?


Love comes in only with a price. Price here means lying to parents to friends, going the wrong way, breaking rules, aligning your life with someone else's and a host of other problems or situations you may say which soemtimes brings you at the brink. You might think that this is just the end and you cannot work this out or suicide thoughts are an everyday norm. If so, you need to look at the situation of others. Probably sharing love stories is hence one hell of an experience.

I came across this article and was quite captivated not because it was a love story but because I wanted to know whether was there any love in this story?

http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_dating-a-sociopath-made-me-insecure-and-paranoid_1627159

There is no harm in falling in love. But there is a cause of concern or an alarm that you need to keep at your end. What is this alarm?

Fall in love? Nope. Rise in love!!!

Love asks for sacrifice but no sacrifice should crush your ethical values. It should lead you to love one more person in live but not leave everyone else whom you have loved all through the years. It should motivate you to achieve more heights in terms of confidence, career, etc. and not make you weak so much so that you fear your own mirror.

How do we do this?

Be friends first. Friendship gives you time to explore the person and his attitude towards life. Make the person meets your close friends and people whom you trust a couple of times. Be open to criticism about the person who you like, this will help you to know the person from a different angle. Meet the opposite person's close friends/ parents/ colleagues. A man is known by the company he keeps. Do you like them? If yes, then great. If not, why does he have such a company. Drinking and smoking is not a great deal these days but anything extreme is not good as well.

All of the above does not pertain to only serious relationships. This also applies to flings! You might not know where you might end up if you are stuck with a wrong person even for split 5 minutes.

Well, coming back, these are just a few steps before you step in into a relationship but what when you are already in. Keep a distance over a period of time. Do not reveal your financial details and seek much emotional support. Distance is always good in a relationship as advancing fast might earn you negative points as well. Spend enough time so as to know each other but do not forget to hang out with your family and friends as well. If this relationship does not work, they will be the ones to support you.

Last but not the least. Keep yourself updated and independent enough financially and emotionally throughout your life so you do not end up with a piece of paper and a pen attempting to write an unwanted suicide note! Love should make your life worth living and not tick your clock to death.

Tweet bits!!!

Creativity flows in faster than your mind can register!

'Hope' is the word which makes me live everyday!

Light in the dark... I will be one day for someone!

Cage me and I will flutter for a while and vanish the moment you are out of sight!

Your heart is the only one who conspires against you and rules your mind, body and soul!

Rise in the absence of strength... make a way through the bushes... There is light somewhere out 

there... How far is just unknown!

To be in your arms is all I want... Rest everything is a ladder to reach you...

There is something in you which brings me back to you at all times!

For once, leave my heart and reside somewhere else so I can renovate it and make place for that new person!

Each one of us is a liar! Still we get irritated when we are ditched!

Even the siamese and alteregos make mistakes in understanding each other! You and I are just two complete different individuals!

What do you want? Dian in bed or Diana in bed?

I can earn my bit but I need a man who can just pull it off for himself, that's it! Meaning need common sense!

Sleep showed me a middle finger post I met you!

Sweep off the floor? Or Sweep me off the floor?

Plastic smiles. Shove them!

It's better to be original than to be a wannabe!

Assholes are meant to be dirty and painful!

Avoid is the keyword...

Chivalry is only a mask! On bed most are monsters!

I did rather not date than hang around with a cheat!

Vanishing in thin air is acceptable than to witness the ruins of the dead!

You won't earn a medal if you act like 50 at 25! Trust that! Live your age!

Needs were replaced by wants, wants by stubbornness... But one thing remained the same - your 

indifference!

The most difficult is to appreciate the wrongs and move ahead!

Take me away to your land... I will be happy there even if you only have sand...

He: Would love to know you as a friend! Me: Thanks but I would love to skip this lovely opportunity!

You jump from one girl to another like a shopoholic girl buying clothes in a mall!

You are just babies in your youth, fluttering hard to fly, remember not to mess with eagles like us!

Your thoughts are as clean as the hollow man's common name!

Clubbing doesn't make you the drinking/ doping/ dancing god! There are millions like you lying in the streets of Vegas!

I am not here to please you! I am here to please myself just like you, you selfish self centered bot!

Wearing Being human t-shirts with inhuman deeds! Bah!

Deja vu & dreams have something in common! They always make you see things that you always wished for!

Life is much more beyond your thoughts & perceptions! Broaden your horizons! You haven't reached there yet! You aren't god, you're still praying!

Over the years the idea is to become more beautiful in your thoughts than to look beautiful with dark thoughts!

Embracing the reality is better than reliving the past in your dreams!

You are living a lie trying to become a living legend!

He has been there for me. He will be there for me. #God

I want none of you to be cloned. You all suck!

Now breaking the norm that I can’t write anything in hindi! But I can definitely write a bad one! Here’s it for you!

Sukh gaye aason... Tu ab tak nai aaya... Pyaar beh gaya teri yaad mein... Tu kya tere saaye se bhi dil darta hai!

You know what... forget it... you are not worth telling that also...!

Twitter doesn't make you money honey!

Moods...

We all live by it... Either it’s our mood or it’s someone else around us... Little did we all know that neither the heart nor the mind nothing rules humans more than their moods... Emotions at its best swing in only to realize that later you are doing absolutely opposite of what you planned... For right now, I wanted to write something else but the moment the word doc opened, my fingers wrote the word moods and thoughts just started flowing in...

My earlier posts on space and stuff are a part of making up the moods but it’s mostly your mentality, upbringing and current circumstances ruling your moods and mind... But when I listen to the word moods, it’s kinda stupid but I am reminded of the character in Harry Potter called Moody!

Something that my friend wrote once for me on Orkut testimonials... yeah good old days when social networking had just started, I would like to quote him, 

“Mental attribute: - Statutory warning “Can blow at any time. 

Description: - she has this binary system of mood, 0 means sad and 1 means happy (no gray areas) and the mood keeps on swinging from one state to another faster than a computer (tell this technique to intel they will earn in billion).” 

But controlling your moods is necessary as it may trigger us to land up in the worst situations in life... For ex.: I know a female, you may say 10 things which can irritate her per say but she is so calm to the core that you feel that you are trying to cut an iron rod by a wooden plank and not vice-a-versa. 

Who’s benefited in this whole stint... You? Me? Or She? It’s SHE!

But there are pros and cons as well... You may not react to people’s sentiments, emotions and actions and this may lead to making them aggressive. They may think that you do not care for them and their sentiments but is this what you want to portray? In the long run, I guess no... But yes, there is an individual call... Today you may want one person to be away from you and you might not react to their sentiments but is it same for all?

Indians are getting married!

‘Life is a surprise’ I had this tagline as my email id for one of the networking websites!

But now after reaching the quarter life, I can actually understand why is it called like that!

Iguana inspite of being beautiful can never be a chameleon but then they still are happy that they belong to the same breed and someday they might change the fate and fight the norms of the life…

India, the only country believing in arrange marriage and actually practicing it, has driven every generation of youth to go through this madness. Even today, I actually know people who willing stand on the edge of this sword and are willing to sacrifice their lives over it! I understand the gyaan on customs and everything but what’s with not having the freedom to choose their own partner… Someone with whom you would want to share a life with…

CASTE! This word actually has the power to trigger World War III more than Nostradamus ka prediction on Barack Obama triggering the war. Instantly you think why the word caste? Well this arrange marriage system is still prevailing in India only coz of that… Otherwise every third person falling in love would not think that is she Gujarati or Marathi? Why do you have to think this? The other person is someone whom you like… whose thinking you would prefer… someone who you feel for whom you would be awake the whole night!

It’s just a question but if this question has stalled so many lives!

Surprise is that when you love someone irrespective of him/her being from some other caste but later after understanding ‘dunyadaari’, feelings are overpowered by customs and strategized emotions! Life has surprised us by changing our line of thought to follow the path like a blind horse!

NextGen Leaders...

These days reaching office early in the morning has become a norm… Being an advertising firm, it’s completely vacant and you kinda feel like you are the king. By 10am, people start pooling in with their heavy heart of spending the whole day under pressure… Our lives are so monotonous be it the CEO or the executive, we have our routine schedules but we all have our different agendas and we all reach the top and that too pretty soon. Ever pondered on how these people reach and why… Presumption that most reach the top coz their dad’s are the owners or through reference is a myth! They are knowledgeable dude… seriously they capture each and every moment as learning and stick to it.


Today’s youth is dynamic and aspires to reach the top but most when you check on the IQ levels astound you as to how come they even reached here where they stand. Yes, I met one such person who made me question whether we were ever taught the basics of science or geography in our schools!


So this chick is 25 year old gujju lady hailing from my firm (advertising is supposed to be intellectual firm right!) who is mind you working for 5 years now, had reached a little early that day… and we happened to discuss Tsunami as it has questioned our future on earth… It was Wednesday morning and fresh tremors with 6.0 Richter scale had hit Tokyo at 7am IST so I informed flaunting my knowledge as an efficient PR person keeping a check on everything specially when half my friends call me the google girl! The other colleague inquisitively asked, “Tsunami toh nai aayega na?” I was like nai nai! So our lady says, “Arre earthquake aaya hai toh Tsunami thodi aata hai!” My eyeballs almost popped out but concealing the expression, I explained how earthquake in sea causes Tsunami. This was just the start!


“Pata nai yeh global warming ki wajah se aur kya kya hoga!”


Hearing the statement, I couldn’t relate whether she was taking the topic to some other level or she was continuing the same topic! Again but you know narcissists like me never give up, again I flaunted and informed about how Mayan calendar and civilization and the concept of even scientists predicting how Sun storm may lead to an end of earth! I refused to believe that she had never ever heard about either of the cases! I ignored still… discussion further moves to global warming…


“Lahore mein lava aaya tha voh global warming tha na! Kitna nuksaan hua tha!”


Now if even one person remembers of any sort of lava in lahore, I will give you a gold medal and a thousand bucks and if you can remotely connect to any other reality then you and I are exceptions! Yes! I did predict and checked, “Are you talking of Latur ka earthquake jiski vajah se Surat mein plague hua tha?”


“Ohhhh haannn right right latur tha sorry… (aur lava nai tha!) par uski vajah se surat mein kaise plague ho sakta hai! Kuch bhi pakati hai (laughing mockingly)!”


I had lost by this time and the other chick who was hearing the whole conversation fell short of shocked expressions! I didn’t bother to explain how the plague happened but clarified that it was not coz of global warming but before I could explain anything further, I didn’t know one more sixer was coming in!


“Arre but jo sukha pada hota hai, that is also earthquake na!”


Here, I really felt like a school teacher teaching a third standard student that a sukha might be on the surface of the earth with 2m cracks maximum and is caused coz of global warming and extreme heat! While earthquake is caused coz of tectonic plates of the earth. Infact I went ahead and explained that the depletion of ozone layer has caused many snow mountains at the north and the south poles to melt and is non-existent today increasing the level of water in the oceans. Obviously after the earlier encounters you can’t expect her to know this! That’s not it, Sachin most of the times never makes you loose your expectations and ek aur six toh maarta hi hai! Here you go, one more…


“Oh, that’s why Tsunami is coming!”


Had it been some student then I would have said refer chapter number one but bade bachchon ko kaun bole aur kaise! I ignored and went ahead talking about how moon is coming closer to earth this year and will cause a lot many changes in the sea… Mistake! Mummy ne kitni baar kaha hai ki zyada mat bolo, chup raho! Par nai tumhe toh bas apni hi jhaadni hai!


“Ohh, so it had come closer in 2005 also?”


Think, think fucking hard and if you can remember any damn thing that moon did to earth in 2005 was devastating enough? No, you just can’t coz moon ka basically koi fault hai hi nai! So I questioned so did the other chick , “2005 mein kya hua tha?”


“Arre Mumbai mein Tsunami aaya tha naaaa…!”


I fainted.


P.S. By this time, I had got brains and didn’t bother to explain what a cloud burst is and how Leh was affected by artificial cloudburst! I finally learnt from my earlier mistakes you see!


Learning: This female is earning higher than me and is at par with some knowledgable people. Are we expecting her to be the nextgen Leader? But she herself thinks so! Do you have such misconceptions in your mind or are you conceptually strong to justify yourself!