Recorded...

There are these moments that you want to not forget for what they have meant to you...

After a particulalrly harried week for various reasons she get a call and it goes "Aneesha.. can I say something?"... She's amused and casually says "Sure". She gets blown away as she hears "It is refreshing to have you around! You are one of the few people who really know what she is doing" She smiles and says thank you.

Then in the after hours she gets pinged... (after a particularly harrowing experience)... 'Go home, please?' ..... She promises to be off in the next 30 minutes and to stay safe!

~ She's also advised to marry for money and not for love! ;) hee hee!

Thanks Charley.

Forbidden Lands!

And this is the experience...

Kinnaur, Lahaul and Spiti with 78mm!

speeding on a jetplane!

how did life become so complicated she wondered?

well not hers.. but around her poeple are being pushed and pulled by the fabric of society...

she sees people giving in to cravings (of various types) and it saddens her heart...

how people have started to 'chase' a dream instead of 'following' it...

how people refuse to fathom the simple joys of wheatflakes with milk and honey... (they'd rather think about the calories); a cup of green tea in the morning... (how can anything possibly be wrong with it?); rushing along without having a bath coz you know u'd rather sleep than feel the epitome of clean... (~ now that may well be a personal threshold! ;) ); getting a 'thank-you' note for good work done... (instead of fighting to get up higher); taking a walk in the rain... (without worrying about wetting your clothes.. duh!)... and of a first speeding ticket! ;)

The story of the speeding ticket goes like this... 11:30 AM still in the car and driving nice and peacefully to catch a jet 1 PM flight... suddenly you realize that it's Jet.. the last she remembers is their check in is 60 mins and not 40 like others! ~ thus begins the zipzapzoom through a myriad mix of cars on namma bengaluru's roads! The first police radar is something she notices and brakes... passes through without incident and then zipszapszooms again to reach namma airport which is 100 miles away! (~sheesh!)

12:15 PM entry.. meanwhile a call has been made and it is confirmed that our dude can reach 30 mins before boarding and we are still ok! As the man is loaded with bags and in his own words looks like a 'laptop salesman' he gets the parting hug and instructions to messgae once he's boarded... (after all she'll have to pick him up otherwise right!)

Well... habituated to the 120-130 speeds and empty roads she zipszapszooms again straight into the cops net. :'(

Cop: First extremely surprised that a girl was speeding and then..

"Madam.. ye gaadi tez ja raha tha"

Yours Truly: "sir kitna tez...?"

Cop: "Madam speed limit 80 hai"

Yours Truly: praying teh cop doesnt smell the beer for breakfast on her breath or spot the bottles of booze in her car steps oout and asks: "sir fine kitna hai"

Cop: amazed again at the fact that she hasnt try to patao him etc..

Yours Truly meanwhile continues to pray

Cop: 600

Yours Truly: (knowing this is high) "aap receipt de do main fine deti hai"

Cop: 300

Yours Truly: ~ smiles smugly and heaves a sigh of relief coz that's the amount she has in her wallet and 5 bucks more... takes out the money, hands it over and stands meekly like a good kid.

Cop: smiles at her and says thank you madam

Yours Truly: ~ looks around weirdly and hen runs to the car to get outta there!!!!

And then she calls mom and dad: "Hi! I got my first speeding ticket!"

Mom: "haan mujhe bhi milti hain. par main 100 main hi bach jaati hun! congratulations on the graduation!"

Dad: "both mother and daughter get speeding tickets! ~sheesh! and yes.. congratulations by the way for the first one!"

Elder Sister: "wow!!!! you can drive that fast!!!"

~ kya family hai!

DayDreaming!

Here's a song that came rushing back to me...

"Dreamin' I'm always dreamin'

Dreamin' love will be mine

Searchin' I'm always searchin'

Hopin' someday I'll find

Someone, someone to love me

Someone to need me but until then

Well I'll keep on dreamin'

Keep right on dreamin'

Dreamin' till my dreamin' comes true ue ue ue ue ue ue ue..."

back to the basics!

and it's a beautiful, rain-filled yet sunshiny day! there's a barbeque planned... ;) and the marvellous laziness of a slow saturday fills her with peace!

she smiles as she stutters up out of bed and begins to marinade the chicken!

~ and then everyone needs to believe in something.. she believes she'll grab some beer! (food my friend can make u smile!) ;)

confined by words

'purple ramblings' as it's most ardent fan calls this blog shut down to the world. The  reactions have been myriad... (and she thinks that's the latest word she's developed a fancy for)...

i turn in now to talk to myself... i turn in now to find a few answers to questions i have always been shattered to be faced with. they are hard questions... the answers lie in giving it time and patience.. holding on and continuing to believe... 

it's never easy it? especially if it becomes a tussle between the one's you love and who are closest to you... you don't want it to turn into a match... yet it gets weighed... your decisions are just that.. based on what you think is best for you and what you have been brought up to believe is best for you.. isn't that faith substantial enough? 

maybe... a voice inside my head reverberates as i write.. maybe i am thinking too much.. maybe it's just a bout of insanity that needs to live and spiral out... 

it's a maze of maybe's and i'm finding my way... (and i am still not ok to give confine the questions in the clear boundaries of words)

hiatus

i know i will be back... it's just remains to be seen when! :) keep it rollin folks!

tidbits..

It's a good feeling when all you have pending on a to-do list is to go to the bank and fight for a debit card! ;)

Yawn.. stretch.. lazy friday morning giving way to an easy time at work with a mere 2 client calls... a night with dinner of nice adrak wali dal... a movie... a few long conversations..!

A coffee shop.. a book... a humongously satisfying chicken salad and a humongous glass of chilled cold coffee to keep it company! Such is the massage to the soul!

A cute li'l kid deciding to crawl all the way up to and stare up with his big blue eyes and go.. 'aaaa' and then you get on the floor too and its a crawlathon with folks looking on weirdly amused!

A maruti service station guy who falls for ur smile and does your repairs on priority and for free... ;)

A gas station guy who insists you participate in a lucky draw! And lo and behold you win a pen! (hey something's better than nothing.. and since I already have the jonga you think i care about the SX4 in the bumper prize? ,';o) )

2 beautiful golden labs sniffing their way up to you and deciding to settle down and play with you!

A dholki that you bought off the roadside and love to create ruckus with! A night with the dholki, a 2 string guitar, drumsticks only and lots of food and banter!

Orange juice as a famished you stands on the street getting chappals repaired and buying pirated dvd's!

~ and a count of days to meet the special people in your life! (oh yes.. and a clean clean cupboard! ... complete ain't it!) ;)

Saddi Jonga!

and oh well.. it's time for a formal introduction to saddi jonga! :)

This rugged li'l baby was driven from Baroda to Bangalore and Independence Day found her trundling along to Chennai for an Independence Jam and then to Tada falls for a night camp! 6 people, 1 Jonga and enough camping equipment for 12 people! Quite an inception eh? ;) This baby stepped into areas where even a safari wud've cringed! 

Since then she's been on various trips! And she's enjoyed every bit of them! This is one jongs who got her break drum changed within 4000 kms! And got a new tyre within 7000! :D (hey don;t stare! she's tough!!) Kabhi bas ek lambi drive.. kabhi airport ka ek geda... kabhi biryani ki khoj.. kabhi camping and trekking! She's already been there done that!! 

And then came the day when she got her shiny new stickers! Character had been added to the already existing attitude! If she likes you she'll literally drive like makkhan.. but if she takes the tiniest offence at the way you handle her... she will have her revenge! (as she did recently with Barwala who kept screaming this damn car is too smooth... so our li'l darling goes 'ha! now try putting me in gear!' :D The time he had was terror-ible!)

Like Mish often says... ye gaadi.. itna pyar hai iske peechhe na... none of of us can see anything happen to it!

Sometimes if she's not getting enough attention she throws a flat tyre tantrum!! And to give you an idea of the 'luv' around for this one here's a recent conversation:

me: happpyyyyyy holi! :)

 rathore: hey ... happppy holi to u as well

 caution: keep Jonga covered

 me: :D jonga aaj office jayegi ji

  and 3rd flat tyre in 3 weeks!

 rathore: opps..

 me: kal raat me hua!

  airport jaate jaate

  hee hee

 rathore: Jonga ..ek trip ke liye jidd kar rahi hai

 me: so to lag raha hai

  :)

me: :) chaliye ab hum egg masla banaate hain aur office ko jaate hai

  baaki ki baatein wahan se

  tyre bhi theek karana hai!

:D

 rathore: ok ...

  bye

  Jonga pe thoda red gulal laga dena

 me: :) ji

  bilkul

  jonga apne horn se aapko happy holi kehti hai

 rathore: ok ...main bhi jhappi leni ki koshis karta houn
and so... gaddi chaldi.. chhalaanga maardi! :)

clouds!

And the status messages of friends read:

Mini: Life is beautiful! :-)

Ammu: happppyyyy

Shweta: Dreaming my life away...

And then this plays in my head over and over and over:

Talking of status messages here's one on the list that'll make your day!!!!

Nishu: pee needs to be aimed .. not potty .. potty is atom bomb .. drop it anywhere .. it detonates everything :)