Just for a change...

Last night, me and my best friend from school were chatting on phone... and we "discussed" an amazing topic. Though it was less of discussion and more of a real sarcasm.

I am gonna share that "scene" with u guys.... just to give u a good laugh, for a change ;)

[we are in middle of our usual weekly "gossip" on which school friend is doing what nowadays and who got laid etc and all of a sudden my friend (for u we'll call her AD) started this....]

AD: hey babes... u know... x's GF took admission in IGNOU for MBA

me: who? y? but why would she do so?? I mean x is cool with all those career oriented thing na? what's wrong then?

AD: c'mon girl... he's "cool"... when it comes about "ghar ki laxmi" they all are same.

me: seriously girl... I guess for GF they want a career oriented girl, but not for wife yaar... why why why????

AD: f**k off that thing yaar... you know they take entrance test for IGNOU.

me: (in serious tone)really???

AD: yeah... they ask u... the nailpolish u've applied is of what company?? and then they give you four options

me: and what about specialization????

AD: that would be like culinary skills, household skills, Operation Management and Disaster Management.

me: oh yea that's awesome...

[...and we both burst into a really laughter shower ]

[after a while]

AD: u know what kind of logical reasoning do they ask?

me: k what would you do if ur husband's income is 5k n your monthly expense is 6k? How would you save money?

AD: nice one babes... you r learning...

me: (while laughing) thanx babes...

[after our "all 3 floors get disturbed" laughter... I asked]

me: do u know why people go for girl like her, and not like us?

AD: why?

me: because.... they know that... girls like us would reply that expense question like... Don't worry about that 1k dude.. I'll start working and by that we can save 4k each month.

AD: hahaha... true babes... n that would hurt their "male ego". n anyways with your degree from Symbiosis, you would definitely kick his ass

me: yeah... n then comes the future scene...

AD: what future scene?

me: see... after a few years I would start earning more money... So I would then tell him to leave his job... and he would start doing all household thingie.. n since his current earning is just 5k, he would not have that much education qualification, so being a home manager would be better for him...

AD: then u'll start ordering him.. like A.. make coffee for me, why dinner is not ready yet.. etc etc

me: on dinner thing, he'd say, sorry darling, but I was busy with this xyz serial, they'd a special episode today.

AD: yeah.... n then u'd say, ohhh... u and ur serials...

me: LOL... still biggie... what if he'd miss an episode, n of course, he'd blame me for that, k since u wanted me to make dinner ready by this time, I missed today's episode. Now I have to watch it at night...

AD: babes... that'd affect your life only...

[giggle.. giggle...]

me: this way... there'd come a time, when people know him as AK's husband...

AD: yeah babes... n may be he'd take ur surname as his...

me: but still... why x would go for a girl like y and not a girl like us..

AD: c'mon babes... his love is arranged...

me: WTH!!!!!!!!

AD: yea... I just come to know... It's all for his business and all...

me: cool... but still... question remains the same... why an IGNOU MBA??? If he wants an MBA, he could have gone for some girl from a normal college, even H.L. MBA is good yaar.

AD: may be, his mom wanna say in front of her "kitty party" group, that she got an MBA bahu..

me: whatever yaar... this sucks...

[...and I changed the topic... but still I can't understand this "double standards"]

[P.S.:

1) being a home maker is a good thing, I know, but being JUST a home maker not gonna work yaar... I mean, it doesn't make any kind of sense in today's world.

2) this one is just for a little fun at our side, and thought I should share it. No intension to make fun of anyone out there

]

Relationship that has no name

There are some relations which are damn difficult to understand. You sometimes don’t know what name you are supposed to give to that relationship… Is it just friendship??? Or is it Love??? You’d say that such relations are called best-friends… but there is a relationship, which is beyond the category of ‘best-friends’ and does not fall under the category of “love”.



There is no such name for this feeling… You’d feel that person so close to your heart and life that you’d just can’t live without that person. And this thing becomes complicated when one of you is married. Because you know that your spouse not going to understand this relationship and you also know that the other person is really important to you and it becomes worse when your spouse start thinking that the other person is creating problems in your marriage life.



And this thing is difficult for that other person too. S/he just wants to be that friend who never breach trust of his/her “best friend”, but sometimes that friend begins to think that s/he is a disturbance in his/her life. It’s just not the way s/he wants to treat his/her single friend, but it’s something natural to happen.



I don’t know much about this relationship world but I too have such relationships… Both with some of my female friends as well as my male friends. A relationship which doesn’t have any name for the people out there, but we know that we r sharing this “something special” relationship. May be our “friendship” is not acceptable for society, especially Indian society. Some think that I am gay, because I am just too close to that girl, n I love her like my kid sis (though people won’t notice that). Same way with my male friends. Okey, I am too friendly, but not like him in that sense that I would come between his serious commitments and family relationship.



I sometimes really don’t understand whom to blame for this. Can a girl-who probably would take active participation in some “Purush samovadi andolan”- be so narrow-minded that she’d just simply start building up a negative impression for that girl because of whom her husband is emotionally alive???? I seriously don’t know what to do with this type of relationship, which is a damn normal thing in today’s “cyber” world and with our Gen-X…


Anyways… My part of “Monsoon” has begun already… So ‘m enjoying “rimzim bearish”… All the best people… For both monsoon and this out-of-way kinda relationship ;)

First Rain of the Season

Monsoon has begun in India and so are the various songs on rains, ranging from classic oldie bollywood songs to regional songs. And with this rainy season, stories and feelings of first rain start too.



Well…. First Rain… According to some Indian writers, First Rain is the rain where you get chances to get “wet” (pun is included, intended) with your special someone … But there is no mention of what to do when one does not have someone that much special, so I thought I’ll celebrate the first rain of this season with my friends. College friends were not in Pune, so celebrated it with my office friend.



As per my amdavadi rituals for “Pehlo Varsad”(First Rain), I have to welcome the rain Gods with garma garam daalwada (will give you recipe if u guys want)- ofcourse from Gujarat Dalwada Centre, but, Pune has different ritual, it’s to have Vada-pav, but was not in mood of that… So I started the celebration with a cutting. My next ritual is to have a good rain-bath but unfortunately, the time we left office the rain was almost gone. Now you will think that then what I did do to celebrate the first rain…



Okk, so now I’ll tell you what we did today…. When we left office, the water clogging in our gully was at its peak as you can see in the photograph attached, so after having a cutting, we walked till the main road, water was there too, but we somehow managed to start our journey to my way back home. The atmosphere was chilling cold but that was not enuf to shake our mood of masti, hence we decided to go for a li’l drive in nearby area.


That drive gave real pleasant moments for eyes… all scenery was totally green n really awesome. And as if rain Gods were listening to our prayers, it started drizzling. In short, it was most awesome day today. Though I had some typical girlie fearsome moments, regarding a mouse n of course, a snake (how can I forget that!!!).



But in all these I missed my cell phone a lott, if that unavoidable incident had not happened 20 days back, then I must have clicked some really awesome pics of the nature, but abhi ke liye, enjoy with my these clicks….



Happy Monsoon people!!!!!