Friday, November 14, 2008

Snowfall on Diwali night... Unforgettable

Diwali 2008... I got to celebrate it in London and not with crackers... but with snow :)

Me, Sapan&Satprakash (S&S) planned to go to temple in Neasden and started at around 6:30 evening. Feeling as great Indian lady on festival day, I wore saree :).

That evening was very cold and drizzling but I never anticipated that drizzle turns to snow and I would be walking in that.

There was a big queue at the temple where we stood in that drizzle without a shade... After passing a bit in the queue, we came to know that we were not supposed to carry handbags&camera inside and we have to submit at the place they provided. I have done that with patience and joined the queue again.


It was so cold that my feet started becoming numb and I desperately need to move inside; but the queue was not moving a single step forward. I was getting angry that the queue was not moving at all... At a moment, I felt like going back... but controlled with patience. That was the first time I was so much frustated with the coldness.


Finally, they allowed inside and temple was good. I got seperated from S&S as there were seperate queues for girls and boys. After darshanam, I couldnt find S&S. Rockets were played in the sky and every one shouted with joy. It was good but I couldn't enjoy it fully as I was under the snow searching for S&S. I wanted to click the crackers and snow but camera was not with me :(


After a bit struggle, I could meet S&S. We had some snacks and started back. There was a big queue to catch the bus that drops at underground.


At this point, we took a decision that gave us a novel experience. The decision was that instead of standing in queue, we planned to walk away and catch a taxi to go home.


We started walking... in the snow fall and cold weather and we couldn't find a single taxi. My feet became numb and it was so hard to walk holding my saree. We found a taxis center and went inside to enquire on getting taxi but we got a badnews that they cant provide taxi and said that we need to walk for 15 mins to reach underground. I was worried 'My God! Just then my feet were relieved from numbness and again I have to walk 15 mins in snow!!'. But there was no way and we started walking.


There were few telugu guys walking around like us and discussing about me 'What a situation for her... in such a weather with saree!!. I wanted to tell them that I know telugu but couldnt as I didnt want to stop/turn/talk. I was simply concentrating on holding my saree and not loosing my grip.


We were walking but couldnt find the way to reach underground. There was no one on the road to guide the way. Every one with us were searching for the way. Numbness was extending slowly from hands and feet to my body and the weather has become so bad. That is the moment I was tensed 'Whts goona happen to me!!' My body was becoming blunt, weather was becoming bad and we were not able to find the way.


Though our hands were not ready, we wanted to take a snap as it was worth clicking that snowfall even it was suffering us. Somehow, Satprakash took out the camera and took few snaps. I just brought a smile for the photo.


Finally, we took a way and found the underground station... We were so happy to see that and took a deep breath. Now no more suffering and we started enjoying the experience we had. Took few more snaps and went inside the station. A train just left when we went inside. But we could board next train after 15 mins. We turned red as blood started flowing normally. We just laughed on the experience we had. Once I reached my room, it was so warm... and had a nice sleep.


Watching the snow fall through window is a beautiful experience but being in snow is not easy. Though tough, it was a beautiful experience for us as it is very uncommon to be in snow.


This line is for me:


"In London.... on diwali night.... wearing saree..... walking in snow!!" :)


Monday, October 27, 2008

Kishore alias Balu gadu...


Kishore... few people call him Balu(me too)... colleagues call him Bala... friends call him Balu gadu (he too calls himself Balu gadu like pokiri pandu gadu) and his name is BalaKishore... oophhh... it is just introducing his name ;)

Actually... basically... arey...seriously yaar... he is my hero :)

Today is his bday... and I miss him a lot on this special day...

This post is to just say about him. I dont know where to start and just go like this:

He is very friendly... and has very good friends. All his frienships are longlasting. I am very much comfortable with his friends and really enjoy spending with them. He makes anyone very comfortable to speak and share anything with him...I do not need to take much efforts to make him mingled with my relatives.He knows who are important to me and gives the same importance to them from his side.

He is very deciplined and I am lazy :(. Gets up early morning (I can't). He will be available on time if he promises and expects everyone to be like that. It really annoys him if somebody is late and if he has to wait. Each second counts for him at that time. Most of the time I fail here and get his scoldings. One can see him undeciplined in implementing the things he has been planning from long time... those are preperation for CAT, learning guitar.

He has capacity of handling any situation... His importances are very well defined... and he has good planning. He is mentally strong, always positive and can justify his decisions confidently. He has good intelligence, good grasping and talent of managing people... but uses these only when necessary. He is not much oriented to use all his talents to grow further (I want him to put all his talents). Always saisfied with that he is and has.

One thing in him that contradicts with most of the guys is that he is more passionate of personal life than professional life. He simply sacrificed his package expectations and his role to shift along with me to Pune. It is rare that he works for a minute more than 8 hours a day and forces me too to leave office early (:( that is a bit difficult to manage for me).

The way he shows love...is all extreams. The words he always say to me "your reponsibility is to keep your mind cool..Rest all I will take care. I am there. You dont have to worry about anything" relaxes me. He plans a surprise for my birthday 1 year ahead...He ever monitors me that I am happy or not... What else can I expect from him... He knows me more than what I know...He easily guesses what I think at that moment.

His relationship with his mother is so special...Both are strenghts for each other...They care for each other a lot... This is the first thing that impressed me in him. He always expresses "My mom and soppu are most important than anything else and no comprimises on them". He expects much from the people he love and gets hurt if he doesnt get. This is where he is sensitive...

He has good patience and doesnt get annoy on any small iritations. But he is a bit uncontrolled if he gets angry. He doesnt look around if he gets angry(that stays not even for 2 mins). The key I have for this is to keep silent for those 2 mins...then everything will be all right. I think it is same with most of the guys... Infact I like this nature in him...I like the way he challenges when he is angry...(like a hero). But incase he is angry on me...I am gone...

Dont think he is a gentleman... he is all naughty... If I tell about any girl, first question he puts on me "Does she look good?". He tells happily to everybody that I have given him read permissions ;) (It means that he can "just""see" other girls). He takes everything lite... never gets reacted by others. He draws a clear line between the important and unimportant and least bothered about the unimportant.

His motto is to be happy and enjoy every moment of the life. He is showing me the best part of my life... taking me along with him to the heights of happiness. He is there for me to help, suggest, guide, care... (all these words are very small). I am very very lucky to be with him forever...
Once again... Many many happy returns of the day Balu... ILU so much...

Why tempting food is not good for health ;(

As I do fast on saturday night, I slept wihtout eating anything. Morning when I got up at 10:30, felt so much hungry. The more I become hunger, more I get tempted to Non-veg. I just remembered Chicken... and nothing stopped me to go to McD. I just ordered meduim meal that has 3 Chicken selects (pieces), french fries, cooldrink...
Haaa... what a tempting... delicious food... to satisfy my hunger. But if I think no.of. calories... it is going to add me.. :( It is the best combo to have a worst effect on my body. Arey I just wonder... why this tasty food is not good for health!! and I never get tempeted to healthy food like salads... :(.
But it is always part of life to enjoy such food and at the same time bothered about diet... especially for girls :)

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Sweet romantic telugu song...

What a sweet song is this..
I dont remember if I heard this song before, but when I heard SP.Charan singing this song in some program in Maa TV, I just became crazy. I love this song & heard it many times.

This song from pellipusthakam movie has many expressions/feelings of a husband on his wife... it mainly figure outs that however a woman is, she looks beautiful to her husband... (taking positive case ;))
I like the line నా వన్నెల రాసికి సిరిజోత and second charanam specially. I didnt understand few words though:(
Anyways, it is a sweet romantic song with that mark of telugutanam.

సరికొత్త చీర ఉహించి నాను సరదాల సరిగంచు నేయించి నాను మనసు మమత పడుగు పేక చీరలో చిత్రించి నాను. ఇది ఎన్నో కలల కళనేత. నా వన్నెల రాసికి సిరిజోత. --2

ముచ్చట్ గొలిపే మొగలిపోత్తు కు ముల్లు వాసన ఒక అందంఅభిమానం గల ఆడ పిల్లకు అలకా కులుకు ఒక అందం నీ అందాలాన్ని కలబోసా నీ కొంగుకు చెంగున ముడి వేస్తా -- 2 "ఇది ఎన్నో"

చుర చుర చూపులు ఒక మారు నీ చిరు చిరు నవ్వులూ ఒకమారు. మూతి విరుపులు ఒక మారు నువ్వు ముద్దుకు సిద్దం ఒకమారు. నువ్వు ఏ కళ నున్నా మః బాగే ఈ చీర విశేషం అళ్లరే -2 "ఇది ఎన్నో "

A small thing that gives good feel...

There are many small things that give a good feel... One of those I have been experiencing much these days is holding the door for a while for the people walking behind me. When somebody is walking just behind us, and if we wait for them holding the door open, we see a smile and gratitude in their faces... and that gives a good feel.
It is a matter of courtesy not to leave the door on faces... and a way of helping others too...
Two days back, in the hotel, 2 ladies were few steps behind me walking with luggage and I held the door for them that I opened on my way. They responded saying thank u with a gr8 smile. Today, they saw me and greeted GoodMorning with a good smile. I was little bit confused as I did not remember them.. After sometime, I had recollected that I held the door for them on the other day...
Altogether, it is a good behavior to hold door for a while that helps others...painless and goodness :)

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Feel like Dancing....

Good mood... Good music... full sized mirror... good enough space and no one around... makes me dance...:) I just have done that... I practised a good step from April masam lo song.... and I enjoyed it...

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Life is Cool..

Life is sooo cool now... All credit goes to my parents and Kishore....

Parents accepting for the marriage is the best thing in my life... It has brought so much happiness to me and relieved from all the worries. Thanks to them.

Shifting to Pune is one of the positive changes in my life... Life is so peaceful here... I should mention Magarpatta City in which I am staying .. It is too good place to stay and work....everything at one place... It is just a 5 min walk for me to office and even the appartment I am staying is good ... very peaceful, secured and without any pollution. Ofcourse Kishore being here is a big addition for my happiness.
Roomates are good.. I never thought I could stay this much comfortably with non-andhraites I just got good people now...
There are no issues at work place... Teammates are very helpful I should specailly mention Brahmayya for clearing each and every of my doubts so clearly with patience & Parvinder for giving me a good chance and recognizing my work...
Currently being in London... and dreaming,planning abt marriage that is going to be on Feb 13th.. :) I think u can sense that I am happy ;)

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Donated Blood

I have donated blood on 20 th June' 08... though there is no special in that, I was little bit excited as this is first time for me. Two reasons why I never thought of giving blood is that I was thinking that I am not enough healthy to donate blood and I am scared of the pain of needle that goes inside. But I made it.

Blood donation drive came to Amdocs and I had thought that I wll try giving blood so that I wll atleast know if I can give or not...but they took from me.
Finally... good satisfaction that I donated blood and also I am helathy enough :)

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Last day in Wipro

March 14th'08 was my last day in Wipro...
During the notice period, I did lot of work but at the same time, I enjoyed it a lot... Even on the last day, I went to office at 7'am... early meeting. But after that lot of pending things for exit process... I wanted to share the news with many people in Wipro through mail at least but I couldnt do it properly as my machine is already taken over in the morning. I just sent an email only to joining batchments... I met some people unexpectedly and updated the news... but it was little bit embarrassing as I didnt inform them before.
In this busy schedule, I took Deepika, Sam and Kranthi for Lunch. We went to Kasani GR hotel in Madhapur. We spent some time there and came back to office.
I was told that by 6pm, I should leave the office. By 5:30, I collected my most importatnt things Relieving letter and Experience letter from HR. My team was waiting for a small gathering at cafeteria... they have given me a greeting card & gift article and we went to cafeteria... After 6, finally the time came to leave Wipro...I said bye to all my project mates. I was not much emotional... but some thoughts like I wont be with these people from tomorrrow... people with whom I spent so much time... I wont be coming to this place anymore...place where I spent 2.5 years.... May be, I was in so hurry, I didnt even give much space for those thoughts.
I came out of the gate. Atul, Deepika, Kranthi, Sambedana were there along with me... Suddenly, it started drissiling... No..no... it was not going to be a movie scene...we just chatted for some time... played jokes... and finally said bye...bye to them...
Bye Bye to Wipro...

Saturday, January 19, 2008

About Chiru...

"Chiru... Chiru...Chiru..." A very well known word & person for Andhra Pradesh... who is the favourite hero for most of the andhraites... and an idol for a quite good number of people in AP. He is the Mega star...


Even I admire and appreciate him...

First of all, he is a big inspiration... He is very determined, hardworking and talented. He started as a commoner and risen as a big star...He reached tiptops in Telugu film industry...His tremondous talent tied with estimable character made everything possible for him.

He is best in "Action". There is no doubt about that... And his dance is too good... In fact, people get attracted for his dance and fights...

But what I dont like in him is he is not open for taking risks and do some challenging characters/movies which may not involve dance/fights...
If he was out of his attempts to appeal "MASS", there would have been good diversity in the characters he performed. Though he has done quite challenging characters in his early times in the industry, he finally moved to regular mass appealing charcaters. He closed his doors on more performance oriented characters and didnt get appreciation as much as he deserve in that concern. This is what I feel and would like to see him in doing very challenging characters. And I know that may not be possible as he is not young enough to do so and getting shifted to politics.

Coming out of movies, he is utilising the people's admiration on him in driving a purposeful Eye and Blood banks... This is even a great thing abt him...

He recieved "PadmaBushan" award, doctorate and he is worth holding those.

The way he has grown up in his career, his talent, character, being down to earth, respectful to everyone and doing something to society are the things to be appreciated.

Now that he is moving to politics, I just wish one thing: Instead of spending his time merely in saving his party/post, he should really do something good for people and bring some difference. There are many views on his political entry. However, if his objective in entering into politics is clear and clean, he can do it!!!

Wish him all the best!!