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Please feel free to drop a comment. Trust me, there is no reason why you should even try to erase your footprints!!

(If it doesn’t make any sense to the rest of you, please forgive me. This is meant for those who visit the site and then remove their visit print from the FeedJit widget! I am just baffled by the whole act since it has been happening quite frequently and usually from a particular location)

Words – II

Take a close look
at thoughts as they metamorphose into words.
Their heart is often scarred with tears
even as they depict joy and mirth

After all, tomorrow is another day!

I can’t find anything offensive

in what this MP cop had said..

Don’t we need to understand what makes our enemy powerful and shouldn’t we use that understanding to defeat their motives???

I am confused..

I thought no question would seem to be intrusive

especially after answering why-no-baby-even-after-six-years-of-marriage, medical queries, whether-we-are-happy-together, which-doctor, what-family-planning-methods (yes, even that!)and so on! Add to that the fact that parents do become a little less inhibited while discussing the bowel movements of their kids, the delivery procedures (including detailed explanations), and of course the ’shamelessness’ of being out there in front of complete strangers while delivering the baby!

But it still does pinch when someone points at Diya and refers to her ‘need’ of having a sibling. I do not favor having a single child. In fact if I disregard the growing population problem, and if I had my way, we would have had atleast 3-4 kids!!! But I feel it is still not the right time for a second baby yet.. And I find it extremely annoying when people come and ask very personal questions just because they think I should have a second baby.

(To ease the pain, I have started treating these comments/questions as compliments in disguise! Perhaps they just want to say that I am a great mother to Diya and they would love to see another child blessed with a mother like me!!!!)

A forwarded message in the mail….

… had me nodding and smiling!

A   young wife sat on a sofa on a hot humid day,
drinking iced  tea and visiting with her Mother. As
they talked about  life, about marriage, about the
responsibilities of life  and the obligations of
adulthood, the mother clinked the  ice cubes in her
glass thoughtfully and turned a clear,  sober glance
upon her daughter.

” Don’t forget your  Sisters,’ she advised, swirling
the tea leaves to the  bottom of her glass. ‘They’ll
be more important as you get  older. No matter how
much you love your husband, no matter  how much you
love the children you may have, you are still  going
to  need Sisters. Remember to go places with  them now and then; do things  with  them.’

‘Remember that ‘Sisters’ means ALL  the women…
your girlfriends, your daughters, and all your  other
women relatives too. ‘You’ll need other women.  Women   always  do.’

What a funny piece of advice!’ the young  woman
thought.     Haven’t I just gotten  married?      Haven’t I just joined  the couple-world?     I’m now a married woman, for  goodness sake! A grownup! Surely my husband and the  family we may start will be all I need to make my life  worthwhile!’

But she listened to her Mother. She kept  contact with her Sisters and  made more women friends each year. As the years  tumbled   by, one  after     another, she gradually came to understand that her Mom  really knew what she was  talking about.

As time  and  nature work their changes  and their mysteries upon a woman,   Sisters are the  mainstays of her life.

After more than 50  years of living in this world, here is what I’ve  learned:

THIS SAYS IT ALL:

Time  passes.

Life happens.

Distance  separates.

Children grow up.

Jobs come and  go.

Love waxes and wanes.

Men don’t do what  they’re supposed to do.

Hearts break.

Parents  die.

Colleagues forget favors.

Careers  end.

BUT………

Sisters are there, no matter  how much time and how
many miles are   between you. A girl  friend is never farther away than needing her can  reach.

When you have to walk that lonesome valley and  you
have to walk it by yourself, the women in your  life
will be on the valley’s rim, cheering you  on,
praying  for you, pulling for you, intervening  on
your  behalf, and  waiting with open arms at  the
valley’s end.

Sometimes, they will even   break the rules and walk
beside  you…Or come in and  carry you out.

Girlfriends, daughters,  granddaughters, daughters-in-law,  sisters, sisters-in-law, Mothers, Grandmothers,  aunties, nieces, cousins, and extended family, all bless our  life!

The  world  wouldn’t be the same  without women, and
neither would I. When we began this  adventure called
womanhood, we had no idea of the  incredible joys or
sorrows that lay ahead. Nor did we know  how much we would  need  each  other.

Every  day, we need each other  still.

Thank You Padma

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My house looks like a children picture-story book after the painting!!!!

I am sooo loving it!!

How do you prepare the house for painting???

I am already frustrated packing, covering, and preserving household articles!!!

Am I missing something here?

 What did he do to be awarded as the ‘pride of the nation’?????????

(He might be involved in charity, workshops and other socially useful activities. But does he really deserve this award? )

A bad dream??

I only wish it was….

Imagine yourself in the lift lobby of your office basement. With no one around (not even the security guard), it looks dark and gloomy. You press the lift button and wait for one of the six doors to open. And while you are at it, one of the two tube-lights in the lobby goes off, thus adding to the morbid atmosphere.

Thankfully, one of the doors open and you rush inside. The lift door closes and you press the floor number. After what seems like an eternity and a haywire display of digits on the panel, the door opens. You run outside only to find yourself back on the basement.

!!!!!

You press the Lift button again. And the SAME door opens. You don’t get inside. Wait for the door to close, and press it again.
The same door opens again.

You wonder if there are stairs nearby. But since it is a new building and no security guard is in sight, you decide to use the vehicle-entrance gate to get out of this eerie situation…

And finally take some quick and deep breaths..

Doesn’t that remind you of one of those horror movies where the character is out there in lonely alleys where houses are without doors??

P.S: The following instances were exaggerated and blown out of proportions:
With no one around (not even the security guard)….
But since it is a new building and no security guard is in sight,….
And while you are at it, one of the two tubelights in the lobby goes off,…