tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67533542285299355812024-03-06T00:36:01.057+04:00Monastic AmbitionsRandom Scribbles of My feeling and doodles of people around me. The Chronicles of MY life, about people who mean the most to ME, Incidents and experiences etc.
A Quest to find peace in my head, to keep it devoid of negativity and at harmony. Feelings are raw, messy and often kept inside, DEEP down. The worst feeling of loss is the feeling of lost time or the feeling of things left unsaid.
So Let NOTHING remain UNSAID!Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-32423471813823126292014-09-10T16:22:00.000+04:002014-09-10T16:22:45.516+04:00WHOOSH! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I had hoped to be much more active on my blogs, as compared to earlier, but unfortunately or fortunately I have been away for two whole months! How and where these two months flew by is a question to that bewilders me. </div>
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July was all about my new venture (which I will talk about in a bit and I am immensely excited about it), then came my Kathak shows and with it hours of rehearsals, costume designing, the usual drama and the sorts, the series of birthday's<b><i> (Did I mention that July marks the start of our Birthday Calender? We have one in each month! So each of the Kumar's have a BIRTHMONTH, as opposed to the traditional Birthday! HA!) </i></b>Apart from all these, my Kathak exam, Ganesh Chaturthi, ALS Ice Bucket Challenges, Raksha Bandhan, Onam and what not! July, August and bit of September just whooshed by! </div>
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In a bid to take away the guilt of ignoring my blog, I have created collages/videos to authenticate my legit excuses. </div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Excuse No. 1</span></b></div>
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<i>Music, dance, photoshoots, videoshoots, food, waterworks and what not! Yet another fantastic Independence day celebrations! </i></div>
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<i>Kathak I Classical Dance I Independence Day I Fun I The Good Life.</i></div>
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<i>In case you would like to see the other videos, here you go: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Noolieable/videos" target="_blank"><b>Kathak</b></a></i></div>
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<i>Every Onam brings with it a fair share of banana chips, onam sadya's (feast), onam pattu (songs), dance, payasums, laughter, movies, Onam kodi (new clothes) and pookkalams (floral arrangements). This year too Onam has come with a Bang! Onam with the Kumar's.... HAPPY ONAM!</i></div>
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Quite unexpectedly and but decidedly at the right time, I resolved that it was time to give wings to my dream of starting my own design practice, and just like that things started to fall into place. Sometimes we sit around wishing things would happen, but we don't put in enough effort. Sometimes we do everything in our power to make things happen, but they still don't and it frustrates us. </div>
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And that is exactly how my new adventure <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheDesignConnect/info" target="_blank">The Design Connect by Neelanchana Kumar</a> has come about as well. Fingers and toes crossed!! Although, I do have my fair share of <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">"Why Me's"</span></b> with <b>Mr. Omnipotent</b>, touch wood, this has been going relatively well. I don't want to jinx it and so I will not dwell further on the subject. All I will say is that... Things fall into place when the time is RIGHT, and when we let it. </div>
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So, it has been two months since, and here are the official before and after pictures of the first ever Project from <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>The Design Connect Studio's</b></span>.</div>
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<b>Reception - Then and Now.</b></div>
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For the rest of the pictures you can click on this link or you can check my Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheDesignConnect" target="_blank">HERE!</a> <b><i>(LOL! That still sounds so weird, and pompous!) </i></b>Do like, share and stay tuned for more updates and if you need an enthusiastic and gregarious Interior Designer; qualified with a Masters in Design and with an inherited, and inveterate passion for all things related to Design, you know who to look for! <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>:) </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>A little bit of self promotion doesn't hurt! HA! Cheers!</b></span></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-59641242859775728322014-06-30T11:58:00.001+04:002014-06-30T11:58:39.485+04:00So, I have cleaned out my desk and am ready for NEW adventures.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am sucker for details</span></b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">... From the biggest pointers, to the most minute and
immaterial bits and pieces - everything is under my radar. Probably a nod to my
OCD self. So... It is rather befitting when I get into recounting the exact no
of days/ weeks etc, that I have worked at Spencer. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">333 weeks</span></b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
or </span><b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6 years, 4 months, and 19 days,</span></b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> before I cleaned
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I'm heading off to new adventures and although, I'm not sure yet
as to which one I will pursue first, but I am certain---</span><b style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">they will be wonderful,
eventful and exciting for sure</b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. Knowing me I am certain they will be
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Walking into a dusty, colorless and dreary warehouse, tucked
away in little corner of Al Quoz, I had never imagined I would spend all this
time here and become a part of building Spencer as a brand. It has truly been a
roller coaster of sorts,</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">meeting
so many new people, brainstorming ideas, seeing various highs and lows,
projects won, tender's lost, fighting cyber squatting, babies, marriages,
flaring tempers, flying keyboards, to moving into a shiny new office in Tecom,
and expanding our boundaries to the unknown lands of furniture and
furnishings...</span></i></b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and what not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To simply say that Spencer was a learning experience for me,
would be an understatement. I have been a part of various</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"defining moments"</span></b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> here and I would like to think that one
of the very first 'defining moment' would be the moment</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when one of my bosses convinced me to stay
when I was all prepared to leave, mind you this was my second day at work, when
I was so utterly disheartened at the distance I had to travel daily to get to
work and not to forget being the one girl (among-st 12 men) in my office.</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Working in Spencer made me a part of departments I had no idea
were required for the smooth functioning of an organization, IT department,
support desk, graphic design, photographing, public relations, social media
managing, customer relations, data analysis, report development, administrative
support team, and expert jib jab card creator… and phew! </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From designing T shirts for our boys, to making the Spencer flag
that keep flowing proudly in JLT, to designing graphics for our pickups and
vehicles, to coughing up legal notices for clients, to donning the hat of
a web designer, to making tea for my clients, to take on the role of the driver
and picking up clients, to sneakily revamping the Big Boss's cabin while he is
away on vacay, to getting heavily involved with creating social media platforms
for Spencer, to give a much needed face lift to the furniture showroom, to
redesigning the company logo, our business cards, to planting the plants,
putting up the Christmas tree, to dealing with peepers and poopers... and the
list can pretty much go on and on!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I have evolved with Spencer and as Spencer grew - in size,
structure and business, I grew too – in my role (quickly rising from an entree
level Junior designer to where i am now), in my skills and in my personality.</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We evolved together.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I wouldn't be the person I am today, had it
not been for Spencer. I have seen over 70 colleagues come and go, some for
a day, some for a week, while some in fact have came right back as
well. Talking about colleagues, I have to specially make a mention of
three crucial people whom I have seen from day one and who have played a
significant part in my time here. </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My Boss - Mr. Koshi</span></i></b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, for treating me less like an employee and more like his
daughter. I will forever cherish all our laughs, differences in opinions,
arguments, and cold war's. It was a pleasure working with you and a great
educational journey.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Prat</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- My friend, my fellow fashion police and a wonderful human
being. He has educated and kept me updated on pop culture, gossip, style and
the latest fashion trends. From fighting like cats and dogs we have surely come
a long and I appreciate our unique equation.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shaji</span></i></b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- Tea and water with
an added dose of office gossip, Shaji was never one to disappoint. Always on
top of everything that's happening and always ready to help. The first person I
met at Spencer and the person who made me feel truly welcome. He has been
of phenomenal importance for me. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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craziness and to also knock some much needed sense into me from time to
time.</span><br />
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Thomas, Shiju</span></b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> and </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">George....</span></b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> Thank YOU! </span></div>
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one of you during my time here. You have all been delight and a nuisance to
work with. </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">To say, "I hope that we can stay in touch with you" would
be unrealistic and largely utopian if you ask me.</span></b><span style="color: #0d0d0d;"> <b><i>I would much rather say,
hold on to the memories and thank you for allowing me to be a part of so
many different hues of memories.</i></b></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-26743792260763569822014-05-13T16:43:00.000+04:002014-05-13T16:45:08.805+04:00That most brutal of teachers.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have had the most unbelievable
and unreal experiences. Of course, I am
certain everyone has their fair share of experiences. But, boy, I seem to take <b><span style="color: #c00000;">THAT</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;"> </span>chunky portion of cake, that's laced with everything
possible! Cream? Cherry? Caramel? Strawberry Sauce? Nuts? Almonds? Gummy
Bears? Nah, not one, I get the whole
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">But you learn, my God do you learn.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Let's take last week for example,
my week began with a stalker, one who slyly follows me around in my office
building, while I park in my Basement, in lift, and god alone knows if he has collaborated
with the <a href="http://neelanchana.blogspot.ae/2013/11/the-case-of-peeping-and-pooping-tom.html" target="_blank"><b>Peeper</b></a>!</div>
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Oh, while we are at the topic of my
basement, let me elaborate. In a move that would put Indian power cuts to shame,
my office building management has a new and innovative way of cost cutting. <b><span style="color: #c00000;">Simply cutting off
the lights and the AC, easy!</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;"> </span>It's
a miracle that they have the lifts running. So at 9.00 in the morning this is
how ,my basement looks... </div>
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evening nonetheless, when most of the building has already left early to bring
in the weekend festivities, you go down to your basement, which is pitch
darkness and all the crazy crime scene investigation shows, and murder
mysteries that you watch doing you no good, you walk up to your car.... </span><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #c00000;">Lo and behold, you have.... well this!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;">Dear Parking no. 56</span></b>, I know who
you are, (at least now I do, after my friend and I did a detailed investigation
of you) what I don't know is what is your problem? Clearly, you seem poised and
in place with both your feet comfortably in your engrave, doesn't doing such
kind of sly, shady attics ashame you? <b><span style="color: #c00000;">That to with someone who is young enough to be your
granddaughter?</span></b> </div>
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A one of case, you may say... Well, last
Thursday, 8th May 2014, to be precise, a Mercedes Benz, started following me on
the road, very close to my office again. He followed me, kept honking, flashing
lights, and coming way too close to my car, etc etc. All this because I may
have overtaken him somewhere before. See, I say I may have, because I overtake a
lot of people, everyone does, people overtake me. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">I don't see it as the end of
world, but clearly for this guy, it surely was! </span></b></div>
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So he stopped the car when we got
to a block, came over to my car and open my car door, and started shouting,
screaming and hurled the choicest words from his preferred slanderous
dictionary. When I kept telling him, to stop and rather when I asked him what
he was doing, over and over again, he simply pushed me back into my seat, and
screamed further commanding me to park the car, nearby. Now I was right below my office building,
could have easily gotten into my parking and gotten away from this psychopath,
but then how? My basement is less of a basement and more a part of <b><span style="color: #c00000;">The Exorcist</span></b>
or <b><span style="color: #c00000;">The
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I parked outside, got out of the
car, thinking if the two of us are in the public view, he may refrain from behaving
like an absolute nut job. But no, he continued to do what he was doing and all
the while, there were lots of people at the around, people who saw the whole exchange
but the funny part was, no one came close. Not one of them, though it was
necessary to come and check what this huge Ukrainian guy was doing to this
visibly shaken Indian girl. After about
10 minutes of being drenched in a rain of explicitness and insults, when I
somehow managed to get into the car, <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>He turned T-REX on me! </b></span></div>
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While I am dialing the <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Dubai
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on it window, again and again so hard that I thought my window would crack. Having exhausted his energy, screaming and punching my car, he then went of to
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In all of my years living in
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a city which gives at most respect to women,<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> I have never seen something like
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<b>Having said all this, I would
like to really applaud the Police officers at the Jebal Ali Police Station who
took such a keen interest in this case, especially Office Tariq, who make me
feel extremely comfortable. He didn't need to keep reassuring me or promising
to protect me, but he did. Thank you so much to everyone at the station, for
being such helpful, kind and wonderful human beings and more importantly for making
sure that this Ukrainian jerk will never again be able to do this or anything
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<b>Why do you not love me Thursday?
Tell me, baby, why don't you love me... When I make me so damn easy to love? <span style="color: #cc0000;">Let's
try again, shall we?</span> </b></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-58308257948892046162014-04-30T18:21:00.003+04:002014-04-30T18:21:57.435+04:00Reason? Season? Or a Lifetime? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I use to blog daily! Unbelievable, but true. I used to churn up new and
exciting (or I would like to believe) posts day in and day out, just for my
satisfaction. Now it's a miracle that I get one out a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MONTH</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">! Hmphh... the Perils of climbing the corporate ladder. Sigh!</span></div>
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about a topic I have addressed, back in October 2013,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://neelanchana.blogspot.ae/2013/10/people-come-and-go-and-come-back.html" target="_blank">(Click here for earlier post)</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, about
how people come and go and come right back in our lives. I was upbeat, excited
and even a little Utopian when I wrote that one. Now I am in a pensive
and reflective mood, thanks to the changes brought about by time, place
and people.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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believe that everyone we meet, we meet for a reason. We have encountered any
given person for a reason. We have friends who remain, friends who come in our
lives but soon depart and friends who just pass by our daily lives.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Even if it is just running into
a fellow barista at Starbuck/Caribou/Tea Junction of the world, there is a
reason sprinkled in our path that we may not even see at this moment in time.<u1:p></u1:p></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that goes something like,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a
lifetime,”</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">which really resonates with
my life. Maybe the simple reason of the daily encounter with the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> watchman is the daily smile (or
frown, depending on individual moods) that both share and eventually that
starts the morning off right (or Wrong). Each action has a direct impact.
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Instead
of dwelling on the pain of saying goodbye to a friendship, look at it as a
chapter that was filled with many memories and now lessons that will forever
live with you.</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Sometimes we are welcomed by friendships that aren't meant to
last forever, but are meant to teach us and help us grow on our beautiful
journeys.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Easier said than done, I know.</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">We tend to hold on to things, with closed fists;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>memories, people, smell, taste
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wish, there was a delete button, no I wouldn't delete the memories, not at all,
but what I would give to delete emotions and feelings that often flood through
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sometimes we have to learn when to let go and continue on our journey. It takes
courage to stand up and realize that sometimes you need to move forward.
This doesn't mean things have to end nasty, it just means that
you are mature enough to see that these people may be holding you back in a way
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">‘Some
people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave
footprints on out hearts, and we are never, ever the same</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.” ~ </span><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Flavia Weedn</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weeks, the kind of experiences I have had is simply mind boggling. <b><i>Ghosts
from past, friends turning foul mouthed delusional junkies, catching up with
old friends, getting back in touch with dear old colleagues, performing Kathak
on stage again, distancing from people, I never thought I could but should have
un-friend-ed a long time back.</i></b> Certainly</span><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CRAY CRAY</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> has
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This morning, I saw a
rather an inspiring message that, I know feel is fitting with this topic. It
read as, “E.N.D = Entirely New Direction.” When our friendships end, it’s really
just a sign from The </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">UNIVERSE</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> saying we need to head down a new path or
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Stop focusing on <b>WHY,
WHAT IF</b>… these are toxic questions that create an abundance of noise in our
lives. Instead, begin to take the risk down a new direction. With an open mind
you will surprise yourself with the outcome. I am surely surprising myself with
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like to call a lot of one sided arguments ( i.e. apart from my usual "healthy
discussions" with friends and family), wherein the someone randomly comes
up to me, starts an argument and then ends up doing a bit of name calling and
of course the standard use of the abusive words showcasing their horrible
command over the English language. They expect me to react, obviously, because that's
why they do it.... funny enough... My only reaction to the individuals... lets
call them the "Action Mongers" in question was nothing. One of them
being an ex- colleague, and the other being an elderly person, who is only known
to me through a mutual entity. Both of them, tried their level best to bring me
down to their level, made good use of their heavy baritones, aggressively shook
and contorted their facial expressions... but I just didn't move. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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another person in my life, who has been constantly trying to insult me behind
my back, let's call the said person
"The Well Wisher", who decided, on their own, that I have a
"Void" in my life, and THEY seem to have been entrusted by some great
power to FILL IT! Their "help" so far has been in the categories
ranging from "grossly insulting" to "extremely insensitive
pokes". I will not go into the nitty gritties, simply because it just
isn't worth it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remember at this point in time, however, I do remember the moral of the story..
(that what counts, isn't it?...) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The moral was: </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">“If someone comes to give
you a gift and you do not receive it, to whom does the gift belong?”</span></div>
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in such terrible situations, or even when someone throws the mother of all
insults our way, we still get to CHOOSE your response. <b>Nobody can take
away that power away from US, but that being said, too often we surrender to it
ourselves</b>...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am the practically the last person who is going to say, if
</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">someone slaps you on one side of your face, turn the other
one to him! Trust me, although Mr. MK Gandhi and I share birth months and star signs,
I completely and vehemently oppose his certain thought processes. I am on the
other side of the boat and I say that if anybody slaps you on your one cheek
without your fault, he/she should be slapped back on both cheeks<span class="apple-converted-space">. Period. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You
have to stand up for yourself every now and then, lest folks start taking
advantage of you and your un-offend-ability!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am talking more about the people who insult you
intentionally. Whose main goal is to upset you... offend you. The best way to
handle this is simply by refusing to become UPSET or get OFFENDED. This not
only stumps your insulter, but it also makes them feel completely powerless and
useless. <b>It’s like someone trying to kill you by shooting you point
blank in the chest</b>. But, how do you think they’d feel, if the bullet just
bounced off, Rajnikanth style, and you responded with nothing more than a
raised eyebrow? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, I do know how that feels.. its feels ABSOLUTELY
Amazing! Liberating. Relaxing. Uplifting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-44388856985454359042014-02-16T17:19:00.001+04:002014-02-16T17:22:24.098+04:00Why so Angry?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yesterday, I was
driving around in my sister's</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peugeot</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, because my</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wrangler</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">was slightly low on
fuel</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(read EMPTY)</span></b><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and for the sheer laziness on my part to wait
in line to get it refueled. Its a Saturday Morning, low on traffic, a five lane
road, and all of a sudden, a polished silver</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Merc</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">comes zooming from out
of nowhere and keeps flashing his headlights, honking and zig-zaging, all
in continuous succession. All of the 5 lanes are empty, he is
being spoilt for choice, but he decides to stay</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BEHIND</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and continue his shenanigans, what I now see as a
strong indication of repetitive compulsive behavior. After a good 10
minutes of following me from one lane to the other, he finally swerves my right
and wags his index finger and shakes his head and I thought,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God, What a Joker</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">!</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He could have killed me, and I assure you, he wouldn't care a
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Recently, I read
somewhere, that a man was killed for using his cell phone in a movie theatre.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seriously, he was
killed, just like that.</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mind you it's not one
of those cases wherein we yell</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Oh
my god, please shoot that guy."</span></i></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Someone actually shot him. Shot him</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DEAD</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Large part of this
is attributed by our increasing deteriorating rhetoric. Words of violence
tossed around casually:</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">KILL. ME. NOW</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(about a slow moving traffic jam)</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, or like my colleague Prat screaming</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"I COULD KILL SOMEONE"</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">or even a</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Neelu, let's Kill someone"</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, or an even worse can someone please strangle
the child having a tantrum in the middle of a mall? All of</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[person, community, place... take your pick]</span></i></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">should be bombed. A slightly more language
up-ed person, will more likely be more careful about the words they use, insert
a "In my opinion," or "seemingly" to distance them
self from the words of hate and anger and violence. However we do it, we
are all sending a wrong signals to our brains, over and over again.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That it is okay to kill people.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trust me I know, I
myself fall into the above mentioned category! In fact, I had unknowingly,
subconsciously said, to someone, who was deducing what the issues are in</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MY</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">life and how I could go about sorting them out and my
instantaneously shocking reaction was,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"The problem and the solution is not very different, is a
certain someone needs to</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DIE"</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just like that.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The other half of the
problem is the idea of</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">self importance</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. Your time being</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MORE</span></b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">important that mine. This is bandied about often enough for it
to become a cliché. The worst that will happen if you miss the green light and
have to wait a minute is that you'll be a minute late.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So?</span></b><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So what be late. Had you had the foresight, you have started
early in order to be on time. Which brings me to yet another question: where
are y'all going off to in such a hurry?</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What's the emergency that makes someone blare his horn at the
car in front of him if it's not rolling the minute the light turns green, like
some kind of race horse?</span></b><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who is dying, how much
money are you losing that just the idea of waiting, chilling for a second
brings upon such teeth-gnashing, pull out a gun and shoot someone in the face
anger? </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have a special knack
at being short tempered, and god knows, well certain other's do too, that I've
had the odd violent urge every now and then,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">biweekly if I may</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. So angry with stuff that sometimes life, things around me are
all just a blurry mess.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Momentarily Blind.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All I want to do is rage, vent and be, as my
mum calls its,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hitler</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, unleashing my tyranny on the unsuspecting
mortals. But, I'm trying to let my reasonable brain take over, and not being a
socio/psycho path, I have access to a very reasonable brain, and I'm working
through anger by analyzing what makes me so mad.</span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is the a trigger?</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why is there a trigger?</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why am I frustrated over things I cannot help?
Why is that guy in the Merc, so angry?</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I find as I think through these things, two things happen--I
get much calmer, and much more tired, worn out like a leaf, a dry yellowing
leaf, but not Hitler anymore... that for sure.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">So it's that time of the year and I am in my Flashback mode yet again. This happens to me every year without fail. Knowingly or unknowingly, I dress monochromatically. I mean come on, I am designer, and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">my dressing <b><i>(up or down)</i></b> is merely a reflection of my moods! And so, Black and white has been the color for the past few days! <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">(Today decided to add lots of Red to combo to brighten things up!) </span></b>After all waking up to <b>Pharrell Williams </b>does make you <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HAPPY</span></b>! <b>Such a lovely.. lovely Song!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">So while everyone is busy planning what to do today, rather, I think everyone has already planned what they will be doing today <b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>(except for us Kumar's of course)</i></span></b>, I am busy rewinding my thoughts, and revisiting them to see what how I have done this year, and whether or not I would want to redo them any differently. Would I, you ask? No. I wouldn't. What I want to do is learn from the situation and make use of it. This year has been a good year, lots of highs and a fair share of lows as well. <b><i><span style="color: #c00000;">My mum would disagree, she would say it's yet another BAD year, because I am still "UNMARRIED". Mums, they worry, that's what they do.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Well <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">2013</span></b> did start off badly, but quickly, by the grace of Krishna, it changed and how. If someone were to ask me What's NEW? Well, I truly do not know how I should answer this. What I do know is I am <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HAPPY</span></b>. Do I have a reason? Not one but many actually. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">(Let's keep them limited to fourteen, shall we?)</span></b></span><br />
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me!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I am happy, I have my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>awesomesaucical</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> PARENTS</span></b>, <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">gorgeous SISTER</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">stud/thug little BROTHER</span></b>!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I am happy, I have my <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">f</span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>riends</b></span>! </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="color: #c00000;">( you know who you are!)</span></i></b></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I am happy, I am <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">alive and
Well</span></b>!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I am happy, I am <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>unique</b></span>!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I am happy, The world has
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>MUSIC</b></span>!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I am happy, The weather is
so <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>amazing</b></span>.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I am happy, I live in <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">DUBAI</span></b>,
winner of the EXPO 2020 (YAY!) and all things <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">BIG, BOLD, BLING, and BEAUTIFUL</span></b>!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I am happy, there are so
many, many<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> books</span></b> yet to be read!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I am happy, because <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>HUGH JACKMAN</b></span>! <b>Period.</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I am happy, because there's lots more <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>shopping</b></span>
to be done! Faint*</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I am because, for I know there are tubs and
tubs of <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">ice cream</span></b> waiting to be eaten! And for every tub of ice cream, there is
a Fitness First that opens <b>UP</b>!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I am happy, as I still have loads of <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>life
events</b></span> to plan for! </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="color: #c00000;">Bring it on, I am READY, I tell you!</span></i></b></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I am happy and thankful for
all the <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">life lessons</span></b> I have learnt this year from<b> la familia, friends, foes, colleagues,
gym buddies and random people </b>on the road who choose to speak to me! </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">On a separate note, as
a pre-new year's gift to myself, I got<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Iphone
5s</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">! YAY! But it's just so hard to let go of my Blackberry, so I feel
like I am juggling between two lives! Anyhow, you can NOW follow me on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://instagram.com/neelanchanakumar" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Instagram
(@neelanchanakumar)</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, apart from the regular portals
such as <a href="https://twitter.com/neehaas" target="_blank"><b>Twitter - neehaas</b></a>, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/neelanchanakumar" target="_blank"><b>linkedin - NeelanchanaKumar</b></a>, <a href="http://about.me/neelanchana.kumar" target="_blank"><b>www.neelanchanakumar.com</b></a>,
and on my other blog portal -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/,%20http:/neelanchanakumar.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><b>Wordpress</b></a>! Do follow me on
these portals if you would like more frequent updates. As you are know I tend
to "go away" from my blogs portals periodically! Guilty as Charged. </span></div>
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much for reading, Stay<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="background: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and wish you all a very<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="background: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Happy NEW YEAR</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and everything Positive!!!</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-89770706457801116002013-11-05T14:22:00.002+04:002013-11-05T14:22:42.514+04:00The Case of the Peeping and Pooping TOM!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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face to face yet, just <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">IN PASSING </span></b>or <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">IN MOTION</span></b> <b>(no pun intended!)</b>, however, I feel we know each
other quite well, as we have corresponded with each other through drastically
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may not be aware, so let me bring you up to speed, my office relocated to this
Tower, exactly, on October 13th 2011, and from then on we have had a very nice,
and decent working atmosphere till March this year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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presume this is when you moved to this tower or your issues started from this
point on. Should we ever meet in person, I would really like to discuss and
know what exactly triggered this. <b><i>Any problems at home, financial issues,
failure at a marriage/ relationship?</i></b> There is nothing we cannot solve, this
includes cheap/indecent, unhygienic and lecherous behavior as well as uncontrollable
bowel movements. But right now I am addressing a different topic so let me
continue with that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I would like to ask you, Poo... Where are you from? And who taught you toilet etiquette?
Oh, I am sorry, Has anyone <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">INTRODUCED</span></b> you to the concept of a toilet? If yes, he/
she has clearly <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">NOT</span></b> put even a penny's worth of effort into it! Either you have
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>NOT</b></span> been using the toilet at all till now, which is not humanly possible, so I
go on to my next conclusion, which is, you were born and raised in a <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">JUNGLE.</span></b>
Wherein in you would wake up in the morning, go to the nearest pond/lake and
splash water around, make many tiny muddy puddles, and then poop where ever you
like! <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Am I right, or am I right?</b></span> The first time I knew of your existence was
when I saw tiny shreds of toilet paper all around the office toilet, then came
the water puddles with murky shoe marks and then came the water dripping from
the ceiling and walls! At first I thought it was some kind of an animal.
<b>Obviously who else would be capable of splashing water to the top of the
ceiling, with so much force that the gypsum ceiling tile cracks and the water gets
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that illusion of mine, of you being an animal was broken when I saw your next escapade!
<b>A Quick question. </b>Are you not aware of how to use a western closet? Actually I am
sure you do not know how one functions, because why else would you take a dump
on the <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">FLOOR</span></b>? Did you think that your poop would be magically air lighted from
the floor and get flushed by <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>ITSELF</b></span>?? </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Why
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Poo, now that we are this topic, I strongly suggest you <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>BUY </b></span>and use this
product! Trust me, it will be every bit helpful for <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">YOU </span></b>and go a <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>LONG</b> </span>way in
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Pee, It's your turn. Let me start by asking you a simple question. Are you a
transgender? If the answer is <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">YES</span></b>, I apologize on behalf of everyone for not
having a third gender section introduced
as of now and in the washrooms, more importantly. I sincerely do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If your answer is <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">NO</span></b>, then move onto the next question. Do you treat your Mom
the same way you treat all other women you come across? Do you peep in to her
washroom too? What joy do you get by, hiding and sneaking up on women in the
washroom? Do you think we are most vulnerable there? It's quiet funny, that you
had the courage and the guts to lurk around the women's toilet and <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">PEEP</span></b>, but
the instant my friend, colleague and my knight in shining armour <i>(in this
case)</i>, <b>Lavina</b>, sees you and comes after you, you <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">RUN</span></b>. <b>Why Pee, Why would you
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Poo, you guys have given me a glimpse of how dirty and filthy the world is.
Living in Dubai, in a super colorful and fantasy world for all my life, I
really did not believe I would come
across this sort of messy behavior, but I am glad you opened my eyes and gave
me a firsthand experience at that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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participating in voyeuristic behaviors and Poo, you need Diapers! </span></span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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UP is a way to UP your life”.</span></b></span><br />
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Case in point, you have an interview,
or you are going to take that girl you have been chasing for months out on a
date, what would you do? <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>DRESS UP</b></span>, obviously. You wouldn't want to go to the interview or the
date, like you are on the way home from the beach, in sandy shorts and flip
flops now, would you? If you would, well the only thing you would hear is a <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">“NEXT”</span></b>
or <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">“GET OUT”</span>! Just saying.</b></div>
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We, the <b>Kumar’s,</b> love to dress
up. It’s an instant booster for our energies and spirits. And you know you don’t
absolutely need a reason for it, you could do it for yourself, to make yourself
happy. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">DRESS UP. </span></b>Why? You love yourself, so that’s good reason! I know you have
got some nice clothes in your closet, just lying around <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">WAITING</span></b> for the
occasion to rise. I say don’t wait, make it! Anyways what is a <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">NICER </span></b>occasion
than <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">YOU</span></b>? <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">DRESS UP</span></b>, make a statement. Get into a <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">GET UP</span></b>! </div>
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Mom, this one is for you, if
you are saving that nice jewelry for some occasion to <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">CROP UP</span></b>, don’t hold
your breath, let’s just put it on <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">NOW</span></b> and say the occasion is <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HERE!</span></b></div>
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Okay, you are all dressed up and
have nowhere to go, go to that coffee shop, that book store, that mall even. So
what you don’t have anything you <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">NEED</span></b> to buy, you could feel like you are
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That being said, this weekend has
been all about dressing up <b>(with occasions and all!)</b>. First it being Halloween
and now <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>DIWALI</b></span>! My brother and sister have always wanted to dress up for
Halloween, and this time around, I decided to try my hand at Halloween make up…
The results are below! <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!</span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">My sister being the SEXY Vampire</span></b></td></tr>
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Btw since I was anyway immersed
in makeup, I decided, I too should get into the <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HALLOWEEN</span></b> gear, and for thouse
of you who are unable to comprehend my character, well I am a <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">POP ART COMIC</span></b>
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>CHARACTER</b></span>! <b><i>Pfft… the perils of dressing up being overtly creative!</i></b></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>That’s all from me now, I need to
run along and start dressing <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">UP</span> </b>for <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>DIWALI</b></span>!! <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HAPPY DIWALI YOU ALL!!!!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">And HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my GREEN MONSTER! Two years!!!</span></b></div>
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is probably my favorite quote after the clichéd <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">"Change is the only thing
that is constant in this world"</span></b>. Flab's are all I think about, anything I
see, anyone I see, I am constantly weighing them up for flab's or analyzing how
much they need to work out in order to lose them! It's disorder I am sure, but I
would like to think I will <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">GROW</span></b> out of it.</span></div>
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have always seen things change and how. The place I have been living in all my
life, used to be a desert for heaven's sake, but <b>now it rains in Summer and is has
a 72, 000 sq ft garden with over 45 Million blooming flowers!!!</b> This is the same place where they <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">BANNED MJ's</span></b>
concerts in <b>11/12/1993 </b>fearing obscenity and god knows what else and now on
<b>20/10/2013</b> we had <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Riri</span></b> prance around in high fashion poses at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: GothicE;">Abu Dhabi,
which I personally feel is completely disrespecting the sanctity of a place of
worship. <b>Then again it could just be me
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well. As much as we may wish it didn't happen or this wasn't the case, the
simple and clear fact remains in human being
and human interactions/relationships that, <b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>People come and people go</i></span></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">People we are friends with,
people who we love, people who we work
with, people who we are related too, one moment they are here with us, and then
<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">BAM!</span></b> They are gone! <b>Nope, I am not talking about Death. Not even from animosity.</b> Nope, I am in the negative and melancholic
mood, I am pretty upbeat thanks to the <b>"Fitness Workout Dirty Dancing music"
</b>blaring in the background! <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Hey designing is WORKING OUT too... We are after all
jogging our brain cells and letting our creative juices do a double cartwheel aren't
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come and go. <b><i>(Excuse the digression!)</i></b> People we love (friends, family, boyfriends,
girlfriends.. etc) with all of our hearts can one day, quite literally, vanish
from our lives. I blame circumstances, situations, they can just take a best
friend, a lover or a partner right out of our hands, only to be seen <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>NEVER</b></span> again..
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But I am of the thought process
that things get better, things change, just as how these people have vanished
from our lives, they will come right back in, with a <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">BAM!</span></b> That I believe is the
beauty of life, of divine providence. I wholeheartedly agree with King Khan on
this one... <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">"</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Itni
Shiddat Se Maine Tujhe Paane Ki Koshish Ki hai, Ki Har Zarre Ne Mujhe Tujhse
Milane ki Saazish Ki Hai." </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><i>(which loosely translates to... I have being trying to making you mine with so much passion, fervor and intensity, that the whole universe is now working with me on this conspiracy.. lol... I try, OK!)</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There are times that I sit in
my room, on my favorite couch, armed with a steaming of <i>chai</i> and just think of all the people who have wandered away from
me. And then I remember all of the people that I have wandered away from. I
want to reconnect, I want to get back in touch, and I know they do to.. <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">( I am
not being immodest, I am self aware, and that's a positive trait!)</span></i></b> I am
confident that there will be a time we will all reconnect, and when we do... it
will be just like before... we will start off from where we left, easily,
smoothly and beautifully. Much like the
first <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">BAM</span></b> , never really happened. Of course we won't be able to reconnect with
everyone we leave behind or everyone who left us behind, but the love you created
remains. <b>Always and forever. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Recently, I back in touch with
a few close friends, and the feeling is simply beautiful.<b> <span style="color: #cc0000;">So uncomplicated, so
natural and so right. </span></b>So let's all just show some <i>Shiddat</i> <b><i>(passion, strength,
and intensity.. if you will</i></b>) and help the universe in conspiring to get us what or who we
want back in our lives! <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ready? Then Come and Get IT! </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>P.S </b>As I have previously indicated
my OCD-ness and my love for lists, it may not be much or a shocker if I said
that I had a list of <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Spencerites </span></b>(Ex-Spencer employees) who have come and gone
in the past <b>5 years, 8 months, 13 days.
</b>But it was definitely a shocker for my boss when I told I have seen over 50
people (<b><i>55 in exact ONE week!)</i></b> come and go from Spencer. <b><i>(And mind you some of
them have come back as well!) </i></b>Here's to seeing more <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>CHANGE</b></span> and fresh faces at
Spencer!</span></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-84620163031451189852013-10-21T17:28:00.001+04:002013-10-21T17:30:07.059+04:00A Family Affair - Critically Love Sick.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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accompanies my nature of work, this post has been written over the past for
days... Okay, fine I didn't write over the weekend so it three days I guess! :P</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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getting into the cream of things <b>(read shopping)</b> and how slowly its crawls when
you are bored to death<b>(read at work)</b>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It feels as though, only yesterday I was making my 100th
list of what I need to do and what I need not do during the <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EID</span></b> holidays and
now as I sit here in the semi deserted office space, I am thinking, .... yawn I
am too lazy to even think or.... <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">TYPE</span></b>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am so bored and lazy that I have spend the last hour or so
doodling and making excuses as to why I cannot complete this blog post! But <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>NO</b></span>!
I am not going to let this boredom, lethargy and a general lack of interest
come in between me and the completion of this post!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After all, I come from a superbly talented lineage. I mean
seriously, us people are crazily artistic, don't believe me well then, you are
in for a surprise! <b>What do normal families do on the vacations?</b> Go for picnics?
Go on road trips? Mall hopping? Water parks maybe? Nah all this is so passé, we
Kumar's<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> ACT, DANCE and SING </span></b>even! That's all 8 of us, well some in front of the
camera and some behind (read ME). Who would have thought a family reunion after
many years would spring up an idea to create a spoof of the ever so popular and
comical <span style="color: #cc0000;">"CID"</span>. My cousin Advaaith is an spring actor and is always keenly observing/imbibing the
nuances of all people and things around him. It was his <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>"ACP
Pradyuman"</b> </span>imitation that actually served as a trigger to this spoof, a
short film if you will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I can go on and on about the fun we had, but I would much
rather that you see it and feel the energy, positivity and togetherness that
this short film carries in it. <b><i>There was no script, no story line, no
dialogues, it was a completely impromptu attempt!</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This video features, my sister <b>Sanjana</b>, my brother
<b>Kaushik</b>, my cousin brother <b>Advaaith</b>, my aunt <b>Sindhu</b>, my mom <b>Bindhu </b>and my
dad <b>Kumar</b>. </span></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-46342644336892141832013-08-13T17:10:00.000+04:002013-08-13T17:10:45.647+04:00IF I were a BOY!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #494949; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">There are many times I have burst into the phase of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>"how I
wish I were a boy!"</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #494949;">. Don't get me wrong, I love who I am, but I just feel
I would have been so much more happier and I could have done so many more
things for people around me, </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">had I been boy...</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #494949;">I may have given out the aura of being a total feminist, but trust
me I am not one of those women who feel that </span><b><span style="color: #494949;">"We can do </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">EVERYTHING</span><span style="color: #494949;"> a man
can do and ten times better at that"</span></b><span style="color: #494949;">. I definitely don't think I could do
everything a man can.</span></span><br />
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heart and act like everything is okay. <b><i>I have a conscience, I would die of
guilt. </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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there and then and leave nothing HANGING.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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life are innately blessed with intimacy issues,
dishonesty and commitment phobia. All of which I would pitifully fall short at.
I have this need to make people happy, need to make everyone comfortable. In
fact I get an internal anxiety attack should I </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>NOT</b></span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #494949; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"> have something funny or
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lower platform than a Man. Yep, that's how it is. No matter how educated, how
talented, how efficient, how decent looking you are, If you are a </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>GIRL</b></span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #494949; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">, then you
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #494949;">I was recently promoted to </span><b style="color: #494949;">Asst. Design Manager</b><span style="color: #494949;"> and one of male colleagues
comes up to me, and while casually talking about my upcoming projects and the
sorts, he says to me; "</span><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">You know, Neelu, No point in all this career growth
and money business, why don't you try focusing on getting MARRIED! Right now
you are staying with your parents, but you NEED a man to support you sooner
than later. Forget the career, dance and all! Focus on THIS" </span></i> <span style="color: #494949;">Thank you Mr. Smarty Pants, for unraveling
this piece of mystery for me! I will forever stay in your debt, for you have
truly said something that I had not heard from anyone else as of now. </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Pfft! </span></b><span style="color: #494949;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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man, right? But when My Appa, says</span><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"> "You know this is doesn't bring me
happiness,... and you know what will"</span></i><span style="color: #494949;"> that's when I feel that no matter
what I do it just isn't enough. <b>And it would be so much better had I been a
boy.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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unmarried all my life and I would only be looked upon as a wise and lucky man. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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go to a wedding or a social gathering because I know I’m </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>NOT</b></span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #494949; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"> being watched like
a goat in the goat market by vulture like relatives and self appointed match
makers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #494949; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"><b>If I were a boy,</b> I would have had the liberty to date as many
girls as I wanted, gone to all the possible parties, and could have been a “player”
for all I care. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>HOMELY</b></span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #494949; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">, conservative, fair, pretty, well educated and tall girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have the energy to even hear another one of those sugar coated insults, let
along react to one of them. I just wish it was possible to for men and women to
walk in each other shoes for a day, to see and feel the pain they cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I were a boy, I would have been the BEST they had ever seen, no doubt about
that! Also Mr. CLKP, you know what you have done, and its utterly cringe worthy! </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Nothing extraordinary about my lineage, no mixed
blood, no multiple ethnicities merging, mingling and fusing into ONE! Nah,
nothing of that sort. Pure sheer Indian-ess flowing through my veins so to
speak. I am from the South of India. Kerala, God’s own Country (as they
advertise) to be precise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">However, my TASTEBUDS! They are a completely
different story altogether. They are of multiethnic origin! Maternally I choose
to believe and have come to conclude after repeated experiments and tests; I am
of French, Dutch, Chinese, Lebanese, Syrian and Russian ancestry and paternally
of American, Jamaican, English and German Background! No wait, I am serious! I
cannot begin to tell you how much I </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">despise</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> south Indian food and how it messes up my
whole digestive system!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px;">I have tried my level best to make myself come around and take a liking to this particular spiced up, mind numbingly flavor lit dishes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">But the more I try the more I detest it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">When most of my school friends, college mates
and colleagues sing praises and crave for the ghee dripping dosas, piping hot
sambhars, succulently round idlis, steamed puttu and sauted tapioca, all I can
do is dream and yearn for some freshly baked garlic breads, some curly
croissants, maybe a vinegary lettuce salad, or a pie with some spinach and goat
cheese, better still a bouillabaisse or baguette with some cheese! YUM!
Dreaming a little more, some hummus and tabbouli, some arnabeet, and falafels
would be fantastic? Oh wait how about some key lime pie (Dexter, anyone?)
chocolate chip cookies, nachos, or potato chips?? God, I am Hungry!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Having spent my entire life in Dubai, there is
never any shortage of food choices for the one’s with mutli ethnic taste buds
like do, but it is when I have to go to my parent’s homeland and my vacation
home. It is a difficult place to be in, by that I am talking about both India
as well as being in the “Confused Desi” situation. I have spent my whole life
in Dubai, nursery, school, college, post graduation, work, dance everything,
Yet I am Indian and NOT an Emirati by law. Tsk Tsk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Confusion at its best, well this is a topic that
should be discussed at length. Will get come to it later, for now back to the
matter at hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">For me dosa’s, idli’s and sambhar are all an
utter disaster! I mean how can anyone seriously enjoy this for any meal of the
day, let alone breakfast? I find idlis tasteless, soggy and RAW! Btw, the
Kerala dosas are crazier, they are a good 2 inches thick, bland, difficult to
blend and insipid. Sambhar is like water, spicy water with some pieces of
unsavory and ugly veggies swimming around aimlessly! It’s really a wonder that
while I am busy complaining about DOSA, they are people who actually sing songs
praising the dish. Don’t believe me, have a listen! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">The only way I can have South Indian food
without whining, cribbing and voicing my distaste for them is when I COOK them!
Yes, I can cook the very things I so often wish would disappear as a recipe
from minds of all people once and for all. I like to keep my friends close and
my enemies closer! When I cook them, they somehow taste much more…uhmm…
tolerable to ME! Sometimes even delectable. Yes that is the key word, ME! I
like to think something is missing in them, a flavor to much or too little can
be nipped and tucked and made more palpable to my taste buds, when I make them.
And this is the only way I can actually digest the staple dishes from God’s own
country!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com0Unites Arab Emirates25.20494115356912 55.195312521.51137765356912 50.0317385 28.89850465356912 60.3588865tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-48614212168766479622013-07-29T10:50:00.002+04:002013-07-29T10:50:25.968+04:00Missing… Seeking… Finding!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Okay, so I have been missing!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;">No this time around my intention was not
to go under the radar or into hiding etc… Oh I have had my fair share of <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">“hide and
seek sessions’</span></b>… Done that a couple of times in the past, only to realize now that how stupid it is to run away from things/people who should actually be
hiding from me. Alas if only they had the shame and the sense. I have nothing to run away from, so I am staying! Armed with
that self realization, I decided to stand, face and tackle people/issues
that come my way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: justify;">As for this time’s missing goes, I have been lazy when it comes to
actually sitting down and typing those thoughts out for everyone to see. I say
lazy because, usually no matter how busy I am I force myself to find time and
to jot down something to entertain my followers and myself (I presume there are
followers!) I did write, that I did, but I wrote for my eyes only, for even
I, no matter how <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">OPEN</span></b> and <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>VOCAL</b></span> I maybe about my feelings, there are still some
dark, hidden feelings and thoughts I would like to keep veiled from the
whole world. For I know these thought processes do no good and it would only
raise a few questions about the stability of my mind and shed light onto my
criminal instincts. Now I </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">wouldn't</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: justify;"> want that would I? <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>NOT AT ALL!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The thing is my company <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">(not to mislead you, I am an EMPLOYEE, I do not
own the company, but I feel and am made to feel as though it is my own… after
all having spent 5.5 years with the same organization and having played a key
role in its growth, it’s fair to call it “MY” company!)</span></i> has been growing
exponentially, and with exponential growth comes extreme work pressure, time
constraints and a mad number of arguments both internally and externally. All
in all with all this and my daily dose of body numbing activities, I agree
writing and other creative aspects of my life did take a back seat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Writing holds a very strong place in my life, expressing my feelings and
my opinions of any and everything under the sun has always been one of my core
strengths. So since I </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">wasn't</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> into any of my usual creative outlets, neither
dancing, nor blogging or taking pictures, I had these conversations with <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>MYSELF</b></span>. <b>On the way to work, on the way back, going to bed and waking up in the
morning.</b> An internal dialogue discussing, debating, and coming to conclusions
on various different matters at hand. I believe it is truly beautiful to be
able to have a conversation with oneself and know yourself. It is in many ways
spiritual, it awakens your awareness, your mind, body and soul all twining,
unwinding and reaching out for some sort of release, for some sort of closure.
It is quite similar to meditating. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Concentrating on one particular word for
definite period of time triggers a similar reaction. </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px;">It is a fabulous way to mediate! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">For example think of word, an interesting one at that, and keep repeating it umpteen number of times and soon you will be in a trance! The word need not be religious, it be something as interesting and beautiful as <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EUNOIA</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><b>(yoo-NOH-ee-ah)</b> — It comes from a Greek word meaning "well
mind" or "beautiful thinking." It is also rarely used medical
term referring to a state of normal mental health. <b>PERFECT Right?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Adding a bit of trivia, </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 9pt;">(</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">BTW</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> did i mention learning new words is a hobby?)</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> this word is the shortest word in the </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">English</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> language that contains
all 5 vowels! <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EUNOIA</span></b> is also said to be one of the bases needed for a trusting friendship between husband and wife. <b>A Beautiful mind.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">There are always people around us, family, friends, colleagues, social
networks, media, and the rest to tell us what to do, what to think, how to
think, what to react and how to react. We must listen to each and every one of
them and then <b>THINK</b> for ourselves, yes? This exhilarating internal conversation
is exactly that for me. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>A combination of clearing my mind’s attic, meditating
and rejuvenating.</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;">We often look for answers in others, in other things, in places. If only
we spend a fraction of this time to look inside us. Once we do, we will find
the exact answers, all of them, right inside us. Inside us we have a large,
unexplored sea, a sea to answer all the right questions, then why is it that we
are content getting bits and pieces of trivial tit- bits from outside? We need
to move the curtains clouding over our brains, our ideas and then we find all
the answers and we get what we seek.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>What is it that I seek?</b> I seek only <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">ONE THING</span></b>. But in line to achieving that<span style="color: #cc0000;"> ONE</span> thing, I seek smaller things. I seek-ed a change of
AIR. A change of atmosphere, a cut off from the monotony and the mundane daily
affairs, and what have I got was a two week vacation off my beloved homeland by
default, by circumstances and by <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>CHOICE </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px;">to my Homeland by nature of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">ancestry</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;">But now I am back, revived, refreshed and re-energized to face the big
bad world of business. Back to my favorite place, </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">DUBAI. </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;">Back to recounting my
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com0Dubai - United Arab Emirates25.084355134867106 55.2145385742187524.969357634867105 55.053177074218752 25.199352634867108 55.375900074218748tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-21383723429497961622013-05-05T16:25:00.000+04:002013-05-05T16:48:54.647+04:00I LOVE MY AMMAMA.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">I get epiphany's quite a lot
and just like that</span></b>. One minute I am in the real world, doing my thing, <i><b>(or might
I add, sulking about something/someone, for that seems to be what I am precociously
occupied with these days!)</b></i> and the next minute I am thinking about the most random
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Just the other day, I was in a
meeting with a Project Manager of a large consultancy, discussing possibilities
of working together and going through my company profile with him. While skimming
through one particular slide, and looking at the recently completed <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Costa
Coffee</span></b>'s pictures, the project manager turns to me and says <b><i>"Wow, what's that beautiful color? Grape
wine - ish red?"</i></b>. And I froze. It's really surprising how one thing can lead
to the other and I was suddenly thinking and missing my grandmother, my Ammama.
The Key word here was, believe it or not <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>GRAPE</b></span>. My Ammama used to feed me
grapes, not just any grapes, <i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Grapes with seeds</span></b></i>! <i>They are the ones with the
perfect blend of both sweetness and sourness, she used to say and what she used
to do was, cut the seed out of each and every grape and feed them to me while I
happily completed my homework and satiated my sweet tooth.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Did the project manager need to
say</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;">Grape wine - ish red</span>, </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">I don't
know. How did I manage to catch hold of this particular tangent and fly off , I
really don't know, but I do know is</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;">I
miss my Ammama. A Lot.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A lot of people, I know, have
had all 4 of their grandparents around them as they grew up. I was one of those
lucky few as well, but fortunately or unfortunately I was only close to my
maternal grandparents. Will get into the details of why, what and which later...
much later, possibly if and when I publish my </span><span style="line-height: 14px;">semi autobiographical</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> tell all
book. Writing and publishing runs in my family, <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>s</b></span></span></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>o do not be overtly surprised</b></span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">, my aunt, my mother's younger sister
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6939644.Sindhu_S_" target="_blank">Sindhu S</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">has recently published an un - put - down -able</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"> book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Plunge-A-Love-Story/dp/1461159253" target="_blank">The Plunge</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">! </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Its
touching, beautiful and heartfelt! I am not just saying this because <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">she is my "</span></i></b></span><span style="line-height: 14px;"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">favorite-st</span></i></b></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">"
aunt</span></i></b>, but because she was simply awesome in her debut novel!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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wonderful, tumultuous and poignant love story of a young, contemporary Indian
woman, her trials and tribulations and her pursuit of happiness, love and her
man.</i></b> The emotions are so raw and real it keeps leaping out of the pages and
finally when the book comes to a surprising end, I was left with a heavy heart.
the emotional turmoil, the confusion, the multitude of emotions that the
protagonist as well as the other characters go through have all been so
beautifully captured! <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>A heartbreaking romantic novel that will stay in my heart
now and forever</b></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>!!! </b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">digressed</span></b>, but not too far I must say, still very much within the family! <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>My maternal
grandparents</b></span>. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">I simply love
my Ammama and Valichan. From as far as I can remember, they are the ones who
distinctly stand out in all my childhood memories, I would like to think I am, my
Ammama's favorite <i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">(Sorry Sannu, Kannan and Kitchu, but I very immodestly would
like to think so.)</span></b></i> But let me add, this is for no extraordinary doing of mine,
but purely because I was and am her first grandchild, the child of her first
daughter.<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">I have been pampered by her to the end of the world and
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She had my mother!!! <i>(You can read about Ma <a href="http://neelanchana.blogspot.ae/2010/03/my-incomparable-ma.html" target="_blank">here</a> </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><i>)</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She loves to dress up.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Her gorgeous smile and her laugh is contagious!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Talking to her on the phone.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She LOVES sweets!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">That she’s tiny, but tough!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She loves a good romance story.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Her love of a good shopping trip.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She loves her soaps, she is the one who introduced me to
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199197/" target="_blank">Celeste</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">,
a <b style="color: #cc0000;">SPANISH </b><i>(who cares about the language anyway!) </i>TV series, no less! <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>I remember both of staring at the actors and
trying to comprehend the exact story!</b></i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She introduced me to the love of TV Series!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She’s funny as can be!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She loves makeup and likes to see me all dressed up!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Her strength – emotionally and spiritually.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She looks beautiful in </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">ALL </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">colors.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She worries about me, a </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b>LOT</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She’s a proud Grandma and could wait to be a proud Great-Grandma
as well. </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">I am sorry Ammama, it seems to me, the only way I can make your this
dream come true is by forgoing the tried and tested marriage route<b> (not for
the lack of trying but for the lack of succeeding in being found by the right
suitor)</b> and adopting a gorgeous little baby girl.</span></i></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She loves to travel, but she is okay not travelling just to close to Vallichan and take
care of him.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She’s beautiful.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Her never-give-up attitude! </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">(Even after 5 years of
relentlessly trying and failing to get me hooked, she continues to be
confident!)</span></b></i></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Cares about the food she puts into her body!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She’s sweet. Very, very sweet.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Remembers a ton of stuff… it always amazes me.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Loves to see pictures of her family.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She’s incredible.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She has gorgeous grey eyes!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">She is feisty and likes to get things done in her way. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b><i>I
seem to have doubly inherited this trait, from both Ammama and Ma! The Feisty - ness
seems have grown leaps and bounds, I must say!</i></b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">I’m truly the lucky one to have her in my life… my whole life I
have felt her love. She’s someone who I just love to pieces and feel honored to
have as my Grandma, though she does do her bit to annoy the crap out of me sometimes. Maybe its not her, not anyone else, its </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">ME</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">! </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">I could work with that. -_-</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">I do hope that if I’m blessed with a long of life I would like to imbibe a lot of things from my Ammama - wrinkly, beautiful, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 14px;">wise,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">and completely trusting in God’s providence. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Love you Ammama and even though I hate the place you stay in I will seen you soon! Promise!</span></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">In case you don't know who she is... Author... Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse... Breaking Dawn, and The Host!)</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">I really like the way she
writes. Don't ask me how, but I see a connection. In some weird, odd, random
and definitely</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">CRAZY</span></b><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">way I see a</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> bond!</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Enough said.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">I love collecting things,
be it movies, books, songs, pictures, and whatever else that catches my fancy.
I am what I like to call an</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Eclectic</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">LIBRARIAN</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">of
sorts. Ever since I was small, I dreamed of having a</span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b style="color: #c00000;">LIBRARY </b><span style="color: #444444;">all to myself</span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">! Complete collection of all my favorite
authors, actors, singers, musicians, from A to Z</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">(arranged
chronologically under different languages, and alphabetically, my Obsessive
compulsive self can have it NO other way! Ahan!).</span></i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Bless every single person who is willingly (or unwillingly) going
to help me in this endeavor! You guys are</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">BRILL</span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">!!</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Clearly, all this won't
happen overnight, so I have started my</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">''Collection"</span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">and as a part of this I brought the</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">"THE HOST"</span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">right
when I was bringing together the whole Twilight series. I didn't read it until
much later, though, I was far too enamored by Edward and Bella to bother about
it! But when I finally managed to read,</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">I LOVED
IT</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">!</span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">I have
read book at least five times since then. I can, in fact, tell you most of the
conversations between the characters as well!</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Yep, I
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">So you can imagine my
excitement when I heard of the movie coming out! But when I saw the lead
actors, my enthusiasm dropped a couple of notches down. Then again I wanted to
watch the movie to see how they would have shoot certain crucial scenes and how
the whole chemistry between the two main characters</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">(Melanie Stryder and Wanderer, One Body two
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Disappointment is an
understatement!</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Utter
Failure</span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">! Poor adaption, bad casting, slow, silly, stupid and</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">soporific. I cannot begin to express my utter frustration at such
a lack luster product!</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; text-align: left;">Maybe I am not in their target audience category, but trust me
these tweens</span><span style="color: #454545; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #454545;">(who
made Twilight a</span></i><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #454545;"> </span></i><b style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #c00000;">MASSIVE</span></i></b><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #454545;"> </span></i><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #454545;">Success)</span></i><span style="color: #454545; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #454545; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #454545; text-align: left;">who are disillusioned with abandoned Victorian-style
romanticism will</span><span style="color: #454545; text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">NOT</span></b><span style="color: #454545; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #454545; text-align: left;">associate themselves to these completely unattractive star cast!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">What I love about Stephanie is her quaintly</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">archaic ideas on morality, old-fashioned love and
emotional dilemmas of being stuck in between two cross species men. This time
around, Meyer, </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">centered
on a leading lady whose dual personality hinges on</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Body Snatchers</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">like notion.</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Trouble
is, the future depicted is created not by us, but by aliens</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">(A race of aliens named Souls, small silvery
beings who look like furry balls with tiny fiber-optic cables, who can survive
only by colonizing other creatures and finding a Host! They crawl into the back
of the necks and take over the body)</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">who
have taken over the planet and enslaved its human population.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">They're not such bad fellows these souls:</span></i></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> C</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">onsiderate, always mindful of the common
good, utterly peaceful, they transform the whole world into one big modern colony populated by
Valium-ingesting Stepford Wives <b><i>( How i love that movie!)</i></b>. They wear immaculate white outfits and drive sleek sports cars. By comparison, the human survivors live savage, angry, sweaty,
smelly lives.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Meyer's story poses several interesting questions about the
nature of human identity</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">(are we
our minds or our bodies?)</span></i></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">and
that perennial cliché, Can humans cohabit without hatred and violence? But the
pace is too apathetic, the characters too laid-back. And the</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">WORST</span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">part,
The Host isn't even good at the romance. There's not very much fervor, no zeal
and</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">NO</span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">passion on screen!!</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Once inside a host, the Soul takes over, killing off the
original personality. This is what happened with the Movie as well, it took
over the Book and</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">KILLED</span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">IT</span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">!</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">(No,
not in the way we</span></i><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">SHOULD</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">in the Gym... this is in the</span></i><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></i><b><i><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">BAD BAD</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Way!)</span></i></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-14175614011411158892013-04-25T18:04:00.001+04:002013-04-25T18:04:15.015+04:00I AM HUNGRY.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><b>Yes. Forever and Always.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">I accept I am guilty of eating all
the <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">TIME</span></b>! Well, you have to give it to me,
hunger is harder to decipher than thirst!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 18px;"> Call me the victim of </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>FAUX HUNGER</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 18px;">! But turns out I am not the <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">ONLY</span></b> one! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">So what do you know, fellow hungry peeps? We may be actually
eating for the <b><span style="color: #c00000;">WRONG
REASONS! GULP!</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Potato Chips? Sandwiches?
Salads? Rice? </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">CUPCAKES!</b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"> WE are </span><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">GAME, </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">aren't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> we!</span></span></b></div>
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I have had food, I am hungry. I can eat
and be satiated for 30 min or so and then<b> BAM</b>!... <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>I am Hungry, AGAIN.</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">I would like to blame my Liver!
Yes Liver. If it weren't for this organ of mine sending the WRONG signals to the
Hypothalamus, I wouldn't be eating so much, that too so Often. <b><i>Damn you, Oh
Confused Liver!<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">The story of my life may as
well be named the <b>HUNGER GAMES</b>! I am
constantly playing with food and my baffled hypothalamus. But one look at those
extra calories, and I am like, <b>WHAT!</b> Did I eat all of that!! Lays Cheese
flavored chips, why you do this to <b>ME??</b> Why??<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">I was so hungry yesterday, or
rather blinded by this conniving liver of mine, that I actually dropped and
broke my favorite <b><span style="color: #c00000;">RED</span></b> nail polish bottle dreaming about sinking
my teeth into some scrumptious paneer filled <i>dosa</i>, with some spicy white
<i>chutney</i>, some piping hot <i>sambhar </i>and <i>teekhi</i>
onion chutney! YUM! Too bad I had to
spend the next <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">ONE</span></b> hour cleaning,
sweeping and removing the red stains from all over the beautiful white flooring in my room! Tsk! But, when
I finally managed to bite into my dosa, it did feel well deserved! <i>(Trust me to
find some "Divine Intervention" scenarios in the direst of situations! Pat. Pat.)</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">But I am done getting tricked
by these False cues. I ain't letting no obesity touch me! NO way! I have
decided, the minute I am tricked into
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Drink water first!!</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"> Hunger test - I am going to
try drinking a glass of water and wait for 15 minutes before cruising down to
the refrigerator. If I continue to be <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HUNGER</span></b>, then I am just going to go ahead
and eat. <b>Ting!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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then it’s probably not really </span><span style="line-height: 14px;">food-time</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="line-height: 115%;">YET!</b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Zzzz - ing MORE!</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Lack of sleep increases
appetite, hunger, and food intake. </span></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">(I am not complaining!!! The More the sleep the merrier) </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Let</span></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"> 's </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">grab those </span></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">NINE</b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> hours of sleep
to </span></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">avoid </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">overeating. </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">(Seven Hours is so </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">passé</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">! and NOW have an excuse as well, don't we! </span></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">YAY</b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">)</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">De-stress.</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> (Well can anyone tell me, what the </span></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">HELL DE
- STRESSING</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> means?) Ahem... I mean, how does one effectively </span><span style="line-height: 14px;">DE</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> stress, if I
may?<b> STRESS, the Five Lettered word of DOOM</b> in this case may lead to reaching out for that cookie jar when we’re not actually
hungry... soooo Let's look for other ways to calm the troubled mind to prevent using food for
comfort. <i>(Okay, I will be lying if I said, I am going to find some other way, I mean <b>WHAT</b> other way is there, anyway???)</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Slow down. </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is important! I mean this is something I completely agree with! In fact Mum and I keep yelling at my brother, who runs from the dinner table to the dessert section! Immediately!! It does take time to
actually feel</span></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"> FULL</b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> after a meal, so before reaching for dessert directly after dinner/ lunch/ breakfast </span></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><b>(Don't judge ME! I have a sweet tooth, okay!)</b></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">, let's wait up to twenty minutes to see if the stomach can really </span><span style="line-height: 14px;">accommodate</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> more
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">a) Its the start of the WEEKEND!!! YAY!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">b) I am <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HUNGRY</span></b>! I have to Order PIZZA NOW! Or Do I ????<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b></span></span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EEK EEK!!!!</span></b></i></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-31791868840813472842013-04-23T18:11:00.001+04:002013-04-23T18:11:54.762+04:00Pushed to the Limit!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mark my words! One more infuriating <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">THING/
PERSON/WHATEVER</span></b> in my life and I am officially going <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">"Run Away"</span></b> !</span></span><br />
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<b>MYSELF</b>. Stop, Cease being <a href="http://about.me/neelanchana.kumar" target="_blank"><b>Neelanchana Kumar</b></a>. Go to a faraway place, live in a
shack and name myself, <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Soda</span></b> and fizzle out eventually!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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lack of peace of mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Things are hectic at work.</span> </span></b><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Too much to do, too little time, too many
responsibilities, people who wait for ME to take initiative and spoon feed
everyone. That's not going happen no more, my friends! NOT happening!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Things are jumbled at heart.</span> </span></b><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Confusion, tension, apprehension, expectation,
loneliness and madness.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><br /></span></span></div>
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in the clouds? The bright side? What is the comforting prospect?? This post of mine is my way of finding that
silver <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">LINING</span></b>! <b><i>(Thanks VJ, you know who you are! Much Love)</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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may actually think, <i>"OMG she is MAD, she is always ranting about negativity
and things NOT going right in her life, such an ungrateful person!" </i>Well I
could be Mad, not sure, I don't know. But I could have known that for sure had I
created all these scenarios in my head and tried fighting it <b>IN</b> there. Since
that is not the <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">CASE</span></b>, I consider myself perfectly<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> SANE. </b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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life I have and the very many things don't have to go through. God, in fact,
always shows me time and again how grateful and thankful I should be for my Life.
It's not the riches of the world, money, fame, glamour etc that I want or I am
craving for. What I am begging for Peace of Mind and my <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>HEART!<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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the more they seem to come after me. Leave me alone, please don't annoy me,
please don't make it your life's goal to follow what I am doing!! I don't mind,
nice happy people following my Blog (s), my twitter and stuff.<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> That's all cool,
yo!</span></b> But what is not cool is stalking me on Facebook, calling me a 100 times
when I clearly don't want to talk to you, etc etc. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Don't do that. Really Don't!</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of people you meet are nice, caring and considerate. They go out of their way
to be polite, they help if they can and they truly care about the well-being of
people around them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and cumbersome jerks at work, and another places I frequent! I like making
conversations with absolute strangers, smiling at them and sharing a joke or
two and they are all <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">GOOD</span></b>! But the minute someone actually starts working with
me, the same smiling, sweet person decides to take full on advantage of me,
milking his or her way to the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>MAXIMUM!</b></span> Here are a few top things that piss the crap
out of <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">ME</span></b>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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exact opposite direction of where I am headed to!")</i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Dear <b>"Audibly challenged
friend of mine"</b>, Can you please tone yourself a couple of notches down. We
NEED NOT hear your entire conversation, it's is physically painful! <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Stop! </b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;">Arrive late for meetings. Why do you pick a Time and NOT stick to it??
Life is short my friend!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;">“Borrow” money - <b>WHY</b> do you want to borrow money, <i>Oh Highly paid senior
of mine</i>? Why? Haven't you heard of <i>"Jitni chadar hai utna hi pair failana
chahiye"</i> ?? In short, stay within your <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">MEANS</span></b>, and not within everyone
else's <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>MEANS</b></span>! </span></li>
<li><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;">Staring at <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>MY FOOD</b></span>! Oh, you are eating this? OH, <b>SALAD</b>, OH <b>VEEGIES</b> Oh....
<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">STOP</span></b>! I am not staring down your food, am I? Then quit making my food feel
naked and violated! And stop making me get diarrhea.</span></li>
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gives you a <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">SMALL IDEA</span></b>, No?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on the road, I could still ignore them, get up and leave, how can I ignore them
when their crazy selves are in my <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>FACE</b></span>! So how do you deal with irritating
people at work? With that in mind, I have decided to come up with a few strategies
that can help <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>ME</b></span> become less irritated while at work. I just tried some of the
below thoughts, and I won't lie, though it didn't <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>HELP</b></span> me all that much, I was
a hell of a lot better that simply dreaming about revenge and scheming to
KILL them. <i>( Believe you me, I have
dreamt up scenarios wherein I boil, skin and poke venomous syringes on <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>CERTAIN</b></span>
"Fantastic" people!)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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gets your goat at work, let's try:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Staying calm. </span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">(Ignoring the dork and singing <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO_zypdnsQ" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Mother, Father... Gentleman.</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">in your
head) </span></span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Sometimes when you get really mad, you may end up doing something rash, </span><i style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">(For example - Threatening to throw the PC
on someone's head... What you haven't done it?.... Don't judge me!). </i><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">If you
can stay calm <i>(and sing in your head)</i>, you’re more likely to choose
constructive actions</span><i style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> (Not that throwing
the PC wasn't but let's focus on saving the infrastructure, shall we?)</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">When you stay calm, you really annoy those who want to annoy others. <b>(Take
that you crazy JERK!) </b></span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">If that person is truly out to annoy you <i>(which I am sure they <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">ARE</span></b>)</i>, the
very best way to annoy them back is to stay cool. Be the cool cat, Be the cool
cat on life <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>ONE</b></span>! Deny them the satisfaction of getting you riled. They <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>HATE</b></span>
that.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Getting mad often means staying mad. <i>(Not good at all for those nasty migraines,
I say!) </i></span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">When we get irritated with someone, we get sucked into up into this dark,
devious plot of theirs, <b>making us Mad and keeping us in that Vile mood for a
long, long time.</b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">We <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">ONLY</span></b> Harm ourselves. </span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the people watching any of this dramas, isn't going to help, or
get in involves, all they are going to do, is stand there and stare and laugh
at our expense! Getting annoyed really harms no one but US. We don't want to be
their daily dose of <i><b>Gossip Girl</b></i> and <b><i>Boston Legal</i></b>, do we? <i>(Drifting away,
special prayers and thoughts for all those affected in Boston. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>#PrayForBoston</b></span>)</i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Getting irritated makes it easier to get mad the next time. </span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Once we get angry with someone, we are on our defense from there on, and
we start a cycle of anger – which means it takes less and less to set <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>US</b></span> off. </span><b style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Curse
you Oh, Vicious circle!</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Instead of getting mad at these maddening people – Lets feel sorry for
them. </span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Jerks are very often jerks because they feel bad about themselves. Hating
them is really a waste of time – lets invent stories about their sorry lives
and feel sorry for them instead. No yelling, no fight, Just <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>PITY</b></span> and some
creativity!!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Lets Laugh about it! </span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Y</span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">es, their behavior is crazy, but the closer we look, it's going to be mostly
pathetic and ridiculous. Lets Laugh at it, rather than get annoyed. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Lol - ing
is good, No?</b></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;">That being said, Once in a while,<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> SCREAMING</span></b> your
head would be <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>PERFECT</b></span>, but let's just keep it for the <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">BEACH</span></b>! Having a
screaming, shouting match with the huge, loud roaring waves is the best way to
go about it. After all the Beach is a much worthy opponent, as supposed to
these measly and I.Q. challenged colleagues of ours! <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Agree?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">By the way, by no means are we turning into meek
and humble and all with holding wimps. It's about not getting angry over crazy
people, because getting angry is rarely good for <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">US</span></b>. Once in a while, getting
angry may be just the ticket, though. It can be exactly what’s needed to unlock
a tight situation. It’s not about getting angry, it’s about getting angry in
the right way. And in most situations, let's find that<span style="color: #cc0000;"> <b>COOL</b></span> and <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">KEEP IT COOL</span></b>! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: grey; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Anybody can become
angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right
degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way –
that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.</span></i></b></div>
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have started a Brand NEW Blog!!!</span> YAY! :D
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knew I could not hold back, but little did I know, that I was well on my way to
unleash a tsunami of emotions onto my unsuspecting victims! <b>Design Yatra </b>is yet
another humble attempt at expressing myself, but less of me and more of my
WORK. Capturing the essence of the journey My Art, my Design, my Photography
and my Passions. You can read more about why created this <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">ONE </span></b>here <b><a href="http://neelanchanakumar.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/1/" target="_blank">Yet Another Blog</a> </b>and follow my work there. It will be much appreciated!!! <b>Thanks!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Appa, how do I look?”</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Beaming ear to ear moving
my body side to side giving my Appa an all round glimpse of my dolled up self, hoping
to hear him say, you look <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">GREAT</span></b>! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And what do I get in
return.. <i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">“OMG you are slowly turning into a mini elephant! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What happened to my daughter??? Remember the
time, when you used to look like Shilpa Shetty?? So thin, so tall and so beautiful!!!
?</span></b></i> You need exercise..,” My Mum joins in at this point to add, <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>“Oh and you don’t
even dance at home any more, this Kathak has only made you FAT… look at your
father, he still wakes up every morning, every single day and exercise’s, what……..”</b></i></span>
At this point I slowly stop listening to them, or you could say my sheer
unsaturated <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>FAT</b></span> traveled all the way from my supposedly bloated face and botched
arms into my ear drums and clogged them, making me <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>DEAF</b></span>!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>GASP!</b> So I am <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>FAT</b></span>! This is
a shocker, I mean, common I used to model in college, people used to say I had
the perfect figure… and more importantly, what the hell happened? Looking the
mirror and gauging my reflection, I am <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>SHOCKED</b></span> to see this <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>FAT CAT</b></span>, yes a fat
cat, much like a very pampered and babied offspring of a cross breed between <i><b>a plump
Persian feline and a lazy Peke-Faced tomcat</b></i> instead of my previously well toned </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>What I am going to
DO?!?!</b></span> Well, I hated exercising! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Yes I hated it. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>With a staunch
and unwavering passion. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I thought who in the
right mind would knowingly make themselves sweat, get tired and huff and puff
for a normal breath of oxygen?? But nonetheless I <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>HAD</b></span> to do something about my
renewed state of bodily affairs. So what do I do? <i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">For starters I dreamt, of a
machine, wherein I could simply lie down, relax and ponder over life’s many
uncertainties, complexities or maybe even about my next blog entry!!</span> </b></i>And while I
would think of ways to make the world a better place, this machine would
magically cut into my fat, tone away the unflattering curves, and eat into
other such unpleasantness! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ahh… This was but, my first
stage, the stage of procrastination and avoiding the job at hand, this went on
for a while, until I realized that most of my gorgeous dresses and blouses
where all… ahem, <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>TIGHT</b></span>! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could no
longer do this to myself! Right? <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>OF COURSE</b></span> I couldn’t… but again I just slept
on it! But come <i><b>July 27<sup>th</sup> 2012, a hectic Friday morning</b></i>, it all just
came rushing to me… This was a time, three very important people in my life
where on a holiday, my mum, my brother and my dear friend, I was cooking,
cleaning, sulking and missing them all terribly, and suddenly I said to my
Appa, <i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>“Appa, let’s go to the GYM, I want to join!!!” </b></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Don’t ask me what got
into me, but that realization changed a lot of things for me… By early
afternoon, I had enrolled, shopped around for comfortable gym clothes <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>(shopping
is inevitable! Don’t you know that by now?!?)</b></i></span> and I had visited the gym for the
first time in so many years!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">It’s not the machines,
it’s not the fancy equipments and the treadmills of the world that got me
hooked! It is <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>ABUZAR</b></span>! The Man and his wonderful class of Body combat changed my
Life! At every point in life I have something I get unbelievably attached and
bonded to! <i><b>Photography, blogging, sketching and many more things have at
different timelines all being extremely important to ME.</b></i></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The first time I walked into the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>Body Combat</b></i></span> class, I was shocked to see
a group of 40 to 50 odd people all screaming on top of their lungs, to <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>HA’s, HO’s
and HEY’s</b></i></span> and jumping, kicking, cross punching as though their very existence
depended on <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>IT</b></span>. It was beautiful to see all these people vehemently and dedicatedly
working to keep themselves fitter, healthier and stronger! I was ashamed to see
old aunties, uncles and as well as people with disabilities all trying their
level best to keep up with the class whereas I used to think of ways to avoid exercising!!
<i><b>Just as I stood there contemplating and analyzing, this extremely sweaty and
energetic man standing high up on a podium gestured me to join in.</b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> That was
Abuzar!</b></span></i> This handsome Iranian man is undoubtedly the best body combat teacher I
have seen in all my months working out.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For those of you who are
wondering what Body combat is all about…. <i><b>Well it is an empowering cardio
workout inspired by The Martial Arts. This class incorporates disciplines
such as Karate, Boxing, Tae Kwon Do, Tai Chi, and Muay Thai for a fierce
calorie burning workout.</b></i> It is </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a fiercely energetic martial arts
workout wherein you are left feeling totally <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">UNLEASHED</span></b> and <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>EMPOWERED</b></span>. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is an exceptionally <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>FUN </b></span>and <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">EXCITING
CLASS</span></b>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An adrenaline pumped, and action-packed
class. Abuzar and body combat made me love to sweat and pant, it made me feel empowered
and inspired. It also a wonderful way to get the negativity and hatred out of
you and makes you live the life of <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>FIGHTER</b></span>! I have always secretly <i><b>(NOT quiet)</b></i>
wanted to get into a physical fight, get into the life of a soldier, a fighter
in the ring, both in mind and spirit and my body combat sessions headed by the
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>fierce Abuzar</b></i></span> has helped me get a taste of exactly that and also has gotten me
addicted to <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>IT</b></span>!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Both A and B <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>(Abuzar and Body Combat)</b></i></span>
have both helped me appreciate the beauty in Losing!!! The beauty and the
happiness in losing <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>WATER</b></span> content, losing <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">INCHES</span></b>, losing <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>WEIGHT</b></span> and at the same
time, gaining my <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>HAPPINESS </b></span>and gaining an <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>INTEREST IN EXERCISING</b></span>, to the extent
of working out for straight <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">THREE HOURS</span></b>!!!</span></div>
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and B</b></span> have been on Hold for the past two months! Thanks to me not feeling all
that well, and being down under, I have been missing both! That being said, I was
still <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>FIGHTING</b></span>, fighting to get back on my feet, after this terrible fiasco
that I was in!!!</span></div>
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all this, I can’t wait to get back to <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">IT</span></b>! <i><b>I am ready with my shoes, my combat wear,
my raring to go attitude and a smile as I head towards my mission, what mission
did you ask? </b></i></span></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-74581912317892487222013-01-21T17:04:00.000+04:002013-01-21T17:05:02.166+04:00Work Calling.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">It was a moment of both joy and caution. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Joy</b></span>
because I was productive once again! <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Cautious</span></b> as I am wary of any more illness
coming way!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">It's no fun falling sick, but what is even
more worse is when your mentally, emotionally and physically down, <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">ALL</span></b> at the
same time. To top it all, I was the unlucky one to have perfectly managed do so
during the <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">holiday season</span></b>! Christmas,
New Year's Eve, Dubai Shopping Festival and <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">SALES</span></b> and instead of frolicking,
eating, having fun and <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">SHOPPING</span></b>, I
decide to writhe in pain, moan, sulk and put myself under house arrest!! <b>Beat
it!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">I have been longing to go away, to some far...
faraway place, where it's just Me and my <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">"Tanhayee"</span></b> <i>(Loneliness)</i>. Oh, No.. I am perfectly
fine. But there comes a point where in you just want to be with <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>YOURSELF </b></span>and no
one else. Have a vacation with yourself, in fact I have been in a similar frame
of mind a while back as well. Read <a href="http://neelanchana.blogspot.com/2011/02/wanderlust.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Wanderlust</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Much as I was desperately longing for a
change, both in scenery as well as in heart <i>(Don't ask!)</i>, I was <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>NOT</b></span> at all
prepared for what I had in store. Come September 13th 2012, and I saw myself
being beaten about both physically and emotionally thanks to the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>"Omnipotent"</b></span>.
My dear friend <i>Maimoona</i>, told me recently, that, <b><i>"God only tests those
people whom he truly loves and he gives only as much as we can take, i.e. both
Good and Bad"</i></b>. One thing is for sure, <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HE</span></b> has a pretty wrong idea about <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>HOW
MUCH I CAN TAKE</b></span>! I definitely can take a lot more of <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>GOOD</b></span> you know!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">During my time out of the real world, I
actually understood that I have been personally handpicked by <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HIM</span></b> as his very
own plaything. An Eye Allergy, Blisters
in the Mouth, followed by Ulcers, Viral Fever, Losing my voice, Food Poisoning,
a Car Accident, a chronic condition, Allergies, and what not! I asked for a <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">BREAK</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HE</span></b> took it in its <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>LITERAL SENSE</b>. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">But one thing I have come to realize is that returning
to work after an extended sick leave is not that difficult, as opposed to
coming back from say a happy vacation <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">(a
phenomenon I seem to have experienced ages ago!)</span></i></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">When I decided I would join back,
I was not still not sure I was all okay, but then I thought </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">the earlier you resume
daily activities, the quicker and more fully I am likely to recover. By getting
myself up and moving as well as facing routine challenges, work can be
therapeutic in fact for the mind and body. It at least gives me something to
think about, something positive that is. Staying at home has some definite
negatives, one of them being, <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">FREE TIME</span></b>.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">When you have unlimited free time in your hands and an
empty mind at your disposal, we are </span></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">BOUND</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> to have negative thoughts. </span></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><i>(Sannu... BOUND! LOL)</i></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> This negativity being triggered by
the ever so informative newspapers, and overtly dramatic, high on sugar content
and elaborately romantic Hindi TV Serials! But if it were up to my Mum and Appa,
they would say, The negativity is all because of the numerous criminal, mystery/
horror, crime drama and police </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">procedural's</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> that I watched day in and day out
during my involuntary time off. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">I completely disagree! </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">These series are if anything <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">ENERGETIC</span></b>!! They are like an
instant adrenaline booster, it makes you want to stand up, go and catch a few
of those criminals and beat the crap out of them and set them right. While I am
at the topic of beating up, there are certain other people I would really love
to beat up! Certain<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 'Mummy's <i>pallu</i>
loving' </span></b>Boys, certain people who expect you to totally forget your unhappiness
and sickness, always think and be happy for them, and certain people who refuse to leave you
alone and make you dwell and drown more and more in a pond of unhappiness and pessimism,...
etc, etc kind of People!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Okay I agree,
these shows do get you a tad bit aggressive! But they are all legitimate cases,
<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">I assure you. </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Coming back to the topic at hand, I am </span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><b>BACK to WORK</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">, barring
a two repulsive faces and one obnoxious "Voice" I had to deal with, I
am glad I am </span></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">BACK</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">! I am </span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><b>BACK</b> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">to a new positive zone</span></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"> <i>(Hopefully)</i></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> and armed with
a elite, exclusive set of people and things in my life people</span></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>(having thrown
out the unreliable, unstable and confused set)</b></span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">. Since I was anyway letting <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">GO</span></b>
of <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>"Certain"</b></i></span> </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">destructiveness, </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> I have grabbed the opportunity to let go of<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> ALL</span></b> unpleasantness!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">And I pray <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HE</span></b> realizes that this favorite plaything too
deserves a couple of good things thrown in periodically to give me more power
to take on <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HIS</span></b> very unpredictable and painful Games. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Till then it's me, <b>Neelu reporting back to Work</b>! YAY! <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Touch Wood!</span></b></span></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-16430879488071620562013-01-01T15:28:00.001+04:002013-01-01T15:33:01.584+04:00Dear God,<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 18px;">I feel I am supposed to start the New Year with a prayer, a request, a plea to make this one a much nicer year as compared to the one that has gone by. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I want to pray, I want to ask
you so many things, I want you to make everything OK, but I am at a loss of
words and I can’t seem to go any further than <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">“WHY</span></b><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">”</span></b>? No one has ever told me
not to question <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">YOU</span></b>. Even if they did I </span><span style="line-height: 14px;">wouldn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> comply. I want to question. I
want to rant. I want to talk. I want to whisper. And Yell. You will eventually
respond won’t you? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">God, I am hurt; I don’t want to be
hurt anymore. I want to get over the hurt; I want to <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">breathe easily,
comfortably</span></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">God, I am tired; I don’t want to be
tired anymore. I want to <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">be my old self again</span></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">God, I am sad; I don’t want to be
sad anymore. I want to <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">b</span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>e happy and blissful</b></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">God, I am sick; I don’t want to be
sick anymore. I want to <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>be healthy and activ</b></span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">e</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">God, I am confused; I don’t want to
be confused anymore. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>I want to know who I am</b></span>. I need to know who I am. If you
could just, hear me out and help me, tell me who I am? Why I am like this? Why
are people the way they are? How can people break hearts so easily?? Break
promises so easily? Take us for fools so easily? Why do people lie so much? How
can they lie so blatantly? Do I have been responsible for things that are
beyond my control? For things I am born with?
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">God, where are you?</span></b> Where were
you when I asked you for Signs before? Where are you when people desperately
need you? Where were you when that crazy guy gunned down so many naive children
and young people? Where were you when that poor innocent girl was being
brutally violated? What were you doing? Why did you let it happen? <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Why?</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Please promise me you will show
me, show US, that you are here for US. You have it all under control and it is
all for the greater good. Make it all <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>WORTHWHILE</b></span>. I accept your decisions for
me for the year 2012, with a whole heart. You have given me joy and at the same
time so many sorrows. Why God, are you worried I will be too complacent and
egoistical should I be happy all the time? Are you? Give me the opportunity to
show you that I can be humble all the time; I really can do without the
multiple falls, bouts of sickness and tensions. I really can. I promise I won’t
let it go to my head. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Before I end this post and
start the New Year, I also want to <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">THANK YOU</span></b>, Thank you for the Clarity. No more
confusion. No more doubts. I had asked you for that and you gave it to me. So,
thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Thank you for my family </span></b>who’s
always there for me during my various mood swings, my different illnesses, my
ups and downs, all of it. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Thank you for my friends</b></span> – who have been there for me
despite me being absent indefinitely and for the unconditional friendship that
we have. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Thank you for my Job</span></b>, all other materialistic things in my life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Thank you for showing me I </span><span style="line-height: 14px;">shouldn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> sacrifice, I should bend down, I </span><span style="line-height: 14px;">shouldn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> accept defeat. Thank you
and since I am greedy I need more. I want to start the New Year on a positive
note and I want you to show me Hope, in spite of everything. I am going to give
it another try. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">I want your Help</span></b>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Show me that there is undying love, and that
I am worthy of experiencing it. Show me that <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">WE</span></b>, humans are all the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>SAME</b></span>. Religion, caste, creed, gender, and that none of it <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>MATTERS</b></span>. Show me that I am a good
person and that people value me. Show me that I am capable of experiencing true
long lasting happiness. Show me that I make a difference. </span></span></div>
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Won’t you hold me hands and guide me once again?</b></i></span></span></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-91823520689980995672012-08-21T17:23:00.000+04:002012-08-21T17:23:01.053+04:00TEA Anyone?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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NOT) Tea Lover. Come day, come night,
come rain, come sunshine, you offer me Tea and I will </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>NEVER</b></span><span style="color: #595959;"> say </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>NO! </b></span><span style="color: #595959;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Like most tea addicts, I feel the need to communicate
with like-minded enthusiasts and to exchange tips, photos, reviews, and
enthusiasms whenever possible. Anything to do with </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Camellia sinensis</b></em><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is fair game, frankly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong><span style="color: #595959;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today I intend to share my Love of the World of TEA! </span></span></strong><span style="color: #595959;">I consider sharing of my love for </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>CHAI</b></span><span style="color: #595959;"> is just as integral
to the tea experience as drinking the delectable green nectar itself. After all
what good is something if we don't share? Right?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Do you have a favorite tea?</span></b><span style="color: #595959;"> For me, it's a very difficult question. But,
when I think about the tea I care for most, I usually pick the plain and simple
Black tea. Pure simple unadulterated and the most natural form. <b>No milk and no sugar.</b> Just water at 100</span><sup style="color: #595959;">O</sup><span style="color: #595959;">C
and the loose dried tea leaves. Aahh the aroma that it gives out, the energy
that it eludes. Simply breathtaking. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #595959;">I for one have always been a tea drinker, for as long as I can remember it
has been tea, tea and nothing but tea. Of course occasionally I have swayed
towards coffee, but just as it absolutely impossible to have two lovers at one
point, </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>(Well I assume IT IS! Since I have no prior expertise in this field, I
am willing to leave this Open ended! :P )</b></i></span><span style="color: #595959;"> similarly I have always very
faithfully come back to my true love - TEA!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #595959;">Recently a dear friend of mine, </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sohail</span></b><span style="color: #595959;">, gifted me a giant box of</span><span style="color: #595959;"> </span><span style="color: #595959;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Alokozay</span></b> tea! I was initially very skeptical, because other
than an occasional Twinning's indulgence, I have almost always been a </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">LIPTON</span></b><span style="color: #595959;">
person. Once I opened the Box, I was shocked out of my wits, as that was the
first time I actually saw such a wide range of different flavored tea! You name
it and you have got that flavor. </span><b style="color: #595959;">Green, chamomile, jasmine, strawberry, raspberry,
lemon, orange, earl grey, Moroccan, herbal,
black current, and so many more, I can even remember the rest of them!</b><span style="color: #595959;"> As I
mentioned earlier I am one of members of the Old school thought process of
picking One and sticking to It, But nonetheless I bravely faced my fears and made
myself and my Appa a cup of Hot Moroccan Tea and... I was thrilled, and thought
</span><b style="color: #595959;"><i>'Wow, this is amazing! Tea can taste like this??'</i></b><span style="color: #595959;">. </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Thank you, Sohail for
widening my horizons and Yes I promise to be in Touch! :D :D</span></b><span style="color: #595959;"> It opened up a new
world for me. But Hey, just because a tea is your favorite, it doesn't mean it
has to be the highest quality. <b>It's just what YOU like best!</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #595959;">Tea </span></span><span style="color: #595959;">is widely regarded
as one of the healthiest beverages one can drink, and rightly so! And more
importantly anyone can make Tea! <b><i>In fact, just yesterday my 13 year old adorable little brother
made his first cup of TEA! Green tea at that!!! And since then he has taken it
upon himself to be the official Tea Maker of the house! :D </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #595959;">In general, tea is one of the healthiest beverages in the world. Most tea
is strictly derived from the Camellia sinensis plant with only a few different
flavorings added to give it a unique twist. Camellia sinensis is an incredibly
healthy plant that has been linked to health benefits like reduced cholesterol
levels and weight loss. </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">YES Weight loss.</span></b><span style="color: #595959;"> <i><b>But I am not a believer of this
theory! With the amount of tea that I drink, and if at all there was any
connection between tea drinking and weight loss, I would definitely have been
Size zero by now!</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Any black, white, green, or oolong tea is derived from the camellia
sinensis plant, which means that it is generally quite healthy. Tea is also
healthiest when used in a ‘loose’ blend, as more surface area is exposed to the
surrounding water, increasing the nutrients and antioxidants that are released.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #595959;">The <span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> famous
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NHAT HANH says, <i>"</i></span><span style="color: #666666;"><i>When you sit in a café or at home, with a lot of
music in the background and a lot of things in your head, you're not really
drinking your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries.
You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only
reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to yourself and produce your
true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your
worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between
you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking."</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #595959;">And this Genuine Tea drinking also has other advantages</span><span style="color: #666666;">:</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tea</span></b><span style="color: #666666;"> can make people in high spirits, enhance thinking and
memory!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tea</span></b> can reduce fatigue, promote metabolism, and maintain
the heart, blood vessels, gastrointestinal and other normal functions of the
role!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tea</span></b> of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">great benefit for the prevention of dental cavities!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tea</span></b> contains many trace elements beneficial
to humans! But Of Course! :P</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #666666;">The
role of
<b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tea</span></b> inhibit cancer, drinking tea can significantly inhibit the growth
of cancer cells.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tea</span></b> can inhibit cellular aging, people live
longer. Anti-aging effect of tea is 18 times more vitamin E.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">(Seeee I told ya!)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tea</span></b> with delay and prevent the formation of initial plaque, prevent
arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure and cerebral thrombosis!</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Tea can be excited to central nervous system, and enhance
athletic ability!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Having <b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tea</span></b> can aid in losing weight and
beauty effect, this effect is especially seen in Oolong tea drinkers.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tea</span></b> seem to prevent age-related cataracts.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">(Cannot be verified though...)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tea</span></b> contains tannic acid can kill many
bacteria, it can prevent stomatitis, pharyngitis, and prone to summer
enteritis, dysentery and so on.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tea</span></b> can protect human hematopoietic
function. Tea contains radiation materials, watching TV while drinking tea can
reduce the TV radiation hazards, and to protect their eyesight</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Who
would think!)</i></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sunstroke</span></b><span style="color: #666666;">. Drink hot tea after 9 minutes, the skin
temperature drops 1-2 degrees Celsius, makes people feel cool, and drink cold
skin temperature decreased more significantly after.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Revitalize tired, achy or puffy eyes.</b></span><span style="color: #666666;"> Soak two tea bags in warm water and
place them over your closed eyes for 20 minutes. The tannins in the tea act to
reduce puffiness and soothe tired eyes.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;"> </span></li>
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way. </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">But then that's just ME!</span></b><span style="color: #595959;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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guys still don't believe me and my </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>TEA</b></span><span style="color: #595959;"> fancy, hear it from Hugh Jackman!!! He seems to be able to do it all: <b><i>Play the
super hero, dance, sing and melt your heart – all at the same time.</i></b> And he’s also
dancing his way in our hearts with the Lipton Iced Tea commercials. I haven’t
had the Lipton tea in a glass bottle ever, so I can’t really comment on hoe it
tastes and if it's actually brewed. But who am I to argue with Hugh?</span></span><span style="color: #595959;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com0Al Barsha - Dubai - United Arab Emirates25.11391 55.19280125.099532500000002 55.17306 25.1282875 55.212542000000006tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-12299902827307102242012-07-31T17:57:00.001+04:002012-07-31T17:58:56.141+04:00Neighborly LOVE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<em style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: grey; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">My Mum and my Brother are </span></em><em style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">VACATIONING</span></span></b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>!</b></span></span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><em><span style="color: grey; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">Yes, they have left me, my sister and my Appa here in this scorching heat to fend for ourselves and gone off to India to have </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>FUN</b></span></span><span style="color: grey; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, </span><b>enjoy the Monsoon rains, lounge the whole day, listen to my maternal Granny ranting all day and put up with my maternal Grandpa's attention seeking tactics and bear the brunt of his 'Oh so famous' Silent treatment.</b><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></em><em style="font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">( Who says growing Vacationing is easy??)</span><span style="color: grey;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></b></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: grey;">To say </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">I miss them</span></b><span style="color: grey;"> is putting it very very mildly. There is a deep and unfathomable void since the day they left, and it has been </span></span></em><span style="color: grey;">1,382,400 seconds since... <b>Yes I can be eccentric at times.</b></span><span style="color: #222222;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>Neelanchana Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878258636806123165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753354228529935581.post-52589060301401286242012-07-10T14:59:00.000+04:002012-07-10T15:00:09.391+04:00Comedy QUEEN!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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finish things sooner than they are </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">DUE</span></b><span style="color: grey;">, has both its perks and its
disadvantages! Perks, you have more </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">FREE</span></b><span style="color: grey;"> time, and disadvantages being having
BORE time! And in order to constructively use this Bore time fruitfully, I have
devised various schemes, <b>1) have productive conversations with colleagues from
Different departments </b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">(Read Gossip.. who says MEN don’t Gossip??)</span></i></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;">
<b style="color: grey;">2) Call Mama,</b> <b style="color: grey;">3) Write a BLOG </b><span style="color: grey;">and </span><b style="color: grey;">4) Attack the INTERNET! Browse through
different blogs, gather information, learn, create databases AND “Download
Music”!!</b><span style="color: grey;"> I have over 250 Movie’s Songs and over 3000 other songs. </span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">(I know it’s
know much, but mind you I am getting there!)</span></i></b><span style="color: grey;">. By Movie Songs I mean, All the
Songs of the Movies, each and every single one, downloaded, labeled and put
into a specific folder which is Further labeled and Numbered and segregated as
per Language, all done very very religiously! And No I am not Selfish I share
as well... </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">NOT</span></b><span style="color: grey;"> the whole collection but part to people who I like, love and also
WORK for. </span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">(My boss is a regular visitor to my Music Library!)</span></i></b><span style="color: grey;"> And I take
immense pride in being the Office’s Official DJ!</span></span></div>
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Listening to all those songs and going down memory lane reminded me of
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is </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">ZIMPLE</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> - Identical twins separated in babyhood when a sly, conniving servant
steals one kid away from their wealthy family's luxurious mansion. One grows up in the slums, feisty and
self-reliant, with dreams of being a dancing star and the other grows up under
the care of her uncle and his companion, who are unspeakably cruel and
sociopathic - the only thing that stops them from murdering her outright is
that she is their ticket to the family wealth! But OF course!! Enter a handsome
young heir </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><i>(In this Case, I would like to say, NOT as charming and handsome as I
would have liked)</i></b> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;">with a wild streak, meets the slum girl and the two
are instantly smitten!! In the meantime Mansion one meets a rugged slum boy and
sparks fly there as well. Needless to say, wacky attics ensue.</span></div>
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cuteness, her dancing, her gorgeous </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">BIG</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> eyes and her talent for physical comedy
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satisfyingly entertaining masala film!!! Of course there is a pile of
unapologetic crap one has to dig through to find her and those moments, but
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moments of quality Chaalbaaz has are mostly thanks to Sridevi's skill. The best
of these are the </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">“Jaani yeh Chaaku hai”</span></i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Scene, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><b>“Na Jaane Kahan Se”</b></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> the wacky
crazy rain dance and song routine, the direct quotation from Waheeda Rehman's
snake dance in Guide - in the irresistible, almost trance-like passion of
dance, in which Sridevi </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">SHINES! </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Another one particular scene that is close to
my heart is, </span><b style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>"Tere bimar mera dil,"</i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> an entertaining fantasy sequence
between Sridevi and Sunny Deol. The Number of times I have tried doing what she
is doing with the glass in innumerable and hilarious!!! I would like to think I
have almost perfected the routine. </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Almost!</span></b></div>
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than a decade since she was seen on screen as the unchallenged diva of Hindi
films. Times have changed and Hindi films have evolved - for better and for
worse! </span><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">New faces, better make-up and less melodrama, less clothes, less morals
or should I say changed morals… is the Identity of new-age Bollywood.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: grey;">But for me it’s
the <i>beautiful Chandni of Yash Chopra's superhit</i>, <i>the magnificent Umrao Jaan and
the gorgeous Nandini </i><b>(Aishwarya Rai)</b> from Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam, the quintessential
Indian Beauties that are still Perfect, </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>PICTURE PERFECT:</b></span> <b style="color: grey;">Flawless features, an
hourglass figure, a smile just as brilliant as it was back then, and all of it
dressed in impeccable manners.</b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b> SRIDEVI</b></span><span style="color: grey;"> is exactly this and more. A decade may
have separated her and showbiz but she is still very much the STAR! Be it Esha
Deol Wedding </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><i>(By the way, CONGRATULATIONS Esha, you were absolutely beautiful and
looked every bit the glowing Indian Bride! And you have done yourself good
getting married, that too to your childhood sweetheart and the both of you look
PERFECT together! God Bless!)</i></b> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;">or the SIMMA awards. <b>She was and is,
quite simply the perfect Indian beauty with large, expressive eyes, sharp
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<span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Well into her
40s now, and yet she can give any starlet a run of her money. A flawless
complexion, a fantastic body and looks to kill for! Sigh! Throughout the 1980s
Sridevi starred in a galaxy of blockbusters, including Tohfa, Nagina, Mr India,
Chandni </span><b style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;">AND</b><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Chaalbaaz, the last which won her a Filmfare Award for her
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<span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;">I wish her all
the best for her upcoming comic caper, </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">English Vinglish</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> and Thank you Sridevi,
for being my role model in dance, and being my friend growing up, and helping
me effectively fill my <b>FREE/BORE </b>time today as well as taking me back to all my
precious and fond memories!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">I would be lying if I said I didn't, but it's just that <b><i>I am only getting used to it</i></b> or should I say, <b><i>getting used to it once</i></b> <b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">AGAIN</span></b>... But it has come as a <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>BIG BANG</b></span> on my head, just a couple of hours back when know my colleague, a <b>MALE</b> one at that, notices my new Hair Cut!!!! <i>(Believe me when I say this It's not at all drastic, in fact not even a major change from my previous one)</i>. I mean it's <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>OK</b></span> if it were just a <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><i>"Oh your hair looks good today!"</i></b></span> But what does one do, when the question is thrown at you like this.. <i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">"Neelu, who is your Hairdresser? You have been seeing her/him quite often these days haven't you? Your hair looks simply stunning"</span></b></i> Well <b>HE</b> didn't stop at that, he went further on to incorporate my <b>BOSS</b>, rather <b>OUR boss</b> into this discussion where in my <b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">MANE</span> was the <span style="font-size: large;">MAIN</span> attraction!</span></b> <b>Beat it!!! </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">It was then that I grasped that being the <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>ONLY GIRL</b></span>, in my department, Design department that is, being the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>Only Girl in the Section of the Office that I sit in</b></i></span>, further still being the <i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Only GIRL in the ENTIRE Office</b></span></i><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>has some major disadvantages! I don't mind being the only one, as long as i don't have to deal with constant attention, that too in this fashion! <o:p></o:p></span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>(while having said that I do have a Receptionist at the far end of the Office, just let's just say she is "In my boss's Wonderful words" OBSOLETE!)</b></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Surviving in an office full of </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">MEN</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"> is an </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">ART</span></b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">! An art that I had very tactfully mastered in the first two years of working as a Designer here. In fact while in school, I was </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">among</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Girls all the time, I mean I studied in an </span></span></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">ALL GIRLS</span> </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">school, where we girls studied in morning, the morning shift as it was called and the Boys came in the evening, the evening shift! </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">There was absolutely NO Interaction at all!</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>At least not for </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">ME! </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Then in College, I was in a class with 35 girls and </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">ZERO</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"> boys! <i>LOL Can you imagine the scene!?</i> </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Our class used to serve as Honey and attract all the bees, read boys, to IT, to say the very least! :P</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">I was in for a Pleasant <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">SHOCK</span></b> when I joined work as I had walked into an office full of men. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Now, I had been forewarned that <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">I would be the only girl in the office</span></i>,</b> so I imagined I knew what to expect – </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><b>or so I thought.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>There is less bitching.</b></span> Men bitching is poorly constructed, they’re not naturally deceitful. Bitching still exists but it is less dedicated, more vocal, quicker to surface and thankfully, quicker to resolve.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">I have seen soo many people come and go, in fact in the last two years of my 4 and half year stint at this Design House, lots of other girls/ women have joined and left as well. In fact last month was the grand finale with Not one but<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> TWO</b></span> ladies leaving the company for good. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Do I miss them??</span></b> <b><i>Of course I do, I miss my dear dear Karthika, my partner in crime, so so much, and I miss my Monama, the 42 year old Hottie who got really close to my heart! :(</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">But do I regret my decision to continue working in an office full of men? </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">No, Ma’am!</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In fact, the <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">MAD</span></b> house in which I work now addresses me as <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>“the Queen”</b></span> –<b><i> a poke I am more than okay with accepting, and it has also awarded me several professional opportunities I otherwise </i></b></span><b><i><span style="line-height: 14px;">wouldn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> have had.</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">I just get a few jolts </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">here and there</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"> and I am only getting back on track being </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">OK</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"> to putting myself out there from time to time. While working in an office full of men may not be every woman’s ideal, stepping out of the comfort zone to do so can have </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">some definite professional advantages </span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">– not to mention, it’s </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">DRAMA</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"> free.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Opps or should I say <b>I am the Only</b> <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">DRAMA</span></b> here! LOL! </span></div>
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