Day 14 – OMG!!

05 June 2011.

I woke up this morning, to a comment on Facebook on my BlackBerry, which was posted on one of my post posts -if that made sense, good! – from Shilpa!! Yes, The Shilpa! I was like wooohoooo!! I showed all friends around me, the comment, and logged into a friend’s laptop, to see,  if Shilpa’s Day 561 was posted!! Its become a routine these days! And to my surprise, she had actually mentioned me and my project in her blog!! How sweet is that! 🙂 That totally made my day today, and in my head, I decided that this is what Day 14 was going to be about!

Then, I read comments on the blog, from someone I met in the metro rail one sunny day in March. Sneh [such a lovely name, isn’t it!]! Sneh reminded me of my mom a lot, because of this other lady in the Metro, who forgot to get down at her stop, and realised 4 stations later because she was marketing her own restaurant. Sneh, spoke to me about lot of interesting things she does in life, and more so, the interesting people she meets, all around the world. When I told her I’d worked for IBM, she told me stories about her initial job in the bank, and then after she moved to Canada, how she was involved in SAP and other technology.

Remember, I said, she reminded me of my mom? She had a sweet smile, and a very giving nature. But when she started telling me about her life, I was so intrigued and impressed with her personality, that I felt so glad for meeting her. I was even happy when she said, Why don’t you add me on Facebook! I usually don’t add people I don’t really know, but I had to add her! She had told me, she’d be going back to Canada in a few days from the day I met her. So, I knew, meeting her again was not a possibility, but I’d want to know her.

She told me, that her neice wanted her to start writing, because, (this part I figured;) )the way she narrates a portion of her life, she makes you feel that you were right with her, when it happened! I told her about my little blog, and how much writing has changed my life! And she said she’ll consider it seriously! I was glad!

After I added her on Facebook, I saw, she had grown up children who were married, and definitely atleast 4-6 years older than me! earlier, I was just impressed, but getting to know more things about her, made her very special to me. I still feel so good, about that metro ride.

My point being, when I saw, Sneh had commented on my blog, I was extremely happy. Everyone’s happy when they get comments, and the like, but for me, it coming from her, felt special!

So, it wasn’t even lunch time, and I was having an Awesome Day already!!

The rest of the day, I just basked in the glory of the comments I had received, and in setting my room!! Now, it has a study table(on which my laptop is NOW!), The red n black curtains, and pink bedspread! I love my room!! 🙂 😀

Also, the sweet super housemate – also plays the guitar – and how! Beautiful! It was so much fun, singing along/humming songs, as she strummed her fingers on her guitar. There’s something really nice about people who play musical instruments, right? 🙂

I did my first blogger meet, earlier this year! And this picture has all the wonderful people I met!!!

Bloggers @ Cafe Turtle, Delhi

There’s Tanvii, Upasana, Sushmita, Anupama and the sweet Katyayini! It was a fun time meeting them!!

236 More to Go!!

Day 13 – D3, Mocha and Flash!!

04 June 2011.

Weekend arrived! First thing I did was caught up on some much required sleep! 🙂

I love dance, and everything that has to do with Dance. I was an avid follower of Dance India Dance, a dance reality show which aired on Zee TV. Season 2 was more close to my heart than 1 because, I followed it very regularly. I even downloaded some of the Dances, to watch on a daily basis. Just FYI – this was my favorite performance –

Since I don’t watch TV these days, I didn’t know about this show called D3- Dil, Dostii, Dance! This show has the two performers of the video above as the main characters of a college Drama and Dance. When I heard about it, I wanted to see what its all about. Thanks to the internet, I sat and saw most episodes of the series – 24 episodes! Its a cute show, and if I was in college, then I would probably follow the show on a regular basis, but I’m not. The fact that the show portrays teenage love is understandable, but every episode has atleast 15 minutes of a boy and a girl looking into each other’s eyes and a love song in the background!! Nothing has changed..! The way people make television series has remained the same! 😉

The day proceeded to us going to one of my favorite cafe-hookah joints in Delhi – Mocha! Like its tag line- Coffee and Conversations – I had a good time with friends there. The Panini’s were yum! and So was my Rocky Road Shake!! Wish I had taken pictures yesterday! 😦

We then crashed at a friend’s place where we were having a tough time deciding on what to do – The options were plenty:

1. Go to Cibo for a party!
2. Go to Karim’s to eat yummy sheer mal and kheema
3. Go to watch Hangover II
4. Go to watch Kung Fu Panda II
5. Go to watch Pirates Of the Caribbean – On stranger tides
6. Go to watch Pyaar Ka Punchnama – Again!!
7. Go to Murthal/Manesar/Karnal – Just for a long drive!

And, what we did was – called in food from Saleem’s and played Flash! 😀 In other words Teen Patti! It was good fun! After a long time!! 🙂

So, all in all, the day was jam packed! That’s how weekends are supposed to be, no? 😉

p.s: My new Red n Black curtains!! – Forgive me for the quality of the image – iPod in bad light! I still love it!!

My new Curtains!

We had been to this place called Claridges sometime in February! And in it, a place called The Dhabha!! The colors at that place and the feel, and the ambiance was amazing! The picture I’m posting today, is just one of the inspiring images that plays with colors in a pretty way!!

Colors at Claridges!

🙂 237 Days To Go!!