I Love

I love to travel. And not just to watch the important points in a place, but to feel that place. To roam around, to look around, to understand what makes a place so special. I love to know the history of the place i'm visiting. I love to observe how people behave in this another part of the world. I love to interact with locals and hear their views.

I love to read. Anything which is written crisply, not the kinds that go in circles explaining things. I love short stories as well as voluminous novels, biographies as well as scientific theories, craft books as well as coffee table books.

I love photographs. I am not too good as a photographer but i do like to try whenever out :D My husband thinks i'm good in noticing interesting & clickable things, but the outcome is never what i would want it to be. but since i anyways donot spend too much time in learning the finer nuances of photography, i'll have to be content with whatever beauty i can capture through my lens & my eyes :D Other than art-photography, i really like to have memories through them. Even a cousin commented on the VOLUME of photographs we have from our honeymoon.. :) she never even clicked a quarter of them..

I love to craft. Oh, I just love my artsy craftsy gene. I am mostly into paper crafts, but have pursued other forms in past (when i had more time with me ) . With so little time on my hands with my taxing job,  ATC blog has been a saver. It requires little time since amount of detailing needed is not too much. and i can easily manage that on weekends. I have a HUGE collection of embellishments and papers, I buy them at twice the speed at which i consume them. I am already running out of space :D And i have decently big collection of paper-craft books. When i am not creating, I love to go through them. There was a time when i was not creating at all, in those times, I used to carry one book from my collection to my office and go through them during traveling (Which BTW is about 3 hrs daily ).

 I love jewelery. I love jewelery BIG time!!! And every piece i own should have something unique in them. I love all stone-studded ones, i dont like much of plain old gold . My favorite possession being my mum's wedding necklace & earring set, which i got as a gift on my wedding :). They might look old fashioned to some, but i so love to wear them. I once was thinking of revamping them into something modern, but then on an occasion i got such lovely compliments for them that i decided to wear them as it is. I wont ever get something like them again, gold jewelery is simply not made that ways now.

I love to shop. I usually like to shop in malls or some air-conditioned environment when i am looking for clothes. I generally never buy clothes without trying them on, and never from road-side stalls. Road-side stalls for me exists only to buy junk jewelery, craft accessories, hand-made products and such things.
I love yoga. Its been a little while since i started going for Power yoga and oh girl! I am in love with it. It has made me a little more flexible and a little more active. And a lot more connected with myself. Thats difficult to explain i guess.

Driving skills!

I drove to office today. Now, you might ask, whats so special about it? Well, its usually my husband who drives the 80-90 odd kms to & fro daily, I only drive from his office to mine about 8 kms away.. I rarely drive full distance on my own.
I ended up doing a lot of thinking today while driving, and while listening to the radio sometimes. I remember the time when i was  really really anxious while driving. Had to focus on clutch, gear, accelerator, stearing wheel and the neighboring cars ALL together. And that was a huge deterrent to allow me to drive.
Somewhere down the line, I guess i became so habitual of driving that i stopped trying too hard on everything i just mentioned.. :D I enjoy driving now, though only if there're no traffic jams and i get to drive on 5th gear all the time.. :) :) :)
I truly feel its an accomplishment for me to drive so naturally now, my feet respond automatically, my hand moves the steering without even thinking about it. I drive at 100kmph on highway without flinching about speed. And I Love it. I never believed i would be driving like this someday.
Oh and the thanks goes to my husband for pushing me into driving.  Thats another matter that he pushed me so he won't have to drop me to my office everyday :D He hated to drive that extra distance :D

I kept my promise

Well, I kept my promise, i made to myself. I ordered the 4-book set of Twilight, Started reading the day it arrived, i think it was 4-march, thursday. Its monday today and i have already been through the first two(twilight and new moon) and have started the third one(eclipse). And i feel so pleased about the fact that my reading speed is still a no-compare to anyone i know of.

I also started working on the March ATC using buttons.. but somehow my heart was deeply set with Bella & Edward ( the main characters of the books i'm currently reading) and so i quickly left off that and continued with the books. And oddly, i didnot even miss my laptop.. It was not switched ON for two complete days, which i think was a first for my laptop, to be not turned-ON at all in whole weekend.. :D

And it was fun watching my husband next to me trying to coax me out of the book i was deeply buried in. I got threats of putting off the lights, warning about not to go beyond a certain page number and (mildly) violent attacks on my book.. Most irritating action of hin  being when he would just close my book without even letting me bookmark it.. I hate to find where i was before.

And i think next time i'm going to turn off his Playstation while he is still playing :D :D *grinning* *With an evil smile* :)

Bhaang experience

So many people have told me their bhaang experiences in past that i was so excited about having to say something of my own on that topic.. Had a glass of bhaang this holi, but guess what!!!! Somehow i managed not to have any experience at all!!! came home and slept.. and that is it :( slept for loooong, thats another thing.. but other than that, i have no story to tell..

But then, there's always next time :)

Getting married is no easy task..

I never thought a marriage could be such a TIRING affair.. oodles of shopping!! Well, I always believed i can never get tired of shopping, now i AM.. Shopping ke naam pe hi i remember those gruelling sessions.. Once in a while it was enjoyable.. But I have been doing this daily, with a parade of people around me, telling me that what i like is not good, and what i dont like is suiting me.. phew!! and getting to a common ground takes so much effort and patience :)
And there is so much more in a wedding.. selecting wedding invitation cards, filling up boxes with sweets, wrapping all the wedding gifts, listening to everyone else's "riwaz" and then actually following them :) Telling everyone about the color of my weddind day dress, from its color,its style, its kind of embroidery,draping, down to its cost.. Everyone around keep teasing me about sushant (my fiance) and funnily i enjoy those moments..

Farewell !!

NO, I am not saying farewell to Blogger.. This post is about a note, a friend of mine wrote when it was farewell time from my PG degree. I just found it in my computer archives and thought i'll post it here :)

Fair looks!! resembles a kashmiri girl, but she is a Punjabi Kudi with curly hair and long long earrings..
A fundoo girl who never takes tension for academics and give confidence to others to be cool and optimistic. A social girl with lots & lots of frens. Her jack finally made our ESD project especially ur stepper motor to run.
She is always logged into gtalk, never sign-out. Whenever she doesnt find anyone to talk to, she simply knocks my door & start idhar-udhar ki baatein. Total time-pass!!!
Friends, you might find shelfs of books, cassettes in every room, but she has a unique collection of earrings!!!!! She has a collection of long matching earringd which goes with every top, shirt, shawl, saree... and all other outfits.
This girl is too fond of music. While chatting, studying, sleeping, music always remain her companion. But she is not aware how much disturbance she is creating for the girl at her back room. you can guess her room in our whole wing through the beats.
But in her room, you will never find things in their place except her laptop. You may find a lot of junk in her trunk but a minute later you will realize how valuable junk is, when she transform them to one of her innovative ideas.
One of her too pretty saying, when you are deep in sleep in afternoon at around 2p.m., you'll get a knock at your door and she'll say, "bucket please!! ".. If you are a bit luckier she'll also say, "mug please!! ". You look pretty innocent when you say this.. :)
She is good in painting, she is good in dancing, she is good in photography.. with a very beautiful approach to see the world. Well to her credits, goes a death defined stunts like dancing SALSA in pencil heels..
I'm sure by now you have guessed to whom i am indicatings.. She is Dolly from Delhi !!