A-Z: Jade

PC: clipart.co

I look into your Jade eyes
And see revenge and despise

I can see you coming towards me
I see those Jade eyes fixed on me

High you rise, with your venomous fang
Low I leap as far as I can

You hit hard and grab me with your tail
I love the look in those jade eyes when I strangle your snake throat

Yours Truly,
The Frog

This post is written for A-Z: April 12th (Color Jade)

#DAshTalks The Laundry

Awin wanted to wear his blue T-shirt this Sunday and was frantically searching for it in his wardrobe

Awin *with his head inside the wardrobe* "Dee, where is that blue t-shirt. The one I wore with the black jeans the other day.

Me *leisurely sitting on the couch with a book* "The black jeans eloped with another T-shirt, so the blue t-shirt was sad and it jumped in the well of clothes kept for washing and lying in the bottom of the well stinky and dirty

Awin *walks to the other room where I was smirking, points his index finger at me* Your jokes suck

A-Z: Indigo

Indigo is a color so dark, and yet so dainty

Neither violet or blue

Deep, dark and pretty

In the rainbow, it stands out, making an amazing view

Great devotion, wisdom & justice it indicates in Psychology

Oh! This color always reminds me of that old poetry

This post is written for A-Z- April 9th (Color Hot Pink)

A-Z: Hot Pink

PC: Shilpa Nair Blog

The new trend they say is Hot Pink
It genuinely makes me think

The lips so bold
I think I am a little too old

The top that stands out in any crowd
I am not sure if I'd be any proud

With a lot of apprehensions I wear
What the world thinks, I don't care

Like candy hearts, sweet or tarts
My Grand-kid says, Grandma, You look smart

My little red heart today, has turned Hot Pink, I must say

This post is written for A-Z- April 9th (Color Hot Pink)

A-Z: Gold

PC:Siljewels

Precious it is, used by kings for ages
Poems were written about it on golden pages

Prosperity it brought to lands
It also started wars, with no ends

Gold is its name
From the mines that it came

As valuable as it is, it cannot survive alone
It needs copper for strength and to adorn

Just like life, one need the other
To be strong, like Gold

This post is written for A-Z April 8th (Color Gold)

Liebster Award: Thank you Upasana

Thank you Upasana for nominating me got the Liebester Award

What is a Liebster Award?

The Liebster Blog Award is an exciting opportunity to develop relationships with our fellow bloggers from different domains.
This is a peer nominated award which acts as a chain blog post. This is mainly intended to connect with new bloggers while building your email list.

Who nominated me?

Upasana, A mother of a 1-year old , ITian by profession and Blogger by choice. I love her blogs about her experiences. Its sweet, real and directly from the heart. Her blog, Life through my bio scope

Liebester Interview with Upasana

What is your favorite Music genre? 

Bollywood is my go to genre, Epic music, depends on my mood though

What switches your mood OFF? 

Rude people, rather people who aren't nice to me

What is the 1 thing you are proud of yourself? 

Well, frankly I am proud of everything, but that one thing would be surviving & coming out smiling after my accident

What is your biggest possession? 

My biggest possession is my brother - He is my strength and my weakness

One taboo that you don’t like? 

Menstruating girls should not enter religious places. I think its quite a silly concept.

Do you believe – Love can happen twice?

Yes, absolutely - Twice, trice, million times

What inspires you to live each day with joy?

Gratitude and Lord Shiva. 

What is the first thing in the morning you do to make yourself happy?

Say Om Namah Shivay

Do you love – Summers or Winters and 1 reason for your choice.

Winters: Cozying and sleeping under the blanket is the best thing to do in life

Do you think Social media is taking over relationships?

Maybe. I do not know actually.

Now What?

I nominate my favorite bloggers for this award &

The Liebster Blog Award rules are mentioned below:

• Write a blogpost about your nomination, displaying an image of the award.
• Thank the person who nominated you and include a link to their blog.
• Answer the 11 questions the person who nominated you asked you in his/her blogpost.
• Nominate 5-11 other starting bloggers who you think deserve this award, and come up with 11 questions of your own for them to answer.
• List these rules in your blogpost.
• My nominations for the Liebster Award
  Keith
  Yolanda Renee
  Roger Rog Articles
  Melody
  Ranveer Vishal New Kid on the Block
  Archana Kapoor
  The Solitary Writer
• My Questions to my favorite bloggers

1. What is best thing that has happened to you

2. What is that one thing or incident in life that you regret

3. If there is one person in this world you would get to say Sorry, who would it be and why

4. What is your most searched word or phrase on Google

5. Who is the last "Received call" on your mobile phone (Eg: carpenter, dad, a friend)

6. What is the wallpaper on your mobile phone (Eg. Nature, my family, my pet)

7. If ever, you get an all paid trip anywhere in this world, where would you go

8. What is the worst pick up line used on you

9. What is Happiness for you

10. One advice you would give your teen self

11. If there was a life after death, what would you want to be reborn as?

All the nominees are free to accept or reject this invite. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did and love to see your network grow.

A-Z: Fuchsia

PC: Flickr

In the spring, when all the flowers bloom
This little one is always in gloom

No sunshine, no water can make it smile
Its been a bud for a while

Then came a velvety touch
The little flower loved it very much

It opened its petals to the sky
Then bloomed the garden of bonsai

I show it off proudly
My Fuchsia flower grew up beautifully

This post is written for A-Z-April 7th (Color Fuchsia)

A-Z: Ecru

PC: Pintrest

Ecru is the color I came to know in this challenge while I was looking for colors with E.
Wikipedia says: Ecru is a light fawn color

Here is my poem for Ecru

I left this house covering the furniture with pristine white sheets
After years, I come to find this place inflicted with bees

Everything looks so sad and old, but for the wooden fixtures that shine as new
I am happy for my well polished furniture, under the unbleached sheets that have turned Ecru

This post is written for A-Z Challenge: April 6th (E for Ecru)

A-Z: Denim Blue

PC: historyofjeans

Amidst the yards of denim blue cloths

She sits and perfects her designs

Frantically her needles move, before the day resigns

And comes out a beautiful dress, a pant, a rugged jacket and shorts, all in Denim Blue

This post is written for A-Z: April 5th (D - Denim Blue)

A-Z: Cherry

PC: Wallpepercraft

Cherry in my wine
Brought the cherry on my cheek

Cherry on the cake
You made my feet go weak

Cherry colored satin
Our passion is at the peak

Today is the day
When you popped the cherry of this chic


This post is written for A-Z: April 4th (Color Cherry)

A-Z: Black

PC: Pintrest

Black is the color of the night

Of death

Of coal

Black is the color of sleep

Of eyes

Of kohl

Black is the color of my hair

Of my tears of despair

Black is the color of clouds

Of rain

Of the day when you left me in pain


This post is written for A-Z: April 2nd (Color - Black)

A-Z: Amber

PC: Mocak

Amber are cheerful, warm and sensual

Amber is as hot as fire

Amber is as beautiful as sunflower

Amber is as sweet as honey

Amber is as elegant as a sunset

Amber is what is the color of a smiley

Amber is the color that always makes me happy

This post is written for A-Z: April 1st (Color Amber)

#DAshTalks Windows

There is a window in my living room, that has been closed for as long as we are staying here. And after all the rains, winters. Its stuck like crazy.
I am a cleaning fanatic and wanted to desperately clean that window sill.
So,

Me: Awin, Listen, I need help

Him *deeply engrossed,slouched and his head inside his laptop*: What?

Me: These windows are stuck. Help me open it

Him: Try rebooting

Me *felt so trolled*

CTT: Vacations - Mine & Others

I was sitting on my couch, with the smell of freshly washed curtains wafting in the air and browsing Facebook.

There are a few people I see who regularly keep taking 10 odd days vacation to exotic locations, stay in even more exotic hotels.

I wonder, how do they get so many leaves?
Where is the money for such holidays?
Do they even save anything?

Every month start, when I get that salary sms. Then I get 10 odd debit smses following it for the first week of every month. Then comes regular expenses for the month.

Savings is hardly any.
Even if I do save, it would take me at least a few months to save enough to pay for those exotic hotels.

Also,painstakingly working for 6 months without a days leave gives me 10 and a half days of leave. Ideally, I can take a long vacation twice a year only, compared to the ones I see on Facebook.

Either others manage their time and money really well or I manage both real bad

A-Z: Theme Reveal

I have joined the April A-Z Challenge. This is my first year and I am not yet familiar with the rules. But, I am reading up.

PC: wikipedia

Today, 21st March is the Theme Reveal Day - My Theme for this year's COLORS

For the entire month of April, I will be posting poems, stories, Haiku's on colors.

April 1st - Amber

CTT: Before and After Marriage

The conversations from a courting period to one year after marriage does change

After Marriage

Before Marriage

NOTE: The alleged conversations were made on the same day with some help from the husband, after a long conversation over hot chocolate about how chats have changed in 2 years. And these conversations were first written on the paper and then exchanged to show Then and Now

CTT: French is was my new hobby

I have taken up on myself to learn new things, and I am still in the rookie phase of everything. I learnt quilling, I learnt crochet, I learnt a few other itsy bitsy things.

Now, I have taken up upon myself to learn a new language. French seemed to be the most achievable target.

So, I browse in the Play store and download a language teaching app. Very diligently, heard, said, wrote everything that app said.

P.S: I used some words on my clueless husband too.

The app said "Congratulations! You now 75% proficient in French" (never believe apps)

One fine day, a new colleague from France joined us, I was super excited since he was not just a cute well toned guy with sapphire blue eyes but a proper Frenchman and I was hoping to use my french talent on him.

He had this exotic French accented English (I dhu noth know zis)

He came with us for lunch on his first day. My colleagues knew my new app-hobby for French and asked me to converse with him in French. That is when I realized, all I knew was "Nice dog" "orange is a fruit" "My name is Dee" "What is your name" "Where is the toilet" "Where is the bus stop" " Hello, How are you" "Please and thank you" "Good Morning' "Good night" "Good Bye" "I love you"

Luckily, I was done with my lunch, and all I said was Excusez moi s'il vous plait...Merci and Au revoir.

I ran off, before anyone could ask me any questions in French or any language.

Now the cute guy, he keeps saying some small sentences in french with I have to Google most of the time to understand and I reply in English.

App Uninstalled: Check

Search for another hobby: Check

New hobby on the tow: Learn Mandarin

Hope: I am going to be a Chinese Government Translator someday

Reality: Au Revoir

#DAshTalks - Dinner

I was sitting on the couch, with my legs folded under me and reading a book.

Awin: Whats for dinner?

Me: *looks up like a damsel* The pearls gathered from paddy fields of Konkan tempered with sun dried chilli's and mustard mixed with slow processed fermented milk 

His eyes full of anticipation and suddenly droops

Awin: You mean Tair Saadam (Curd Rice)

Me: Yes *goes back to reading my book*

Awin: Why all that built up?

Me: Yeh Baburao ka ishtyle hai?

Awin: I have married Bollywood *sighs and walks back to his office room*

CTT: I am not a Feminist

I wrote the article a few months back and wanted to post it on some Women related day "Women's day" or "Breast Cancer Awareness Day". Guess its time for this article to go public

I was reading an article in some newspaper that asked "Are you a feminist?"

My instinctive reply was "No, I am not"

Actually, if standing up for a woman who is getting beaten, or standing up for dowry, or standing up for a rape makes a feminist then I am a partial feminist.

 But, if someone runs a marathon without a sanitary pad, I think it's gross and unhygienic, there is nothing feminist about it. If someone puts up a picture with period stained pants on Instagram, it's not feminist. It's a natural phenomenon and everyone knows it, no one needs it on their faces with a picture. It's nothing to hide about, but nothing to stand on the top of the roof and shout.

Standing for things like, woman should get a seat by asking an elderly man to get up is not feminism. Seeing a woman screaming at a man if his huge backpack touches her and backing her up is not feminism.
If feminism is about male-bashing, then I am not a feminist.

I think, I am more of a humanist (if there is a term like that)
I shall stand for it, man, woman, heterosexual, homosexual, any profession, doesn't matter if something is wrong I will stand for them.

I find many others echoing similar thoughts. Women need safety and many other archaic norms to be changed but they aren't blind to bizarre acts in the name of feminism and women these days openly refuse to back those who do insane things to prove that women are superior which in my opinion is hyped for no reason.

Enjoy being a woman, stand up for women in need, stand up for men who need you too. Its no power battle here.

Mag: To God

Dear God,

I have been meaning to write to you from the time I was little. But, I never got words or maybe my problems were not that big that I had to bring them to your notice. I understand that you are very busy, you have the whole universe to take care of, but please take some time out and read my letter and I hope to see a reply in actions preferably
.
We have a very bad internet connectivity in our town, I assume up there in the heaven it must be worse. That's why I am going all traditional and sending you a post. I might look silly and insane to do this at this age, but I hope my letter does reach you. I need some answers from you alone.

Letter posted to
"To God,
 Heaven"

This post is written for Magpie Tales - Mag 308