Where am I ???

I am back in US for a project assignment and not sure for how long will I be here.

This time I am in east coast and it's very cold here. There are so many around me who keep saying that "winter has not yet started" while I keep freezing. Oh God! Trust me, It's indeed very cold. It snowed yesterday and it was a storm so it was snowing whole day.

And this is in my balcony. Tomorrow it will turn into a little Amarnath.. ha ha.. :-) Jay Shiv Shankar ;-)

Adios... Will be back & will be warm :-)

Cheers
~Krupa

the social network

I watched this movie last evening and found it very nice movie. I knew nothing about 'facebook'. I came to know all about facebook from the movie. It's interesting.... I recommend this movie to everyone!

I had heard so much about it and every friend and family member used to tell me to join it and I procrastinated. Earlier I had tried to sign up twice and then last minute cancelled it. Well I felt as if I was to do a debit transaction to buy a solitaire ;-) ... ha ha I was acting panic !!

Anyways... Finally I joined it...

Cheers
~Krupa

Nothing like Vadilal Ice Cream...

No Ice cream like Vadilal ice cream..

mmmmmmmmmmmm

yumyyyyyyyyyyy...

lovelyyyyyyyy...

woooooow!!! :-)
I am not exaggerating... it's my true feeling for Vadilal Ice cream.. I think one needs to taste it once to feel what I am saying ;-)

Cheers...
~Krupa

My Latest Latest latest crush...!!! ;-)

When I saw this one, I ran out of words... YES!! "ME" ran out of words.. this song has stolen my heart right now. (well of course, I run out of words so many times and that's why no blog post for last 1.5 months... :-))

I am sooooooo in love with it... Wow!! What a combination of Art, Talent, Beauty, Voice, Music, Dance, Expression, grand glamour... I am surely going to theater to see the grant set up by Sanjay Leela whenever it is released... No matter what movie is and how its story is... I am confident that the set up would be something so glamorous...

Check out this song that I am talking about:
http://www.lyricsmasti.com/song/7437/get_lyrics_of_Udi-Neendein.html

&
Short videos of the same..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uFy-kMw6o0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQx4M94DZM

Cheers

This one is my latest latest crush!!!

~Krupa

If you do not feel LIFE after listening to this song, tell me about it... ha ha.. I bet you will!!!

Na Jane...........

Na Jane ye kaisa saal hai,
Har Mausam ek sa hai;


Jana Pehchana kuch bhi nahi,
Har chehra yahan anjaan hai;


Pal Pal ko gale lagati hu,
fir bhi har pal mein tut rahi hu;


pata nahi ye kaun sa mod hai,
har taraf log hai, fir bhi dil khamosh hai!


Na Jane...........


Found this nice picture while looking for a suitable pictorial presentation for my words here..... (this picture is much more positive than what I am writing here)

~Krupa

The Soul still does talk.....

Ji haan! bilkul dhadkan si zinda hai! 
Mere mann ki aavaz, abhi bhi sunai deti hai,


So few of you were asking me, why am I not writing anything on my blog lately and if the soul stopped talking ? :-) Nope!!!  Very much not! My soul still does talk and I am alive! 
I just was busy lately and then when I got time, I felt there was still something wrong or missing. 
Before I come back with a bang, I thought let me say hello at least :-)

Take care & Keep smiling in life...
~Krupa

Ciao --- Meaning

I read it in a book .. so not sure how much true it is, but it says:
It's an abbreviation of a phrase used in medieval Venetians as an intimate salutation: Sono il suo schiavo! Meaning: "I am your slave!"

Ha ha ... I can't believe it really means that .. we all use it so often and I am still doubtful. Can someone do a check on this ? I am sure Girish will :-)...

Let me know if you know!

~Krupa

... Mania

Just realized one thing.. that I use '...' a lot in my blogging and chatting and nowadays in official emails also :-)

... finally I wrote something after so many days. Ever since I came back to India, there is lot of work and even though I get internet access, I don't get time to think about anything but work. But my restlessness was increasing and finally I am here today :) (Feels Home!!!)

Well I think "!" is also another character that I use a lot ;-)

Koi  nai... have fun ji...!! :D

~Krupa

DDLJ - A Love Story

It was DDLJ movie (Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge) playing on some TV channel. I have watched it so many times that its dialogs are by-heart now.

"...

Raj: Pyar karti ho mujhse!?

Simran: Sabse Zyada

Raj: Bharosa hai mujhpe!?

Simran: Khud se Zyada

... "Bade bade deshon me aisi chhoti chhoti baate hoti rehti hai"

..."Miss Lucy thik hi kehti hai... aadate agar waqt par na badli jaaye, to wo jarurate ban jati hai!" 

And its poem... 

Aisa pehli baar hua hai satrah athrah saalon mein
Undekha anjaana koi aane laga hai khayalon mein
Aankhon ki khidki par ek saya sa lehrata hai
Dil ke darwaze par koi dastak de ke jaata hai
Gheri gheri kaali aankhen mujhse mujhko poochti hai
Haaton ki rekhaon mein ek chehra sa ban jata hai
Uski saanse resham jaisi gaalo ko chu jaati hai
Uske haaton ki khushboo hai ab tak mere balon mein
Haan, aisa pehli baar hua hai satrah athrah saalon mein
Undekha anjaana koi aane laga hai khayalon mein


and... "Ja Simran... Ji le apni zindagi...!" :-)

And many more.. 

Yes certainly DDLJ is my one of the favorite movies. However, I was thinking do we really see such lovely chemistry and love stories in real life ? I mean, in common people's lives? I mean just right here, around me somewhere ? 

Why only in movies?

hmmmmmmmmm (thinkin....)

~Krupa

Bean Bag n Me

Yes I was too slow in this generation to know what is a bean bag like... I saw once in a show room and my friends wanted to inquire the price and I waited there. When they said the price.. I was sooo surprized. Can such a 'kothalo' (meaning some such stupid non-shapesome bag (i don't know what to call it either)..) be comfy for anyone? and specially worth the price they are mentioning ?

Hmm.. finally days passed and when I came back from US, I see such bag in my friend's house. I saw it for couple of days and finally tried sitting on it. Hmm!! Don't laugh! but I could not really sit on it well, I was just diving deep in the bean bag and felt that 'this is the most uncomfortable form of sitting mechanism in the world'.

Slowly, I started using it more to see why people love it so much. Like some of those songs which get over your mind slowly and don't leave you easily, this bean bag is now becoming one of my most favorite sitting mechanisms. I can change the pose as many times as possible and still find it unique ;-)

And now........I'm Lovin it!!!!!!!! ;-)

Cheers to the bean bag!!
~Krupa

Felt like saying this today to my life ~

Ae zindagi gale laga le
Ae zindagi gale laga le
Hum ne bhi tere har ik gam ko
gale se lagaya hai
Hai na
Ae zindagi gale laga le
Ae zindagi

Hum ne bahane se, chhup ke jamane se
palkon ke parde main ghar bhar liya
Hum ne bahane se, chhup ke jamane se
palkon ke parde main ghar bhar liya
tera sahara mil gaya hai zindagi
la la lala la la lala la la la
tera sahara mil gaya hai zindagi

Ae zindagi gale laga le
Ae zindagi gale laga le
Hum ne bhi tere har ik gam ko
gale se lagaya hai
Hai na
Ae zindagi gale laga le
Ae zindagi

Chhota sa saya tha, aakhon main aaya tha,
Humne do boondon se mann bhar liye
Chhota sa saya tha, aakhon main aaya tha,
Humne do boondon se mann bhar liye
Humko kinaara mil gaya hai zindagi
la la lala la la lala la la la
Humko kinaara mil gaya hai zindagi

Ae zindagi gale laga le
Ae zindagi gale laga le
la la lala la la lala la la la
Hain na?
Ae zindagi gale laga le
gale laga le
gale laga le
gale laga le
Ho, gale laga le

A Hug n Care

In India or may be just in the society that I have come across so far, we don't have very open acceptance of this very beautiful expression called 'Hug!'. And I wonder why?

A Hug (called "Jaadu ki Jhappi" in Munnabhai MBBS movie) is an expression that takes away all formalities, it gives comfort and it reduces stress in so many situations. It's like an "all izz well" situation in 3 Idiots movie. You hug someone and you say it briefly that you care.. or you are thankful.. or you are there or you understand them.
Honestly, how important that moment is for the other person is not easy to guess but I can promise that it makes a big difference.

I also do not encourage hugging someone you are not comfortable with. I am just saying that many times, if you recall, at the time of saying bye to your close friends or even some other close ones, do you not feel that your heart will feel better if you hug them once? But those times, I have seen it not very easily acceptable to the majority around. I can't get any answer. It just feels narrow minded. I really don't know the thinking on other side...  so can't say more.

But in this attached picture, doesn't a hug look like the best expression ever?

~Krupa

Poem and my fun mood!

Intezaar khatm hone ko hai,

Ab to zindagi rango me khone ko hai; (Kya keh rahe ho...Holi ko to abhi time hai bhai;-))

Khushion se kar li hai dosti maine,

Mohabbat meri palkon mein hai;

Jo kal tak khwabo mein aata tha,

ab wo chehra meri nazron me hai; (This sounds scary :P..mummy!! bhooot!!!)

Poems are always fun! If we have no talent of acknowledging the play of words, we can't do justice in reading the poems. My brother and a few friends read my other poem (Khwahish) in such a funny manner, that just made my whole emotion, expression go into trash... Of course, I felt like hitting them with something, but I could not do anything. I had to control!

However because of that, while I was writing something new, I was already feeling the humor below my throat and hence you see these parenthesis above with some smilys... :)

Just for this instance, I give permission to make fun of my words on my blog, one time offer only!!! :-)

In fun mood, there was something else that came to my mind on last Friday afternoon

"Aaj Mausam bada baiman hai,

Nind hum par kurbaan hai,

Hothon par sirf ek gaan hai -"Ghar Jana hai",

Magar Office mein bahot kam hai!!"

Cheers
Krupa

Forward it ... Or ??

I have received this kind of emails so many times where some temple picture or some motivational forward or some presentation where the one liner says that "Please send 10 copies and see what happens in 4 days." Sometimes these emails also write that if you don't forward some bad luck will happen to you.

I have never ever forwarded such emails to even a single person. When it says so explicitly to forward to many people - makes me even more resistent in doing so.

What's the logic really? Does it even seem that it may have any magical effect? I don't think so! Just another way to increase network usage. Na?

~Krupa

Finally.. New Design template

There was only 1 'afsos' with blogger that it has limited templates and limited presentation ideas. Very simple ones. But Being a lover of graphics and art, I felt wordpress is doing better job but yeah I never wanted to switch from blogger.

And now finally Blogger has new designs and a LOT of new designs.. in fact lot of amazing background images also... Awesomeness.. isn't it ? :-)

How do you like this new one? (Don't worry about pink color.. it won't stay here for long, because now I have more options)

By the way, I'll be moving to India soon...

~Krupa

Khwahish ~

mere shabdon ko sunne ki jise jarurat na ho,

bas aankhon ki guftagu se uski dosti ho,

meri palkon ki har aahat ka jisko ehsaas ho,

khwabon ki halchal se wo har pal wakif ho,

meri muskan aur saath ki jisko kab se talash ho,

mujhe pane ki chah mein jiski runh mahekti ho,

mujhse milkar, mujh mein samane ko bekarar ho,

ek nazar mein mujhe mehsus kar le aisa uska pyar ho,

kuch zyada hi khwahishe hai meri.. :-)

fir bhi yahi guzarish hai rab se,

ki aisa saathi pana mere naseeb mein ho!

Probability ~ continued...

This question was not very simple. Yeah little logical thinking and some base of mathematics... that's all.

Check out the answer here. Probability is 13/27 (if you like maths, read the whole article! or else... just read my next post :-)).

Interesting, isn't it?

~Krupa

Probability - very Interesting topic

a Friend asked me a puzzle: "I have two children. One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability I have two boys?"

I answered based on my thinking process. My thinking direction was correct but maths for it was very wrong. What do you think answer is? Any idea?

In my next post, I will share the link which gives its answer... enjoy!!!

P.S. My last post about "Possibility of accident" -- has bad maths to calculate probability :) Now I know why... ;-) But chalta hai.... kaun certificate dene wala hai ;-)

cheers
~Krupa

Possibility of accident

Yesterday I saw at least 3 accidents on road during my morning and evening drive. Read about one of them here. It makes me think, freeway drive is risky. Of course, I need to be alert all the times but then if I think about it some more... it's like if I am on freeway probability of me meeting with an accident is '1'. (mathematics concept for calculating 'probability')

So if I don't drive so much everyday then my possibility to meet with an accident or death becomes less. But what to do? I have to!

I know it's little negative thinking but trust me if you see big accidents everyday then you'll start thinking like me...

Anyway, I am doing great :) So no worries!

~Krupa

Cars & my routine

You see the pic? That's My routine!!

Every morning I wake up and calculate if I leave at 6.20, I will get traffic like in the pic above the side which looks like coming vehicles and if I leave at 6.25 or anytime later than that, then it will be like the side which looks like going other side. (ek ek minute me pura calculation garbad ho jata hai)

Who says we have traffic only in India? It's everywhere!!!!!!!!!!

Last time when I went back to India, Jan 2010 onwards I was craving to drive a car in India. I don't have a car in India so I could only crave and do nothing about it. I think God heard me and when I came back to onsite since May I am driving 120 miles everyday except weekends. Now I know why they say "ask carefully", make sure u ask what u r really wishing for and something where you know the side effects also :-) (like back pain and filling gas every now n then)

Houston needs some more lanes I guess.

~Krupa

2009 ~ what happened

I just saw that in 2009 I wrote about 13 posts in entire year; while this year by now I already crossed that number.

I don't know what was the deal with me then? But feels good to be writing again! :-)

~Krupa

Gurantee for my Smile :-)

All of us go through an up and a down of life. If something's not too big event, we go through a small version of it called low mood and normal happy mood/happy mood.

For the 'up' feel and normal happy mood, there is nothing needed. But whenever we face a low mood, we need something to cheer us up. I am sure, in these 25+ years of life, all of us may have already figured out what works for us in such mood! We know that there is something/someone who can bring a smile back on our face.

• Is it talking to someone close to you ?
• Is it small walk alone or with some friend ?
• Is it some outing ?
• Is it sleeping ? watching tv ?
• Taking shower ? (Don't laugh.. I have a friend for whom this works big time! :-))
• Or what?

There is something that surely works for us all the times.

For me that 1 thing is "Music". Krazzy after 'sound', deeply in love with raaga and beats, fanatic about lyrics, I breathe in Music. Generally, songs with happy lyrics or motivating lyrics does the effect of an "Injection" - while other nice numbers in installment are like regular medicine dose. :-)

So music is my secret mantra which gurantees a smile on my face! Latest one still playing in my head is "Mustafa Mustafa... " (in Hindi) from movie Duniya Dilwalon ki. Lyrics of this one is awesome! 2nd Stanza telling about ~ how life moves on like a train and stations like 'sadness' and 'happiness' keep coming... so keep going! hmm.. Lovely!

Now tell me, What works for you?

(By the way, I found out that many of you read my blog secretly but never put any comment... please go ahead and find yourself comfortable to post some anonymous comment also ;-))

~Krupa

Follow the Heart ~ Rise or Fall

It sounds filmy, but I say it's true. Follow the heart! When it says something, listen to it and follow it. First thing it gives is satisfaction of living without conflict and rest is automatically taken care of. Whether it leads to a rise or to a fall, it is the path that your heart brought for you. Our heart is much more intelligent than our mind. Even our health stays lovely because we live without conflict.

When we love, when we pray, when we smile, we don't involve our mind at all, it's only heart's deal then. These are the moments when we are close to ourselves and existence and God. In these moments, whatever we do, it will Only be right!

I also believe that following your heart is a practical way too. Mind & thinking about what is right or what is wrong... all that is just a myth. Can you listen to two people talking to you? Can you make out anything from that conversation? That's why I feel that we should do something so that either mind or heart -- only 1 of them can talk at a time. For me it's easy to ignore what mind says and listen to what my heart says...
Well, this is what my soul says to me so I am putting on my blog of soul thoughts :-)

(I know lot of importance to heart talk... but I am convinced that - it's the truth of life)

Krupa

KISS

u are certainly misled by the title... right? KISS is a wonderful lesson that I have learned from my client boss. He uses phrase 'KISS it' for any problem at work i.e Keep It Simple Stupid!

So many things in our day to day lives, so many relations and what not in our daily working life, we complicate things very much. "If I don't call her, she will feel bad", "If I say this, will he understand me correctly?" "Why is this program behaving like this?" etc. Due to this habit, now, even if a simple puzzle comes up to do a multiplcation of 26 and 7, we will need calculator. (I just used in my laptop)

Can we not live simple? Can we not live with simple fundas like "Live Good, Be Good and Retain Peace!" ?

~Krupa

Daras Dikha ja... Shyam re

Check this out ~ Anoushka Shankar's Beloved from 'Rise'

It's beautiful and I have been listening to it so many times now. It takes me near Shyam whenever I hear it.

Shyam re Shyam re Shyam re

Daras dikha jaa, shyam re
Daras dikha jaa, shyam re
Saawre, saawre

Daras dikha jaa, shyam re
Saawre, saawre

Daras dikha jaa, shyam re

Chavvi torey nainon ki, taan teri bansi ki
Chavvi torey nainon ki, taan teri bansi ki
Satoan na tum aisay piya
Main hu teri bas teri
Satoan na tum aisay piya
Main hu teri bas teri

Saason mein basa tera naam re
Shyam re, saawre

Daras dihka jaa, shyam re
Daras dihka jaa, shyam re
Shyam re, saawre

Daras dihka jaa, shyam re
Daras dihka jaa, shyam re
Daras dihka jaa, shyam re

Itt ud khoju piya
Jaadu tuney aisa kiya
Itt ud khoju piya
Jaadu tuney aisa kiya

Samjhi ab lila tori
Basey morey man mein piya
Samjhi ab lila tori
Basey morey man mein piya

Saason mein basa tera naam re
Shyam re, saawre

Daras dihka jaa, shyam re
Shyam re, saawre
Daras dihka jaa, shyam re
Shyam re, saawre
Daras dihka jaa, shyam re

Bowling.....it was my day

Yeah.. it was my day yesterday... I love bowling and I finally went for it. The intensity to bowl had become too much that while one presentation was going on during mid-day, I was imagining myself holding the bowl and rolling it on the lane to do a strike :-) (just like in the picture above) I did not score too much, but still was fun.

yuhuuuuuu :)
~Krupa

Check-in & a hand bag

It's been 6 BIG years that I am away from my parents. They already feel that they have done Kanya daan and my company is my mother-in-law :-) In fact, this mother-in-law is cool who pays me lot of money every month :D

During this 6 years of IT career, I have shifted 7 times to a different apartment. Setting up the basic amenities/furniture, electricity connection, gas connection, internet connection, talking to apartment offices or brokers etc... I am PRO now :) Initially I had lot of belongings, a lot to pack if I move. But slowly I realized that I don't need that much. Lesser the luggage easier to move-in or out. Nowadays I can easily fit myself in 2 check-in bags and 1 hand bag and then I am set to move anywhere!

To some extent I realized that we really don't need a lot of things in our day to day lives. We keep on increasing liabilities in the name of investment. So I (the great philosopher ;-)) say, enjoy lesser liabilities and relax with your loved ones. At the end of the day, your family's love is all you want...

After achieving much satisfaction in my career, I also feel that now I want a short PAUSE and not move to many apartments.

"I wanna go home"....
~Krupa

My Another crush

Well I am not 'Bewafa'... but I must say that one needs to move on in life :)

After what I said about my latest crush I came across something new just recently. What a track in my favorite Kay Kay's voice.. "Zindagi Do Pal ki from movie Kites"

Find it here ... Amazing! :)

I am in Loveeeeeeeeeee... ..............................................................(with this song ;-))
~Krupa

Loving English songs lately...

At times I get craving to listen to songs of a particular language. Sometimes I feel like listening to only Gujarati songs, sometimes only Hindi. Last 2-3 days I felt like listening to loving English songs only. Someone introduced me to this song - Viva Forever. I have no clue about which animated movie it is, which album the song is from ... nothing! But this video is really romantic with lovely music. I love it now. 

Very few other English songs that I know and have fallen in love with are - "Love is all around", "Please forgive me - by Bryan Adams" and "Everything I do - by Bryan Adams", "Nothing's gonna change my love for you by Glenn Medeiros", "Right here waiting for you - by Richard Marx", "When you know...from movie Serendipity", "My heart will go on.. from Titanic", "when you say nothing at all... in the movie Notting Hill", "Annie's Song by John Denver". 

What lyrics of each song! Wow!

If you know any awesome romantic English song, please do share.

Cheers

~Krupa

Found the one ?!!

It's been a year+ since I created my profile on matrimony sites. I have gotten hundreds of interests and messages. I declined to many while I accepted very few. From those few also, either I rejected them or they rejected me. I have many friends around me who are like me - in their right age but are single. (Note...'right age' is a subjective word)

Whichever profiles I responded to, if today, I see their online activity status, it shows they have been online recently (i.e. logged in to matrimony site recently) - which means they are still looking for the right one.

I don't get this gamble of life. All of us are decent enough, well educated, well cultured but we all are still looking. This raises questions in my mind -

• Are we not clear what we want in life? 
• Are we too choosy? 
• Are we all stupid enough to not recognize any signal that life is giving? 
• Are we too tough to compromise on any criteria? 
• Are we not supposed to 'look for' anyone and let life take its own pace and course ?
• Or we are yet to learn the process of arrange marriage?

I don't know how this works and how it will work for me. I am just waiting to find the one and then may be share how this gamble works. Or may be I should just wait for 'the one' to find me instead I looking :-)

Good luck to me and all!

Adios ~
Krupa

Estimation Skills

Sunday Morning has taught me how important is Estimation in life at any stage ;-)

By even one inch, I can get in trouble!

There is a concept of Class 1 estimate which means from your initial estimation you can vary +/- 50%. But in life situations like this, even 1% variation is risky :)

I am working on improving my skills now...

Cheers
~Krupa

Sunday Morning ~

Change is only Constant -- I keep proving :)

It was really a Dhamal! I did not want to open my eyes, but God made me open my eyes so wide that I didn't just wake up but I had an awakening :)

Yeah, I am talking about my 'parakrama' yesterday morning. On a Sunday morning, I was not in a mood to wake up early. Sun started rising and I realized the brightness will not let me sleep more. So I got up to close the curtains. After closing them, with my eyes closed, with full confidence about my bed's location, I tried to lie down again. And yeah, my estimation skills had gone for a toss for sure! I was 20 inches over in my estimation. I fell next to the bed with huge 'dhadam' noise. I could not get up, nor make any other shouting, nothing! But God is with me! My friend came running from other room and took care of me.

I have almost 2.5 inches scar on my back. (although it's superficial enough, it's a scar to cause some suffering for 2 days minimum). Plywood of the bed hit me hard and sharp too.

Since I was very ready to go back to sleep, my speed and force was stronger. This force only caused shock and pain. Had some fainting and nausea and then we went to hospital. After some dressing, X-ray, and 2 injections I was back home.

Since yesterday, every time I go near curtains or come back to my bed, I keep eyes wide open, balance my self on my feet and then walk :D... Experience teaches a lot, isn't it ? ;-)

Nothing to worry anymore, I shall be up and running in 2 days.

Cheers,
Krupa

The Why's of life ~

It is not new that things happen beyond my imagination,beyond my expectation. It happens again and again. I wonder 'why'. I question to life to get no answer.

When I came back to India, I joined my office and this time I got a responsibility of a project manager. With some doubts and questions I started performing gradually. Luckily, timing is good and project has grown during this period. So all was going well.

I realized that project management has a big component of people management, taking care of everyone's emotional reaction and then end of the day make sure the work is done. But what is the earning in this? Earning is the respect that you get from the same people whose emotional reaction you are handling. I guess my income has slowed down in this project. I asked my life "why" for this and of course, I have no answer.

At personal level also, few things have happened in the recent past and I kept questioning 'why!'.

When I get so many why's, I wonder - Do we really get answer for these 'Why's' ? I don't think so. Only thing happens is that our memory gets overwritten by something else and then we move on!

~KrupA

Re-Connect -- Possible?!

Girish wrote here about his project "Re-connect" and I was thinking about something similar. I log in to my gmail account almost everyday and I see so many people online. These people are not just anyone, they are my friends. I see them in 'green' status in gtalk but still I don't send them any message nor they do send me any message. Messaging happens just once in a while.

I feel we are not missing any technology in staying connected with our friends, but we are missing that zeal from within to stay connected with friends.

However I also feel that life is a continuously changing dream and hence when we move on, we get new people and we update ourselves with new relationships, new learnings, new fun ideas and lot more.

I love all my friends and I have thoroughly enjoyed my life so far with each one of them. But the truth remains is that when we move on, we may lose the contact and that should be acceptable to us. It is acceptable to me.

So concluding my thoughts -- I think "Re-connect" is possible only if individuals feel something from within. Until that happens, all messengers and social networks will behave as a bank account with lots of checks and but no cash!

Krupa

Chhoti si Baat

A baby kid was running behind two elder kids and laughing so blissfully. His mom was walking in that area only and she said "Beta, wo tere saath nahi khel rahe, kya itna has raha hai.. pagla!" -- meaning "my dear son, those elder kids are not playing with you.. why you laughing and giggling so much?"

I was very happy seeing that happy kid and I told his mom for her statement that "Your son is also trying to show and prove that even though those elder kids are not playing with me I am very happy". Somehow from childhood without awareness people try to teach you that you can be happy only if someone is playing with you or if someone is giving you attention. What to do!! Only hope that people stop stopping the blissful kids to express their innocence and freedom.

~Krupa

Mirage, Fear etc

I have been thinking about this word for some time now. Anytime I see the mirage on road I remember to express the perception about this word. Dictionary meaning says - Mirage is something illusory, without substance or reality. When something does not exist but gives an impression of its existence, that's called mirage. Many times on the roads or in desert, you will find some illusion of water from distance and when you get closer, you will find the truth that nothing exist there.

Similarly, Fear of unknown is also a mirage. It is there because we are imagining it. Worry about things that are not in our control is like mirage too. We think about so many possibilities and then with all the flow logic of "If-Else" "What-If", we achieve nothing. After so much waste of energy we will realize it's only a mirage; something that does not exist.

I meet so many people, my family, my friends/colleagues. I see how mirage exist in their lives as well. Because of this mirage effect only, they miss the present, they repent for past and they worry for future. well... What to do!! 

Lot of minor changes happening in my life and I can see things flowing. Best part is that no matter what, life is treating me really well. In all directions, all people are helpful and blessing me with a lovely smile. The Mirage shows up sometimes in my life as well, but it fades away soon too. Thankfully I am able to unclutch from it very easily now!!! (Thanks to Swamiji!)

By the way I am back in India and now working from Mumbai. So I am saved from the cold of US. In India also it's cold right now, but not too bad, it's certainly within my tolerance limits. :-)

Wishing a very happy 2010 to all who read my blog post accidently or intentionally.. ha ha.. :)

Blissfully enjoying...

~ Krupa ~