Zindagi Rockz

Cheesy line from an all time favourite song of mine.. Parting from people we have grown used to is always a challenging task.. While my line of work gives me the opportunity to work in different offices and with different people, it also forces me out of my comfort zone with every transfer that comes my way.. In the past one year I've had the opportunity to work in a branch that can be called as one of the busiest offices in the city and by default I've had to handle a section that I didn't know the A, B, C of.. But this experience has taught me a lot.. It has put me in situations where I've had no choice but to pull up my socks and get to work.. Ive been stretched to my limits on days and I've been able to work in a way that even I never knew I was capable of.. All this is because of the people I've worked with.. Colleagues and customers alike.. The thing about working in a bank is, it probably is one of the few professions that provides us the opportunity ...

Love the moments when I watch you my Princess, asleep.. Apart from giving me some time to catch my breath, it gives me the opportunity to gaze at you.. Run my fingers through your hair.. Hold your tiny hands And I'm taken back to the day you were born.. And that first moment I held you in my arms.. I remember, I was so worried to hold you since you were so tiny and looked so vulnerable.. Three and a half years just flew by.. From making gurgling sounds or screaming/crying when you wanted something to now being able to tell me what you want,it's been a walk to remember.. And I know the years will just fly by and soon you'll be ready to leave our home to pursue your dreams.. I now understand the pain a parent feels when their child leaves home for various reasons be it education or work or even marriage.. My mother can at any given point of time mention the number of years and months that have gone by since I left my native place to pursue my dreams.. And it's heartbre...

So I read this line a few days back which goes something like this "I wish I was as thin as my patience".. This 'inspired/impressed' (for want of a better word) me so much, I put it up as my WhatsApp status for a while.. And for all the people who know me, (friends, acquaintances, colleagues included) you would know that it doesn't take much to ruffle my feathers.. In fact my mum says I will suffer some hypertension soon since I get aangry easily.. In my defence, I'd like to say that I have tried being patient.. Like really.. But somehow I can't find it in me to put up with all this bullshit.. And lots of times sheer stupidity from the other person makes me wanna bang my head somewhere.. Extreme you say? Well.. But what I really do is count from one to ten in my head.. But then sometimes even counting to a hundred is not sufficient to take my mind off the rubbish some people talk.. Anyway this post is not really about what gets my goat, but about some of ...

So while all the women around me are taking pride on their being born as a woman, I'm feeling I would've been safer had I been born as a cow.. Because we live in a society where slaughtering cows is a punishable offence, but molesting,sexually assaulting and killing women is cool.. Any attempt at trying to bring to light these injustices against women are swept under the carpet.. I'm talking about the ban on the screening of the controversial documentary which talks about the brutal rape of a girl in a moving bus in Delhi.. Its been over 2 years since that infamous incident but watching this documentary still sent shivers down my spine.. And I found it appalling that the defence lawyers came up with such crass remarks about what women should be and how they should behave.. To both the lawyers.. Please take this personally.. You are assholes and I wish someone took you to their farmhouse and put petrol on you and burnt you alive, along with those people you are defending.. ...

I can't really decide which movie was more "bokwas".. Chennai Express or Happy New Year.. Of course you have to keep your expectations really low when you go to watch a Farah Khan movie.. It's just going to be mindless cinema, so if you're looking to watch something sensible you'd be better off watching Vishal Bharadwaj's "Haider".. We missed the first 20 minutes of the movie thanks to no parking space at the mall.. After watching the movie I thought we were lucky to get away with 20 less minutes of boredom.. Farah Khan tries to do an "Ocean's Eleven".. But sadly none of the actors (not even SRK) of "Happy New Year" have the panache of the cast from "Ocean's Eleven".. It's a bad comedy movie, if you can call it that.. The jokes fall flat.. I heard a lot of people laughing during the movie.. It left me wondering whether they were watching the same movie as me.. Save for a few good jokes the movie was tota...

Recently there was this string of posts on FB called the "Book bucket challenge" where people named their top 10 favourite books and nominated friends to name their top 10 favourite books.. Up until then I considered myself a 'well read' person.. But reading other people's list of books just blew my mind...made me realise that I am a frog in the well and the amount of books I have read can be compared to a drop in the ocean.. I have come up with my "Book bucket challenge".. A list of books I hope to read in the coming year.. So here goes.. 1. Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 3. Midnight's children - Salman Rushdie 4. The kite runner - Khaled Hosseini 5. A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini 6. The day of the jackal - Frederick Forsyth 7. The cuckoo's calling - Robert Galbraith 8. The lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri 9. Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh ...

Remembering a certain friend from college who used to annoy me so much.. This person ever the optimist, was also considerate, since she would never fail to ask me what was bugging me, whenever I seemed upset.. But I chose not to tell her.. And it would annoy her so much that I'm being so secretive.. And I used to beg this person to "leave me alone".. and she just wouldn't get the concept of "leave me alone".. Today I'm wishing this person was around to ask me what's bugging me.. Actually, she's very much around.. Just that all of us have moved on with our lives.. Everyone's married now, few of us have kids and its just so difficult to be in touch.. We've all moved on, made new friends so even if we did get in touch we wouldn't have much to share since we're all in different 'places' now.. I'm missing all those people today.. we used to have so much of fun.. We had that bond.. That something special which you can never ...