Nostalgia!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
At the beginning with you
At The Beginning
For all those who matter, you know what I am tlaking about, who I am talking about and what I am saying ..Shit! I miss you guys ...
P.S Highlighted all our favoutire lines :)
We were strangers starting out on our journey
Never dreaming what we'd have to go through
Now here we are and I'm suddenly standing
At the beginning with you
No one told me I was going to find you
Unexpected what you did to my heart
When I lost hope
you were there to remind me
This is the start
(chorus)And Life is a road
and I want to keep going
Love is a river I want to keep flowing
Life is a road now and forever
A Wonderful journey
I'll be there when the world stops turning
I'll be there whenthe storm is through
In the end I wanna be standing
At the beginning with you
We were strangers on a crazy adventure
Never dreaming how our dreams would come true
Now here we stand unafraid of the future
At the beginning with you
(chorus)I knew there was somebody somewhere
Like me alone in the dark
I know that my dream will live on
I've been waiting so long
Nothing's gonna tear us apart
(chorus)In the end I wanna be standing at the beginning with you
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
10 NRI habits which PISS ME OFF !
10) Complain about the incessant heat!
After 3 months in the US, you come to India for 3 days and suddenly you can’t deal with the temperature? You friggin lived here for the first 25 years of your life!! Remember?
What is even more pissing off, is that the provincial gulf-returns, from Qwait, Dubai Muscat who complain about the heat? Yeah sure, it’s snowing there in the dessert?
9) The act of surprise!!
Oh wow, you actually get Coke in India? You have a Marks and Spencers? There is KFC here!! Man!! This place has really changed!!
No we are still 350 years behind, we are the land of snake-charmers and elephants , remember ?
8) Their constant need for mineral water!
Believe me, you don’t have to start every sentence with “ Is this water boiled?” remember the times in school and college where u ate off a pushcart, a la’ Kaiyandhi Bhavan? And contrary to your belief, we Indians do not have a penchant for contracting deadly diseases and so (surprise!) we try and drink water, which is safe!
7) The dismay at power-cuts!! Friggin India.. Still so backward!!
Yeah we do have power-cuts, so what now? At least we have safe neighborhoods, which is more than what I can say about your countries! And yeah just for your information, we don’t particularly love power-cuts and black-outs either, and believe me ..it is really not as bad as it was 5 years ago, so just shut up !
6) Their universal proclamation : Indian politics is all shit….. ugh!
You are living in the country where Bush is serving a second term and Arnold Schwarzenegger is a governor!! Really … you shouldn’t be talking!!
5) Their really mixed-up, annoying fashion sense
Yes I understand that you just discovered banana republic and GAP but no I do not understand how you could possibly think that wearing a $100 T-shirt with bright red shorts and teaming it rubber chappals from BATA is ‘cool’!
4) Sudden love towards ‘spiritual enlightenment’
We all know that you are not spiritual, who uou trying to fool now ? You never ever learnt Yoga the figgin 25 years you stayed and it’s not like you religiously hit the temple everyday either ..and suddenly you become foren-return and start preaching bout the benefits of Osho, Ravi Shankar, Yoga and want to make a trip to half a dozen temples to study spiritualism ..
3) The fact that they come back to India looking for a wife
If you so want an American life.. then why not an American wife ?? You have all the fun in the world and then unfailingly come back every year because you want a nice, obedient and yeah HOMELY ( wht the hell does that mean ? )Indian woman!! And then complain about her not being broad-minded and open and bla!! I mean make up your mind .. you want homely or non-homely .. ugh .. whatever !!
2) Health food fad !
Is this low-fat? Is that low-cal ? for heaven’s sake you spent 25 years gorging on oily parathas and eating rasam-sadham dripping with ghee and lapped it all up quite well!
1) THEIR STUPID FAKE ACCENT!
I don’t understand this … you send 25 years In India without acquiring an “indian accent” but you pick up an American accent in just 15 days !! Whats worse is the rare breed of people who pick up Brit-accents after staying in the US , American accents in Dubai ( shouldn’t you be picking up a mallu accent then) and yeah the Whooper … Brit accents after short 2-days official tours to the UK !
Note: the author ( yours truly) doesn’t have anything against NRIs and I really don’t think all of them are that bad, but please if you have made more than 3 out the top 10 listed statements at least 25 + times during your 3-day visit to India, Time to go drown your head in a bucket of cold water :) ( Eeeerrrr.. m not saying what I really wanted to say .. but well ! )
After 3 months in the US, you come to India for 3 days and suddenly you can’t deal with the temperature? You friggin lived here for the first 25 years of your life!! Remember?
What is even more pissing off, is that the provincial gulf-returns, from Qwait, Dubai Muscat who complain about the heat? Yeah sure, it’s snowing there in the dessert?
9) The act of surprise!!
Oh wow, you actually get Coke in India? You have a Marks and Spencers? There is KFC here!! Man!! This place has really changed!!
No we are still 350 years behind, we are the land of snake-charmers and elephants , remember ?
8) Their constant need for mineral water!
Believe me, you don’t have to start every sentence with “ Is this water boiled?” remember the times in school and college where u ate off a pushcart, a la’ Kaiyandhi Bhavan? And contrary to your belief, we Indians do not have a penchant for contracting deadly diseases and so (surprise!) we try and drink water, which is safe!
7) The dismay at power-cuts!! Friggin India.. Still so backward!!
Yeah we do have power-cuts, so what now? At least we have safe neighborhoods, which is more than what I can say about your countries! And yeah just for your information, we don’t particularly love power-cuts and black-outs either, and believe me ..it is really not as bad as it was 5 years ago, so just shut up !
6) Their universal proclamation : Indian politics is all shit….. ugh!
You are living in the country where Bush is serving a second term and Arnold Schwarzenegger is a governor!! Really … you shouldn’t be talking!!
5) Their really mixed-up, annoying fashion sense
Yes I understand that you just discovered banana republic and GAP but no I do not understand how you could possibly think that wearing a $100 T-shirt with bright red shorts and teaming it rubber chappals from BATA is ‘cool’!
4) Sudden love towards ‘spiritual enlightenment’
We all know that you are not spiritual, who uou trying to fool now ? You never ever learnt Yoga the figgin 25 years you stayed and it’s not like you religiously hit the temple everyday either ..and suddenly you become foren-return and start preaching bout the benefits of Osho, Ravi Shankar, Yoga and want to make a trip to half a dozen temples to study spiritualism ..
3) The fact that they come back to India looking for a wife
If you so want an American life.. then why not an American wife ?? You have all the fun in the world and then unfailingly come back every year because you want a nice, obedient and yeah HOMELY ( wht the hell does that mean ? )Indian woman!! And then complain about her not being broad-minded and open and bla!! I mean make up your mind .. you want homely or non-homely .. ugh .. whatever !!
2) Health food fad !
Is this low-fat? Is that low-cal ? for heaven’s sake you spent 25 years gorging on oily parathas and eating rasam-sadham dripping with ghee and lapped it all up quite well!
1) THEIR STUPID FAKE ACCENT!
I don’t understand this … you send 25 years In India without acquiring an “indian accent” but you pick up an American accent in just 15 days !! Whats worse is the rare breed of people who pick up Brit-accents after staying in the US , American accents in Dubai ( shouldn’t you be picking up a mallu accent then) and yeah the Whooper … Brit accents after short 2-days official tours to the UK !
Note: the author ( yours truly) doesn’t have anything against NRIs and I really don’t think all of them are that bad, but please if you have made more than 3 out the top 10 listed statements at least 25 + times during your 3-day visit to India, Time to go drown your head in a bucket of cold water :) ( Eeeerrrr.. m not saying what I really wanted to say .. but well ! )
Sunday, October 21, 2007
10 ways to figure out you have become FAT
10 ways to figure out you are FAT
10) People begin to refer to you as a well ‘normal-size’ as opposed to the previous ‘skinny’ and ‘slim’.
9) Despite sucking your breath in, you still can’t pull your 26-inch levis above your thighs.
8) You prefer ‘smart Indo-western’ wear to the usual ‘jeans and t-shirts’.
7) Fat people say things like “ Lets hit the gym together” or “We should really get into shape”
6) You religiously swap to “DIET COKE” – like it is going to make a difference!
5) You turn your nose up at skinny jeans and leggings even though they are in vogue , because you think – “they look silly”
4) You spend a bomb on a body-sculpting corset and then don’t wear it because it gets uncomfortably tight after lunch.
3) You stop looking into the mirror as often as you used to.
2) You look at old pictures and exclaim loudly “ I was so skinny” , you also stare at other slim women and classify them as ‘anorexic’
1) YOUR GRANDMOTHER FINALLY BEGINS TO APPROVE OF YOUR SIZE AND SAYS – AH! NOW YOU LOOK NICE! ( A sure sign of loads of extra flab)
If you experience even five of the above ten symptoms, it’s well.. Time to hit the gym!
Kaavya Krishna
9) Despite sucking your breath in, you still can’t pull your 26-inch levis above your thighs.
8) You prefer ‘smart Indo-western’ wear to the usual ‘jeans and t-shirts’.
7) Fat people say things like “ Lets hit the gym together” or “We should really get into shape”
6) You religiously swap to “DIET COKE” – like it is going to make a difference!
5) You turn your nose up at skinny jeans and leggings even though they are in vogue , because you think – “they look silly”
4) You spend a bomb on a body-sculpting corset and then don’t wear it because it gets uncomfortably tight after lunch.
3) You stop looking into the mirror as often as you used to.
2) You look at old pictures and exclaim loudly “ I was so skinny” , you also stare at other slim women and classify them as ‘anorexic’
1) YOUR GRANDMOTHER FINALLY BEGINS TO APPROVE OF YOUR SIZE AND SAYS – AH! NOW YOU LOOK NICE! ( A sure sign of loads of extra flab)
If you experience even five of the above ten symptoms, it’s well.. Time to hit the gym!
Kaavya Krishna
Saturday, July 7, 2007
What I learnt from Sivaji!
As a person I have two primary passions : education and cinema !Taking this into consideration , it is really no surprise that my proposed career goal is making cinema a medium of education . All that said , obviously June 15th drew in for me with much excitement , it was the world-wide premiere of Sivaji and being an adrant “Thalaivar” fan I had the privilege of catching the movie.
Well , it being a rajni movie would have definitely been reason enough for mje to go and watch it but it being a “rajni movie which throws light” on education really drew me to watch it. I was fascinated , cheered , whistled and had a great time and Sivaji went back to the back my mind and another issue cropped up .
Why did the Ambanis start an International school and not a free education center?
Today as an very proud Indian, I can tell you one thing – there is only one future for this country and that involves education at the grass-root level, it is only when we all are educated , can read-write and comprehend what is happening around us that we can stop blindly taking shit from a disgusting governance and nod our heads in dismay as we see 30% of our earnings being squandered away to the pockets of our politicians.
For me it would be a very simple idea, if the government does not want to privatize the running of government schools then why can’t corporate open free schools of their own? If they can do it for their staff and employees, then why not for the poor?
Can the Ambanis not afford to open a free school? Or is it that they needed ANOTHER moneymaking venture?? Kinda hard to believe that it is the latter don’t you think?
Coming to think of it, makes a lot of sense, the whole picture after you see Sivaji, maybe Thalaivar’s movies are not just candy-floss, as for the Ambanis .. Shankar are you listening ? Think we just found the subject for your nest movie!
Well , it being a rajni movie would have definitely been reason enough for mje to go and watch it but it being a “rajni movie which throws light” on education really drew me to watch it. I was fascinated , cheered , whistled and had a great time and Sivaji went back to the back my mind and another issue cropped up .
Why did the Ambanis start an International school and not a free education center?
Today as an very proud Indian, I can tell you one thing – there is only one future for this country and that involves education at the grass-root level, it is only when we all are educated , can read-write and comprehend what is happening around us that we can stop blindly taking shit from a disgusting governance and nod our heads in dismay as we see 30% of our earnings being squandered away to the pockets of our politicians.
For me it would be a very simple idea, if the government does not want to privatize the running of government schools then why can’t corporate open free schools of their own? If they can do it for their staff and employees, then why not for the poor?
Can the Ambanis not afford to open a free school? Or is it that they needed ANOTHER moneymaking venture?? Kinda hard to believe that it is the latter don’t you think?
Coming to think of it, makes a lot of sense, the whole picture after you see Sivaji, maybe Thalaivar’s movies are not just candy-floss, as for the Ambanis .. Shankar are you listening ? Think we just found the subject for your nest movie!
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Alone and no idea why !!
Have u ever felt alone ??Really ? Have you ?? Felt an emptiness inside you ?? Something which noone can fill ??? Not yr best friends , not your parents and sometimes not even yr husbands, boyfriends etc etc etc …Well , If u have read-one and if you haven’t I should say congratulations .. u are very very very very lucky !!!
Well , I fall under the first category … there are these days .. These days when u feel so lost, lonely, alone, down, sad, unsatisfied…. and the worst part is that you have absolutely no idea why !!You don’t feel like talking to people , you don’t feel like well doing anything and then everything u eat begins to feel like cardboard , you stare blankly at the screen ( computer, television ) , a 50 songs have passed on yr I-pod and u still think you are listening to the same one you heard an hour ago !! The u lift yrself with super-human effort and go to the loo and sit there for hours staring at the ceiling, looking the tiny cracks the cob-web which was due to be cleaned over a month ago, well then u slowly graduate to the couch in the living room … stuff yr face with everything possible unhealthy ( cheese fries , coke, chocolate)..and just crash there for the rest of the day. Occasionally flipping thru all the channels on TV with the same dead-pan expression and a boredom without limits.
The next day however you wake up, totally fresh, happy and normal with absolutely no trace what so ever of the previous except for the recollection of a sad waste of a whole day ( 24 hrs ) and this continues except for every once in a while this redundant, lonely, sad day pops in !!
Tell me, do you know why this happens?? and you think there will ever be a person who has that much control as to sway yr emotions make you happy and smile despite it being “one of those days”- honestly I don’t!! Well I have had some of the happiest time with my friends who have been my strength, support, joy and always been thr even during the slightest forewarning of misery but yet during one of these days “I JUST DON’T WANNA TLAK ABOUT IT” because I don’t know what the heck that feeling is … ppl trying to help gets on my nerves and I just wanna be left alone to wallow in my own misery and sorrow .Tell me if we are really so happy and thrilled with life .. and the course it is taking .. then WHY DOES THIS FEELING COME ? WHY WHY WHY ???
I don’t think I will ever know but I know those days , those days when it is just “one of those days” , those days which is worse then PMS , worse than a metallica concert with a head-ache .. those days … days which we all go through and never know why !!
Well , I fall under the first category … there are these days .. These days when u feel so lost, lonely, alone, down, sad, unsatisfied…. and the worst part is that you have absolutely no idea why !!You don’t feel like talking to people , you don’t feel like well doing anything and then everything u eat begins to feel like cardboard , you stare blankly at the screen ( computer, television ) , a 50 songs have passed on yr I-pod and u still think you are listening to the same one you heard an hour ago !! The u lift yrself with super-human effort and go to the loo and sit there for hours staring at the ceiling, looking the tiny cracks the cob-web which was due to be cleaned over a month ago, well then u slowly graduate to the couch in the living room … stuff yr face with everything possible unhealthy ( cheese fries , coke, chocolate)..and just crash there for the rest of the day. Occasionally flipping thru all the channels on TV with the same dead-pan expression and a boredom without limits.
The next day however you wake up, totally fresh, happy and normal with absolutely no trace what so ever of the previous except for the recollection of a sad waste of a whole day ( 24 hrs ) and this continues except for every once in a while this redundant, lonely, sad day pops in !!
Tell me, do you know why this happens?? and you think there will ever be a person who has that much control as to sway yr emotions make you happy and smile despite it being “one of those days”- honestly I don’t!! Well I have had some of the happiest time with my friends who have been my strength, support, joy and always been thr even during the slightest forewarning of misery but yet during one of these days “I JUST DON’T WANNA TLAK ABOUT IT” because I don’t know what the heck that feeling is … ppl trying to help gets on my nerves and I just wanna be left alone to wallow in my own misery and sorrow .Tell me if we are really so happy and thrilled with life .. and the course it is taking .. then WHY DOES THIS FEELING COME ? WHY WHY WHY ???
I don’t think I will ever know but I know those days , those days when it is just “one of those days” , those days which is worse then PMS , worse than a metallica concert with a head-ache .. those days … days which we all go through and never know why !!
Lessons I learnt !!( The hard way )
Long time , no blog ….
After what has effectively been the worst week of my 21- yr old life, m back to write abt how the experience made me a wiser and well ugh.. more mature person !
Well here are the lessons I learnt :
#1 CINDERELLA – IS A FAIRY TALE !! NO SUCH THINGS HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE AND YES .. FAIR GOD-MOTHER – DO NOT –EXIST !!
#2 YOU CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE , ALL THE TIME AND ALL
THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME BUT U CANT FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE
ALL THE TIME 1 ( o believe me … very very profound this statement )
#3 WELL U CAN WANNA DO A THOUSAND THINGS , BUT U AINT GETTING NOWHERE DOING THEM , UNLESS U GET ON ARSE AND ACTUALLY DO THEM !! U GOTTA WORK IF U WANT STUFF TO HAPPEN
#4 WELL , DO NOT ASSUME STUFF .. U MIGHT BE THE MOST CHARMING,INTELLIGENT,SUPER BEING ON EARTH BUT BELIVE ME NOT EVERYONE SHARES YR OPINION … eerrrr actually noone does !!
#5 SOMETIMES .. THE BEST WAY OUT IS TO JUST SHUT UP !!
( Actually make that all the time !! )
( no actually make that lesson no.1 ! )
After what has effectively been the worst week of my 21- yr old life, m back to write abt how the experience made me a wiser and well ugh.. more mature person !
Well here are the lessons I learnt :
#1 CINDERELLA – IS A FAIRY TALE !! NO SUCH THINGS HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE AND YES .. FAIR GOD-MOTHER – DO NOT –EXIST !!
#2 YOU CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE , ALL THE TIME AND ALL
THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME BUT U CANT FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE
ALL THE TIME 1 ( o believe me … very very profound this statement )
#3 WELL U CAN WANNA DO A THOUSAND THINGS , BUT U AINT GETTING NOWHERE DOING THEM , UNLESS U GET ON ARSE AND ACTUALLY DO THEM !! U GOTTA WORK IF U WANT STUFF TO HAPPEN
#4 WELL , DO NOT ASSUME STUFF .. U MIGHT BE THE MOST CHARMING,INTELLIGENT,SUPER BEING ON EARTH BUT BELIVE ME NOT EVERYONE SHARES YR OPINION … eerrrr actually noone does !!
#5 SOMETIMES .. THE BEST WAY OUT IS TO JUST SHUT UP !!
( Actually make that all the time !! )
( no actually make that lesson no.1 ! )
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