All that I can do...

With guests(relatives) at home, its been fun last 7 days…It is always so cool to have people who u love and who love u around u… such presence really gives a boost to one’s life especially if u r far away from ur native home…For me, the feeling is no different…a mixture of fun and crazy emotions…at times going back to old days…running and jumping and what not…

But the negative side is…I haven’t missed work also…soo, after all the long drives and long long walks through all the malls, I could never hit the bed without seeing early morning 1.30 …that’s the least…many days I even saw the clock striking 3am and then would rush to the bedroom. To get some sleep before it struck 5am…Week ends, we did the long and tiring routes…and then to office without much sleep and again soon after work join them at some Malls…I am really tired..or rather sleeeepy..Yester night I had really thought of going to bed on time ...butttttttttt…..

Now I am sitting here at my office, almost falling off my chair while all I can do is yawn, yawn and yawn…Sooo, naturally I am yawninggggggggg and yawningggggggg…and yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawning….god, I am sure smbdy gonna see my adventurous activity of taking the most amount of oxygen from one single room… Wish I was in bed now and sleeping tight…Wish, I won a lottery, so that I could quit my job and be home as much as I want…

I am sure, this post would have been the most laziest and boring, I have ever posted…so, one f u can surely give me that award…but then u should understand my condition…this was just a futile attempt to keep my eyes open…

Between, now I wish so much that if I was NK from my 11th grade…uhmmm..He had awonderful ability …There were many a days, when he would be sitting right there at the last seat, but still being very attentive in classes (even the most boring classes) with his eyes wide open…while rest of us would be drooping down or trying to find some excuse to bunk the class….

One such day, some of the guys were caught sleeping during the class…As a punishment, the teacher asked some question on the topis she was teaching…naturally the boys couldn’t answer…As I was praying hard not to be asked to answer, the teacher called out… “NK, u tell me…”… A sigh of relief was passing through me…Mainly bcoz usually NK gets good marks for exams and we always see him really attentive in classes…So, for sure, he would answer the question and the teacher wouldn’t or needn’t ask anybdy else for the correct answer.

As these thoughts were passing my mind, suddenly, I heard the teacher again saying.. “NK, u tell me…”..Alarming thought passed me…NK also doesn’t know the answer???Uh…I turned round to look at him…I could see him still sitting and gazing at the blackboard behind the teacher…Wonder why he looks so strange and weird…and why is he so arrogant, that he is not even standing up when the teacher is asking him something…uh…

I saw the teacher going near him and said in a much louder voice,… “NK in which world are u…Are u not here…U too joined these naughty boys…???Answer my question…” Lol!!! Still no response..he was just sitting there as if in a trance...

The teacher had lost her cool…she slapped the book on her hand down to the desk and with a sudden jerk we saw NK coming back to his self…seeing the teacher near him, suddenly he looked at his book and acted as if he was going through the text book…Little did he know about all that happened b4 that….he was just thinking that maybe the teacher was just strolling inside the classroom while teaching…U shd have seen the fun…Somehow, the teacher broke into a laugh…and there joined rest of the class…Just NK couldn’t laugh, as he never remembered anything hilarious…

Only much later he knew the whole story and was so embarrassed that he couldn’t even face the girls for a few days…He went and apologized to the teacher for sleeping in the class…Only then did the teacher know that NK could sleep with eyes open…lol!!!

Wish I too could…but reality is bitter…I can’t so I have to find some other way to keep myself awake…

All that I can do now with absolute faith is sleeping///lol!!! Grrr…God, help me keep my eyes open the whole day… Else can some of you get me two matchsticks…

The Himalayan Rally Path...

Unlike me, I haven’t written anything for long time, right…yeah, actually speaking, I have been really busy…Guess what, a gang of 9-10 of my relatives are landing today for a 20days vacation…hehe!!! Naturally, we have been setting our house and then ourselves ready to welcome them…Its going to be fun…It’s my paternal aunt and her grandchildren…so, I can say, there r my cousin’s kids…Gosh, its going to be fun and hectic too…gonna have days of sightseeings, late nights, less sleep, sleepy office hours…and so on…

Excitement was the word that was on the top priority till yesterday...buttttttttt…from yesterday the word ‘Worry’ and ‘Irritation’ topped it…tell me why…I mean…Should I tell u why….nghaaa L …So…what happened was…Day b4 yesterday, my mom been to a shop to get herself some plants for our house…the last touch to the interior designing…and what did she come back with…ofcourse she came back with a very tall green plant which is beautiful for sure…but more beautiful was the red marks that was forming on mom’s body…

By midnight, she started feeling ichy and by early morning 4 she woke me up and I saw an Alien standing in front of me…God, that was Mommmmmmmm….She was all red and swollen out…looked as if she gained almost 50 years in a night…She looked horrible and unrecognizable…She was rushed to the emergency…and by 6 she was getting back to normal…We assumed maybe its some insect bite…By evening, when I was back home after office, she looked normal, just for her face seemed a bit swollen as if she slept for too much long hours…But couldn’t disagree with her when she said she looked like a ‘Chinese’…hehe!!!

But then…today morning, as we r all set to welcome our guests…my mom woke up again with yet again heavy swellings and redness all around her body..thank god, this time, the face was spared to a large extent…Anyways, now she went to the doctor again and got another shot of the injection she had ystrdy….and expecting the swellings to disappear like yesterday…

Now the question is…Can this be an aftereffect of Insect bite…Can it stay for so long…Don’t know…Mom, didn’t wanted to check with a Skin Specialist, as she feared it was time consuming...uhmm..anyways, I need to take her to the specialist today evening for sure…

But nowwww…my issue is…I have quite a number of bumps on my either cheeks as if a 100 mosquitoes treated themselves on my cheek blood…and just now, I notice two big bumps on my forehead….and somehow, when I remember mom’s swellings, I feel, itchy myself…and am literally scratching and pinching the bumps…

Trust me, friends…Now U can very well compare me to the Himalayan Roads, filled with hills and pits…holes and moles…U-pin turns and deviations...and when I move my fingers thru them…I feel as if I can very well do a…

Himalayan Rally…

NB: As for mom, I am sure the doctor's medicines would do wonder for her...But do give me some suggestions and remedies to banish and vanish these intruders on my face...It is really irritating to feel that I have something longer than my nose on my face...and I really doesn't want to scratch them and make more marks on my face...Afterall, I have such a beautiful face (sarcastic??? naaaaaaah!!!)...hehe!!!

Me...??? The Empress...???

Hey Guys,

I was just going through some blogs and found a Tarot reading thing...have I ever told you I love such stuff..Palmistry, Astrology, Face Reading, Tarot Card Reading...Somehow, I wouldn't mind checking them out any time...I had gone to such a extent that I even went out with a a colleague (who was so close to a stranger then) just bcoz he said he knew an Astrologer who was good at his job...

Even b4 my colleague finished saying this, I asked him to take me there and I just went with him even without informing my family...He took me to a Hotel apartment and as we were waiting for our turn outside the door, suddenly it dawned on me...'GOD, How crazy I am for coming out with a person who I had just met...and that too to such an unknown place...What if the colleague was a bad person and was taking me to some trap'...My heart was beating fast and as I showed a strong face outside, inside I was praying hard that nothing bad shouldn't happen...hehe!!!

Anyways, nothing negative happened...we went in met the astrologer...said and heard some tit bits from here and there and came back...and thus started a good friendship between me and my colleague...He was indeed a good person...Thank God...

Ok, now I have really deviated from my main story...So, thing is, ...I found a Tarot Card Reading site and I too answered some questions in there and got a card for myself...I am putting that below for you all to read...Trust me, I didn't understand much on that...

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents, beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

If you want, you too can try it out...

Take the Test to Find Out.

A DiL-MiL Story – DiL Version

The moments are nearing…Soon, Miss will become Mrs…a total blankness was all that she had in her mind…She had pasted a Closeup Smile on her face for the past 48hours and waiting for this one moment….The beautician was doing the last touch-up of makeup on her face…a look into the mirror and she thought, “Uhm, I am looking beautiful…”…Just then somebody came in…Hey, Grandpa…and he is bringing in someone with him… A Lady just barged in and hugged her… Took a while for her to realize it was none other than her would-be Mother-in Law…here on, MiL…

Ok, now the MiL and the DiL meeting for the first time. In this century of technologies bride and groom’s family met through an advertisement on the newspaper...The NRI groom met the NRI bride as per instructed by his family back home …an OK by the groom..Marriage fixed…and thus the first day the MiL meeting the DiL became the D-Day itself…Anyways, there was not much reason for the MiL not to approve of the DiL…as DiL was beautiful and adorned in gold from head to toe…The marriage was a royal feast to watch with the auditorium and the two extra halls packed with guests watching the whole function in CCTVs…uhmmm…afterall…A Grand Marriage…

Soon the bride became a wife and placed the first foot into her new house…The house bustled with relatives…She was taken to a room and asked to change her clothes…Ha, that was a relief…In 20 minutes she changed to some comfortable clothes and less number of ornaments and came out to meet the groom’s relatives…Aha…What happened…why such a silence in the house…Uh, Is this a dream…or reality that all the relatives had left…All that remained was the MiL and the BiL watching TV…Hubby having some coffee…

This is not what she expected on her first day of marriage…this is not what she had seen at her family…she thought it would be fun as it was in her family when her cousins were married…Anyways, nothing happened…She just walked into the TV room and stood there…She replied a NO for hubby’s concern if she needed anything…Then, as if to the TV, the MiL said looking at his newly wed son, “What do you want to eat…Have to buy something from Hotel…” Another shock passed through the DiL…She asked, “Mom, nothing to eat here…???”…MiL replied, “Ha, we didn’t cook anything today na…there is some left over rice and curry of yesterday in the fridge…”

DiL was more than happy with rice…She happily stopped her hubby from going out in the night in search of a Restaurant in that remote village area…She got into the kitchen to maybe warm up the food from the fridge…Not so happy for leaving the TV, MiL too joined…Soon the rice and curry was served and ate by all four of them…MiL hurriedly ran back to find her position in front of the TV…She really couldn’t miss the reality programme showing in the TV… DiL spend another 2 hours trying to clear up the mess in the Kitchen and clean up the kitchen to a proper hygienic one…She thought, “Maybe the marriage rush is the reason for such a horrible kitchen…Afterall, only MiL to clean the stuff, right…How can she do everything alone…” As a dutiful DiL, she happily cleaned up the place…Between her hubby jokingly teased her with an old saying… “A new bride would sweep the roof”…

That was the first experience at her marital house…

Six months later…DiL & Son just came for a short vacation…DiL wanted to give a surprise to her MiL…So didn’t inform her about their surprise vacation plan…Dreaming about a happy, exciting, surprised meeting scene, DiL ran into the house…Hubby was still in the car trying to park it…

First expression of Mil – “Haaa…Youuuu two…I thought somebody else…WHY did you come without informing…I don’t have anything to eat for you both…You have to go and buy something to eat…”

First reaction of DiL (ofcourse a bit of depressed at MiL’s reaction) – “Uh, No, actually, We got a 4 days leave by chance and I thought we will give you a surprise…Don’t worry Mom, we will buy food from outside…”

The bags were being carried into the house and hubby entered house and went straight into his room…DiL just started removing her sandals, then…MiL came in…

Second set of conversation after the initial expression – “OK, anyways now u have come..its ok…but let me tell you something…LIKE LAST TIME DON’T BLOCK MY TOILET PIPE AND THEN JUST LEAVE…IT COSTED ME 2000Rs TO REPAIR THE BLOCK LAST TIME…”

This time, it was a SHOCK on DiL’s face…she was not really looking forward for such a set of love and affection from her MiL when she wanted to give her a sweet surprise…instead, her MiL was giving her a SHOCK of her life…Can any mother say so to their kids who came lovingly to her after months just to see her…DiL couldn’t imagine…Still DiL replied, “But Mom, I didn’t put anything that could block the pipe…” Hubby replied, “Mom, we didn’t put anything into your toilet…It’s been years you have built that toilet, naturally it might have got blocked after all these years…Don’t blame us for that…” Conversation that evening ended there…The mode went back to Watching TV again…

Back as an NRI…far away from her MiL; she lived her days…still she realized so many truths of her marital family…She realized the big difference between the family she dreamt of ( the family she has seen till then) and the family she had in real… Even if physically MiL was far away, MiL always succeeded in giving that “Negative Touch / Effect” in DiL’s life to make the situation unpleasant…With time, DiL was learning that her MiL was not what she wanted and expected…Still, she didn’t know WHAT WAS WRONG nor she understood WHY HER MiL WAS SO…DiL never showed any indifference and behaved as if nothing was wrong…

Another eight months after the 4 days leave…its been more than one year of her marriage…this time it is a 20days leave…the next morning of their arrival at the MiL’s house…the four members of the family sat together for breakfast…Hubby had his breakfast and went off to the verandah of the house to read the Daily…DiL wanted to give company to her MiL and BiL and chat with them…Between the conversation, MiL announced….

“I NEVER WANTED THIS MARRIAGE TO HAPPEN…MANY PEOPLE SAID MY SON WOULD HAVE GOT BETTER MATCH…THERE WAS ANOTHER PROPOSAL WHO WERE READY TO GIVE HIM 2 APARTMENTS AND 1 CAR…BUT WHAT TO DO…HE WANTED TO MARRY ONLY YOU…FOR DAYS, HE CALLED ME AND BEGGED TO LET HIM MARRY YOU…FINALLY I HAD TO SAY – DO WHATEVER YOU WANT”

Aha…sooo…Mystery unraveled…DiL joined 1 & 1 to 2 & 2…She understood the meaning of the indifference she saw…She couldn’t believe what she heard…After all that love and respect she had for her MiL…in return...???

And that was the beginning of every DiL’s story…It became the Home Page of the never ending epic named...

“100000000000001 Tales of the DiL and MiL – DiL Version”

NB: The above are pages from the Real Life Happenings of a Daughter-in Law…Any MiLs could have a totally different version to say…Still this is the DiL Version…I won't say all MiLs are not sweet and like above, but atleast some are...