Merry christmas!

Life's good and a yummy moist spongy christmas cake has made it more merrier :)
My neighbour is celebrating christmas and I joined her in just the cake part of it.
Yet to plan for the new year party! looking for ideasssssss.. post some!

Cooking is the new in thing!

Cooking is my new found interest. I have actually started enjoying the experiments. Yes, you heard me right and am perfectly alright. I still find the everyday cooking very very boring but am anytime on for a new experiment. There are these daily cookery shows that come on tv 12 pm to 1 pm. There would be atleast 1 recipe in the shows worth trying.
The end result does matter. The happiness you get when your experiment is a super duper hit is worth all the trials and failures. It gives you a creative satisfaction :)
I still can't forget the excitement when i tried making rasgollas. It came out exactly the way they showed it on the video.. all soft, puffed up and super yummy!
Yeah, am not sure second time I try the result is going to be the same so there is no fun in repeating experiments ;)

Am Back!

Am back on my blog page after a lil more than 2 month break. It really feels good to be back, coz all it means is that am in control of my current frame of mind :) A state that I love to be in!
Last 2 months have been a roller coaster ride, happy sad frustrated elated decided confused celebrated humiliated.. everything that life could offer, it did. Am glad I went through all that, coz today I think after all that, I am a better person today. I grew as a person(quite literally too!). And am only hoping I remember my lessons learnt for life !
Lets get started again...

The timing...

After a long lazy saturday and enough of stink, I finally decided to take a shower. The hot water suddenly felt too tempting to resist. I am all set to go and I turn on the shower knob only to hear an empty pipe trying to blurt out last few drops of water!

After a long break from my exercise routine, one fine day I get super motivated and decide to break that break. I keep an alarm for early next morning, wake up and take that wii fit board and switch on the tv, take the body test and got shocked when it showed the upward graph of my weight and bmi. I get super motivated again to do rigorous exercise and suddenly the message on TV, batteries of the wii fit board are empty. I need to recharge them. I keep sulking the rest of the day for waking up early for nothing and also not being able to do anything about the upward graph. What the hell!

Am running late to office and I have only 3 more minutes before the meeting begins. This ones going to be the last signal before I reach office, and I see the light green, I speed up and am almost there when the light turned red. I tried to somehow feign ignorance and pass through the signal but the hefty traffic police blows the whistle and I freeze. meeting began while i stood frozen at signal for the next 3 minutes. Shooooooooot

One day, I decided to have gulab jamun in the office cafeteria and was cutting out on the calories from morning. Oats for breakfast with honey (no sugar), Soup, salad and roti with daal for lunch. After having all that, I was craving to eat that gulab jamun even more. Tick snacks time and I went slurrping to cafe, only to find that there were no gulab jamuns made that day. Grrr..

Akshara slept in time and i wanted to catch the repeat episode of my tele soap I missed the day before. I switch on the TV to find that the cable wasnt working. I call up the customer care and they say some repair, and its going to take time. I kill time by readin paper, checking mails again and again and by the time Akshara woke up, cable also got repaired. Phew..

Whom to blame? Why only me? are just some of the many questions that go round and round in me!

Dillemma of a working mom- Part 2

Am completely in awe of people who know what their priorities in life are and stick to them no matter what and work towards their priorities. I don't care what their priorities are and why!

I realised how messed up I am with regards my priorities in life. I want everything which I know is impossible and ending up being in a confused state constantly.

I decided I am going to be a stay at home mom for an year or more and give my baby all the time she needs. I couldn't stick to this one. The idea of quitting the job didn't go very well with me. I looked for work from home opportunities, thought of all other possible ideas to keep me working at home, but nothing materialised.
Finally, I ended up getting a part time job, 5 hours at office and all other time with my baby. It seemed like the perfect thing to happen. My family came over to support me , to look after my baby while I was at work. Everything seemed to be perfectly in place till I actually started working.
I try giving my 100% at work, but I have only 50% time.
I do suffer from guilt for joining back to work everyday, when my baby cries when I leave for work.
I keep thinking about her, if she has eaten well, if she has slept well, may be she needs me now, inspite of the assurance that I have left her in safe hands. The thought that she needs me and am not there keeps coming back.

My career also isn't going great , coz no matter how much effort I put in, am only putting in 5 hrs in office compared to others who are putting in 10!
What seemed to be a perfect deal, now seems to be the most loser deal! You seriously cant get everything! You need to let go!
I have friends who are working full time and are literally not seeing their babies all weekdays. They are happy coz they are doing good at work and are ok spending only weekends with their babies.
I have friends who have quit their job and are happy dedicated moms to their lil ones.
Am neither there, nor her and am not happy.

Dedicate this post to My sister Swapna , Gunjan, Pavana, Raksha, Vijaya and harsha.

I likes!

I like the concept of negative calorie foods.. U eat them and they burn ur fat :) Talk about eating and losing weight! wow!
How? They take more calories to digest than the number of calories they provide.
Negative calorie fruits:
Papaya, peach, watermelon, pineapple, apple, strawberry, orange, lemon, lime.

Negative calorie veggies:
Onion, Beetroot, brinjal, cucumber, carrot, lettuce, cauliflower, cabbage, green beans, tomato.

Others:
Oatmeal, garlic, green-tea, Low fat milk, curd, whole-grain cereal.

Joey Poppat: Saving money!

Last week we went out to a small eat out in the neighbourhood. I was having a masala dosa craving. Sometime after we placed our order, we were served masala pappad. We didn't order for it yet we had it assuming it might be complimentary.
Our order was served next and then the finger bowl. Akshara was in my lap and before I could respond, she toppled the used finger bowl over me. (yes , mothers need to have quick reflexes!!)
later, the bill came and we saw that the masala pappad was included in the bill which we never ordered. My sweet hubby was about to pay for it as it was only 10 bucks. But the rebel in me woke up, I wanted to revert that 10 rs from the bill. I called the waiter, the guy who took the order , did all drama , got some cheap looks when I said, we thought it was complimentary. Somehow finally, I managed to get our 10 rs back and I came home basking in the glory of saving ten rupees!! Just when we were about to reach home, I realised I left Akshara's snack bowl and the spoon in the restaurant. Spoon, my friends, was a silver one costing around hundred bucks.. naturally, we couldn't find it where we left it in the restau.
I sulked all night and vowed that I would never go back to that restau.
Ps: One question that I cannot answer is , why on earth did I carry the silver spoon to restau inspite of having hundreds of other low cost spoons! Fate, my friends!

Summer holidays are back with a Bang!

Remember those school wala summer holidays? All play and no worries? I had almost relived them this summer.. thanks to Akshara! Few kids in the neighbourhood come home everyday to play with Akshara. It was real fun watching them play, mess around the house, innocent question and even more innocent answers :)
6 year old Anu came running along the stairs and said, "Aunty give me water , my heart attack is going faster". She meant her heart beat :)
Yesterday was all the more fun. One of them said, she wanted to play hide and seek and all of them wanted to hide. So Akshara and me has to cont and find them all. yes, I played along with them and felt transported back in time forgetting all about the age difference. Later i realized I had to behave my age but it was too late. I continued playing and had super fun.
Later in the evening, in the park, one of the kids mom asked me," Did you play hide n seek with the kids? Pihu(her daughter) was telling me".
I tried doing some damage control.. "yam amyam yam.. No I was just watching them " and the last nail in my coffin came from Pihu as she suddenly appeared from nowhere and said.." Aunty don't tell lies, you played with us right?"
Her mom, my friend laughed but gave me a saving grace by changing the topic. Thank you!
But yeah, the embarrassment was all worth it. I did really have fun playing with the kids. (I don't want to sound retard, but if you ever get a chance, give it a try, you will sure have fun!)

Chocolate balls recipe

Ok, this one is a relatively low cal but lip smacking dessert.
All you need:
1 pack marie light biscuits.
4 tsp cocoa powder
1 cup sugar
handful roasted peanuts.
Milk Cream (I took Amul low fat fresh cream) - Amount.. just enough to make the mixture moist enough to make moulds.

pretty easy procedure..
1) grind the biscuits, grind the sugar.
2)Mix them with 4 tsp of cocoa powder.
3) Make it in to a dough using the cream.
4)Now make small rounds out of the dough.
5) Peanut can be placed on top of each mould but I preferred to put it in the center of the ball just for the surprise element. Take small amount of dough, flatten it on ur palm, place the peanut and then cover it up and make a ball.

Try the recipe, its seriously worth it!!

Chocolate balls saga continues...

I am very bad at remembering birthdays. But, I remember my school friend Divya's birthday, Feb 10th. During school, all my friends used to look forward to her birthday party. Reason being yummy Chocolate balls her mom, Pushpa aunty used to make without fail year after year. They were so yummy that they are fetched in all our memories for ever.
Last week, my sweet tooth attacked on me again and I craved (yes, I am having cravings way after pregnancy) for those yummy chocolate balls. Craving so strong that i called up my Mom to call up aunty and find out the recipe and pass it back to me. After 1 hour of hardwork, I had similar looking, and almost yummy chocolate balls ready!
Last week, 2 kids in the neighbourhood came home to play with Akshara. I generously offered them the chocolate balls and they were very very impressed. One of them even commented, "Aunty, I wish you were my mom because you know how to make these"!!
Next day, there were 4 other kids along with those 2 who came to play with Akshara. I was a lil surprised but soon knew why they were all there. I offered them all and they asked me when Akshara's birthday was. After I told them when it was, they asked me to make the chocolate balls for her birthday party and give them as return gifts to all of them :)
Looks like I am going to take Pushpa aunty's chocolate balls for birthday saga forward... Thanks aunty for the wonderful recipe.

P.S: Recipe in the next post.

The Zen Y

Kids can sometimes surprise you so much with their talk that they leave you wondering for hours.
There is this little 6 year old girl in my neighbourhood who comes to play with Akshara. Today while she was playing, she asked me "Aunty, you don't have AC? Its so hot today."
I said we don't and asked her if she had one at her home. She said she doesn't have but she plans to have one at her new home. With that the gossip "me" woke up and I was curious to know if my friend has bought a new place somewhere. I planned to probe the little one further and get some info from her. I asked her " Where is your new home? " She said "That I don't know, but once I shift there, even if AC is not already there, we will buy one". (OK , she was still stuck on the AC thing! )
"When will you shift to your new home?" I asked in the hope of getting atleast some info about the new house.
"After I marry aunty. Then I will go to a new home na."
The Gossip "me" went underground.

Is a 6 year old really supposed to know that she will be going to a new home after marriage?

The Past.. The Present

I was asked this question during my first job interview, "Where do you see yourself five years down the line"? and I got my answer yesterday in the train. Big time mockery of life.
We were travelling by the first AC as there were no other tickets available and we had to reach Bangalore. My first ever travel in first AC coach. Its a nice cozy coupe kind of thing for four. I think the first class is almost always underbooked, so generally they allot 2 per coupe, so its all the more cozy. Ok, coming back to our mockery thing, murphy was looking at us generously and this time the first class was also completely booked. So we were 4 per coupe and Murphy made sure we had best company in the form of a newly wed couple. They were just married and we all know how the just married are :) I instantly felt like an elderly couple sitting in front of them. It was almost like a mirror reflection of 5 years back and I've come a long long way. Some differences below:

They: were all eyes and ears for each other.
We: were happy with our own eyes and ears :)

They: were holding hands.
We: were holding baby.

They: were sitting in a small 'b' , one curled up in the other.
We: were sitting in a big 'H', with akshara completing the H for us.

They: were listening to music, sharing the ipod.
We: were also listening to music but a different kind. N was playing the background music of all the available ringtones in the mobile and I was the main lead singer singing "Eat akshara, please.. open your mouth, baby eat.. eat baby please". Those were the only lyrics available.

They: were waiting for us to sleep so that they could get all the privacy they wanted.
We: were waiting for akshara to sleep, so that we can get some sleep. All we need is some extra sleep.

They: were all giggles and sweet nothings.
We: were discussing a serious issue, a deadlock scenario. Akshara has not pooped today and hence is not eating anything. But if she eats something, she will definitely poop. How do we handle this, how do we make her eat, how do we make her poop?

They: were helping each other in making the bed.
We: were fighting over keeping the light on or off.

The more I write, the more the differences I find, so lets just stop here. Signing off in the hope that they too will be like us 5 years down their lane :)

P.S:
1) Babies are adorable and are must haves. They are worth all the trouble they give and more.
2) Jo recommends first class AC coupe to all the newly weds. :)

Pj's after long time

Ok these are copy paste from my friends email.. but liked them so posting them here.

1)Arz kiya hai…Ab toh Zindagi ka maksad hai tujhe apnana…Ab toh Zindagi ka maksad hai tujhe apnana…....................A for Apple B for Banana…WAH WAH…!!======================================================================================= (2)Arz kiya hai…
Kal tak thee jo meri present…Kal tak thee jo meri present…........Aaj ho gayee hai past…....Kal tak thee jo meri present…Aaj ho gayee hai past….......Offer valid till stocks last.. :-P=======================================================================================(3) Arz kiya hai…Bakre ne maara jo bakri ko seeng……Bakre ne maara jo bakri ko seeng……....................Toh Bakri bhi maregi bakre ko seeng.======================================================================================= (4)Arz kiya hai…Baith kar girlfriend ki Zulfon ke saaye mai aisa josh aaya…Wah-Wah, Wah-Wah…Baith kar girlfriend ki Zulfon ke saaye mai aisa josh aaya…
;;;Ki Uske papa ne dekh liya aur ICU mai hosh aaya…=======================================================================================(5)Yashomati Maiyya Se Bole Nandlala ................Waah! Waah!..Yashomati Maiyya Se Bole Nandlala ..........."Maa, Tata Sky Laga Daala To Life Jhingalala ..!!" =======================================================================================(6)Teacher to student : 1 chiku ke ped pe 10 kele lage hai, usme se 5 aam gir gaye , to btao ab kitne angoor bache…Raju : Sir 10 hathi bache…Teacher: Arrey waah, tumhe kaise pata chala
Raju : Kyunki aaj main tiffin mein methi ke pronthe laaya hun..=======================================================================================(7)Romio ne juliet se kaha ek sach........Romio ne juliet se kaha ek sach..........Asali masale sach sachMDH.....MDH ...!=======================================================================================(8) Ek Kana Ladka Kisi ladki ko Propose kare to kaun sa gana Gayega?????????????????????? !!!!!!….!!!….Ek Nazar se bhi Pyar Hota hai Maine suna Hai............................................ ============================================================
===========================(9) A scientist disconnected his doorbell.......can u guess why??? ???? try think!!! donno??? cuz .............!!!!!!!!he wanted to win the No-bell prize!!!!!!!!!! :P=======================================================================================(10)Salma ke pyaar me doob gaya Peter
Gaur farmaiye Salma ke pyaar me doob gaya Peter.......Ab hero Honda splendor 80 kilometer prati leter=======================================================================================(11)1 ladki ne kiya ladke ko gaal pe kiss1 ladki ne kiya ladke ko gaal pe kiss.....................Mutual funds are subjected to market risks……!!!!

I wish I was..

The first child! Seriously.. the charm of being the first is hitting me badly these days. First child, first ranker, first love,first bike, first hug, first kiss, first everything! Damn! I am the second child to my parents, I never came first in my class, never got anything firsthand.. all my books, dresses everything was second hand passed on from my sister.
Why this thought came now is another thing.. Was wondering the other day that if I ever have another baby will I be able to love that baby as much as I love Akshara? Will I be able to give the same level of attention and time? Love may be yes, but attention.. NO! and definitely not buy another play gym or bouncer or milk bottles! or may be I should.. should'nt I? Just for the sake that my second baby doesnt feel the same way as I am today! I dont knw! Really not worth thinking about something that has not even happened and when you have so much of time.. this is what happens!

Milestones so far..

Babies are adorable.. no arguments there. But its one thing to see others babies and play with them once in a while and another thing to bringing up your own baby.. being with them day in day out, everyday, seeing them grow and learn. It's an experience for lifetime where you too grow as a parent and learn along with your baby.
Akshara is 6 months old now and lot of milestones to celebrate :)
Month 1: We celebrated the day 1 of this month, we welcomed our little one in to our world with lot of joy and happiness. She was a natural. She latched on so easily to drink milk as if she has been doing it for the past 9 months. All she needed this month was milk, lots of sleep and loads of pee pee poo poo to be cleaned up. She wouldn't even react to any toy. But yes, she SMILED! We celebrated that for sure!
Month 2: Sometime during this month, she started reacting to toys. She could roll her eye balls along with the toy. She could perfectly track the toy as we moved it in front of her. Super duper. We rejoiced :)
Month 3: She was named this month. Akshara Koppineedi. Celebrated in a big way and loads of gifts. Her first pattu langa. Her first Flight travel. And yes.. she arrived home. Blore! We were exhilarated.
Month 4: She started giggling, chuckles, screams.. we had it all. And yeah from rolling her eyes, she was now trying to reach out for that toy. Hand eye co-ordination yayy! and more.. neck movement too. She could turn her neck in the direction of the toy she wanted!! yippie! Her first new year party. Her first play gym experience.
Month 5: She lifted her legs up, perpendicular, turned sideways and yeah,,.. she rolled over!! Initially struggled to take the hand stuck below her, but soon that was also achieved! quick learner there! Her first pongal.
Month 6: Solids!! Started on cerelac. She loved it. She started crawling. but yeah backwards. Reverse gear worked first :) Bonded big time with her granpa, granma and baamma.

There have been bad days, tough days, fun days.. complete roller coaster for life!

Mis-Interprettation

There is this beautiful song from Masoom "Tujhse naraaz nahin zindagi, hairaan hoon main" .
Very well written, beautifully composed and well sung. But all these days the meaning of the first few lines always bothered me till I asked my friend for the meaning of it.
Here are the lines:
"Tujhse naraaz nahin zindagi, hairan hoon main,
Teri masoom sawalon se pareshan hoon main "
This is what I interpreted:
Shabana Azmi singing this song to the little Jugal hansraj saying " AM hairaan about why Zindagi is not naraaz with you . And am pareshaan with your masoom sawaal".
Thankfully this is what it means:
Shabana Azmi singing this to herself and telling zindagi that she is not angry with life but just hairaan. And she is pareshaan about the questions zindagi is throwing at her!

Thank you Gunjan for the real meaning. And no questions on my IQ level please...

Working Mother's dillemma

I know a lot of people have gone through this before me and a lot will after me and am not the only one. But posting this just to mark that I am going through this, and may be someday my daughter will also read this.
I am very bad at making a decision and sticking to it, even if its smallest of things like selecting some snack from given menu. I would struggle to arrive at something and most of the times end up regretting why I chose this and not something else. And this time the menu card showed just two things and am still struggling. One, take a break from work, watch my baby grow and give her the best of nourishment, and my entire time and attention. Two, join back work, trust others in bringing up my baby, and give her the maximum available time left after work.
Choosing One also means I will be sitting idle for some time doing nothing( even if there are hazaar things to do, my laziness takes over me) and take care of the baby rest of the time. And Choosing Two also means a super busy life, struggling and juggling and living in constant guilt that am not able to give enough time to my baby.
I knew the above before I even got preg and taking a decision seemed so very easy! Obviously the first! Welcome break from work, no pressure of getting up early and catching the bus, no work pressure, no appraisals tension. Just some happy time at home with the baby. I made the decision of taking a break from work by choice and not by force. And am also blessed enough to be able to ignore the financial aspect while taking the decision (Thank you H) .
But now, when am actually going through it, am finding it tough to be sitting at home. I never actually realised when going for work had become an addiction for me. I know I will regret the moment I will join back work, coz by then Baby would be my bigger addiction.
Inspite of knowing everything, pros,cons it sometimes just gets to me. With not so friendly neighbours, no one to show off your new dresses to and no one to talk to the entire day(am Not talking about the one sided baby talk) , and even if I meet some other mothers at the park in the evening , it's only about babies, and it just gets too much to handle. What did I used to talk about before I had a baby??
With extremely supportive H and an absolutely adorable daughter, am just sailing through this. May God bless me with more mental strength to stick to my most sensible decision I made.

Why.. why I say?

It's really frustrating when you come face to face with your own weaknesses and even more frustrating when all your attempts at working on your weakness fail. How bad can it be to know what your problem is and still not able to work over it? very bad indeed!
One thing that's troubling me a lot these days is my weakness of not being able to delegate work. Not being able to take help from others even when its being readily offered. I want to do it all by myself even when I know I lack the energy and the time to do it. It really sounds weird but I don't like sharing work unless I reach a point where things go beyond my control. If I have started something, I wantto finish it by my own and someone else's interference(read HELP) upsets me :(
It's not that I didn't try, I did try n take help from others in doing something, but it doesn't give me the satisfaction I would've got if I did it on my own.
Am I alone or do I have company? Am I OK?

Uthuku, pindu aarey!

If I am asked to rate the most borest taks to do in life , managing clothes(washing, drying, ironing..) tops the list and if am asked to rate the most interesting things to do, shopping for clothes tops it!! Can someone please uncomplicate my lil life?

How I wish someone could make 'Use, throw and recycle' kind of dresses? That way we could wear new dress everyday and not even wash them! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy

Avvakayyara?

Life's getting lil tougher.. increasing expenditures, diminishing income, increasing population.. very chaotic! I was little taken aback when I saw the weekly groceries bill, 1500 INR for veggies, and bare minimum groceries! How long can we last this way? There was a time when I thought that if we could somehow have savings of 1 Cr INR, we could easily retire and enjoy for the rest of life. But looking at the way things are going, we might have to work till the last day to continue living the way we live now.
I wonder how my domestic help is managing, she has 4 daughters , one of them married and divorced with a child, 3 yet to be married , husband who is a drunkard and only 2 earning people.

Info on Cervical cancer vaccination

OK this one is an FYI&A for all my friends.. friends, wives and sisters of friends

My doc had asked me to take the cervical cancer vaccination yesterday and this is the info I got from him and wanted to share with you all . I know there is loads of info available everywhere but just wanted to share whatever info I have

Currently they say all girls(yes , girls !) between the age of 14-24 must get this done as a prevention for cervical cancer. But women beyond 24 can also get this done.

Its a 3 dose vaccination spread across 6 months. 0 months- 2 months- 6 months. Each one costs 3250 INR. Its advisable not to plan for pregnancy during these 6 months.

3 mistakes that I learnt from!

I had to write this post to cherish this landmark even later :)

My baby is now in to her 6th month and we had to start giving her, her first solid food. cerelac for starters. I was pretty excited about it!

1) My first hurdle came when I was mixing the food, how thick or thin should it be? I used the dumb side of my brain and thought, its called solids, so it should be pretty solid :) [First mistake]

2) Second hurdle was the position in which I should feed her, again my dumb side knocked at me and I thought, we sit while we eat so she must also be sitting and I placed her in the bouncer and sat right in front of her. [Second mistake]

3) I don't know what I was thinking when I tried to feed her with the spoon, I kept the spoon near her mouth and expected her to take it in like we do! Obviously that didn't happen!! Again a knock knock and I had put a spoonful of cerelac in her mouth. [Third mistake]

After that, I was waiting for her reaction eagerly sitting pretty close to her. and there it was.. Bhurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.. she spit out everything I had put in her mouth right on my face! cerelac facepack does'nt do much good to your skin!

And I learnt from my mistakes, thinner paste (solids doesn't literally mean SOLID!), babies can have food lying down, and small quantity each time results in a better experience and cleaner face and home :)

Grow up again???

There is this song in the movie 3 idiots.. "Gimme some Sunshine, gimme some rain, Gimme another chance, I wanna grow up once again".
But how many of you really want to grow up once again? No, Not me!!
I mean, yeah childhood was fun, no responsibilities and all that but growing up again also means studying history , geography and civics all over again! Urgggg! And it also means giving all the monday tests, board exams, entrance exams all over again! More than all that theres something else ... I was this healthy and chubby types all through out the school. While my friends in my peer group started getting love letters right from class 7, I was getting nicknames like King Kong Bundy(remember the WWF guy?.. yes the same one), KKb or K^2B for lazy people! It was a pain to listen through all your friends interesting love stories or be the agony aunt and never to have anything remotely interesting to tell! My mom had never let me diet and to make it worse she always gave me high carb foods like Kaju burfi, complan, cakes, chicken which I could never ever resist! which obviously resulted in more healthy outcome :)
And then being the second child in the family, there was always this pressure of doing better than my sister, which never really happened!
So If I have to grow up again, I have to go to an international school where there are not many exams, I should always top the few exams that I will have, and yeah no nick names please and yeah may be one or two admirers to boast of before friends!!!

I love Butterflies!

Yesterday a beautiful yellow and black butterfly came and flew around me and sat right on my hand.

Did it think I was a flower or am I really that sweet ;-)

P.S: Tag this post under self -adulation

Ever wondered what your dad thinks of you? I never even gave it a thought and just assumed that he must be thinking that his daughter is the best and a very good human being :)

I got this opportunity to know what he thinks of me. My dad took me to a homeopathic doc post delivery for some health issue. This doc wanted to know about my current emotional status before giving any medication (Post-partum deppression, anyone?) . So the doc went on asking questions about what am thinking and am I happy. If am suppressing my anger and I was giving all sorts of contradicting answers. I told him am happy but am also suppressing anger.. :) He got so confused that he decided to ask my dad about me..

The first question he asked my dad was.. what kind of a person is she? Will she agree for what others say in order to make them happy or wants to get things done her way. (I Still dont know why the doc asked this.. really!) I was half hoping that my dad would say, yeah shez more than willing to do anything to make others happy... but NO!! All he said was.. NO, she takes a very strong stance on what she wants and is not very malleable :) :) Really dad? I thought I did adjust a lot and did all things your way and made you happy :P

Ok.. a reality check done! So.. cmon people.. go find out what your dad thinks of you.. you may end up finding the real you!

Joey's laws of Fat

Law 1:

Those who are fat will remain fat unless acted upon by an external force and internal motivation.

The external forces can be some situations like below:

1)Your old loose jeans no longer fits you.

2)Your parlour lady comments "Weight zyada ho gaya"

3)You go for shopping and the salesman shows you only XL or XXL clothes.

4)When you are just tempted to eat that calorie loaded sweet, your partner says, "You really think you should be eating that?"

All the above external forces lead to some sulking and internal motivation :)

Law 2:

Your current Fat equals Amount of fat you have taken in addition to the fat you already have minus the fat you reduced(usually negligible)

Pretty self explanatory.. TF = CF +EF -RF Where RF always leads to ZERO.

Where TF= total fat, CF =Current Fat, EF= Earned Fat and RF= Reduced Fat

Fat attracts fat and more fat and you need to just keep adding unless you really think you have sweated it out and there is something to be subtracted.

Law 3:

For every calorie spent, there are usually double calories waiting to be added.

OK let me explain this more.. this ones most dangerous..

Whenever we exercise and looks like we lost some fat, we get an overconfidence on ourselves that its so easy.. its achievable after all and we think we can always have that sweet.. its well deserved and earned!! We can always exercise and reduce No? But what generally happens is after the initial success of some weight loss, followed by marathon eating , there always exists more weight gain which kills the motivation to exercise coz.. no then we will feel that No matter how much we exercise, we are only gaining weight.. so why exercise !!??comfortably forgetting about the sweet indulgence)

I think I need to patent the above laws .. May be someday I will become as famous as Newton and my laws will be taught at all the slimming centers across the world :) :)

Papa kehte hain bada naam karega.. beta humara aisa kaam karega

I had second thoughts before putting this post up.. but then thought again.. WTF.. this is my blog, so I can post whatever I want to. Ok with so much of hype created.. let me just go on with the actual content of the post..

The other day when I was watching TV (Ok.. I watch TV everyday.. most of the time!!) , I came across this Commercial for StayFree, there is this guy who comes to meet the girl for marriage proposal and this girl takes him around her city just to get to know him better. She jumps, runs to catch a bus and all and the guy just follows her happily. So that's the ad stating how happily the girl is running around even when her Aunt has visited her and hence stayfree :)

All that's fine, but I was thinking about the guy who acted in the commercial.. I have not seen him in any other commercial or soap till date so this must've been his first breakthrough ever on TV. Wondering what the guy would have told his parents when he was signed up for this commercial. "Mom, Mom Ive been selected for a commercial.. my first contract signed!!"

Mom says" Wow son.. congratulations.. I always knew you would make us proud.. by the way which commercial is it beta?"

"Mom.. Mom... its.. Mom.. Its.. er ..StayFree"..

I am still wondering what his mom's reaction wouldve been!

Jan 11:
Mood: Good
Colour: Black
Song: yeh dil.. deewana.. deewana hai yeh dil!

Gyaan : Am happy coz we planted some plants yesterday, contributing in a small way to the mother nature coz we care! we respect our mother.. mother nature and want to give a clean and green environment to our children. We use bio degradable plastic covers to dump garbage, plant trees and do whatever we can to minimise pollution. Our lil bit for nature..

Papaya and Spouses!

Ok I missed about yday..

9th Jan 2010:

Gyaan: Papaya's with seeds always taste better than the ones without seeds. But while buying you never know whats inside the papaya, you just know the papaya looks good from outside and hope that it has seeds and tastes sweet.. just like spouses.. before marriage you never know what the person is really like.. you just know the person looks good (to your eye) and seems to be nice and you just hope he or she has enough seeds and turns out to be good n sweet :)

phew.. what an anology.. Papaya and spouses!!

Mood: was OK

Colour:Maroon

State of Mind: Little light :)

Song of the day: Pyaar dewaana hotha hai mastana hotha hai Harr khushi se harr gham se begaana hotha hai

8th jan, 2010..

Life is all about Attrition and Accumulation
Attrition of soul and Accumulation of fat!

Mood: close to ok..
Colour: Off white
State of mind: Confused
Song of the day: Hanste hanste kat jaaye raste, zindagi yun hi chalti rahe....