HE is here...

Bawre ne bahot tadpaya,

Milne ko itne saal tarsaya;

Magar pyar ki barsaat lekar,

Aakhir wo aa gaya!!!!

In whose thoughts & imagination, I wrote so many poems; in whose anticipation, I wrote so many blog posts, finally when he arrived in my life, I was speechless and could not write any post for last many months.

Yes, I am talking about my life partner. I finally found the one! I mentioned in my post "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 :-)"

Indeed, I kept wondering what's going to happen and how will it really be! Honestly, It happened as it was supposed to happen! Without any pre-planning, without any questions or screening process, without any horoscope match or photo check, it happened on its own.

One thing that I want to mention here though - I never stopped my efforts of involving in arrange marriage. I believe in the message from Bhagwad Gita that "Karma kiye ja" yes..! only thing in my control was to try & I did.

To all my friends out there, please don't be disappointed ever due to arrange marriage process steps. It will happen as it is designed for you.

Trust me! Life changes too fast! Just go with it. What you have today is God's grace and what you won't have tomorrow would be God's purpose.

Have faith & give your heart 'Love' wings, Love will come to you!

Keep Smiling,
Krupa

Begging...encourage or not?

On Radio they were asking about the beggars and begging - should we encourage it? There was some policeman who shared his opinion and he said something really good. When we see the beggar, we imagine our kids and then we feel sympathy and we give them money. He asked people to STOP imagining this because until we stop, begging will never go away from India. Imagining a better India, please kick the concept of begging out.

From other perspective, yes, I guess if we don't give money to the needy then how will they survive? I don't know how they will survive, but one has to lift his spirit up by doing something that he can, instead of giving up and begging. I don't have much to say nor do I know the real solution to this. However, I still can not agree that begging is the last option they have.

I surely discourage begging and beggars.

~KrupA

Wishing myself...

Coming back seems difficult. I am away from my blog for so many months and years. It's been some block and I don't seem to overcome it so far.

One more attempt I am making today.

Wishing myself good luck...
Krupa

Sadness spread!

In my life, I have had really interesting journey so far! Lot of years passed by. In the search of 'what to search for'. I missed a lot and I felt I wanted so less, I wanted so much and I felt I got so less. I got so much and I felt how to use that much!

Yeah!!!

Sometimes too deep and sometimes very abstract understanding about what's happening inside of me. In this journey, I learned a lot. Many times I felt, I received enough learning and I am really done! What more can I get? Not knowing what lies ahead of me, it was always the sadness underneath ambiguity.

Although I carried greatly happy attitude towards life, I conquered all the sad events in life, I still can not like ambiguity in life. I know there is something called patience but sigh! me and patience... one difficult area where I still struggle.

After n number of years wait, I have found some real strong and 'for-life' source of happiness, I am very happy. But the ambiguity still does not leave me and sadness tries to spread under that cover.

What do I do?

~Krupa

It's about outlook

Life is beautiful. Sooner or later, one experiences the beauty in everything around, if only one chooses to see so.

Simplest example - how depressing you may feel if you are alone and in the coldest city with the snow, ice and rain all the times (specially without Sun). But if your heart is happy, then you find glass trees also beautiful.

Time n again, life keeps proving to me that it's all about perception of an individual, it's about outlook that one carries.

~Krupa

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