Friday, December 31, 2010

2010…………a year which has been instrumental in my life in so many ways than one.

The fist year of my married life filled with loads of love & affection along with the thorns of separation and anguish.
The year had a confusing start, was gripped in dilemma all throughout to juxtapose my marriage with my work with every effort in place as possible, but the time was mostly drained out to find peace with myself, to decipher the right code to true happiness which any newly wed deserves.

But things took turn as I took solace in reading and writing and rediscovering my passions. The year gradually did wonders to my life one after the other, right from making the transition from a lazy lass to a responsible wife taking care of my huby, my room, the meals, the finances and so much more to surrendering to the new ignition in my heart for writing. And it sure saved the best for the last by giving me my keys to my ultimate happiness, and by letting me strike off the first and the last wish of the wishlist 2010 (Vishal’s offer letter from his desired organization)

In short it was a year of evolution in true sence and hope the coming year has me prepared to cherish what God has finally brought me in my life!!!

Thanku 2010! Muuuuuuaaah!!!

Sunday, December 19, 2010

All in a day-offs work!

I woke up this morning and realized that I had all the time in this world today. It’s a holiday for me finally when I have no bus to catch, no pending work to complete, no shopping to do and above all no work and no studies hence no burning the midnight oil. Today is the day when I have every right to feel lazy to the core, to sleep until ever single person in the world wakes up and to make all rest and no work - the mantra for the day.It was a holiday in true sense of the term. A super welcome change from the so called busy life that I was leading from the past couple of months.
But the other moment, I started getting restless, coz here I could recollect of doing all those things that I had been planning to indulge in, when I would have a perfect day off. Things that I hadn’t done in a coons age.
Visiting my blog, being one of them. Can you believe it?? Here I read my 1st blog where I spoke great guns about my passion for writing and that I am going to be using this platform to the optimum to decant my feelings and experiences, has kinda left me pretty disgruntled. For I have been giving myself excuses one after the other (with things like ‘so much of work’, ‘exams round the corner’, ‘no time to read and hence no time to think’, ‘blogs and networking sites are blocked in office’ and ‘no time to gaze at the laptop at home’), to push blogging like everything else to take a back seat.

Yes I haven’t visited my blog for ages now, visiting networking sites is already a distant thought. Be it cooking a meal on a Sunday or playing with my litl niece nxt door, be it reading 01 short story from ”Feluda’s adventure” (God knows when will I complete reading the book) to tuning into my fav music no’s, life for sure was not offering me my share of fun.

“Chettinad chiken with lemon rice and fresh salad” I jumped off the bed as I conceived the great menu for todays lunch. Great not because we had not cooked south Indian food at home for eons now, but because it was me who was going to get into the kitchen and demonstrate my cooking skills (a scary thought for many of my family members, lol!). And if it turns out to be good, it would be repeated when huby dear comes home on Wednesday. I congratulated myself with the idea and quickly googled out the recipes and got the ingredients together. Mum and Guria (my cousin sis) gave me a good assist and after a lot of hard work (hardly :P)l! I prepared the lunch and needless to say, it was yummy!!! Then I went onto my next mission – reading one of the feluda stories. I read two in an hour and seem quite resolute now to read two more before going off to sleep. To further pamper myself I spent a lot of time mollycoddling and playing with my niece RIMI and last but not the least stealing a peak in my blog (with my fav music tracks on) and ending up writing this piece.

My day went in order - close to a perfect day off, doing nothing really yet the simplest of things that gave me immense joy. Felt at peace but somewhere not complete for it can not be sans my huby who was missing in the picture.
And now having done with all in my wish list for today, I feel all bright and happy and charged for the hectic times ahead from tomorrow. The induction manual is still not complete, 05 positions to close in 10 days, and the deadline for the website copy being this week, I am already having my hands, liver, lungs and mouth full of work. Hah! Hate it man, wasn’t I just celebrating my joyous day and here I am sulking again. And I said to myself ‘Welcome to Sunday evening blues!’