Secret is out!

Yeah! Finally the secret is out and I got to know who my secret Santa is. Thank you Santa for being nice and visiting me before Christmas! We played the Secret Santa game in the office this year too. Like every year we handpicked the names and bought the gifts without revealing whose name we got. As per the rule each of us get to play the Santa for their secret child. Just before Christmas we put all the gifts under the Christmas tree, leaving some clues to guess the secret Santa. It's fun finding out who gave us the gift.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Me: Stop throwing the pillows all over the house

N: These pillows are meant for that, isn’t it?

Me: Oh really? How is that?

N: What are they called? Throw away pillows, right?

Me: Baah! Yeah! They are called throw away pillows but not meant to throw like this.

An open letter

This is an open letter to the lady who always peeps into my kitchen through her balcony.

Hello lady,

I can’t address you by your name as I don’t know your name. I’ve always seen you from my kitchen when you are standing in your balcony and shouting at your husband. I have completely ignored that by not invading your privacy. You are so loud that I can’t miss out on what you say; I have to forcefully listen to your conversation. Why do you fight so much with your family members? Every day you shout at your husband giving you the tea late, when you know your cab timings, either you should ask him to make the tea early or you make it yourself. I am bored of listening to the same lines every single day “Are yaar, abhi 9.15 ho gaya, mere cab aachuka hoga. Kya abhi chai ke liye rakhe ho, kyun itna late karthe ho yaar”. Anyways I don’t want to interfere in your personal life. I am least bothered about it. The reason I had to write this letter for you is because of Selvi. Today while I was chatting with her she told me some interesting stories about you. The stories were so damn interesting that I couldn’t stop writing to you.

1. You have kept a separate plate/cup for your maid and you’ll serve her only in that. Which era are you living in? How could you discriminate people? When you have no problem with your maid washing your dirty clothes and soiled plates, how could you have a problem when she eats in the same plate?
2. You only talk to her when you are bored. You have all the time in the world to sit and gossip when you are alone. You can’t talk to her when your husband and kids are around. Why is that? Do you feel ashamed to talk to a maid in front of your family members?
3. You make her eat stale food. It’s fine to give away the leftover food which is refrigerated and re-heated. It’s totally unacceptable to give the food which is musty. Would you eat the same food, if someone offers you? That’s why we have garbage bins, please use them.

I understand the maid gets paid for the things she does in your house, but this is not the way you treat her. Remember your life is finished without a maid. Try to be a little more civilized.

An Eventful Weekend!

Elaborate_cooking-movie-Dining-Shopping-Dayoff from work. I did all of this over the weekend. After a very long time, other than just cooking and cleaning the house, I did something different. It was indeed an eventful weekend. My cousin P came home for a stay over. This was the first time someone came home for an overnight stay (of course other than my parents and brother). As P was coming for the first time and she knows how lazy I am. I didn’t want her to continue the same image about me, so I took extra effort to clean up the mess and make my home look more presentable. The presentable look came along with a shopping list for the house. We went bought things, arranged the guest room and kept everything ready before she came home. I surprised her by cooking a good dinner(Jeera rice/Dal fry), followed with a breakfast (Aloo Paratha/Paneer Paratha). It was hard for P to believe that I actually cooked all of this (knowing me for ages). We watched a movie (which was a total bakwas) and a dinner at Oye Amritsar. The restaurant is in Koramangala, though the food is over-priced the ambiance is very good and they serve authentic Punjabi food. I was never fond of Punjabi food before started to liking it because of my hubby. We gorged on the scrumptious Punjabi food and the added flavor was the Punjabi music in the venue.

Monday morning blue crept into both of us. Who feels like going back to work after a hectic weekend right? We both called in for a sick leave and decided to have a girl’s day out. What better place to go for shopping other than Commercial Street. We spent the entire day shopping and headed back home.

P.S This is my usual routine on the weekends: Wash clothes, cook breakfast, clean kitchen, cook lunch, clean kitchen, make coffee, wash utensils, cook dinner, grocery shopping, vegetable shopping. Phew! Two days of weekend isn’t enough for me.

Don’t you think I had an eventful weekend?

Irked!

People get off the road when you hear an ambulance speeding away with the siren on. The siren is meant to give way to the vehicle and not to block it. Why can’t people understand the sense of urgency? The ambulance is in a hurry for some emergency. Don’t you understand the value of somebody’s life? If you think your life is important so does others. You may also land up in one of them someday and the others will just behave the same way you did. Be little sensitive about it.

Don’t be a dim-wit saying there is no one in the ambulance; perhaps it’s going to pick someone who is in danger. Allow them to reach the destination faster and help them to save someone’s life.

Stop concluding that the ambulance drivers misuse the facility given to them. The siren is just to dodge the traffic jams, so on and so forth. Even if they do, it doesn’t happen all the time.

It’s important to value someone’s life. Be responsible.

I have become regularly irregular on the blog and I so hate this. This is such a sinking feeling in me. I've been telling this that I need to write regularly and its just not happening. Should I blame it on time? I know it's a lame excuse. If you are really passionate about something you'll definitely take time out and do it regardless of anything.Period.

Note to self: Write continuously for 21 days even it's just a one liner, it will become a habit

Para Athma

Once a good film maker will never remain good forever. This proved in case of ace movie director Mr. Yograj Bhat. The man with the fame of Mungarumale, Gaalipata and so on didn’t live up to people’s expectation in his recent movie Paramathma. Niranjan and I decided to watch this movie for the same reasons a) It’s Yograj Bhat- who is known for his interesting scripts b) It’s Puneeth Rajkumar- who has certain standards in Kannada movies and comes with certain sense of responsibility. I have always liked Puneeth’s movies in the past and it’s a great disappointment to watch him in this movie. The much hyped movie hits rock bottom with its poor story line and narration. I decided the fate of the movie in the first ten minutes. Puneeth Rajkumar has done a good job in terms of his acting, it’s something  new that he has tried out. Apart from that there is no substance in the movie, it has been dragged till the end.

Mr. Yograj Bhat,

I have a particular question for you, where did you get the heroine from? Has Kannada movie industry deprived of good heroines? Why did you create a character that has a grumpy face all through the movie? Not only she is irritated in the entire movie, she also irritates us with her acting skills. We can't make out whether she is crying or laughing. She seriously needs some acting lessons. If people have complimented you for your sense of humour in the past; let me tell you that it's history now. It just annoys us. The humour in this movie is stale. You need an introspection!

Why do you make all the characters in the movie to talk so much? If you think it entertains people, sorry to say that it irritates us. C’mon we have already heard in your previous movies. It’s the same story, same shady dialogues and to top it all it’s the same people who act in all your movies. Enough! We can’t see the same thing again and again. If you are really talented show us that by doing better movies. Every movie promotion you complain that people don’t come to theaters to watch movies. If you give crappy movies like this, who do you think will come and watch?

I am a true Kannadiga and I will support Kannada movies but not at the cost of my time and money. So give a serious thought of making good movies.

Undoubtedly I have liked few movies in the past. What I am unhappy about is the stereotype. We all know that you are talented, so make some meaningful movies. I have rumbled too much on the negatives about the movie, time to say some good things. What I liked in the movie is Jayanth Kaikini’s lyric and Sonu Nigam’s song (Paravashanadenu). Hats off to you to make our Karnataka look stunning on the big screen! Thanks for discovering and making us see some of the remotest places in Karnataka which is unbelievably beautiful. I think that’s the USP of your movies. I don’t think anyone can do better than you.

Disheartened kannada movie watcher

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