^^ Just Breathe ^^

Have a little fun today,

Split your mind from care.

Put aside your dressy clothes,

Choose something comfortable to wear.

Let some music play all day,

Dance around your house.

Go to your neighbours and have a play,

Go through your stuff like an anxious mouse.

Laugh out loud and heartily,

Let people turn and stare.

Let all of You be free today,

It has no loss or any fare.

The real delight of life,

Are always the most powerful.

No cries nor a sigh,

Live life every moment, its beautiful! J

^^ The Real Taste Of Khaman-Dhokla ^^

“Bush ne Iraq pe char dhokle gira diye!” Funny! 

Fafda, khaman, dhokla, idda and undhiyu...Kem cho? Maja ma? The world of Gujjus exist beyond this too and very seldom people know how we are!

Foodies, business-minded and a foul lingo (how people THINK we say Sarves instead of Sarvesh!) is all what people know about the Gujjus! It is one of the oldest and richest culture of India. According to the US Census Bureau in 2006 there were 1,417,000 people in the US who spoke Gujarati, Hindi or other Indic languages (e.g. Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu) at home; Gujaratis comprised 299,000 of these numbers, suggesting approximately 20% of Indian Americans are Gujarati.Walchand Hirachand, Ambalal Sarabhai, Dhirubhai Ambani and his sons, Ratan Tata, Mirabai, Mahatma Gandhi, Ismail Darbar, Paresh Raval, Mallika Sarabhai, Mahesh Bhatt, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Alka Yagnik, Kunal Ganjawala, Morarji Desai and inestimable others hail from this culture of dal-dhokli, papdi and bhusu! Talking about people, extremely warm, friendly and intelligent. We are mistaken to be money-minded all the time, but people do not know how we go to any extent to help someone! God fearing and God loving at the same time.We have a heart of gold and a mind of steel. Narendra Modi has brought the state to a No. 1 position, the fastest growing state in all sectors. Gujaratis have the strength to take out water from a stone! Hard-work and perseverance flows in our blood. We have moved to No.1,made India proud at a national and global level, and all people talk about us is, thepla, ganthiya and sev-mamra!

^^ Conquistador ^^

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures.  So I did ten times more work.  This is what has taught me to put my heart, mind, intellect and soul to my smallest acts. The vision to succeed will often take us to the world we want to conquer, but without it we go nowhere. I love to work. I won’t even mind  slogging, in literal meaning. I mean it seriously; it is about what I think and what I believe in! I want my work to speak for me rather than my mouth!

                        With my own experience and with what I see around, hardwork has never back fired! It comes out in some form or the other. My idea of conquering the world is what people would call “too much”, but on the other side I think of people who have made it big in their own fields, who have conquered the world in their own sector and in their own ways.­­­­ Confused I am though, and it is about time I decide my genre of interest, I still feel my determination is strong enough to work out big someday somewhere. If I don’t, am sure somewhere I must have gone wrong. I want to make it big in my field, work hard, work with the best of companies, with the best of people, learn and learn and learn..

                    I guess that would be it, because for me conquering the world would mean reaching to my highest potential, my highest ability and doing the best work. If I am satisfied with myself, the world is mine.

Buddha:
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

^^ Timeless Bliss ^^

The best things in life are for free,

I wish that was all I could see.

With no materialistic pleasure,

I have all the eternal bliss, for sure!

    Take a moment and think what makes you happy, and by happy I mean, what makes your soul smirk! Is it really the Lamborghini or meeting your best friend, for whom you have waited months to meet? Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real. I do keep telling my parents and friends, my wish-list all the time, how I want a Benetton tee or a Beetle car or a pair of vogue spectacles or how I want to visit Australia, Rome and Paris. I am sure when even one of this wish is fulfilled, I would be extremely happy, but the happiness that I get when I put meet my mom after 2 months, put my head in her lap and sleep, is beyond the expression of words! Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. 

          We tend to overlook little things, which makes us content and run after what we don’t have. A smile on a friend’s face when she is passing through a gloomy phase, when mummy makes my favourite dish, dad comes home early, for a change, eating sev-puri, talking to my friends and laughing at useless talks, is all that makes me satisfied and happy, and I would love to live my entire life with the same mind-set J

^^ My Friend's Boyfriend ^^

A person so intelligent, like one never seen before,

Whose complexity increases as you know him more,

Who leads a normal life,

Simplicity is his site.

 He tends to be my friend’s soul-mate,

For whom he can bring his world to an end.

I respect him, I adore him,

For he is a perfect lover in a dream.

His thoughts are high and his desires higher,

All I say is this guy is to die for.

He is perfect in all spheres and anyone he would never fear.

He’s soul is strong and so is his mind,

All I pray is may God always keep him fine,

With a smile on his face and my friend by his side…! J

^^ You Be The Judge ^^

Whose judgment is necessary? We are criticized for petite things we do, the way we talk to the choices we make. There is a very fine line between judging and criticizing someone. There is a finer line between what is bearable and unbearable for a person to hear as a judgment when it is coming from others. Why does it matter what I wear? Why does it matter what I do and since when did it hinder others’ life? A statement answered by a question in order to defend yourself, is all a person is left with. I care what people think about me, but only when it is people, I care about. Why do we ponder so much about what the world thinks of us? Why does their judgment hurt?

                   Our societies have grown into these immense messes of gunk (substance), where life becomes dangerous for anyone innocent. Yes, we all judge. Yes, we all criticize. But does the "camel" ever see the eighteen wrong things with itself? I'm exhausted dealing with judgmental people and I don't let it affect me too much, but this needed to be said.

^^ One Crazy Day It Was ^^

Life is never fair, it keeps playing with us. My journey in this new city has been incredible and adventurous. The city tried its best to reject me, but I am just too good for it (wink). The past one year I lived in a hostel, a sad, depressing one! Talk about irony. The place was bizarre, more than letting girls live peacefully there; it was more like treating some prisoners! Cruel and sadist in life, they were, for sure! Fortunately I could make good friends there.
     One day, there was a heavy downpour, and it was the first place in the whole of Mumbai to get flooded, even with a small of rain-shower, 5 of us went out, walked on and on, in knee-deep water, in search of an internet café J. Such frustrated we were at that hostel and without our own laptops, we felt cut off from the world! In the first five minutes of our journey, I broke my umbrella! Moving on, we caught a cab and we hurried in. The driver looked at us, opened the front seat door where my friend was sitting and curtly told us to move out, we asked why? He said, “Aap panch ho, bas ab nikaliye, muje dusri safari leni hai!” bleh! How on earth were supposed to know that taxis take in only 5 people! We went ahead, entered a mall which we thought was freshly constructed, and the watchman shouted from behind, “Dikhta nai hai, abhi ye chalu nai hua hai!” Discourteous! We went to a mall right opposite to it, took a proper inside view of it, and concluded it was apparently empty! Went ahead, and damn!! crow-shit on my shoulder! Went to a near-by petrol pump and cleaned it.

                Went to a bus stop, didn’t know which bus would go to our hostel, we kept shouting and asking all the buses that came. An old uncle, annoyed, told us, “Kya sab bus ko puch rahe ho, nai pata to aate kyu ho”, we quietly walked away. We decided to go back to the hostel and chuck the idea of the internet café, which we never found! How we grinned on our way back, one crazy day it was! J