Hapy New Year or Not

It's the new year almost...



I, of course, have no plans to go out. I am watching Sherlock on TV. I do love mysteries and how quickly Sherlock deduces everything from just looking at a person.

I wish I was as smart as him.

The roads will be so crowded with drunk people. I have trouble dealing with drunk people and unfortunately this is what we get tonight.

Hopefully the next year will be a better one. 

Election Day!

So it's election day.

I can finally vote and have my say in who runs the government. I can't figure out who to vote for. I do have the none of above option. Don't know if that will make a difference. At least I can complain with reason about the government when they screw up. 

Life is going along nicely. Still don't what my calling is but working in publishing. I saw this on Facebook today.

I feel so stuck. My brother finally studied the one thing he loves and is good at. Now he is settled in a love. It's admin sales job but is related to food. I wish he could have found a job relating to cooking but it is what it is.

C'est la vie.

Real One

Today is my real birthday.  So here is my present from Google.  I just love it.

Also Happy Halloween from my side.

Rest in Peace Lily and James Potter. It's been 32 years but I still miss them.

Today was good and normal. No problems happened for me at work. Well, I did treat my colleagues to samosa.

Also nani had two of my favorite dishes at dinner, so I was extremely happy.  Except my dad is out of town. But it was either miss my birthday or miss my brother who is coming to visit us. It's ok since when I was in college, both my parents missed my birthday.

I'm so excited that my brother is coming. It's been at least a year since I last saw him.

So I'm having my quarter-life crisis very calmly. I like my job, but I'm not great at it. So either I take a class to improve my skills or change jobs. Oh well, let's take one day at a time with our best foot forward. At least my family supports me.

Birthday and Relatives

According to the lunar calendar, Oct 26, 2013 was my birthday. So my grandmother did pooja that morning and I got to eat my eggs with bacon and a side of suji ka halwa.

I had to go to the parlour for my haircut as my mother pointed out that I was due for one. I arrived late to my job as I had previously informed them about it.

It was a slow day for me since I didn't have any major work that day. Why do we have a six day work week? What's wrong with the five day work week? Everybody had stuff to do on the weekends. I can't do any of those errands because I only get Sunday off. It's very annoying.

I wish I had a job that only required a five day work week. I don't mind working late as a compensation for two days off.

I wish I knew what job makes me happy and where I can excel. These days everybody has so many options for a career. Previous generations didn't and so they picked and worked. I have too many choices and I still can't figure it out.

My parents say it's ok to be confused but I think I'm too confused. Maybe I don't' work as hard. Maybe I'm lazy. Maybe I still haven't found what I'm suppose to do. Let's see what happens at the end of my probation which got extended to another three months. Of course there were projects in progress so that's why it got extended. Otherwise the projects would get stuck in limbo and my boss wouldn't like that.

Today some relatives came over for lunch and my mother's colleague and his family. I was very happy to see my cousin and his wife. There currently since this city since my cousin's job has posted him here for two months. I am also looking forward to meeting my brother who is coming next month for a very short visit due to his visa expiring. He can't take a longer vacation since his company is laying people off and they are short staffed. I wish teleportation or appariting or using a portkey was possible in this day of age. 

Beam me up, Scotty

Doppelgänger

Doppelgängers do exist. 

I saw one today of my ex-boss'. It was really creepy. I thought it was her except for the fact that this person was shorter than her. 

I couldn't her face properly but the side profile looked like her. 

 I heard about doppelgängers in How I Met Your Mother. The characters found doppelgängers of themselves.

Anyways I have been sleeping better due to the cold medicine. 

I awake up all refreshed and well rested.

 

Lonely No More

For the majority of this month, I was home alone. My parents were out of the country and my grandmother went to live with my aunt. I decided to stay behind and live in our house.

I thought I would be ok with it. I was wrong. The food wasn't tasty anymore even though our cook made it. I wanted to eat pizza all the time. It reminded me of my college years. I would eat alone my eat meals in the dinning court and didn't have too many friends. I would eat junk food all the time.

I think i stress eat or eat when I'm depressed/sad. I don't know. Oh well, like the Rob Thomas's song suggests I don't want to lonely anymore.

I wish I was a kid again. Life was so much happier and easier. I was a happy kid, even my name is related to happiness. But life is making me sad about everything.

But I have decided to be positive and look on the bright side. I started counting my blessing because I have a lot of things to be thankful for.

So, from now onwards, the glass is completely full. 

Indenpendence Day

So, it's Independence Day for India tomorrow.

But it's Independence Day for Pakistan today. So Happy Independence Day to my Pakistani friends.

Hope you guys enjoyed yourselves as I will tomorrow. I'm watching Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi as I'm writing this post since it has my favourite actor, Shah Rukh Khan.

Independence days seems to just a holiday for me. I mean, my generation doesn't realize what happened to get to this point. We all have read about it, but that's it. Of course, the many movies dedicated to the subject.

Next topic, I recently read a story on wordpress. It's called A Word's Worth and the best part is that all the chapters are named after movies.

I really like because the main character, Arnav, works in the publishing industry. Khushi, the other main character, works for a famous author and is a fan fiction writer.

It's an amazing story, a real story.

Another amazing story is by Maya Hill.
The story is written in the style which Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë wrote their novels. She writes an amazing story of Arnav and Khuhsi, characters of Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon. You get sucked into the story instantly. She is rewriting the story and I really like it.

I really wish I could write like them but oh well I guess I should stick to finding errors in writings.

Cooking Experiment

So, we had a cooking experiment yesterday.

My father saw his article "The house on Serpentine Street" in The Mint. The author remember recipes of Ramzan from his childhood. The author takes the recipe from Andaleeb Wajid's blog. The post is called This ain’t no pepper fry! The recipe is about Phaal. 

My family and I are big foodies. So my mother decided to have another cooking lesson for me. 

Yipee

I like eating not cooking.

Anyways, she made some changes in the recipe. So the onions, tomatoes and coriander were put in the mixer together. The oil was placed in the pan, then the chicken was placed. Then the garam masala, ginger paste, salt and the entire contents of the mixer. All that in a pressure cooker with five whistles. After the second whistle, the heat was decreased. 

Dinner time came. The gravy was too thin and not enough salt. The less salt didn't bother me but I like thick gravy. The salt wasn't my fault but the thin gravy was my fault. If I had checked on it, I would have found it and cooked it longer for the gravy to thicken and then the less salt wouldn't have been noticeable.

Anyways, today was a good day. I listed all the corrections of a manuscript and I still have more to write tomorrow. Good god. The author wrote so many freaking long sentences. I talking about 7 to 8 lines long.

Overall, it was a nice day. Let's see what happens next in my life. 


P.S. I know you people are reading my blog, please comment. Just a small one

My Bucket List

I never saw the movie The Bucket List but I really liked the concept. Also I found a story called The Bucket List to read on India Forum and its really good. So here is my bucket list.

Have two degrees

Done - Visit at least 1 country of Asia

Done - Visit at least 1 country of Europe

Visit at least 1 country of Africa

Done - Visit at least 1 country of North America

Visit at least 1 country of South America

Visit at least 1 country of Australia

Done - Visit at least 1 country in the Northern Hemisphere

Done - Visit at least 1 country in the Southern Hemisphere 

Have a road trip with my friends or cousins

Meet Shah Rukh Khan, take a picture with him and get an autograph

Meet Bret Lee take a picture with him and get an autograph

Watch Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge in Maratha Mandir Theatre

Slap someone

Punch someone

See a live autopsy

Do something that scares me

Fall in love

Climb a mountain

Visit all the states and union territories of India

That's it for now. I will add things as I think of them or get them done

Happy Tuesday

Yipeee
July 2
It's tuesday
It's also the middle of the year.
182 days are gone and 182 days are left
In honour of today, I present this Jim Hunt photo:

Today this bird wasn't anywhere near my head or body or any part of me.

I have this major project whose deadline we did not meet. I did corrections on this book, but according to my boss I missed some. So, I had to list all the missed corrections from yesterday and today and emailed them to the typesetter (person who makes the text look like it does when you open a book.)

In the meantime, I worked on another project. But I was taking too much time, said my boss. The book had at least twenty corrections on every page which I had to sort out. I had to erase all the pointless corrections and leave the important ones. Those have to go to the typesetter as soon as possible

My third project, I sent my doubts to the author and they got cleared up pretty quickly. So that was good and I emailed the few corrections to the typesetter.

The typesetter emailed me my two projects by today evening which was really amazing and nice of him to do. I did mention that my first project was a top priority and needed to be fast tracked.

My brain hurts from remembering about the statuses of my projects. Sometimes I wish life is simple as it was in our childhood.

My life needs a do-over seriously. Why don't we come with warnings and suggestions? Oh well, just going to have to bear with it and move forward.

Dependence

So, the rains came to India. Thank god my city didn't get the kind of damage that Uttarakand got. People are stranded, dead and lost. Hope they can find their way back to home.

Of course I was stranded without technology. The rains stopped my internett. We couldn't even call MTNL since nobody would be available when they came. The driver had an emergency at home. Finally I complained to my parents and we lodged a complaint with MTNL. The driver came, and so did MTNL. They repaired a cable the next day. Voila! Interest restored. I still had internet on my phone but my parents' iPad isn't my laptop.

We are really dependent on our technology and gadgets. We taught my grandmother how to play to solitaire, and mahjong on the computer. She has an email account and actually send an e-card to people. Its very interesting to watch her handle these things which I have done for many years. Hope technology doesn't take over us humans like it did in Terminator 3. God well us if that ever happens.

So, its my parents anniversary today. They don't really celebrate it. Once in a blue moon, they will celebrate it the big way, but otherwise it's a normal day. That's the nice thing about my parents. They don't make a big of things. I wish I was as smart as they were at my age. Sometimes, I feel like I'm letting them down. Even though they don't make me feel that way, but I make myself feel that. I need to boost my self-esteem. Any suggestions? Oh well, I'll just Google them.

It's All About Loving Your Parents

Karan Johar had it right when he made Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. It is all about loving your parents. They do so much for their children. My parents have done and do everything still for my brother and me. I guess because they grew up in that environment and want the same things for their children. I went abroad my for college and my parents didn't complain about cost. They said if its for your education, don't worry about the cost. So in my second year I found a job on campus. I started paying for my phone bill and other things.

So why do people treat them so horribly when their parents get very old. The two movies I know that show this situation are Baghban and Lage Raho Munna Bhai. Baghban shows how incredibly rude kids can be to their parents, but that's the time the parents need their kids' help.

Which is why I get angry at myself. When my parents or grandmother asks me things or keep asking random questions, I get angry at them. Then I think I probably asked random questions all during my childhood and still do. Yet they answer unless in the rare occasions when they tell me not to ask stupid questions. So I get angry at myself. Why do I have a low tolerable? Seriously what is wrong with me? Then I get really sad and depressed even though that is the opposite of my sunny disposition. How does one increase their patience level? Maybe because my self esteem is down, that my tolerable levels have gone down.

And Pakistan lost a wicket. 165 for all out. Hopefully out team is in form and can beat them. Like the Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan's character in K3G) said who never know about India. At the last minute anything is possible. Can India win the ICC Champions Trophy ?

Oh well, good luck team India!!!

My Brother's Wedding

 Hello All,

I decided on blogging to improve my writing skills. I am in the publication industry, so I need to have proper writing skills. After reading so many stories by amazing writers, I thought it was my time.  I think my life is not very exciting, so it might be boring.

So, I was browsing flipkart for books as usual. I finally found ordered two books. I found a new book called Amreekandesi: Masters of America by Atulya Mahajan which I found through Facebook. 

I browsed through the recommendations and found a new book. This book is My Brother's Wedding by Andaleeb Wajid.

I couldn't put the the book down. I must have gone to sleep by 2 am that night. The main character is Saba and she is literature student. She writes a blog to cope with the craziness of her brother's wedding. She is trying to juggler her college life and the wedding. She used letters to denote her family members to keep their confidentiality. She feels like she is being over shadowed by her older beautiful, vain & manipulative sister and her only brother. It gives an excellent look into how a Muslim wedding entails. I have never been to one, so I am very curios to find out what happens. Weddings shows culture and traditions of people and the whole experience is fascinating to me.

That book also helped me in opening my own blog. My friend has one and she writes about her married life. She said her life is very normal, so I thought why not. As I am writing, I am watching an old episode of Numb3rs. It's the one with the cloned baby and I have already seen this, but there is nothing good on. 

My work day was pretty good and easy today. I had no pending work, so I worked on the website and facebook all day. I love that part where I have to be on Facebook for my job. I checked the entries on the website for mistakes. Whoever did it before me, they didn't do a proper job. There are random question marks in the entries. I mean who doesn't know where question marks goes. 

My phone needed recharging and my driver was out sick. I had to call my mother and get it recharged by her. Mothers are so awesome and she didn't even take the money I gave her. As I was writing this post, I pressed my delete key on my Mac and my whole first draft was gone. I tried to find it but no luck. So I have to rewrite the post all over again from scratch. Maybe next time, I will write this in a word document and then paste it. Oh well, you learn from your mistakes.  Then after my posted my new post, I found my draft all saved nicely. So I took out the new sections and pasted them in the draft. So I deleted the other post and published my earlier draft since it much better

I think it a good place to stop for my first try. Let's see what happens next before I post again.
(P.S. The photos in this blog belong to the original owner. I don't have any copyright on them.)