To be happy with what we choose.

I have always wondered what it takes to be happy,
& the greatest ambition I have ever harboured is to be truly happy. I guess when it's late at night, ideally you should be sleeping, & your brain is fogged, then its not the best time to blog....... but sometimes, its okay. That's highly sleep induced logic that justifies ramblings for me. Well, what fun in growing old, if one cannot speak disjointed thoughts & seem wise simulataneously?! So someone quotes on facebook, a quote by yet someone else famous in their own right, That the wise man cannot believe that the only purpose of life is to be happy, life must have some higher purpose, & must be of service to fellowmen, & many more similar sounding words. In all honesty when I read this all I could think was, wow, how great a thought & how meaningless even my life's goal: to be happy. But it is not easy to write off a life time's ambition, just by reading great quotations. So I strive each day, to fill moments with the burden of joy, to do those little duties that make for continuous supply of happiness, & to not do those little things that takes away from this bundle of bliss...

There's a mouse in my house......

Well that is the most inspiring title I could think to give this note regarding the latest occupant of my itsy bity teeeny weenie, yellow & brown kitchen-ieeee... The mouse in concern had come as a tiny little harmless jerry, & I kept hoping it would go away.. it would go away terrified hearing my terrified shrieks each time I saw it's tiny tail.. for the rest of it simply vanished before I could get a good look. But stubborn creature.. It simply stayed & fattened itself on the fat of the land of my tiny kitchen & now it's a big mouse that simply lords over my space.. Leaving half eaten rotis for me & the family, & still whisking out of sight each time we take to the broom to chase our house guest away... Oh atitihi tum kab jaoge? Kab jaoge? Kab Jaoge? :-0

what is love.........baby dont hurt me!

• Is it not ironical that love & hurt is almost always said in the same breath?


• Does it not follow that one should always then desire the freedom of being single?


• & is not true that every one I know are happy being tied by love than liberated by singledom?

Just came back from an amazing night out with cousins only, & all could think of was: Ah the joys of being single with the assurance of being commited :-)

The passport.......Is it valid, is it?

Scare after scare after scare.. Monday evening, Chandan informs me my passport has been expired for the last 4 yrs. We look totally shocked, kaise, I mean wasn't it issued for 10 yrs? But it clearly states that it's cancelled. Is it? Then..............? Ring Ring Ring... Calling friends & family left, right & centre. Do you know any govt official who can issue me a verification certificate? I need a tatkal passport. Ya, thank heavens, I haven't booked my flight tickets. Oh! You do but he's out of town? Finally my father sends me to his friend, who is director in supplied dept., Indian govt. I feel very blessed to be so well connected, with a dash of cynicism. My father knows this guy, can he be actually helpful?! We get the verification certificate. Run to local office for getting spellings corrected on Voter ID. Need an identification, who am I? Reach the SDMO office, & guess what? It's Shindh New Year, what ever that means. To me it meant, an wasted journey, for the office babus were on holiday. Go back on wednesday, & get my work done with amazing speed, skipping lines & the whole thing. Why? Maybe because I'm a single female, willing to say "please bhaiya" to the right bhaiyas in charge. I totally support discrimination based on sex, & have always benefitted from this disctinction. You see, God bless chivalrous men, & may I not jinx myself. I would say Amen to that, but am really not cool with blasphemy, even in small doses. Wednesday afternoon sees me in Notary office, getting my Annexture I printed on stamp paper, clearly stating my travel will not cause security threat to my nation or the nations that I'm visiting. & I have a totally new self respect for my hidden potential. The Notary office guy thinks it is his duty to charge me 450 INr for what costs 120 INR since I'm single unaccompanied female. See the discrimination based on sex is at work again, but I know I still have the last laugh. Not only the Notary guy does my work at super speed, he is quite sad when I give him INR 450 without much haggling, he could have got more only if he had asked. His crestfallen expression was worth the not bargaining. Go to husband's office, to get all docs scanned, & Husband comes back with query, "So, how much did you spend in terms of money along with sun burnt skin that you got for free?" Me: "roughly 1 K." Husband: "Good, cause I'm saving you remaining money & head ache of applying. Your passport is valid, we just did not flip the pages & note the validity extension stamp." Me: "Oh!................Oh!" We go out for diiner to clelebrate..... spend some more K eating delicious Italian food at Theos. Next day, my husband informs me his US visa will reach him in 5 week's time, which will give us about 2 weeks to plan our trip if at all. & I'm back on the pendulam, I'm going I'm not. I'm going now. I'm going later......... :-)

Happiness Undiluted

2nd April 2011... India lifts cricket world cup trophy... Harbhajan cries like newly crowned Ms. Universe........ Dhoni tells it's Gambhir's fault he did not get the century in his acceptance speech,

Virendra Sehwag being opener goes to collect his memento first despite name being way down on the alphabetical order........

Yuvraj Singh dedicates his fine form & performace to Sachin.. many a girl friend's aspiration shattered...

& it rocks to be on the winning side!

:-)