Shopper's Stop New Advertisement

 I love it. I think every woman would. And why not! Have a look 

All the issues - on point. You go SS. I am and will be a SSS(Shopper's Stop Shopper). ;)

Let me tell a small story of my life - 

Our family before any outing -
He getting ready -
1) Get your self dressed 
2) Getting the car keys 
3) Good to go. 

Me getting ready - 
1) Get my kids ready.
2) Either the kids will spill water on their clothes or the younger one would want to go to the potty. 
3) So I have to undress and re-dress..in either case.
4) I put on my dress.
5) Fill a bottle of water
6) Take a small snack for the little one.
7) Get my bag
8) I am good to go. 

Forget makeup, I don't even get time to comb and you say I take time to get ready! 

Really! 
I do take a lot of time. 

Career Advise - 
I have been given career advice not only from my husband but from all the male members of the family. With their better halves struggling to be on my side - but then not sure types!

I feel.../According to me.../Are you really looking for so much trouble?/Who will take care of kids?/Why can't you just take care of kids?

AAAAaaagggggggggggaaarrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhh! Yes! That's exactly how I feel even when I think about it. I don't know about many ladies who opt out and succumb to the family pressure, but I think I am made of diamond. Very hard to break...you see!

It's my job, I am the one to decide. I have my dreams and I am determined to fulfill it now and in this life. I have not asked for any help, so stay away, I am determined not to take any of your suggestions.

Driving Issues - Whenever...there is a bad driver ahead, it has to be a lady driver. Whenever there is a driver who signals to go left but heads right, it has to be a lady at the driving seat. 

Before stereotyping us as a bad/confused/irresponsible driver, consider this - 

> Have you seen autorickshaw drivers - all men.
> The bikers - who are riding their bikes the footpath or while using their mobile - all men.
> The ones who drink and drive - mostly men.

According to a New York City Traffic Study, 80% of all automobile accidents that kill or injure pedestrians involve male drivers.

Yet! Yet!

Donot try us again and again. A few may listen, but most are standing tall and strong. It's our time! Thanks to Shopper's Stop for this wonderful advert. It's Bullseye!

What's the agenda of today!

It's 14th Feb. Love is all around. The radio is playing only love songs. Talking about the broken hearts or the mind blowing love stories. College students are all decked up and happy. Theater is packed, as in this heat, where else can you spend three hours comfortably.

Of course, it is the Valentine's day! Day to show every one that we have that one and we are loved. 

Well well....google has another head line for you.

It's Madhubala's birthday!
Her beautiful smile will brighten up your day if you open the google homepage. She is just perfect. Isn't it! I think so. Phursat se banaya hoga..banane vale na!

What's the one we all forgot?

We live in a free country...how much ever we crib about it, being exploited by someone is certainly not good. Of course, many of us are not happy with the pollution, population, poverty, politics, frauds, scams, judiciary and what not.

But when Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru and Sukh Dev were standing tall and strong, not afraid of the death in front of them, so calm, so poised, so confident that even if they die, there will be many more Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru and Sukh Dev who will live a life with pride. They will fight for what is wrong. If they feel the system is not right, they will straighten it up. If they are unhappy with the system, they will take charge. It is our country, after all!

Probably when we watched Rang De Bansanti, they certainly came alive in all of us, but that also lasted for just a few hours. We must have cried for Madhvan and the situation created after that, but what did we learn?

How many of us are taking charge for making this country better. There are n-number of issues. For me biggest issue is - pollution. For you it may be the reservation system or the scams or judiciary. It depends!

I want to keep my country clean. I am doing it. I don't litter around and I have taught my kids the same. As said, charity begins from home, so first step done!

Of course, change will not be seen overnight. Freedom also took time, Rome was also not built is a day. Issues like reservation or judicial delays or political cleanup is not a simple task, it is going to take a lot of time. Lots of participation. And a lot of effort to straighten it up. It's on you, how much can you bend for your cause? For Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru, Sukh Dev and many others - even death couldn't bend them.....India is a free country today!
 
Third.....the most important agenda of today, according to me - Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru and Sukh Dev gave their lives for me and for my family and for all of you - today! I am living in a free India, because of all of them, many known and many many unknown fighters.

Remember them, cause love may last till tomorrow, but this freedom is ours, forever!

Vande Mataram!


P.S.: Please don't think that I don't celebrate Valentines day as I am married and for me love is a most useless and overrated four letter word. It's all very cool! Just saying yes to freedom!

It must have been love!

She was in love with him. He loved her back. He waited for her till she came back from her office. He waited for her for breakfast, lunch(if she had lunch at home) and dinner. He followed like her own shadow. 

But one day, he fell ill. Doctor said, "It's time! He is thirteen now, equivalent to 90 for a human. You must let him go!" 

I cried the whole night! It was all over. He had been with me since thirteen years, since I was a school girl to a working women. I never ever felt so loved in anyone's company. He made me feel so special, beautiful, wanted and loved. Never fought, never ignored, never made fun of me. Yes, he was a dog and we loved loved loved each other. 

 It must have been love....for even after years, I still look out for him in the sky, and at times, he peeks from the clouds...with still the same loving, tongue-fallen-at-one-side, smile! Wagging his tail, saying I still love you. And my answer always, " Love you tooo...to the moon and beyond!"

The Bhabhi Ji!

Once I met a lady, who is ultra sweet, a complete sharmili Indian bahu who would do everything under the sun for her family. Like, everything (with everything, I mean all the household works.) Without much technology help. That too, happily. I was amazed by her dedication and the urge to do all by herself. And she took so much of pride in her work. A one very happy and confident lady she is!

I had promised her that I will visit her once, but I couldn't go. I met her in the evening and I said, "Bhabhi I am soo sorry, hum nahi aa sake." To which she gave me the answer, which I can't get over, even today - "Arre hum naraz hone vali bhabhi nahi naa hai! Aap kabhi bhi aao!"

Trust me, she is Bhabhi of the whole society. She knows everyone, everyone knows her. She always wears sari, always wears a lot of oil in her hair and when her mother in law is around, she also covers her head. 

Once I went for her daughter's birthday party. To my amazement, all the guests and kids were sitting around facing her, and then someone played loud music and she started dancing, focused to the camera. I was more than shocked! I wouldn't say she danced like Mallaika, but trust me, her confidence in her dance was no less that hers! With her shimmery sari, with all chamk dhamk jewelry, she danced very happily, freely and amazzzingly.

She is a happy person and that exactly what she exudes around her. And I guess reason for her happiness is - expectation. She is satisfied with what she has. She is extremely happy with being a housewife and doing all the work all by herself. Her expectations are that much from life. She doesn't take stress for things which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Once I had complemented her on her cooking and asked her to start a tiffin service, to which she replied ,"Arre, aap humko ghar parivar mein kush rahne dijiye." And we laughed.

The game player in everyone's happiness is - expectation!

If only, I had a machine to curb this expectation, I would have danced to my tunes in life. Right now, dancing on my own expectations' tunes! Yes, not that happy, always stressed with time, always running after something more, more and more! I wonder if it is worth! I wonder if ever I am going to lessen this burden of expectations! I wonder, if ever I am going to dance with soo much of confidence, charm and freedom. I wonder!!!