Plastics and savings!

My debit card has gone spoilt and the horrible bank that i bank with has not reissued it as yet!!!!! Result?I have made considerable savings since last two months!!!!!!!!! Cant go to ATMs and can't swipe my card for shopping anywhere...Blessing in disguise..

Plus i refrain from keeping too many credit cards! Since i have a natural aversion to being charged a high amount of interest for being lazy and imprudent, it so happens nowadays that i do not have any plastic money but am getting richer on real money part! What an irony!

When it comes to financial planning i must be the dumbest lass around! Am trying considerable nowadays to make up for this part of myself..I hope i will do something good to myself...
But on second thoughts when i look at the wall street management i get some solace for my dumbness too !!!!!!!!! If the so called most of the efficient and sharpest financial managers in the wprld can land up in such mess, is my dumbness that big a shortcoming at all!!!!!

Spanish movies and lazy lasses!

I had a couple of holidays due to diwali! And i have come out of it liking Spanish movies and reading fairy tales and lovequotes!

Spanish movies-thanks to the UTV s World movies channel, i saw some real good movies..With my favorite being one on Gay marriages! Although i also saw some nice family dramas on Zee Studio(Both are my favorite channels nowadays)... Workouts have been a little slow and lazying around on the couch has been more frequent!

Happened to bump into a book fair recently and have picked up amazing books on dream deals!!!!!!! Got pretty good number of fairy tale books (I am still not over them!!!!!!)..As well as nice little books which are anytime a collector's item!
Am almost done with reading them all, barring one by Tagore and another a collection of quotes on beauty! Its always interesting to have a different perspective about ourselves once in a while by famous thinkers and philosophers !

I have a very bad habit of leaving books in between and coming back to them after quite a long time..I have left The Great indian Novel two years ago in between and A suitable boy one year ago in between..Maybe I should pick up the former first now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! High time to finish an unfinished job!

Happy Diwali ******

I wish everyone a very happy Diwali!

I was supposed to travel during this time but thanks to the Diwali rush during this time, couldnt get a reservation(In fact i was dumb enough not to contact any travel agent if i may say!)....But nevertheless am glad to be celebrating it at home with my family :)

Am surprised that i am not feeling that tired this festival time around! I guess it has to do with a long holiday i have got plus i had completed all the shopping and everything quite in advance.....Also nowadays i also do not stress myself and take rest in between tasks instead of working non stop!Long ago i had seen a poster with a dog in it saying"Rest a while, run a mile"..and it works!!!!!!!!!!! Works quite well....

I guess i will have to workout a bit more to kick out all that i have gorged during last two days......From tomorrow on its yoga, weights and world movies for next three dyas !!!!!!!!!!!!!

October: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Dedicated to all the beautiful women... to let them know that they are pretty -- both on the inside and the outside - and that they are loved and cared for.............

THIS POST IS TO REMIND LADIES TO BE INFORMED, AWARE AND BE CHECKED FOR THEIR HEALTH'S SAKE. TO TELL THEM THAT NO ONE WANTS TO LOSE THEM - AFTER ALL, THEY ARE PRETTY LADIES WITH KIND, WARM LOVING HEARTS.....

• Breast Cancer is the is the second leading cause of cancer death in women (after lung cancer).

• One in eight women or 12.6% of all women will get breast cancer in her lifetime.


• Breast cancer is much less common in men:women are 100 times more susceptible to breast cancer than men.


• Breast cancer risk increases with age and every woman is at risk.


• Every 13 minutes a woman dies of breast cancer.


• Eighty percent of women with breast cancer are over 50.

• Ninety-eight percent of women who find and treat breast cancer early will be cancer-free after five years.

You are never too young to develop breast cancer! Breast Self-Exam should begin by the age of twenty.

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Mumbai

Am enjoying a holiday today..Should i say a forced holiday....
This morning when i started from my home, the streets were deserted and i could not find an auto rickshaw! Strange for a city where its hard not to collide with people when you walk outside.At first i thought it was some local strike..And then i received a phone call from one of my family members saying Raj Thackerey has been arrested and i should get back to home immediately..
So here i am..... tracking the situation live on tv,talking to friends and family on phone and with some time on my hands to blog and write how i feel about the whole situation..Kind of an input right from the middle of action!
If anyone would ask me honestly i am indignant. Indignant at fingerpointing to a place where i can trace my roots. In a sense its true that states in the north are backward and they ought to do something about development very badly.And it feels bad when someone else brings home the point in such a humiliating way......
But what is it about discrimination and political vendetta regarding the same? What has Raj Thackerey done for the development of the poor of his own state so that they do not have to migrate to the cities to find jobs? Instead of their socio economic development, he incites them to an anti north indian drive to achieve his own political ends! The unemployed play to this appeal to their own insecurities....They do not find any other way to vent out their own frustration..Their own administration and political leadership doesnt provide them with any...

But what do they stand to gain from this? No one gains out o f this except for the vested political interests.
Nobody succeeds by suppressing and oppressing anyone. Neither we northindians(we oppress people on caste..one of my south indian friends recently mentioned because of his dravidian looks, he was denied food in canteen when he was working in Lucknow..i did not like that either) nor anyone else can.
I do not want a backlash either.I just hope north indian leaders would show some maturity and instead of flexing muscles would do some retrospection so that such a situation should not occur..

After all its all about balance....If Maharashtra had a significant amount of investment and workforce in U P and Bihar, Raj Thackerey would have had thought thousand times before uttering a word against northindians!
And if some marathi actor was a superstar in U P, Amitabh Bachhan would have had a more peaceful existence in Mumbai !!!!!!!!!!! Amen........

Eves and Divas

The Eves had it easier than the Divas!
At least they could be themselves and not bother about whether they look like a pumpkin or like a daisy........They could look like a pumpkins and still live their lives comfortably...The adams were not concerned about the apparels or inches she would put on, and neither judge them about their manners and lifestyles....And neither the Eves would get into a "my horse is bigger than yours" catfights!!!!!!!!! Am pretty sure Eves were always beautiful..Always their ownselves.....Free from any pressures...any prejudices................

I have been down terribly since last few days.... feeling terribly sick in the bed.....and worse was scared to death going out lest somebody would spot me with dark circles beneath the eyes, oiled hair and the sick look!!!!!!! And surprisingly i was fine the day i found some courage to go out and gorge on the 'mahabhog' at the durga puja pandal near my housing society!!!!!! Freedom from self persecution is the remedy to all the ills that the Divas possess.......

Beauty comes from an inner radiance...In being healthy...In the self assurance that i can take care of myself..With some sweating out..And a self confidencethat i am only as good and bad as all other humans in this world!!!!!
I am backto my old self again....(With a little kickassing myself and into kicking the butt now!!!!!!!!!! )