Quotable Quotes

The secret to success is consistency to purpose

-- Benjamin Disraeli


For they can conquer who they believe they can.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

-- Helen Keler


"Everything works out right in the end. If things are not working right, it isn't the end yet. Don't let it bother you, relax and keep on going."

-- Michael C. Muhammad


"When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments."

-- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President


"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

-- Martha Washington, First American First Lady

the secret behind victoria's secret?

question - posed by a man - who else?

If there were no men on earth - would there still be a Victoria's Secret?

My Perfect Love

Geo has passed me this baton. I usually don't get into this passing the ball game, but recently I had been reviewing my own ideas on my dream guy. And, it's a nice co-incidence that when I was thinking of what I'm looking for, I was asked to present my views on my blog, and that's why I decided to write!

1. Patience patience patience - lots of patience - Anger is the worst enemy
2. Caring and loving - I should be the first priority, no matter where, what, when, why, how
3. should be a good listener and a talker which would be very good combination.
4. Should be independent and confident - should not depend on others to decide for himself
5. Should enjoy even a silliest joke we share, should also be able to savour even a smallest moment with me; sharing is the key, should share with me as much as possible.
6. should be quite flexible. should not feel ashamed in saying "I'm sorry" if he has to.
7. decent looking, original, respecting others, with clear mind about what he wants in his life, and of course, earning!
8. sensitive to my feelings and needs. A quality time with me is very important to me.

In short, a guy, who makes me feel like his queen! :)



I came across this last week, and it's quite interesting:

Perfect 10
"My great-aunt wrote a list of the 10 most important things in a marriage, and she gave it to me. It read:

10. Patience
9. Kindness
8. Patience
7. Communication
6. Patience
5. Caring
4. Patience
3. Patience
2. Love
1. Patience

First of all, this couldn't be more true. Second, an 80-year-old woman made up a top-10 list; how funny is that?"
--Beth Power

I'd like to pass this on to Lorena and Sid, but, no hassle, only if they wish to get tagged.

even a queen needs company

Weekends, here in the US, people live only for these two days, two days that start on a Friday night and end on the Sunday morning. And, then the poeple go back to their anticipation of the coming week ahead and to the next wekend and to their next instalment of Monday blues - already from Sunday morning!

And so here I was all alone with one more of these 'Sundays', the supposedly 'fun days'! I was expecting it to be a funfilled day, with a few close friends, cooking and having dinner with me. The day started late with the hangover of the previous saturday nights' fun - with me waiting to hear from the invited.

Routine weekend cleaning chores were in motion, and here I was - also running out of patience. I finally decided to call my guests to get headcount for the evening. Since I was multitasking, I continued on the one hand with my cleaning sweep and on the other hand, conversing on the phone.

And all the while with the phone in my hand, I ws thinking why I should be the one to call? I mean, if I were invited to a dinner, I would have felt honoured by the very invitation itself! And the least I could do or, even, would do is to respond to the invitation - with a yes, no, even a simple 'maybe?' Something?

Anyway, the absence of a call was an answer by itself. Their drop out rate was 60%- too much for me to take. It made me feel that people did not respect invitations any longer, and I would seriously have to think the next time before I would invite them for a fun dinner or, for that matter any dinner at my castle.

Somehow, later, in the evening, their absence did not even matter. Because the 40% that were present had an evening that was jazzing, rocking, hard rocking with feel good chitchatting. And, this 40% were composed of about 77 and one half chips of tortilla scoops that were interacting with a bowlful of the legendary guacamole and about thirty separate musicians - each trying to make us believe that their song was better than the one we had just heard!

But we were not bothered. Each song was better than the last because it was not the songs outside of us that made the evening alive but the songs within.

within our hearts and in our minds and in each and every one of those chips [tortilla, remember?] that I have mentioned before.

believe me - when the heart is happy even tortilla chips can sing...

and the queen was no longer lonely...

My heaven on the earth

A Gateway to the Heaven, my heaven!





A Dusk at the Vindhyachals





A lone tree amid waters





Thumbs Up!
Taste the Thunder!

A small hiking wonder :)





some day, someone was waiting here for someone..

A world haritage monument near the same small wonder.

Did you do something about it?

I was reading comments on one of the Jithu's blogs and I got this inspiration to write about this:

I saw Yuva movie, i think last year, in the theater, and at the end of the movie, I was hoping that our yuth would get a message this movie sends out. our indian people complain about politics this and corruption that, and our police system another that! I would like to ask the same question to those complaining, whining people: ok, so what do you do about it? What is your effort to make these systems right? They- the self proclaimed "elites", would not even go to cast their vote where they directly can do something about it! and the more interesting thing is, they would take pride in not casting any vote!! Do these people have any right to whine?

I had seen this commercial on tv sometimes ago on tv: They show in girls' bathroom in some college dorms, and one of the sink taps was running without any person around it. Everyone gathers around that sink and starts complaining- ooh, someone left this tap running.. ohh, it's so wrong.. it's such a waste of natural resources.. and just kept gossiping-murmering-complaining. and finally there comes one bold girl and just turns the tap off! and the caption comes on the screen: "don't complain, do something about it. did you do something about it?"

Home Sick..

Oh my god, how much do I miss India! I had such a wonderful time there! And now back in very cold, very short day altitude, alone :(
I wish to go back home some day for good. And I think, I will. I realized how much my family misses me and how much I miss them :( I don't want to see my mom-dad-sis-bro every 2 years, I do want to celebrate all my holidays with them, in a traditional way. I swear to god, I was so surprized to see highways there! I loved driving there, though traffic was still a bit messy. I loved to sit under trees, read news paper, have some snacks in light breeze, half sun, half shadowy, where you don't have to worry about putting of hundred things before stepping outside of your door. you can have hundreds of varieties of fresh juices. Here in America, I don't know why, the concept of fresh juice is lots of ice blend with some fruite :( which I don't enjoy as much. Go to multiplex, go to malls, oh yeah, malls in India! Everythihng, one can imagine, is there in India. I surely wanna go back to my roots one day. going out for books shopping at crosswords with brother, going out for shopping with sis, going out for trekking, going out to places with cousins and brother and sis, spending time with cousins, it's a la grande! I and my brother made rangoli together :) didn't finish it though, had to redo once, and both of us got very tired, and in the evening, it was Diwali time! Oh my god, how much do I miss home...




Rangoli, I and my brother made..