Did this after a longgggggg time! Though at many places could't get it right! :(

"Hello hello" here I ping
A dear Welcome, I will sing

Decided to step into a new life,
To take on a new role - as  a WIFE!!

The Wedding Day is on the 13th of August
Block your calender, first things first!

A little about my fiancee, if you care,
Read on if you have time to spare...

RamMohan, is his good name (Remember Rammy?? ;))
For movies, he is always a game... (like like :))) )
Shopping - not the best of his hobbies(dislike :-| )
Books, travelling, cooking - are his basic interests (like like  - esp the last one ;) )
Languages known - Telugu, English, C
Yes, a software engineer, you see!!
A native of Chittor,
His work, brings him to Bangalore!

As I look forward to the D-Day
 My warmest welcome to you all...
Make your presence, make my day
Most precious, most memorable!

SVK Mantap, Bangalore is the venue
Trace it with this map
I shall eagerly hope to see you
For, each of your presence is a feather in my cap!! 

A moment of joy,
A moment of bizarre happiness...
Gosh! they just fly by,
Leaving only succulent numbness...

A plethora of memories,
Stormed with emotions,
Brewed by dreams,
All into the ruins...

Moments, some as wonderful,
As wanting to be frozen forever...
While those some others to pass by,
As though they can appear never...

Life is a verdict
For every case on case...
Whats tough is to predict,
the face of the case,
If guilty of sins or innocence...

Inspired by my MOTIvation, I try to make a sincere effort to keep my MOTIvation levels as low as possible!! In the process, there are quite a number of challenges:

Challenge: How to say "no"!!

Result: I find myself suggesting someone else to enjoy eating Pizzas without bothering about the calories. And to MOTIvate her, I also had more than I could!!

Instance 2: My "never-to-eat-in-the-next-six-months" food list is not really much. It has Vada, chocs, ice creams, pasteries, fudge, chats and other junk.

Challenge: To keep some of my favourites (all time) on the list!!

Result: I find myself eating vada almost every alternate day. And as if one could overcome the urge to eat chocolates... Esp on seeing mails like "chocs at my desk" etc and I ofcourse consciously picked just one. However, I had to pick 2 more for my friend who wasnt at office that day. So that added upto 3. No big deal. (She forgot to ask about it. Not my fault!!) And the birthday celebrations!!

Instance 3: Its summmerrr!!! So what? Well, I understand this is the season for Ice creams to chill the heat!! Well, I did think of fresh fruit juice option.

Challenge: Risking the quality of water used for the juice. Though ice creams are better that way, it is challenging to accept the fact that the priority here is MOTIvation than taking chances with falling sick!

Result:After having a fruit juice, tender coconut etc, I can bet nothing could beat the effect of the icecreams... Hot choc fudge is the thing to try!!!!

Instance 4: Most recent one this was. That day I was supposed to fast, on account of Sankashta Chaturthi.

Challenge: To remember the date of Sankashta Chaturthi, which happens to be the same day when you are starving/unusually hungry and plan to have biryani!

Result: Had idly VADA, JUICE, choco drink, a heavy meal, Bhel puri, cutlet and again a heavy meal at home!! Never had struck me I had a whale of an appetite!!

Instance 5: Avoid outside food.

Challenge: One can choose not eat and still enjoy the company, just trying to explain ppl around that you really don't like to eat it that day (but your mouth is watering). Avoiding stupid looks of the people!

Result: Have been going to team lunch, team outing, birthday parties, Eat out with cab friends gang, eat out with colleagues and such!!

Hope my inspirations and attempts on working over this is a lot useful, or hope I just get deMOTIvated at the thought of MOTIvation!! :(

The British try to make a secret alliance with the Russians to get them to their support in a war against Germany(who plan to attack France). The Russian Anarchists defy the war as they feel the lives of poorer Russian mass would be sacrificed when they don't even understand its purpose. This man from St. Petersburg known as Feliks is one such anarchist who will find a way out to stop the secret treaty getting signed which will in turn save those innocent lives from the miseries and brutalities of the war. The idea is to kill the nephew of the Czar of Russia (Aleks) which will enrage the Czar to an extent to distrust the British and decline their support.

The story also involves a love triangle which will turn the plans of Feliks upside down with every murder attempt against Aleks. He finds Lydia his lady love, after 19 years and reminisces those youthful days of his. Lydia, however, would be married to Walden, a semi-official diplomat under the Conservative governments, the uncle of Aleks who is involved in the negotiations of the treaty. Feliks also discovers that Lydia would've given birth to his daughter who grows up with Walden, her "papa" and not surprisingly, she'd have derived the anarchist qualities of her real father.

ನಿನ್ನ ನಿರೀಕ್ಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಯ್ದಿಡಿಸಿ

ವಿಖರ ಗೊಂದಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಲುಕಿಸಿ

ಶಿಖರಧೆತ್ತರದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಸಿ

ಮರೆತು ಮರೆಯಾದೆಯ ಮಾಯಾವಿ!

ಹುಚ್ಚೆದ್ಧ ಬಿರುಗಾಳಿಯಂತೆ

ಗೊಗೆರೆಯುವ ಬಿರುಸಿನ ಮಳೆಯಂತೆ

ಹಚ್ಚ ಹಸುರಿನ ಮುಗುಳ್ನಗೆಯನ್ನು

ಕೊಚ್ಚಿಕೊಂಡು ಹೋಯ್ಢೆಯಾ, ಮಾಯಾವಿ!

ಗಗನದತ್ತ ಹಾಸಿವೆ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳು

ಹಾರಿ ಹೋದವ ತಿರುಗಿ ನೋಡಲೆಂದು

ನೋಟ ಜಾರಿಸಲು ಯತ್ನಿಸುತ್ತಿವೆ ರವಿಕಿರಣಗಳು

ಸಿಲುಕದೆ ಕಾಪಾಡಿದೆ - ನಿನ್ನ ಛಾಯೆ, ಮಾಯಾವಿ!

ಜೀವನದೂಗುತ್ತಿದೆ ನಿನ್ನ ಅನ್ವೇಷಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ

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ಕಣ್ಮರೆಯಾಗಿಯೇ ಕಾಡುತ್ತಲಿರುವೆಯಾ?

Thanks Vaheedaji for passing on the award "versatile blogger" to me! I feel very honoured especially when its coming from an ace artist and writer like you! :) I love your creative stuff and they way you make beautiful things by recycling unused stuff!

Not only did you present me with an award, but also gave this opportunity to brag about myself. ;) haha.. And here I go, trying to make the best use of the opportunity provided :P :D

Being obsessive about number 7, following are the 7 things about myself:

1. Strong minded, weak hearted.

5. Love to freak out sometimes and enjoy solitude some other times.

6. Run a mile for chocolates, shopping and watching movies!

7. Love to do anything new and different.

Vaheedaji, you got me into bragging mood, and now I feel I still have so much to say! :P Anyway thanks sooooo much again! :)))

I hadn't known flash mob would be so much fun! Yeah, as part of Intel's "Employee awareness campaign", there was a flash mob planned at the respective site's Cafe... Woww!! It was amazing fun!! I had never been part of it before and this was quite an experience.

Yesterday sat to watch the left over episodes of "My Gal" TV series.... There were about 8 more to go and gosh, how time flew I had no clue.... I was crazy to watch it back to back continuously skipping my lunch as well, such was the story. After a long long time, liked this kind of a story. There was humor, there was love, there was pain... all elements bundled together.... Enjoyed watching it... Liked its music as well... :)

Today read this book called "I too had a love story" by Ravinder Singh. The story was touching but narration wasn't great. Somehow , be it in real life or the reel life love stories, 75% of the story will be full of hurdles and pain; 15% of it is the happiness (usually in the beginning) and 10% in the end (if successful - the one which ends in marriage) otherwise, the rest 10% is the 10 times amplified pain. The story in this book, is supposed to be a real life one (of the author himself), and fortunately all was well the first 80%(could read it happily). And suddenly when in the state of euphoria, the fate jumps in from nowhere to explode all the happiness that far, into dust. So, two days just sped by like a flash of light and I have gotten into the thinking mode.

I wonder why things have to be the way they are... Why can't everything be fair and just. Why can't everyone be happy at the same time? Why should life be so uncertain, so unpredictable ? I just don't see any point in this!

If one has a purpose, he may not live till it is served; one who doesn't have, tries everything and lands up nowhere; sometimes there are too many dependencies to achieve a goal; so many compromises, so many justifications, so much of unwanted, unnecessary everything! Even if one is patient enough and does everything that has to be done, for his/other's sake, nothing yields out of it. Life just seems like a garbage!!

Am I only highlighting the negative aspects of life? I don't think so, or may be I am. But whatever the case, the dark side of it looks longer and broader than the brighter side. They just don't seem to be in equal proportion, which would've been a fair play!! There's a creepy grayer side too - the one which makes us think of all these, accumulate more and more of these stray thoughts and avert our focus. Well, trying not to fall for it, let me fix a barricade for these thoughts and take a stroll... Cya.....

With dark and dusk

Of gloom and despair,

Mind rotten and rust

The foray into getting lost

Perhaps, be the last thought

With time, the wounds effervesce

The path ahead could be luminescent

If not glowingly bright..

Walk past the past

Blemish not the present

Walk not on your shadow..

And circle the dark again!