A RUBIX CUBE

My blog's weding :P :P

2008-09-17T13:02:00.004+05:30

Contemplating how things have been a year ago and comparing them with how things have changed over time…I can say one of the best things I’ve done during this one year is to start blogging. Thanks to some anonymous profile on orkut which had a profile name saying *Read my blog* that eventually inspired me to write my own. And thus began Divvu’s journey into the Bloggerland. My first blog post –Peace of mind. Today it seems strange enough that I’ve entered into this land even without introducing myself. It does give an idea about the depth of frustration I was going through back then and the need to express my resentment through some means .

To Speak of the immense change that Blogging has brought into my life is a difficult task. Today it’s a different ME altogether. Ok, I know some people here are all geared up to throw surprised faces at me if I said that I’ve grown up :P. So let me put it this way – I’ve STARTED to understand things and people better…if not completely, to an extent I stopped whining about people not being able to reciprocate feelings, I’ve made some really sweet friends here who will hopefully last for my lifetime, and most of all I’ve come to believe that I can write poems :P.

If you guys are wondering the actual intention behind these talks…there are two really special occasions that call for celebrations.

The first being my first blog’s first birthday ;). A RUBIX CUBE will always remain close to my heart for it gave me the best gift I could ever ask for…the ones that I call -my friends.

Now for the second… on this auspicious day THE RUBIX CUBE is getting married to one of its closest and dearest friends THE WHITE WINDOW. To read Rubix Cube’s love letter to White Window…click here later. So people I hope each of you will come over with your near and dear ones and not to forget with lots of gifts for the new and FIRST couple of bloggerville. Thus creating a history. Your presence and blessings are much needed. As for who is the bride and who is the bridegroom…that’s for you to decide/assume ;)

That’s not all…My sweet lenu janu is being my first ever guest blogger…to write something about my blog and myself and how our blogs have marked the first steps of a budding friendship.

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Once upon a time I happened to come across one blog. I don’t actually remember how I got there but I know why I didn’t leave it. The girl in the blog was asking questions, which I thought I knew answers for. Not that I still have these answers or think they were right ones but back then I thought I could share some experience and wisdom with that girl.

Time showed she got more wisdom than I at times, just like many of us happens to be confused about life every now and then.

divya said...

@lena

I dont deserve to get blogrolled though :P i dont get to access net very often...but thanQ so much for the privilege :)

Isn’t she cute, huh? As if I asked her if she wants to be blogrolled. I just did. And never regretted that. And I know I never will. Her posts reflect her personality very well. She might seem as a crazy/mad little girl who asks weird questions and has a lot of fun while replying to your comments in the most unexpected way. But even then one can see how really wise she is, what sensitive topics she picks up and how caring this girl is.

She is so much honest with expressing her feelings. When she loves, it shows, when she is sad, you can see it, when she is happy, it is obvious. Each word in her posts is real, and if one cares enough to see behind the words, he will see the real Div, the girl who loves, who cares, who understands but never misses to have some fun.

I went through her first posts today and memories flashed. The first post I ever read there, first comments, words that marked the beginning of a wonderful friendship. Words that went straight to the heart and never left it.

There is not a single day when I don’t check on her blog, sometimes even before I check on my own.

And there is not a single day when I don’t thank myself for landing up on her blog that day. This place brought so many positive emotions in my life every time I needed it. And be it Rubix Cube or Divvu in Bloggerland, that’s the place that deserves to grow old together with us. One year is just not enough!

Happy Birthday! :)

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And here's the love letter that White window has written for Rubix cube ;)

“Once upon a time in bloggerland, there lived beautiful blog “White window”. Her peaceful n beautiful life took a U-turn the moment her eyes fell on “Rubix Cube”. For the very first time she got someone who complemented n completed her in every single aspect. :P . Wowwwwwwwwwww the life was never the same again. It was changed and the change was the best thing that can ever happen to her in life. Yes she was in love with “Rubix Cube” and so was he. They solemnized their love and decided to become one on a very special day. And what other day can be a special one other than their birthday!

Every blog in the bloggerland including them were surprised to know that they share the same birthday i.e. 17.09.07. Without wasting a single minute they proposed to each other and in the presence of their guardian blogs: “peace of soul” n “sameera’s haven” and other blogs they tied the knot that very day. There’s been the first ever love-story of bloggerland and this way they became immortals in the pages of bloggerland’s history.

And they lived happily ever after….”

Dear Rubix Cube, after many years from now, this is one of the ways the future generations of bloggerland will remember us. Isn’t it just great that we share the same birthday though we came to know about it just one day before in spite of our owners/ creators/moms being best of friends? Peace of Soul says that it seems we know each other even before we met.

U can’t imagine how happy, excited and honored I am to know that my life partner is none other than “You” who holds the biggest slice of my heart within him.

Yes darling, we definitely will stay together to fight every storm that comes through our way.

“The more you play, the harder I get” will never come in our life. For us it is only “Just Love ME” and the “Escape route to my Soul” is there for you forever and ever..

*I LOVE YOU*

Yours and only yours forever,

White Window

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If words were enough to thank Janu and white window for the kind posts they have written for my blog and also for being there with me, loving and caring like real sisters…I would gift them a dictionary of sweet words :P. But I guess that’s not needed, as they already know what they mean to me.

2008-06-07T21:47:00.003+05:30

Aaj tumhare liye kuch likhne ka man kar raha hai. I was trying to sleep this afternoon but could not :(. Tum mere khayalo se jaati hi nahi :P Aksar sapno me aati ho (cheekte chillate hue :P ). Har roz tumhare hi missed calls aur msgs ka intezaar karti hoon. Poora din… raat ke intezaar me kaat ti hoon – ki tum online kab aaogi aur tumse chat kab hogi…aur tumhare hugs and muuuaahhhss kab milenge ya kab tum hug n kiss kar sakoon :P

Seriously sami, u r like an elder sister to me. May be the first one I got close to on blogger. With you everything is fun (even fighting). But tumhe manana is world ka sabse mushkil kaam hai. I wonder kabir kaisa karta hoga :P

For heaven’s sake stop comparing yourself with some A’s and S’s. Koi tumsa nahi :P tum meri janu ho. Tumse hi din hota hai. Surmayi shaam aati hai. Tumse hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Har ghadi saans aati, zindagi kehlati hai-tumse hiiiiiiii tumse hiiiiii. Main kahin bhi jaati hoon. Tumse hi mil jati hu..tumse hiiiiiiiiiiiii tumse hiiiiiiiiiii. Shor me khamoshi hai, thodi si behoshi hai…tumse hiiiiiiiiii tumse hiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

Tum bohot meethi ho (lekin kwality walls ka naya chocolate brownie cone tumse zyada meethi hai :P).

Love you :P

Paradox

2008-06-04T00:59:00.004+05:30

You are in the office. Working. Busy. Not knowing your status, I make a call…just like that. You tell me that you are busy and put down the phone.

Probably for the first time ever…today I have been busy :P You made a call. I told you that I am working on something and will get back to you in sometime. You are angry.

Isn’t it ironical?

I was trying to develop my first java web program-the one that displays I LOVE YOU RAJ on the web page when you click on a particular url. Unfortunately even core java software betrayed me :P There was some problem with the setting of CLASSPATH which I was trying to fix since the last 4 hours :(.

And you are angry *sigh*

Distance

2008-06-01T12:27:00.002+05:30

For some distance is a weakness... while others take advantage of it!!

Another of those bad days...

2008-05-29T19:55:00.001+05:30

The biggest scapegoats of bad marriage- children. A million times I felt like running away from my home. Today is the (million + 1)th day!!

A series of misfortunes

2008-05-23T00:53:00.002+05:30

The past few years have taken their toll on me. As if the financial and other problems at home weren’t enough, God always blessed us with some extra troubles.

2005: Bro had an accident and fractured his leg. Back then our financial position was even worse. Honestly, even getting his leg operated seemed difficult. Thanks to my grandparents and my masis, for they have been a helping hand at all stages of our lives.

2006: Masi’s turn- Doc confirmed Breast Cancer. Monthly chemotherapy and its side effects, I truly admire her for withstanding it all-both physical and mental pain and most importantly the terrible hair loss. I remember spending a day or two every month with her at the hospital…even the sight of a small injection scared me to death, while she managed to put up with everything.

During the same year, grandpa passed away. It was Cancer again- sadly detected late. It was all over in just two months. The day he passed, not a tear came out of my eye. I had to be strong, because granny was weak. I sometimes hate Indian customs and tradtions. Granny was MADE a widow- rubbing away that big sindoor on her forehead, white saree, breaking her colorful bangles into pieces and then leaving her alone in one corner of a room.

2007: Next was dad’s. Fractured his hand and was on bed for one month.

2008: Dad had an accident again- day before yesterday…fractured leg and was advised bed rest for the next one month. Also, Granny’s brother expired today. Not that I am very close to him- we met once in 3 years, but it still hurts->More because granny is crying. I just can’t take her tears.

But like they say –death is inevitable. Today, tomorrow or a hundred years later, we all have to give our lives too.

Waiting for my chance to come…

Of Arranged marriages and Bad marriages...

2008-05-19T20:40:00.001+05:30

In the middle of the night…you are sleeping… you start hearing loud voices…you refuse to get out of the bed…you close your ears tight…the voices become louder…closing your ears doesn’t help…you get out of the bed and move closer to the place...suddenly you don’t hear anything…you come back to your bed…just when you are about to doze off, your hear them again…this time even louder…you jump out of the bed and run to that place…to the place where your parents are hitting and screaming at each other!!

How successful are arranged marriages when compared to love marriages? You never know. Arranged marriages are rooted in luck. You are proved lucky if it works for you. And what if it doesn’t work? Broken hearts, broken chairs, broken tables…and sometimes broken television sets-just like today.

“To get you married to the best of men is our responsibility” – grandpa’s words keep ringing in my head very often.

My brother Shashi

2008-05-13T12:34:00.001+05:30

Guys are weird. My brother had to leave for Delhi. I bought some t-shirts and a really touching greeting card :P He took those t-shirts along with him to Delhi…and he left the greeting card here !!

*broken heart*

MyTCS interview

2008-04-22T01:35:00.002+05:30

My TCS interview

It has been a longtime I visited my own blog. Projects, seminars, farewell and some functions- I’ve been preoccupied all this while. This post is for some friends on blogger who are dreadfully interested in knowing how badly I got along with the TCS guys. Me feeling too sleepy but felt like posting something today. This one for all you guys :)

After the terrible performance at the Cognizant interview- Div was too much upset that she already lost some of her closest friends to CTS. Now her only hope was TCS- for 2 more of her friends had failed along with her at cognizant ( Not sure if FAILED is the word :P, CTS is dumb :P ) and Div just prayed that she and her remaining friends should somehow secure a place in TCS.

Since Div failed at the technical round of the Cognizant interview, she studied really hard this time and prepared really well for the technical round. Now she knew the difference between PNP and NPN transistors. She also knew how to draw a RC coupled amplifier. :P

It so happened that our college lied to TCS about being given the first slot for recruitment process in the college. And by hook or by crook they came to know that Cognizant was the first company which came for campus selection :D And obviously that made them furious :P While we were in the canteen, busy preparing for the interview, we got to know from friends that the interviewer has been asking questions only on COMPUTERS ( No matter the interviewee was a Computer science student or a Electronics and communications student).

A cool suggestion from our placement officer who had been making rounds while the interviewer had been rejecting every non-computer science student :P------------- IF YOU DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTIONS THEY ARE ASKING, JUST SAY THAT YOU DON’T KNOW, DON’T GIVE EXCUSES OF NOT BEING A COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENT. HONESTY WILL BE APPRECIATED.

And so the interview went on like this…

Interviewer : Take your seat.

Me : thank you sir.

Int : First lemme ask you something… just say yes or no. Don’t you think before stepping into a software company like TCS, you ought to know some software languages to say the least?

Me : *Dumbfounded* Yes sir :D

Int : Good. Now tell me, do you know any software language other than C ?

Me : *C is the only language I studied in my academics* I DON’T KNOW SIR :)

Int : ok, do you know what SQL means?

Me : I DON’T KNOW SIR :) (Sincerely following the advice of the placement officer, I thought I DON’T KNOW can fetch me a job :P)

Int : What is an operating system?

Me : *Those were the days I did not know anything about operating systems…though I have been using one for long :P, I knew the definition though (it was simple :P)* OERATING SYSTEM IS AN INTERFACE BETWEEN THE USER AND THE COMPUTER :D

Int: ok, now give me some examples of operating systems…

Me: *Oops, here comes the toughest part :P I knew not a single example of operating system…but then before my interview some students outside were discussing on this and I heard then saying UNIX and LINUX are operating systems* SIR, UNIX, LINUX etc ( I LOVE THIS WORD “ETC”. IT CAN MAKE WONDERS AT TIMES :P)

Int: Can you gimme some more examples?

Me: NO SIR, I KNOW ONLY THESE TWO :P (Guess he was expecting WINDOWS :D)

Int : Ok do you know some basics of C++ or JAVA?

Me : I don’t know sir. ( BUT ASK ME NOW ABOUT JAVA :P I NOW KNOW JAVA IS AN OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE :P)

Int : You may go now…

And Div left the place…still with a hope that her name would be read out ..in the list of the candidates who have been recruited.

After a few days…Div attended the selection process of SATYAM :P :P

Mumbai se aaya mera bhai :P

2008-04-02T12:01:00.004+05:30

My daily collation with JAVA has taught me that ENCAPSULATION is the means of hiding information from unwanted outside access i.e. separating them from external access that may corrupt them intentionally or unintentionally.

Now that my brother is back from Mumbai and is gonna stay here for at least 2 more months…I fear he might come across my blog accidentally or he may even search for it…considering the fact that he saw me blogging the other day :(

For some unknown reasons I fear my brother. He thinks I am the ruler of stupidity :P And I don’t want to change his mindset anyway :P He should not know that there is a different face to his dumb sister :P she can be sweet cute and extra intelligent at times :P Then came the idea of encapsulating my blog using PRIVATE keyword :P

For now I am safe…I tried searching A RUBIX CUBE on google and it gave some weird pages :P but i cant take the risk as searching for LUKKYDIV sure can bring anyone here :P

Me going to make my blog private as soon as I get my connection back :) Though I know who ought to be invited, I am too lazy to search for your email addresses :P Please take some pains for me and leave them here :)

Just because you are men...

2008-03-30T14:01:00.002+05:30

For people waiting for my TCS interview post :P I was wondering, so many people wanting to laugh at my pitiful situation :O
Sorry to disappoint you all, but I have too many tags pending :( and am also disconnected from the internet for sometime now :( will catch up with all your posts very soon :)
Tag taken up from pri’s blog. The task is to write 10 things I like about men :)

May be this will be with a particular person in my mind or may be not. I will not generalize my statement :P

1. Most men I came across in my life are loyal to their partners :). What can be more appealing than that? Again I am not generalizing.

2.I like the variety of names you give me. sweetu, betu, jaan, baby, bachche….and many more :) Sometimes they make me feel like a child, sometimes the sweetest person on earth, sometimes they remind me that I am worth being loved :)

3. Men can be trusted :P yes tell them anything and they will keep it themselves, unlike women-unlike me :P I love gossip :P that’s my favorite pastime like every other woman’s :)

4. I love it when you come up with my favorite kind of chocolates every time we meet  just because I told you once how much I love them 

5. You try utmost not to hurt me. (But you still do…kabhi kabhi :P)

6. You trust me so much that it never mattered to you…no matter how long I spend with gtalk or yahoo messengers :P ( It only means I am trustworthy :P )

7. Men are more attached to family :) I feel secure. Someday I will be your family too :P

8. You are great listeners  we are great orators :P Sometimes I end up worrying…how come I spoke so much about what happened today, and you had just nothing to say :O

9. There are men who look beyond beauty, I am glad I have them around me :).

10. Each time I sneeze/cough over the phone, you ask me if I took the tablet you suggested. I love it but I never took any tablet :P may be just coz I want to keep coughing…may be just coz I want to feel the care :)

Done 

By the way pri was feeling insecure about my love for her :P the word ‘blogger’ in the previous tag was just to distinguish you from the other pri :P chalo next time se I will call u pri and I will call the other one- moti :P This is for you :P

Campus Interview -1

2008-03-23T23:27:00.004+05:30

If only I got placed into the first company that came for the selections :( …loneliness would have been far and away…but then no use flogging over a dead horse :(
There’s something really funny about my first two interviews :D

COGNIZANT :

Someone from my senior batch told us that the interviewer’s gonna ask us about our favorite subject out of all which we had studied so far during our engineering course. And since it’s a software company, we got to be thorough with our preparation in software languages. Being students of electronics and communication engineering, we were spared from learning languages other than C.

My favorite (Simplest I would say) subject- Switching theory and logic devices (STLD). That’s the only subject I prepared for the interview :P other than C.

Cognizant arrives. After a really long wait, I had my interview at 4 or 5 in the evening. I was so damn tired :P My interview went something like this…

Interviewer : Hello LAKSHMI, it seems you had a tiring day ?

*GETS FURIOUS*
*LAKSHMI? CALL ME DIVYA !! I AM NOT ANY LAKSHMI*

Me : Yes sir, very tiring :P ( Honesty sucks !!)

Int : ok, lets start with the interview…I will have to wind up soon…don’t mind, I have to catch a flight at 9…

Me : okie sir :)

Int : Since you are an ECE student, may I ask you questions on the core subject of ECE- electronic devices and circuits?

*NO ! YOU CANT, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO ASK ME QUESTIONS ONLY ON MY FAVORITE SUBJECT. STLD AND C LANGUAGE. ASK ME QUESTIONS ONLY ON THESE TWO, MOREOVER ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS IS SOMETHING I READ DURING MY FIRST YEAR OF ENGINEERING, NOW I AM IN MY THIRD YEAR AND U EXPECT ME TO REMEMBER?*

I had not enough dare to speak those words…so I went on like this…

ME : Ok sir…

Int : Can you draw a NPN transistor?

ME : yes sir…

*HE GAVE ME A PEN AND A PAPER AND I SCRIBBLED SOMETHING …ONLY AFTER COMING OUT OF THE ROOM I REALIZED THAT THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF TRANSISTORS…NPN AND PNP…I DREW A PNP INSTEAD OF NPN :P lolz *

Int : ok, can you draw a RC coupled amplifier?

* NOW WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? I DON’T REMEMBER*

ME : No sir.

Int : Ok, are you good at mathematics?

*NO, I HATE MATHS*

ME : Yes sir…

Int : I will give a simple problem on equations…solve it for me.

ME : sure sir…

Int : if x= 0, what is the value of…x^2 + xy + y^2 ?

I took almost a minute to solve the problem. On the paper, I finished it in 5-6 steps after striking off each step at least once and came to a conclusion that the equation resulted in y^2. He took the pen and the paper…he finished the problem in 1 step…

Int : You may go now….

*I GUESS IT WAS TIME FOR HIM TO CATCH HIS FLIGHT :D LOL*

Flop show !!

Next came TCS…more for the next post :P

Solitude begins...

2008-03-21T02:44:00.000+05:30

How cute, how innocent!! Am I really? Do I really portray my true feelings here? Those feelings of loneliness, insecurity, fear, anger, depression…I never wrote any of them here… this blog is more like a comedy zone. ‘Sweetu, you made me smile’, I almost die to see a comment like that. But I wonder if I am smiling while writing …or am I writing just to make people smile :O

At times I feel so lonely. I hunt for someone to talk to, to open up every feeling of mine.

I was asking myself…why can’t I live a simple life. What makes me think so much about every small thing that comes about? Why I can’t sleep even when I am actually feeling sleepy?

These days I fear something. College days are almost coming to an end. Does that mean an end to friendship as well? Certainly not… then what bothers me? Why sometimes I feel I would be left alone after 3-4 months? Perhaps that’s the kind of love I received for these 4 years…and I am addicted!! I can’t let go.

I will miss them all. The last bench chitchats, those whispers in the ears, the chits we pass to each other during lectures, laughs and giggles, fights, arguments, crying over silly things and then getting back to each other just by saying a sorry, weekend get together, movies, night outs, discos (though I never danced, enjoyed their moves and music nevertheless), sharing my worries and my lunch box :( (They love my food :( ), some emotional moments, teasing each other with guys, messages and phone calls, playing cards, badminton and some silly games, surprise gifts and visits on birthdays…how many of these will still be there by the end of this may?

Life changes, you meet new people, you make new friends, and you will start loving these new friends as well. Ever thought you could get so lucky in having the friends you have now? You never know…may be life has something even better for you. And these friends are going nowhere. They will stay, may be you will not get to talk to them on phone very often, but that doesn’t mean you will be forgotten. May be you will not receive those regular messages, but still you are thought of. You might not play cards or badminton with them, but the memories remain. Weekend movie watching may disappear, but watching a movie with them once in a month is not bad either. So what if there are no last bench gossips and teasing, you can still talk all about your life when you meet up. You don’t have anybody to share your lunch with? Call them home every month, make sure their favorite food is served.

Ok this isn’t what I tell myself… this is what people tell me. But what do I feel?

I can make new friends, but I want the ones I have now. .
I want to talk to them as often as I do now.
I want regular messages, mails and chats from them.
I still want to play cards, badminton and all those silly games.
I want to watch a movie every week.
I want to share my lunch only with them.
If life can be even better than this one, I would still prefer the one I am living now-with my friends. I fear a life ahead.

What made me write so much today? Hmm I hurt someone. I hurt box. She planned to celebrate this holi at her place coz this is going to be the last holi with all of us together. I couldn’t make it. Cousins came from Delhi and so I told her I will not be able to turn up on that day.

Box, if you are reading this… I know you are the one responsible for what I am today. If it weren’t you, I know what my place would have been. I never forgot that and I would never. I thought you know, but just in case you don’t know…you are amongst the best things that happened to me till date. And I will cherish every moment spent with you.

A for Apple, B for Ball, C for Cat, D for Donkey !!

2008-03-17T00:52:00.006+05:30

I took two hours to complete this tag… one hour a day!! Thanks sneha di… for I had to put in so much of thought to associate each letter with something…for some letters I had to take the help of a dictionary to find if any word really existed with that letter :P and unfortunately I found soooo many of them :( and yeah…I even stole the pic…u never said copyrights reserved :P

Here goes my tag….

A- AKKI, ARPI DI and APPLE (Didn’t they tell you? A for apple :P )
B- BOX ( One of my best friends-box-that is how we call her :) sweet cute bubbly…everything seems so much boring without her…even my java classes :P )
C- CHOCOLATE AND CHICKEN ( Yummy!! Need further explanations? )
D- DIV, DIVS, DIVVI, DIVVU ( ME :P )
E- ENGINEERING LIFE ( I will miss it sooooo much !! ) and EXPECTATIONS ( They fail !!)
F- FAMILY, FRIENDS ( Can’t live without them !! )
G- GRANDPARENTS, GREEN (Both are my favorites :) )
H- HARIKA (Forever friends :) )
I- ICE CREAMS
J- JAVA and JALEBI (Lolz I did tell you guys :P that I go for java coaching to have some yummy jalebis :P )
K- KAHIN KAHIN SE HAR CHEHRA TUM JAISA LAGTA HAI….
L- LOVE ( is life? ), LENA (Janu), LUCKY (I am for the kinda friends I got in my life !!)
M- MYNENI (My beautiful best friend :P )
N- NOIDA ( Take me there !!)
O- ORKUT :P (Of late I have been getting too many add requests :P and I am having fun rejecting them :P lolz)
P- PRIYANKAs :P ( yeah there are two I know :P blogger pri and the other my sweet pig :P ), PREE (I MISS YOU :( waaaaaaaaa ), POSSESSIVE ( I fear losing some people out of my over-possessiveness !! I hate it…but just cant help :( )
Q- QUESTION ( BLAME IT ON LENA…I COULDN’T THINK OF A WORD WITH Q…I BORROWED IT FROM LENA :P )
R- RAJEEV, RAIN, RELATIONS ( I LOVE THEM ALL :P)
S- SHAILU, SWETHA, SAMI (Best friends again :P ) SNEHA DI (The famous solitaire needs no intro :P )
T- TESTIMONIALS ( Write me one :P )
U- UMESH (Lolz :P Only one or two would understand this one :P and I am not explaining :P, but you know…its so bad to think of other’s boyfriends while doing tags :P ), UNDERSTANDING ( understanding people is soooooo difficult !!)
V- VANDS ( Cutie pie :), look vands you are the only one I think of…when it comes to V :P )
W- WARM FUZZIES (Solitaire’s warm fuzzies…took up the tag from there ), Woh LAMHE ( My favorite movie :) ), WORDS ( are all I have to take your heart away !!)
X- Grr my dictionary showed just one page of words starting with X and none of them deserved to be mentioned here :P
Y- YAWN (I just did !! )
Z- ZAHID, ZOO (WOOOOOW !! Zahid and zoo…so very correlated :P )

I tag- the one and only lenu janu...coz she told me not to tag her :P

Tag of the moment

2008-03-11T21:20:00.009+05:30

I was tagged by 'pri' to write 6 random (present) things about me...so here goes and right on time too (read on! u'l get to know why)

I know these lines are yours pri, I stole them :P

1. Feeling insecure- please don’t ask why :P (May be insecurity is just not the word :P)

2. Just came from java classes. These days Mr. Java is getting on my nerves :x. For the first one week I thought java is all about printing “ Hello World “ :P Now I can even print “ Hello India" and "Hello Universe” :P Smart na ?

3. Had yummy jalebi while returning home after class :) No wonder I never like to skip my java classes. There's a small stall beside my institute, the only place I know serving extra hot jalebis :P. Also had pani-puri :P Tomorrow may be- Chinese chicken noodles :P

4. Not answering someone’s calls :P Div is angry :x

5. Wow pri, even I had an argument with mom just now :P Regarding ice cream :P There is this 4 litre butterscotch ice cream pack in my refrigerator right now, and mom doesn’t want me to open it :x

6. *Bites nails* I have got a seminar to be given this Thursday about mobile repeaters :( and all I know about repeaters is ‘A repeater is an electronic device used for amplication of signals and redirecting them to the mobile/base station’ :P Grrr I had to refer wikipedia to type this here :P

I tag- zahid, rahul, arpi di :)

Happy birthday lenu janu :D :D

2008-03-08T12:04:00.000+05:30

Yippie, our lenu janu turns 60 today :P yes yes you read it right :P
Janu as you turn a whopping 60 today, i hope you will look back at all those years ( 59 years :P) with joy, contentment and love. Happy birthday :)

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This is something i made for you....love you lotz...thanx for everything :)

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Chupke chupke

2008-03-05T23:33:00.002+05:30

Finally, I’ve learnt the art of hiding feelings from people :P and I’m just feeling great. Never knew hiding thoughts and feelings from loved ones can give such immense pleasure. All thanks to pri, her words still keep ringing in my head :D

Troubles when shared with people you love can reduce them to half but then again would you actually want to give half your troubles to your loved one to worry about???

Yeh tumne kya bol diya pri :P it sure changed my life :P the girl who just couldn’t stop talking about every petite thing happening in her life, now almost always keeps silent. Prefers not to discuss personal matters even with the thickest of friends :D coz she doesn’t want her loved ones to worry about her anymore :P

But then I cant keep all things to myself :( I need someone to shout with me, to laugh with me, to cry with me, to complain with me. Now that actuated me to start a new blog- my online diary :P. There I pour out my deepest feelings but nobody can ever read them :) Writing sure helps but sometimes I pity my other blog for it gets to hear so much for no fault of hers :P May be someday I will get bored of talking to a non-living-thing, getting no response from the other end :D and so I will stop complaining about my life :P

Flaunting my photography :P

2008-02-24T20:56:00.017+05:30

For people wondering what the picture is trying to say, it shows the full moon in the night sky just emerging from the backside of the hills :P ( Camera slipup :P )

This is my darling pic :), how I love the yellowish-orange color of the sun :) (Apologies if that’s actually a different colour :P)

Umm the bamboo huts we stayed in, for one full day :) Imagine nothing inside the hut except for a few bed sheets and a few pillows :( The place was more like a desert :D the only difference being- it had water all around :D

Yes yes that’s a living crab in my hands :P and me holding its claws :P

The brave girl div, broke the claws of the crab with her fingers :D

And then she broke the shell, removed the fat and dumped it into her stomach for dinner :)

That's my sweety cousin Dhrithi- isn't she cute :P ?

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P.S - By the way the brave girl also caught hold of a poisonous snake and killed it with her own hands… just that she couldn’t take a pic of the dead snake :(

Conundrums of life

2008-02-18T12:55:00.007+05:30

I am happy being with someone, does that mean I am with someone because I am happy?

Doing special things for my loved ones, makes me happy… does that mean I do things for my happiness?

Where there is great love, there are always wishes, is it true?

Is there anything called unconditional love? Can you love someone without expecting any love in return and still being happy?

Can you survive with only love and NO money? How much money you need to live a happy life?

ha ha ha happy valentines day :)

2008-02-13T02:05:00.001+05:30

A little eavesdropping :

2008-02-08T01:03:00.000+05:30

I heard mom gossiping over the phone today on some issue. I found it quite interesting so sat down behind her and enjoyed the entire lopsided conversation. They talked of relationships; they talked of village tittle-tattles; the never-ending gossips on everything possible to discuss!!

I wonder what excites people when they hear of someone’s daughter running away with a truck driver :O, more when they get to know that the girl is a close relative :D and even more when they come to know of the truck driver cheating on the poor lady for money :P

Also heard something really strange today :P Mom says- Gone are the days when people used to fear attempting such ‘not-so-acceptable’ deeds which hinder their status in the society. Those days were of the bygone generation. Our generation (her generation) gives a damn to what the society thinks!! Nametag doesn’t count anymore. And why not? Its our life indeed :D We have every right to live a life of our own.

Her own daughter giggling behind :P .She showed me a rosy dream. I wonder if she really means what she said :D why wonder? I know she doesn’t :D. The society and the culture, everything matters :). One wrong move and you get a kick on your ass, and just anybody can dig the grave of your reputation!! Its your life lived by others :D and ruled by pseudo idealists !!

How I wish to record such impromptu talks and make her listen to her own philosophy when the clock hits the right time :D

Just a thought

2008-02-06T02:12:00.000+05:30

I thought love is about shared feelings.

Do you hide the truth, your feelings, your thoughts and your worries just because you think they might hurt your love? Believe me it hurts more when you hide things!! If it worries you, it worries her as well. And its always good to worry together than worrying alone.

At all times, the bitter reality takes an edge over an unspoken truth.

Tagged again !

2008-02-04T03:45:00.000+05:30

Tagged by jaggu :)

Instructions:Remove 1 question from below, and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag 8 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.

1) Who are the most & most important persons you like to meet in your life?
Does this question ask about people who I never met with, but would love to meet? If yes then the ones in my mind now are- lena and sami :)

2) If you have the chance, what would you probably say to your beloved one?

So much to say if only I had one :P
Sweetu, I love you, can I have those diamond earrings? :(
I love you, can you get me a chocolate milkshake :(
I love you, Can you get me that bright star from the sky :(
I love you… can you? :P

3) If you were to be stranded on a deserted island, who are the 3 blog buddies you would take with you?
If I took everyone to the island, are you going to kill me? :P

4) Where is the place that you want to go the most?
Delhi

5) If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
I dream of living and dying with the people I love :)

6) Till now, what is the moment that you regret the most?
I sometimes regret loving people too much :P (Please Lena don’t write a post in the comments section on- love should never be regretted :P At times all of us do :P at least for a moment :D ), I also regret expecting too much from people :P

7) What are you afraid to lose the most?
People, my relations!! I remember as a kid every night I prayed to god… wished for my grandparents to be with me as long as I live, worried about they getting old :( and look God dint care about my wishes :x He took my grandpa away :x

8) If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
Lolz no never :D I would make him confess his love instead :D and if he doesn’t love me I would force him to fall in love with me :P lolz

9) List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
Good things about jaggu :O lolz tough one :P
Hehe…umm jokes aside, some things I sensed about jaggu
1.Very religious and a great believer in God :P
2.Loves and misses his country and his city even though he has been away for long :)
3.Keeps away from love :P ( Yes jaggu that’s a GREAT point :D )

10) What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
Oh my god…this one will b a long list :D I will come up with a love/hate tag very soon :) all the things I love and hate OUGHT TO BE acknowledged and taken care of :x :P

11) What is your ambition?
Don’t know. I am still searching for one :P

12) What is the thing that will make you think someone is a bad person?

:O Someone who doesn’t care to get me a chocolate when I ask for one :D :P

13) If you could do one thing different in life, what would it be?
I would take up computers instead of electronics :P Coz I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad at computers :P ( Not that I am too good at electronics :D)

14) Something which made u laugh today
Today was all smiles for me :P A chocolate pastry and the new template Lena designed for me made my day :P :) So sweet of you Lena :P Specially for chocolate cube down there :P

15) How do you deal with a friend who has wronged you ?

Letters and mails :P yep I write so many of them :D

16) How important is love for you to get physically intimate with a person?
Umm not very important as long as your feelings still dwell in hearts :)

17) Name one favorite song of yours

Ek din aap yu hum ko mil jayenge
Phool hi phool raahon me khil jayenge
Maine socha na tha…
Ek din zindagi itni hogi haseen
Jhoomega aasmaan gayengi yeh zameen
Maine socha na tha

18) Name Three Most Valuable Assets?
People, Love, Feelings.

19) What would you do if you found a briefcase full of money?
To be honest I would clear some debts :P

20) My question –Where do you think you would be after your death? Heaven or hell ? :P
Hell :P Hell would be heaven without me :P

I tag- akki,lena,sami,hope,zahid,durjoy,sachin,ali,vands,ravi,rahul :) the count reached 11? lolz never mind :P I am born for flouting the rules :D

P.S- please dont forget to collect your awards from the post below :)

P.P.S- Word verification added to annoy all the people who annoy me :P

A little love coming your way

2008-02-03T15:30:00.000+05:30

Time for me to pass on the awards I have received from some very kind fellow bloggers.

To akki (U have all others :D), abhi, asha, ali, ameya, harshi, lena, neers, Preeti, sami, shashi, ravi, solitaire, vands, zahid, rahul

To sami, abhi, ameya, hope, shashi, harshi, zahid

To lena (Back to you :P), zahid, hope, asha, ali (You get this for the pains you took in suggesting the nicknames :P), vands, neers, abhi, anand, sam, ravi

To zahid, sachin, Durjoy (for all the funny things you guys write), sami, lena, akki, ameya, shashi, rahul, vands, asha, Preeti, neers, ali, solitaire

To lena, abhi, DD, neers, sachin, rahul, sam,solitaire

To everyone on my blogroll

To abhi, anand, lena, zahid, sam, hope, solitaire, neers, rahul, harshi (Lovable blogger harshi :P)

To everybody on my blogroll :)

To Harshi, zahid, hope, ali, vands, anand, abhi, sam, asha

To Ameya, sami, hope, Preeti, vands, asha, neers

Again to everyone on my blogroll :)

I cant stop 'LOL'ing :)

2008-02-01T06:45:00.000+05:30

The other day a friend of Lena accused her of using too many ‘lol’s while chatting. Courtesy- ME :P Some time back I had to put up with similar allegations :( Courtesy- Harshi AKA Manish :P

A portion of a chat i had with somebody :)

Cool: why do u lolz all the time re ?
div: lol
I am used to it
Cool: kisne sikhaya ?
div: bas yuhi chat karte karte aadat ho gayi :p
Cool: bahut bekaar aadat hai ye chat
div: jo tum bhi karte ho :D
Cool: main 5 minute ke liye karta hoon
tum 2 ghante ke liye
div: lolz
:P
Cool: aur haan ..main chat se 'lolz' nahi seekhta
div: so wat
:D
maine kuch tho seekha chat se
aur tumne?
kuch nai
lol
Cool: lolz seekhne se to better hai ki kuch mat seekho

Back in 2005 I dint know what lol meant. Also I dint want to make a fool of myself by asking someone about it :P. Today I am proud to be a frenzied user of lol :P Harshi says lol is the language of BITSians. LOLest being the advanced depiction :D also he says BITSians can converse just anything using only 4 words.

Lol
Yoyoyoyoyo----
OB (Obviously :D)
Thu!!

Right he is. Our chats are mostly filled with these words :)

Conclusion- Though I ain’t a BITSian, I still am :P

People reading plz do me a favor :P Let me know of some cute nicknames preferably starting with C ( for a girl by the way :P). I was promised a big big pack of ferrero rochers in case he/she likes the name suggested :P Puleeej help me on this :) but don’t you dare to ask me for a share :P

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I got some really interesting nicknames from someone :P have a look :P

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Div : suggest sum nicknames starting with c na plz
XYZ: chipkali
Div: lol u is dumb
Gimme good ones

XYZ: For a boy/girl?

Div: girl
XYZ: calmoohi
Div: ??

XYZ: kalmoohi
movie me suna tha
Div: idiot
aur?
ok kisi bhi letter se bol de
XYZ: kamini
:D
chorni
Div: thu u
XYZ: haha

Short and sweet :)

2008-01-28T21:44:00.000+05:30

Tagged by hope and presumably the next to toughest tag for me ever :P (not to forget the haiku tag :P).

The five favorite links of mine..

Here are the rules :

1. MUST be clean. No R rated sites.

2. Only FIVE links.

3. MUST tell 5 people.

4. A link back to the person who tagged you ;)

5. Lara's Place is the meme originator. ;) (an active link is appreciated)

:P So the first thing I did was to check the history in the address bar of my internet explorer. And not surprisingly :P the only links I found were My blog , Orkut, Yahoo mail, gmail, google. Lolz wait I am not done yet :P there’s something else I can see but only if the sixth one was permitted :P………………………………… http://www.gre-verbal.blogspot.com/ :P yes it was last visited on December 27th (the day before my gre) :D

When reality strikes your world....

2008-01-18T10:00:00.000+05:30

She had a tough childhood. Up till now she lived for her family. She had her responsibilities, which she couldn’t fail to notice. She dint know what happiness was…until she fell in love with him. Gone were the days of emptiness in her life. In a few months she became extremely close to him. Now she had another reason to live- for herself and also for him. Her life was purposeful.

He gave her names, which she never heard from any other person- ‘Jaan’ he used to call her. That meant ‘Life’. She blushed every time he used that word for her. Her happiness knew no bounds when she was with him. He showed her dreams of a life together. When she closed her eyes HE was all she could see.

She bunked her classes to meet up with him. She saved every penny to surprise him with small gifts. She told her friends that she couldn’t think of a life without him, that he was everything for her now.

She dreamt of getting married to him; of him kissing her forehead just before he left for work; of cooking his favorite dishes; of waiting for him to return from work; of having an evening walk with him; of having breakfasts, luncheons and dinners together; and of having children with him.

He left her city for another country for his career. For two years all she could see were his photos. Regular chats and a few phone calls- somehow made her day. She yearned for him to come back. He did come for a month but he couldn’t meet her for he was in a different city.

A month after…she calls him… and he announces that he is MARRIED.

When she asks him how he could do that, the line she gets to hear from him- I never promised you for marriage!

Her world comes crashing down. The bitter truth breaks the castles she had built in the air. She loses faith in god. All she says is- why only me? She screams and curses her own life. Most of time she cries. She fears a tomorrow that would never come, a night that would never end. She begs for a life she lived before-her childhood. Though she had a tough one…it seemed to her that her childhood was a lot better. If she knew reality could be so harsh on her...she would never wake up from her dreams!!

Cheaters and fakers!! I wonder what they get out of breaking someone's heart.

Happiness never stays long. If God gives happiness, you have to pay for it. And he doesn’t take it in cheque or cash…he takes back your happiness incurring interest charges!

But I am not giving him my happiness anymore. My happiness has to stay with me till my last breath. I only give him two choices - let me live with my happiness or just take me away.

An Adieu :)

2007-12-21T15:45:00.000+05:30

Hmm this one’s going to be a long one. Please keep some patience. I am sure you would love reading it :P

My blog – Can’t tell u all how happy I have been for nearly 30 days. The fun I made through my blog and the love I got from people reading.

But like everything has an end, my blog has one too. A little sad that end has come too early :P Somehow I feel I am living in a different world. I want to come out of it even though it was all a bliss being here. I am forgetting my studies, my other life. Call me a coward- I don’t mind coz I really am. :P

Just want to thank you all for all the love and fun filled comments :) I typed in the following names purely in the order of the blogs I came across in a line. :)

Akki – for being the first one to have blogrolled me ( lol I know most of my visitors come down from your page :D ), for being the most regular visitor, for giving me my first award – a giant bear hug. Hmm you know I love hugs :P thanks for all akki :) You know you totally rock as a blogger :) Keep writing no matter what :)

Rohit aka Bizarre Kid- Not really a kid hmm but still love to call him that way :P I guess you know that if it weren’t you I would have given up writing way back in November :D Thanks for the encouragement. By the way you still haven’t put the award I gave to you on your blog :x The addicting blog award :P seriously il miss your poems :(

Lenu janu- hmm the next one to have blogrolled me ( after akki), I can never forget those encouraging words leenu :) thanx a ton- more emphasis on the love I received from you for long. Every time you call me sweets, my face turns red out of blushes :P ooh how can I forget that blogger queen award you gave me :P lol I know again it got something to do with the love you had for me :) Divya- My blogger queen, she has an awesome way of writing, funny things, senti things, thinking things and then ..wow…great post is right there.Love you the way you are,keep writing no matter what :) will cherish these words always :)

Ashu- Lucky I came across your blog somehow. I know u call me a kid but I do understand the pain you go through…that’s the reason I thought of being there for you always. For giving me so many-all different-names :P believe it or not. I saved every name you called me till date :P again I blush all the time I hear such words from you :) But the saddest part is, I had to format my system recently and lost the word document :( though I have it still in the chats I had with u.. hmm kiddu, divi, sweet kiddu eddu teddu billu friend :D those 10 small kisses and 1000 chocolates u promised when we meet up :P Will be waiting to meet you :) Thanks for the medal of awesomeness.

Sami- oh Sami I don’t know how to thank you for EVERYTHING. Mere words will not help I know. Those missed calls you give to make me feel important n loved all the time. Those hugs and those kisses. That different class of names u give me-pagli, sweetu, little sis and just everything you do for me. I was just so happy being with you and making all that fun :) That favourite blog award , rocking girl blogger award, candlied apple award…yummy thanks a lot :) I don’t know how to put into words. Did I tell you? I see my mother in you. When mom shouts at me I shout back :P …but when you do it sometimes, I only see the love you have for me. Later on a give a smile to myself and feel the love you have for me. I love you. I hope these 3 words make up for everything I want to say. If I ever hurt you I am sorry. Just forgive me thinking of me as your own kid :) Also thanx for the poem you wrote for me :)

Shashi- yooo Divya- u r a star :P hehe thanx ra :) thanks for being there to listen to all the crap I talk :P and then guiding me all along :) busy bee take out time and write something :x and for god’s sake please remove that pic from gtalk :P

Rohit- hmm get a happy life mister :P be happy. Stop thinking so much :x Don’t give pains to your brain :( thanks for all those lovely comments, that support, that like-mindedness :P love your blog. Keep updating :) wish you all happiness you deserve. Loads and loads :)

Abhi- hehe thanx for being my fan :P lol also thanx for calling me a psycho :P which sometimes I really am :D love those fun-filled chats :) takecare always and be happy :)

Hope, Vands, sam, ameya, neers, asha, zahid- for giving me all those hugs, calling me sweet cute, darling and wat not..again blushes :D and and all others who cared to comment and make me smile with all that love. All of you are far more sweeter and cuter than what i am :P

Hmm some of my favourite comments which will b cherished always :) If ever I feel down I know I would love to come back to read those comments which made me smile :)

anonme said...
oh dear!now i know wat silence means! this reminds me of another of my sweet friends!and divs, seriously finding a friend like u is the reason why i am LUCKY too!!

bhargavi said...
expectations....u have written what ever u spoke to me....nothing new but once again i had tears in my eyes.....antha love ivvaku div .....all of us cant give u d same love,we r not as sweet and tranparent as u r.......kani nenu nilaga avutha:-)

swetha said... really really superb divya.....I am VERYV ERY happy to be a part in this post..LOVE U SOOOOO MUCH..........

Bizarre Kid said...
babies or puppies! whatever! You're gonna be the mother.. No matter what they are :DhahahahLmao!!

Sameera said...
Kya Bachi hai tu!So cute :)

Optimize...don't Compromise!! said... another cute one from the blog queen...:).

Vandita said... cudnt resist commenting on this one...great post there divya and i must say it reminded me of me in quite a few places...i'll keep comin back to read ya (more regularly after exams) so im blogrolling u :)

Ashu said...
Shweetu, can i blogroll you ? But how dare u not blogroll me ? u too cute........kya sugar me nahati ho kya daily ?

zahid said...
well divya...I just want to ask if you dont mind if i blogroll you? i just wanted to confirm that you wouldnt take me to the high court for havin illegally and secretly blogrolled you and that too without your consent..... I am responsible to my parents and 182 brothers and 431 sisters and each of their spouses !!!So if i go to jail the whole responsibility of such a family wuld fall on you...so to save u some trouble im asking the question

Sameera said... Sweetie,that was "Direct Dil Se",just like you!It's great to be able to smile when your heart cries.Who says you are immature?It takes lot of maturity to analyze life this way.Just cause you unleash the child within,doesn't mean you can't be mature.Keep it up.Kudos to you!

Lena said... you made me smile :)wish i could comment more but seems like my mind refuses to write anything :PBut you really made me smile, dear!Thanks for that :)

Srikanth said...
dat was soo moving and poignant one.i cud visibly sense ure profound luv towards ure grandfather....i sincerely wish his soul to rest in peace from the bottom of my heart...

Lena said... so sweet dear, great that you keep all the memories, which means that he will always be alive in your heart :)And dont you dare to hate yourself and talk about punishment, you live your life a very good way and you deserve all the good things in there!! If i ever will get to hear from you something like that i will be really ANGRY!!!!

Vandita said...
really sweet post... wishing all the love and comfort for ur granddad up there ...smile sweetie :)

hope said...
So touching n sweet post.. its so lovely of you to remember all this div.. you are such a darling kiddo *smiles*

anonme said...
phew!i love u so much doll! its so gud to be backand that was such a lovely post..u shud hav continued u fool! :Panyways, i know u are just crazy!! :P

Lena said...
lol, sweetu, you made me laugh, even i make mistakes with these words every now and then :Dmaybe will remove it just for my blogger queen ;)

Ameya said...
lol.. yet another funny post! :) cute cute ones u write :D

Sameera said...
Kya Bachi hai tu sahi mein :) You are tooo cute;of course anyone would know you are not just human but a sweet li'l one if they ever read this page!Love you.Hugsss

Ameya said...
lol how do u come up wid such super cute posts ? :)

hope said...
*smiles*Such a sweet tweet cute post..A big warm huggzz to cutie pie :)

zahid said...
*smiles**hugs**kisses*(on forehead)Sweet great cute post !!!'And also a shoulder to lay your head on....'

Thanks all of you.. :)

P.S - A hope-Will get back to this sweet little memory :)

The best things in life are for free !

2007-12-19T12:21:00.000+05:30

* Smile- Ever wondered why a baby’s smile can bring the same on your face as well? A smile costs nothing yet it can spread magic around. I will tell you about the liaison between photography and a smile. I never liked being photographed. For many reasons I hated being clicked. But if I were persuaded long enough by friends, I could not avoid one. A smile is something that never showed up in my pics. But lately I have realized that a smile can smarten up a photograph. I started smiling every time i was being clicked and I began to sense that I looked a lot better with a smile :)

*Huggies- hmm the warmth a hug gives surpasses even the magic a smile can spread. I cant describe that wonderful feeling I get when I hug my teddy bear and sleep in the nights. In fact I hug it so tightly that I now find a small opening in its tummy with all the fur slowly disappearing :(. Would be more than happy if someone gifted a teddy for my birthday. A BIG one. (August 1 ..that’s my birthdate….drop in ur email address so I could mail you my postal address :P )

*KissY- hmm a friendly kiss by the way :P particularly on the forehead. It speaks volumes about the love and the care the person has in heart for you. (Again I am speaking only of friendly kisses. NO ROMANCE :D I AM NOT IN LOVE :P ).

* A caring heart

* A loving soul

* An understanding companion

* A shoulder to cry on

* An empathetic feeling

* A few words of appreciation

* A concerned tear

* A listening ear

* A charge free missed call

* A valuable advice

* A few kind words

So many things for free and yet we are after the superfluous material gains.

How i wish chocolates were for free too :(

P.S- Do tell me howz the baby pic :P

Blogging tips :)

2007-12-14T19:49:00.001+05:30

Hmm I have got some great and simple tips to become a famous blogger :)

Plz scroll down to the bottom of the page :) Good luck :)

Happy blogging :)

Word verifications :(

2007-12-13T18:16:00.000+05:30

Word verification before posting your comments on a blog. :P Almost every blog on my blogroll has this frustrating procedure added to it. As I finish reading the post and click on the comment section of the page, the first I do is to wish for a simpler, smaller and an effortless word for verification :P My fingers never show the slightest of pain even after long hours of chatting but one word of verification puts them off :P

Some blogs give me a veryyyy big word :x I type the correct word only after 3-4 trials :P And even after that if I fail to identify the word I move closer to the screen…very close…very very close and yoooooooo I type the wrong word yet again :D.

There are others which give comparatively smaller words for verification but then those blogs put me into a bigger trouble :( Sometimes the letters are so closely arranged that even after literally sticking my eyes to the screen I fail to decipher the exact word. :(

I wonder what actuates people to add word verification to their blogs…to prevent Spam messages, a proof that I am a human? I swear I am a human :x and if you want more details…I am a female, age- 21, date of brith- august 1st and place of birth- Hyderabad. Please don’t give me any words for verification :( pleeeeeeej pleeeeeej pleeeeeeeej :(

P.S- For all of you reading this Divya is giving a simple task of leaving a comment with the correct word the pic on the right side is showing :P Pleeej donot escape :P

In remembrance of you....

2007-12-11T20:27:00.000+05:30

I thought I would spend an hour with my GRE book today. But my thoughts are stuck somewhere in the clouds. 11th of December…I felt like posting something today for two reasons-

1. Last year It was the day my grandfather expired.
2. ****************************

11th of December- for some reasons I am hating myself today. The past 1 month after exams have been a bliss to me. I was just so happy that I forgot some critical moments of my life. And I am going to punish myself for that.

This post is just in remembrance of my grandfather :) A small dedication for all the things he had done for all of us. A promise that someday i will repay that caring heart with all i can ever do. A sorry for being a clumsy oaf- for doing things he doesnt like-one of them being his hatred for INTERNET.

I want to type in more...more about the good n bad moments i had with him but i had to stop it here...coz i dont want to disappoint all of you reading this post.

:) :) :) :) :)

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2007-12-10T01:45:00.000+05:30

3.30 in the midnight/early morning. Fighting with the mosquitoes. Killed at least 100 by now :P
and collected 20 ml of blood :D

P.S- Divya sucked the blood of nearly 100 mosquitoes...and yo she gained 20 grams of weight :)

Life would be DIFFERENT if.....

2007-12-07T15:02:00.000+05:30

lol ok u have a question? How is the pic related to this post? :P it was just to make u smile :)

Hmm I know I made delay in doing this tag. Sorry for that Rohit but all I wanted to write on this line was already written by you… life would be beautiful if u let go of all your expectations. Besides I already wrote on Expectations twice :P

Lately I realized that life would be different if you added some spice and humor to it. I am just so happy writing all that so called funny stuff on my page :) for they not only bring a smile on my face, but on others as well. I started this blog with something like ‘Peace of mind’ and then I wrote on ‘Death and grief’… it was all an indication of how messed up my life is. But what would I get writing on that…certainly I would not get any peace if I regret all my life about everything that is happening with me. Then I started writing on some general stuff ‘silence’, ‘missed calls’, ‘ friends’. I must say I started feeling better. And now I mostly stick to humor and every time I visit my blog, it makes me smile.

I make my posts funny doesn’t necessarily mean I am this bubbly sweet or cute lady without any worries about life. Lol most of the time I complain about my life and I worry about my future. I cant ever forget the times when I cried like hell during my exams- the only reason being I dint want to give them, I couldn’t concentrate.

But I just want to dedicate some part of my life (my blog) to humor as well. I want to be happy about something. I want to smile and make people smile with me.

Ashu you just came into my mind so I thought I will write something for you. I know you are going through hell with your life. But tears are for people who are worth it.
And you know who is worth your tears and who is not. I cry too but I cry for people who deserve my thoughts, my tears. Lol I know I am sounding foolish here coz you are a lot more matured than me :P

:P I thought this would be a serious post of mine… but then I want to add a flavor to it. I want to paste the testimonial I had written to akki on orkut :P When she read the whole thing she said it made her smile :) {of course later on my blog she calls me MEAN :D}

Akki has been DEMANDING a testimonial from me for a long time-Now its time I do this favor for her: I would love to share 10 things about akki with all of u people reading this…

1. Akki feels very lucky for having a friend like me.

2. Akki feels very lucky for having a friend like me.

3. Akki feels very lucky for having a friend like me.

4. Akki feels very lucky for having a friend like me.

5. Akki feels very lucky for having a friend like me.

6. Now just for a change-Akki feels really good when she talks to me

7. Akki feels really good when she talks to me.

8. Akki feels really good when she talks to me.

9. Akki thinks I belong to rare breed of people u can ever find-and I think she is right

10. Lastly,Akki also feels I am a GREAT friend :P

So akki here’s the testi u have been waiting for long :) I know you will love it

Lol okie now for people wondering about the redundant points :P……… I dint get many GOOD points to write about myself so I had to repeat some of them :D

Can i blogroll u?

2007-12-06T20:34:00.000+05:30

I don’t understand why people ask this question! What makes them feel that they would be getting a reply like- NO!! How dare you blogroll me ? :P
Lol now people please don’t end up thinking that I have been asked such questions too many times :P hehe not many asked me by the way. But whenever I scanned through the comment boxes of a few bloggers I found this intriguing question :D

Personally I never felt the need to ask someone if I could blogroll him/her if I found his writings interesting. Blogrolling is an honor in itself and anybody would be happy if a reader did that. You got the right to read any blog, any post unless the author has blocked you from visiting his/her blog-which by no means happens: P .

The next time u feel like blogrolling someone do it without ado, u dont have to take their permission...its pretty obvious they would never say NO to it :)

The star language :P

2007-12-06T02:18:00.000+05:30

I have seen people using the **** language for years now. Origin unknown :D But very recently I have understood the actual meaning of it (An innocent girl that i WAS :P). And after a little analysis I could categorize the star language into two types :P. I however restrict myself from using such language for I never feel comfortable using it. :D. (lol that doesnt mean i throw words directly)

The ALL stars language- lol this one is to represent all letters of the word in stars. It is mostly used when the intensity of the words used to abuse people is very strong. Let me give an example for it so you would understand it better. **** (Any number of guesses are possible if you used permutations and combinations and played with the alphabets but lol you know what I meant to type in :P don’t you?) Example 2- rohit uses *** to call me a Dog :D

The SOME stars language- This one is to represent some of the letters of a word in stars. The remaining letters are however specified by the user. For example S**T ( fill in the stars :D). This type is used when the author is not sure if the reader would understand if he used the ALL stars language :D If the first and last letters of the word are provided the number of combinations would reduce drastically and hence you find ease in understanding what the user actually meant :P

Was the analysis useful in anyway? Hehe u might be already familiar with it?

Long distance relationships

2007-12-03T22:33:00.000+05:30

I really really longed to write on this one.The pros and cons of a long distance relationship. The world is now being ruled by the Internet. Almost everyone is rushing into a relationship- courtesy orkut, yahoo !! Doesn’t mean I experienced one, but yes I do know what painstaking efforts are needed to put in, in order to sustain such a relationship.

Cons-

**PHONE BILLS-

lol this one is the first one I want to mention. A local call- one rupee/ min or even less on offers. A long distance call- 2.40/min (STD), or even more if it were an ISD call. Lol sure I am that anybody would dither before making a long distance call- even if the call is meant for a loved one. And if relationships start as early as when people involved are students… phone bills? They can drive you crazyyyy!!!

**TRUST –

"Trust is the glue which holds relationships together"
A BIG thing. Something that holds a paramount importance in any relationship. But long distance relationship and trust? Do they go hand in hand ? Can you trust a person who is miles away from you? Doubts begin to creep into our thinking about their behavior because you are not together, and these begin to have a major impact on the relationship ultimately leading to a breakup.

**UNDERSTANDING :

lol I find it very difficult to even understand the people around me. Imagine understanding someone whom you share a looooooooong distance relationship… understanding every move of theirs, ever purpose, every feeling and every emotion. I was reading a mail from a friend I got years back…he/she was in a long distance relationship. Here are a few lines I took from his mail :)

You know what I did not get her pics that she sent to me. I just got a single greeting card n 3 letters that’s it nothing else. I was supposed to get 3 greeting cards, letters n her pics but when I saw inside that envelope it was only a card n letters. I found a post of India sticker behind that envelope n when I took it off I saw a big cutting. The envelope was torn by some one. I guess those postal people tore it while transporting. I just don’t know how to get her 2 cards n her pics back. u know Divya even she did not get my pics n even i did not get her pics. She says that it all indicates that we will never get married and we r not made for each other

Even petty things like not receiving each other’s mails and pics can lead to a temporary breakup. And what if something, which needs a great deal of understanding surfaces and the person in the relation, doesn’t understand? It shows a way to breakup again :(

**TIME : waaaaaa waaaaaa (someone said this is the way u shed tears)!! :D You don’t have time for me. No watching movies together, no restaurants ( guy paying the bills :P), no hang outs, no parties :( no regular meetings, no zooming around on the bikes. Who doesn’t miss such stuff in a relation :( and long distance relationships have place for none. :(

** lol this might seem funny but imagine you wanting to send some gifts on her/his birthday…lol you will have to pay more for the courier charges than for the gift itself :D hmm this again is not my experience :P

Pros-

Err I cant think of many points in favour of long distance relationships :D except the excitement of having one and escaping any physical harassment :D all u get to hear is verbal attacks :P lol jokes aside, a blend of trust and understanding can make such a relation a success :) Not to forget large amounts of cash :P

5 minutes of random thoughts

2007-12-02T21:04:00.000+05:30

Tagged by ashu. Thanx ashu at least im not experimenting poetry once again :D lol

Lol surprisingly no crap in my head when needed :D I am thinking what to think :D
Best days of the year are right after the exams. ( :P err I screwed up the last exam :( :D ) I said best days coz I got absolutely NOTHING to do besides sleeping for long hours and hanging out with friends most of the free time.

Wait I actually got so much to do. I will have to give my GRE this month…and here I stick to my pc :D. I was supposed to give this exam 7 months back… I dint FEEL like giving it then :D and so I postponed. But now it seems like I will have to postpone it once again. But it costs too much-4000 bucks!! Imagine how many chocolates / ice creams I can buy myself with that money if I just gave my exam without second thoughts :P "4000=5*80=> i could have whopping 80 perks with it...lol it will make my month :D"

Moreover mom is pestering me to clean my room :( Last time I escaped from dusting the computer…mom pulled out all the wires out of the sockets to clean it herself. And I had a tough time fixing them back. No wonder if she does the same to my cupboard, though there are no wires to pull out :D

Ummm I dumped too much into my belly today…chicken hotdog, Frankie, noodles and fried rice :D hehehe…and now I guess I am sensing a bad stomach :(

zzzzzzzzzzz boooooohooooooooo lol

2007-11-30T00:56:00.001+05:30

Omg!! Poetry is definitely not my cup of tea :D Ummmm but someone wrote ‘A tag is a tag and it should be done like I promised’. Lena did you by any chance mean that none of us can try skipping the tag :P

Ok Haiku (I never heard of it though :D) is short Japanese poetry supposedly having 3 lines each of 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively along with a seasonal word.

It took me a couple of minutes..lol hours actually :D to do this….and yes I better mention that I tool the help of the theme in lena’s recent post :D – ‘RAIN’…lol I couldn’t think of anything else :D

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In hours of darkness
Hiding my tears in the rain
I yearn for ice cream :D (That meant the tears were for the ice cream-and mind you-chocolate flavoured with jellies, hot chocolate sauces and nuts :P)

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Lol...I know I know....."an" is missing before the ''icecream'' and ''the'' is missing before ''hours''.....whatever...........i am done with the tag at least...and yeah plz lena i beg of u...plz dont tag me on POETRY :D

Again anybody reading this can do the tag :) lol...not 'CAN'...'SHOULD' :D

A twitch to smokers :D

2007-11-28T22:49:00.001+05:30

A little effort to scare u off from smoking :D

I, Me, Myself

2007-11-27T10:35:00.000+05:30

Well I thought I would never disclose my personal life here. But 8 facts about me? Lena’s given me an entirely new experience of being tagged ! And I cant be dishonest on this : Ok the whole tag business goes sumthing like this…

The rules are as follows:

1. When tagged you must link to the person who tagged you.

2.Then post the rules before your list, and list eight random facts/habits about yourself.

3. At the end of the post, you must tag and link to eight other bloggers.

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And i hit the floor with some facts about my life :

1. I cant believe I am typing these words myself .. Lakshmi Divya…lol that’s her full name and she dislikes being called that way : D 'Lakshmi' meant 'Goddess of money' and i guess my parents were expecting tons of money in their life along with me...lol it just turned the other way round :D

2. Divya hated her school days. She also hated her childhood. Now that’s something don’t u think so? Ever heard of hating school days ? Now you get to hear something new. She hated school days coz she was NOTHING then. She dint even exist for many people. She was just an idler. Now do I explain why? That’s coz nobody cared her. She was only made fun of. She was thrown off to a corner. She would rather do anything than to go back to school again !!

3. Yawn :) Divya loves sleeping. That is something she never gets tired of. She is a donkey when it comes to laziness.Ok let me give an example of her daily resting plans. Come holiday…she wakes up at ….11 AM. She finds nothing to do. She sleeps back at 12. She wakes up at 5 in the evening. ..she wishes to sleep again. But people around her would not like it. So she rambles around for the next few hours. She watches TV for a while and goes off to sleep :D

4. Yummy she loves chocolates. Anything made of chocolate!! Guess what. Akki told her a while ago that she has built up a stock of chocolates for her… Divya’s desperate in running to akki’s home and having them all for herself for she isn’t sure how long akki will set them aside for her :D

5. Hmm when it comes to relations…she is incredible selfish and possessive. She isnt afraid of writing it here.She wants everybody for herself. And she would put in all her heart and soul if she came into a relation. There are instances where she felt like giving her life away…but she was afraid to attempt that thing…only because she knew that if she died.. she would have nobody around her. She would miss the treasured delicacies of this world- her family, her friends and everybody who brought her to what she is.

6. Divya once experienced a near to death situation. That was when she came to know of her grandfather’s cancer. Till then she dint know what death meant.For 3 months she had seen him on bed. Her grandfather was a handsome man. She just loved him so much.Given a chance she would just go on typing about her experiences with him. Every evening when she came back from her college she would see him welcoming her with a million dollar smile. Now she has lost that smile forever. How she wishes only to get a glimpse of her grandpa once again!!

7. Things she cant live without?? Well if they are THINGS ….she can certainly live without them. People, relations, feelings, emotions and love fall among the many she cant live without.

8. If there's something she is afraid of...it must be of not being loved and losing people. But she sometimes get as ferocious as a tiger and before she realizes...she has already hurt the person :(

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Lol should she stop typing with this point? She finds this interesting and wishes to type in more :D

Hold on can she add another fact despite the rules of the tag...?? puleeej.....hmm Divya dreams of having a baby someday...for she loves the feeling of the baby restraining from leaving the mother's arms :) lol long way to go b4 she experiences that feeling!!

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I haven't got many in my blogroll list...so i would love to tag anybody reading this :)

And yeah if shashi , harshi , ashu , jaggu havent done the tag yet..i would love to read a few facts abt them

Om (A)Shanti Om

2007-11-25T19:53:00.000+05:30

Watched this one yesterday in spite of having exams.. huh dedicated my precious '3 hours' only for sharukh. The movie wasn't worth watching though and all the more while I have my exams :D

I was wondering what farah added to the storyline- it was all from the movie karz. I could make out the end even before I finished watching it. Right from the title to the end it was taken from KARZ. This keeps me thinking… In the past 1 year how many remakes have been made out of old hindi movies? Are filmmakers falling in short of stories?? If they really are I think they should start approaching laypeople for stories. We have so much to offer…so many new love stories, so much tragedy and so much humor :D (What say akki :P ) what we lack in our lives is just action. :( or are we just waiting to show up the action :D

Sharukh looked his worst. And I don't understand how farah promotes her movie saying 'u will c sharukh like u have never seen him before'. She was probably right. I did see him like never before... his hair all messed up and his face all crooked and screwed up. Sharukh's getting older :( .
I just loved his persona of DDLJ and KHNH. He getting older and his face catching wrinkles is something hard to take in :( Nevertheless he has been voted the sexiest Asian man for the year. * Cheers*

If you love it...show it??

2007-11-23T11:36:00.000+05:30

Lena's words put me into deep thoughts.She says some people in spite of loving truly and deeply, find trouble in expressing love. Perhaps she is right and i need to realize that myself.

Abraham Maslow's theory of needs says- "A person who is hungry for food cannot be driven by love and a person who is hungry for love cannot be motivated towards self-actualization."

I thought over some incidents of my life when i felt unloved and uncared just because people could not SHOW their love for me. Something deep inside my heart did tell me that that person indeed loved me. But i would not make any efforts in feeling that unexpressed love. I wanted them to assure me of their love all the time-through spoken words!!

I remember how my brother and i, as kids, always complained against each other. We fought over little things and i ended up sobbing over his hard nosed attitude. But sometime back when he returned to India after his study in Russia, he bought me a biggg [That meant-very big :D] box of my favourite chocolates. He wasn't earning then,yet he saved every penny just to get each one of us something. Am sure i must be having many more to pen down here!!

Possessiveness, jealousy, insecurity-some millstones in relationships that pull people and the relationships down. But despite all my efforts i am preoccupied with such negative feelings almost all the time. Thanks Lena, i guess i will try listening to those unsaid but implicit feelings :)

kindness is contagious

2007-11-22T16:30:00.000+05:30

Some of them are just very small, simple kind deeds. But even the
smallest, most simple act of kindness can make a difference in
someone's life in a very big way. Perhaps by reading about a kindness idea
that someone else has done you will be inspired to do the same. The kindness idea i now talked about was from lena's blog click here

They call it the PIF challenge which i wholeheartedly accepted :)

"I promise to send a small handmade gift to the first three people who reply to this post on my blog, specifying that they accept the PIF challenge. I do not know what the gift will be as of now, but it will be something personalized and I promise to have it delivered to them within one year from today, no matter what. Of course, as the name indicates, the condition is that all three of them must in turn pay it forward the same way, by putting up a post linking to this one on their blog and promising to send three others a handmade gift."

A concept which sure has inspired me to do something for another individual...be it my friend or a even a stranger, i would love to make something out of my own hands and present it to him/her. Hmm and me waiting for the gift lena's gonna send me soon..all the way from Russia!!

A Mad Angel

2007-11-22T11:19:00.000+05:30

Tum pagal ho! You are mad! u gone berserk? Talk through your senses!!

I get to hear such words so frequently that i think i ought to get used to it.They say my thoughts, my feelings, my concerns, my emotions, my anger, my priorities, my interests and my desires- nothing really makes sense!! Very recently i got to hear something even stodgy..my love makes no sense!!

I was always proud of the way i loved people-my family,my friends and at times even strangers who i thought were worth my love. And for all that i gave i am rewarded with such hard hitting words which almost broke my heart. For a moment i consoled myself that such words shouldn't bother me for i knew how good i am at loving people. But the very next moment makes me feel that what you think of yourself doesnt count much...but what others think does!! No matter how high you think of yourself, when someone else talks low of you..you are bound to get ticked off.(Oops!! I better use 'I rather than 'YOU' here for i dont know how many of you people reading this are more worried about what OTHERS think of you).

Some say i go into raptures on being praised by people, i turn beet-root red upon receiving compliments.--lol tell me who doesnt??? :D (Very rarely i am appreciated for the things i do..do i let go of such rare applauds too??)

And then there are also others who call me an ANGEL, who feel lucky to have me in their lives, who smile in my presence, who care for me above everything else and who think that my emotions,my feelings and my love...everything makes a lot of sense.

That leaves me confused- whether to tag myself as MAD or an ANGEL :D

Great Expectations-2

2007-11-21T15:48:00.000+05:30

This one is a treasured script. However it was written by someone else in a community of orkut, someone who had put in some efforts in making people understand the consequences of high expectations. I have read it hundreds of times but never succeeded in putting his words into practice. I hope the guy doesn’t mind me using his writings in my blog :)

Sum1 walks in our life ..things go a bit better .and den u suddenly have this compulsion of sharing all v have wid that special sum1 ....u c its veryy easy to say .."never trust ny1 ..jus trust urself "..but i guess ..in 95% of the cases ..it doesnt happen ...coz v all seek sum1 {read always seeking sum1 }...whom v can rely upon ...sum1 who understands us .in a way its like {at the risk of being exaggerating ..}...."v all r dying to place our trust in sum1 ..".....and as soon as ..v c sumthing positive cuming our way ..v r overexcited ...and assume ..that v ve found wat v were searching for ..sumtimes v wont even care to kno ..wat is it like frm the other side ...!!!!
the keyword here is "EXPECTATION"....v feel that v ve been cheated {later !!}..jus coz V EXPECT OTHERS TO SHARE THE SAME LEVEL OF COMMITMENT AS US ....v expect them to reciprocate our CARE and FEELINGS for them .....dis is the root of all problems ...v ASSUME things on our own ..and den later feel betrayed ,betrusted and hurt !!
whr was the fault ??
whose IS the fault ??
i m sure a little reflection on ourselves will give all the answers and clear a lot of confusion ......

oops ..mind ya ..I NEVER said ...that DONT trust ppl ..!!!
i m jus warning to NOT TO B DESPERATE in PLACING ur TRUST in SUM1....
wenever u have a new relationship ...GIVE IT TIME .....
don rush in !!!time will unfold everything ....and u ll kno if the other person DESRVES to b trusted ..and if its the same he/she feels abt u ....

most of the problems in relationships occur ..jus coz V HURRY in ..and dat V EXPECT ppl to b nice and understanding wid us ...{the way v r wid dem ...}
trust is not a gift that u jus give away in a moment ...
its sumthing grt that DEVELOPES over a period of time ...
so at the first place ..don trust ppl easily ..and secondly DON EXPECT nything out of a relationship.

That is all. Some people look upon expectations as gaffe I was wondering if expectations mean A GIVE AND TAKE RELATIONSHIP ! I never thought so. I expected not because I wanted to be paid for the love I give..I expected because I was in NEED of love. Not many people understand my viewpoint. There are a few I can count on. And I am feeling just too lucky for having those few people !

EDUCATION : Learning and Living

2007-11-03T12:20:00.000+05:30

All through the year I had found comfort in NOT LISTENING TO THE LECTURES, in reading novels in the classroom, in ‘sms’ing during a lecture, in chewing a gum, in chit chatting with my friends and in drooping over the bench! But now, I see the time of the year; I am supposed to bond with my books.

Sometimes I wonder if education is really worth the time we are spending on it. I mean 4 years is too much for the little things I’ve learnt during the course.

My system has been infected with virus and guess what? I have no clue on how to format the computer. That’s a different thing that I dint know what ‘formatting’ a system meant until a few months ago when I had asked a friend and she explained me the whole process! By hook or crook I have earned myself a job in a software company but I dont know what an operating system is though I have been using one since long. I still remember the ‘DUMB FOLDED ME’ when I was questioned during my campus interviews-what is an OS, give an example. I did know what an operating system meant by definition- a medium through which a user can communicate with the computer. But I had no idea how the user does!! Neither could I give an example for it :D

Satellite, Tv, optical communications, computer networks. I never knew there was so much behind the television, the mobile, and the internet I spend most of my time with! I don’t really care though! Chuck the LED’s and the antennas. How often do we find ourselves dealing with them except in the text books?

Exam time- somehow I manage to get the percentage I am in need of. As long as the ‘all in ones’ are made available, who really cares for the high standard text books :D

On this note I would like to sign off from blogger for a while and get back to my books. Will riposte to my blog if any unusual interests begin to surface.

A lunch with god

2007-11-01T20:07:00.001+05:30

Of late i have started to believe in God. For reasons i may not be able to state here. But believe me i have got the answer for the question- where is God when it hurts? He is right beside you. One more post on the name of God !

A little boy wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with a bag of potato chips and a six-pack of root beer and started his journey.

When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman. She was sitting in the park, just staring at some pigeons. The boy sat down next to her and opened his suitcase. He was about to take a drink from his root beer when he noticed that the old lady looked hungry, so he offered her some chips. She gratefully accepted it and smiled at him.

Her smile was so pretty that the boy wanted to see it again, so he offered her a root beer. Again, she smiled at him. The boy was delighted! They sat

There all afternoon eating and smiling, but they never said a word.

As twilight approached, the boy realized how tired he was and he got up to leave; but before he had gone more than a few steps, he turned around, ran back to the old woman, and gave her a hug. She gave him her biggest smile ever.
When the boy opened the door to his own house a short time later, his mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face. She asked him, "What did you do today that made you so happy?" He replied, " I had lunch with God." But before his mother could respond, he added, "You know what? She's got the most beautiful smile I've ever seen!" Meanwhile, the old woman, also radiant with joy, returned to her home. Her son was stunned by the look of peace on her face and he asked, "Mother, what did you do today that made you so happy?" She replied! "I ate potato chips in the park with God." However, before her son responded, she added, " You know, he's much younger than I expected."

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of

Which have the potential to turn a life around. People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime! Embrace all equally

A chat with GOD :)

2007-10-28T17:51:00.000+05:30

This one is among the few collections i treasure the most :)

God : Hello. Did you call me?

Me: Called you? No.. who is this?

God : This is GOD. I heard your prayers. So I thought I will chat.

Me: I do pray. Just makes me feel good. I am actually busy now. I am in the midst of something.

God : What are you busy at? Ants are busy too.

Me: Don't know. But I cant find free time. Life has become hectic. It's rush hour all the time.

God : Sure. Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets you results. Activity consumes time. Productivity frees it.

Me: I understand. But I still can't figure out. By the way, I was not expecting YOU to buzz me on instant messaging chat.

God : Well I wanted to resolve your! fight for time, by giving you some clarity. In this net era, I wanted to reach you through the medium you are comfortable with.

Me: Tell me why has life become complicated now?

God : Stop analyzing life. Just live it. Analysis is what makes it complicated.

Me: why are we then constantly unhappy?

God : Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday.You are worrying because you are analyzing. Worrying has become your habit. That's why you are not happy.

Me: But how can we not worry when there is so much uncertainty?

God : Uncertainty is inevitable, but worrying is optional.

Me: But then, there is so much pain due to uncertainty. .

God : Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.

Me: If suffering is optional, why do good people always suffer?

God : Diamond cannot be polished without friction. Gold cannot be purified without fire. Good people go through trials, but don't suffer. With that experience their life become better not bitter.

Me: You mean to say such experience is useful?

God : Yes. In every terms, Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Me: But still, why should we go through such tests? Why cant we be free from problems?

God : Problems are Purposeful Roadblocks Offering Beneficial Lessons (to) Enhance Mental Strength. Inner strength comes from struggle and endurance, not when you! are free from problems.

Me: Frankly in the midst of so many problems, we don't know where we are heading..

God : If you look outside you will not know where you are heading.Look inside. Looking outside, you dream. Looking inside, you awaken. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides insight.

Me: Sometimes not succeeding fast seems to hurt more than moving in the right direction. What should I do?

God : Success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you. Knowing the road ahead is more satisfying than knowing you rode ahead. You work with the compass. Let others work with the clock.

Me: In tough times, how do you stay motivated?

God : Always look at how far you have come rather than how far you have to go. Always count your blessing, not what you are missing.

Me: What surprises you about people?

God : when they suffer they ask, "why me?" When they prosper, they never ask "Why me" Everyone wishes to have truth on their side, but few want to be on the side of the truth.

Me: Sometimes I ask, who am I, why am I here. I cant get the answer.

God : Seek not to find who you are, but to determine who you want to be. Stop looking for a purpose as to why you are here. Create it. Life is not a process of discovery but a process of creation.

Me: How can I get the best out of life?

God : Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear.

Me: One last question. Sometimes I feel my prayers are not answered.

God : There are no unanswered prayers. At times the answer is NO.

Me: Thank you for this wonderful chat.

God : Well. Keep the faith and drop the fear. Don't believe your doubts and doubt your beliefs. Life is a mystery to solve not a problem to resolve. Trust me. Life is wonderful if you know how to live. "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that took our breath away

ITS MY LIFE !

2007-10-24T19:35:00.000+05:30

The tittle-tattle for the month- Superstar Chiru’s daughter absconding with her boyfriend of 4 years!

After all the havoc she has created, the upshots still prevail- amid Chiru’s fans, the rest of the public, over the news channels, in the news papers, at my home and everyone else’s!
I have been thinking if we really have a life of our own. Or are we living for the society and the world? I am not really encouraging what the girl has done. She has indeed turned out to be the black sheep for the family. Chiru was (or I rather say is) literally thought-out as GOD for the public here. And his reputation now is at stake, the reason being- his daughter eloping with her boyfriend. Undeniably she has been a disreputable member of his family. I am against her decision for some convincing reasons.

1 > She is barely 19 and undoubtedly marriage is too big a decision to be taken at this age.
2 > She has married someone who had criminal cases against him.
3 > Even after 4 years of courtship, she couldn’t make out the actual man behind her lover.
4> Her media statements were far too obnoxious.
5> She hasn’t really given her parents a chance before running away with him.

Coming back to the actual question- do we have a life of our own? The other day I was going through some posts by a fellow blogger. She was apparently in a similar situation. Madly in love with a guy and was forcibly made to get married to her cousin- her parent’s choice. She barely had the courage to go against her parent’s will, resulting in the sacrifice of her love.

Some of the many excuses parents give- its all for your own good ( is it?), you are too immature to take the big decision of marriage (I wonder – If we are mature enough to get married, do we still have to wait for an age to fall in love? Lol perhaps that is called LOVE AFTER MARRIAGE.) , he/she does not belong to our caste/religion (Are we supposed to get married to a person or his/her caste?), marriage is not just about two people, its about two different families coming together (lol…why don’t they just understand- even before the unison of two families, its about two people willing/not willing to spend their lives as life partners.)

However, my arguments are not going to change the situation :D. Ultimately Caste, Religion, Family issues, the society we are living in, rites and rituals, the customs and the traditions take an advantage over the one word LOVE. What can we do? We can only sacrifice, we can only lose. After all they are the ones who gave birth to us, they are the ones who brought us up and they are the ones who taught us to live

So far yet only a missed call away!

2007-10-18T19:46:00.000+05:30

Missed calls have a special place in my heart. They have nothing to say. Still they can speak volumes. They make you feel remembered, cared and thought of by someone. Missed calls from friends, missed calls from loved ones. Missed calls are substitutes to received calls at times when you cant afford to make a call, or leave a message or when you just don’t have the time to converse through the phone. Being visible is not always a requirement for being close. It just takes some thoughts and memories to feel the presence of someone. And how do you let someone know that you are thinking of him or her? A missed call says it all.

On the other hand how do you perceive a missed call from an unknown number? A missed call from a complete stranger? This is when curiosity breaks the surface and they say curiosity kills the cat!! Very often we feel an inquisitive urge to call back and scrutinize both the number and the caller. Yes I called back many times only to realize that the missed calls were from my dearest HUTCH oops!! VODAFONE services.

When you are down to nothing, God is up to something !

2007-10-16T23:57:00.000+05:30

If the earlier post is for smiles..this one is for tears.This is to bring back the lost emotions in you.It took me an hour to type the subsequent piece of writing in here.I hope you can make an attempt to spend a few minutes of your running time in reading this.

She jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room.
She asked- 'How is my little boy?Is he going to be alright? When can I see him?'

The surgeon said, " I'm sorry, we did all we could, but your boy didn't make it"

Sally said," Why do little children get cancer? Doesn't God care anymore?Where were you God when my son needed you?"

The surgeon asked," Would you like some time alone with your son?One of the nurses will be out in a few minutes,before he's transported to the university"

Sally asked the nurse to stay with her while she said goodbye to her son.She ran her fingers lovingly through his thick red curly hair.
"Would you like a lock of his hair?" the nurse asked.
Sally nodded yes.The nurse cut a lock of the boy's hair,put it in a plastic bag and handed it to Sally.
The mother said," It was jimmy's idea to donate his body to the university for study.He said it might help somebody else.I said NO at first, but jimmy said, 'Mom, I wont be using it after I die.May be it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his mom"
She went on,"My jimmy had a heart of gold.Always thinking of someone else.Always wanted to help others if he could."

Sally walked out of children's mercy hospital for the last time,after spending most of the last 6 months there.
She put the bag with Jimmy's belongings on the seat beside her in the car.The drive back home was difficult.It was even harder to enter the empty house. She carried Jimmy's belongings ,and the plastic bag with the lock of his hair to her son's room.
She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room exactly where he had always kept them.She laid down across his bed and hugging his pillow, cried herself to sleep.It was around midnight when sally awoke.Laying beside her was a folded letter.

The letter said,

" Dear Mom,I know you are going to miss me,but dont think I will ever forget you,or stop loving you,just 'cause I'm not around to say "I Love You"

I will always love you Mom,even more with each day.Someday we will see eachother again.Until then,If you want to adopt a little boy so you wont feel lonely,thats okay with me.He can have my room and old stuff to play with.But, If u decide to get a girl instead,she probably wouldn't like the same things us boys do.You will have to buy dolls and stuff girls like.

Dont be sad thinking about me.This is really a neat place.Grandma and Grandpa met me as soon as I got here and showed me some around.But it will take a long time to see everything.

The angels are so cool.I love to watch them fly.And you know what Mom? Jesus doesn't look like any of his pictures.Yet,when I saw him, I knew it was him.Jesus himself took me to see god! And guess what? I got to sit on God's knee and talk to him like I was somebody important.

Thats when I told him that I wanted to write you a letter to tell you goodbye and everything.But I already knew that wasn't allowed.Well you know what Mom? God handed me some paper and his own personal pen to write you this letter.

I think Gabriel is the name of the Angel who is going to drop this letter off to you.God said for me to give you the answer to one of the questions you asked him ' Where was he when I needed him?'

"God said he was in the same place with me, as when his son Jesus was on the cross.He was right there,as he always is with all his children." Oh by the way Mom, no one else can see what I've written here except you.So for everyone else this is just a blank paper.Isn't that cool?I have to give God His pen back now.He needs it to write some more names in the book of life.Tonight I get to sit with Jesus for supper.I'm sure the food will be great.

Oh I almost forgot to tell you.I dont hurt anymore.The cancer is all gone.I'm glad because I couldn't stand that pain anymore and God couldn't stand to see me hurt so much either.

That's when he sent the angel of mercy to come get me.The angel said I was a special delivery.How about that?

Signed with love,
God,Jesus and me.

YUMMY............it's a Girl thing !!

2007-10-11T21:07:00.000+05:30

There’s some wild liaison between chocolates and girls. I believe chocolates are a Girl’s real best friends. Wondering what is it that drives us crazy at the sight of chocolates?
Ummm…how many do I list out here- perhaps it’s the taste, or may be it’s actually the color, or is it the shape? What is it that builds this sturdy bond between chocolates and girls- I am wondering too.

My madness for chocolates is something to be appreciated (or will u start to carp about it?!! ). I remember some tiring days when I preferred buying myself a chocolate to getting into an auto !! They are my best companions at times when I push myself into deep thoughts. I love seating myself on the terrace along with my weird thoughts and a bar of chocolate. It gives me so much pleasure which I will never be able to put into words.Oh! how I wish I had a large house made of chocolate :( Something that will be an ultimate solution for my all cravings for chocolate.

The best way to woo a girl is to gift her the finest chocolate you can ever find. I personally get gripped so much to chocolates that I would almost certainly nod to everything you say while the chocolate goes melting in my mouth :)
It’s not just a bar of chocolate that can take us to heavens. It can be anything made of chocolate. Chocolate cakes, chocolate cookies, chocolate milkshakes, chocolate ice creams- hold on, let me describe my favourite combination of chocolate and ice cream :)

It’s called Belgium fuel :) and the contents- a large scoop of Belgium chocolate with a bonus chocolate chip scoop with added flavors of jellies, hot chocolate sauces and nuts. Well if you think that is not going to pay off for your desire for chocolate, they add an extra layer of chocolate pastry to it :)

Isn’t it lip smacking? Go experience the pleasure without ado :D

The fingerprints of God

2007-10-01T20:11:00.000+05:30

The fingerprints of God

I read this article in the Times of India and I really wanted to add it here.

Before you read this article, stand in front of a mirror and look at your eyes and watch the judgments and critical thoughts that surface immediately. Do u like your nose? Do u like your skin? Is your colour acceptable to you? What about your lips? Are they too large, too small or may be too dark? What about wrinkles, if any on skin? Can u just accept aging as a natural process? What about your eyes? They are windows to your soul. Can u look into your eyes with understanding and acceptance? I’m afraid many would reciprocate with an emphatic ‘NO’.

Where have these judgments come from? These feelings of not being good enough take birth in the society we embrace. It’s further strengthened with the family connection, or the reports that we hear about celebrities and beauty industry.

We talk about racist attacks in Germany or London, but what about the reactions that we get from our own relatives, neighbours and friends if we are not fair enough or just the right colour or size?

There are beauty treatments for every conceivable problem today. Technology has found an answer for the dissatisfaction we have about our bodies but we have not yet found a solution for the dissatisfaction we feel about ourselves. In the meanwhile, we are paying a significant sum of our income to beauty salons to help us feel barely acceptable. The services that they offer are because we have found a need for them. But, the sad thing is, its often a feeling of not being accepted and loved that leads to indulging in those needs. How often do these desires to spruce up arise from a self-confident you, who doesn’t need another’s approval of you?

I believe we are all created in the image of god. The differences we see in each other are our stamp from our creator to show us how special we are. The day we see the soul behind the face we will no longer be divided on the basis of race, religion or gender. If we can’t see our own beauty and uniqueness in the mirror, how can we expect someone else to?

Does it feel good to read those lines? I am sure it does. But how many of us really accept that beauty lies in the eyes of the one who sees?

My friends- My life

2007-09-29T22:42:00.001+05:30

Yaaron dosti badi hi haseen hai
Yeh na ho tho kya phir bolo yeh zindagi hai

Teri har ek burai pe daante woh dost
Gham ki ho dhuup tho saaya bane tera who dost
Naache bhi who teri khushi me…..

Are yaaron dosti badi hi haseen hai
Yeh na ho tho kya phir bolo yeh zindagi hai

How true !! Friends make the world so special. Nothing else can compare to the happiness we find, in the comfort of a friendship that’s the everlasting kind, a friendship based on caring thoughts, gentle and trusting ways, moments shared-both good and bad, words of love and support. Nothing else can compare to the understanding that will last a lifetime.

As grown-ups when people recollect the days spent in school-they say those were the best and memorable days of anybody’s life. However for me they weren’t.. I prefer not to think of school days. And when I do, I think of the tough times I had to go through in school. I was reserved, I was simple, I was soft so I had not many friends. I remember how I used to long for the completion of my school days so I could start my life afresh. And finally when they came to an end I was at peace.

Now in my graduation, I am a changed person-fun loving, complicated ( I am really hard to understand and its difficult even for me to understand people !!) ,outgoing, sometimes mad and always surrounded by friends. When I look back now and see my school days I wonder how a person can change so much.. change for good or bad I haven’t understood yet.

My friends- each of them is a masterpiece by God himself. With them its like what I said before-voiceless communication-they understand everything that I have to say. They know everything there is to know about me, they know what worries me, what I fear, what keeps me awake at night.. they have been by my side through thick and thin, they have proved that there is a thing called true friendship.

Its really tough to be with a person like me. I wonder how they could tolerate my madness for so long. When I think of the kind of support I had received from them during the days that nearly took my breath away, I feel really lucky for having such good friends with me. I remember how I used to message my friends in the hours of darkness when I had sleepless nights sometimes regarding petty issues and sometimes about more serious ones. Had they not been with me all these years I don’t think I would have been alive by now.

During our campus interviews, for the first time I felt we were being separated…we got through different companies. Some will fly to The U.S.A, some will get busy with work and some will get married. The pain that we will no longer see each other on a daily basis was more than the fact that I couldn’t get through my first interview. Some kind of jealousy occupied my thoughts, that some of my friends who got into same company will become even closer and I will be left alone.

Together we are called 7 wonders….but as individuals we are nothing. Some people envy the kind of friendship we have shared in these 4 years. They say there is no question of having so many best friends. They say we are together because we feel secured being together. For all those who feel so I would like to say that FRIENDSHIP is all about staying TOGETHER and being there for each other in spite of misunderstandings. We have been together and we will be.

I have written so much about my friends here but I had not mentioned any names…I really don’t want to bring up any names here…we are THE SEVEN WONDERS-ALL AT ONE PLACE, we are THE SEVEN COLOURS THAT MAKE A RAINBOW.

YAAAAAAAAAAAK............THU...!!!!

2007-09-27T09:17:00.000+05:30

That’s the headline for those who spit on the roads!! YUCK!! How I hate this habit of people.

Spitting has never really been a big issue,especially in a country like ours where roads are more like dustbins.Chocolate wrappers,empty packets and cowdung on the roads have never bothered me.But I just can’t stand people spitting on the roads..specially those who do it after filling their mouths with Pan.

The other day I was standing at my busstop n waiting for my bus..when suddenly someone spat very close to my legs right through the window.It is so ridiculous that people never mind how awful it feels like to have been spat upon by someone!!

Most of the times I take careful steps while walking on the roads not to step on anything dirty,but when a situation like this prevails…how do I escape?

Hutch is now Vodafone !!

2007-09-25T23:45:00.000+05:30

Have been seeing this tagline every where..and it really pisses me off. I call to a costumer care service and I am welcomed with the same,I look out of the window while travelling in a bus and I find this banner hanging out almost everywhere.More to it-im getting forwards on my cell offering me to change my Hutch logo to Vodafone without any extra charges!! Now only a fool will do that-with or without extra charges ;)

Vodafone-I hate the name.Still trying to figure out how to actually pronounce it!!

Speaking through SILENCE

2007-09-25T14:49:00.000+05:30

Have you ever been in lack of words when you were with a loved one?Times at which you NEEDED to communicate but you couldn't?Moments where you have got so much to say ,words running through ur head ,ready to shoot;but some fear hunts you down and all of a sudden you have got not a word to speak out?

I have been in such circumstances almost all the time.What do I do then? I remain silent. In my silence I speak a thousand words.I talk to myself and I talk to others.In my silence I think,I regret,I worry,I hurt myself and majority of the time I hurt others.But in many ways my Silence is better than innocent,well meant words which are often misunderstood !! Coz sometimes in order to be heard u need to be silent.

The dictionary meaning of communication says-exchange of information.But how often do people understand what you are trying to say when you are silent? here is one qoute which has always fascinated me-

LISTEN and SILENT are two words with same alphabets and they are very important in Friendship bcoz only a Friend can LISTEN to you when you are SILENT !

Fortunately I have been surrounded by a few trusted friends who always understood what my silence had to say.Perhaps thats the reason I am being called LUCKY DIVS!! SILENCE TRULY IS GOLDEN

Great Expectations

2007-09-23T20:49:00.000+05:30

This is one topic i really want to write about.I had always thought i was reasonable in my expectations from people.I haven't realized how Expectations kill a relation,how they rob u of the joy until this day.Often i find myself nagging and criticizing at every possible thing.I had this feeling that others ought to treat me the way i want them to.My desire for security and perfection in relations have led me to dissapointment and frustration.Perhaps I need to think over how perfect I have been!!

How difficult is it to let go of expectations?Very difficult!! I had tried and failed.I could never accept things as they were.My thoughts were always negative-angry,fearful and worried.When someone did not meet with my expectations,I held them responsible for my unhappiness.How will i learn to accept things as they come?When will i learn to stop complaining about people?When will i understand that if criticism hurts me it probably hurts the others too?How will i change myself into a better person?

Or do i just follow this statement-Give less,Expect less?But then,how will i learn to give less??hehehe

A day in PARADISE !!

2007-09-23T10:24:00.000+05:30

I have never been a nature lover,but this place sure has made me one-am talking about MANALI.

Of my 10 day tour to northern india this has been my favourite place.Here i have experienced what it feels like to touch the clouds,to climb up the mountains and to play with the waterfalls.

In and around manali we have been to the Hadimba temple,the Rohtang pass and some hot water springs.Of all these however, we were most excited for having worn the himachal clothing for the first time ever in the Hadimba temple!!

And then of course there is the rohtang pass.Our sudden drift from the scorching heat of agra to this ice cold environment has made it even more exciting! We just loved everything about this place right from being on the horse which led us to our destiny (can't be called 'riding' though!!) to being on the peak of the mountain.

The next day we were at the springs-busy taking photographs of ourselves with every waterfall we came across,with pythons and with huge rabbits!!
Manali for us has been a place worth watching a hundred times!!

Death and grief-the body and mind connection

2007-09-22T15:12:00.000+05:30

Many of us feel shock n becum numb in the first few days after a beloved passes away.We also experience difficulty in concentrating,hallucinations,and lack of sleep.A lot of it comes from the stress and anxiety that we face after a loved one expires.Magnified emotions of sadness,confusion,guilt,anger and a sense of emptiness of life-in short emotional overload.This severe shock n sorrow can be enough to follow our loved ones to death or perhaps be prone to accidents since we lose focus of everyday world.

We hear people saying 'It's time to move on','Get over it'-they say time heals the pain-definetely true to my experiences.We have different ways of dealing with the pain-the best way I can say is to seek ppl who will listen to ur grief.For concerned ppl to comfort and care a person is to JUST BE THERE FOR THEM.

After the initial shockwave of hurt we slowly tend to 'get over it'..how long does the absence of a person in our life hurt us?No matter how close we are to them,perhaps a month,a year or two?
Here i will write about my grand father.I lost him to cancer.Just the news of him having cancer was so hurting,what pain can describe his passing away?
He has been a person in my life without whom my studies or in fact my living wouldn't have been possible.He paid my fees all my school life,he came to the busstop to take me home,he was my tutor at home,he gave me money wen i needed,on the first of every month all of us were given a treat with his pension,wen i had a problem with my ear he offered money for the treatment (i lost him even b4 my ear got the treatment) and he loved me the most of all his grandchildren.
After his death nearly for 2 months or so every night he came in my dreams-probably becoz he was all i used to think about.Now-after 9 months, i dream about him perhaps once in a month.Guess I 'GOT OVER IT' but I really wish i had not !!

Bottles of poison

2007-09-22T14:48:00.000+05:30

Alcohol consumption is increasing,now its considered as a sign of modern individuals.Ppl r trying to prove it beneficial as they claim it soothes nerves,removes worries n thus provides mental peace.But its is not true.Everyone has some or other problems in life.Problems can b faced only by keeping up our mental equilibrium.It is not proper to face difficulty with ease by consuming alcohol.Wines do not solve our worries,they only make us insensitive to our worries for a short time.Once the effects of alcohol are over we again find ourselves worried which may be more intense.This cycle goes on n ppl becum insensitive to it.Long term consumption of alcohol can lead to many physical,mental n emotional problems.I have seen people drinking as early as they are 18.Besides ill-health, ppl who drink/smoke are less revered in our society than other individuals. (especially by girls) .

Solution?- better not to drink.If unavoidable take in limited quantity.Try to control the intake.It is harmful,whether consumed with snacks/food or an empty stomach,whether it is taken with water,soda or wen it is slowly drunk or gulped,whether it is country made or english,Rum,whisky,scotch.Half of the ppl who continue to drink inspite of liver damage-will die in next 5 years!!

peace of mind

2007-09-17T19:25:00.000+05:30

Is it possible to remain peaceful if someone destroys one of my prized possession?what benefit is there in acting in a calm n peaceful way? But what is to be gained from losing my peaceful nature?

If i have all wealth I desire,name and fame yet am without health,without my loved ones,without those sweet memories,without my friends and their support--will I still remain peaceful? can I still enjoy the wealth? and if I cant enjoy the wealth what value does it really have?

I may spend my whole life looking for it ,yet I will allow the most minor incident to rob me of whatever little peace I possess...why is this so?
will my ANGER or tears resolve the situation...?? NO-but why do I still waste my energy in showing that anger and y do i allow the tears role down my cheeks?

I have no answer!!!