#DAshTalks Reasons Why He Resigned

Why Awin resigned from his Chauffeur job, yesterday evening #SnobAlert

CTT: Lessons Learnt After My Wedding Shopping

I got married a few years back, and since its the wedding season and a very close friend of mine is getting married. I thought maybe I should wear my "Auntyji" cap and share the top five lessons I learnt after my wedding about wedding shopping

1. I spent all of my savings for my wedding - Bad idea
Keep a budget in mind for everything. Wedding is just one day. Use that money for honeymoon, or beautifying your new home after the wedding day

2. Do not spend too much on heavy sarees and lehengas. It's OK to rent them (if the elders are ok with it)
Trust me, when I say that you are never going to use them again. I haven't worn my wedding reception saree or the other sarees, after my wedding day, simply because they were too OTT for any simple event. They were too attention grabbing for any other wedding.
My mom got my five more sarees for the "just in case" functions which also have been worn maybe once in the first year.

3. Leave a decent margin while stitching those pretty blouses.
I regret not doing that. I have bloated enough to not fit in any of my wedding and pre-wedding blouses. A margin will ensure that you can use those blouses for a while (PS: I am on the verge of giving up on those beautiful embroidery work blouses *sheds tears*)

4. Invest on daily wear outfits, footwear and things.
Buy good kurtis, shirts, a few party salwar kameez, light weight sarees.
You are going to be invited for lunches and dinners at many relatives places on both sides, and obviously you won't be wearing your zari or embroidered heavy outfits. These things will come to your rescue

5. Avoid buying make-up that you don't already use.
You will have a make-up artist coming in for your special day and after that I am sure you won't walk around looking like a Christmas tree, three months after the wedding.
I used to read a lot of articles on what-a-bride-must have things. I got myself make-up things that I don't even know how to use, after a year they just got dumped in the thrash.
Buy, what you use now, buy what you think can be used later too

Those are my top five lessons from Your Very Own Drama Wali Aunty

#DashTalks My New Tech Blog

Last evening, while Awin and I were going back home, I suggested him this brilliant idea which got ruthlessly shot down

Me: I think I should start a tech blog

Awin: What laptop do you have?

Me: Blue Toshiba laptop. 2008 model. Why?

Awin: Enough said.

CONFESSION: 

I am not tech savvy. I do not know the speed of my internet or the config of my laptop.

Only after I got married to Awin, I have started to read Tech related articles. I am a Bollywood buff, ask me any songs, any link-ups, any airport looks, I can tell you

Love Me Like This

PC

Hold my hand when I feel low

Dance with me even if if you don't know how

Keep me safe, while my demons in my head show

Love me when when I feel ugly, because of a few kilos

Kiss me while I am asleep

Hold my tight, when I weep

Listen to me when I talk my heart out

Sometimes, I might sulk and pout

I don't want you to be the perfect one

I want you to make me feel like I am the only one

CTT: Pollution in India

I have had quite a bit of alone time in the past few weeks, and I have taken a fancy to stand at my balcony and look at the vehicles passing by.

This Sunday, while I was standing in my balcony at say around 8 am, enjoying a cup of coffee,a random thought came into my mind.

I started to count the vehicles that pass by that inside street. 

In 45 minutes, on a lazy Sunday morning, I counted an alarming number for 623 cars.

I wonder, if a side street, can have that much carbon footprints on a Sunday morning, imagine the amount of pollution we create all over the city, and the country.

I had a chat with a friend of mine, and she rightly pointed out that, she felt guilty to travel alone in cabs, which I agree, we might reduce some amount of pollution if we car-pooled,or take the public transport.

We cut trees to make buildings. Then we look for greenery everywhere.

Now, a days people go on "road trips"for a breathe of fresh air because everything around is polluted, air, sky, noise, water, soil. Its painful to think, that our kids, the future of this country will be born, breathing the polluted air.

I wish everyone would do their bit to make India a less polluted place.

#DAshTalks Our Aww Moments

The scene goes like this;

Awin was scheduled to travel for almost a month.

A few weekends back, we were relaxing in our balcony with nicely brewed coffee and our respective laptops.
I was searching for "Best Budget Honeymoon Destinations outside India" for a really close friend of mine.

Awin, had a glance of the screen, and with a very "poor me" tone he asked (trying to sound serious which to totally wasn't)

"I am going away for work and you have already started looking for honeymoon places without me?"

before even I could say anything, I had one look at those eyes & went "Awwwww..."

The 'Anything but Books' Tag

I wasn't tagged by anyone for this post, but it was inspired by Soumya of Life of Leo.
The tag is to answer the below questions and none of the answers should involve books.
I won't say I am a book-worm, but yeah! I do read a lot (meaning one book a week), and my choice of books are normally the chilled out, teen, chic books mostly. I do occasionally enjoy, serious thriller books.

I took up this challenge, only because I loved the questions

Name a cartoon(s) that you love.
I can watch all the cartoons that were showed on Cartoon Network in the 90's and the Disney cartoons too.
My favorite character though is DeeDee from Dexter's Laboratory.



What is your favorite song right now?
I am Bollywood junkie. I love the item numbers and the troll like songs.
Today, being Saturday, this one bhojpuri song has been a ear-worm all day. The song is called "Lipstick" (See video)
Otherwise, this one song is on a repeat mode on my playlist for the last four days 
"Abhi Na jao chod kar"


What is something you love to do that your followers would be surprised by?
I love a clean sparking, organized house. I spend a lot of time decluttering, organizing. I get paranoid and sad if my house is not clean.


What is your favorite unnecessarily specific thing to learn about (this can do with books, I guess)?
Undoubtedly, DRIVING. I have a license, I can start a car and that's about it. 

What is something unusual you know how to do?
I can make craft projects out of almost anything around the house.

Name something you’ve made in the last year (and show us, if you can).
Lampshade with threads, Wind-chimes with newspapers, crocheted bags, Warli art on my book, recycled old earrings

What is your most recent personal project?
Wardrobe and cabinets organizing

Tell us something you think about often (maybe while staring out of windows).
There are few things I have been hoping and wishing would happen, mostly I think about them. Its a bit too personal to be shared on a public platform.

Give us something that’s your favorite, but make it something oddly specific, not like your favorite food, but like your favorite food when you’ve been studying for hours and forgot to eat. Or, you know, something like that.
I love to try new starters every time, my favorite moments are the reactions of my brother and husband when they have them.

I am supposed to tag someone to take this challenge up, but no one is coming to my mind now. 
Anyone, who might read can take this up as your personal project and write a post.

Go on, and share your posts on the comments below.

#Barathon 7/7 Deadly Sin: Envy

I can't imagine him with her, kissing good night

Holding each other tight

With pain in my heart, I pretend to smile

Dear, love of my life, I envy her, for encircling her arms around the world that is mine

This post is written for BAR-A-THON 2017 and my Theme for this year is Seven Deadly Sins Click here to read the previous Bar-a-Thon posts June 17th: Gluttony June 19th: Pride June 21st: Lust June 23rd: Greed June 26th: Sloth June 28th: Wrath June 30th: Seven

#Barathon 6/7 Deadly Sin; Wrath

When he forcefully entered her

With every thrust

Her tears turned into pain

Her pain turned into sadness

Her sadness turned into anger

When that anger turned into wrath

She pulled the broken glass near by and castrated that psychopath 

This post is written for BAR-A-THON 2017 and my Theme for this year is Seven Deadly Sins Click here to read the previous Bar-a-Thon posts June 17th: Gluttony June 19th: Pride June 21st: Lust June 23rd: Greed June 26th: Sloth June 28th: Seven June 30th: Seven

#barathon 5/7 Deadly Sin: Sloth

He took too many days off

He slacked on the days he worked too.

He was known for being the laziest in the team

During, the time when his company was laying people off

His slothfulness cost him his job 

This post is written for BAR-A-THON 2017 and my Theme for this year is Seven Deadly Sins Click here to read the previous Bar-a-Thon posts June 17th: Gluttony June 19th: Pride June 21st: Lust June 23rd: Greed June 26th: Seven June 28th: Seven June 30th: Seven

#Barathon 4/7 Deadly Sin: Greed

On the dark night, the knife shined in the moon light

With hate in her heart and fury in her eyes

She lifted the knife and pierced in her sleeping sister's heart

Last words that the sleeping sister heard "This property is mine"

Greed was successful yet again, in tearing another family apart

This post is written for BAR-A-THON 2017 and my Theme for this year is Seven Deadly Sins Click here to read the previous Bar-a-Thon posts June 17th: Gluttony June 19th: Pride June 21st: Lust June 23rd: Seven June 26th: Seven June 28th: Seven June 30th: Seven

#Barathon 3/7 Deadly Sins: Lust

She saw him as her life

He already had a wife

She wanted to wake up beside him every morning

He wanted to sleep with her every night

She lost, he won

Somewhere between heaven and hell, love cried and lust mocked

This post is written for BAR-A-THON 2017 and my Theme for this year is Seven Deadly Sins Click here to read the previous Bar-a-Thon posts June 17th: Gluttony June 19th: Pride June 21st: Seven June 23rd: Seven June 26th: Seven June 28th: Seven June 30th: Seven

#Barathon 2/7 Deadly Sins: Pride

The colorful peacock somewhere, was the meanest of them all

It demeaned the crow, and called it names

Far somewhere, during the hunting games

A hunter spotted, a burst of colors

Bang! his rifle hollers

That was the moment, when the peacock and its pride had a downfall

This post is written for BAR-A-THON 2017 and my Theme for this year is Seven Deadly Sins

Click here to read the previous Bar-a-Thon posts June 17th: Gluttony June 19th: Seven June 21st: Seven June 23rd: Seven June 26th: Seven June 28th: Seven June 30th: Seven

#Barathon 1/7 Deadly Sin: Gula (Gluttony)

She had planned to diet from now on

She ate healthy all day

Someone, ordered pizza at work.

She reached for that forbidden piece

"Just one piece" she said

And first deadly sin Gula (gluttony) silently smirked

This post is written for BAR-A-THON 2017 and my Theme for this year is Seven Deadly Sins

#DashTalks Touring phone calls

Last evening, while walking down from the shop to our place, this conversation happened.

Me: My friend went on this work tour, last week

Awin: Hmm ok, so?

Me: He used to call his wife every hour because he was missing her and she was feeling lonely.How sweet is that

Me: Whenever you are touring, you should call like that too

Awin: Ok, I will call. Ask your friend to share the wife's number

*That night, this man slept on the couch after eating extra salty, extra spicy food*

#Barathon Teaser

After the April A to Z Challenge, I was so exhausted that I decided to take a break from writing. Then, a really sweet friend of mine, Maya Mahadevan, tagged me in the Bar-a-Thon Challenge 2017 and I could not stop myself from running back to my blog.

It is just a fortnight challenge and alternate day blogging, just seven posts so guess it gives a breather in between.

I am taking up the theme as Seven Deadly Sins.

June 17th: Sin 1/Seven	June 19th: Sin 2/Seven	June 21st: Sin 3/Seven
June 23rd: Sin 4/Seven	June 26th: Sin 5/Seven	June 28th: Sin 6/Seven
	June 30th: 7/Seven

CTT: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

An English friend was supposedly very impressed with Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and wanted the consolidated version of it.

Conversation between the English friend, SRK fan friend and me

SRK Fan friend started to rant.

I volenterred to give a consolidated version

Popular Guy (PG) and Ugly Girl (UG) are best friends.
Hot Girl (HG) enters the picture.
PG falls for HG and UG falls for PG. UG realizes this and vanishes.

PG married HG and meanwhile UG turns HG and is engaged to a Brawny Dumb Guy (BDG)
Original HG dies.

Years later, UG turned HG goes to a summer camp, which is also a family reunion for the PG.
PG and UG turned HG meet there. PG now wants this new HG too.
In the end, they get married.

BDG is the loser in the end

Also, the whole fiasco is created by an 8 year old kid of the PG & HG with her horny, dumb grandfather and a screeching grandmother.

English friend: I have to see this movie.

I tried to warn him.

#DAshTalks: Pick-Up and Disturb

LIFE MANTRA: When you are bored and want a pick-up disturb the better half

CTT: #Undertaker

A few days back, WWE wrestler Undertaker announced his retirement. Its been ages that I have stopped following WWE, but it has so much memories attached to it.
I used to watch it, when it was WWF,we had Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin (who for a long time I called Stone Cold Srivastav), Triple H, Dudley boys, The Rock, Chris Jerico, Big Show and so many more. Oh Yeah! How can I forget the favorite among the boys Trish ;-)

I remember buying a particular candy, only because they gave the WWE cards for free and exchanging them with friends LOL


Phew! So much nostalgia already.

Well, back to our man Undertaker.
I loved his entry. The entry music was my ringtone for a long time.
There were so many rumors about him then;

Undertaker is already dead
Undertaker sleeps in a coffin
Undertaker has nine lives and his lives are kept in a pot
Triple H broke 8 of Undertaker's life pots and only one is left.

Life was so simple back then.

With Lots of Love Mr. Undertaker Sir