Sunday bloody sunday!

It's a beautiful sunshiny day.... she's had a good 8 hours of sleep when her twiddly eyes open and she's thirsty! In that moment she figures that the maid'll cme in abt an hour so she dips in clothes that she needs washed and cozily snuggles back into bed just for the heck of lazing around!

So much for lazing around!!!! The maid doesn't turn up... there's no water in the house! (Thankfully she finished her morning ablutions during the first wakey wakey!.... Thank God fer small mercies!) And yes... there will be no water in the house till tomorrow afternoon! (Stop laughing!!)

She goes down with loads of empty buckets.... roomies fight with secretary... there's mercifully one tap downstairs which has water.... stand in line and fill up the buckets and trudge back with them up to the third floor!

Her cellphone decides to act funny and starts switching on and off of its own accord! And the lights decide to start flickering as well!

Her laptop has gone into hibernation so the music stops playin.....

She cancels the dinner she was hosting tonite... all bartans (bole to vessels) are dirty and there's no maid and there's no water!!!

Her cooker has also lost it's safety valve... (but thats a whole other story!)

:D Jinxed right? And herein are linked all the other posts where havoc has been wreaked on her:
- Jinxed!
- A lil more jinxed! (the penultimate paragraph!)
- Some more jinxes!

:D Cheers people! And it's exactly 1:25 pm! The day's only just begun!!!!!

Float... :)

It's a crazy mixed up world you know! And then you go find your peace in some crazy corner and can actually hear the muzik! :)

The past few days have been eventful! She met 'his' elder brother and they hit off amazingly well! It was an instant connection of sorts... But these two as diametrically opposite as siblings can be! Only the way they talk is the same, the rest of it is soooooooooooooooooooo...................... different, so different that the minute he settled down, she n Mite rushed into the kitchen n stared at each other with shocked expressions!!!

Yes.. it was amazing meeting up with him! :) The afternoon that we spent is detailed here!

What else you ask? The to-do got complete... works gettin done, she's goin over to meet him next weekend so she's counting days now! :) Still got an exam filled week ahead!

But the crux of whatever she's rambling in this post is that there are a gazillion things on her mind right now, another gazillion that she needs to get done probably... but she's unperturbed! she's learning to float... she falters off n on... but hey! It's fun! Head up, smile on her face, twinkle in her eyes and she knows that it'll all happen in its own time! One by one, bit by bit, lil by lil she's relinquishing control... she's letting herself breathe... chaos is crazy, but crazy is fun! :)

Chaos!

Here's a conversation between Bar and her... Read on!

faith child... thy spirits shall lift in a lil wile!

hail and sleet and torrid rain, as distant as they,
the road to haze seems longer than a mile

a mile nay... a swift glide
where u ask me... answers i have none...
serendipity child... thy moment shall come

the dusky blue is distant, wings i have none,
crawl to the oasis i must or fall on my knees and die

free yourself from the entrapment of your mortal frame
let your soul engulf you at this moment in time
wings are but an extension of your freedom
reach out child... the way is not dark tonight...

mortality is but a metphor for the entrapped soul,
bound by laws from a universe lost,
what hope have we when we worship order,
when thy heartbeat's song is chaos

peace in our chaos is what we find
the soul swirls on like a whirlpool divine
worship not order... but the entropy around
dream not of white yatchs but of stormy skies
the world isnt perfect... and so aint u n me...

farsaken finds itself, the song of the universe,
at peace we were never meant to be,
think not of it as an intrusion but the way symbiots of eternity,
were always meant to be

meant to be... meant to be... but what will we really be?
will we sing a rainsong? will we dance?
will eternity fall down at our feet?
will my turmoil find rest in this universe?
will my song set me free?

seek not freedom for none can bind u,
despair not turmoil for it is not that troubles u,
look not for meaning for there is none,
the universe is randomly chaotic,
that's why existing is fun!!

Life...

It's kinda uncanny the turns that life can take... Infact does take! A minute you're here, stuck in the vicious eruptions of daily life and seconds later the dormant volcano decides to engulf your life! You are thrown over jagged corners that you never thought you'll explore... or even need to.. you're fighting for sanity... to save some smithereens of yourself and as your world crashes and burns you find yourself a molten corner to hibernate...

And in the showers that follow every explosion the cold becomes a reflection of your soul... in the depth of this winter you find in yourself an invincible summer!

:)

A smile...!

It's amazing how people you've never known before and will never know after can touch your lives! It's been happening to her way too much off late.... and it's left her with a strange yet warm feeling!

While walking down the road in search of the State bank of Mysore to get the stamp paper for her rent agreement she happened to ask a passer-by for directions! It so happens that another somebody was asking for directions to the same place... she being the chatterbox that she is, they got talking and he sent left her with words that still resonate, 'it's so easy to meet someone sometimes...!' (the unsaid was clear to... and yet so difficult to know someone even though it'll be a lifetime together!) His name was Javed!

Then she came across Paul the other day... after a lot of standing around and waiting and getting refused by an n number of autos during peak traffic hours to go home from office, she finally found a rick! Paul just walked by and asked can he come in too... he was going to the same place! I nodded consent and then again we got talking! He's a localite and tried to empathize with my situation... :) And he paid the whole auto fare inspite of me protesting loudly and vehemently enough! He even paid for beyond his get off point so that I wouldn't have to pay up later! How gentlemanly is that! (And its sooooo... rare these days!)

Then she met a rick guy who while dropping her off to someplace had a flat tyre... he wasn't sure of the route so he asked her how far... she gave him the exacts and he said he'll still drop her! En route they got talking and it turns out he had a cycle shop which was suffering losses so he closed it down and bought a rick from his own savings! And a rickshaw costs a good 70 grands people! He leaves home at 7 and reaches back at 12! (and we complain about a 9 hour work day!) He hates leaving so early in the morning... no not 'coz he wants to sleep in, but coz he loves his wife so so much that he doesn't feel like going away from her for a single moment! It was heart warming and she forgot herself in his story for at least sometime! :)

A series of myriad events like these makes you believe in humanity!

On that note... what makes you smile? :)

(I still need remiders on my to-do!)

Save me!

Hellos people! I know uniformed hiatus! I wish I knew! :)

It so happens that the jinx continues and the laptop that the company had entrusted me with a mere month ago has already crashed twice! Once twas the software n this time twas the hardware and as luck would have it the part had to come from Singapore so it took till yesterday to find it's way into my hands again! Bless me! :D

The landlord says your rent is due... ! The bugger calls up on a sunday evening and sniffles... 'rent de do!' Monday it was duly given to him and the bugger that he is he says you pay maintenance on your own... ek cheque extra nahi drop kar sakta namaakool usi bank k usi dabbe me jahan apne ghar ka cheque daalega!

The nightmares have still been haunting her but here's something about chaos that she read and it really looks like its helping. :) This guy by the way has started writing lil lil bits that keep getting messaged to me and it's a pleasure reading them! Thought twisting they are! :) The bestest thing here is that she's found a friend in him... in this crazy metro called Bengaluru she's finally found a ear that hears her and knows she needs to be heard! He's been amazing.... and he keeps me off coffee like a leech curls at the pinch of salt!

Wat else shall you ask? Office has shifted... my nomadic existence continues though! I conveniently plonk myself on anybody's seat who has decided not to turn up for the day! :D After a completely jobless last week (no laptop u see) this week has it's training session as an e-learning! So in between all those jargon's and short forms that are breaking up my grey cells into alphabet soup I'm writing this post! No wonder it looks so uninspiring right?! :D

The weekend was nice.. I finally got to spend some time at home and dear darling Mini had come over all the way from Hyderabad! So we had a ball of a time! It was a very female bonding type of weekend... chatty, crazy women all over namma Bangalore first and then raising a storm at home! And yours truly cooked for them! This is the first time she tried her hands at gulab jamuns and baby they turned out well! :) It was a delight to see everything finished in a matter of minutes!

There's a to do list that I keep pasting everywhere and then forgetting where I placed it... and I have this horrible habit of pressing the 'show desktop' button instead of the minimize one so the post it on the comp hasn't been a big help either. So now here's my to-do and all of you have to take my case to complete it:

1. Curtain repair
2. Curtain rod repair! (desperately need a drilling machine!)
3. Apply for leave! (yes i need a reminder for that too!)
4. Once leave gets approved book tickets! (:D guess where i'm off too?!)
5. Register AmEx on the net
6. Coax dad into giving his account number! (i need to transfer money into his account and he's not giving me the number! If that doesn't work in 3 days ask mom!)
7. Buy Martini glasses for dad
8. Buy a nice Mysore chiffon sari for mom
9. Buy Swiss knife for jeeju
10. Think what to buy for sis from first salary! (need ideas here people.. help!!)
11. Give laundry to the laundry guy toms and get more clothes washed from the maid! (this is urgent!!)
12. Manage to study! (I need constant reminders that I have an exam on monday! haanji.. naukri me bhi egg-jam!!!) yeah foodie lil me! :P
13. Make a planner (i haven't been able to find a yearly wall planner so i need to make one! For that you need to remind me to buy chart paper as well!)
14. Carry all documents to get my flight tickets and transportation charges reimbursed!! Else I loose out on 11 grands! (yup u need to remind me of that as well!! :P)
15. Call up bhai and ask him for the 2IC's number (that's a person and not a memory chip) and then ask him for the canteen depot's number and then find out about how much will a fridge cost. (yeah yeah yeah... don't wonder about this one! jus remind me)
16. Ask bhai hi current address and clarify if he receives a courier or only speed post manages to find him so as to send his rakhi! (he's in the Indian Army! Don't look so stunned!)

I know I'm hopeless!! Hellllll.................ppp!!!!!!!! (And yes the reminder is in the I... so I'm desperate!)

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To all the lovely souls who took out time to save me... :) Biiiiiiiii.......g hug! you guys rock! My to do is complete!!!!!! And a special hug to Shraddha for sending me reminder mails everyday!!!! :)