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One of the toughest decisions of moving is deciding which books to leave behind 😞

The freedom of wind blowing through hair (read feet)😜

When someone disturbs your sleep and you are cranky whole day👻

Ramblings

Last couple of weeks i have been going through this helpless period. Not writer block as such. I dont know if i am.even.a writer but more on the level of over flowing mind that block got mowed over by the super fast train of thoughts. I have been getting so many ideas in my head like i could do this and i could do that but before i could action on even one i just hit this wall of procrastination. And then something else fills my mind. I always have these sudden urges where i have to do something and until and unless i dont do it my mind doesnt rest in peace. One of my buddies said its good to have such urges it motivates you to get thing done. But maybe mine are nothing that useful and i am not getting anything done. *sigh*

Its 'one of these days' cases. Anyways i dont have any outfit post today but i got some pictures-y quotes and poems i screenshoted off the instagram. God bless screenshot :)

First one is about coincidences and fate and i am big believer in destiny. Second one i got off a facebook page. They have really good quotes. And third one is well my defense against breaking the rule of no shopping.

Prison Break

Hi Guys,

For last couple of months i been totally bugged with this question” what am i doing with my life?” The question everyone struggles with in their mid twenties. For one life hardly ever turns out the way you expected it to be on top it is kinda critical period in your life. Its like the benchmark to compare what you had dreamt your life would be and what it really is. And sometimes when it just isn't what it was supposed to be it really makes you think. Think a lot and hard.

Personally i always thought by the time i hit 25 i would have completed by MBA and would be doing my own gig, work my own hours, have my own place. But nothing worked out. In the process of making big bucks ( not really big but okay kind) i got so entangled in all this that i just procrastinated and never got around to doing anything. I didn't even learn to play guitar :( Last few months have been mind freaking crazy with most of friends settling down or making big commitments. Its like they have grown up and i am still the 17 year old who cant decide which movie to see on a Friday night.

And then i came across this quote by Amanda Helm. “Give yourself a chance. Stop saying, “ I don't think I can” or “But what if I am not able to?” and give yourself a chance. This may be cliche, but BELIEVE in yourself. When you get older, your knees won't work the same and you wont have the best of memory, and you are going to wish you’d given yourself a chance years sooner. And if you aren't happy where you are, change it. Get a new job, move, become a vegetarian, get a new hobby, pick up an old hobby, whatever you do - make sure it benefits you. Life is too short to not be alive, to not be passionate, and overflowing. The cost of not following your heart, is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.” and it got me back to my same old question. “What am i doing with my life?”. But this time i got some answers. All this time i have been complaining but never did anything to change it. I have gotten comfortable with where i am. It safe and secure and i was scared. Like Ted Mosby says “ If you are not scared, you are not taking a chance. If you are not taking a chance, then what the hell are you doing?”  Yea you cannot change everything overnight but you need to start somewhere. You need to jump. For a long time I felt like i was in prison and finally after lots of struggling just when i was about to complete my sentence and get out they said “Hey guess what your fellow inmate will be MIA for few months so you have to complete “those few months” of her sentence as well” Thats when i knew that this was the chance i was waiting for. To do all the things i ever wanted to do but was scared. It was time for Prison Break. Sometimes things don't work out the way you expected it, so that better things can happen. Just have faith and give yourself a chance. Cheers :)

Dear Me: A letter to a 17 year old Me!!

Dear Me;

Hi... here is little something for you to hear.

1)Love yourself. Be you and don't go into a shell. Its okay to be weird and different. You will eventually meet people who will accept you for who you are.
2)Wearing unfitted sleeveless t shirts with studded bands in your hands and black nail polish makes you look like a joker not a rockstar. But still it will be something to laugh about later.
3)Embrace your thick,wavy,wild hair you are going to miss them a lot, soon :(
4)Its okay to get an "F" and no use hiding it from mom and dad, they are going to find out anyways and they will love you just the same :D
5)Listen to your mom, she is always right.
6)Being one of the naughty kids ain't going to get you a gold star.Respect your teachers even if you don't like them, they mean well.
7) Enjoy all those family trips, take lots of pictures..you will miss out on them soon.
8)"Kewl" is not cool and being considered "kewl" is not the high point of life..what others think of you doesn't matter and this is going to scar up your english for forever.
9)Eat!! A lot. You will soon start craving for your mom's food.
10)Don't throw away your milk in flowerpot, mom is going to find out soon after her favourite plant dies of it :( and you will be in lot of trouble :P
11)Don't let self doubt creep in,it will kill many of your dreams.
12)No matter what anyone says boards do matter don't wait for last 1 week to study for it, you are going to regret it.
13)And even though boards matter its okay to score less, you will be in the best college and have an amazing 4 years of your life.
14)Dont trust everyone who smiles.
15)Read whatever you can get your hands on, you are going to miss it later when you don't get time to read.
16)Spend time with your family and less time on your phone and computer. You will miss them later.
17)Be Happy,relax,enjoy,experiment,have fun but in your limits. This is just a phase it will pass. 

First Love

Brown Eyes

Sometimes you just read a quote somewhere and it touches you. It feels like something you will say or you want someone to say that to you.It becomes a part of your vocabulary. And even though you might not quote it quite often but its still there in back of your mind. Long back i had read a book titled ' Million little pieces" by James Frey and it was so awesome i read it 2-3 times afterwards. There was this one quote or more on the lines of a poem. very romantic that still stuck with me. Its simple and beautiful.

His Eyes...
Those brown,warm eyes..
There's a world in them,
Those made me crazy,
They are deep.
They have love and they have mischief,
They have life.
They connect....when his brown meet my brown....i am in heaven.
Those warm,deep brown eyes.
They laugh,they cry,they speak.
They see through me..everything..my heart.
I open infront of them.
when his brown meet my brown i am ME...

Home

Laying on the white sand,
the cool atoms embodying your back,
As the last rays of sun play hide and seek over your skin,
And the wind plays with your hair,
The sound of waves concots a beautiful symphony,
Mixed with happy laughter of kids,
And still in all this there is the silence inside you,
Just the blood flowing through your veins,
And though you dont find answers to all your questions,
its all part of the life's tome,
You find peace.. coz this is where lies home.

What is Love???

Few days back one of my friends asked me a question which i am sure has troubled all of us atleast once in our lifetime. "What is Love" ? And as i gave all the answers in the book it got me thinking is it really all that. Wiki says Love is a variety of different feelings,states and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection to pleasure,Science says its just a chemical reaction of different hormones in your body , Books tell us its unconditional, accepting and kind And movies tells us that when you can't stop thinking about the other person and they are the only one that matters; that's love. I would say that's more on the lines of obsession and infatuation.

According to me, Love is like a scent of perfume. Strong at the beginning,alluring, it becomes you but with time it melts down into something sublime and subtle which doesn't have an overpowering presence but its just there like a whiff.You love someone and they know it and they love you and you know it, but its a party and you both are talking to other people,and you look across the room and catch each other's eye but not because its possessive or precisely sexual..but because..that is your person in this life. Frances Ha really nails it. It all sounds romantic but its not the complete reality. Most of us never find that person. Maybe we stop looking too soon or we find them but are too scared or proud to be with them. Ohh being adult is complicated. 

Love is over-rated. It has the glossy covering of sweet lies making it appear beautiful. Its a money making machine. Just amount of money people make selling books, movies, music about love is just insane. I guess we are more in love with the feeling of being in love rather than really being in love. You love your parents,friends, bf/gf, pets and it should be same for everyone. Definition of love shouldnt vary with respect to the person you are in love with. "I cant live without you, you are my life" is just for the fairy tales. People live. One love goes you find a replacement to fill it and that's why its everlasting cause it doesn't depend on just 2 mortal humans.

It does have the power to change you. But if love is supposed to be unconditional and accepting why does someone have to change to be loved ?? If love is supposed to be unconditional then why do we have so many terms and conditions from society?? And if love is supposed to be kind then why is that the person we love the most hurts us the most?? Einstein !! Yeah i am skeptic. But i do agree it makes you happy. It puts you on cloud nine. But then one of spoon of mom's gajar ka halwa does too. Just saying !!!

Of Songs and Skirts!

Hii.....

Its been 1 hour and i have been listening to "When i'm gone" by Lulu and the Lampshades which was also covered by Anna Kendrick in Pitch Perfect on repeat. In short i am addicted to it at the moment. Doesn't it happens so, that you are listening to your playlist and suddenly you see a song in a different light,like never before. Its like the song has been made for you. It kinda gives me a feeling of those Art experts who find deep underlying meanings in Modern Art Painting though it looks just random stuff to us.I am not going anywhere but i don't know i am kind of feeling it. Like its trying to tell me something.

I am not much of a superstitious person but i do believe in signs that destiny or some Higher power gives you. And i feel music is one such way via which "destiny"communicates with us. Anytime i am in a dilemma i would put on any one of my fav radio stations and i would get answers to my queries through the songs that get played. I know it sounds stupid but it has hardly ever failed me. Yeah, it depends on my interpretation and maybe it helps me find the answers i already knew deep down. But its a help nonetheless. And doesnt everything in this world is premeditated and happens for a reason. So maybe the songs that play too.

Another thing that starts with "S" are skirts :-P Its lame but i didnt know how to go about it. Skirts are one of the most versatile pieces in your wardrobe. You can play it up or down, from Sexy to Casual. It works always. My favorite are the skater skirts. I am 5.2 and i feel they make me look tall :-D

I wore this skirt for a late lunch our with friends. I paired my lace skater skirt from Forever 21 with a casual denim blue shirt from Max. I would have to say there is hardly anything i wear more than this denim shirt. From just a shirt to a jacket it has been everything to me. It can dress down any outfit. For shoes i wore some nude pumps from Jade. For accessories i wore an owl necklace and watch.For face i kept it bare except a little kajal and eyeliner and little dash of  MAC Ruby Woo on lips.

We went to Over the top - terrace lounge in Kormangla and i would rate it 3/5. I would say its a more of night place then afternoon-eveningish. There were hardly any people there. The place is nice and comfy. You can sit and chat for hours. The food was tasty.In all it was a day well spent.

Random Shandom

Hiiiiii......

How u guys been?? Its been a pretty lazy Saturday for me. Watched 3 movies back to back 😀😀 Its been a while since i have watched a movie on tv and that too premier. Usually im guilty of torrenting but then who isnt 😝 The movie im talking about is Heropanti and overall it wasnt bad. The songs were good 😉 Normal Bollywood Romantic movie. After that i again watched Social Network and was feeling little girly so closed it off with Aisha 😤😤

I started this 365 photo day challenge and i am not sure how long i will be into it but lets see😕 And OMG i have also almost learnt the Cup Song. I can sing it but cup thing kinda gets messed up. Anyways nothing beats a day when u can sit in bed and do the cup tricks. I been going crazy over it and my roomies over me. The banging irritates them to the core😈😈 But im still practising to get it all right. It will be like an accomplishment. A trick i know at parties😆

Its 4 am in morning and me being an Owl is still hooting around waiting for the sleep to cover me. Signing off! Over and Out... Hoooooooooo

Confessions of a Shopaholic : Part 1

Hiiiii....

Are you the kind who has more membership cards than credit/debit cards?? Who buys stuff from certain stores just cause you will be getting points in return which you can redeem later?? And when you have successfully redeemed those points you feel like you have scored some amazing deal?? Well you are not alone. I am right there with you☺☺ I am crazy card collector !! Just yesterday redeemed 250 odd points and i was all jumping with joy inside🙅🙆🙇  These days my mind is in a hyperactive mode so as i stood in the long queue it got me thinking!!

Its actually based on " how i met your mother" theory :- everything and everyone has a BUT !! So whats the BUT behind these generosity😑 I have observed that almost all the stores price their items as dash dash dash 9. It will be a multiple of 11*9 or something of that sort. I mean it will end in 99 or 9. I had read somewhere that human brain when it sees say a t shirt priced at 800 rps it will be like oh my god ! So much for this piece of cotton; you dont need it😐 But when it sees the price as 799 it in some miraclous way thinks that its perfectly reasonable and you go ahead and buy it!! And our brain is supposed to be smarter than computer 😨

Anyways i didnt believe in this theory much. And i have got my conspiracy theory regarding why the stores price their items in 99s. The card points work on basis of the multiples of 100 that you spent usually. That is on every 100rps you spend you get 1 or 2 points as per the rating system. So when you go ahead and buy that 800 t shirt you are supposed to get 8 points. BUT wait you dont get 8 points. You paid 799 thats 1rp less than 800 so you get 7 points. You have been ripped off!! Even after paying 99rps you dont get any point for it. I know 1 point doesnt make much difference but say 1000 people buy stuff and for each person they save 1 point that makes it 1000 ruppees saved. Not big enough amount. Now lets say 10k people got stuff; thats 10k ruppees saved. And these are just hypothetical numbers. In reality they will be much more.

However i have found a solution for getting your that one point 😈 Before today it used to be one of my pet peeves but now i look at the bright side of it. Getting the carry bag. I used to get so grrrrr when they would charge us for the carry bags. I mean i was born in a time period where it was mandatory that you get a carry bag free with you purchase. But now you gotta pay for it even if its made of paper😠 Anyways it does the job. Helps the total amount cross the nervous 90s and get that one point and you get the bag too... 😑😑 Pound Petty Penny Wise 😤😤

Another Sad Love Story..

Hiii.....

I been gone for a long time... i was kind of suffering from mild writers block and i wont say i am all recovered but i am on my way. Few days back i found a short sad story i wrote while in college. It is a fiction story :P My first attempt at story writing... so here it goes...

I am at the club,its Leah's 25th birthday and we are partying, actually they are partying and i am just...there, pretending to be partying and having a good time. I partying even be here if it wasnt for Mizmy best friend.Last couple of months i have been kinda anti-social an she thought it was high time she took control over my social life.

Actually it started 172 days back exactly.The day me and my boyfriend now ex-boyfriend ofcourse, we split after 7 years of being together.The reason for splitting i wont go into that.Lets just say it two perfectly made for each two were no more perfect.It was bad..it was ugly!!! I guess we faced the seven year itch.

Back to the present they have just finished their shots and we are making our way up to the more private lounge.As i make my way up the stairs i see him making his way down.His wearing the t-shirt i had got for him and which he had hated then.But now that he hates what he once loved the most, its obvious for him to like what he hated then.Oh and his not alone.I mean no one goes clubbing alone but what the hell is she doing here. Okay she is his friend but from when did she become his friends friend!!!Shes not his girlfriend he never liked her.But then no one can guarantee the future.

He sees me.Our eyes meet and nothing.......
Thats the saddest part.There was a time when our eyes spoke a million words,created fireworks, and now theres just the emptyness.I dont know either we have become strangers not to understand what each one is saying or i guess we dont have anything left to speak....

Anyways my party is over and i make a u-turn to the exit while messaging miz that i am going.I'l explain her everything later.I know shes going to be pissed .If the last few months have been worst for me they havent been much good for her either.Being my roommate,crying shoulder,my advicer shez gone through everything that i have gone through too..

I hail a cab.Sitting in tha cab feeling the wind on my face my mind wanders back to him.To everything that we were and everything we arent anymore.... we were supposed to be together forever but somewhere along the road to eternity we lost each other.It wasnt his fault neither was it mine.I still dont know what went wrong,what we could have done differently.I loved him lots and he loved me.We just didnt have the destiny with us.

Right now i want nothing more than to go back to the club,tell him how much i love him and that we can still make it work. To fall into his arms as he bear hugged me but i fall into an empty bed as the loneliness hugs me tightly taking me again on our journey of ifs and buts,a regret,a loss of a dream,a chance, a life...........

Shake it Off Taylor Swift Way

Hi guys...

How you doin'?? Its friday and weekend is less than 12 hours away (yayyy) The best thing i love about friday is that i dont have to wear formals and can experiment a bit. Btw are you the kind of person who puts on music while getting ready?? If yes then we are peas in a pod. And if you dont i recommend you do try it. It gets you in the groove.

Currently the song i am really feeling is Taylor Swift's Shake it Off.  It has already got more than 10 million views on You Tube do i have to say more. Its all about doing what you want to do and having fun and dont give a damn about what everyone says.You are not put on this earth to please everyone else!! As Taylor says rightly
" But i keep cruising,
   Cant stop,wont stop moving,
   Its like i got this music in my mind,
   Saying its gonna be alright!!
   Coz the players gonna play play play,
   And the Haters gonna hate hate hate
    And i am just gonna shake shake shake
    Shake it Off,Shake it Off"

I even took inspiration from one of her looks in the video and tried it out on a thursday to work. I wore Black slim cut pants from Nuon, a black full sleeve turtle neck from Promod and to complete the look i just put liner on upper line and MAC Ruby Woo on my lips. I would have to say it must have worked. Got lots of compliments :-)

Sadly didnt click any pictures :-( Anyways you can groove to Taylor Swift's Shake It Off link below

Taylor Swift - Shake It Off: http://youtu.be/nfWlot6h_JM

Top 7 TV Shows you must watch

With passing age your mind starts thinking all crazy questions, trying to be wiser but all it ends up doing is confusing us even more than we are currently. These couple of days have been bad since my mind is bombarding with “the wise” questions. What are doing with your life? Is this what you want to do rest of your life? Are you loving it? You getting old!! and combine it with work deadlines  its just ERghhhhhh…… Weekend where are you?????? 

When I was studying I remember I used to imagine when i get a job I will be developing new stuff(LOL) and partying my weekends away ( DOUBLE LOL) . When I started working I was like okay I might not be developing new stuff but ; what the hell I will still party my weekends away. Alas !! 1 month down the line all I wanna do during the weekends is SLEEP!! EAT !!and do Laundry. I have become a sloth and I feel its kinda good for me I am gaining weight :-D  Bed, Laptop and pizza nothing can beat that combination..EVER !! I am movie and TV series addict so that suits the case perfectly. Though movies are great but nothing gets you hooked on like a good TV series. Trust me!! So here is my list of favorite must watch series which will help you laze your days out in bed.

7) Lost:- I remember the first time I had seen its promo trailer and I had put a cross on the calendar for the Sunday it was going to air ( I used to do that before when something good was going to come on the cable)And it did not disappoint me. It traced the journey or survivors of Oceanic Air Flight 815 on what seemed to be a deserted island. What follow are series of mysterious events with alien kind animals and the Dharma Initiative. I used to have long conversation with my mom about the button they had to press every 108 minutes to prevent some catastrophe from happening and The Others. Though season 5 and 6 were a little boring all in all it was a great series.

6)Gossip Girl:-“And who am I? That’s one secret I will never tell. You know you love me. XOXO. Gossip Girl” This was my ringtone for literally an year. I wont lie the reason I loved this series so much was a) the clothes and b)Chace Crawford . The series narrated by a secret blogger revolves around lives and drama of high class young adults from Manhattan. I find it to be typical Indian serial with masala and excitement with foreign colors.

5)The Amazing Race- This was probably the first reality serial I ever saw. It was my favorite for a long time. Its on my to do list as well to participate in it. 12 Teams starting from US travelled along the world doing various tasks and at end of each leg the last team was eliminated. Every season I had my favorites whom I wanted to win and watching them race kinds made me feel it was my race as well. My all time favorite will definitely be Rob and Amber. I even got a red backpack like the one they used  to carry :-D I also liked Tyler and James, Kris and Jon, Derek and Drew, etc

4)How I Met Your Mother:- Barney Stinson!! You are AWESOME!!! This was one of the funniest series I have ever seen and I still watch it. It’s a story narrated by Ted to his kids about how he met their mother. So it basically is on day today life of Ted and his friends Robin,Lily,Marshall and Barney. With Ted trying to find his one true love, Robin’s complicated feelings, Barney just being awesome and Lily and Marshall’s married life. It was a superb series with a not so worthy finale according to me. 

3)Supernatural:- This is a series with fighting ghost,spirits,demons and everything evil and god I love it. This was another of me and my moms favorite serials to watch. It a started as a story of two brother Sam (Cutie) and dean (Hottie) on quest to find their father and then the yellow eyed monster who killed their mom and Sam’s girlfriend and went on over to fighting other evil bodies on the way. It was also full of bromance and dying and coming back to life. It just has everything in it. 

2)Friends:- Till a month back this was my best and most favorite series of all times and I am sure most of you will feel the same. From 1994-2004 it defined not only our fashion sense and lingo but entertained us to the core. Like HIMYM it was about lives of 6 young adults in their early twenties Rachael, Ross, Monica, Pheobe, Chandler and Joey  in New York City. It was funny, emotional, crazy, quirky, and romantic. It was the full 7 course meal. If you haven’t watched this then you have certainly missing something in your life. I still watch this every few weeks 3-4 of my fav episodes. It certainly gets a 10/10 from me.

And now the number 1…Drumroll………..Its

1)Game of Thrones:- This Magnum Opus based on books by George Martin is just that. HUGE. It is one of the craziest shows I have ever seen. The first time i had read the title when it was coming on TV i had read it mistakenly as Game of Thornes and i was like what is this. Thornes as in Thorns ?? I have the bad habit of assuming words by just looking at the letters and it has got in me in trouble few times. But coming back to GOT, once you start it you get hooked to it. Its such a badass, And the best thing is you never know whats going to happen. Unless of course you have read the books. Its about how everybody conspires and fights to sit on the Iron Throne. It has all the characters you could find the crowd favorite Tyrion, the most hated guy in world Joffery ( I hate Joffery), the hot Khaleesi with her Dragons ( Yeah they have dragons on this show and Direwolves and Giants) the courageous Arya and the guy with same expression Jon. It’s a show where anyone can die. And I mean anyone. Its something you need to watch atleast once in your lifetime and I can guarantee you wont regret it.

These were my top seven. I would love to know your favorite in comments below. Till then ..

XOXO.. bye.

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