Transition

I am day dreaming or rather thinking really hard … about why things are the way they are …. I am wondering how somehow everything has fallen into place … It is so very beautiful in its simplicity … Yeah I know I am talking in circles… I was always the dreamy one at home… It was not considered really good that the youngest one at home keeps sitting in the balcony looking outside…dreaming something away … I used to cook up stories in my head …sing some songs that I fancy …or if I get tired of all the dreaming play with some toys … People always tell me that I have a faraway look …But I am not totally lost …a part of me is busy thinking & planning what I need to do …and when required I am quite stubborn …I chew & gnaw at it and generally make life miserable for people until that is completed… Right now am doing both – dreaming & planning... Dreaming away about the beautiful things that are going to happen in the next few days …dreaming about the life K and I are going to have ...

One of my very good friends was wondering where I had disappeared suddenly from the blog world .... I have been shuttling back and forth between Chennai & Pune ..enjoying that sweet feeling of courtship :-) Had taken a long leave from office for this Diwali and the best Diwali gift I got ..was from my PM ... He gave me my transfer to Chennai finally !!! It truely feels odd to find people talking in Tamil around me... I expect anytime to wake up from a dream & find myself in Pune... Feels good to know that I need not pack my bags yet again in the coming weekend and that I am here to stay ...finally .. There is an excitement in the air around me ... A promise of a new life ...And I am getting a queer delight in the mildest of things ... So many things to do ...so many new responsibilities..I wish there were 48 hrs in a day so that I get to do all that I have listed out ... Wish everything was done yesterday !! :-) Signing off Sundari

I am the kind of person who cannot keep things inside me for long … It is very rare that I keep secrets… and mostly such secrets still remain secrets because of loads of dire threatening & warning … and yeah sometimes caution prevails and I vow myself to never utter a word outside about it … But if something is 'happening' in my own life… then it is sometimes a wonder that I do not climb the nearest mountain & shout it out till either my lungs or my throat give up... There is a sweet turn of events in life … What can I say!! :-) He came, he smiled and he conquered … And one of the most difficult questions in my life was solved owing to a smile… :-) I have always been fascinated by the Christian Sacred vows of Matrimony… How true the words ring out …. I take thee to be my wedded husband/wife . . to have and to hold.. from this day forward . . . for better, for worse . . . for richer, for poorer . . . in sickness and in health . . . 'till death do us part . . . and th...

Feel greatly relieved that Blogspot finally came back from the dead !!! Was worrying about shifting all my posts to another blog site that may not be blocked ... Good that the ISPs got their wits gathered soon... I was thinking ..what the hell the Government was thinking when it did a blanket banning of Blogspot, geocites and other such sites. Read some interesting quotes by fellow bloggers .. Signing off Sundari

Got a chance to watch Krrish .... there is only one word to describe it ...WOW !!.... A cute and sensitive movie ...perfect for children and the child within us... Felt that a new era of movie making has kick ..no ..no.. leap-started in the Indian Film industry ... The kind of techniques used into the making of this movie is awesome and is light years ahead of the camera gimmicks used in the earlier attempts by any other bollywood director to present in the cut-throat bollywood market... Hrithik-Krrish actually jumps out of the silver screen and captures your imagination with his beautiful acting , elegant dancing and the wonderful stunts ..even though computer generated ... could not have been pulled off by any other actor with such aplomb... True that it has its own minor flaws ... the way Dr. Arya & Rohit (Papa Hrithik) discuss about a Computer that will look into the future sounds a bit childish...Could have sounded better with a few technical jargons thrown in... Yet the vis...

Two of the most saddest things have happened in my life !! My LG phone & my HP laptop both decided not to work at the same time :-(( and as luck would have it both the service centres are located somewhere at the other end of the world..literally ...you would think that a place like Pune would have adequate service centres thrown around ... Hmm..not so...life can't be that easy ... I decided to sacrifice my saturday and visit the HP service centre ... But the lady at the centre gave me the weirdest answer when I called them up... the service centre is open only from Monday to Friday between 9 am to 5:30 pm ... Never in the life I have lived so far have I encountered such a thing... How is a working person who is having the same 9 am to 5:30 pm duty supposed to visit their service centre ? Some of life's questions do not have any answers... I think this is one such question... Still atleast managed to solve the mobile phone issue ... No points for guessing what I did... Hmm....

In terms of this blog space , I feel as if I had just left Mumbai & come to Gurgaon ...now it is back to square one !!! I RESIGNED !! :-) This time it is Pune .... Wow..just thinking about the Pune express highway & the kind of memories it evokes !!! My heart races just to think of it !!! :-) I guess it would be yet another brief stay in Pune..... Still ...hoping to enjoy the beauty of the place .... Could not move around Gurgaon (apart from the malls ofcourse !!) and Delhi the way I had hoped before coming here...been to Delhi maybe only twice or thrice... Mostly because of my own laziness, the heat & the BIG transport issues ... A month left for me to leave Gurgaon... this place has also changed me in some way.. Given more confidence.. a better sense of presenting myself ... given me a Will do attitude ... a better me !!! Also some very sweet friends & sweeter memories !!! Signing off Sundari

COMMITMENT is scary … ask any twenty five plus male or female at the threshold of exchanging those sacred vows and who plan to plunge into holy matrimony…They are filled with all sorts of premonitions of what is going to become wrong ..Oh yes…the excitement is there … the joy of calling somebody your own…a companion for life…but there is an essential fear of all this not happening the way you want it… ‘Pre marital or just pre alliance seeking phase’ jitters is a definite state of mind when you feel everything is going to go wrong with the relationship …the romantic illusions that you are having are going to burst…the oh-so perfect picture of you and your life partner walking off into the sunset will become marred by a lot of suddenly sprouting insecurities – whether he/she is the person for you …will he ever satisfy your needs… will she ever understand your priorities…will she ever understand what it means to do the things you want to do…would I be able to get along with this person an...

The lady charmer finally arrived in this world on April 26th 2006 ... He has already won the hearts of his grandmoms and grand dad .... and many hapless gals will lose their heart over this wonder boy in some years to come... I heard that after much debate & chit picking (filled with baby names) they settled on the name Arya - meaning - Noble/Honoured/Honest/Royal/Respectful - of which I felt Noble is pretty dignified...and so classy !!! Google threw up so many results and I got to know that the correct nomenclature is Arya and not Aryan (as I had thought so earlier)... Then I chanced upon the Significance of Arya ,which I must warn is a bit of heavy reading .... Anyway feels great to have become an aunt again !!! Cheers !! Signing off Sundari

Came home to give a send off to Dad and Mom to the US of A...They plan to be with my sister & brother-in-law to welcome my little nephew …This requires a special mention because he will be the lone male in a house full of daughters & granddaughters…a much coveted position …even though my mother showers all her love to all her granddaughters equally...there would be something extra this time …wish I were there to see & analyze this particular phenomenon of a male charm in its raw form…and of course to spoil him thoroughly from my end too… There is something very special about being an aunt or Chithi (Tamil) meaning small mom – Mausi/Maasi (Hindi) Maa Jaisi meaning like mom …you get the privilege of observing the evolution of life right from the womb …feel the kicks of the tiny tyrant as if it were happening to yourself without the pain that goes with it…and the ultimate bliss of holding a small human being in your hands…and the wonderful protective feeling you develop for th...

It was great coming to a spanking new office ... got to sit in the topmost floor... Really very spacious compared to the older office.... and very colourful (well not much of colour in the photo below) The earlier office was smaller..but more cosier with dim lighting (actually there was no lighting at our bay) ... there are some things that we will surely miss.. like the visits during the breaks to 'Omjee sweets' for that wonderful mouth watering 'Ghajar ka Halwa' :-( and the compulsory 'Pakode' that we used to bring back for the unfortunate folks slogging back in the office .... But the new office is definitely bringing a fresh new feeling & excitement .. What if no Omjee? We have the Barista & Mcdonalds just in front of us.. Well ..definitely cannot expect 'Ghajar ka Halwa' here ... But I guess I just have to be content with 'Chocolate chip muffins ' ( he he he .. ;-)) And hoping that the cobwebs of dirty politics , distrust & ego ...

Found Annie's Post & was disturbed by what she had written about her experiences of harassment from the opposite sex. Truly saddening that similar things have happened to most of the people (even guys) who have commented on her post ... It brought back the rage & helplessness that I used to feel during those times... Will such harassments ever stop ?? Signing off Sundari

Today my all time colleague & best friend of 3 years (exact to the date) left for her home town leaving the company both of us joined together...It hasn't registered yet that she will not be back after a week (as it seems to be right now) .. Her bed is still the way it used to be (maybe a bit neater now ;-) ) ... She was a rock solid presence & will continue to be the same in my life ... I cannot write more because it seems a bit unfair to fit whatever has happened between us & what we mean to each other in this one post ... and maybe I will never be able to do it owing to the tears that never seem to stop ( do not worry pulu... But true to what you said I could not resist this chance of putting up this post .. wink .. wink) Signing off Sundari

Life feels great after a week of slogging and with the beautiful fact of two days of sheer luxurious non-activity …. Wow…sitting with my laptop at 12:45 in the night with sweet music floating around me…hmmm… the last thing I want to think about is office and the problems it symbolizes…. But I am inadvertently pulled into thinking about it... Office and Politics…I have never seen or encountered so much of the latter before in the former… Not that I have lived and seen so much… But it is so unnatural it hurts to see that people almost the same age as you revel in it…Office is the place of productivity where you are creating something, righting some wrong done, bringing order to chaos … It is the place where you can create wonders if given a chance... I maybe glossing over it too much…maybe am giving it a romantic angle where none exists… Even if it is not all the above it is the place which gives you your daily bread and provides you that good place in the society. Where t...

This the first blog that I am writing using my new laptop… feels great.. an expression of the financial independence that I am enjoying .. But it isn’t that easy to type in this as in a normal desktop.. a curious thing is going on happening .. for the three lines that I have typed I have not been able to get one single line at one go.. the cursor is playing hide and seek with me and I keep going to the first line.. Hmmm.. yeah will get used to it… before somebody asks let me tell you that it is a HP Compaq Presario V2381 …the Widescreen one… yeah influenced by the TV ad where the girl introduces “the future son in law” to her parents… :-) Took the lappie to the office last Sunday & this weekend again….and got to notice first hand the “Know-it-all syndrome” of guys … no offence meant for the guys out there… But this is how some of the conversations went…. Guy1: Hey you got a new laptop..? Me: Yeah …(enthusiastically….happy that somebody noticed J) Guy1: Wh...

Oh no not again !! Some of you may get vexed with the hint of this topic every now and then in my blog .... Its ok .. I dont mind .. There have been some circumstances leading to this & I had to write about this ... Will try my hand on something different the next time ...But for now bear with me & read on.. How does it feel to fall in love with somebody ? This question has been dragged out so much that it doesn't seem very relevant to people who are not introduced to such an emotion .... But ask anybody who has atleast briefly glimpsed it ... Dimples appear ... eyes suddenly smile at you... and words become tentative thereafter ... Some say that they did not know when it exactly started.... for some it is a jolt out of the blue ... for some it is a slow & sweet realisation ....It is a wondrous feeling of being so one with that other person ..where you do not know where he/she begins and you end... All this is so romantic .. or in other words it is romantic love .... Do...