Done!!!

Done!!!

I am done with my old office now. Yesterday was my last day at office... 

  

It was a strange feeling.. my first job.. and my first set of colleagues. I was not sure whether or not I was sad. I have been my craziest self sometimes at this place. Always talking, laughing, arguing, .......

  

I was just looking around my place.. and I was feeling very empty in a different way. Not sure how I can actually explain it. 

Keeping in touch will not be a problem.. there are so many ways these days and all of my friends here have orkut profiles. But I will surely miss being the center point of the team!

Being the single girl in the team, being the youngest - actually the kid of the team, being the chatter box of the team - I was pretty pampered. Its all going to change from now on. I am not anymore the one to be cared for separately - I am going to be just one among many from now..

In a way, its good - I will work harder to stand on my own... in a way.. its not good.... I am not anymore pampered...

X - keeping my fingers crossed for only better things to happen! Am off on my annual pilgrimage trip from tonight till third of Feb. Feb 9 - will be my first day at the new work place... and then starts another phase of life for me! 

Been more than half hour since I got back home.. and am still feeling empty ... Normal, right?

PS - for all those who have had late replies from me on the last post - apologize! :)

This, That & More

One piece of advice for all you 'jobbers' & job-seekers - be prepared to face LOADS of work when you give your resignation to your boss! He suddenly realizes that there is this whole lot of work which only you can do and will do all possible stuff to squeeze as much work out of you as possible.

And another piece of advice - be like me ;)! I picked up bakra juniors who would never say no to me and I am loading all this work on them! :D 

I was checking my blog posts and looks like I have completed more than a 100 of them! Some of them are ones that I copied from my old page, but even then - they are my own creations! 

When I started blogging in 2006, I wasn't even sure if any of my posts would have any comments! Seeing the first few comments pour in made me feel so happy :)) And then it became an addiction! but never thought I would last 3 years and all! This online identity celebrates 3 years at the end of February.

The best thing has been - it has been a friend of sorts. Whatever the emotions - this place was always there to write all stuff! Easily one of the best decisions I made :)

And how much ever I could say about the friends I have made - would never suffice to do complete justice to them! :) Some of my closest friends now are people that I met online. For someone who was scared about giving out any details at all to anyone online - to actually discussing plans about life with them - I would say thank you to blogging for that! And in a way, it has also taught me to differentiate between people who can be trusted and who cannot be...!

I know I have said this before.. but I would never tire of saying this again!

Cheers to life! :) Cheers to more blogging!!

Nalam Vaazha

Swat's post inspired this. 

What a song! What lyrics! What music!

Its like.. Ilayaraja is the God and ARR is the Son of the God in our country!

And Arvind Swamy is GREAT in this song. 

I don't understand the second stanza completely though.. anybody care to explain it to me?

nalam vaazha ennaalum en vaazhththukkal

thamizh koorum pallaandu en vaarththaigal

ilavaenil un vaasal vandhaadum

ilanthenral un meedhu panpaadum 

(nalam vaazha) 

manidhargal silanaeram niram maaralaam

manangalum avar gunangalum thadam maaralaam

ilakkanam sila naeram pizhaiyaagalaam

ezhudhiya anbu ilakkiyam thavaraagalaam

viralgalaith thaandi valarndhadhaik kandu

nagangalai naamum narukkuvadhundu

idhil enna paavam edharkindha soagam kiliyae... 

(nalam vaazha) 

kizhakkinil dhinam thoanrum kadhiraanadhu

maraivadhum pinbu udhippadhum marabaanadhu

kadalanil uruvaagum alaiyaanadhu

vizhuvadhum pinbu ezhuvadhum iyalbaanadhu

nilavinai nambi iravugal illai

vilakkugal kaattum velichchaththin ellai

oru vaasal moodi maru vaasal vaippaan iraivan... 

(nalam vaazha) 

Isn't this nice? :)

I haven't seen this movie as yet - but somehow felt happy seeing this pic.

Bad that ARR is looking the other side, but am so happy for him! Way to GO ARR - we are with you!

Maybe you could ask her on how this movie was. She saw it

Good times are ahead :)

ok.. enough monkeying around now. Did a lot of that in the last few posts!

On a happy note - 2009 has started off on a really great note for me :) I have a new job with a BIG company with a very good designation and am really really happy about it :)

For most of 2008, I was in bad spirits, often wondering where I was heading to - not even knowing if I was heading anywhere at all! But God has been kind - and decided things should change for me! And for that - Thank You, God! :)

Here's wishing the whole year goes the same great way for me and for everyone else too!

On a different note, a little sad one at that - its very painful to see how people play with relationships. People you trust, people you really take into confidence... people you actually expect support from - its strange how they can just blow the whole trust thing into pieces! I always had this silly thought that the world around me was the ideal place to live in - great people who would always be the epitome of goodness. Am just realizing how wrong I have been all this time.

I would have so liked to share my happiness with so many people - but the way they are behaving and the way they are going around playing games at the back - I am not even interested in sharing my news with them! Like someone was telling - what if the green monster visits them??!!

And its just in the recent times that I have started meeting the right friends too :) Online, offline, neighbours, office - its starting to look like never before! Touchwood - but I really hope this stays. I realize now what a great difference the right kind of friends can make to your life. The kind of lift they can give you when you are really down! And when I told a few of my friends about my new job - actually they felt happier than I was about it. And listening to that made me so happy - that here are the people who are actually feeling happy for me.. instead of trying to find something to crib about - like some relatives usually do :P

And there is the marriage coming up - my sister's! It looks like 4 months away but time flies away before you can ever realize! Mom's already done some shopping in Bangalore and now am waiting for to come home so I can see what all she's bought for me :D There's so much work to be done still - wedding cards, more clothes, more things - more of so many other things! And I really hope dad gets transferred back to Hyderabad from Bangalore! Its difficult having to stay in two different places! It would also ease things for mom, if dad can be here with us!

Lets see how things shape up :)

And for your Rauf Uncle.... with people like you around... I should not have any trouble staying focused :) Thanks!!  :)

:P :P

Waste fellows all!

Joblessly harrassing a chinna ponnu who is equal to an angel/goddess and all!

:D :D :D :D

I 'wrote' a post :)

Thanks VBR for the idea! :D

Click on the pictures for the actual post please :) - I don't know how to keep up the pictures in full size on the post - without having to click on them!

A few more things

Got myself a temp tattoo yesterday on my arm! The ones that stay only for a week or so.

Mom's not in town and won't be back for another week... so decided its the best time to act crazy :))

Its my zodiac sign - the cancer! There was this boy in our group who had this typical teenage craze about weird & spooky things. He searched all the tattoo design books available with the tattoo guy and got himself a skull on his chest! And now his Orkut album has been promptly updated with the same! And to add, mine has been upated too :))

It was a fun weekend. Lots of shopping on Saturday and a bye-bye to mom on her way to Bangalore. Sunday started real late what with me & sister sleeping soundly with no one to disturb us :D. A late brunch, and then Shall We Dance on Zee Movies and then the Eat Street in the evening with neighbour kids from the apartments. And just out of craze, all of us went to this tattoo guy, bugged him like hell and finally walked away showing off our tattoos :)) We actually wanted the teenage guy to get a red colored lips-shaped tattoo on his neck - but he thought it may get too embarrassing at home & college! :D

Here's mine on my left arm! Fine enough to show off at work? :D

Oorjas.. this is for you :)

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Lots of happy things happening and am really looking forward to a better & happier 2009. 2008 was not terrible or anything, but wasn't completely great either. Two times, I fell badly sick and had to take off with Loss of Pay and two weeks off! Imagine my situation when I got back to work after that! :-| And then not so happy things with/from people around either! The brightest spots were prolly my sister's engagement and the few vacations I had. And some of the finer moments that you come across in every day life. And for those finer moments, I can only thank some of those people am proud to call my friends! Am sure a couple of them reading this know it and for you - THANK YOU! :) And for others that are not reading, THANK YOU to you too!

The last 2 months threw up some situations that made me decide on a couple of things and now, I'm just keeping my fingers crossed for the best to happen - what ever is the best for me, that is :)

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Do you guys remember this video? I think its been quite some time since this was on TVs. Its an animated remix version of Bindu re Bindu from Padosan. Its a sweet love story and we used to love this! Listened to it umpteen number of times in those days.

Heard somebody humming this today and I ended up searching for this video, though can't find the mp3 song :( Can anyone see if you can get a mp3 file for this and mail it to me? I would love that :)

Kishore Kumar widget by 6L & Daxii

New Year's New Post!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

2008, 2008, 2008 - 2008 is over! 

Plans for get togethers, parties, meetings - Jan 1 is over! 

Time flies so!

And I last wrote here last year! Long time na? :D

If not personally, on a general note, its been a not-so-good start for the year, what with the fire in the Bangkok club and the blasts in Asom.

Hoping thats the start & end of it for this year. Please God - no more like that! Why can't people take resolutions not to hurt people?

Talking about resolutions, though I know I may not be able to keep up totally, I would still like to work on my temper & mood swings. I should become more cool-tempered and not keep losing my head for petty things. Its not actually a New Year's resolution since I've been working on it for some time now... but I would like for it to be in a better position this year! And I can see I'm succeeding slowly :)

New Year's eve was great fun. We have a party kind of thing every year in our apartments. But this time, it turned out to be soooo much fun! Probably because we were involved very actively too. We danced - all naach-gaana, jhatka-matka, everything! And after the party got over, all of us in the same age group got together, put the music on loud and danced away till 3, with a couple of aunties staying back - to enjoy with us and also to keep an eye on us ;)! And finally, we decided that before any of the residents came & said anything, we had better close the party and so off all of us went to our homes & slept soundly till 11.

There was a lunch in the afternoon with some family friends - right after my brunch :D So new year's started off with lots of food for me :)) Am not sure about losing/maintaining my weight anymore :D

On a different note, I found this.

I didn't expect any high values, but I certainly did not either think that my blog can come so cheap 

:-o x-(

Maybe if this also told us on what basis he calculated and what can get me more worth, I would prolly try doing that to my blog :D

Whats your worth?

My blog is worth $4,516.32.
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