This is Life!

one of those days again.. when it's just jagjit singh ghazals soothing my ears all day.

general useless notes for myself ...
have been distracted from work for the past two days - need to get back on track from Monday. Why does staying focussed get so difficult for me? I have to keep reminding myself! Have been generally lazy too .. haven't been sitting with ashna for her writing practice and spellings too this week. Need to catch up on the weekend.
But afterall these few distracted days are the one's that make life worth living - else what's the difference between a machine and a human.
They say no news is good news .. but no news from a friend is worrying me.
As they literally translate from hindi and say - Today at work I sat on someone's head to make a couple of calls and follow up a long-pending issue. I hate to do that and i'm sure that guy too hated me for doing that - but didn't know how else to move stuck things. I've generally had very good people in my team at work - so don't have very good practice in handling sticky people - but I guess it should be ok in some time.
Had a great evening yesterday - got a brand new mangalsutra - mine was broken for last 3 years and i didn't get it made. This one's just too simple but sweet.
ok now that i've put all the useless chatter here - time to go home!

while some people have forgotten to smile altogether, some people smile so beautifully... from within - their eyes smile !

Outspoken by whom?

-Dorothy Parker
When told that she was very outspoken

Two blonde friends were going on a trip to Florida. A neighbor told them that they'd be fine as long as they paid attention to the road signs along the way. But they'd driven just 30 miles when they saw one that read
"Clean Restrooms Ahead."
Two months later they arrived in Florida exhausted, having used up 86 bottles of Windex, 267 rolls of paper towels, and three cases of toilet-bowl cleaner.
Total restrooms cleaned: 450.

it must have taken a few seconds and a slight slip of hand of the maid, to break my half filled bottle of chanel no. 5. It had taken me a month and several visits of testing to the store to decide to buy it. I clearly remember converting the 195 francs into rupees so many times before being sure I wanted to buy that 30ml bottle! And now almost 6 years later when it's gone - i didn't feel bad for more than a minute - on the other hand i'm glad i used at least half of it :-)

What's up with Rani Mukherjee these days.. Ravi's browsing channels and one's showing Hum Tum, one's got Bunti aur bubli - a little more and there she is in another ad... why change channels if it's the same face all over :-) No wonder I don't like watching this box.

btw the more talk time ad with kajol and ajay devgan is kindof cool!

ok time to wind up for the day & the week.. got an extremely busy week starting tomorrow.

Just when I was missing my brother - I get his call. We've hardly been together once or twice on raksha bandhan in the last 14 years. And I am not at all inclined towards making pseudo brothers ,I'm very happy with my own ;-) - so that just leaves me the responsibility of tying Rakhis on behalf of my aunts to my dad & dad-in-law.
But getting a call from him - especially when there's no place we can call him in that far-off land Leh - was the most beautiful happening of the day for me today.
I think all siblings share this special bond - which is beautiful. A part of me feels bad for not letting Ashna experience the same feeling. She has to make it up with first cousins - no wonder all of them are so close - and I hope they remain as they grow up.
Better stop writing more here today - am all senti n mushy :-)

It sure feels nice to be back to good ol Pune. Had fun at the training in Kolkata and the vacation that followed. Met so many people - a lot of them from different worlds altogether!

Am hoping I can clear my mailbox by this weekend at least.