Conversations...

Has the gravity hit you as yet? Its only 15 days left!!!!
Gravity??what for??
Ummm.................U wont be able to flirt any longer.
Flirt!! why??
Coz u'll be a married person..
anyways..i never used to that even b4
Hmm...but just in case..let's say u see a babe!!
who'll see the babe when there are u.. .

corny? yes, may be super corny..but oh so sweet...and makes it totally worth getting married to TSB... :)

• "Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak."
• "I'm not insensitive, I just don't care."
• "Shin: Device for finding furniture in the dark"
• "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure"
• "If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried"
• "I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory."
• "A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory"
• "Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."
• I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure
• A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
• When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
• "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."
  
• "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
  
• "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
  
• Laughter is an instant vacation.
  
• "I had a dream last night, I was eating a ten pound marshmallow. I woke up this morning and the pillow was gone."
  
• The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
  
• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
  
• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
  
• Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him all weekend
  
• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
  
• The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
  
• And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
  
• Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!
  
• It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
  
• The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
  
• Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
  
• Why isn't 11 pronounced onety one?
  
• Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
  
• Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.
  
• Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
  
• A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
  
• Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.
  
• Meanness don't just happen overnight.
  
• Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.
  
• Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
  
• It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
  
• You cannot unsay a cruel word.
  
• Every path has a few puddles.
  
• When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
  
• The best sermons are lived, not preached.
  
• Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.
  
• Don't judge folks by their relatives.
  
• Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
  
• Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.
  
• Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.
  
• Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
  
• If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is top diggin'.
  
• Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
  
• The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.
  
• Always drink upstream from the herd.
  
• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.
  
• Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.
  
• If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
  
• Live simply.
  Love generously.
  Care deeply.
  Speak kindly.
  Leave the rest to God.
  
• "Treat me like an angel and I'll be your lil' devil."
  
• Men, chocolate, and coffee are all better rich.
  
• Crazy is a relative term in my family!
  
• "Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
• "Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you're up to."
  
• Procrastinate now, don't put it off.
  
• Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make."
  
• Best friends are the people that know all about and still put up with you!
• A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
  
  

When a Woman Loves a Man

When she says margarita she means daiquiri.
When she says quixotic she means mercurial.
And when she says, "I'll never speak to you again,"
she means, "Put your arms around me from behind
as I stand disconsolate at the window."

He's supposed to know that.

When a man loves a woman he is in New York and she is in Virginia
or he is in Boston, writing, and she is in New York, reading,
or she is wearing a sweater and sunglasses in Balboa Park and he
is raking leaves in Ithaca

or he is driving to East Hampton and she is standing disconsolate
at the window overlooking the bay
where a regatta of many-colored sails is going on
while he is stuck in traffic on the Long Island Expressway.

When a woman loves a man it is one ten in the morning
she is asleep he is watching the ball scores and eating pretzels
drinking lemonade
and two hours later he wakes up and staggers into bed
where she remains asleep and very warm.

When she says tomorrow she means in three or four weeks.
When she says, "We're talking about me now,"
he stops talking. Her best friend comes over and says,
"Did somebody die?"

One year they broke up seven times and threatened to do it
another nine times.

When a woman loves a man, she wants him to meet her at the
airport in a foreign country with a jeep.
When a man loves a woman he's there. He doesn't complain that
she's two hours late
and there's nothing in the refrigerator.

When a woman loves a man, she wants to stay awake.
She's like a child crying
at nightfall because she didn't want the day to end.
When a man loves a woman, he watches her sleep, thinking:
as midnight to the moon is sleep to the beloved.

David Lehman

passing time and ramblings!!

Not feeling like working..may be its friday..may be its just one of those phases...
To add on to that, system is also not working.. :
nothing much happening around here.....at pune yes...but here, I am untouched by all those heated arguments bout menu, choices to be made for cards, invitaions to be sent to relatives..I am away from all this chaos..
may be i am missing much of action .
not done with shopping as yet..dont think it will get over till the last day!! at this rate i might start hating shopping...as it is, i do not enjoy shopping very much..

some clarity has been achieved on the job front..atleast for next few months and by few I mean very few months..lots of travelling in pipeline.

some times i wonder, am I marrying too early???hope every thing works out fine.. TBH is sweet..a darling!! but we both are headstrong meaning arguments and counter arguments at drop of hat!!phew!!!!!

Realstic??

You Are A Realistic Romantic

It's easy for you to get swept away by romance... But you've done a pretty good job keeping perspective. You're still taken in by love poems and sunsets You just don't fall for every dreamy pick up line!

Are You Romantic or Realistic?

You Can Hang With the Guys and the Girls

You've struck a good balance between girlie and laid back. You can keep it casual but when you dress up, you are as girly as the next girl.

How Girlie Are You?

Utilising my time in Office...experimenting with new formats..have done quite a few changes in the look of the blog...have added links, lists etc..

Book Meme continued...

51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) Want to
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) Tried
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens) Tried
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) Want to
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling) Read
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger) Want to
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) Want to
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) Again and again
63. War and Peace (Tolsoy) Tried
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) Want to
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) Again and again
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding) Want to
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving) Want to
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence) ??
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) Again and again
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen) Read
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)Read
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth(Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum) Want to
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield) Want to
100. Ulysses (James Joyce) Tried to

Book Meme I

Since only I can tag myself (my blog is not popular u see.. :( ), I have tagged myself for this book meme...saw this on me while blog surfing..

* Look at the list of books below.
* Type "READ" beside the ones you've read.
* Type "WANT TO" beside the ones you'd like to read.
* Leave blank the ones that you aren't interested in.
* Type "AGAIN AND AGAIN" beside the ones you could read again and again.
* "Tried" for those books that you've tried to read...again and again.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) Read
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Read
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Read
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) Want to
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) Want to
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) Want to
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien) Want to
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry) Read
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) Not Sure
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) Read
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling Not Sure
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) Want to
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling) Not Sure
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King) Want to
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling Not Sure
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) Again and again
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) Read
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) Read
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) Read
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) Want to
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie(Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) Want to
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True(Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho) Again and again
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) Want to
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible Read (Abridged version)
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) Tried
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Want to
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)

Vikram Seth - I

I love Vikram Seth's works..can't claim I have read all of them though. title is in anticipation that I will write more on him..:)


All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right,
And emptiness above.

Know that you aren't alone
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.

Vikram Seth

What's happening

I had created this blog to write down random things coming to mind, to vent my frustraions and to file my joys...this does not seem to be happening..I am using this space as a store house to file lines I like, stanzas I luv... may be cause not much has been happenign in my life or mite be cause I am so overwhelmed with present, I can't seem to get words.. dont know..

hope the original motive does not get lost in this filing and stowing away... Amen!!

I had read somewhere that whenever you feel happy or blessed, write it on a piece of paper and keep it in a jar..when you feel low, just take out pieces of paper from the jar and you will feel uplifted... wish this space becomes the jar..:)

Time In a Bottle

If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
'Til eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day
Like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you" *

* Jim Croce 'Time in a Bottle'

Glad that I found "YOU"

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News..??

I am getting married...
BIG story..will write down some time later...but the end result was that marriage was finalised. If every thing works out fine, I will be married by end of Apr07.
issue is that I have not yet got a call so this big issue has started raising its head every now and then...
I just dont know what to do...moving with my in-laws might be one solution for the time being..but not very acceptable by TBH. Very logical reason..if we stay away initially, it wont be difficult to do this again and again and (We) would not want that to happen...

I am concerned that being lazy, if i leave my job here and shift..I might get into inertia and not do job search religiously and seriously..

Also, I do know that if I have nothing to do I will go absolutely mad...we are keeping our fingers crossed...something mite happen..something should happen..it better happen...(amen..)

visiting again??

Its been ages since the last post. Much has happened...06 has given way to 07 and many life changing events have occurred in my life : Reason for this re introduction to blogging...

As noted earlier, I am very prudent when it comes to reading and stuff..I take great pleasure in listing down the titles I hav read...(taking pride in the supposedly long list)...But I have realised that there are so many authors, writers I have not even heard of and they are way better than all those I have read.

btw I finished reading 'To Kill a Mocking Bird' and ' A Catcher In the Rye'. Nice reads....