Take a break....

          Just a while back I was blissfully watching a flock of birds flying together in a park when i saw this one bird descending gradually to the ground and casually took a walk between the grass and wandered about doing just about nothing for a while and then rejoined his flock that was returning from their earlier flight.
       
      This bird reminded me that more often than not each one of us get the urge to wander off from our routines, and take a break. We often dream of alternate realities at times where we are anyone else but us. But these moments hardly last for a few minutes before we revert back to the grids we create for ourselves. Well its never easy to just change it all in a blink of an eye, but we could alter little things in our life, like take a different route to our destination everyday, change your furniture setting, explore new parts of the city you live in, dust up your old bucket list and try to complete a few of those things...

      These little alterations may or may not change your life a 180 degrees, but it sure will provide the potential for a transition in your life. It'll bring about either a wonderful memory or an unforgettable lesson, but just like that bird, unless we dare to step away from our flocks, conventions and grids, we wont ever truly realize or appreciate the beauty of our life....

Dare to explore, dare to relish life's surprises !!

Words

To most of us words are just a bunch of little somethings that we string together and scatter around. But words are the most enchanted and/or deadliest power trusted to mankind. It has the power to make you or break you. We sometimes just expect them to brush past someone like a summer breeze, but more often than not, our words turn out to be like arrows and knives that lodge deep into their hearts.

But hey its up to us to see if the words we direct at someone becomes part of their growth or it poisons the very growth just mentioned. Words can induce a smile or a tear, a frown or bloom love. Words can guide or ruin, can nurture or destroy. But all it takes is a single word.

As millions have said before, a word is truly mightier than the sword. I realized that words also have the tendency to mutate into meaning something else, as it travels the distance between our lips and someones' ears. So think, and rethink before you plan to use words to someone, even if its as tiny as a little hi or as long as can be. 

                                  “But words are things, and a small drop of ink,

                                    Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces

                                   That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.” 

                                  ― George Gordon Byron

                

Illusions

Illusions and illusionists not only work up our imagination but make us feel like we are transcending between reality and magic. Illusions are nothing but watching the world through closed eyes. But do we really have to be seated in a huge auditorium enveloped in grand bourgeois tapestries and view a dim lit stage to witness an illusion being performed?
The other day I found a butterfly hovering around a printed flower on my bed sheet and then settling on it. It would fly about and settle on the flowers on the sheet again and again. The moth got me thinking there is an illusionist within all of us.We sail through our days, months and lives in hopes of a perfect future which is most of the time a perfect illusion. Some of us often sing songs out loud under the illusion that we sound like a nightingale. But these illusions can't be categorized as falsehood, because they are nothing but a medium to add a little cheer to our days. They act like favorable wind, pushing our little boats towards the ultimate destination.

enjoying an illusion !!

one lovely blog

I was beyond surprised to see a comment from VB from books for me, about a nomination for one lovely blog award. I am really new to blogging and taking baby steps here and Thank you VB for encouraging my blog.

rules : 

1. include the blog award logo in your post
2. Thank the person who nominated you
3. Nominate 15 other bloggers and let them know about it...
4. Seven random facts about yourself..

As the norm is, here are seven random facts about me :

1. I am crazy about dancing and wish to learn different forms of dancing

2. I love to learn various languages.

3. I am not a shopaholic but shopping is something I enjoy doing.

4. I love music and often sing it loud pretending to be some rockstar much to the dismay of my friends who have to bear me. :P

5. I love to watch a heavy downpour, cuddled up in my blanket with a hot coffee in hand, The scene is my version of paradise

6. I hate having to wait in long queues.

7. When I am really bored or clueless I like to irritate my dad and my best friend.

My nominations :

1. http://cloudsanddaffodils.blogspot.in

2. http://andreaheltsley.blogspot.in/

3. http://bookwormsavenue.blogspot.in/

4. http://rainydayreadsreviews.blogspot.in/

5. http://judesenglish10.blogspot.in/

6. http://kindreddreamheart.blogspot.in/

7. http://2-b-read.blogspot.in/

8. http://www.vintagecobweb.com/

9. http://thehobbyharbor.blogspot.in/

10 http://patriciapunt.blogspot.in/

11 http://www.arielavalon.com/

12 http://www.mybookandmycoffee.com/

13 http://karenamandahooper.blogspot.in/

14 http://doris-socialworker.blogspot.in/

15 http://andthistimeconcentrate.blogspot.in/

One day fly

I remember once reading somewhere that one must dance like no one is watching and live everyday like its your last. But quite recently I came across a living creature who actually lives by these words, during a summer shower that took place a few days back. After the rain a horde of mayflies (one day fly ) just rose up in the air and appeared to be dancing with joy, until each one of them collapsed to the ground and slowly died.

Its probably because they have just one day to live that they want to live it with joy, but we have been gifted with lots of days, then why wait till the end to start living? why not live every second, why not live and love our life? Whether we have a kings life or a pauper's,why bother about what ranking our life stands at, as long as its our own and we have the undisputed authority to make it beautiful according to us?

So maybe take a lesson from the one day flies that we must live our life in a way that you'll never wake up one day and regret and say, it was all a waste :)
 njoi life, luv it :)

the death of a mayfly...

Aliens amongst us

Where do the ideas for science fictions and aliens sprout from? We have never ever had a face-time with aliens then how do they just take a shape in our minds one fine day? Maybe these creatures don't just develop out of the blue...Maybe they are right around us all the time, watching us, breathing the same air as us....

 Look carefully at the next grasshopper or any other insect you see. Don't they inspire a mental slide show of starwars, ET and all other aliens that have mesmerized us on the big screens ? :)

I have always proudly claimed to be a complete owl, but a  few days back I miraculously woke up at about 4:30 in the morning and my thirst drew me to the water cooler in my dorm, only to witness a view of the early morning sunlit cooler that looked something like the millions of spaceships that we've repeatedly experienced descending on our movie screens. 

So I am sure I just unearthed the origins of aliens, at least the once we are familiar with, and signing off hoping the next grasshopper sitting on my window sill doesn't turn out to be an alien spy that might lead to my alien abduction for unearthing their truth. shhhhhhhh ... :P

Alien twin 

The spaceship like cooler

Once upon a time...

Whenever I hear this particular phrase "once upon a time...", it automatically gives out a magical and enchanting aura. The story following the phrase might as well be a very realistic and dry one, but some how the magical opening phrase makes it all a fairy tale .....

It's probably due to the connection our brains have been accustomed to since we held in our hands our first copy of a fairy tale. Even a very valuable life lesson, warning or moral, seems less intimidating and more inspiring when its presented through a little story that has the " once upon a time... " feeling about it.

A book by Paulo coehlo I've been recently reading follows the same principle, of sharing the writer's thoughts, experiences and reflections with the reader and thus also imparting beautiful life lessons encased in amazing stories.

CHANGES

CHANGE ..... The word somehow manages to give a cold scary chill down my spine as well as feelings of excitement bubbling out in my heart ....
I never have been able to determine whether to hide in fear from it or walk faster towards it. I guess that is what enthralls us about changes, the concoction of feelings it manages to brew in our hearts.
Just like everyone has referred life to a box of chocolates of varied flavors...so are the results of changes...

Sometimes you thank your lucky stars for a change that occurred, other times you curse every second that lead to a particular unfortunate change.... But at the end everyone converges to the option of accepting the change and moving on, sometimes with pleasure and sometimes with a weak grin and hopeful eyes....

At the end of the day, learn to befriend changes and embrace them and smile your way through life..... and in your mind replace one of its alphabets to view a CHANGE as a CHANCE to do things better than before :)....

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Great Expectations

The one thing all of us waited with bated breath for is finally here... good ol summer holidays. All through exams and the days following it, the only words that decorated all our lips were the ones about the fascinating plans we had for our holidays !!
Like decorating a prize Christmas tree, i carefully laid the footwork of my plans. And finally the holidays are here and are rushing by faster than light and each of my plans kept slipping out into the winds :P

Image by flavijus via Flickr

Well I can't deny the fact I am enjoying every second of the holidays quite well,for one, I am sure I have broken the records of any Greek giants in sleeping these hols.... Now the one thing I have planned is to never plan my holidays ever again !!

Exam Fever

I have always loved spring. The nature brimming with heavenly beauty and turning even a little caterpillar into a poet. But can winter be far behind ? In fact, spring brings a little bit of winter right with it. The age old battle of EXAMS!!

As the month of March sets in , it heralds the beginning of the war. We then get extremely in touch with our books and find the theories and formulas trying to roll up our minds into a fatal death roll. We can see the merciless people from the black and white photographs of our books sneering down at us with a smug expression.

                                                        my reminder notes during my exams

But exams are also the time when we get unusually creative and highly sensitive to good old mother nature ;)
The dried up paint sets, the dusty instruments and old comic books, with crackled brown pages all appear unusually fascinating to us. We even hear a baby spider slipping down its dew strewn web. It's almost as if our world has been served to us in a different bejeweled platter.

Though at the end of the long tiring day, exams fly away as fast as they come, but the days that they stay with us is a big black smudge on lovely spring !!

A Friendly Smile

First day as a freshman... true to the word, everything appears too fresh, too unknown. It's easy to get lost aimlessly in the crowd which moves with a mission. 

Among the thousands of clustered heads, myriad colors and emotions, I spotted one face, as lost as mine, a question mark etched in the eyes and a hopeful smile.

We immediately strike a friendship.Each one of us glad, we don't have to deal with freshman-ship alone. 

Hanging around together, we discover more faces, displaying an array of amazement,confusion and wonder. The two of us immediately start with a "Hey der" that eventually went on to become a new cluster in the campus with a well set mission.... The campus cafe ;P

Lugging Luggage

I spent the night packing and repacking my luggage. phew.... It's an herculean task for me. My vacation has come to an end tonight. I am so  many things, but a globetrotter is not one of them.

The images of the new destination is always the one thing that spurs me on in the journey. All the same the journey part of the vacation still wears me down. I sure didn't have a nomadic ancestor.

So here I am, bags packed, ticket in hand, travelling shoes on. But the dreams of the new place I am heading to is still - under construction !! Dreamaholic at work.

Wedding Bells Chime

Weddings arrive with cartloads of excitement and fun especially to the brides. So do the engagement announcements. The excitement is doubled when one of your dear friends is the lovely bride to be.
So my friends from high school are at the peak of their excitement limits, as my friend made this announcement this month.
Here's a post for her, wishing her all the happiness,luck and prosperity in the world.

Monday Blues

Well I must confess, since I am on vacation right now, it doesn't really matter, what day of the week it is. But all the same  I woke up, with that familiar, ' Oh no, it's monday ' expression.
I had a gloomy cloud forming over my head, and a heart just not ready to let go off the lazy Sunday. Oh I so felt like Garfield...

one of my favorite posters :p 

It took me a while to realize that the Mondays and Sundays are look alikes on a vacation. So I did carry out my Monday blues quick fix, this time too ;)

1. Had a hearty  breakfast of pancakes and fruits
2. Dressed myself in the cheeriest color from my wardrobe
3. Listened only to songs with a happy note

So I survived yet another case of Monday Blues with a smile on my lips, a dance in my walk and a song in my heart !! Have a non blue Monday everyone !!

Saturday Night Finds

I had no exciting plans worth waiting for this Saturday, so I set out for a routine Saturday night shopping. Same old streets, same old shops until one of the windows caught my attention. One of the stores which I might have crossed a zillion times before, had this awesome collection of jewellery on display designed by a 15 year old.

they were categorised into different shades, I managed to click the warm color section amidst the admirers

sorry about the shadow,oops well it's a simple jewellery made of a satin ribbon and a glass pendent

this is from the section that was categorised into the colours of the ocean

Well so kudos to the young designer from me, she just got one extra fan this Saturday and some of us found one more interesting hobby worth pursuing.

Novice Blogger !

Well here goes...... drumroll please.... nothing

I have long wanted to start a blog, but never found the time, being the tad bit procrastinator I am, it didn't happen on the free time either. So now that I got my holidays, I decided it was now or never...

I am gonna start by summing up the best things that have happened to me since last April. (in no particular order)

1. Graduation from highschool : That is probably the first thing that will jump into my memory the moment the word 'high school' flashes across me. Not that nothing else was amazing, everything about high school was wrapped in a robe of fun.... esp my friends !!

2. Starting College : I am officially a student of architecture now. Which means a lot to me coz, I have always wanted to learn designing.

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